Quartet de Minaret

Quartet in Residence at UT

For more than three years, this quartet made up of faculty members and professional musicians, gives performances and educates young players in master-class settings.

This initiative of Libor Ondras, director of the Orchestra of the University of Tampa, enhances the breath of orchestral and chamber music programs within the University’s music department.

Musicians and faculty members, Dr. Ondras, violist, and Dr. Grigorios Zamparas, pianist, are joined by two accomplished Florida Orchestra members, Lei Liu, assistant concertmaster, and Lowell Adams, assistant principal cellist. The group has appeared in several chamber music concert series in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Eisenstadt, Austria. Their performances have been broadcast on national TV in U.S. and Europe. The quartet holds annual chamber music workshops on campus in the fall and summer.

Dr. Ondras has performed with such professional orchestras as Houston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Vienna Philharmonics and the Florida Orchestra. He made his Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Sir George Solti. Active recitalist, he is a frequent guest at viola and viola d’ amore international congresses, one of which he chair-hosted himself. His research writings have been published by the Journal of American Viola Society.

Lei Liu joined the ranks of the Florida Orchestra in 1994. Since then, he has moved his way up become Assistant Concertmaster. Prior to his career in the Florida orchestra, he was a part of the Florida Symphony in Orlando and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He is a dedicated conductor of the Serenade Strings Orchestra in the Pinellas Youth Symphony.

Lowell Adams is the assistant principal cellist of the Florida Orchestra, principal cellist of the Lake George Opera Festival in New York and the associate artist instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Tampa. He was an artist in residence member of the Esterhazy Quartet in Missouri. His many distinguished teachers included Raya Garbousova and members of the Vermeer Quartet

Grigorios Zamparas has received critical acclaim for his versatile performing career as recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician in Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Russia, Latin America and the U.S. He is a frequent guest at numerous festivals worldwide such as the Newport Music Festival in Newport, RI, and the Salon of the Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.