March 15, 2015 Boulder Suzuki Strings News Volume 18, Issue 3 “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~Michael Jordan Remaining Spring 2015 BSS Dates Friday and Saturday, Apr. 10 th and 11 th Spring Workshop at BVCC 7100 S. Boulder Rd. Dear Boulder Suzuki Strings Families, With the change to daylight savings this past weekend, the extra sunlight was welcome but the lost hour of sleep, not as much! We can sense the eagerness to be done with school and on to summer vacation. We still have some more big events to look forward to before the end of the school year. The annual spring workshop is fast approaching, the weekend of April 10 and 11. This is the culmination of the group work done this year. The students will perform in their groups, orchestra, fiddle, chamber ensembles, and of course, the senior solos which is a special time to honor our graduating seniors. Spring solo recitals are in May. Performances are being planned for the summer months. As we head into these busy months at the end of the school year, enjoy the spring vacation! See you all in April. Amy Friday and Saturday, May 8 th and 9 th Solo Recitals Friday, May. 1 st Solo Recital Run- Throughs 2016 Tour Plans are underway and almost ready for the 2016 BSS tour to Costa Rica. Exciting details will be sent soon. Be looking for them in your email.
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March 15, 2015
Boulder Suzuki Strings News Volume 18, Issue 3
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
~Michael Jordan
Remaining Spring 2015 BSS Dates
Friday and Saturday, Apr. 10th
and 11th
Spring Workshop at BVCC 7100 S. Boulder Rd.
Dear Boulder Suzuki Strings Families,
With the change to daylight savings this past weekend, the extra sunlight was welcome but the lost hour of sleep, not as much! We can sense the eagerness to be done with school and on to summer vacation.
We still have some more big events to look forward to before the end of the school year.
The annual spring workshop is fast approaching, the weekend of April 10 and 11. This is the culmination of the group work done this year. The students will perform in their groups, orchestra, fiddle, chamber ensembles, and of course, the senior solos which is a special time to honor our graduating seniors. Spring solo recitals are in May.
Performances are being planned for the summer months.
As we head into these busy months at the end of the school year, enjoy the spring vacation!
See you all in April.
Amy
Friday and Saturday, May 8th
and 9th
Solo Recitals
Friday, May. 1st Solo Recital Run-Throughs
2016 Tour Plans are underway and almost ready for the 2016 BSS tour to Costa Rica. Exciting details will be sent soon. Be looking for them in your email.
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Spring 2015 Tuition
Final bill payments are now past due. Some of you will be receiving a second statement in the mail this
week. Please send in your payments today if you still owe money for this semester. If you have questions or
concerns regarding your account, please feel free to contact Stacey at [email protected]. Thank you
so much for being a part of the BSS family!
Robertson and Sons Robertson and Sons Violin Shop is generously
donating a full size Klaus von Aue violin, carbon fiber bow and case (total value $2225.00) to
auction off at our Spring Workshop in April. For the second time, Don Robertson and Sons will
arrive on Thursday afternoon. They will begin to work at 3 p.m. to meet all of our needs. Hours
will be Thursday, April 9th from 3:00 - 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 10th, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and
Saturday, April 11th, from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. We hope this will lessen the lines and the wait for
the great service they provide.
Spring Workshop
Get ready for our annual Spring Workshop! On Friday, April 10th, we will host a play-in for Books 1-3 as well as rehearsals and a concert featuring Senior Soloists. We have hired fabulous guest violin/viola and cello faculty to come and teach classes for all BSS students on Saturday, April 11th. In addition, all students will attend enrichment classes, like Dalcroze and yoga. For older students, we have Dr. Harrington, a specialist coming in to talk about Musicians and Health. Read about guest faculty in their bios on pages 4 - 6. The culminating concert on Saturday afternoon features the amazing sight of more than 200 students on stage. Make sure to mark your calendars! Your schedule of classes and the final concerts will be coming soon.
Please remember that students must attend all instrument specific classes in order to perform in the final concerts. Attendance will be taken.
Seniors… Bios and pictures for the Spring Workshop program are due to Amy no later than Friday, April 3rd! Don’t
make her come after you…
Painted Violin Project Do you enjoy painting, stenciling or bedazzling? We
are looking for a few parents or older students who would like to use their creativity to transform old
broken violins into works of art to be auctioned off at the BSS Spring Workshops. You don’t need to be a
professional artist to participate. Just use your imagination and have fun creating. If you’re
interested, please call Karen Pring at 303-494-4723. Finished violins are due by Friday, April 10th at noon
and can be delivered to Boulder Valley Christian Church (the location of the BSS Workshops).
Reception to Honor Graduating Seniors
Please join the celebration immediately following the Spring Workshop concert on Friday, April
10th, honoring BSS graduating seniors. Reception is hosted by the junior class.
Scholarship Applications Will be available in late April/early May. Completed applications due no later than June 30th. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
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Upcoming Community Concerts
Registration is Open! Looking for a fun way to motivate and keep your child excited about music this summer? Register for Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute and Advanced String Camp! It is a great opportunity for you and your child to work with amazing teachers from all over the country and to be with other like-minded families. You will be surprised at how much you will all enjoy the week! Learn more about the Institute at www.ppsicolorado.com and register today for the week of July 13-17.
• April 14th at 7:30 p.m., King Center Recital Hall. Sara Parkinson,
faculty recital at Metro State University in Denver. More
information at www.msudenver.edu/music/events/#April.
• Saturday, April 18th, 7:30 p.m., Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Rd, Lafayette. Sphere Ensemble Season 4 Spring
Concert, featuring BSS faculty, Anna Morris.
• Sunday, April 19th, 3 p.m., The Studios at Overland Crossing, 2201 S. Delaware St., Denver. Sphere Ensemble Season 4 Spring
Concert, featuring BSS faculty, Anna Morris.
• Saturday, April 25th, 7:30 p.m., The Kenneth King Concert Hall, Auraria Campus, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. The Playground
2999 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver. Faculty involved: Emily Bowman, Stacey Brady, Carla Sciaky, and Chloe Prendergast. BSS students involved! Music of Handel, Telemann and Bach.
Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra Auditions
Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra auditions May 2-4, all levels.
More info at greaterboulderyo.com
My Letters Home from the Pacific War
Boulder Suzuki Strings Violin teacher, world-renowned Suzuki pedagogue, author, and former
University professor, Mr. William Starr, has published a new book. Available on-line in two weeks as an E book, My Letters Home from
the Pacific War about his time on a landing support ship in the Navy during World War II, including incredible stories after the war
ended.
Welcome, Christie Felsing
Please help us welcome Christie Felsing to our BSS family.
Christie teaches violin and joined us in January. We are fortunate
to have her expertise and knowledge.
For close to 20 years Christie was on the violin faculty at the Preucil School of Music in Iowa and was also the assistant director of the program. Christie works in the
national office of the Suzuki Association of the Americas which is located in Boulder.
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Jeremy Dittus enjoys a career as a pianist, theorist, and Dalcroze eurhythmics instructor. An avid recitalist, he has performed solo and chamber programs and presented Dalcroze masterclasses throughout the United States and in Europe. He currently teaches on the summer faculty at Colorado State University where he founded and now directs the Dalcroze School of the Rockies Dalcroze Academy teacher-training center. A former lecturer in piano, theory, and solfege at the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Cleveland, he also has instructed undergraduate solfege, piano, and composition courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as eurhythmics and solfege at L’Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Dittus is the founder and director of the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in Denver, Colorado, the only authorized Dalcroze training center west of Pittsburgh in the United States. The DSR offers Eurhythmics classes for children (pre-kindergarten through high school), adult enrichment classes, and full time study toward the Dalcroze Certificate/License (eurhythmics, solfege, improvisation, and pedagogy). Additionally, he has presented Dalcroze workshops at home and abroad including the World Piano Conference, International Early Childhood Music and Movement Convention, National Dalcroze Conference, American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Convention, National Flute Convention, Colorado Music Educators Association State Convention, Piano Celebration at Metro-State University in Denver, University of Louisville Piano Institute, in addition to several summer music institutes, universities, and conservatories across the country. He also serves on the state board for the Colorado Federation of Music Clubs and functions as the Vice President of the Dalcroze Society of America. He recently has published books on Dalcroze Education: Embodying Music: A Textbook for Dalcroze Teacher Training, and the first of five books that correspond to the Rhythmic-Solfege youth program in place at the Dalcroze School of the Rockies.
Presenting Spring Workshop Guest Faculty Dr. Jeremy Dittus Everett Goodwin
Everett Goodwin began violin studies at age 5. He attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he received a Bachelor of Music diploma with a violin major. During the summers of his final two years, 1968 and 1969, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki held two week seminars in Madison. An opportunity became available for Everett to play in a master class for Dr. Suzuki which eventually changed the course of Everett’s musical career.
After studying for his undergraduate degree, Everett was accepted as a student of Sidney Harth. He enrolled as graduate performance major at Carnegie Mellon University and received his MFA degree in 1971. While in Pittsburgh, Everett and his wife worked at the St. Francis Hospital children’s mental health in-patient unit. Both he and his wife were moved to dedicate their life to helping children. The inspirational speeches for the sake of children given by Dr. Suzuki two years earlier now took on deep significance for Everett. He decided to use his love of violin and his good technical training to develop his teaching ability in the Suzuki method.
He had teacher training under Marge Aber in 1972 and 73. He attended the summer institutes in Stevens Point from 1973-77. He then worked under Marge from 1978 to 1981 as a full time teacher in the American Suzuki Institute and also as violin teacher at UW-Stevens Point. In 1981 Everett became the director of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Suzuki Talent Education Program. He retired from that position in 2004.
His teaching career has included work as a Suzuki clinician throughout the United States, Canada ,and New Zealand. He continues to teach privately and accepts invitations as a guest clinician. He and his wife enjoy performing chamber recitals. Playing the violin remains the great joy of Everett’s creative life.
Everett and Santha have four children and eleven grandchildren. He is now teaching 3 of his grandchildren.
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Spring Workshop Faculty Continued
Emily Anne Bowman Emily Anne Bowman enjoys working with young musicians! Ms. Bowman teaches viola, violin, and fiddle with Boulder Suzuki Strings. Ms. Bowman was recognized with the “Exemplary Private Teacher” award by the American Strings Teachers Association Colorado chapter in 2012 and 2013. Ms. Bowman is also conductor of the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra Philharmonic. In addition to her active teaching schedule, Ms. Bowman performs with Seicento Baroque Ensemble and is a regular member of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Interested in sharing her love and enthusiasm for baroque performance practice, Ms. Bowman presented “An Introduction to Baroque Style Ornamentation and Improvisation: a Participatory Workshop” at the Suzuki Association of the Americas conference in May of 2012, assisted by BSS teacher and BCOC violinist Stacey Brady. Ms. Bowman also performs with the Free Range String Quartet, the Eldorado String Quartet and joins folks Americana group The Bowmans whenever she can. Ms. Bowman received her formal classical training from the New World School of the Arts and the University of Colorado College of Music. Ms. Bowman graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Viola Performance and was the recipient of the Gabor Ormai Viola Award. In addition to making music Ms. Bowman delights in eating and spending time outdoors.
Jessica Berg Jessica Berg is a violin teacher and Iyengar Yoga instructor with active violin studios in Denver and Boulder. She joined the faculty of Boulder Suzuki Strings in 2002. In addition to teaching private lessons and coaching string ensembles in Denver, she leads St. Anne’s Strings at St. Anne’s Episcopal School in Denver, where she has worked with students since 2008. Jessica believes in linking yoga and music to help musicians overcome the physical strains of playing an instrument and find emotional balance for performance. She has taught Yoga for Musicians at workshops including Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute, Intermezzo Chamber Music Sessions, and the Suzuki Winter Workshop in Denver, CO. Jessica began studying Suzuki violin at age 3 at Wheaton College in Wheaton Illinois under Kee Soon Ahn and William Fuhrberg. She completed her teacher training with Suzuki pedagogue Ellie Albers Leroux. While traveling in India in 1998, she discovered yoga and began teaching in 2002. She is happy to make her home in Colorado, and enjoys the mountain lifestyle to the fullest.
William Starr William Starr is an internationally recognized Suzuki pedagogue and a founder of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. He has appeared at workshops and conferences throughout the world, as teacher, conductor, soloist, and lecturer, and is founder of numerous Suzuki programs and pedagogy programs throughout the United States. Mr. Starr was a faculty member of the University of Tennessee Department of Music for many years, serving as chair from 1977-1982. During this time, he was first violinist with the University String Quartet and concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony. He has also served as an adjunct professor of music at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He is author and co-author of numerous books, including Perceiving Music, a college theory text, and many Suzuki-related texts, including The Suzuki Violinist and, with his wife, Constance, To Learn with Love. From his experience as a university symphony conductor, Mr. Starr has first-hand knowledge of the relationship between the understanding of music theory and the reading skills of many young violinists. Passionate about teaching theory and music reading to children, he has published a series of reading books that incorporate what he calls “usable” theory. Mr. Starr is currently a faculty member of Boulder Suzuki Strings, which he has worked with since its inception in 1982.
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Leslie S. Harrington, MD Physiatrist
Katie Couch Colorado native Katie Couch grew up playing the piano. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Katie moved to Shanghai, China, where she lived for three years teaching English and piano.
In 2010, Katie returned to CU-Boulder to study music education at the graduate level, and soon earned a Master’s degree and a Colorado public school teaching license. Around the same time, Katie began professional studies in Dalcroze Education, a unique and specialized form of music education which uses the entire body in rhythmic movement to teach music theory.
Katie earned the Dalcroze Certificate in 2013 and is now working along the Front Range as a eurhythmics teacher for the Dalcroze School of the Rockies, a private piano teacher, and a freelance pianist. Katie is currently working towards the next level of Dalcroze Licensure, which will certify her to teach eurhythmics to advanced musicians.
Katie greatly appreciates her former and current teachers, including Elizabeth Zawadowski-McCanne, Alejandro Cremaschi, and Jeremy Dittus. In her spare time, Katie can be found reading, playing the piano, running, and listening to music.
Spring Workshop Faculty Continued
A Physiatrist is a physician who specializes in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Harrington is board certified in PM&R, and is also board certified in TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and Electrodiagnosis (EMG).
Dr. Harrington completed medical school at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and did her Rehab Residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed a fellowship in Musculoskeletal problems at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Harrington specializes in Performing Arts Medicine (the treatment of musicians, dancers, and figure skaters) and has been on the Executive Board of the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA, see artsmed.org) for the past 7 years. Her interest in Arts Medicine stems from injuries in her youth as a competitive figure skater. She also took several years of ballet and played piano as a child, as well as viola in middle school. As an adult, she enjoys playing piano and has taught herself to play some of the “beginner hit parade” (e.g., Hot Cross Buns) on clarinet, trombone, cello, and violin in an effort to better understand the medical problems of her musician patients.
Dr. Harrington does also see a wide variety of other conditions, and can address rehab issues for patients with neurological problems such as stroke, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, myelopathy, radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy, etc. She frequently treats neck, back and extremity pain, including joint complaints.
Christie Felsing
Christie Felsing received her Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying violin with Vartan Manoogian and pedagogy with Marvin Rabin. After a year of graduate studies at Boston University, including long-term Suzuki teacher training, she pursued a nine-month Suzuki internship with Doris Preucil at the Preucil School of Music. This experience led her to complete a Master of Music degree in Suzuki pedagogy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville with John Kendall. Christie is also a graduate of the National Guild of Community School of the Arts’ administrative training program, AMICI. From 1996-2014, she was on the violin faculty of the Preucil School of Music (Iowa), where she served as Assistant Director. During that time, she was presented the 2013 Leopold LaFosse Studio Teacher of the Year award by the Iowa String Teachers Association. Her service to the Suzuki Association of the America has included being a member of its Board of Directors (2004-2009), SAA Conference Coordinator (2010), Teacher Development Advisory Committee, and ongoing work for the Parents as Partners Online offering. Christie is a registered SAA Violin Teacher Trainer and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado, where she is part of the Suzuki Association of the Americas staff.
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Boulder Suzuki Strings is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.
Tax ID: 84-1277886 State Sales Tax Exemption Account: 98-19951-0000
2705 Stanford Avenue, Boulder, CO 80305-5336 |www.bouldersuzukistrings.org |303.499.2807
Dear Parents/Guardians:
We are sending you this letter to ask if you could make a cash donation, to benefit the Boulder Suzuki Strings (BSS) Scholarship Fund. Over the past 15 years, the fund has provided financial assistance to more than 30 deserving students. Some student/parent testimonials are included, so you can see how the fund has benefited them. The purpose of the BSS scholarship fund is to ensure that no student is denied participation in our wonderful program due to financial hardship. 100% of the monies are used to provide qualifying students with tuition assistance throughout the year.
Donating to the BSS scholarship fund is strictly voluntary and should be done at your own comfort level. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated. As a general guideline, if you are able to make a donation of $25-$30 per child in the program, that would be a huge help. More if you can, less if you can’t!
Alternatively, we would also gladly take a donation of a product or service, to be auctioned off in our upcoming Spring Silent Auction, to raise funds for the BSS scholarship fund.
Boulder Suzuki Strings is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. All donations are fully tax-deductible.
Please mail cash donations (checks only please), to: Boulder Suzuki Strings BSS Scholarship Fund 2705 Stanford Avenue Boulder, CO 80305-5336 For product or service donations: Please contact any of the BSS Silent Auction Coordinators: Sonali Marlin ([email protected]), Ophelia Livingstone ([email protected]), Katie Clement ([email protected]), Karen Pring ([email protected]) or Michelle Segal ([email protected]). We are fortunate and very thankful, to live in this generous and close-knit community of music lovers. We appreciate your support in making musical education a reality for students that would otherwise not have this opportunity. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions. Thank you!
Amy Gesmer-Packman, Director
Boulder Suzuki Strings Scholarship Fund:
Bidding our Youth a Musical Future
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Boulder Suzuki Strings is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.
Tax ID: 84-1277886 State Sales Tax Exemption Account: 98-19951-0000
2705 Stanford Avenue, Boulder, CO 80305-5336 |www.bouldersuzukistrings.org |303.499.2807
'I wanted to thank you for awarding a BSS scholarship to my daughters. We truly appreciate the support as we strive to give our
daughters the best musical education we can and allow them to follow their dreams to the best of their ability. We greatly value
your program and the love of and knowledge of music it is inspiring in our children as they learn violin. Thank you for making it
possible for them to continue to follow their dreams.'
-BSS Parent
‘I spent the first eight years of playing violin with Boulder Suzuki Strings. This would never have been possible if not for the
scholarships they offered my family. These scholarships enabled me to take lessons and to discover what it meant to be musician.
With this strong foundation I was able to continue violin throughout high school and into college. As I see it, music is a joyful
vehicle through which I can “do good” and bring more beauty to our world. I am very grateful that I have had the opportunity to
study music and that I was able to participate in Boulder Suzuki Strings.’
-Shanti van Vuuren
‘I am so blessed to have been a part of Boulder Suzuki Strings growing up. The private lessons with inspiring teachers taught me so
much about not only violin playing, but also how my mind works. The Group Classes allowed me to experience the power of
communal music making. Through playing and learning I connected personally with many other students. My experience in BSS
played a big part in forming who I am today. It was a big part of what inspired me to love music to the point of making it my life’s
calling. Because my family could not afford to pay the full cost of the lessons and group classes that form the BSS experience, it was
a wonderful blessing that my involvement in BSS was made possible by the scholarship program. It was truly the best gift I could
ever have received, and there is nothing I can do or say to repay such wonderful kindness, I am just so, so thankful. I hope the
scholarship program lives on and brings this gift to other kids who otherwise would not be able to afford it, and that they will be
blessed by a life changing experience like the one I had.’
-Bram Margoles, graduated from BSS 2012
‘Our family is so grateful to Boulder Suzuki Strings for providing us with scholarships during the economic depression. Both my
husband and I are self-employed and really took a hit for several years. BSS means the world to our family, and receiving the
scholarship enabled us to continue with lessons and group for our children. What an enriching experience! The passion, sensitivity
and enjoyment of music has been a huge defining factor in all of our lives. Happily, we no longer need the scholarships and are
looking forward to supporting other families in need.’
