Advanced String Camp Distinguished Faculty
June 28 - July 4, 2010
General Information
Faculty
B.M., Hartt School of Music; M.M. Yale School of Music. Suzuki Training with
Teri and David Einfeldt, Carol Smith, Carrie Reuning-Hummel, Betsy Stuen-Walker.
Former faculty: Hartt School Community Division and Merritt Music (New Canaan,
CT) Current faculty: SSN and the Intensive Community Program of GYBSO. Frequent
Suzuki Institute faculty and guest clinician. Active free-lance violist. Former
member of the Hartford Symphony.
Dr. Conklin earned Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from
The University of Michigan School of Music as a student of Paul Kantor. He also
holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he
studied with David Updegraff. During his youth, Conklin was a student of Carol
Dallinger, Violin Professor at the University of Evansville (IN). Scott
currently serves as a member of the violin faculty at the University of Iowa.
Violinist and Director of Vivaldi Strings, Julie Maura, has a B.A. in violin
performance, a B.S. in pre-medical studies from the University of Notre Dame,
and M.M. in violin performance and pedagogy from Northern Illinois University.
She has studied with Betty Monahan, Almita and Roland Vamos, Rachel Barton,
Simin Ganatra, Mathias Tacke, Brian Lewis, and many other fine Suzuki teachers
around the country. Ms. Maura has taught at various music institutes in the
summer including Sound Encounters in Ottawa, Kansas; Texas State University
Suzuki Strings Institute in San Marcos, Texas; Intermountain Suzuki String
Institute in Drapper, Utah; and most recently DFW-WOW in Dallas, Texas. She has
been a participant in the past four Starling-DeLay Juilliard Symposiums. Ms.
Maura coordinated the Suzuki Youth Orchestras of the Americas for the 12th SAA
Conference; and at the 13th SAA Conference in 2008, her tour group Vivaldi
Strings was selected to perform for the International Ensembles Concert. For
the past four years, she has been a guest lecturer at Wheaton College
Conservatory. Ms. Maura currently teaches Suzuki violin, viola, music theory,
and is director of the Vivaldi Strings Touring Group at the Community School of
the Arts at Wheaton College.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Melissa came from a family of professional
musicians and developed an early passion for music. She immigrated to the United
States after receiving a full merit scholarship for study at Interlochen Arts
Academy. She continued her studies with internationally renowned cellist Timothy
Eddy at the Juilliard School in New York City. She gained her Suzuki training at
the Colorado Suzuki Institute and the Chicago Suzuki Institute. Ms. Solomon has
performed throughout the United States, Europe and Africa, including such major
cities as New York, London, Florence, Edinburgh, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Nicolette Solomon obtained a Bachelor of Music (Honors) and Higher Education
Diploma (Post Graduate) at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South
Africa. Her Suzuki training continued with Christophe Bossaut at the Ecole
Suzuki in Lyon, France. Nicolette studied with Dr. Suzuki at the Talent
Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, Japan in 1992. She currently serves
as Executive Director and President of the Suzuki Institute of Dallas.
Carl van Wyk graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1964 and
completed his Master of Music degree in 1965. Carl van Wyk has composed more
than forty works. He has served as accompanist at a number of Suzuki institutes
and presents computer-driven composition and theory classes at the Colorado
Suzuki Institute in Snowmass and other institutes.
