Greetings, String Colleagues,
My string colleagues here at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln look forward to hosting the ‘invitation-only’ Spring Strings Honors Orchestra to be held here in the Glenn Korff School of Music on February 22-23. Our special guest conductor is Maestro Ian Passmore, “a rising young conductor” who is currently Assistant Conductor of the Omaha Symphony. Maestro Passmore served as Associate Instructor of Orchestral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and has most recently invited to guest conduct in Vietnam at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and to conduct the Hanoi Philharmonic. He is a passionate advocate for music education and has worked with student ensembles all over the world. He will be conducting the students in the beautiful Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The event will include a string orchestra performance with Maestro Passmore, student master classes with UNL’s award winning string faculty: violin soloist David Neely, Lincoln Symphony Principal Violist Clark Potter, violist, recording artist and composer Jonah Sirota, cellist with Trio Nuovo and the Concordia String Trio Dr. Karen Becker, and EMI and Innova recording artist Dr. Hans Sturm.
Registration:
Advanced students who have participated in either an All-State or Youth Symphony Orchestra are welcome to register directly. As a director or teacher, you are encouraged to nominate students. The link to register is here: https://goo.gl/qf0cBj
The event is free for participating students and lunch will be provided on both days.
For more about the Spring Strings Honors Orchestra, please visit:
https://arts.unl.edu/music/springstrings
The registration deadline is Feb. 12th. Please contact me with any questions.
Best wishes, Karen
Karen Becker, DMA
Interim String Area Head
Professor of Cello
Glenn Korff School of Music
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
kbecker2@unl.edu
402-432-3080, cell
Director, UNL/LPS String Project
Website: https://arts.unl.edu/music/string-project
Principal Cellist, Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra
http://lincolnsymphony.com
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/th50