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 , , 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 ’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 , 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 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. She lives in Cuyahoga Falls with her husband and three sons. Leslie Maaser, flute, is the Affiliate Studio Instructor of Flute at Denison University as well as the Director of the Denison University Flute Ensemble. She is the Principal Flutist of the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra, where she also serves as Chairperson of the Orchestra Committee and Education Director. In January 2008, she was a featured soloist with the orchestra. Dr. Maaser is a founding member of the Columbus Camerata Woodwind Quintet, and flutist/piccoloist with Ohio Capital Winds. In 2007, the Columbus Camerata was featured at the Ohio Music Education Association Convention for their clinic/performance on new woodwind quintet literature, and as guest artists at a featured recital at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Leslie’s major teachers are Katherine Borst Jones, Ervin Monroe, Robert Cole, and Israel Borouchoff. In addition, she has studied with prominent artists such as Peter Lloyd, former Principal Flutist of the London Symphony, and Walfrid Kujala, Professor of Flute at Northwestern University and Piccolo Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Leslie has performed in master classes of flute icons such as Jean-Pierre Rampal and Jeanne Baxtresser. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance from The Ohio State University. As a fellowship recipient, she earned her Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Michigan State University. Leslie Maaser was formerly on the music faculties of Wright State University, Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, Valparaiso University, Luther College, and has taught at The Ohio State University both as a graduate assistant as well as a sabbatical replacement for Professor Katherine Borst Jones. Brian McCoy’s family hails from Ballaghaderreen, a small Irish town that is the birthplace to many legendary musicians such as Matt Molloy of the Chieftains, Seamus Tansey, and Paddy Killoran who’s family lived next door. Brian spent countless hours learning from the locals there, while visiting family in Ireland through his formative years. Academically, Brian won a full tuition scholarship to Nortwestern University from the Chic Evans Foundation, and earned a Masters Degree in Computer Science before moving to Ohio, home of the Dublin Irish Fest. Throughout the years, McCoy has often won the American Irish Music Competitions (Fleadh Ceols), and has also served as an Adjudicator for the event. In Ireland, Brian McCoy has performed live on Radio Clare, played at the Willie Clancy Week Flute Recital, and has been featured in Irish Music Magazine – the “Rolling Stone” of the traditional music scene. He has also performed with such luminaries as The Makem Brothers, Gaelic Storm (from the movie, “Titanic”), Tempest, recorded for Windham Hill Records with members of the Doobie Brothers, performed for the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, and appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Ann Montzka-Smelser, violin and parent educator, is a Suzuki student, a Suzuki teacher, a Suzuki parent and a Suzuki Teacher Trainer. In between receiving her Bachelor of Music Education and Masters in Performance and Pedagogy at Northern Illinois University, Ann studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan. Ann has performed in many orchestras and chamber ensembles and is currently principal violist with Camerata Chicago and concertmaster of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Ann is on the music faculty at Northern Illinois University and Wheaton College teaching Suzuki Pedagogy. She also directs the NIU CSA Suzuki Strings Program. Ann currently maintains a studio of about 35 violin and viola students. a Ann has enjoyed working with Suzuki families at Festivals in Lima, Peru, Singapore, Mexico, Costa Rica and though out the United States . Ann lives in DeKalb, IL with her children, Benjamin and Genevieve, and her husband, Linc.

Dr. AliceAnn M. O’Neill, cello, is a professional cellist and teacher, attended Boston University to study cello performance, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in cello performance and Suzuki pedagogy from Western Illinois University, and a doctorate from The Ohio State University, in cello performance and string pedagogy. She has performed in professional orchestras and chamber ensembles, and as a solo cellist throughout Europe, Japan, South America, Canada, and the U.S. Dr. O’Neill has extensive teaching experience and specializes in the Suzuki method as a cello teacher trainer. She has taught many clinics and workshops concerning many aspects of pedagogy and presented at state and international education conferences. Her research articles have been published in The Journal of Research in Music Education, the American Suzuki Journal, and the Vincentian Heritage Journal. Her cello students have appeared on NPR’s “From the Top,” and won top prizes at the St. Paul’s String Quartet and Fischoff chamber music competitions. Several cello students of Dr. O’Neill have continued their studies at schools such as Rice University-Shepherd School of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Catholic University of America, Aspen Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Indiana University, Harvard University, and the Juilliard School in New York City. Currently, Dr. O’Neill is professor of cello, chamber music, string pedagogy, and performs in the faculty piano trio at Mount St. Joseph University and directs Mount St. Joseph Talent Education in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a Catholic nun and member of the Sisters of Charity.

Wendy Stern, flute, enjoys a diverse musical career, combining her love of performing with the joy of teaching. She received her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School, and post-graduation, studied with Toshio Takahashi at the Talent Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, Japan as a scholarship recipient of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She is a member of the dynamic and innovative group, Flute Force, and as a freelance flutist in New York, has played in the flute sections of many prestigious organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Presently, Wendy is the President of the New York Flute Club and is on the roster of flutists playing for the Broadway productions of “An American in Paris”, “On the Town”, and “The Phantom of the Opera”. Known for her innovative and creative classes, Wendy has presented performances and workshops at annual National Flute Associations Conventions in Chicago, New York, California, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Georgia and has been the guest artist at colleges throughout the United States. She was the guest artist at the British Summer School in Malvern, England in 2015. Wendy is on the faculty of Montclair State University and maintains a private studio in New York. Her students have won top prizes in the New York and National competitions.

Roger Stieg, violin, received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Violin Performance from Michigan State University. Additionally, he received a Suzuki Teacher Training degree after two years of study in Matsumoto, Japan under Dr. Suzuki and is a certified Suzuki Teacher Trainer. Roger has a unique perspective of teaching from Dr. Suzuki and also from teaching his own children and grandchildren. He is a sought after master teacher and clinician as well as a teacher trainer at workshops and summer institutes throughout the year. He is regularly featured at the summer institutes held at Otterbein University, the Indiana Arts and Music Festival in Indianapolis and the Suzuki and Worship Camp in South Carolina. Roger has retired from the Columbus Public Schools string orchestra program after 32 years of teaching and is currently teaching violin and viola at Ohio Christian University. He is also teaching at Suzuki Music Columbus and is a co-founder of the Youth Philharmonic of Central Ohio. Roger enjoys teaching and spending time with his five grandchildren ages 8,5,5,4, and 3!

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Winter Festival 2017 Registration Form Registration form and fees due December 7, 2016

• Fully enrolled Denison Suzuki Program students’ registration fees are covered by their tuition. Additional masterclass fees for cello, flute, violin, and viola apply. (Masterclasses for Denison Suzuki piano students are included in tuition.) • Non-Denison Suzuki Students tuition: $75 • Masterclass fees (cello, flute, violin, and viola): Books 1-3: $25, Books 4+: $35 • Make check payable to Denison University. • Please give payment and forms to your studio teacher or send registration form and fees to: Maryfrances Kirsh, Denison University Music Department, Box 810, Granville, OH 43023

• Masterclasses for cello, flute, violin, and viola are optional and will be available on a first come, first served basis. • Schedules will be posted after January 1, 2017 on the Denison Suzuki Website at suzuki.denison.edu on the Winter Festival page. • Questions may be directed to Jim Van Reeth, director, at [email protected]

Please fill in all blanks accurately and completely. Instrument______Student______Age______Grade______Private Teacher______Private Teacher’s Cell ______Private Teacher’s Email ______Suzuki Book Level _____ Working Piece (complete title) ______Composer______Masterclass polished piece (complete title) ______Composer ______Parent or Guardian ______Address ______Email ______Cell ______

Masterclass: ____ Book 1-3 ($25) ____Book 4+ ($35) Unavailable (piano and strings only): ____Friday p.m. ____Saturday a.m. ____Saturday p.m. ____Sunday a.m. ____Sunday p.m.

Non-Denison Suzuki Program Student: ____ $75

Teacher Observer: ____$10 per day ____$25 Entire Weekend Name______Primary Instrument______Email______Cell______

Amount Enclosed: ______