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We Are Very Excited About Our Upcoming Cello Workshop on Sunday, February 4Th We are very excited about our upcoming cello workshop on Sunday, February 4th. We are pleased to announce that this year we have not only one, but two fantastic clinicians coming to provide masterclasses and group class experiences. Please sign up online to make sure you don’t miss out on this opportunity! British born cellist Julia MacGregor began her musical studies with piano lessons at the age of five and started the cello two years later.She was awarded a music scholarship at the age of 10 to study at Watford School of Music with Malka Cossack until she began her studies at the age of 17 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Raphael Sommer. After three years of study with Raphael Sommer she began further study with Ralph Kirshbaum and graduated with a first class honours diploma. A further two years of study with Ralph Kirshbaum included two performances as soloist of Elgar's cello concerto with the R.N.C.M. Symphony Orchestra .At this time she was accepted as a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra and its' Chamber Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and Herbert Von Karajan.Julia's final year at the R.N.C.M. was as the principal cellist of the newly formed R.N.C.M.Sinfonia,formed in conjunction with the BBC to give advanced chamber orchestra experience at the highest level .Visiting conductors included Sir Edward Downes,Sir Charles Groves and Rudolph Schwartz. Julia participated in masterclasses with the Vermeer String Quartet and SIr William Glock at the R.N.C.M. Christopher Bunting at Dartington ,Zara Nelsova at International Music Seminar,Prussia Cove as well as performing in Aldeburgh Festival with Hugh Maguire directing .She was awarded the Brodsky and Henry Fielding scholarships by the R.N.C.M. and the Martin Trust Scholarship for two years administered by the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.Throughout this period of time her chamber music mentor was Terence Weil who was the original cellist of the Melos Ensemble of London. Upon completion of graduate studies in Manchester,Julia was offered an assistantship to study with Marc Johnson,cellist of the Vermeer String Quartet and Raya Garbousova at Northern Illinois University ,U.S.A. While studying at NIU,Julia coached chamber groups and taught undergraduate cellists the fundamentals of teaching the cello.She gained a Masters degree in Performance before returning to London ,England where she gained valuable orchestral experience performing with BBC Concert Orchestra,London Soloists Chamber Orchestra,London Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata. Following her marriage to Iain MacGregor in 1983,Julia relocated to South Western Ontario where she has enjoyed a varied and exciting musical career. She has performed the Boccherini B flat major concerto and Rodrigo's second cello concerto ( premier performance in Canada) with Orchestra London Canada,the Elgar and Monn concertos with London Community Orchestra as well as Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" and Dvorak's "Silent Woods" with the London Concert Players .Other solo work includes working with the Gerald Fagan Singers performing "Svyati" by John Tavener and the "Yiddish Suite" by Glick. Julia currently performs with the newly formed London Symphonia, (formerly Orchestra London Canada) and the Stratford Festival as well as being principal cellist of the Bach Festival Orchestra. Teaching the cello has always played an integral part throughout Julia's musical career . She teaches students from beginner to diploma level and many have represented London at the Provincial Finals of Kiwanis Music Festival,been finalists in the Canadian Music Competition as well as members of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Julia plays a Carlo Guiseppe Testore cello made in 1703 in northern Italy. Incorporating her extensive Suzuki training with her love of working with young children, Tova Rosenberg has developed innovative teaching ideas for young cellists and exciting programs for early childhood music education in New York City, and now in Toronto. For almost a decade, Tova was the teacher of the Early Childhood Music Program at the School for Strings in Manhattan, where she also taught Suzuki cello lessons and theory classes. She was a member of the cello faculty at the Diller-Quaile School of Music as well as the Third Street Music School Settlement. She has been a cello teacher for the Music Institute of Long Island, the Suzuki program at Brooklyn College and for the summer string festival at the Elisabeth Morrow School in New Jersey. An active performer, Tova was a founding member of the TEA trio. She holds an M.M. from DePaul University and a B.M. from McGill University and is a graduate of the School for Strings 2-year intensive Suzuki Teacher Training Program. She is also certified in the Mark O’Connor Violin Method. Since moving to Toronto, Tova has been appointed to the cello faculty at the Miles Nadal JCC Suzuki Strings Program as well as the Etobicoke Suzuki School of Music, where she also directs and teaches the Suzuki Early Childhood Education program. Tova has been the sole creator and teacher of custom Early Childhood Music Curriculums around Toronto, previously running classes out of the Wychwood Barns' Music in the Barns studio and the Miles Nadal JCC. Currently, Tova runs her one of a kind, music education program, Do Re…ME!, out of the Trinity St. Paul's Centre in the Annex. .
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