Young Artist Program for Violin

This class is open to senior students of violin, 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:

• Violinists who have completed Suzuki Bk. 8

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 violinist Jerzy Kaplanek (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 Jerzy Kaplanek

Violinist Jerzy Kaplanek received a BMUS degree at the Conservatory in Bytom, Poland, and a MA from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, where he studied with Janusz Skramlik, Stanislaw Lewandowski, and Aureli Blaszczok. He has been a member of the Penderecki String Quartet since 1987. With the Quartet, and also as a soloist and chamber musician, he performs internationally. His discography includes a dozen CDs with the Penderecki Quartet and Schoenberg’s Perrot Lunaire with the Blue Ride Ensemble. His chamber music partners have included talents such as pianist James Parker and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. He is frequently heard on CBC Radio and in the fall of 1997 was featured soloist at a concert held in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as a tribute to Karol Szymanowski.  Pursuing his interest in Baroque performance practice, Kaplanek has also worked with the Custodian of Period Instruments at the Smithsonian Museum, Jaap Schroeder.

Jerzy Kaplanek is presently an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he teaches violin and chamber music. He plays a copy of the “Kreisler”, Joseph Guarnerius del Gesù 1733, made by Luiz B. Bellini (New York 1997).

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