Winter Festival 2017 January 13, 14, and 15 A Celebration of Learning, Friendships, and Fun MinJu Choi piano Terry Durbin David Evenchick violin cello Ann Montzka-Smelser Ching-chu Hu violin composition Friday Night Fun Night Masterclasses Play-in with All Students and Clinicians Old MacDurbin Had a Farm Concert featuring Minju Choi, piano Bridget AliceAnn O’Neill Saturday Jankowski cello piano Masterclasses Group Classes Enrichment Classes Clinicians Concert Sunday Roger Stieg Kate Cremean violin Masterclasses music and movement Group Classes Enrichment Classes Parents’ Session with Ann Montzka-Smelser Instrument Specific Play-in Leslie Maaser flute Wendy Stern Registration is due December 7, 2016 flute Winter Festival Clinicians MinJu Choi, piano, recently hailed as “positively mesmerizing at the piano” by The Times-Tribune, has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician. She has appeared as a soloist with the Indianapolis and Shreveport Symphonies, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and the Music Academy of the West and Juilliard Orchestras. Ms. Choi has been presented in recitals in cities in the U.S. and abroad, including Paris, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. She has been presented in prestigious venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Steinway Hall, and the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival. She has been heard as a soloist and chamber musician in live and recorded performances on radio stations around the country including WQXR New York Radio, WFMT Chicago Radio, WQSC Santa Barbara, KDAQ Shreveport, and WICR Indianapolis. Ms. Choi was a featured artist at the Vancouver Recital Society’s Chamber Music Festival, in which her performances were broadcast on the CBC Canada Radio. A strong enthusiast of contemporary music, Ms. Choi is recognized for her championship of music by American composers. In 2014, American composer Ching-chu Hu wrote and dedicated The Pulse to Ms. Choi which was world premiered in 2015. A piano concerto called Litany and Satire by Brett Abigana was also commissioned by Ms. Choi in 2003 and it was premiered at Lincoln Center in the same year. Other notable performances of American works have included David Diamond’s Piano Concerto with conductor Gerard Schwarz and Philip Lasser’s piano sonata "The White Owls" at Schola Cantorum in Paris, which resulted in Ms. Choi's performance of the sonata as the centerpiece of a modern dance work presented at Lincoln Center and at the French Institute in New York City. She has also worked with composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Derek Bermel, William Bolcom, and Joel Hoffman. Committed to arts advocacy, Ms. Choi has created numerous community music outreach programs such as the University of Indianapolis Community Music Service Fellowship, which provides the school's music students and faculty to uniquely contribute their talents by performing free public concerts at local health care facilities. In 2016, she is also serving as the Indiana Arts Commission's Strategic Planning Committee Member. Born in South Korea, Ms. Choi is a native of Indianapolis. Ms. Choi has been awarded prizes in several competitions including first prize in the Nena Wideman International Piano Competition, the Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition, and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Ms. Choi was also a top prize winner in the ARTS competition sponsored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Ms. Choi earned her bachelor´s and master´s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal. She pursued additional studies with Jean-Claude Pennetier at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and with Bernd Goetzke at Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany. She completed her doctoral studies at Stony Brook University with Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl. Ms. Choi is currently on the piano faculty at the University of Indianapolis. Kate Cremean, Music and Movement, teaches the Group Class Prep students in the Denison Suzuki Program. She introduces them to the concepts of music making in a group through singing, moving, and playing percussion instruments. Ms. Cremean holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from The Ohio State University. She is the proud Suzuki piano mom of David and Emily. Dr. Timothy (Terry) Durbin’s unique brand of teaching excellence makes him one of the most sought-after clinicians/conductors in the country. With infectious enthusiasm and inspired musicianship, he brings smiles and laughter to students throughout the United States and around the world. His dynamic teaching career includes over 800 workshops and institutes! His performance and teaching career stretches across the United States and Canada into Bermuda, Germany, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, and he has recorded two CDs, including the complete chamber music of Marcel Dupre for the Naxos label. He has been appointed principal conductor of the Cave Run Symphony Orchestra for the 2016-17 season. He has directed the South Dakota and Montana All State Orchestras. He is the holder of the American Suzuki Institute Suzuki Chair Award for 2013. Terry Durbin is also an accomplished composer and notable arranger. Dr. Durbin holds a DMA in orchestral conducting from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, California, a Masters in violin performance from the University of Illinois, an undergraduate degree in violin performance from the University of Alabama, and is currently the director of the Suzuki String Program at the University of Louisville. He is a registered teacher trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Terry lives with his wife, Sandy, on 140 acres north of Lexington, Kentucky. They have three children and two grandchildren. He believes in the magic of music’s power to enrich our lives. David Evenchick, cello, maintains a varied career as a teacher, teacher trainer and performer. He has been a faculty member of Grinnell College (Iowa), The Preucil School of Music (Iowa) and is a frequent clinician at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (Ontario). David’s appearances as an Institute teacher and cello teacher trainer have spanned the USA and Canada, and most recently he has presented courses in Perú (Lima) and Brazil (Campinas). David has a particular interest in the research and performance of compositions of the great Croatian cello pedagogue, Rudolf Matz. He has been awarded the Anne T. Clearly Fellowship for International Doctoral Research from The University of Iowa for his study of this composer/teacher, and he continues to perform Matz’s solo works frequently. Currently David teaches at the Suzuki String School of Guelph where he is also principal cellist of the Guelph Symphony Orchestra. Ching-chu Hu, composition, was born in Iowa City, Iowa, studied at Yale University, Freiburg Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, The University of Iowa, and the University of Michigan, where he earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition. His composition teachers included William Bolcom, William Albright, Michael Daugherty, Leslie Bassett, Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, and David Gompper. His conducting teachers included Alastair Neale, David Stern, and James Dixon. He also studied piano with Donald Currier, Stéphane Lemelin, and Logan Skelton and bass with Diana Gannett and Eldon Oberecht. He is active as a pianist and conductor, and wrote the scores for several short award-winning films. Recent commissions include works for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, the Granville (Ohio) Bicentennial Committee, the University of Iowa School of Music’s Centennial celebration, the Greater Columbus Community Orchestra, the Newark Granville Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus Children’s Choir and the Chamber Music Connection, string duo Low and Lower, Western Springs Suzuki Talent Education Program’s 30th Anniversary Concert in Chicago Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall as well as Newark Granville Youth Symphony’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts performance. Upcoming premieres include commissioned work by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, West Texas A&M orchestra, marimbist Mayumi Hama and pianist Minju Choi. Conductor Donald Portnoy and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra performed In Frozen Distance and violinist Wolfgang David premiered Passions at Wigmore Hall in London, England. Other notable performers include flutist Betty Bang Mather, bassists Robert Black and Anthony Stoops, violinists Scott Conklin and Gabe Bolkosky, Moscow Conservatory’s Studio New Music Ensemble, Brave New Works New Music Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, the National Dance and Opera Orchestra of China, and the Kiev Philharmonic. His music can be heard on the ERM Media’s “Masterworks of the New Era” CD series (vol. 4), Albany Records CD “Finnegan’s Wake” (Troy 680), “Star of the County Down” (Troy 937), “Spirals: American Music in Moscow” (Troy 1095), “Vive Concertante” (Troy 1110-11), “Violinguistics” (Troy 1138) “Insights: New Music for Double Bass” (Troy 1457) and Capstone Records’ “Journeys” (CPS-8809), with an upcoming CD release from Scott Conklin. He was the first recipient of the Bayley-Bowen Fellowship, Denison University’s first endowed fellowship for a junior faculty member and it is a three-year fellowship for 2004-07. Ching-chu Hu is Associate Professor of Composition and Theory and is the Richard Luicer Distinguished Professor. More information can be found at: www.chingchuhu.com Bridget Jankowski, piano, has been a Suzuki piano teacher for over 20 years, having received and registered all units of Suzuki teacher training from well-known teachers across the country. In 1995, she began her study of bodymapping and movement with noted Alexander Technique Teacher, Barbara Conable, and in 1998 was the first person to become a certified Andover Educator. She is an active Suzuki piano teacher and accompanist. She also serves as the Director of Music for St. Matthew Church in Akron, Ohio where she is works with choirs and cantors including children, adults and handbells.