String Camp 2008
-Strings Camp-
Five days of chamber music, string orchestra, and jazz improvization working with ODU string faculty and special guest jazz violinist, John Blake. Sight-reading sessions, jam sessions, and optional private lessons are included. The camp will close with a concert featuring all the performing ensembles. Click here for a letter from Dr. Manning regarding the camp!
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Pricing:Commuter- $300.00 (If registered by May 31, $250.00)
XCMA 1509B Call Number: 90020
Overnight- $500.00
XCMA 1509B Call Number: 90021
Lunch is included for all commuters, as well as a t-shirt. Overnight campers receive breakfast, lunch, dinner and a t-shirt.
Dates of this camp are June 28 - July 2. Commuter campers will stay each day from 9 AM until 5 PM.
Special Guest-
John Blake, Jr.
Performer and composer John Blake,
Jr. has been recognized by Billboard magazine as a performer "destined
to be a force in jazz for many years to come." The John Blake Quartet
brings years of accomplished performance, a diversity of cultural
backgrounds, and great chemistry together in exciting concerts of
original and classic jazz compositions. In addition to his own
ensembles, Blake has appeared with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the
McCoy Tyner Trio and the Billy Taylor Trio, first gaining attention in
the ground-breaking Grover Washington, Jr. group.
Repertoire includes original work by John Blake. Residency activities
include lecture/demonstrations and workshops on subjects related to
violin performance, the violin in African and African-American history,
violin and poetry in music, and jazz improvisation.
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Faculty
Camp Director- Lucy Manning is Asst. Professor of Violin and Orchestra at Old Dominion University. A former member of the Dallas Opera and Ballet Orchestras, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and Lake George Opera Festival Orchestra, she appeared as soloist with numerous other orchestras. Chamber music remains a priority, as she is the founder and former music director of the Saratoga Chamber Players in New York. Awarded 2007 String Teacher of the Year by the Virginia chapter of the American String Teachers Association, she received violin performance degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Illinois and a doctorate in orchestral conducting from University of South Carolina.
Click here for a letter from Dr. Manning regarding the camp!
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Anastasia Migliozzi
Anastasia Migliozzi, Viola, received her BM from The Juilliard School, MM
from Rice University. Currently a member of the Virginia Symphony orchestra
and a very active player and teacher in the Hampton Roads area. She had
previously been a member of the Houston Ballet Orchestra and Orchestra
Sinfonica D'ell Emiglia Romagna, Italy.
Leslie Rogers Frittelli
from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and Master of Arts Degree from
Brooklyn College, both in cello performance. Ms. Frittelli's primary
teachers include Robert Sylvester, Paul Katz, David Finckel and Lynn
Harrell, and chamber music studies with members of the Tokyo, Cleveland and
Juilliard String Quartets. She has performed as an orchestral member with
Aspen Festival Orchestra, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, American
Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Greater Trenton
Symphony Orchestra, Scranton-Wilkes Barre Symphony Orchestra, Austin
Symphony, Virginia Symphony and the Virginia Opera, among others.
Currently, Ms. Frittelli is Adjunct Associate Professor at Old Dominion
University, faculty member of the Governors School for the Arts, maintains
a private studio, and participates in numerous performances throughout the
area.
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Jeannie DeDominick
Jeannie DeDominick has been a music educator for the past twenty five
years. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of
Cincinnati. While in Ohio,
she performed as a violinist with the
Cincinnati Ballet Company Orchestra and taught Middle and High School
Orchestra before moving to Virginia.
Mrs. DeDominick taught most of her twenty five years here in Virginia
Beach. She taught nine of them at Great Neck Middle School, where the
orchestra earned many superior ratings under her direction. She was also
chosen as '96-97' Teacher of the Year and was selected in 1994 to have her
orchestra serve as a demonstration ensemble at the Virginia Music Educators
Conference.
Since leaving public school teaching to raise her daughter, she continues
to perform with the Virginia Symphony and performed with them on their 1997
Carnegie Hall/Today Show debut. In addition to her eighteen years with the
Symphony, she also performs with the Galliard Trio and freelances in the
area. By maintaining a private teaching studio, adjudicating, and
conducting various Regional and All City events she continues to remain
active and connected to string education in the area.
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For more information please call Lucy Manning at 683-6114, or e-mail, lmanning@odu.edu
For registration or information on how to register, please call the CMA at 683-4075, or e-mail, oducma@odu.edu