ASTA DC/MD Chapter

Officers

ASTA MD/DC CHAPTER OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President
Dorée Huneven is originally from Pasadena, California, where she studied violin with Elizabeth Mills. From there she went on to study with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan, for two years, becoming the third westerner to graduate from the Talent Education Institute. After studying violin performance and music education at the University of Southern California, Ms. Huneven taught in Los Angeles at USC, Pasadena City College, and in a private studio. In 1979, she left for London, England, where she was the Assistant Director of the London Suzuki Group for eight and a half years; she followed that with a year and a half in Cairo, Egypt, teaching violin and English. Ms. Huneven has lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1987, and has maintained private studios in the Palisades area and in her home. She has taught at the Washington Waldorf School and the Levine School, and currently is working part-time at the Academy of Music in Gaithersburg. She has performed with the Waldorf Trio and the Monarch String Quartet, and does free-lance work as well. In the last two years, as President-elect, she also was the editor of Stringendo. Ms. Huneven is extremely interested in helping the MD/DC chapter of ASTA to be a vitally helpful and inspiring professional link for area string teachers.

President-elect
Catherine Stewart, violinist, is very excited to be President-elect, and is looking forward to being of service to the organization and her fellow teachers. Mrs. Stewart has been brightening the lives of area children as a Suzuki violin teacher since 1981. Her inspiration for teaching the violin comes from the work of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, who said, “Music teachers should try to inspire beautiful souls instead of creating musicians.” She does this by teaching children to learn how to study, to achieve personal discipline, and to learn how to solve complex problems one small step at a time.  Mrs. Stewart’s large teaching studio, Stewart’s Stellar Strings, in Olney, Maryland, presents three recitals annually. All students have the opportunity to study and perform chamber music, play in large ensembles, and participate in solo recitals. There is an important community service component of the program, with students presenting recitals in retirement homes, nursing facilities, and area churches. The students have also participated in practice-a-thons, raising money for Manna Food Center, and in a benefit concert for Shepherd’s Table. To prepare students for Youth Orchestra auditions, she holds a scale and sight reading camp in the summer. She has been a faculty member of Columbia Union College, St. Mary’s College, the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program and Olney Adventist Preparatory School. In 1998, the MD/DC Chapter of ASTA gave Mrs. Stewart the “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” award. She was a recipient of the 2007 Prodigy Instruments Mentoring Award. Mrs. Stewart was Education Director of the National Philharmonic (formerly the National Chamber Orchestra) Middle School Institute in 2001, and Education Director of the National Philharmonic High School Institute in 2002. She has worked with local high school and middle school orchestras, running vibrato clinics and sectionals. Mrs. Stewart has been a violinist with the National Philharmonic since 1999. In addition to the National Philharmonic, she has been a member of the Nashville Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, and the Virginia Beach Pops. Her freelance work has included performances with Ella Fitzgerald, Mannheim Steamroller, Yanni, Ray Charles, Benny Carter and Bob Hope, as well as other performances entertaining Presidents Clinton and Bush Sr. and Jr. She is director and founding member of the Greenwood Chamber Players. Mrs. Stewart has been active in many professional organizations over the years. She is chairman of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association “Strings Plus” Chamber Music Festival and Competition. She has been chairman of the Washington Music Teachers Association’s Gretchen Hood Competition, the Maryland State Music Teachers Association String Solo Festival, and Montgomery County Music Teachers Chamber Music Festival. She has served as an adjudicator for competitions such as the Landon Symphonette Concerto Competition, The Gretchen Hood Competition, the Brewster Competition, and ASTA CAP exams.  Her newest project is administrating the Modern Early Music Institute to be held in June 2009. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Maryland. Her teachers include Robert Gerle, Joel Berman, Carlton Herrett, and Paul Kling.  She lives in Olney, Maryland, with her husband Michael, son Spencer, and studio dog Mauka.

Secretary/Treasurer
Jean Provine studied violin at Southern Illinois University and then with Roman Totenberg at Boston University. She has played with the Boston Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic, and the Durham Sinfonia in England. During her twenty-three years in England her main occupation was violin teaching, managing a large Suzuki group and running a chamber music program for young players; playing chamber music and freelancing provided a happy contrast. She has lived in the Washington area since 2001, where she teaches, plays part-time with several orchestras, and enjoys being part of the large musical community.

Newsletter Editor
Jaquelyn Lyman holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from West Virginia University, and is all-but-dissertation for a Ph.D. in Medieval British Literature from the University of Maryland. She also has all but eight hours of Bachelor of Music degree in Theory-Composition from West Virginia University, where her major instrument was percussion. Ms. Lyman has twenty-five years of experience in higher education as a teacher and an administrator. She has taught all levels of college writing and literature to very diverse populations in West Virginia, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington State. In addition, she has supervised writing centers and various other tutoring departments, disabled student services, and college-wide assessment initiatives. She has presented at conferences in California and Washington State on various assessment issues, as well as co-presenting two sessions on teaching adult beginners at ASTA conferences (with Kimberly McCollum). Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, where she has also taught Humanities courses and music composition. She has been a freelance writer and editor for thirteen years, and a violin player for about seven years. She sings, and plays marimba, synthesizer, and fiddle in a pop/rock band.

Membership Chair
Sarah Cotterill has a BA from Swarthmore College in English Literature and an MFA in writing from the University of Iowa. She also has a BA in cello performance from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has taught writing workshops, and for the past ten years has maintained a private studio for cello and piano in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Past President
Cindy Swiss received her Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from St. John’s College. Then she received violin performance training at Peabody Conservatory and music education training at Towson University. Cindy is Suzuki Certified through level four. Her teaching experience includes Baltimore City Public Schools, Towson University and Peabody Preparatory Departments, and private schools in the Baltimore Area. She has taught at the Baltimore String Orchestra Camp for twenty five years. She now teaches from her private studio at home. Cindy has played with the Annapolis Symphony, the Gettysburg Symphony, and Cockpit in Court, and also freelances. She now plays original music with her husband in a duo called In the Clear. Her children’s book, Honey Bee’s Song, for young violinists was published and is being distributed by ASTA. Currently, Cindy is pursuing her other passion, healthy eating, by working on a degree to become a Dietetic Technician.

Certificate Program Chair
Lya Stern, M.M. cum laude in violin performance from the University of Southern California. One year post-graduate work in the master class of Jascha Heifetz at USC. B.M. from Manhattan School of Music. Twenty-five year career in the recording industry performing with Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli and many others. Played on the sound track of over 150 motion pictures and TV films. Performed with the American Ballet Theatre, the National Symphony Pops, the National Gallery Orchestra, and others. Lya was awarded the ASTA National Citation for Exceptional Leadership and Merit in 2000 and again in 2008 for initiating and developing the Certificate Program for Strings (recently renamed the Certificate Advancement Program, or CAP). She led its establishment in MD/DC in 1998 and subsequently helped introduce the program in several other states. She continued as an advocate for the program and continued to organize efforts to establish it as a national program; her mission was successfully accomplished two years ago. She is a recipient of Outstanding Teacher and Service for Strings Award and is a past president of ASTA MD/DC. She frequently acts as chair or judge for student competitions. For the past 16 years Lya has been teaching accelerated and award-winning violin students in her Bethesda studio.

Stringendo Layout/Design and Website Coordinator
Lorraine Combs received her Bachelor of Arts in Violin Performance from the University of Montana. For many years thereafter, she led a somewhat nomadic life, first as the wife of a military chaplain, and later as the wife and soul-mate of her present husband Gary, who served in the U.S. Army and is now retired. Lorraine’s musical training afforded her the opportunity to take advantage of the various musical situations that presented themselves in the different parts of the country and the world where she and her family lived. She has performed as a violinist with Thor Johnson’s Little Symphony in Evanston, Illinois; with the Sands Hotel Orchstra in Las Vegas, Nevada; and with the Composers Orchestra in Kent, Connecticut. She was a member of the music faculty at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. While living in Germany with her family, she was on the music faculty of the Schöneberg Musikschule in Berlin, and was a member of the Berliner Ärtzte Orchester and the Telemann Collegium, also in Berlin. In Augsburg, she was one of the founders of the Medieval and Renaissance Players. Lorraine and her family returned to the United States in 1983, and she has lived in Maryland since then. Currently, she is a violinist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and a violinist with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. She has also played viola with both orchestras. She maintains a private studio at home for violin and viola students. She has been a member of ASTA since 1973. For the MD/DC Chapter she has served as Treasurer, Membership Chair, and Stringendo Editor, and received the Outstanding Service to Strings award in 1998 and 2009.

Events Chair
Leah Kocsis brings with her a variety of teaching and conducting experiences. She is a pianist and violist, and keeps a private instrument studio. Leah teaches general music and is the string ensemble director at McLean School of Maryland in Potomac. She performs with community and youth orchestras throughout the metro area. She has served as the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland and the Rockville Regional Youth Orchestra. Leah is also active in musical theater and has served as music director for The Arlington Players, Dominion Stage, Damascus Theater and Sandy Spring Theater Group. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Peabody Conservatory.

Violin Forum
Kimberly McCollum received her Master of Music degree in Violin Performance from Boston University and her Bachelor of Music in String Performance from Florida State University. Her teachers include Peter Zazofsky, Eliot Chapo, and Jeanne Majors. In addition to her formal music education, Ms. McCollum has studied at the Chautauqua Institution in New York and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Ms. McCollum has been a member of various orchestras throughout the east-coast including the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston (Associate Concertmaster) and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has performed with the Annapolis Symphony, North Shore Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, and the Jacksonville Symphony. Ms. McCollum has taught all levels of students in private instruction, chamber music coaching, and in formal classroom settings. She has been a past presenter at the ASTA National Conferences on the topic of teaching adult beginning students. Currently, Ms. McCollum is on the faculty of the Anne Arundel Community College, teaches strings in the Anne Arundel County Public School System, and performs with various orchestras in the Maryland and Washington, D.C. areas.

Viola Forum
Mark Pfannschmidt began to study violin at age seven, piano at ten, viola at thirteen, voice at fifteen, harp at eighteen, and harpsichord at twenty. In the end, he settled on the viola, because of its rich tone and unusual, interesting repertoire (and the employment prospects were better). He received his high school diploma from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, with a major in viola and minors in harp and voice. Further studies were completed at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in viola performance, with minors in harpsichord and piano. Continuing at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., he graduated with a Master of Music degree, majoring in viola performance. His principal teachers have included David Holland, Karen Tuttle, and Jody Gatwood. Mr. Pfannschmidt has been teaching since 1986 and has taught ages four to adult. Courses in pedagogy have been completed with Ronda Cole and Rebecca Henry. His viola and violin students have won auditions for the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras (all levels), Potomac Valley Youth Orchestras (all levels), Academy of St. Cecilia Youth Orchestras and Maryland All-State Orchestras (Junior and Senior). Currently a member of the viola section of the National Philharmonic and principal violist of the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, his varied career has included seven years in the US Marine Chamber Orchestra. Also a professional accompanist, Mr. Pfannschmidt has been the staff accompanist for the Gaithersburg Flute Camp since 2001. He has accompanied studio recitals for numerous area teachers and accompanies many students for local competitions and festivals. He was recently one of the staff accompanists at the Shenandoah Suzuki Festival in Winchester, VA. He and his wife, Laura, make their home in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with their children, Jason and Emily.

Cello Forum
Laurien Laufman is an artist of international stature, having performed recital tours throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, India, and The People’s Republic of China. She studied with with many eminent cellists, including Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Andre Navarra, and Paul Tortelier. Miss Laufman won numerous competitions, including the 1975 Concert Artist Guild Competition in New York City, and was awarded the Silver Medal in the 1976 Villa-Lobos International Competition in Rio de Janeiro. Miss Laufman has performed as solo artist for radio and television in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Poland, and Switzerland. She has recorded for Classica Records and Medici Music Press. Miss Laufman is Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois School of Music, where she taught for twenty-five years. In June of 2005 Miss Laufman came to the Washington, D.C. area, where she maintains a private cello studio and performs as recitalist and chamber musician.

Bass Forum and Private School Representative
Dr. Paul Scimonelli is currently a member of the Music Faculty at the prestigious Landon School for Boys in Bethesda, Maryland. Paul received his Doctorate in Music Education from The Catholic University of America, where he was the instructor of the CUA Jazz Ensemble, as well as a member of the CUA Symphony Orchestra. Prior to his teaching position at Landon, Paul was a faculty member in the Prince George’s and Howard County school systems, and was on the adjunct faculties of Prince George’s College and Howard Community College, where he taught a wide variety of classroom courses and private lessons on string bass and electric bass, and directed jazz ensembles. Along with teaching, Paul has been an active professional performer throughout the greater Washington/Baltimore area. In the classical field, he has performed with orchestras in Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia, and in Tucson, Arizona, as well as with The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. For thirty-five years, he has been a guest performer, composer, and conductor with The Thomas Jefferson University Choir and Orchestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the world of Washington theater, Paul has played for dozens of shows, including Cats, Starlight Express, Grease, and The Sound of Music, to name but a few. Also a skilled accompanist, Paul has played with luminaries such as Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Jones, Toni Tenille, Lynn Anderson, Sam & Dave, The Four Tops, and many more. For three years, Paul wrote pop music in Nashville, Tennessee, for several major publishing houses, and also performed as a cast member of “The Sensations” and “At the Hop” in Opryland USA theme park. During his years in The United States Marine Band, Paul performed for many White House and State Department functions. During and after his tenure with The Marine Band, he performed in Inaugural Galas for Presidents Nixon and Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, and twice for President Clinton. Happily married to Ginny, his partner of thirty-seven years, they have raised two sons, Anthony and Marc, and a daughter, Natalie, the Queen of the Household, age sixteen!

Eastern Shore Co-Representative
Jeffrey Schoyen graduated with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he was a student of Lawrence Lesser. He completed an MFA at Carnegie Mellon University as a student of Anne Williams, and a DMA at Stony Brook as a student of Timothy Eddy. Awards he has received include a National Endowment for the Arts Chamber Music Rural Residency Grant, Tanglewood Festival’s Gustav Golden Award, and a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant to study with William Pleeth in London. He has studied Baroque Cello with Myron Lutske, Phoebe Carrai, and Anthony Pleeth. Dr. Schoyen has extensive orchestral experience and has been a member of the Opera Orchestra of New York, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Principal Cellist of the Filarmonica del Bajio in Mexico. An active chamber musician and recitalist, he has given concerts throughout the United States, Germany, Mexico and Spain. His most recent recital tour included the Mexican cities of Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, and Morelia. Dr. Schoyen has taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and at the University of Dayton. He has presented conference lectures on topics ranging from Performance Practice to Kinesiology in String Playing and has been conductor of the Kearney Area Symphony Orchestra and the Slidell Community Orchestra. He is an Assistant Professor at Salisbury University, where he teaches cello and bass and conducts the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. During the summer he serves on the faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. His cello is a beautiful Eugenio Degani made in Venice in 1887.

Eastern Shore Co-Representative
Sachiho Murasugi, violin, has performed extensively as a professional orchestral and chamber musician. She has been concertmaster of the Sorg Opera Orchestra in Ohio and Filarmonica del Bajio in Mexico, and a member of the West Virginia Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, and Springfield Symphony. As a chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States, Mexico and Spain, performing in such venues as the Museo del Prado in Madrid. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant and was selected for the Nebraska Arts Council’s Touring Artist Program as a member of the Sandhill Trio. A dedicated teacher, she has taught violin, viola, and chamber music at several colleges, including Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, and University of Dayton in Ohio. Sachiho holds music performance degrees from Manhattan School of Music, CUNY Queens College, and is currently a D.M.A. Candidate at Ohio State University. Her teachers include Raphael Bronstein, Daniel Phillips, and Cathy Carroll. In addition, Sachiho holds an MBA from Tulane University, where she received the Business School’s highest award, the Freeman Fellowship. She is currently a full-time faculty member in the Salisbury University music department and is concertmaster of the Salisbury Symphony.

D.C. Co-Representative
Mary Findley, violinist, has been featured as a violin soloist with many orchestras, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Schippers.  She appears frequently in recital, in chamber music concerts, and in radio broadcasts in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art, various embassies in Washington, D.C., and Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York. She has made tours of the United States and performed in festivals, concerts and radio broadcasts in Germany, Holland, Finland and Sweden. She has recorded works by Meyer Kupferman and Elie Siegmeister on the Soundspells and CRI labels. Ms. Findley teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at The George Washington University and The Levine School of Music.

D.C. Co-Representative
Eleanor Woods, violinist, and occasional violist, has been a member of ASTA and the Friday Morning Music Club since the 1970’s. She started violin at the age of 8 and went on to major in music at Smith College and then at Yale University. Her teachers have been Marjorie Hogg, Gabriel Banat, Broadeus Earle, William Haroutounian, and Jody Gatwood. She has relished many aspects of both ASTA and the Friday Morning Music Club. ASTA has offered its international workshops, innovative teacher training sessions and contacts with local teachers. FMMC has offered chamber music opportunities, its orchestra and its Washington International Competition. She states: “Teaching is what has really nurtured my soul. I relish each student who comes before me. I have so loved keeping up with former students who studied with me five years or more, many of whom now have children of their own. I recently created an online newsletter with blurbs from 40+ students from the past, and it is fascinating to see how their lives have evolved and how their violin study impacts them now.”

Industry Representative
Dalton Potter is the president of The Potter Violin Co. in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been building and repairing stringed instruments since 1976. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, Dalton managed Charlie Byrd’s Music House for eight years, a music school of three hundred students and a faculty of twenty-five. During this time he began building instruments and studying with several world famous luthiers, eventually making instruments that were used in performances at the White House, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art concert series. A professional luthier since 1978, Dalton continued to study the science of acoustics and to perfect his instruments. In 1981 he joined The Violin House of Weaver, one of the oldest violin firms in the new world, dating back to 1898. There, Dalton was able to study the work of the grand masters of violin making, working daily on fine masterpieces by Stradivari, Guarneri Del Gesu, Amati, Gagliano, Bergonzi, and many more. After fifteen years as the senior violin technician at the historic Violin House of Weaver, Dalton founded The Potter Violin Company, which encompasses the old Weaver retail store, plus the now famous Potter Violin catalogue company. Potter’s Violins is now the largest purveyor of fine stringed instruments in the world. Dalton has written and spoken extensively on the importance of quality instruments in early strings education and is the author of “Kitchen Table Violin Repairs” an emergency manual for string players and teachers.

Public Schools Representative
Marion Spahn is an instrumental music teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Benjamin Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America, where she studied with Robert Gerle. Later, she received a Master in Liturgical Music degree with concentration in choral conducting. Marion holds a certificate in Orff Schulwerk from George Mason University, and has taught general music and instrumental music in private and public schools for 28 years. Marion is also the Music Director at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Rockville, Maryland.

University Representative
Born in New York, Dr. Jeffrey Howard has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the Boston Virtuosi, and the Yonkers, Indiana University, Concord, UT Arlington, and WPI Symphony Orchestras. A frequent soloist and guest artist, he has performed at Jordan Hall in Boston, Federal Hall in New York, the Bastille Opera House in Paris, Khachaturian Hall in Montreal; and at Syracuse University, the University of Texas at Arlington, the Longy School of Music, and Oberlin College. Dr. Howard has appeared internationally in Canada and in Central and Western Europe, including the countries of Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary and Italy. A devoted performer of chamber music, he has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Winter Institute for String Quartets, and the Lydian String Quartet Seminar. He has studied with members of the Tokyo, Mendelssohn, Juilliard, and Cleveland String Quartets. He has performed as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metamorphosen Chamber Ensemble. He received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University where he completed the Doctorate of Music Degree in Violin. His teachers included Stephen Clapp, Franco Gulli, Paul Biss, and Distinguished Professor Josef Gingold. He has served on the faculties of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the University of Texas at Arlington, Bridgewater State College, and Westfield State College. He performs regularly with his wife, pianist Anna Soukiassian, in the Kassian-Howard Duo. He currently teaches at Towson University where he also coaches chamber music and performs regularly in the Baltimore Trio. He has also given master classes at numerous high schools and preparatory programs, including the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory School and the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division. He lives in the Baltimore area with his wife and their two daughters Michelle and Ani.

ASTA-Suzuki Liaison
Alessandra Schneider received her Master of Music in Violin Performance with a concentration in Suzuki String Pedagogy from the University of Maryland, under the instruction of Ronda Cole. Her B.M. in Instrumental Music Education, from the University of Delaware, certifies her to teach students K-12. Ale has also been trained in Music Mind Games (Unit 1) and taken the Parent Effectiveness Training course. Her performance experience includes playing with the Dover Symphony, the Pthalo String Quartet, Perfect Harmony String Quartet, and Inscape Chamber Music Project. Past teaching includes the Delaware Community Music School, and University of Maryland Suzuki Program. Currently she teaches at the Academy of Music in Gaithersburg as well as the Animato Suzuki Violin Program in College Park, of which she is a founding member.

Competitions Chair
Marissa Murphy is the Founder and Director of Washington Suzuki Strings, and also serves as the Principal Second Violin of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Murphy’s WSS Advanced Ensemble has performed at the White House on two occasions, for the Vice President of the United States at his residence, soloed with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and also at the Zambian Embassy and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She holds a M.M in Violin Performance and Pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and a B.M. in Violin Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her major teachers include Martin Beaver, David and Linda Cerone, Ronda Cole, Erich Eichhorn, and Mary Cay Neal. She has performed at the Encore, Spoleto, Bowdoin, and National Repertory Orchestra festivals, and has soloed with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and the Clarence Symphony. She has also performed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” as part of a tribute to Mozart in January 2006. She has performed with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, New World Symphony, and the Annapolis, Clarence, and Alexandria Symphonies. Ms. Murphy is the former Second Violin of the New Music Associates Quartet in residence at Cleveland State University, and has given recitals for President Jimmy Carter at the Norwegian Embassy to honor his Nobel Prize, at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the St. Paul’s Cathedral Recital Series. She is on the faculty of the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute and the Buffalo Suzuki Strings Summer Workshop, and is the former Assistant Chair Suzuki Strings and Violin faculty at the Levine School of Music. Ms. Murphy also served on the Board of Directors for the Suzuki Association of the Greater Washington Area, and was former violin faculty at the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Mount Royal Symphonic Orchestra.

Youth Orchestra Liaison
Lynn Fleming, double bass, has a Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School.  After graduation, she performed abroad with la Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo, in Venezuela for ten years. Upon her return to the United States, she became a member of the Juilliard faculty as a member of the Music Advancement Program, and also free-lanced in New York City. Currently, Ms. Fleming is part of the adjunct faculty at Hood College, Frederick College, and Montgomery College. She performs with a number of orchestras in the Maryland/DC area, and has an active double bass studio. Additionally, she is the director of the McDaniel College Orchestra Camp, and is a double bass coach for MYCO.

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