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Summer String Academy 2010 Faculty
Faculty 2010
- Mimi Zweig, Program Director
- Erin Aldridge
- Susan Moses
- Brenda Brenner
- Sarah Caswell
- Chih-Yi Chen
- Rebecca Henry
- Jeannette Koekkoek
- Csaba Onczay
- James Przygocki
- Evan Rothstein
- Sherry Sinift
- Cory Smythe
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Elizabeth Zempel
- Afiara Quartet
- Penderecki Quartet
- Rubens Quartet
Master Class Teachers and Performers 2010
Mimi Zweig, Director of the Academy, Violin and Viola
Mimi Zweig is currently a professor of violin and director of the Indiana University String Academy. Since 1972 she has developed pre-college string programs across the United States. She has given master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Israel, Japan and Europe. She has recently produced StringPedagogy.com, an innovative web-based teaching tool. In the spring of 2006, American Public Television released the documentary, “Circling Around-The Violin Virtuosi” which features String Academy students. The String Academy and Mimi Zweig are recent recipients of a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation grant which supports the teaching of gifted violinists. Her students have won numerous competitions, and teach and perform worldwide.
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Brenda Brenner, Violin
Brenda Brenner is Associate Professor of Music Education in the IU Jacobs School of Music and Assistant Director of the IU String Academy. She specializes in the area of string music education, teaching applied violin and courses in violin and string pedagogy. Her String Academy students have been featured in concerts in major venues throughout the United States and Europe. Prior to her arrival at IU, Dr. Brenner was Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College. Active as a performer, she received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg, Donald Weilerstein, and the Cleveland Quartet. A member of the award-winning Augustine Quartet, she was a finalist or prize winner in several competitions, including the Banff International Quartet Competition, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and Cleveland Competition, and has worked with the Cleveland, Toyko, Juilliard, American and Emerson Quartets.
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Chih-Yi Chen, Piano
Chih-Yi Chen, pianist, is currently director of Collaborative Piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. During her studies at IU, she worked with Lev Vlasenko, Michel Block, and the pianist of former Borodin Trio Luba Edlina Dubinsky. Active in chamber music, accompanying and teaching, she performs often in the States, Europe and Asia, and was the pianist for the String Academy for 14 years.
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Rebecca Henry, Violin and Viola
Rebecca Henry holds The Scott Bendann Chair in Classical Music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where she is on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and chairs the Peabody Preparatory string department. A founding member of the Kegelstatt Trio, she is an active chamber musician. Ms. Henry has given masterclasses and teacher workshops throughout the U.S. and in Canada and Turkey and her former students are teaching and performing around the world.
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Jeanette Koekkoek, Chamber Music
Jeanette Koekkoek, pianist, graduated from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and studied with the illustrious Aube Tzerko in Aspen and Los Angeles. She performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition, Ms. Koekkoek, a devoted pedagogue, teaches piano and chamber music from her studio in Tuscany, Italy, where she resides. She has been a faculty member of the Indiana University String Academy since 1990.
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Susan Moses, Cello
Susan Moses earned her degrees with the
highest honors at Indiana and Yale Universities before completing
her studies at the renowned Jascha-Heifetz-Gregor Piatigorsky Master
Classes at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a
Ford Foundation Prize and has performed throughout the world in
recital, with orchestra and as the solo violoncellist of the
celebrated I SOLISTI VENETI. While living in Europe she taught for Boston University, in the Conservatoires Regionales de France and
founded the Chicago String Trio that was awarded a special Prize by
the University of Milan for outstanding contributions in chamber
music. She records for ERATO and CONCERTO and was nominated for a
Grand Prix du Disque. Susan also was recognized by the University of
Padua for her outstanding research on the school of Giuseppe Tartini
in the 1700’s and created for Trinity College a special music
program for their Italian Elderhostel where she is principal
lecturer and performer.
She currently heads the cello department of the String Academy at
Indiana University, has been on the faculty of Oberlin College and
represents the United States in International cello competitions.
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Csaba Onczay, Cello
Csaba Onczay is currently professor of
cello at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and visiting Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He studied
with Antal Friss at the Liszt Academy at the Conservatory
Tchaikovsky in Moscow, and with Andre Navarra in Siena. He was a
visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2001. He
has won various international prizes and has performed concerts throughout the world. In addition, he has made numerous CD’s, and recordings for TV and radio.
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James Przygocki, Viola and Chamber Music
James Przygocki is Professor of Music at the University of Wyoming where he teaches viola, violin, pedagogy and music education courses. In addition to his work with university students Mr. Przygocki teaches pre-college students for the String Academy of Wyoming and is the director of University of Wyoming String Project. Mr. Przygocki is active as a performer, conductor and clinician. He performs regularlywith University of Wyoming faculty as a member of the Summit Chamber Players and serves as principal violist with the CheyenneSymphony Orchestra. He is active as a soloist and chamber musician, having performed in Europe, China, and Brazil and around the U.S. He has recorded for AK/Coburg, CRI and Indiana University Press.His viola transcriptions have been published by One World Strings.
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Evan Rothstein, Chamber Music
Evan Rothstein studied chamber music
with members and ex-members ofthe Cleveland, Tokyo, Juilliard, Fine
Arts and Borodin string quartets. A grant from the Fondation des
Etats-Unis gave him the opportunity to study in Paris with famed
pedagogue Veda Reynolds, and he afterwards performed on French radio
and in major festivals in France and across Europe. After completing
his doctorate at Indiana University and several degrees in
musicology, he was named instructor at the University of Paris 8 -
Saint Denis, and has been invited for lectures and residencies internationally. In 2004 he was appointed as pedagogical consultant to the Proquartet-European Center for Chamber Music.
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Sherry Sinift, Violin
Sherry Sinift is the director of the String Academy of Wyoming, a member of the Summit Chamber Players, adjunct faculty member of the University of Wyoming and Administrative Coordinator and Supervising Teacher for the UW String Project. Ms. Sinift is former associate concertmaster of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra and performed throughout the United States and Europe as a member of the Hawthorne Quartet . Ms. Sinift has built exceptional violin classes at the String Academy of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Lawrence University and Indiana University. She holds a MM in performance from Indiana University and a BM in performance from Western Michigan University. Her influential teachers included Tadeusz Wronski, Mimi Zweig, Rostislav Dubinsky, and Gerald Fischbach.
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Cory Smythe, Chamber Music
Cory Smythe, pianist, is a graduate of the music schools at Indiana University and the University of Southern California. He currently resides in New York City, where he is active as a chamber musician, improviser, and composer.Recently, Cory has performed alongside flutist Dora Seres, violinist Timothy Fain, at the Jazz Standard with the Greg Osby Four, and at the Bang On A Can Marathon with the International Contemporary Ensemble. He is a member of the Oblique quartet founded by drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey, with whom he recently finished recording an album for the Firehouse 12 label. Cory’s principal teachers have included Luba Edlina-Dubinsky and Stewart Gordon.
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Elizabeth Zempel, Violin
Elizabeth (VanGelderen) Zempel has
studied the violin with Mimi Zweig at the String Academy of
Wisconsin and received her MM degree from Indiana University. She currently oversees a large
and active string program in Milwaukee.
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Afiara Quartet, Chamber Music
The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet is the Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts, where they serve as teaching assistants to their mentors, the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York and awarded 2nd Prize at the prestigious Munich ARD International Music Competition, the San Francisco Classical Voice calls the Afiara Quartet "a terrifically unified, versatile, and moving ensemble" with "startling intensity" and a "powerful, keen-edged collective sound". They have performed at Carnegie Hall in the "Kronos: Signature Works" series, were presented in their New York debut by Chamber Music America and the Kronos Quartet at St. Luke's Church, and taught as faculty ensemble at Chamber Music of the Rockies and Canada's Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute. They have been heard on Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio 2, KALW, and were featured in the "Road to Banff" documentary.
Formed in 2006, the Afiara Quartet was invited to compete as one of the ten semi-finalists in the 2007 Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2008, they were one of the two quartets-in-residence of Aspen Music Festival's Advanced Quartet Studies Program. Since their inception, where members of the quartet were students in the Chamber Music Program at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, they have been Artists-in-Residence at Lake Tahoe Music Festival's Education and Outreach Program, and Affiliates of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
Along with their studies with the Alexander String Quartet, the Afiaras are fortunate to have worked with the American, Cavani, Emerson, Kronos, Takacs, and Ying String Quartets, Earl Carlyss, James Dunham, Henk Guittart, Bonnie Hampton, Geoff Nuttall, Barry Shiffman and Scott St. John, and at the San Francisco Conservatory with Paul Hersh, Mark Sokol, and Ian Swensen
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