June 22 – July 25, 2008
Short session: July 6— July 25, 2008
The 2008 season marks the 10th Anniversary of NCSA’s Chamber Music Institute for strings and piano. This summer, a select group of talented, passionate string and piano students will be chosen by audition to live and breathe chamber music for the five-week course of study. They will be immersed in the study of classical music under the guidance and teaching of the internationally-recognized resident Artist-Faculty, including Sarah Johnson (violin), Paul Statsky (violin), Karen Collins (violin), Jonathan Kramer (cello), Christina Placilla (viola) and Joanne Inkman (piano).
Students have a rigorous and inspiring schedule of private lessons, master classes, redesigned theory classes, and daily chamber music coachings. Special Topics Courses will include “Bach – Musings, Performances, and Awe-Inspiring Discussions” led by Casals-Bach specialist Dr. Jonathan Kramer, Alexander Technique lessons, and Stage Presence for Gifted Geeks.
The Chamber Music Institute enjoys close proximity to two world class music festivals, Eastern Music Festival and An Appalachian Summer, and there will be opportunities to attend concerts and master classes at these locations.
The School of the Arts is pleased to announce a residency by one of North Carolina’s premiere chamber groups, the Ciompi String Quartet. A quartet of international renowned, Ciompi has played on five continents and is the quartet-in-residence at Duke University. Guest master classes will also be presented by Katie Dey (viola) and others.
Chamber Music Institute
8:00 Scales Class/Bach Class
9:00 Chamber music coachings/private lessons/individual practice
11:00 Theory/Ear Training/Master class
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Chamber music coachings/private lessons/individual practice
4:00 Performance master class or Student Performance Hour
5:30 Dinner
7:30 Evviva! faculty concert or
Student concert
Sarah Johnson, violin
Associate Professor of Violin at Converse College and member of the NCSA Artist-Faculty ; Founding member Harlaxton International Chamber Music Series in Great Britain and Founding Director of Charleston’s Dock Street Theatre chamber music series; former Affiliate Artist; made solo debut at age 10 with the Minneapolis Symphony, has toured as recitalist and soloist throughout the US, South Africa, Brazil and Colombia; has taught on the Visiting Faculties of Eastman and Duke University; discography of 3 CDs of American music released on Albany includes world premiere of Robert Ward’s Violin Concerto; gave Washington DC premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Violin Concerto; graduate of the Curtis Institute as student of Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo, members of the Guarneri Quartet, Felix Galimir; advanced studies with Erica Morini and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.
Paul Statsky, violin
Paul Statsky was born in Brooklyn, NY. His first music lessons started at the age of eight with Alfred Troemel at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As a teenager he took violin lessons at the Juilliard Preparatory Division with Dorothy DeLay. Mr. Statsky holds the Bachelor of Science Degree from The Juilliard School of Music where he studied violin with Dorothy DeLay, and the Master of Music Degree from Indiana University where he worked with Josef Gingold. During these years he attended the famed Meadowmount School of Music in the summers where he worked with Ivan Galamian and studied chamber music with Josef Gingold. In 1974 he joined the faculty of The Interlochen Arts Academy, and in 1982 he became Chair of the Violin Department of The Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1988 Mr. Statsky was appointed Associate Professor of Music in Violin at Converse College. Mr. Statsky is currently a faculty member at The South Carolina Governor’s School of the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, SC and also maintains a private teaching studio. He is in demand as an adjudicator and leader of clinics and master classes, and he appears regularly as a soloist and chamber music performer.
Karen Collins, violin
Karen Collins holds a Master’s degree in violin performance from Florida State University and both a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Akron. Since moving to North Carolina in 1984, Karen has taught orchestra for Greensboro Day School and the Moore County Schools, applied violin and viola at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and string methods classes at UNCG. She has also done extensive training in the Suzuki Method, and is presently teaching Suzuki violin and middle school orchestra at Greensboro Day School. Karen Collins has performed with the Greensboro Symphony for the past fourteen years and the Greensboro Chamber Orchestra for two seasons, has served as Education Director for the Symphony, and is presently the conductor for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Strings. Karen has also performed with the Akron and Canton Symphonies in Ohio, Albany and Columbus Symphonies in Georgia, Lynchburg Symphony, the Cleveland Opera, and the Philharmonica de Caracas in Venezuela. Her teachers have included Karen Clarke, Patricio Cobos, Paul Biss, and Terri Pontremoli.
Christina Placilla, viola
Christina Placilla is a viola soloist, chamber musician, scholar and teacher. She earned her Bachelor of Music in performance at California State University, Long Beach, her Master of Music at the Hartt School in West Hartford, Connecticut and her Doctorate of Musical Arts in viola performance at the University of Colorado. Her major teachers have included Adriana Chirilov, Steven Larson, Lawrence Dutton, Erika Eckert and Barbara Hamilton. Dr. Placilla has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout the U.S, Australia and Spain and is currently the recipient of the Winston-Salem Arts Council Regional Artist Grant with her duo partner Hector Landa with whom she gives recitals based on their common research interest- Nationalism in music. Christina is also the head of both strings and musicology at Winston-Salem State University where she teaches a very active upper string studio and conducts of the Winston-Salem State Chamber Orchestra.
Jonathan C. Kramer, cello
Jonathan C. Kramer is Associate Professor of Music and Arts Studies at North Carolina State University, and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University. As a cellist, he has performed as principal of the Tucson Symphony and as a member of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras and the North Carolina Symphony. Among his teachers are Aldo Parisot, Gordon Epperson, Raya Garbousova, David Wells, Madeline Foley, and Maurice Gendron. He has concertized extensively as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. as well as in Russia, India, Korea, Canada, Austria, Bulgaria, U. K., Switzerland, and Italy. He has performed with The Mostly Modern series of San Francisco, Mallarme Chamber Players, Duke University Encounters Series, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild; and presented solo concertos with a number of regional orchestras. He has recorded for Albany Records, and Soundings of the Planet Studios. Kramer maintains an active cello studio, and former students have attended Juilliard, Peabody, Manhattan and other schools of music.
Joanne Inkman, piano
Joanne Inkman is a member of the Wake Forest University Piano Faculty. Ms. Inkman received her early musical training in piano and viola in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a collaborative pianist, her trio won first place in the Friends of Chamber Music Competition in Vancouver. At age 17, she became an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. Awards include three British Columbia cultural grants and the Holderness Fellowship. Ms. Inkman studied with Clifton Matthews at NCSA and completed her training with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ms. Inkman is a versatile musician who enjoys teaching, performing solo piano, chamber music and accompanying choral groups, church services and opera. In 1991, she made her New York Debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and has performed in Canada, the eastern United States, Switzerland and Austria. |
