June 22 – July 25, 2008
Musica Piccola is a highly popular and fast-paced, two-week program for all of the orchestral and band instruments: violin, viola, ‘cello, double-bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, harp. Students in Musica Piccola take part in orchestra, chamber music, private lessons, master classes, and theory classes, taught by nationally-renowned faculty. The program culminates with an orchestra concert at the beautiful Stevens Center located in downtown Winston-Salem, and solo and chamber music performances in NCSA’s Watson Chamber Music Hall. Included within Musica Piccola are the two-week Harp Program and the Philidor Percussion Festival.
Musica Piccola
8:00 Technique/Repertoire Class
9:00 Orchestra/Chamber Music
11:00 Theory & Musicianship Class
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Individual practice
2:00 Private lesson/chamber music rehearsal
3:00 Chamber music/Percussion Ensemble
4:00 Performance master class or
Student Performance Hour
5:30 Dinner
7:30 Evviva! faculty concert or Student concert
(wind/percussion faculty to be announced)
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.
Kenneth Law, cello
Kenneth Law is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Petrie School of Music of Converse College in Sparanburg, South Carolina. In addition to his participation in the Converse Trio, he is a member of the Ritz Chamber Players, and principal cellist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and is a founding member of the Harlaxton International Chamber Music Festival in England. Mr. Law has appeared nationally as soloist and recitalist, and chamber music performances include appearances at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert Series, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Mr. Law has also performed in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico as a member of the Converse Trio. Mr. Law received undergraduate and graduate degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory. He also served as a chamber music fellow at the Juilliard School.
Brass
Judith Saxton, trumpet
Artist/teacher of Trumpet at NCSA. Principal trumpet with the Wichita Symphony and Key West Symphony, member of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. In demand as a chamber musician, clinician, teacher and adjudicator throughout the United States and abroad. performances in the Soviet Union and Japan, three years as principal with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and 10 years free-lancing and teaching in Chicago.
Robert Campbell, French horn
Principal Horn player for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Associate Principal with the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony Orchestra. Performances with the Tallahassee Symphony (FL), Greenville Symphony (SC) and the North Carolina Symphony. Founding member of the Winston-Salem Bolton Project Wind Quintet and Carolina Brass, a brass quintet based in Greensboro with several recordings on the Summit label.
Giannini Brass Quintet (Musica Piccola)
Anita Cirba, trumpet
Kenneth Wilmot, trumpet
Joseph Mount, horn
Christopher Ferguson, trombone
David Nicholson, tuba
The Giannini Brass was formed in 1989 and named after composer and educator Vittorio Giannini, the founder of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Currently, members of the Giannini Brass perform in nearly all of the professional orchestras in the Carolinas, and they have toured and performed with orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. The ensemble has been the recipient of grants from the Winston-Salem Arts council for developing innovative community and educational programs, including the acclaimed "Science of Sound". The Giannini Brass has performed in a variety of unusual and interesting performance settings, including multi-media planetarium concerts, with symphony orchestras, and on radio and television programs. The ensemble is on the South Carolina Arts Commission's Approved Artist Roster and the North Carolina Arts Council's Artist Directory. From 1999 to 2001 the Giannini Brass were artists-in-residence at Classical 89.9 WDAV, the classical music radio station for Charlotte, NC. The ensemble has released three recordings (Big-Shot Brass, Christmas With The Giannini Brass, and Baroque Brass) and recently has been granted permission by the Moravian Music Foundation to undertake a complete recording of the Moravian Chorale book.
Harp
*Jacquelyn Bartlett (Musica Piccola)
Principal harpist with National Ballet, North Carolina Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony. Extensive touring as soloist and chamber musician; recorded with The Mallarmé Chamber Players. Served on faculties of University of North Carolina, Duke University, and Appalachian State University.
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