Young Artist Program for Cello

This class is open to senior cello students, and provides instruction in a setting that moves towards traditional music college/university instruction while maintaining roots in Suzuki philosophy and pedagogy. It is expected that these senior players, who provide a role model to other participating students, will join happily in other Institute events.

Students eligible:

• Cellists who have completed Suzuki Bk. 7

Program includes:

• Daily public Master Class (half-hour per student) with piano accompanist (if required).
• Rehearsal with piano before the start of the Institute.
• Daily Repertoire class with cellist Paul Pulford (ON).
• Daily Advanced Orchestra.
• Solo performance opportunity at the end of the week.

Please note that mature students may better handle the audition process and the public master class instruction in the Young Artist Program. While there are no age limits, high school age students may adapt to this somewhat more intense experience more easily than younger children. The regular Senior String program is another very rewarding option available for advanced students who are not sure about the YAP, or who do not get through the audio recording audition process (there is strictly limited enrollment in the YAP).

How to apply:

• Submit the Young Artist Program student application form, postmarked by April 1, 2008.
• Prepare an unedited cassette tape or CD (at least 10 minutes long) including the complete work you wish to study in the Young Artist Program, as well as one other polished piece. After your application is received, we’ll send you instructions on how to set up and submit your recorded audition.* The tape or CD must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.

* This is a “blind” audition. All tapes are numbered and submitted to the master class teacher for review without the student names.

NOTE: Audition recordings will not be processed until we have received the registration fee.

Cost: $485 CDN ($475 US)

About Paul Pulford

Cellist Paul Pulford has been an active soloist and chamber musician since his debut recital in Winnipeg in 1967. Since then, Mr. Pulford has performed many of the great works for cello and orchestra with ensembles as diverse as the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Banff Festival Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Toronto Chamber Players, and Irish Radio Orchestra.

Mr. Pulford’s CD of the Complete Works for Cello and Fortepiano by Beethoven with pianist Boyd McDonald (EBS Germany) received rave reviews in a number of publications, including CONTINUO Magazine, which remarked, “In what is certainly the major period instrument release of Beethoven chamber music in many a year, Pulford and McDonald have completely blown the competition out of the water—there is simply no need to consider any other version, despite the many big-name cellists who have recorded this music.”

Until recently a member of the Penderecki String Quartet, with which he toured worldwide and recorded 21 CDs, Mr. Pulford also maintains an active interest in New Music.

He is a founding member of the Blue Rider Ensemble, which has recorded a CD featuring Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg, and The Cinnamon Peeler, a new work by American composer Donald Crockett, based on poetry by Michael Ondaatje.

Mr. Pulford is committed to sharing the experience of classical music with younger musicians. He teaches cello at Wilfrid Laurier University where he coordinates the Orchestral Program and the innovative Chamber Music Program. Mr. Pulford plays a cello by the French maker August Bernardel from 1847.

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