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~ 2007 Suzuki Festival ~
Friday, March 23, 2007
Hopkins Center - Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
2007 Festival Photo Album
| Guest Clinicians |
| Linda Fiore ~ Violin |
| Linda Fiore, Violin, studied with Raphael Bronstein at
Hartt School of Music. In the 70's, she studied at the Matsumoto Institute with
Dr. Suzuki and has been a guest clinician and teacher trainer all over the
world, Tanzania being the most recent. She and her students have toured Italy
and Puerto Rico. She is currently Senior Faculty of the Suzuki Program at the
Hartt School of Music.
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| Dominick Fiore ~ Cello, Bass, Chamber |
| Dominick Fiore, Bass/'Cello, was a student of John
Schaeffer at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. His freelancing
credits include work with the National Ballet of Canada and the Duke Ellington
Orchestra. He played with the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra and the Forest
Theater in Philadelphia. He is currently a member of the New Haven Symphony and
Director of the orchestra program at Hartt School of Music Community Division.
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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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| Vermont Suzuki Association |
| Carolyn Bever | Ann Brown |
| Lisa Carlson | Tom Charpentier |
| Jan Crow | Alison Eldredge |
| Sue Ann Erb (NH) | Sofia Hirsch |
| Mary Gibson | Kathy Luzader |
| Kathy Post | Peter Miller |
| Susan Reit | Pam Reit |
| Holly Thistle | Elizabeth Sutton |
| Jessica Zehngut |
| 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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| Stacey Benben ~ Chamber Music |
| Stacey Benben, cellist, is an active performer and teacher, presently residing in the Burlington, Vermont area. An alumna of the Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, she holds an MM in Cello Performance, and gained Suzuki training at the University of Denver, Co. This is her debut appearance at the Northeastern Suzuki Festival.
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| Barbara Mullen ~ Movement |
Barbara Mullen is the Artistic Director of New England Dance Ensemble and Owner and Director of Londonderry Dance Academy. Born in North Wales, Ms. Mullen attended the Hammond School in Chester, U.K., a prestigious boarding school for the Arts, where she received extensive training in stage and ballet as well as other dance forms including tap, modern, Latin American, and ballroom. She attained Royal Academy of Dancing teaching certifications for ballet, specializing in children courses and major (vocational graded) levels, as well as teaching certifications with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Ms. Mullen's performing experiences have included resident company dancer in Tiller Girls London Palladium where she performed in television specials in London and in the Provinces, performing contemporary repertoire and touring internationally with Stafford Dance Company, and company dancer for the Philadelphia Opera Company.
Ms. Mullen has been a dedicated educator and has had an extensive teaching career in dance, which began in 1971 in Philadelphia, PA. After moving to New Hampshire in 1976, she eventually opened Londonderry Dance Academy, and subsequently established New England Dance Ensemble, a youth ballet company. Ms. Mullen also created a teacher's training course for the American Academy of Ballet (AAB), served as an international adjudicator, and was guest teacher at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is currently assistant ballet teacher and lecturer in dance history in the dance program at the University of New Hampshire.
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| Allen Church ~ Drumming, Fiddle, Orff |
| Allen Church has been teaching music, violin, and guitar for over 20 years in Morrisville, Vermont. He started out as an elementary music teacher in Stowe where he applied his own training in the Orff Schulwerk. In 1998 he opened his own studio to teach Suzuki Violin, northeast and Irish fiddling, and guitar. Now he strings along about 30 players in all. He also conducts workshops for strings and percussion and offers a special drum-making class for older students.
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| Susan Reit ~ Singing, Recorder, Harp |
| Susan Reit studied recorder with Steven Light and harp with Elizabeth Dahl in Vermont. She attended the Program for the Performance of Early Music at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She has played with many different groups in many different places. Susan is a Suzuki recorder teacher and has completed the "Music Together" training for young children. She lives in Starksboro, Vermont with her husband, and there she home schools her two sons.
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| Sofia Hirsch ~ Chamber Music |
| Sofia Hirsch lives in Middlebury, Vermont with her husband and daughter, where she maintains her private Suzuki studio of eight years and teaches group with the Vermont Suzuki Violins in the Burlington area. She is currently a member of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and an alum of the Vermont Youth Orchestra. She created the Niata String Quartet in Middlebury where they performed for three years. Sofia regularly coaches chamber groups through VSV, plays it whenever she can, and holds chamber music closest to her heart!
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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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| 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 is on the faculty of Union Street School in Springfield, VT. Linda has been teaching art at various Suzuki Camps and Festivals for the past five years.
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