Kansas City Cello Clinic 2008
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Carter Enyeart, Director and Distinguished Professor of Cello, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Faculty: Carter Enyeart, Mike Block, Douglas Moore, Daniel Saenz, and Visiting Guest Artist, Eugene Friesen
June 10-21, 2008
UMKC Performing Arts Center
About the Camp
Come to Kansas City next June for the twelfth Cello Clinic under the direction of Professor Carter Enyeart. This popular ten day session will bring together 25 serious young cellists, ages 14-20, from across the country, accepted by audition only. Those accepted will learn how to improve their basic skills, organize and better understand their technique, grow in musical expression as they have fun with the cello. The busy schedule provides ample time for small ensembles, cello orchestra, recitals, seminars, practice and recreation. Private lessons will be available.
Kansas City Cello Clinic Highlights include Daily master class+ small ensembles + cello orchestra+ your own practice room and cello locker+ one day Improvisation Workshop with Eugene Friesen+ recitals by Cello Clinic Alumni and guest artists+ souvenir T-shirt and Guide to Technique and Practice+ Soloists Recital with professional accompanist for selected players+ Grand Finale Concert with all cellists participating in small and large cello ensembles.
Tuition $600 (including t-shirt)
Room and Board
UMKC room and/or board are available at a reasonable price. You may also choose to make your own arrangements. Internet services and parking available at an additional fee.
ALL FEES MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 23, 2008.
Limited Financial Aid is available.
How to apply:
Prepare and send a CD, DVD, or videocassette (video format preferred) including a variety of your best playing, about 8-10 minutes of music, with or without piano. This will be used for placing you in the appropriate level for ensembles, and for acceptance to the Clinic. In addition, please have your private cello teacher, or school music director send a letter of recommendation. A limited number of scholarships may be available. To apply for financial aid, use the form located at the bottom of the website. Qualified applicants will be accepted in order of submission until the Clinic is full (limit: 25). Application deadline: April 15, 2008
Enrollment and Registration: A $100 non-refundable deposit is required with your application (checks payable to The University of Missouri-Kansas City). The registration form can be filled out on line. The following additional items should be mailed to the address below: your deposit (applicable to the cost of the Clinic), a one page resume outlining your education and performance experience, and the letter of recommendation.
Send to: Mara Gibson
Community Music and Dance Academy
UMKC Conservatory of Music
301 East 51st Street, 201
Kansas City, MO 64112
For questions regarding audition content or repertoire, please contact Professor Carter Enyeart at enyeartc@umkc.edu.
For additional application questions call the Community Music and Dance Academy: 816-235-2741 or email: music-ce@umkc.edu or fax: 816-235-5998
Typical Daily Schedule:
7:30- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast
8:30- 10:30 a.m.: Individual practice time
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Master class (all participants)
12:30- 2 p.m.: Lunch
2-5 p.m.: Cello ensembles and/or cello orchestra
5-7 p.m.: Dinner & rest
7-8 p.m.: Seminar or guest recital
8- 9:45 p.m.: Individual practice/ lessons *
*Private lessons available with faculty at additional cost.
Faculty Biographies
CARTER ENYEART, Cellist. Since graduation from the Eastman School of Music "with distinction", Carter Enyeart has enjoyed has enjoyed a distinguished and varied musical career as teacher, soloist, principal cellist and chamber musician. He was cellist of the world renowned Philadelphia String Quartet, the American Piano Trio, Quartet Chicago, the Rasumovsky Piano Trio and was for many years cellist and Associate Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth. Faculty positions at Ball State University, Northwestern University and the University of North Texas preceded his current appointment as the Rose Ann Carr Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Cello at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he teaches cello, coordinates the string chamber music program and directs the annual Kansas City Cello Clinic each June. Mr. Enyeart has achieved an enviable record of success as a teacher of fine young cellists, having sent students on to Cleveland Institute, Manhattan, Eastman, Rice, Juilliard, New England Conservatory and Boston University. They are praised for their musicality, sound production and solid technical foundation. Mr. Enyeart has presented recitals and master classes at the major conservatories of China during three invited visits there in 1991, 1999 and 2007. He returned to Asia in November 2005 to teach and perform at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and to perform as guest artist with the T’ang Quartet in Singapore. During a five week stay in China in May and June of 2007, he served as guest professor of chamber music and cello at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou, Shanghai Conservatory and the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts presenting a solo recital at each school. Past master classes have been presented at The University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Indiana Cello Day, Roosevelt University (Chicago), University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Taiwan’s Tung-Hai and Soochow Universities. He has also presented sessions and master classes at the 2006 American String Teachers National Conference, at the Texas Music Educators Conference and Missouri Music Educators Conferences.Two world premiere CDs on the Centaur label have received critical acclaim. His performance of the Muczynski Cello Sonata was described by Walter Simmons in Fanfare Magazine as "...an extraordinary performance…a reading of unerring precision and blistering intensity."
MIKE BLOCK, cellist and composer, performs regularly with Grammy Award-winning fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio (classical/folk crossover). Mike is also a member of Kristjan Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble (jazz/world/classical crossover), he performs regularly with Yo-Yo Ma as second cellist in his Silk Road Ensemble (East-meets-West fusion), as well as the Flux Quartet (Avante-Gaurde art music). In New York, Mike performs with ACTION JACKSON (jazz string trio), the Knights Chamber Ensemble, Argento New Music Ensemble, and the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. He also toured the U.S. West Coast with Celtic Fiddler Hanneke Cassel, and Germany with the Sirius Quartet (modern/jazz). In December of 2005, Mike released his debut album of all original material, The Agony of Modern Music, which you should buy for $10. He has also recorded on albums for Lenny Kravitz, Joe Zawinul, The Working Title, Jaymay, and has performed on CBS and VH1 with Teddy Geiger, as well as NPR's St. Paul Sunday Morning with the Appalachia Waltz Trio. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mike's former cello teachers include Carter Enyeart, Richard Aaron, Joel Krosnick, and Darrett Adkins. Mike also trained with Pamela Devenport to become a Suzuki teacher. In the summers, Mike regularly teaches and performs at Mark O'Connor's String Conference in San Diego and the Kansas City Cello Clinic.
DOUGLAS MOORE is Professor of Music Emeritus at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and was cellist with the Williams Chamber Players and Williams Trio. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Catholic University of America. He has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States and Canada, and has been principal cellist with the Berkshire Symphony, Albany Symphony, Lake George Opera Festival and Great Music West Festival. His edition of the cello/piano music by Arthur Foote was published by A-R Editions, and he has recordings on the Musical Heritage, Grand Prix and Liscio labels. Moore has made numerous arrangements for multiple celli, including the Stars and Stripes Forever for four celli (published by Presser). He plays a cello made in 1997 by Lawrence Wilke of Clinton CT. He retired in 2007 after 37 years at Williams College.
DANIEL SAENZ has played concerts throughout the United States, Japan, and France. He recently relocated to Houston from Paris, where he toured as a member of the string octet Les Violins Virtuouses. Mr. Saenz currently performs as a member of the Maggini String Orchestra. He has performed concerts at the Aspen and Texas music festivals and future engagements include a tour of Japan in the summer of 2007. A native of Texas from the Rio Grande valley, Mr. Saenz teaches cello in the Houston area and is currently on the faculty at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. Past teachers have included Desmond Hoebig, Pamela Frame, Alan Harris, Richard Clark, and Carter Enyeart. Mr. Saenz hold degrees in cello performance from Rice University and the Eastman School of Music.
Visiting Guest Artist: EUGENE FRIESEN is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians versed in classical, popular and world music. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, his music and original style on the cello and electric cello continue to break new ground. He received a Grammy Award as a member of the Paul Winter Consort for the 1994 album Spanish Angel, and has worked with such diverse artists as Dave Brubeck, Toots Thielemans, Betty Buckley, Anthony Davis and Will Ackerman. Mr. Friesen’s gift for the responsive flow of improvisatory music has been featured in concerts all over the world with the Paul Winter Consort, the Trio Globo, which he founded in 1992 with Howard Levy and Glen Velez, and in concerts with poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Coleman Barks. He has performed as a soloist at the International Cello Festival in Manchester, England; Recontres d'Ensembles de Violoncelles in Beauvais, France; and at the First World Cello Congress in College Park, Maryland. His compositional credits include three albums of original music: New Friend, Arms Around You, and The Song of Rivers; Grasslands, a symphony premiered on the Kansas prairie in 1997; Earth Requiem: Stories of Hope, an oratorio first performed in 1991; The Brementown Musicians with Bob Hoskins for Rabbit Ears Productions in 1992; Sabbaths, settings of poems by Wendell Berry, premiered in Vermont in 1999; and numerous scores for documentary films.Mr. Friesen is the 1999 recipient of a Continental Harmony grant to compose a symphonic setting of Carl Sandburg’s Prairie, which will be premiered this June at PrairieFest in Kansas. CelloMan, his one-man show for young audiences, features a wide variety of music on solo cello: classical, jazz, blues and rock. Created in collaboration with maskmaker/director Robert Faust, CelloMan has been performed widely in the USA. The CelloMan video was released in 1999. Mr. Friesen is on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Application Procedure
Visit www.umkc.edu/conservatory/cmda to apply or call 816-235-2741.
Application due by Friday, April 15, 2008
Financial Aid Deadline: April 29, 2008
Internet services available for an additional cost
