This Saturday, January 14th there is a great opportunity to see a free concert with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra and Bel Canto Chorus. String Academy faculty Jamie Hofman will be performing, and Mayor Tom Barrett will be participating. Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony (based on String Quartet No 8 ) will be [...]
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Read War and Peace. click here It’s a big weekend for cello fans! This Saturday, October 2nd, you’ll have to decide between SAW faculty member Scott Cook and former SAW faculty member Wendy Warner. At 7:30, Mr. Cook will be performing with colleagues Valerie Errante, Elena Abend, and René Izquierdo, in an eclectic recital of music of Purcell, de Falla, Ginastera, [...]  CONGRATULATIONS!! Katherine Brooks Katherine Brooks, from the SAW violin faculty, has been selected by the Civic Music Association to receive this year’s Studio Teacher award at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 6. Scott Cook from the SAW cello faculty was the 2008 recipient of this award. Scott Cook was awarded the 2008. Studio Teacher of the Year award from Civic Music Association. He received the award at ceremonies last May. Congratulations, Scott! Jamie Hofman taught and performed at the Eastern Music Festival this past summer, where he has been a faculty member since 2005. Darcy Drexler performed with the Great Lakes Baroque ensemble in an outdoor concert on [...] Alana Dust We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Alana Dust to the String Academy cello faculty this fall. Ms. Dust received the Premier Talent Scholarship to study with Elizabeth Simkin at Ithaca College for a B.M. in Cello Performance. She also received a Full Fellowship to study with Anthony Elliott at the [...] Wisconsin Cello Society Cello Day 2007 On Sunday, October 21, 2007, seventy-five members of the Wisconsin Cello Society from throughout the state convened on the UWM campus for the annual WCS Cello Day hosted by SAW and UWM. The Wisconsin Cello Society is comprised of college and university faculty amateur and professional cellists and cello [...] Jamie Hofman We are pleased to announce the appointment of SAW alum Jamie Hofman to the faculty of the String Academy. Mr. Hofman is a Milwaukee native and studied with James Przygocki and Mimi Zweig while a student at SAW. He earned a B.M. in viola and violin performance, in addition to a Performer Diploma [...] “A new and very different chapter of our lives is underway here in Wyoming. I must say first of all that we miss the String Academy very much! … Still fresh in our minds are all the friends we left behind and the many wonderful experiences we had in Milwaukee. Especially the wonderful farewell concert [...] Michael Fitzpatrick, cello [The following is an excerpt from an interview between James Olsen and new String Academy of Wisconsin Cello Faculty member Michael Fitzpatrick.] JO: Where did you get your formative training in cello? MF: I grew up in Lexington, KY, where I studied with Rodney Farrar, cellist, hang-glider, rollerblader, and inventor of The Human Metronome [...] |
  
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