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& Violin 1 James Rubino: Violin 2 & computer guru (a sophomore at Linworth Alternative High School, Worthington, OH) Stephanie Price: Viola (a freshman at Linworth Alternative High School, Worthington, OH) Daniel Strawser: 'Cello (a junior at Denison University, Granville, OH) |
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Rehearsal of SC only of opening measures
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Rehearsal of SC only of closing measures
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Benjamin Lemberger: Violin (In
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Piano lesson on SC
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Piano Deborah Price: Coach |
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The players and Shakespearean
counters in the "Stanwell Perpetual"
group, along with Deborah Price
James Rubino, one of the violinists in the Haydn group, and the
computer guru who engineered the source recordings of the multimedia
used in this website article. Thanks, James!
Deborah Price and young chamber music players at a party at the
Chamber Music Connection.
In
1993, when I was nine months pregnant with my now 11 (almost 12)
year old son, Kyle, I founded a summer chamber music program,
the Delaware Chamber Music Festival. (That bit of information
should give you a fairly good idea about how passionate I am in
regard to sharing my love for chamber music!) My two year old
daughter, Stephanie, was also in tow loving all the attention
from the older students. As a young pianist and violinist she
was always ready to play some chamber music, too. The program
has grown now to a year long chamber music educational experience
called the Chamber Music Connection, Inc. (CMC). CMC presents
four semesters per year of chamber music study for students of
all ages and abilities. In addition to the programs for chamber
music we also offer workshops and institutes teaching jazz, improvisation,
and theory to classically and/or jazz trained students.
Through collaboration between CMC and Chamber Music Columbus (a presenter in the Columbus area) our students have the opportunity to study with and listen to touring chamber music artists performing in downtown Columbus. Throughout the year the ensembles participate in a weekly coaching with a team of area artists, rehearse in both their small ensemble and a chamber orchestra, participate in the CMC gig program, and show off their hard work at the CMC semester Finale Concert. We are now embarking on adding a formal concert series to our present finale small ensemble and orchestra concerts. These additional concerts will feature our advanced students (middle school and high school age) with CMC alumni and our faculty performing chamber music together side by side. We've also grown in numbers of our students. The first program serviced about 25 students making up 7 ensembles and one chamber orchestra. This season, at our summer festival, we will be servicing 110 students making up 26 ensembles and five orchestras, all as part of our week long day camp to study chamber music.
As I write this article in 2004, we are in the middle of our annual Summer Honors Program which meets in the afternoons for chamber music, theory, and orchestra with a jazz institute in the morning. At CMC we do not have auditions. We accept registrations on a first come first serve basis. There is no exclusion based on level or "talent", but only a minimum requirement of basic knowledge of the student's instrument of choice with ability to note read at least quarter and eighth notes. To some of my colleagues' surprise, even with this all-inclusive, no audition policy, CMC continues to attract and support a number of highly skilled, competitive chamber musicians. These musicians make up several small ensembles which have included a number of quarter finalists in the annual Fischoff Chamber Music competition. (Thanks to the gift of younger students looking up to and honoring more advanced students, and the more advanced students taking an interest in the younger students, my once two year old daughter, now 14, has become a member of one of those ensembles.)
The all inclusive policy at CMC
is based on my own passion to not give up on any student musician
especially if and when s/he starts showing a lack of interest
in their instrument. The introduction of chamber music (and peers
who are already enthralled by the genre) into the lives of young
musicians, no matter their skill level or supposed talent, has
shown to motivate and inspire even some of the toughest of the
no longer "interested" students. One of the ways we
nurture the lifelong pursuit for learning in all our students
is through the CMC fellowship student program. This program gives
the opportunity for high school students to be exposed to the
ins an outs of running a not-for-profit arts program as well as
participate in pedagogy classes where creative tools for teaching
chamber music while mentoring younger ability chamber music students
are presented. It's during one of these pedagogy sessions with
my fellowship students that the MTNA videotape was made. For more
information on our programs, please visit the CMC website: www.cmconnection.org/
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