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~ 2012 Suzuki Festival ~
Violin ~ Cello ~ Viola ~ Recorder ~ Harp
Friday & Saturday, March 16 - 17, 2012
Hopkins Center - Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
2009 Festival Photo Album
| Guest Clinicians |
| Mary Cay Neal ~ Violin |
Mary Cay Neal is the Founder and Executive Director of Buffalo Suzuki Strings, which is now in its 40th year of operation. At present, Mary Cay teaches 28 violin students and conducts the BSS Advanced Ensemble and the Friendship Touring Ensemble. Mary Cay holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Georgia State University and has done post-graduate work in Suzuki Pedagogy. She has studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki on many occasions including: teacher-training workshops at the International Conferences in Hawaii in 1975 and 1977; Munich, Germany in 1979; Amherst, Massachusetts in 1981; Matsumoto, Japan in 1983; and has taught at the International Suzuki Teacher's Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1985; Adelaide, Australia in 1991; Matsumoto, Japan in 1999; and Torino, Italy in 2006. Mary Cay is a registered Teacher Trainer and has served on The Suzuki Association of the Americas Board of Directors for three terms. She has taught teacher training and violin at many Suzuki Institutes and workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan and South America.
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| Pam Reit ~ Violin |
Pam Reit has been a Suzuki teacher for 20 years. She has taught at Institutes and Workshops around the United States. She is the Music Director of Vermont Suzuki Violins, Inc. in Northern Vermont. She teaches privately in her home while raising her children Layla and Abby. She has a BM from Peabody Conservatory and an MM from Rice University.
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| Shannon Schultze ~ Cello |
Shannon Schultze has been practicing the cello since she was ten. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota (with a detour through the chemistry department along the way). In 2008, she earned a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois; while she was there she participated in orchestra and numerous chamber ensembles. Miss Schultze was a group class and individual lesson teacher for Illinois State's String Project program, which provides instruction to school-age children on violin, viola, and cello, under the supervision of Master Teachers Dr. Katherine Lewis and Dr. Adriana Ransom. After graduation, Miss Schultze stayed in central Illinois, teaching private lessons and mixed-instrument group classes. She also performed with numerous local ensembles, including the Millikin-Decatur Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. Miss Schultze has completed Suzuki teacher training through cello book 4 at the American Suzuki Institute, the Chicago Suzuki Institute and the Ithaca Suzuki Institute under teacher trainers Jean Dexter, Barbara Wampner and Sally Gross.
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| Susan Reit de Salas ~ Singing, Recorder, Harp |
| Susan Reit de Salas lives in Starksboro, Vermont and teaches harp, recorder and Jiggity Jog- a music and movement program. Her training includes: Suzuki Recorder Books 1 and 2, Center for Music and Young Children Program, Sarah Lawrence College Medieval and Renaissance Music Performance Program, Harp Studies with Elizabeth Dahl at University of Vermont, Recorder Studies with Steven Light.
She delights in working with children and music. Along with private students, she brings her Jiggity Jog program to various communities and libraries throughout Vermont, and teaches group recorder classes in schools. She is grateful for her natural musical roots, gleaned from her guitar-playing, singing Dad and piano-playing, art-loving Mom.
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| Workshop Providers |
| Peter Blum ~ Workshop Director |
Peter Blum has been a Suzuki teacher in Vermont for 17 years. He is the
President of the Northeastern Suzuki Foundation which organizes large Festivals
and Workshops. He has a BA in music from Vassar College, an MS in Music
Education from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from RPI - Hartford
Graduate Center. Peter has been the string teacher at the Wellspring Waldorf School for the past three years.
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| Erik Nielsen ~ Composition |
| Erik Nielsen has been composing for 30 years and his catalog includes works for chorus, orchestra, solo instruments, chamber music of many configurations and electronic music. His clarinet quintet, a commission from the National Symphony Orchestra, was premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C in 2004. He has also recently received commissions from the Vermont All-State Music Festival, Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Vermont Youth Orchestra. He is Composer-in-Residence and composition mentor at Bloomfield, East Hartford, Simsbury and Wethersfield High Schools in Connecticut. He is a composition mentor with the Vermont Midi and Teen Voices Projects and also teaches music theory and composition with the Vermont Youth Orchestra as well as composition and Orff-Schulwerk at a number of music camps. Mr. Nielsen lives in Brookfield, Vermont. He and his wife, Barbara have three daughters, Cora, Christina and Ingrid.
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| Paula Mann ~ Drama |
| Paula Mann has been a professional actress for the past 27 years, appearing
in film, television and regional theatres. She has appeared in numerous
productions at the Dorset Theatre Festival and won four Best Actress awards
for her work. She also created and ran a summer drama camp for children at
the DTF and is currently teaching acting at Green Mountain College in
Poultney, Vermont.
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| Eve DesJardins ~ Folk Dancing |
| Eve DesJardins brings to her work a lifetime of dance and contemplative movement education. She holds a BA in Theater and Dance from Marlboro College and an MA in Dance /Movement Therapy from Antioch New England Graduate School. She is a circle dance teacher of 22 years, a trained singer and an improvisational folk harpist. As an experienced teacher of the "Music Together" approach to parent/child music classes, mothering her children through the Suzuki repetoire led to a natural integration between it's songs and movement expression. With Eve, your child will have a chance to joyfully dance to familiar songs from book one and two while being led in a developmentally appropriate way to strengthen the body's capacity to sense the living patterns in melody that breathe through us as we play our instruments.
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| Linda Blum ~ Art |
Linda Blum of Springfield, Vermont has been educated in art and teaching and is presently employed in a teaching position. Her painting is done with a fast-dry oil medium. There has been an on-going interest in puppetry and drama, and she has created many puppets, back drops and props. She has traveled with her puppets and plays. Her art interests are varied, and that enthusiastic creativity brings an interesting experience to the students. Linda has been on the faculty of the Springfield Schools for six years. She teaches "Art for Young Naturalists" at the Vershare Camp and has been teaching art at various Suzuki Camps and Festivals for the past eight years. She is presently working as a tutor through Club Z.
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