https://www.bratschetogether.com/home daily 1.0 2020-05-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebad6adb4728154f2fe27e7/1589912488317/ Home - Virtual Workshop 1 (June 1-13) Come join an inviting community of violists to experience an intensive 2 weeks of learning, training, and creativity with some of the nation’s leading educators, orchestral and chamber musicians, and musical entrepreneurs. Enrollment limit: 30 participants. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcbc2cba58766048b7c396/1589912530334/pixta_41154210_S.jpg Home - Virtual Workshop 2 (August 3-15) Come join an inviting community of violists to experience an intensive 2 weeks of learning, training, and creativity with some of the nation’s leading educators, orchestral and chamber musicians, and musical entrepreneurs. Enrollment limit: 30 participants. https://www.bratschetogether.com/features daily 0.75 2020-07-31 https://www.bratschetogether.com/program daily 0.75 2020-08-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebca519487c3c543a859f23/1589421376361/ Program Info - $250 Virtual Workshop 2 (August 3 - 15) Daily Practice Partners Program 3 private lessons Daily Yoga, Mindfulness, or Body Mapping group lessons Chamber Music Masterclasses with esteemed performers and teachers Daily Lunch Discussions with faculty and guests Performance opportunities in masterclasses Performance opportunities in the student showcase https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebd9a023901202a839eb60b/1589484049622/ Program Info https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebd984497039f0fe32bf039/1589483689287/ Program Info - Community warm up Practice Partners Program https://www.bratschetogether.com/faculty daily 0.75 2020-08-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcc78bde579a57b053245f/1589430175531/Yu%2BJin.jpg Faculty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcc3136e147e05a5be4165/1589429892422/theresa%252Brudolph.jpg Faculty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcc7f3dafa4266ed2d4e8a/1589559661777/jt%2Blow%2Bres.jpg Faculty photo by Nathan Hill https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcd3ce2757b736666de537/1589433306229/bill%2Bjohnston.jpg Faculty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebcc45fa50f1b04276dad81/1589429350560/Joanna%2BPatterson%2BZakany.jpg Faculty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ed00843ed759012fc067ac3/1590691987431/dave%2Bdash.jpg Faculty - David Dash, trumpet David Dash is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He was previously Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Naples Philharmonic and a member of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, where he performed as a soloist and toured much of the United States. David has also performed with the symphonies of Atlanta, Baltimore, Charleston, Charlotte, and San Francisco, the Florida Orchestra, and the Sarasota Opera. In addition to “The President’s Own,” he has performed as a soloist with the Naples Philharmonic, Naples Orchestra and Chorus, Naples Concert Band, Monmouth Symphony, and the Astoria Symphony. David received scholarships to the Orchestra Institute in Attergau, Austria, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He has recorded for Pentatone (Santa Fe Opera’s Grammy nominated Cold Mountain), Koch International, Albany Records, and “The President’s Own”. David is a graduate of Rice University and the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers include Armando Ghitalla and Robert Sullivan. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f1df28782368d42a1e068ba/1595798211143/olson_nathan.jpg Faculty - Nathan Olson, violin A native of Berkeley, California, violinist Nathan Olson began his appointment as co-concertmaster with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in September 2011. He served as adjunct faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music 2013–16, and was recently appointed adjunct faculty at Southern Methodist University. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s prestigious Concertmaster Academy, Olson studied with William Preucil and Paul Kantor. Currently concertmaster of the Breckenridge Music Festival, Olson has participated in the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Bravo Vail Music Festival and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Olson is a member of the Baumer String Quartet (BSQ), whose debut recording will be coming out in 2019. The BSQ serves on faculty at the Crowden Chamber Music Workshop and the Monterey Chamber Music Workshop, and has held residencies at several institutions including University of North Texas, University of South Florida and University of South Dakota. A winner of the Joseph and Elsie Scharff prize in violin at Cleveland Institute of Music, Olson has performed as soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony and Lexington Bach Festival Orchestra. In recent seasons, Olson has appeared as guest concertmaster with the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Toronto, Omaha and Tucson, and as principal second violin with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. While completing his bachelor’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Olson earned minors in both mathematics and music theory. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f1dd674d0dcdd1a8eeb39e6/1595790994443/Sonja+Harasim20190912115056-Edit.jpg Faculty - Sonja Bosca-Harasim, violin/viola Sonja Bosca-Harasim, performer and educator, has been described as an “undeniably impressive” performer (James Chute, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 21, 2011), and hailed for her attention to detail, making “every note count deliciously” (Joel Luks, Culture Map Houston, April 26, 2011). Bosca-Harasim is Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and is Associate Professor of Violin and Viola at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Additionally, she coaches chamber music, teaches string methods to future music educators, serves as String Area Coordinator and Director of Concordia’s North Star Chamber Music Festival and Symposium, as well as its String Preparatory Program. She maintains an active performing career locally, nationally, and internationally as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, including performing as Guest Principal 2ndViolin with the Detroit Symphony and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, as well as performances at the “Grieg in Bergen” concert series in Norway, the Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., La Jolla SummerFest in California, and at the Soiva Music Camp in Järvenpää, Finland. She has performed at numerous preeminent music festivals, including Schleswig-Holstein, International Holland Music Sessions, Sarasota, Encore, Tanglewood, Aspen, Round Top, Brevard and Interlochen. A native of Houston, Texas, she began her violin studies at the age of 5 in the Suzuki program at Parker Elementary and went on to study with Albert Muenzer, while attending the critically acclaimed High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She completed her undergraduate studies with David Updegraff at the Cleveland Institute of Music and returned to her hometown to continue her studies with Kenneth Goldsmith and Cho-Liang Lin at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she received her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Bosca-Harasim resides in Fargo, ND with her husband, long time chamber music partner and bowling teammate, Ryan and their new son, Sebastian. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f1dd80767aaae35bbd5caa1/1595791406586/Lauren+Burn+Hodges.jpg Faculty - Lauren Burns Hodges, viola Violist Lauren Burns Hodges enjoys a varied career as a teacher and performer throughout the United States and abroad. She is currently Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of Florida where she also coordinates and teaches Music Appreciation classes. Passionate about promoting the viola and engaging with the community, she hosts an annual viola day at UF and serves as a board member-at-large for the American Viola Society. Dr. Hodges has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player across the United States, Europe and Asia. She recently toured China with pianist Doug Jurs, performing a new commission by Paul Richards and lesser-known works by American composers Alan Shulman and Libby Larsen. She expects to release a CD in 2020 containing the first commercial recordings of two sonatas for viola and piano by American composers Gustav Strube and Arthur Foote. This fall, she plans to tour the Chicago area with a program featuring American composers Jennifer Higdon, Augusta Read Thomas, and Perry Goldstein. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Hodges has twice been invited to teach masterclasses at the Primrose International Viola Competition and Festival held at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA, and she presented pedagogical ideas from her DMA document entitled Coordinated Action in String Playing: A Comparative Study of the Teachings of Paul Rolland and Karen Tuttle at the national AVS festival held at Oberlin Conservatory in 2015. Dr. Hodges teaches students to use natural weight and leverage to produce a resonant sound free from excessive tension and pain, and she leads body awareness workshops that fuse together ideas from Rolland and Tuttle with elements from Alexander Technique, physical therapy and yoga. Dr. Hodges is a graduate of the University of Alabama, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of South Carolina. She was the recipient of the Narramore Fellowship at Alabama and won the prestigious Jacob K. Javits national fellowship for graduate studies at Peabody. Primary viola teachers include Daniel Sweaney, Victoria Chiang, and Frits DeJonge. Her pedagogy training is from Rebecca Henry (Peabody Preparatory Division) and Suzuki certification from teacher trainer Mary Cay Neal. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f2daaa12c7a1652bd9ed84d/1596828330602/Roxanna+Patterson.jpg Faculty - Roxanna Patterson, viola Roxanna Patterson began her professional career at age 16 as a member of the Fort Worth Symphony and the Forth Worth Opera Orchestras. She later attended the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) and played in the Houston Symphony, Houston Opera Orchestra and served as Concertmaster of the Houston Ballet Orchestra. Her teachers included Ron Patterson, Eudice Shapiro, Wayne Crouse and Karen Tuttle. In 1979 she moved to Monte Carlo with her husband, Concertmaster Ron Patterson. There she changed from violin to viola and the couple formed the unique violin/viola ensemble Duo Patterson. A chamber music enthusiast, Roxanna has performed extensively in this capacity, recently recording the Hindemith Trio Op.47 for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano for the Centaur label. Roxanna has also recorded for the Ante Aeternum, CRI, and VOX labels, and appeared on European and American television. She has also appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, England, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. In 1984 she received the first Special Award from the Princess Grace Foundation and was recently decorated by Prince Rainier of Monaco with Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite Culturel. She is the violist of the Rainier String Quartet and Principal Viola of the New Hampshire Music Festival. She and Ron have three children and reside in Seattle, Washington. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f2447ea6e5ccb3aa7ccd902/1596213252246/misty.jpg Faculty - Misty Drake, violin A three-time soloist with The Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, Misty Drake began the violin at age 3 and is a native to Southwest Florida. Ms. Drake completed her Master in Music in Violin Performance (‘20) from The Frost School of Music (University of Miami) as a Teaching Assistant to Charles Castleman and Henry Mancini Institute Fellow. She received her BM in Violin Performance (‘18) from The Eastman School of Music with Charles Castleman and Federico Agostini, and was named an Arts Leadership Certificate Fellow, cultivating arts engagement skills through entrepreneurial and leadership training. Currently, Misty is a member of The Orchestra Now (Bard College) pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Orchestral Studies. Mistyviolinist.com https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f2420c74282e347aa12fc07/1596203218136/jacob_tews_photo_new.JPG Faculty - Dr. Jacob Tews, viola Dr. Jacob Tews is Assistant Professor of Strings at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He has served previously as an educator at Wartburg College, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota. He earned a DMA in viola performance, with a secondary emphasis in music theory, from the University of Minnesota. As a soloist, he regularly performs recitals mixing standard and new repertoire. His present chamber music focus is on his contemporary music duo with violinist Erik Rohde, sonic apricot (sonicapricity.com); they regularly collaborate with living composers, and recently returned from a successful guest artist residency with the Alba Composition Program in Alba, Italy. Their recording of Elliott Miles McKinley’s String Quartet No. 8, written for the duo and their colleagues at Indiana State University, was released in 2019. As a conductor, Tews has served as Music Director of the Wartburg Community Symphony Orchestra, and as Assistant/Cover Conductor for the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony and the Southern Illinois Music Festival. As a composer, he has had his works played around the world; his newest major work, a double concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra, was premiered by Kiril Laskarov, Eric Lenz, and the Southern Illinois Music Festival Orchestra in 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f242268e059627448568dbb/1596203819153/francesca+arnone.jpg Faculty - Dr. Francesca Arnone Francesca Arnone is an active flute and piccolo soloist, chamber musician, and educator. An avid traveler, she enjoys pursuing this passion through music and has appeared in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, in such venues as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, Split Academy of Music in Croatia, and the Chicago Public Library. A featured guest artist at flute festivals around the country, she has performed at a variety of flute conventions and festivals, including those of the National Flute Association, British Flute Society, International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, and the Flute Society of Spain. Her solo and chamber music recordings on the MSR and Ravello labels have met critical acclaim. A veteran of regional and opera orchestras in the US and Mexico, she now plays with a variety of orchestras and ensembles across her home state of Florida, including the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra (member since 1997), Opera Tampa, and ensemblenewSRQ. Her concerto appearances on flute, alto flute, and piccolo have ranged from works by Bach to Chen Yi. Dr. Arnone has served on the faculties of Baylor, West Virginia, Boise State, and Idaho State universities. She teaches at the University of South Florida and Patel Conservatory in Tampa, and at FlootFire and other summer camps around the country. Please see www.francescaarnone.com. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ed007b0d45eb54e7adfca79/1590691785229/Carolyn.jpg Faculty - Carolyn Stuart, violin Violin playing described as “tonally resplendent and affectingly assured both stylistically and technically” (Fanfare Magazine) and a performer of "astonishing effectiveness, radiant inspiration, deep sensitivity, and colossal temperament" (Musical Horizons - Sofia), violinist Carolyn Stuart is heard regularly as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in prominent North American and European centers. Such recent performances were held at Carnegie, Merkin, and Steinway Halls in NYC, Salle Gaveau in Paris, the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, The Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam, and many others. Festival appearances have included Green Mountain, Chautauqua, Interlochen, Garth Newel, Hot Springs, Pine Mountain, Killington, Fox River, and in the Netherlands (Peter de Gröte), Italy (Autunno and Classicariano in Naples), Bulgaria (Salon des Arts and Sofia Music Weeks), and France (Association Philomuses, Paris). Carolyn Stuart currently serves as Violin Professor at the University of South Florida and on the Artist-Faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival and Brancaleoni International Music Festival. Her principal teachers have included Kevin Lawrence, Paul Kantor, and Mitchell Stern, and she holds degrees from The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, and from Stony Brook University, SUNY. Her recordings may be heard on Bridge, Gega New, Albany, Capstone, and Blue Griffin. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ec42c9fd689394a4f22a75d/1589914805406/IMG_8558.JPG Faculty June Session https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ec17dd6c9d64037cc8f734c/1589914681306/FB_IMG_1580240004608.jpg Faculty Both Sessions https://www.bratschetogether.com/faq daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ebd9749c948f2507a47fe86/1589483353295/ FAQ https://www.bratschetogether.com/charity daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5f1ddd692cda7f103138cc4e/1595792762884/CIW.jpg Giving Back https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/t/5ec00913438c273bae2e96cc/1589643552532/ Giving Back BratscheTogether is proud to donate a portion of the proceeds to amazing organizations: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Blessings in a Backpack and the First Responders Children’s Foundation. In the same way that we are stronger together as violists, musicians, and artists, we are even stronger together as one people. Thank you to all of those volunteers and healthcare professionals who are helping us stay safe through this covid-19 pandemic. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebacd83bd31e92138078606/5ebcd8dbe49159259028d7f6/5ebcd9694f5909212574f05b/1589482766912/backpack.png Giving Back $130 will feed one child on the weekends for one 38-week school year through the Blessings in a Backpack program. The Results: Nourished Kids Ready to Learn. 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