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Expanding Circles Through the Language of Cello

8th Annual Cello Workshop  For Adults
July 27th to August 2nd 2008
Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
Dorothy Amarandos, Artistic Director
 

Dorothy Amarandos, Artistic Director, is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, a student of Luigi Silva, with Bachelor’s/Master’s degrees and Performer’s Certificate. She played in the Rochester Philharmonic under Erich Leinsdorf for many years while teaching privately, and was lecturer at the University of Rochester. Also in Rochester, as Founder/ Director/Producer of Ars Antiqua (a national touring group of actors, dancers, singers, and players of original instruments), Dorothy created and performed her 22 original concert-productions based on material from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. Later in Columbus, Ohio, she was professor of cello at Ohio State University as well as Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Otterbein College, and was principal cellist of the Columbus Symphony. Currently she teaches a large class of private cello students of all ages in her studio in Reston, VA.
 
Dan Allcott maintains a busy career as a conductor, cellist and teacher.  He received a Master of Music in Cello Performance from Indiana University where he continued his Doctoral Studies in both the Conducting and Cello programs.  He left IU to become Music Director of Atlanta Ballet, a position which he held for 6 years, conducting over 250 performances.  He currently teaches at Tennessee Tech University where he is Director of Orchestras and Instructor of Cello.  He is Music Director of the Bryan Symphony Orchestra and his recent guest conducting includes Omaha Area Youth Orchestras, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and various clinics throughout the country.  He continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician and is cello instructor at the Southeast Chamber Music Institute. 

Allcott studied cello with John Ehrlich, Ann Martindale-Williams, Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Helga Winold.  He studied chamber music with Michel Block, James Campbell, Rostislav Dubinsky, Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli, and Menahem Pressler. For the past three years, he has directed the cello ensemble at the Tennessee Cello Workshop in addition to teaching master classes. 
 
Tanya Anisimova, cellist, composer, musical arranger, and improviser, is successfully balancing her performing career with her composing and recording projects. Her inimitable artistry always leaves her listeners in awe. According to the Washington Post, Anisimova is a musician graced with the “spiritual authority” and an ability to “deeply move” her listeners; a critic from La Jomad Michoacan stated that listening to Anisimova’s music has become for him “one of the most notable music moments ever”.

Tanya’s concert repertoire is vast, stylistically diverse and, in a way, unique since some of the selections have either been written specifically for her or have been arranged by her – as her arrangement for cello of the Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 by J.S. Bach and other equally remarkable works. She is keen on writing her own cadenzas for the concertos she performs, and her cadenzas for the Schumann Cello Concerto and for both of the Haydn Cello Concertos have become so popular that they are now being performed by other cellists as well.

Ms. Anisimova began composing music while she was still a student at the Moscow Central Music School. After graduating with honors from the Moscow Conservatory, she came to the United States to continue her musical studies at Boston University, and later at Yale where she earned her Doctorate Degree. After receiving composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and many other foundations, Ms. Anisimova gained international recognition when she released a recording of her own cello arrangements of the Complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach in 2001 and again in 2004 when she released her recording of the Six Cello Suites, also by J.S. Bach, on which she included her own improvisations between movements of the D minor Suite. Some of her compositions require a performer to have vocalizing skills, as in her latest CD called “Sufi Soul” in which her original compositions and multi-layered improvisations have been described as “melodious, subtly mystical, deeply emotional, and richly rewarding."

Anisimova’s upcoming performances include the world premiere of her new cello concerto titled “Seasons” with the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in May, 2007. This year she will also perform in Iceland and Germany; and in the United States, she will give concerts in Boston, New Haven, Richmond, and Washington, DC.
 
Robert Battey is a freelance cellist and teacher living in Arlington, VA. He studied locally with Robert Newkirk and John Martin, and then with Bernard Greenhouse and Janos Starker. He has served on the faculties of S.U.N.Y.-Stony Brook, the University of Missouri, the Levine School, the Gettysburg Chamber Music Workshop, and the Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg. He has appeared as principal cellist of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, the Kansas City Lyric Opera, the Joeffrey Ballet, the Florida West Coast Symphony, and the Alexandria Symphony.




 
Nancy Baun, as the founding cellist in the critically acclaimed Eaken Piano Trio, performed throughout the United States, including three appearances at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, and also in Iceland, Italy, Holland, France, and Banff, Canada. During her thirteen-year tenure with the group, she performed over 1,000 events and appears on nine Eaken Trio recordings issued under the Naxos international, Tupelo, and Catalpa Classics labels. A student of Orlando Cole in Philadelphia, Nancy studied chamber music with Menahem Pressler, Timothy Eddy, and Jasha Brodsky.

In addition to the numerous awards Nancy’s solo performances have won, she was selected as an Artist Fellow at the Bach Aria Institute in New York and the Aspen Music Festival. She is an active soloist, having performed with over a dozen orchestras in her home state of Pennsylvania. She is currently a member of the Ravel Trio, whose concerts were recently described as “Ardent performance” by the Baltimore Sun and “a blend of European elegance and American spontaneity” by the Swiss paper La Liberte.

As an educator, Nancy served as Director of the Dickinson College Artists-In-Residence program for eleven years, where she produced a broad roster of community education activities. With collaboration as a focus, she currently presents workshops to students of all ages with organizations such as Young Audiences, receiving a YA national grant for her series integrating classical music and painting. She has a special commitment to adult musicians, and has been sponsored by organizations such as ACMP (Amateur Chamber Music Players), Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College, and Vivace Music Camp and ASTA (American String Teachers Association).

Now living in Buffalo, Nancy continues her teaching and concertizing by performing with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival, Friends of Vienna, and Classics on Elmwood. Her musical life includes roles as a record producer, for which she won the New York City FM station WQXR’s radio award in 2000. She also was executive producer for the Public Radio International series “Home for the Holidays” coordinated with Habitat for Humanity, which was aired for three consecutive years. She is a frequent panelist at conferences, past director of a national interdisciplinary arts conference, and an arts consultant with clients nationwide.
 
Erin Eyles Espinoza is a professional cellist performing with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra in concerts, tours to the West Coast and North Carolina, and a televised performance. She freelances in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas, and has worked with conductors and artists including Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Itzahk Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Gil Shaham, Pamela Frank, Hillary Hahn, Yo-Yo Ma, Truls Mork, and Alicia Weilerstein. Erin has been a regular guest cellist with the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, in performances and recordings. She has also performed in six recordings with the Air Force Strings. As a soloist, she has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute performing Brahms’ Double Concerto in the Kennedy Center and with the Air Force Strings as a featured soloist on tour performing C.P.E. Bach’s Cello Concerto in A Major. Chamber music coaches include Leon Fleisher, the Tokyo String Quartet, and Andrés Cardenes. She was invited to perform in the Great Falls Symphony Chamber Series and she was sponsored by the Maryland Council of the Arts to perform chamber music in Atlanta. She has performed in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, England, France, Germany, Japan, Scotland, and Singapore. Erin has received degrees in cello performance from Carnegie Mellon (Bachelor in Fine Arts), studying primarily with Anne Martindale Williams, and Peabody Conservatory (Master in Music), studying with Stephen Kates, Andrés Diaz, and David Hardy. She maintains a private teaching studio in Maryland and Virginia.
 
Jorge Espinoza studied cello and taught the undergraduate and graduate cello studio as an assistant teacher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Gregor Piatigorsky Full Scholarship to study with Stephen Kates, David Hardy, and Andrés Díaz. He graduated with honors from Universidad Católica de Chile and received his Master's Degree in Music Performance on full scholarship from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, studying with David Premo and Anne Martindale Williams.

Jorge freelances in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, performing with orchestras including the National Symphony under the direction of Leonard Slatkin and Stephane Deneve. Jorge’s chamber music performances in the Washington, DC metropolitan area include cello and chamber music recitals at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, the Great Hall of McDowell in Annapolis, the Art Museum of Easton, and solo performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland and the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra. Jorge has concertized in his native land, Chile, and throughout South America and the United States, Mexico, and France. Jorge is a prizewinner of international competitions and awards including the “Concurso Iberoamericano de Violoncello, Carlos Prieto” in Mexico in 2004, the International Cello Competition "Dr. Luis Sigall" in Viña del Mar, Chile, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition in Houston, the Baltimore Music Club Competition, the Maryland State Arts Council Solo Instrumental Performance Award and two Peabody Career Development Grants.

Jorge has performed as principal cellist under conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Leon Fleisher, Gustav Meier, and Maxim Shostakovich. He has toured as principal cellist with the Manchester Music Festival Orchestra. Previous teachers include Jorge Roman, Laszlo Varga, Dennis Parker, Marcio Carneiro, and Antonio Meneses. In addition to teaching privately in Ellicott City, Maryland, he coaches string sectionals, and presents masterclasses and workshops throughout the United States and abroad. He was invited to teach at the National Philharmonic Summer Festival in Bethesda and he was invited to present masterclasses in Mexico City.
 
Rodney Farrar of Littleton, Colorado, has been a professional cellist for 30 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 of Suzuki cello teaching in this country and has 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.
 
Gary Fitzgerald has had a wide-ranging career in Montreal, New York City, Washington DC, and Perth (Western Australia) as a cellist, pianist, conductor, arranger, clinician. He was trained at the Juilliard School where his teachers included Leonard Rose, hanning Robbins, and Lynn Harrell. He was Assistant Principal Cellist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Principal Cellist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Perth, and a member of several prestigious orchestras and chamber ensembles in the U.S. He left New York to become a full-time church musician, holding directorships in Virginia and in South Carolina. Currently, as Director of Worship Arts for the Church of the Apostles in Fairfax, VA, he is responsible for a full program of offerings in music, drama, dance, and the visual arts.


 
Stephen Framil, distinguished as the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi since the Vietnam War, has performed as concert soloist around the world: including Carnegie Weill & Avery-Fisher Halls (New York), Hong Kong City Hall, with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Italy Tour), Manila Philharmonic Orchestra (Philippines), National Philharmonic of Moldova, RTSH Orchestra (Albania), Oltenia State Filarmonica (Romania), Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra, Bombay and Bangalore Chamber Orchestras (India), Redlands Symphony Orchestra (CA), Nashville Chamber Orchestra (TN), Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (“Live” Broadcast on WFMT - Chicago), Brunei Music Society, and the Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, among others.

As a master cellist Stephen Framil (DM, Indiana University) has given masterclasses at the Shanghai Conservatory (China), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), DePaul University (Chicago), Longy School of Music (Boston), Vanderbilt University/Blair School of Music (Nashville), University of Arizona, Roosevelt University/Chicago College of Performing Arts, University of Reno, Volgograd Conservatory (Russia), Moldova Academy of Music, University of Hong Kong, Silliman University (Philippines), and the Hanoi Conservatory (Vietnam), to name a few. Dr. Framil has adjudicated the 2004 Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival, and will judge the 2007 Schadt String Competition (Cello) in Allentown, PA.

Dr. Framil has been an Assistant Professor of Music at Andrews University in Michigan (1994-2002), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware (2003-2004) and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (2005-2006). An advocate of inner-city music education, Dr. Framil is the Music Director & Conductor of the South Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the All-City Middle School Festival Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Founder & Director of the West Catholic Conservatory of Philadelphia: a community music school that provides free private music lessons to underserved youth.

Recordings by Stephen Framil for RADIO 4 HONG KONG include the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello, as well as the works for solo cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. In April 2006 he recorded the two Haydn Cello Concertos with Paul Freeman and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra: this recording will be released in 2007 under CENTAUR RECORDS.
 
Kristin Gilbert, cellist and pianist, graduated from Mills College and received her MA degree in music performance from Catholic University. She also studied as a graduate student at the University of Southern California and at the Aspen Music Festival. She is a founding member of the Coventry Quartet which was formed in 1988 at the Shenandoah Music Festival in Orkney Springs, VA. She has performed extensively with local groups, is a member of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and teaches both cello and piano in her private studio in Falls Church, VA.




 
David Howard grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. He started piano at an early age and took up the cello in seventh grade in order to play in the school orchestra. At Ithaca College he majored in Music Education, graduating with honors in 1969, then taught high school music for two years before joining the National Symphony Orchestra in 1971. Since then he has lived in the Washington DC area, performing, teaching, and raising a family.

His primary teachers have been Einar Holm, Jonathan Abramowitz, and Robert Newkirk; his professional credits include membership in the Foggy Bottom Chamber Ensemble, the Cameron String Quartet, and the Howard-Breth Duo. For twelve years he was a musician/actor with DC Playback Theater, an improv acting company. Currently, in addition to his position in the NSO, he is a member of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.

In 1983 he was awarded a Masters of Music Performance from Catholic University and in 1998 a Masters of Education from George Washington University. Also, he has been on the faculty of Howard University. Today, he maintains a teaching studio in his home and enjoys gardening, cooking, and spending time with his seven grandchildren.
 
Robert Park received his bachelor’s degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Maryland and his masters’ and doctorate in cello performance from The Catholic University of America. He studied cello with Mihaly Virizlay at the Peabody Institute, Robert Newkirk at Catholic University , Miron Yampolsky at American University , Evelyn Elsing at The University of Maryland, Gabor Magyar at the University of Illinois and Dorothy Kempter Barrett in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recently retired after 22 years service as principal cellist with The United States Army Band, he continues to perform and teach privately and as an adjunct assistant professor of cello at George Mason University.
Douglas Wolters performs in the Washington, DC area on modern and baroque cello as well as on the related stringed instrument, the viola da gamba. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, he studied cello with Mihaly Virizlay and the viola da gamba with Gian Lyman Silbiger. Currently he is principal cellist of the Bach Sinfonia and the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra and is a member of the baroque ensemble L’Arabesque. Doug teaches stringed instruments for Fairfax County, VA.

 
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