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Learn Who's Teaching the NOF Master Classes
Violin
Georgia Hornbacker
Associate Professor Georgia Hornbacker (BM, MM Indiana
University) teaches violin, upper string pedagogy and methods, music
appreciation, music theory, ear-training, and chamber music at
Millikin University. She is Associate Concertmaster of
the Illinois Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, with whom she has
performed in Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Georgia is also Concertmaster of the Millikin-Decatur Symphony
Orchestra, and served as Associate Concertmaster of Opera
Illinois. As violinist with the Kirkland
Trio, Millikin’s resident piano trio, she has performed recitals
in Taiwan at the
National
Taiwan
University, on WILL
radio’s Second Sunday Concert Series, on the Tarble Arts Chamber
Series in Charleston, IL, and on
the Fourth Presbyterian Church and Tuesdays at 1
concert series’ in Chicago. She has played concertos with the
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra,
the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, and the Illini Symphony at the
University of
Illinois. In addition to her duties
at Millikin
University, Georgia maintains a private studio in her home in Sherman, IL. In 2001, Georgia was named
Outstanding Studio Teacher by the Illinois chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Professor
Hornbacker is a regular reviewer of music, books, and CD’s
for American String Teacher magazine and
is a contributing author to Teaching Music through
Performance in Orchestra, Vol. 3 and The
String Teacher’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful
Program.
Viola
Daniel Sweaney
Daniel Sweaney made his New York debut in
Avery Fisher Hall at the 1999 Mostly Mozart Festival performing with
world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. “..extremely
talented and highly trained...poised and accomplished...”
said Strings Magazine. Mr. Sweaney began his musical
studies at age eleven and has since had a diverse education in the
United
States and Europe. He has won many prizes and performed
across the globe.
Daniel Sweaney has won prizes at the
Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Down Beat
Magazine Chamber Music Competition, was a two time recipient of the
Interlochen Arts Academy Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Performance in
Viola, he was the recipient a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant, and winner
of the Fifth Annual Sister Mary Faustina Memorial Concert in Marylhurst,
Oregon. He has been teaching assistant to Heidi Castleman and a
chamber music coach at The Perlman Music Program. He participated
in exchange programs through The Perlman Music Program on trips to
Tel-Aviv and Shanghai. Mr. Sweaney has held faculty
positions at the Cleveland School for the Arts, Rice
University Preparatory Department, the Lovett School in Atlanta Georgia, The Boulder Arts
Academy, was a guest artist at the St. Joseph’s School of Music in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, teaching assistant at the University of
Colorado, and is on the faculty of the North American Viola
Institute. He has given masterclasses at the University of
Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee,
Southern Illionois, Bowling Green
State University, and the Instituto
Superior de Arte in Havana Cuba.
Mr. Sweaney has collaborated with Itzhak
Perlman, Ani Aznavoorian, Ron Leonard, Stefan Milenkovich, Merry
Peckham, and Peter Sellers. While living in Austria,
he performed regularly with the Camerata Salzburg under Sir Roger
Norrington, Leonidas Kavakos, Walter Weller, and Heinrich Schiff.
Recent venues and festivals include, Salzburg Mozarteum Grossersaal,
Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, KKL Lucerne, Bilbao and Madrid,
Spain, Athens Megaron, Camerata Salzburg’s Beethoven and Haydn
Begegnung, Vienna Festwochen, Salzburg Mozart Woche, Bergen Norway
Festspiel, Schubertiad Bezau, Austria, Würzburg Mozart Festival,
Singapore Arts Festival, The Best of the Nordrhein-Westfalen series, The
Beethoven House in Bonn, SUNY Purchase, Lincoln Center’s Great
Performers Series, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Orchestra Hall in
Chicago, and an open workshop with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He has
recorded with the Camerata Salzburg for Universal the complete works for
flute and orchestra with soloist Andrea Griminelli and works by Mozart
with pianist Sebastian Knauer and violinist Daniel Hope.
Daniel Sweaney studied at the Interlochen
Arts Academy, The Cleveland Institute
of Music, Rice University, the Universität
Mozarteum, Salzburg, and the University of
Colorado, Boulder. He
has participated in many summer festivals such as The Sewanne Summer
Music Center, The Quartet Program, The Aspen Music Festival and School,
and The International Musician’s Seminar, Prussia Cove. His major
teachers include Heidi Castleman, David Holland, Thomas Riebl, Martha
Strongin-Katz, Roger Tapping, Erika Eckert, and Geraldine Walther.
In 2007 Daniel Sweaney toured with the Signum String Quartet and was
heard on a live broadcast by West German Radio. He is currently on the
faculty of the University of Alabama. In his spare time he
enjoys training for endurance events such as open water swimming,
triathlons, and marathons.
Cello
Tom Landschoot
Double Bass
Jeff Bradetich
Jazz
Tanya Kamanovitch
Fiddling
Andy Carlson
Discussion- "Why Play in the Orchestra"
Scott Laird
Scott D. Laird, a native of Indiana, PA, earned his B.S.
in Music Education and his M.A. in Violin Performance from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. He is an Instructor of Music and Fine
Arts Coordinator at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
where he directs the orchestra and teaches courses in Recording
Technology, Classical Guitar and Piano, and Music History. He is
an active string educator, performer, recording artist, and conductor.
His orchestras have been recognized at the local, regional, and national
level for their superior and musically mature performances.
Prior to his appointment to NCSSM in 2001, Laird was
director of orchestras for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt,
MD from 1992-2001 and the district-wide string teacher for the Palmyra,
PA school district from 1986-1992. While in Palmyra, he founded
the Palmyra Bluegrass String Camp, a camp to teach string players with
classical backgrounds the fundamentals of bluegrass music. He is a
member of Music Educators National Conference, American String Teachers
Association, and is Chair of the North Carolina Music Educators'
Association Orchestra Division. Additionally, he is
President-Elect of the NC Chapter of The American String Teachers'
Association.
Laird is nationally visible as a Education Specialist
for D’Addario Strings, NS Design Violins, and Coda Bows where he
is a noted as an authority on string education and electric and MIDI
string instruments and their applications in the classroom. He has
conducted many high school and middle school orchestra festivals
throughout the United States and is in demand as a guest conductor of
honors youth orchestras. He is also an active adjudicator having
served as a judge for a variety of orchestra and solo and ensemble
festivals throughout the United States as well. He has studied
conducting with Mr. William Hudson of the Fairfax, VA Symphony and the
University of Maryland.
In addition, Laird is an active electric violinist and
recording artist and has appeared on the Motown, REX and Roadrunner
record labels. He is endorsed by D’Addario Bowed Strings, NS
Design Violins, and Coda Bows. His latest solo CD entitled,
"Simple Gifts," features his writing and performing on a variety of
string instruments with an emphasis on the electric violin. He is
also well known for his electric violin work with the thrash metal
band, Believer. The Gospel Music Association nominated their
last album, Dimensions, for a Dove Award in 1993. Most recently,
Scott collaborated with Motown artist, Mya, writing and performing the
orchestration on the song "Nothing at All." In his spare time,
Laird enjoys a variety of activities including running and camping, as
well as road and mountain biking. He, his wife, Barbra, and
their sons, Matthew, Joseph, and Cael, reside in Durham,
NC.
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