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Indiana University Southeast
Music Department
and
Arts Institute
announce
The Fifth Annual

SUMMER STRING CLINIC

June 16-21, 2008

A fun and intensive week-long clinic for talented string players in the
Southern Indiana/ Louisville, Kentucky area
led by professional musicians and educators

Open to students leaving grades 7-12

Two Large Ensembles
(Intermediate and Advanced Orchestras)
Chamber Ensembles
Master Classes • Guest Artsists and Speakers

Faculty includes IU Southeast Music Department Faculty as well as
members of the Louisville Orchestra

For information, write to:
IU Southeast Summer String Clinic
Music Department, OG051
Indiana University Southeast
4201 Grant Line Road
New Albany, IN 47150
e-mail: semusic@ius.edu
Phone: 812.941.2655 or 812.941.2436

GUEST CONDUCTOR
FACULTY
 

ORCENITH SMITH
Director of Orchestras, DePauw University
Former Director, Chicago Youth Symphony
American Artistic Director of the Vienna International Youth and Music Festival

Orcenith Smith is Music Director of the DePauw University Orchestras and Opera. Named “Outstanding Professor of Music” three times at DePauw, he was also named the inaugural recipient of the Cassel Grubb University Professorship in Music, 1999-2003. His has achieved success in both professional and academic settings, his concerts distinguished by passionate interpretations combined with thoughtful and diverse programming. He has conducted nearly 700 performances of orchestral, operatic and choral/orchestral repertoire for which critical acclaim has come both here and abroad.

The Chicago Tribune called Smith "a gifted conductor", able to take an orchestra to "remarkable technical and artistic heights!" In Europe, critics cited his "brilliant achievement", "perfect temperament,""sure technique" and that his "music-making was infectious!" He has led the touring DePauw University Chamber Symphony on domestic and international concerts in Japan, Austria, The Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, the Southeastern, Northeast and Midwest United States, and in performances at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

To read more about our guest conductor, click here.

   

VIOLIN
Helen Bohannon*
Karen Lord-Powell

Kathy Burger Johnson*

VIOLA
Christopher McKay †

CELLO
Susannah Onwood*†
Lori Getty*

BASS
Karl Olsen*†

† Member of the Louisville Orchestra
* IU Southeast Music Department faculty

 

GUEST ARTISTS

My Darling Asleep

Performing music from the British Isles

My Darling Asleep