CHAMBER MUSICIAN

Mr. deVries has appeared as a chamber music artist in North and South America and Europe. His groups have performed in major venues including Carnegie Recital Hall with critical acclaim from the New York Times and won the Coleman Award at the prestigious Coleman Chamber Music Auditions in Pasadena, California.  His piano trio at the time, the Lisbon International Trio, performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with John Nelson and the Armenian Nat’l Symphony in Khachaturian Hall, Yerevan, Armenia. He served as first violinist of the Knoxville Symphony Principals String Quartet and the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic Freimann String Quartet and has appeared with numerous chamber music groups in Europe including the European Soloists Chamber Ensemble, the Riistavesi Festival in Finland and Quartetto Musicámera Lusitánia in Lisbon.  He has performed with such artists as Andres Cardenes, Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli, James Buswell, Joseph Robinson, Charles Webb and Andrea Boccelli. He was a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival for over 20 years where he appeared in numerous ad hoc chamber music groups with some of the best artists in the world.

Always looking for innovative ways to broaden classical music’s impact across genres, deVries joined Harvey Phillips, the great American tubist, in Carnegie Recital Hall, premiering two jazz quintets for tuba and string quartet by Manny Albam and John Carisi. Later, as director and first violinist of the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Players, he programmed and performed in one of the early performances of Roots II by the great jazz cellist David Baker with the composer in attendance.

Mr. deVries continues to maintain a full chamber music career, appearing frequently with international festivals such as KesaVirratSoi in Finland and the Gerhart Chamber Music Festival in Alabama and with some of North Carolina’s finest artists.