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Gregory Maytan
Assistant Professor
VUCA 2518
(219) 464-5080
Gregory.Maytan@valpo.eduBiography
Gregory Maytan joined the Valparaiso University faculty as Assistant Professor of Music in 2006. He performs regularly as a soloist chamber
and orchestral musician. Maytan has performed extensively in Europe and the US, playing about 50 recitals a year. Upcoming engagements include
multiple performances of the Paganini Violin Concerto no 1 with orchestras in Nevada, Indiana, Sweden and China and participation in the
prestigious chamber music festivals ‘Musikveckan’ in Junsele, Sweden and the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Schwarzwald, Germany.
Maytan’s recent CD, consisting of music from his native Scandinavia was lauded by the Classical Voice of North Carolina for its ‘great artistry’
and noted that the performance is ‘as polished as any listener could desire’. It was selected by The Strad is the top recital CD of April,
2009 and highly praised by Strings Magazine. Maytan was recently a semi-finalist in the Schadt competition in Pennsylvania.
He has participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, where he was a featured prize winner and has placed and
been awarded significant cash awards in the Swedish Royal Academy’s competition for post-graduate violinists during the years 2006, 2007 and
2008. He has performed and toured with numerous orchestras, and his concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in the U.S. and
Europe. He has participated in masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Leonidas Kavakos and Michela Martin.
He earned his doctorate in violin performance from the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, where he studied with the
renowned violinists Miriam Fried and Paul Biss. Other teachers include Igor Petruschevski (London), Federico Agostini (Bloomington) and
Alexander Kerr (Bloomington). He performs on a Stefano Scarampella violin from 1896.