SUMMER SOUNDS CAMP 2005 - Mt. Baker Youth Symphony



Mt. Baker Youth Symphony’s 17th Annual

SUMMER SOUNDS Music Festival

Sunday, August 9, through Saturday, August 15th 2009

Symphony, Jazz, Brass, Choral and Chamber Music

Camp Casey Conference Center,

1276 Engle Road, Coupeville, WA 98239

(360) 678-5050

Located on the beautiful campus of Camp Casey Conference Center, with beautiful beaches,

vintage Victorian buildings, lovely forests, and a quaint nearby downtown.

Professional musicians lead a week of musical training and fun for ages 11-21,

with daily instruction for strings, winds, brass, percussion, jazz, and vocals.

Cost: $600 includes Room & Board, Master Class attendance,

Faculty Concerts, camper’s choice of Art, Drama, Music History/Theory

Day Campers: $400-includes lunch, and all daily activities

Recreation: swimming, beach & fort expeditions, field sports, talent show

Junior Symphony: novelty pieces

Youth Symphony: Overture to The Bartered Bride-Smetana,

“And God Created Great Whales”-Hohvaness (includes the actual whale songs!)

Summer Chorale: choral standards Jazz Choir: musical theater, jazz standards

Jazz: blues, swing, improvisation, standards

Festival Finale: Overture to “The Little Match Girl”-Dustin Hahn

2009 Masterclass Teachers

Arthur Zadinsky-first violinist from the Seattle Symphony

Jeffrey Cohan-world renowned Baroque Flautist

Malcolm Peterson-first trumpet, Brass Menagerie Quintet

Robert Parker, Jazz Trumpeter

Registration forms are printable from the website at

|Info: 360-421-2527 Sharyn Peterson, Director sharynpeterson@ |

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|SUMMER SOUNDS Staff: |

SHARYN PETERSON, Director of SUMMER SOUNDS since its

beginning, is an experienced instructor of all ages of instrumental and

choral groups. Currently director of Mt. Baker and Fidalgo Youth

Symphonies and various Northwest musical theatre productions, Mrs.

Peterson has served on the faculties of Seattle Pacific and Western

Washington Universities, Skagit Valley College, Sehome High School,

and Shuksan Middle School. Founder and Artistic Director of both

Starry Night Chamber Series and Peterson International Music School in Mt. Vernon, she can often be heard as violin soloist/ concertmaster with local Northwest choral and symphonic ensembles. (Whatcom Symphony, Skagit Symphony, Skagit Valley Chorale, Northwest Community Chorale)

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MALCOLM PETERSON, Director of Brass Instruments, has conducted bands, choirs, and orchestras of all levels, notably the Skagit Opera and the Cascade Cantabile. He currently conducts the Mt. Baker and Fidalgo Junior Symphonies, coaches brass sections and manages the Fidalgo Youth Symphony. Mr. Peterson performs as First Trumpet with the Brass Menagerie Quintet and instructs at the Peterson International Music School. His students have won State and National- level awards and college scholarships. He is a frequent guest trumpeter in many venues, including recording studio engagements. Recent soloist with the Skagit Symphony, he can be heard as first trumpet in the Starry Night Chamber Orchestra, centered in Mt. Vernon.

ROBERT PARKER-Jazz Director, trumpeter, guitarist, and composer, comes from Detroit, Michigan, where he spent several years studying, composing, recording, and touring with jazz legend, Marcus Belgrave. Robert received outstanding performance awards from Downbeat Magazine and the Notre Dame Jazz Festival, and composition awards from Wayne State University. In New

York he organized and participated in a diverse range of artistic projects, including Helix Series, a multi-media arts organization. His work experience includes Orchestra Manager at Manhattan School of Music, and as a member of the Parker Duo at the Manza Beach Resort Hotel in Okinawa.

JAMIE JORDAN-Director of Choirs, Vocal Instructor, is a versatile musician from Downers Grove, Illinois. She has earned degrees in Jazz Studies, Opera Performance, and Music Education. Miss Jordan has performed and taught throughout the midwest, Arizona, and New York. Some highlights thus far include performing at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum (for the Brooklyn Philharmonic's chamber music series), Miller Theater (Columbia University), The Harvard Club, The Liederkranz Foundation, Rose's Turn, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and singing on pre-concert lectures for the New York Philharmonic. Before relocating to Rochester in Fall 2007, Jamie lived in New York city for four years, and was a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic.  Jamie is an active performer with ensembles Musica Nova, Ossia, and the New Jazz Ensemble, and is involved with many other freelance projects. This is Jamie's eighth year on the faculty of Summer Sounds Music Camp.

VICTORIA PARKER, Director of Strings, Violin Instructor

Private teachers include: Sharyn Peterson, Wai Chan-Mitsutani, Eric Shumsky, Barton Frank, Renata Knific, Walter Schwede, Burton Kaplan, and Michael Miropolsky.  She has toured the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and music educator.  Ms. Parker has performed with Aretha Franklin, Sarah Brightman, Alan Vizutti, James Galway, Elmar Olivera, and many others.  In chamber music, she has collaborated with Barton Frank, Peter Christ, the Bottom Line Duo, Wai Chan-Mitsutani, and her husband, Robert Parker.  She is a frequent member of the Vermont Mozart Festival. Her Bachelor's Degree is from Western Michigan University, and her Master's Degree from Manhattan School of Music, in violin performance. Currently she is Concertmaster of Philharmonia Northwest, directed by Roupen Shakarian. She recently premiered Maestro Shakarian’s Violin Concerto , and this past season has performed in many concerts with the Seattle Symphony.

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David Stangland- Jazz Director, Clarinet and Saxophone Instructor. After training for his music career in Arizona, Mr. Stangland performed as a saxophonist with noted Jazz ensembles and bassoonist with bands in Portland Oregon. Currently, he teaches bands at Heatherwood Middle School in Mill Creek, and also performs in classical ensembles on bassoon, flute, and clarinet, with the Starry Night Chamber Orchestra many others. He often coaches woodwinds for the Fidalgo Youth Symphony, and is a frequent adjudicator in the Northwest. Mr. Stangland is a top quality music educator whom we welcome back to our camp faculty for the 7th year!

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|ROBIN STANGLAND Camp Manager, Brass Instructor, Chamber Music Coach, |

|counsels the campers and conducts where needed. Ms. Stangland’s |

|professional orchestral experience includes her place in the horn section of |

|the Portland Opera. She has conducted Homeschool Bands in the North |

|Seattle area for several years, which has grown to an enrollment of over 200 |

|students. A popular free-lance performer in the northwest, her French horn |

|performances for the Starry Night Chamber Orchestra and Skagit Opera have |

|added outstanding quality to the ensemble. |

ARTHUR ZADINSKY, Violinist –Guest Artist, Master Class Instructor

Education: BA of Music, University of Miami, Florida; Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; private violin studies with Donald Weilerstein, Steven Staryk, Paul Biss, George Zazofsky, Louis Krasner, Richard Burgin and Yoko Matsuda; chamber music coaching with Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner, Gunther Schuller and William Kroll; conducting studies with Frederick Fennell. Orchestral experience: Assistant Concertmaster: Long Beach (CA) Symphony, Long Beach Opera, and Glendale (CA) Symphony; First Violin: Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Northwest Chamber Orchestra; First Violinist with Miami Philharmonic at age 18, and First Violinist with the Canton Ohio Symphony at age 13. Awards: Scholarships to U. of Miami and CalArts; Magna cum laude, U.M.; Henri Kohn Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Instrumentalist, Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), presented by Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa.

Recordings: Solo violinist for motion picture “Apartment Zero” and New Age artist Michael Gettel CD entitled “The Key”; conductor for CD “Privilegio de Amor” by Mihares; concertmaster for CDs by Monna Bell, Simone and Jordi; record albums and CDs for artists such as David Benoit, Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, Olivia Newton-John, Bill Meyers and many others; session musician at Universal, Paramount, Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., MGM/Sony and other studios in Hollywood, California, for hundreds of film and TV scores; as well as all Seattle Symphony recordings since 1991.

From an interview on the Seattle Symphony’s website: When did you know you wanted to be a professional musician? When I heard a performance by the Cleveland Orchestra of Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra at a concert in Canton, Ohio; and several years later when I was fortunate to accompany Henryk Szeryng in a performance of Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra. (I had just played the same work for my successful audition a few weeks earlier!)

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Which composers inspire you the most? Mahler, Bartok, Ravel, Szymanowski, and John Williams. Who are your most important musical influences? During my college years, the musicians I admired the most were the great artists that I had the privilege of hearing in live performances, including Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir Ashkenazy, The Guarneri String Quartet and Joseph Silverstein, as well as the conductors that I played under at that time, including Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa and Klaus Tennstedt.

PAT NELSON- Bassoon Instructor, Woodwind Coach, studied music at the University of North Carolina and earned her Master’s of Music from Northwestern University. She studied chamber music in Switzerland and Wales and has performed in many chamber music ensembles in the Northwest and in Canada. Her teachers include John Pederson, Robert Barris and William Dietz.

Pat is currently the bassoonist in the Westwood Wind Quintet and appears in recordings with them on the Crystal Records label. She also is a member of the flute and bassoon duo Impromptu, a group that recently won the National Flute Association Chamber Music Competition. Impromptu actively commissions works for flute and bassoon and has recorded an award-winning new work by composer Roger Briggs.

Pat is principal bassoonist for the Starry Night Orchestra, which regularly performed with the Skagit Opera, the Skagit Chorale, and in Chamber Concert Series.’ Her bassoon students have recently won highly prominent positions in symphonies at many universities locally and nationally, and she is a long-term Woodwind Chairperson for the Mt. Baker Youth Symphony. She also currently holds an executive management position with the Whatcom Symphony.

KIMBERLY BREILEIN, Flute Instructor, received her Bachelor of Music Degree (flute performance) from Boston University, where she studied under Doriot Anthony Dwyer and Leone Buyse. She has also recently studied with renowned French flutist Louis Moyse. Principal flutist with the Starry Night Chamber Orchestra (employed for 5 years by the Skagit Opera), Kimberly performs extensively with the classical ensemble “Trio Lumina,” and is featured flutist in the Christmas touring ensemble “Noel”, with harpist Jill Whitman and the Harborton String Quartet.

Kimberley soloed with the Skagit Symphony and the North Cascades Concert Band, and performed as principal flute of the Skagit Symphony, the Rome Festival Orchestra, Boston University Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. She was a three-time winner of the Washington State Solo Contest and was principal flute in the Seattle Youth Symphony. Her teachers in Washington were Dorothy Bjarnason and Vonnie Johnson.

Kimberley has a rewarding career as a private flute instructor and free-lance performer in northwest Washington. She enjoys teaching students of all ages and levels, maintains active studios in Oak Harbor and Burlington, and is on the faculty of Peterson International School of Music in Mount Vernon. A new addition to her teaching studio is the Enchanted Flute Choir. Kimberley also has a great love of chamber music. Her company, Enchanted Flute Productions, offers various chamber ensembles for all types of events, from concert appearances to weddings and other celebrations. Kimberley has released a recording with pianist Sharon Skidgel-Ringer entitled “Faces of Romance,” which features a rich collection of romances for flute and piano encompassing two centuries.

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OANA RUSU TOMAI – Piano Instructor, moved to Seattle in 2005 after she received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature from Eastman School of Music, where she served as a theory graduate assistant. A native of Romania, she performed in a ten-concert tour with theater actress Leopoldina Balanuta in recitals of Romantic poetry and music. She gave her first concert with an orchestra when she was eleven years old, and moved to the U.S. in 1996, becoming an American citizen in 2005. Oana performed many recitals in Eastern Europe and the US and is a recipient of various scholarships and grants, participated in music festivals such as Aspen Festival and School of Music, Chautauqua Institute, Brevard Music Center and Pecs Summer School of Music (Hungary) and as an accompanist in the International Percussion Competition of Debrecen, Hungary. She played in Master-classes for Vladimir Feltsman, Tzimon Barto, Nemethy Attila, Arkady Sevidov, Gabriel Chodos and Edward Auer.

She has been coached by the Transylvanian Quartet, Fiora Contino and Malcolm Bilson. Her principal teachers were esteemed artists Rebecca Penneys, Andrew Cooperstock and Dana Borsan. Among her most recent activities are guest appearances at the University of Northern Colorado, By Crumb! at the Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Symphony Made in America Festival, the U. W. World Series Masterclasses, recitals at Cornish College of the Arts and Good Shepherd Center. Ms. Tomai has taught at Seattle Conservatory and Edmonds Community College and is teaching piano privately. Currently, she is involved in the research and performance of music from her native country and by women composers as well as contemporary music.

JASON SAH, Viola Instructor, has studied and performed all over Europe and the United States. He has dual degrees in violin and viola; a B.M in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music and an M.M in Viola Performance from the University of Southern California. Having studied with many teachers during these formative years, he considers Catherine Tait and George Taylor the most influential. After having attended USC on full graduate scholarship in 2000, he was accepted by the Mozarteum in Salzburg to further study with Tomas Riiebl. While in Europe, he toured with the Salzburg Kammerphilarmonie and the Salzburg Camerata, playing in France, Germany, and Spain under such conductors as Pierrre Boulez and Sir Roger Norrington. Mr. Sah has a DMA in Viola Performance and Literature from Eastman, where he was Teaching Assistant to George Taylor.

Since his return to the US he has freelanced extensively in the NYC area and has been heard in solo and chamber music recitals throughout the country, most notably in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall as a member of Eastman's Rising Stars.

Equally devoted to teaching, Jason has been on faculty at summer festivals around the country, working with George Taylor at the Meadowmount School of Music in NY and at the Stowe International Music Festival in Vermont, and as full faculty for the Stowe School for Strings. Last summer Jason taught for the first time at the Midsummer Night's Dream String Camp in Boulder, CO and as returning faculty at Summer Sounds. Currently he is Viola Instructor at Peterson International Music School in Mt. Vernon.

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EMILY SCHAEFER- Cello Instructor, began her cello studies at age 12 in her hometown of Jackson, MI. She began playing professionally while still in high school, when she also toured Europe as a member of the Blue Lake International Youth Symphony. Her teachers include Hannah Holman, Bruce Uchimura and Marcy Rosen. She received a Master’s Degree from Mannes College of Music, where she played as principal cello of the Mannes orchestra and was a member of the Mannes Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, working closely with composers Bruce Adolphe and Bright Sheng.

As an orchestral musician, Ms. Schaefer has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances at Carnegie Hall and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia. In 1999, she was an artist in residence at the Hot Springs Music Festival, where she recorded the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk for the Naxos label. Ms. Schaefer has held positions with the Jackson Symphony, the Battle Creek Symphony, and the Kalamazoo Symphony, and is currently Principal Cello of the West Michigan Symphony Orchestra. She is active as a performer and teacher throughout Michigan and the surrounding areas and is on the faculties of Albion College and Kalamazoo College.

MARK VAN ZIEGLER-String Bass Instructor, is a bassist experienced throughout the spectrum of modern music from improvised music to contemporary classical and original rock. His Broadway credits include "Spamalot" (Las Vegas) and "Avenue Q" (1st national tour). He can be seen on the DVD/PBS special "Hit Man: David Foster and Friends" (featuring Peter Cetera, Brian McKnight and others), and has shared the stage with Danilo Perez, Sam Rivers, Bob Brookmeyer, and Billy Hart.  Mark has performed in Brazil, Japan, Poland, and South Africa. Based in Chicago, Mark performs Todd Kessler, the Dan Effland Quartet, Butterfat Trio and others.

Studies include Western Michigan University and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD where he was the first jazz major awarded the Olga von Hartz Owens Memorial Prize for Strings.  

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