The Violin Virtuosi performed Mendelssohn’s “On Wings of Song” and Connecting again written for them in 2021 by William Harvey. Enjoy!

Abby Ko is the first prize winner of the Carmel Symphony Competition and will be performing with the Carmel Symphony. She also just won the Carmel High School Competition and will be performing Tchaikovsky Concerto first movement with her orchestra soon. Cooper Olsen is the first prize winner of the Michael Ben & Illene Komisarow… Read more »

Thank you to Vadim Gluzman for an inspiring master class for the String Academy. Violinists are Elson Koh, Abby Ko, Miranda Isbitts and Cooper Olsen. Justin Bartlett is our wonderful SA pianist.

Leo Arekalyan finished all 50 lessons of pitch and rhythm in “I Can Read Music,” which is a total of 500 lines of music reading! He has really become an EXCELLENT reader, and is starting to fly through Wohlfahrt Book 1.

Saturday, October 30th was the big day for TWO Violin Halloween Concerts and a Cello Concert. Was a thrill to be back together. Thank you to all for this happening. Coming soon – concert excerpts.  

Sunday, October 31st was our first Entire Works Concert of the Season. Featured were Sinead Whelan, Ben Lee, Miranda Isbitts and Elson Koh performing works of Hoffmeister, Barber, Mendelssohn and Bartok. Special thanks to Justin Bartlett, our terrific pianist for all occasions. Bravo to all!

Abby Ko was the winner of the MTNA Regional Competition this week. She goes on to the finals. Serge Kalinovsky was Runner-Up and Cooper Olsen received an Honorable Mention. These honors would not happen if not for all the hours, days, weeks, months and years of your dedication to excellence. We applaud all of you!

We will be dividing up the Violin Groups for our Halloween Concerts which take place on Saturday, October 30th in Recital Hall Violin CONCERT ONE – 1 PM with dress rehearsal from 9 to 10 in MA452 All Beginner Class Book 3, MC, and VE VV I and II (will perform in both concerts) Violin Concert Two –… Read more »

Abby Ko was the first prize winner this past weekend (August 11, 2021) of the The Sherer International Violin & Piano Competition 2021. She will have the opportunity to perform with the Maple City Orchestra during their 2022-23 season. Looking forward!  

Welcome back to our Fall Semester 2021. We are moving ahead in the new normal and look forward to meeting everyone in person. As you have read from Christina, Groups will begin this Saturday as we begin preparation for the Violin and Cello Halloween Concerts on Saturday, October 30th. (Violin concert will take place at… Read more »