Music Adventure: Chamber Music for Young Artists
Dates:
August 8-21, 2010
Price:
$3,250 (excluding airfare)
Program Website:
www.musicadventure.org
Program Coordinators:
Eric Dahlin and Jaroslaw Lis
Address:
110 Tariffville Road, Tariffville, CT 06081
Telephone:
860-989-5176
E-mail:
Eric: dahlin@musicadventure.org
Jaroslaw: lis@musicadventure.org
Preferred method of contact:
email
Description:
Music Adventure is an intensive chamber music retreat for high school string players. The program focuses on in-depth study and performance of classical literature including works by Italian composers. A non-competitive environment supports musical and personal growth.
The program consists of daily chamber music rehearsals, coaching sessions, private lessons and master classes as well as time for individual practice. During the second week, students and faculty present concerts. Italian lessons and T’ai Chi will also be offered. Excursions to Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Volterra are planned.
The price is all-inclusive upon arrival in Italy. Application information available at www.musicadventure.org.
Faculty for 2010 are Eric Dahlin (cello), Teri Einfeldt (violin, viola), Katie Kennedy (cello), Jaroslaw Lis (violin, viola).
Coordinator Biography(ies):
Music Adventure has been bringing young musicians to European destinations for study and performance of chamber music since 1999.
Eric Dahlin is assistant principal cellist of the Hartford Symphony. He received degrees from The Hartt School and Yale University and is on the faculty at the Hartt School Community Division. An experienced chamber musician, Dahlin has performed extensively in the US and abroad including concerts in Europe sponsored by International Society of Contemporary Music. Dahlin has been co-director of Music Adventure since its inception in 1999.
Teri Einfeldt, violin and viola faculty, is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She heads the Suzuki Department and is adjunct professor at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. A Suzuki Association of the Americas registered Teacher Trainer, Teri is a frequent clinician at weekend string workshops and summer Suzuki Institutes throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. She is the former Assistant Concertmistress of the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and performs frequently with the Hartford Symphony.
Katie Kennedy, cello faculty, studied at Oberlin Conservatory and the Liszt Academy in Budapest. She is on faculty at Loomis Chaffee School, Bethwood Suzuki School and Community Music School, Springfield. She is a member of the cello-percussion duo The Uncanny Valley and the Island Chamber Players. She appears frequently as a chamber musician and soloist and with the New Hampshire Music Festival, Hartford Symphony and Orchestra New England. Her performances have been broadcast on NPR.
Jaroslaw Lis violin, viola is co-director of Music Adventure. He is Assistant Principal second violin of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and is on the faculty of the Hartt School Community Division. Mr. Lis received his M.A. summa cum laude from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. He received an Artist Diploma and M.M. from the Yale School of Music. He has studied with Krzysztof Jakowicz, Syoko Aki, the Tokyo String Quartet, and was a scholarship student of Nathan Milstein (Zurich, Switzerland). He has been a member of the Assai and Essex Quartets, receiving Second Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition with the Assai Quartet.