Please remember to ask your friends, families, and loved ones if they would like to support the String Academy, check off some Christmas shopping, and buy some delicious Alterra coffees, teas, or hot cocoa. (If you are not a SAW family and would like to order, just email info@stringacademyofwisconsin.org) All orders are due by Saturday, December 3rd at the latest. Thank you for your time and enthusiastic support!
Thank you for your support! Proceeds benefit all students at the String Academy by holding down tuition costs.
It’s been a few years, and the String Academy is bringing back an old tradition: A Halloween Spooktacular! Come see the kids in costume, playing some scary tunes (and some not so scary!) The concerts will be in two parts.
Part I: Chilling Cellos! – 10:00 AM
Part II: Frightening Fiddles! – 12:00 Noon
Concerts are in the Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall and are free and open to the public. Hope you can come!
Founded in 1990, the String Academy of Wisconsin (SAW) has become one
of this country’s model schools, offering students between the ages of 4 and 18
a comprehensive musical education with a focus on the violin, viola or cello.
Highly qualified artist faculty provide musical instruction based on the methods
and philosophies of Paul Rolland, Shinichi Suzuki, and Mimi Zweig. The special
training, experience, and expertise of the SAW faculty in the musical training of
young people results in students playing with technical ease and musical sensitivity.
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Stephen Bangs – Alex DeSousa – Zachary Gilbert – Allen Kang Christian Morzinski – Ross Nevin – Kartik Papatla – Steve Wasielewski Katherine Wasielewski
performing the complete sonatas of
Antonio Vivaldi
Mary Anna Salo, Harpsichord
Sunday, May 22, 2011 – 6:00 pm – UW Milwaukee, Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
2011 Practice Competition Group Winner Goltermann Duport
Cello group Goltermann Duport celebrated their Top Group Average win of the 2011 Practice Compeitiion with a pizza party, proving once again that practice pays off! Each student received a present (candy!), ate lots of pizza, enjoyed desserts made by the Simmons family, listened to fun music provided by the Nowacek family and we all played musical chairs. Congratulations to all!
The String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents
TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Teaching the Violin to Children
July 14-17, 2011
Teaching Children the Cello
June 23-26, 2011
This workshop incorporates the philosophies and ideas of Shinichi Suzuki, Paul Rolland, Mimi Zweig, and the faculty of the String Academy of Wisconsin. The workshop consists of pedagogy sessions and hands-on instruction. Topics to include: Initial Setup, Understanding the Body, Pathways to Accurate Intonation and Beautiful Tone, Understanding Shifting, Developing the Vibrato, and more.
The course is designed for private studio teachers and public school string teachers with students between the ages of four and eighteen. It is intended to validate teaching techniques and introduce new ideas of how best to set the foundations for young cellists using ideas from Shinichi Suzuki, Paul Rolland and the extensive experience of the String Academy faculty.
Congratulations to all who pushed their practicing habits to new levels during our 2011 Practice Competition. In many ways, everyone who practiced is a winner. The skills and habits that you developed in your daily practice routine have already given you greater discipline, focus, and made you better musicians than you were at the beginning of the month. With that said, we would like to recognize those students who have practiced daily, who have practiced the most from each group, and our overall winner, Bradley Nowacek!
Special thanks to Culvers for sponsoring free custard for all those who participated!
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
- Vince Lombardi
Daily Practice Awards
Group Awards
Seung Hyun Jin
Jona Camancho
Aramis Zaiser
Tia Miller
Isaiah Brotzman
Henry Dallman
Lucia Estrada
Chloe Miller
Gina Shin
Abby Zimmer
Bradley Nowacek
Maya Zimmer
Ingrid Buschkopf
Anirudh Verdartham
Spencer Caton
Michael Fairfield Jr.
Noah Aitch
John Price
Julian Camancho
Sara Orozco
Alondra Rodriguez
Seamus Dallman
Magdalena Lulewicz
John Kim
Maya Groser
Emily Hao
Andrew Miller
Looking out the window you might not know it, but Spring really is here! And at the String Academy, that means our annual Spring Concerts are right around the corner. The concerts will take place this Saturday, March 26 at 10AM and 12PM in the PSOA Recital Hall at UWM. All the SAW group classes will perform, as well as featured soloist Abigail Schneider, one of the winners of the 2011 Violin Competition. You’ll hear music from Twinkle to Copland’s Hoedown to La Bamba and everything in between. The concerts are free and open to the public. We hope you can come.
UPDATE: Great pics from the concert! Courtesy photographer/parent Jonathan Kirn. Full gallery here.
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need. — Woodrow Wilson
(group winner!)
