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Tenth Annual University of Montana
Orchestra Festival

November 2-4, 2008

 

Our Guest Clinicians for last year were:

John B. Schimek and E. Daniel Long

Professor John Schimek, director of Oklahoma City University’s string program, has been named 2007 Teacher of the Year by the Oklahoma chapter of the American String Teachers Association. He is professor of music education and double bass at OCU’s Wanda L. Bass School of Music and a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.  An active music educator, Schimek has presented clinics and performances in 31 states and three continents and serves on education boards at the state and national levels. He has written for state music education magazines and is published in journals such as American String Teachers Association, Teaching Music, and Bass World.

E. Daniel Long spent many years directing bands and orchestras in Nebraska and Michigan. For 35 years, he was affiliated with the Ann Arbor Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has degrees from Chadron State College (Nebraska) and the University of Colorado. Mr. Long received Chadron State College's Distinguished Service Award in 1994. He has been president of the Michigan chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. Mr. Long has received numerous awards, including the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association’s Teacher of the Year (1980) and Michigan ASTA Teacher of the Year (1989). He is also a recipient of ASTA’s prestigious Elizabeth A.H. Green School Educator Award (1997).

Our Guest Artist for 2007 was cellist

Amit Peled

Recently hailed by the American Record Guide as “having the flair of the young Rostropovich” Israeli cellist Amit Peled is forging an international career of the highest caliber both as a soloist and as an enthusiastic teacher.  Mr. Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world's major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall, London, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, NY City, Salle Gaveau, Paris, National Auditorium in Barcelona, Konzerthaus Berlin and Tel Aviv's Man Auditorium. Among the orchestras that he has collaborated with are the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, London Soloists, Jerusalem symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, Haifa symphony, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Velcea Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Nashua Symphony, String Orchestra of the Rockies to name few.

Being one of the youngest cello professors in the United States, Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in September 2003. For more information, please visit www.amitpeled.com.

The University of Montana Orchestra Festival is open to all high school and middle school orchestras. Monday will be reserved for high school orchestras. Tuesday will be open to middle school orchestras and any high school orchestras who cannot attend on Monday.

Schedule of Activities

November 2-4, 2007

Sunday, November 4

4:00-6:00          Open Rehearsal: UM Symphony Orchestra with Guest Artist, cellist Amit Peled

Monday, November 5

Between 8:00-5:00, your students will participate in the following activities:

Perform for and be critiqued by John B. Schimek and E. Daniel Long.

Your orchestra will perform for up to 30 minutes on the stage of the University Theatre.  You will receive a CD of the performance as you leave the stage.  Immediately following the performance, your ensemble will move to the Music Recital Hall where one of our outstanding clinicians will work with your ensemble for another 30 minutes. 

Upper Strings, Cello, and Bass Clinics

Dr. Margaret Baldridge (violin/viola), Prof. Fern Glass Boyd (cello), and Mr. Don Beller (bass) will lead separate workshops on technique and performance issues that are unique to their instruments.

Opportunity to watch other orchestras perform

7:30      UM Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tuesday, November 6

The schedule will be the same as Monday, without the concert in the evening.

Complete Orchestra Festival Schedule


Any questions may be directed to Dr. Luis Millán at luis.millan@umontana.edu

In order to participate in the upcoming festival, download and fill out the following word document.