String AcademyIU Jacobs School of Music

The String Academy is opening enrollment for Violin and Cello BEGINNERS CLASSES. We decided last year that with the difficulties of online teaching it would be better to delay the beginners until we could meet in person. And yes, the time has come. Please spread the word as we are happy to fill the ranks. For those new students already playing and wanting to join the String Academy, contact Christina Hightower (crunnacl@iu.edu) to make a time to play for us on Saturday, August 21^st.

Watch a few lessons of a Beginning Student 

Watch Performance Excerpts

Hello to all:
Summer lessons and groups ended with a 10 hour series of class performances which were impressive. Thank you to students, parents and teachers for your continued dedication and striving for excellence. We are looking forward to the Fall Semester which will begin on August 23rd. For new students wanting to enroll, please contact Christina Hightower at crunnacl@iu.edu

We are anticipating all F2F lessons and groups and a return to normalcy. In the meantime, stay healthy and we will see you soon.

Best wishes,
Mimi

Thank you to Erin Aldridge for an inspiring class! And thank you to the performers Ben Lee, Abby Ko, Minjung Kim and Natsume Wu.

Thank you to Sarah for another amazing class. Can’t wait to have all in person classes!

Friday, July 2, 2021
2 PM

Concerto #3 in B Minor         Saint-Saens
Catelijne Hunt, violin   Justin Bartlett, piano

Sonata #8 in G Major          Beethoven
Layla Vamos, violin    Justin Bartlett, piano

Sonata #2 in D Minor     Schumann
Elson Koh, violin    Justin Bartlett, piano

Concerto                Brahms
Bryson Karrer, violin     Justin Bartlett, piano

Thank you to Paivyt for an inspiring afternoon!

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2 PM

Sonata #1 in D Major     Beethoven
Miranda Isbitts, violin    Justin Bartlett, piano

Concerto in D Major                          Tchaikovsky
Abby Ko, violin   Justin Bartlett, piano

Figaro                                                      Rossini -Tedesco
Cooper Olsen, violin     Justin Bartlett, piano

*The Finnish violinist Päivyt Meller graduated from the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. In 1979, at the age of 15, she was accepted to study with Josef Gingold as his youngest student in Indiana University. In 1982 she was chosen into the Artist Diploma program. Later she studied with Victor Liberman in Utrechts Concervatorium in Holland and the last year of her violin studies she spent at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad Switzerland on full scholarship.

Ms. Meller is currently Senior Lecturer in Violin Music at the Sibelius Academy, where she has been teaching the violin since 1990. She held the position of the 3^rd Concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Orchestra 1987-89.  She has been Artistic Director of Raudaskylä International Master Classes as well as the Founder and Director of Camerata Caprice Chamber Orchestra, co-operating with projects of Pinchas Zukerman.

Aside from authoring numerous articles, she has written a book introducing Tatiana Pogozeva´s particular Russian method of teaching violin playing to children. Ms. Meller is frequently invited to give master classes in many prominent schools (for ex. Eastman School of Music, Vienna Hochschule, Hong Kong University) and music festivals (for ex. Summit Music Festival in New York, Bled Festival in Slovenia, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland).

Ms. Meller has performed chamber music with Mikhail Kopelman, Ralf Gothóni,  Alexander Rudin, Yuri Bashmet and many other prominent musicians. She has performed as soloist with the Finnish Radio Orchestra with Leif Segerstam and Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting, as soloist with Camerata Lysy, together with Sir Yehudi Menuhin. Her international career as soloist and chamber musician continues.

In 2011 Päivyt Meller was asked by the Rector of the Sibelius Academy to establish a program of distance learning in the school. Today she is the Academic Coordinator of Distance Learning in Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Päivyt Meller plays Nicola Gagliano violin (1777), the property of STALA Co.

Thank you to Ariel for a wonderful class – in person and online.

June 25, 2021
4 PM

Concerto in B Minor #3 (Allegro non troppo)    Saint-Saens
Catelijne Hunt, violin    Justin Bartlett, piano

Caprice #9             Paganini
Abby Ko

Concerto (Allegro)   Barber
James Robinson, violin   Justin Bartlett, piano

Poeme     Chausson
Cooper Olsen, violin    Justin Bartlett, piano

Hello to all:

Our Summer II session will begin on June 21, 2021. We are inching closer to normalcy and looking forward to meeting you in private lessons face to face. Groups will remain online except for the VE and VV groups. Please be in contact with your private teacher to set-up your lesson times.

Check the calendar for an exciting line-up of master classes with world renowned teachers from around the world. Our roster includes Paivyt Meller from the Sibelius Academy in Finland, Ariel Horowitz, Erin Aldridge, Sarah Kapustin (coming over Zoom from Holland), and Pam Frank and her husband Howard Nelson who will focus on physical set-up issues. These classes can be accessed on Zoom.

Stay safe and keep dodging the cicadas (their earthly time-line is almost over….).

Mimi

The Train                                           Barbara Stanzeleit
Teddy Pettus

Quirk                                                    Carol Barratt
Leo Arakelyan               Amy Arakelyan, piano

Minuet in G                                          Beethoven
Owen Elliott

Minuet                                                    Boccherini
Jennie Jeong

Bourree                                                     Bach
Clark Friedman, viola

Concerto in G Major, Mvt. I                 Telemann
Hayden McGuire

Concerto in G Major, Mvt. II                  Telemann
Lily Vickery, violin         Joyce Vickery, piano

Concerto in G Major, Mvt. III                 Telemann
Quinn Hightower

Concertino in G Major                           Huber
Cody Madeira

Farmers Market                                    Donkin
Raffi Arakelyan             Amy Arakelyan, piano

Concerto in A minor, Mvt. I                    Vivaldi
Sadie Evans, violin         Dawn Evans, piano

Gavottes I and II                                           Bach
Cindy Chen

Allegro                                                          Fiocco
Madeleine Cartledge                 David Cartledge, piano

Tempo Di Minuetto                               Kreisler
Jenny Hu

Concerto No.2, Mvt. I                            Mozart
Wesley Wong, vioin                  Hector Selcedo, piano

Concerto in G Major, Mvt. I                   Haydn
Erica Urheim

Scene de Ballet                                        De Beriot
Heidi Gaschke

Concerto in C Major, Mvt. III                  Kabalevsky
Cyrus Urheim                Gulrukh Shakirova, piano

Go Tell Aunt Rhody                               Traditional
Marlo Lawson

May Song                                             Traditional
Samantha Brown          Laura Brown, piano

Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus             Handel
Gytel Lotven

O Come Little Children                          Traditional
Jinha Han

Etude                                                           Suzuki
Azalea Wilkes-Krier

Witches’ Dance                                     Paganini
Rozlyn Osorio Aparicio

Hunter’s Chorus                                    von Weber
Lia Long

Sonata No.3, Mvt. II                              Handel
Chloe Madeira

Air Varie No. 5                                      Dancla
Jacen Madeira

Sonata No.3, Mvts. I and II                     Handel
Derek Zheng

Fantaisie Pastorale                                Singelee
Evelyn Sager

Concerto in A minor, Mvt. I                    Bach
William Liao

Courante from Suite in G Major             Bach
Ethan Peyton Chen, viola

Concerto in A minor                              Bach
Allegro and Andante
Alice Zheng, vioin          Justin Bartlett, piano

Danse Espagnole                                   DeFalla/Kreisler
Ben Lee, violin

Concerto in A Minor              Vivaldi
Allegro  – Andante – Presto
Aralyn Olivo, violin 

Concerto in C Major               Kabalevsky
Allegro molto e con brio  – Andante cantabile  – Vivace giocoso
Cara Wilson, violin     Gulrukh Shakirova, piano 

Concerto for Violin                  Barber
Allegro – Andante  – Presto in moto perpetuo
Chiho Sung, violin     Keun Young Sun, piano 

Concerto #2 in D Minor              Wieniawski
Allegro moderato – Romance – Andante non troppo  – Allegro con fuoco – Allegro moderato (a la Zingara)
Ella Hightower, violin      Gulrukh Shakirova, piano

Concerto #3 in B Minor                  Saint-Saens
Allegro non troppo  – Andantino quasi allegretto  – Molto moderato e maestoso – Allegro non troppo
Daniel Larsen, violin     Anne Larsen, piano

Partita #3 in E Major                     Bach
Preludio  – Loure  – Gavotte en Rondeau  – Menuet I – Menuet II  – Bourree  – Gigue
Addison Hightower, violin

Concerto for Violin                  Barber
Allegro – Andante  – Presto in moto perpetuo
Natsume Wu, violin     Justin Bartlett, piano

Concerto #1 in G Minor             Bruch 

Allegro moderato  – Adagio  – Allegro energico
Mishael Paraiso, violin   Justin Bartlett, piano 

Concerto in A Minor                     Dvorak
Allegro ma non troppo  – Adagio ma non troppo  – Finale – Allegro giocoso ma non troppo
Elson Koh, violin      Justin Bartlett, piano