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Saturday, October 20th
Orion Performing Arts Center
Mt. Ararat Middle School
Topsham, ME
 
SAVE THE DATE : Saturday, October 20th at the Mt. Ararat Middle School in Topsham, ME. Featuring guest clinician Carrie Reuning-Hummel, whose new book "Time to Practice: A Companion for Parents" examines the delicate parent/child relationship in the Suzuki learning process. She will conduct group classes, speak at the parents' talk and provide teacher enrichment. Join us for another wonderful day of music learning and performing. Visit Carrie’s website at www.soundcarries.com.

Teacher Enrichment will be held on Sunday, October 21st from 9am-1pm at the Portland Conservatory

Pianists:
If your solo for the workshop is one of these pieces, you may be able to play with the accompaniment of a violin and cello.

Joseph McSpadden Triolets
A collection of standard student piano pieces with added student violin and cello parts. The added parts can also be played from the score as a second piano part or in some cases, on the harp.
Vol. 1
Ecossaise - Hummel (vol. 2 Suzuki piano)
Minuet 1 - Bach vol. 2
Melody - Schumann vol. 2
Polonaise - Bach
March - Bach
A Soldier's March - Schumann
The Wild Horseman - Schumann vol. 3
A Short Story - Lichner vol. 2
Arietta - Mozart vol. 2
Sonatina in G - Beethoven vol. 2

Vol. 2
Minuet in F- Mozart
Rustic Dance - Haydn
Allegro in F - Haydn
Ecossaise - Beethoven
Bagatelle - Diabelli
The Happy Farmer - Schumann
Sicilienne - Schumann
Arabesque - Burgmuller
Ballade - Burgmuller
Sonatina in F - Beethoven

Other pieces:
Sonatina Concertata, op. 36 no. 1, Clementi (vol. 3 Suzuki piano)
Sonatina Concertata, op. 36 no. 3, Clementi (vol. 3 Suzuki piano)
Sonatina Concertata, op. 49 no. 2, Beethoven (vol. 4 Suzuki piano)
Sonatina Concertata, op. 55 no. 1, Kuhlau (vol. 3 Suzuki piano)
Faculty Biographies
Carrie Reuning-Hummel began the study of the violin at the age of five with her parents, Joan and Sanford Reuning in Ithaca, New York. She was one of the first Suzuki students in the U.S. and studied with Shinichi Suzuki on numerous occasions.

Carrie is very active as both as a Suzuki teacher and as a registered Suzuki Teacher Trainer. She has taught at hundreds of institutes and workshops throughout the continental U.S. as well as in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and Israel. In 1986 she was honored to receive the Shar Distinguished Young Teacher Award.

Carrie received a BA in Psychology from the University of Iowa and is now a professional violinist and violist, and an active performer. She plays viola with the Fingerlakes Strings and Soprano Violin, a member of the "New Violin Family" by Robert Spear.

She is currently serving on the national Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Carrie keeps busy homeschooling her two children and is especially interested in exploring parent/child practice partnerships with families.

Teri Enifeldt Chair, Suzuki Department, Chair, String Department of the Hartt School Community Division, adjunct professor at the University of Hartford's The Hartt School of Music and Assistant Director of The Hartt School Suzuki Institute.

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. Teri received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Ithaca College, where she worked closely with Sandy and Joan Reuning. She has participated and presented at several National Suzuki Association Teacher¹s Conventions as well as lecturing at the CT ASTA convention. In addition she has taught at the Pan Pacific Suzuki Conference in Sydney, Australia and the 14th Suzuki World Conference in Turin, Italy She is the former Assistant Concertmistress of the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and performs frequently with the Hartford Symphony. Ms. Einfeldt has been active in the use of Video Conferencing to promote teacher training to areas where training is not offered as a long-term option. Together with her late husband David, they pioneered the Master's Degree in Performance with an emphasis in Suzuki Pedagogy at the University of Hartford, and The Hartt School Suzuki Institute. Teri is currently on the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and will assume the role of Chair elect in August 2007. She is currently serving as Chair of the Practicum Committee for the SAA. Ms. Einfeldt resides in West Hartford, CT.

Michele Horner got her first guitar from her grandfather when she was 2. Her principal guitar teacher has been Kevin Gallagher, head of the guitar department at Lawrence Conservatory (Wisconsin). Michele has completed Suzuki guitar teacher training through Bk 9 with Bill Kossler, Frank Longay and David Madsen. She is a graduate of Penn State University where she holds 2 school records in field hockey goalkeeping. Michele added guitar instruction to the curriculum of the State College Suzuki Program (SCSP) when she joined the faculty in 2000. During her tenure as SCSP String Director, Michele's vision for multimedia collaborative performance led her to create innovative programs for the SCSP featuring a confluence of music, visual arts, and dance. In 2006 SCSP was selected by audition to perform a featured concert at the 14th Suzuki World Convention in Turin, Italy.
Cate Howard has been the director of the String Arts School of Concord MA since 1995 teaching violin and viola, and in 2002 joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She began her undergraduate studies at the New School of Music, Philadelphia, and completed her degree program at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in violin performance and pedagogy. She continued graduate work through Temple University (studying with Jascha Brodsky), and at the Musikhochschule, Koeln, Germany where she was a student of Christiane Hutcap and Igor Ozim. She has been an active teacher and performer in South Africa, Germany, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania, and Boston. In 2001 Cate toured Germany with the American Sinfonietta. Her Suzuki training has been with Linda Fiore, Terry Einfeldt, Christoph Bossuat, Carol Sykes, Ronda Cole and Linda Case. Cate has training in Brain Gym, Reiki, and practices Raja Vinyasa Yoga. Cate teaches on the Suzuki summer institute faculty at the New England Suzuki Institute in Maine, in Washington D.C., western Massachusetts, central Pennsylvania, and has been a Suzuki clinician for workshops in California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts and Michigan.
Malgosia Lis earned her MM in piano pedagogy at the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poland. She has given numerous recitals in the United States, Poland and France. She is a director of the Suzuki Piano program at the Hartt Community Division and piano coordinator for the Hartt Suzuki Institute. Her Suzuki training has been with Yasuko Joichi, Francoise Pierredon and Doris Koppelman, and Doris Harrel. She has been a NESI faculty member since 2003.
Chiharu Naruse began studying piano at age 4 and continued her studies in Japan until 1996 at Nishinomiya High School for Music. During this time, she performed numerous solo and trio recitals at the Itami City Concert House. In 1997, Chiharu moved to Germany after being accepted to the Hans Eisler Hochschule Für Musik in Berlin and began study under Klaus BaBler. In Berlin, Chiharu performed recitals on a regular basis including a piano concert to benefit Amnesty International. Chiharu also attended numerous piano competitions throughout Europe. Chiharu has given several concerts at Bates College, played with the Portland String Quartet, and performed Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto and the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto with the Augusta Symphony.
Rachel Schott is a Suzuki violin teacher with an active and independent studio of 42 students in Cincinnati, Ohio. While pursuing her bachelor's degree at Morehead State University, she studied with violinist/fiddler and string arranger Andy Carlson (REM, Nancy Griffith, Cowboy Junkies), who introduced her to the Suzuki Method. Recognizing a need for music theory instruction for teachers and students of all ages, Rachel embraced Music Mind Games after discovering the book by the same title in 2000. In 2001, she was thrilled to meet and receive MMG Unit 1 training from Michiko Yurko, who authored and developed the method. Rachel returned to Washington D.C. in August 2004 & 2005 to become one of only five teachers in the United States to have completed all three Music Mind Games Teacher Training Units. Recent workshops have brought her to students and parents in New York City, Portland (ME), Chicago, Cleveland, and Denver.
Harmon Steiner received his Bachelor and Master of Music in cello performance from the Hartt School, where he also completed his long term Suzuki teacher training with Pamela Davenport. He was head of the chamber music program and the Associate Director of Music at the Nutmeg Conservatory from 2002-2004. Harmon is happy to return to Maine since his last visits as a thruhiker on the Appalachian Trail in 1997 and for the past three years to MSA workshops.
Gwendoline Thornblade is Founder & Director Emerita of the Suzuki School of Newton (Massachusetts). She received a BDS from London University and an M.Sc.D. from Boston University. She is a member of the Boston Philharmonic and played formerly with the Heritage Players. Ms. Thornblade has been a clinician at workshops throughout USA, Canada and Israel. Her Suzuki training was with John Kendall, Bill Starr, Ronda Cole, Carol Sykes and others.
Gary Wittner began playing the guitar at age 9. As a youth he had a deep affinity for the blues and was drawn to the music of Rural Blues artists such as Lightning Hopkins and Big Bill Broonzy. In college, Gary's music became the major focus of his life, and when he heard the music of Thelonious Monk it was love at first sound. He enrolled at the Berklee College of Music where he began studying and transcribing Monk's music in earnest.

Graduating in 1981, Gary moved to Colorado where he began performing all-Monk concerts. After 3 years as a freelance guitarist, Gary began a Master's Degree program at Washington State University, where he completed his thesis (a study of Monk's compositional style) in 1986. From Washington, Gary was offered a faculty position at the University of Maine at Augusta. Based there until 1997, Gary taught and developed courses in Jazz History, Rock and Roll History, Jazz Theory, Ear Training, Music Business, Ensembles, and Private Lessons. He was the Jazz and Contemporary Music Department Coordinator in 1996 and was given the University's Distinguished Scholar Award the same year. As an original faculty member of the International Summer Jazz Academy (1994 - present in Krakow, Poland), Gary has performed throughout Poland and taught students from Poland, Denmark, Ukraine, France, Germany, Iceland, Austria, and the USA. Since 1997, Gary has divided his time between New York City, where he performs and teaches privately, and Maine where he is a part time jazz guitar/ensemble instructor at the University of Southern Maine, Bowdoin College and Lincoln Academy.