2009 SAWS Festival is October 16 & 17

About the festival: Teachers’ workshops are on Friday, October 16, 12:00 - 5:00 pm. Sign in time is 11:30 am. We are thrilled to again have three great clinicians this year! For the violins and violas, we have Michael McLean. This is an amazing opportunity, arranged by Satoko Robert. The pianists are hosting Joan Krzywicki, from Philadelphia. The cellists are hosting Rodney Farrer. Please use the Teacher Registration Form to sign up for these classes.

The Student Festival is on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30 - 5:00. It will be filled with master classes, small and large group classes, and Scottish dancing and Theory enrichment classes, as well as graduation ceremonies and celebration concerts. Enrollment is open to those studying the Suzuki Method of violin, viola, cello or piano. We have a terrific faculty lined up again this year. Please submit your Student Registration Form to sign up. Please remember to fill out the top portion, then photocopy and hand out to your students. You do NOT need to send them in together this year.

Advanced Suzuki string students may apply to the chamber music program taught by members of the Kairos Quartet, the resident quartet from Central Washington University. Registration for this program is separate from the Student Festival, and can only be done through your Suzuki teacher. PREFORMED GROUPS ONLY will be accepted, and each group will select their own music to prepare well before coming to Ellensburg in October. If you are a single player wanting to find a group, please call Priscilla Jones at 206-842-0124 for a connection to other players in the same position. Early bird registration is the ONLY registration deadline for the chamber program. Please get these forms in by June 30, 2008. Thanks!

The annual SAWS membership meeting will be held at lunchtime, in the Music Education Building..

General Information

Teachers’ workshops are on Friday, October 12, 12:00 - 5:00 pm. Sign in time is 11:30 am. The Student Festival is on Saturday, October 13 from 8:30 - 4:30. It will be filled with master classes, small & large group classes, fiddling and enrichment classes, as well as graduation ceremonies and celebration concerts. Enrollment is open to those studying the Suzuki Method of violin, viola, cello or piano.

The annual SAWS membership meeting will be held at lunchtime. If you plan to have lunch, please remember to include $8 towards the cost on your registration form.

What to Bring

Label all belongings! Here is your checklist! Please bring yourself, your parent, your instrument, your music book, paper and pencil, lunch or lunch money if desired, and a snack if needed. A recording device would also be great for recording your master class and other sessions. The cafeteria and espresso bar in the SUB should be open for our use. However, we ask that no snacks be brought into the classrooms.

ADVANCED CHAMBER MUSIC STUDENTS: Please remember your music!

CELLISTS:  Bring your chair, if you use a smaller than regular folding-chair size. Bring an endpin holder of any kind to protect the floor and to keep your endpin from slipping on the ballroom floor. No dancing of endpins this year! If you are in a reading or cello ensemble class, you will need a stand.

Faculty

Piano Teacher Trainer: Joan Krzywicki
Cello Teacher Trainer: Rodney Farrar
Violin/Viola Teacher Trainer: Michael McLean
Scottish Dancing: Autumn Hjort
Theory: Patty Nuernberg
Kairos Quartet
Accompanists: TBA
Suzuki Teachers from the States of Washington and Idaho

Directions To The Festival

(Located on the CWU Campus) And Local Lodging (campus map)

From the west off I-90, take the first Ellensburg exit, following signs to the CWU campus. 

From the east off I-90, take the first Ellensburg exit and continue to the light at 8^th and Main and turn right.

STRINGS: Continue on University Way to D Street, turn left, go two blocks and turn right into the parking lot behind Hertz Hall.

PIANISTS: The Friday workshop will be at the home of Carol Cross, 103 W. 9th. Email her (dccross@kvalley.com) if you need directions. Bring your slippers!

Schedule

Friday, October 16 (Teacher Workshops)

Saturday, October 17 (Student Festival Day)

Clinicians

Piano
Joan Krzywicki has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Indiana University where she also carried a second major in Piano Performance with Abbey Simon. She also holds a Master of Music degree from Youngstown State University. She has been a Suzuki piano teacher since 1981 and became an official SAA Teacher Trainer in 1993. In addition to a home studio, she does teacher training classes at Temple University, both on the main campus and at the Music Preparatory division. Joan has served as a clinician at Suzuki workshops and institutes in the U.S., Canada, England, and Sweden. She is also recognized as a nationally certified teacher by the Music Teachers National Association.

Joan has had the opportunity to visit Matsumoto, Japan, more than once and observe both Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Kataoka teach at the Talent Education Institute. Two of her students participated in the Matsumoto Ten Piano Concert in 1997. She has served as President of the Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association and the Philadelphia Music Teachers Association. She was the Assistant Coordinator for Piano for the 2008 National Conference of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and will be Coordinator for the 2010 National Conference.

Violin/Viola
Michael McLean is an internationally noted composer of orchestral, chamber, and film music, as well as a violinist and pedagogue. He teaches violin and conducts various ensembles at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. Michael received his Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Northwestern University, and has recently completed the prestigious Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California. He has taught violin at the Music Center of the North Shore in the Chicago area, Texas Christian University, and various workshops and institutes throughout the United States, and has also been invited to teach and perform in Argentina, Singapore, and Tanzania. He is an active member of the SAA and studied Suzuki pedagogy with Yuko Honda, Barbara Barber, and John Kendall. Michael is also is founder and president of Oak Cliff Publishing, which features more than 100 of his compositions and four CDs: Care to Tango? (with Brian Lewis and Barbara Barber), New World, Pieces, and Kokoro (with Yuko Honda). His concerto for violin and string orchestra, Elements, was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios with Brian Lewis, soloist, and Hugh Wolff, conductor. He is currently working on his second violin concerto and composing the film music for a future PBS documentary on Louis Sullivan. Other works in progress include a suite for viola, works for four solo violins, a violin sonata, and a large-scale choral work, The St. Thomas Passion.

Cello
Rodney Farrar is a former University of Kentucky Cello Instructor. Farrar is nationally recognized as one of the foremost teachers of young cellists. An ambassador of the Suzuki Method for cello, he engages youth with the magic of music and the variety of sound possible on the magnificent cello. lives in Littleton, Colorado, has been a professional cellist for 30-plus years, enjoying a varied career ranging from symphony, chamber music, and solo recital performance to university teaching and private instruction for students of a wide range of ages and levels. He has been actively involved in the development Suzuki cello teaching in this country and as been guest clinician at hundreds of institutes and workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada sponsored by Suzuki programs, public school music programs and private cello studios. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rodney attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music and Indiana University School of Music. His cello teachers have included Gretchen Dalley, Peter Howard, Ronald Leonard and Janos Starker. He was professor of cello at the University of Kentucky for many years. He also taught at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, summer sessions at the University of Illinois in Champaigne-Urbana and at the Brevard Music Festival in Brevard, North Carolina.

Rodney currently teaches a large class of private cello and bass students from the Denver area and is principal cellist of the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra.