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The Quartet: Victor Romasevich and Philip Santos, violins; Yun-Jie Liu, viola; Lawrence Granger, cello |
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Victor Romasevich was born in Minsk, Belarus. His mother, Lena Lubotsky, began teaching him piano at the age of four. When five, he started violin studies with Anna Silberstein. At six, he enrolled in the violin class of Mikhail Garlitsky and Lev Sharinov at The Gnesin Music School in Moscow. As a youth he studied violin with Rostislav Dubinsky of the Borodin Quartet. He continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory with Boris Belenky and Nadia Beshkina. Following his emigration to the United States in 1977, he studied at Juilliard with Ivan Galamian. In 1979 he became a violin and viola pupil of the composer and philosopher Iosif Andriasov. Winner of the Gina Bachauer Prize at the 1985 J.S. Bach International Competition, Mr. Romasevich joined the Orchestra as Associate Principal Violist in 1990, and in 1992 moved to the First Violin section. He appears frequently in recitals and chamber concerts as a violinist, violist, and keyboard player. |
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Philip Santos is a frequent performer on numerous chamber series, including the San Francisco Symphony's chamber music series, Chamber Music Sundaes, Sierra Chamber Society, Music on the Hill, Old First Church Concerts and Composers Inc. Currently, Mr. Santos is concertmaster of the Fremont Symphony, assistant concertmaster of Marin Symphony and principal second violin of California Symphony. He has also played with the Chicago Symphony, and has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony, Oakland Symphony and Berkeley Symphony. Mr. Santos is presently on the faculty of the University of California's Young Musicians Program and Patten University, and has taught violin at California State University at Hayward. His additional teaching activities include many private students throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Yun Jie Liu, who joined the San Francisco Symphony as Associate Principal Violist in 1994, is a native of Shanghai. He holds a degree from the Shanghai Conservatory and studied at the University of Southern California with Donald McInnes and Allen DeVirsch. Winner of the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, Mr. Liu was for three years a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and the National String Quartet, and he appeared as guest artist with the Manchester Quartet. Prior to joining the SFS he served as principal violist of the San Diego Symphony. |
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Lawrence Granger has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1979 and performs regularly in the Chamber Music Sundaes programs which is a concert series in Berkeley organized and performed by musicians of the San Francisco Symphony. In the late 1970's he was Principal Cellist of the Oakland Symphony, and since then, has appeared as soloist with many orchestras throughout Northern California. Mr. Granger is active as a solo recitalist and chamber musician with many Bay Area groups, and has a special interest in promoting and performing contemporary works for cello. He has recorded for several movies at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, and for many radio and television commercials. He has recorded on the CRI label, Secret Thoughts, (a piece written for him by composer and CSUH Music professor, Frank La Rocca), and on the New Albion label, Cello Concerto by Peter Lewis. |
