Education
Concert Highlights
2007
The
University of Virginia Chamber Music Workshop June 19-23
including conducting a chamber orchestra. Program: Resphighi:
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I Mascagni: Intermezzo from
"Cavalleria Rusticana" Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Movement
I
2006
Joins
the faculty at University of Virginia and assumes role as
music director at Charlottesville and University Symphony
Orchestra
2003
Joins
the faculty at Catholic University of America
2002
June
16 -22 - Guest Faculty at the Conductor's Institute
in Columbia, SC for a third appearance for the Institute,
which involves intense hands-on experience with orchestra
for talented young conductors.
May
11, 2002 - Conducted the Vermont All State High School
Orchestra in works by Gwyneth Walker and Hindemith
May
5, 2002 - Conducted the Concerto Competition Concert for the
MacPhail School of the Arts in Minneapolis.
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2001
Spring
2001 - The New Jersey Symphony held their Concerto
Competition Concert in the Spring of 2001. Dr. Tamarkin conducted
all of the finalists in concerti, after which a distinguished
panel of judges chose the winners.
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Kate Tamarkin is pleased to join
the faculty at the University of Virginia, as well as becoming
music director at Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra.
Prior
to her new position, Dr. Tamarkin was on the faculty at Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C for three years where her
duties included conducting the University orchestra and teaching
graduate conducting.
Dr. Tamarkin has a strong commitment to education and incorporates
teaching and education appearances in her schedule each year.
In the 2002/2003 season she was a guest clinician at the College
of St. Benedict in St. Cloud, Minnesota, returned to Oklahoma Summer
Arts Institute for a third year (June 15 - 21, 2003) and was a guest
conductor with the San Francisco Conservatory and the Catholic University
in Washington, D.C. In the past, she has taught for three
seasons at the South Carolina Conductors Institute, and completed
an appointment as Visiting Associate Professor of Orchestral Studies
at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Dr. Tamarkin is a
popular clinician at All State and All Region Honor Orchestras throughout
the nation.
Dr. Tamarkin instituted the “Side by Side” concerts with the Vermont
Symphony and the Vermont Youth Symphony, which featured public performances
by the combined orchestras. She frequently appeared as a pre-concert
lecturer for the Vermont Symphony “Musically Speaking” programs.
She conducted youth concerts with the Dallas Symphony Orchestras,
reaching over a quarter of a million youngsters in the Dallas area.
She has also conducted youth and kinder programs with the East Texas
Symphony, as well as a popular adult series entitled, “Noon Notes”
in Tyler, Texas.
Dr. Tamarkin is a popular and engaging public speaker, and was the
1995 commencement speaker at Burlington’s Trinity College.
She has been an advocate for music education in the public schools,
and has been a keynote speaker at the Vermont Educators Association
Convention.
Excerpts
from Kate Tamarkin's
keynote address at the Vermont-NEA Educator's Convention
-- Vermont - NEA Today December 1992
"The
Arts, and particularly music, are essential to an appreciation
of life, and creative expression is an important part of a
fully functioning person. Human beings are both
rational and intuitive, and a well-rounded person is both.
...Teachers,
all of those who work with children, can use music
and not just leave the teaching of music to specialists.
Incorporate music into the classroom! Develop a "soundstage
or "sound environment" that is as important as the visual
decorations or "landscfsape" in the classroom... Broaden
your definition of "music" to be "organized sound."
With this definition, kids can create all kinds of music....We
want to develop young people who have a reverence for sound
and can truly appreciate what they hear. They should
feel free to create and express themselves musically.
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Says Plato:
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight
to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to
everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to
all that is just and beautiful."
The state
of its arts reflects the health of a civilization. Education
is where appreciation begins and grows. This is where
we must begin."
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