An active chamber musician, soloist and recording artist, Madeline Prager has performed extensively in Europe and the United States. In 2007 she premiered Kurt Rohde’s viola concerto with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She has recorded a recently discovered octet by Max Bruch on the CPO label with the Ulf Hoelscher ensemble, and she currently performs with Trio Concertino, the Sierra Chamber Players and other local ensembles. She holds degrees from the University of California–Berkeley and Detmold Music Conservatory. Her principal teachers were Detlev Olshausen and Bruno Giuranna. Prager has served as principal violist of the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, and she is currently principal violist of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Pacific Chamber Symphony. She has taught on three German college faculties, most recently at the Music Conservatory in Karlsruhe and the University of the Pacific. Besides playing as much chamber music as possible, Prager is an avid supporter of public education, teaching music in the Berkeley Unified School District and in her private East Bay studio.
