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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 8th
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)
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11:30 am
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Teacher Registration for
piano, cello, and violin/viola teacher
workshops.
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noon-5 pm
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Teacher workshops.
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5-5:15 pm
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Short meeting for Saturday
String faculty - in the violin teacher workshop
room.
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5:30 pm
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No-host dinner in Ellensburg -
please sign up on the Teacher Registration Form.
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Saturday, October 17 (Student
Festival Day)
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7:30-8:30 am
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Registration. Strings in Hertz
Hall, Pianists in Music Education Building.
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8:45-9:15
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Opening Concerts - Strings in
Hertz Hall, Pianists in Music Education
Building.
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9:30-10:20
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Class
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10:30-11:20
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Class
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11:30-12:15
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Lunch for students and
families
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11:30-1:00
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Teachers’ lunch and SAWS
annual meeting
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12:10-12:45
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Piano Parent Talk in Music Ed
Building and Strings Parent Talk – Hertz Hall
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1:00-1:45
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Strings Graduation
Concert (Trophies handed out here.)
Please be tuned
by 1:00 & ready to play your graduation piece.
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1:00-2:30
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Piano Graduation Concert
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1:45-3:45
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Strings Classes
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2:30-4:30
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Piano Classes
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3:30-3:45
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Set up for Grand Finale
Strings "Play-In"
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4:00-4:30
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Grand Finale Strings "Play-In"
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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.
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