A native of Cape Town, South Africa, Sarita Uranovsky began
playing the violin at age 7. She holds Bachelor of Music (with
Honors) and Master of Music (with Distinction) degrees from
the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD),
and an Artist Diploma from
Boston University. Her major
teachers include
Simon Fischer and
Bayla Keyes.
Ms. Uranovsky performed in masterclasses for Pinchas
Zuckerman, Aaron Rosand, Sylvia Rosenberg, William
Preucil, Joseph Silverstein and Leon Spierer, among others.
Since her concert debut at the age of 15, she has appeared as
soloist and in recital on both native and international stages
with the
Boston University,
Cape Town, Richmondshire,
University of Miami and
RSAMD Symphony orchestras as well
as the Cape Town Baroque Ensemble, among others. She has
been concertmaster of the Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy),
Boston University,
University of Miami and
RSAMD Symphony
orchestras and Assistant Concertmaster of the
Cape
Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Uranovsky is a founding
member and violinist of Boston’s music ensemble
MONTAGE
Music Society.
Ms. Uranovsky can be heard on
MONTAGE Music Society’s
“
Starry Night Project” released on
MSR Classics. She has
recorded and broadcasted for both the
BBC and
South
African Broadcasting Corporation. She performed regularly
for Sir Yehudi Menuhin's "
Live Music Now!" Scheme
while in the United Kingdom and appeared as first
violinist of the
RSAMD Quartet in concert for HRH Prince
Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of
St.-Martin-in-the-Fields.
She was the recipient of numerous awards from South Africa
including the
Ellie Marx Memorial and Du Toit van Tonder
scholarships and was silver medalist and University of
Natal Prize Winner at the SASOL Music Competition in
1995. In 1998, she was awarded an Audrey Macklin Bursary
from the
Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music and
won the prestigious Governors Recital Prize at the
RSAMD
and the Ian D. Watt and Dunbar Gerber Prizes for violin and
piano duo.
An avid teacher, Ms. Uranovsky currently teaches on the
applied music faculty at
Tufts University, at the
MIT
Emerson Scholarship Program, and maintains a private
teaching studio. She can be heard performing regularly in
groups around Boston including
Boston Philharmonic,
Boston Musica Viva, the
Cantata Singers,
Boston Modern
Orchestra Project and the
Boston Pops.