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Faculty
Timothy Eddy
Julliard School
Steven Doane
Eastman School
Uri Vardi
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Susan Moses
Indiana University Sting Academy
Russell Rolen
DMA Northwestern University
Hagit Vardi, Feldenkrais
Jane Peck, Baroque Dance
Program Overview
We invite you to join us in a journey to explore the relationship between
body awareness, creativity in performing and teaching, and prevention
of music related injuries. Your Body Is Your Strad is a program consisting
of two sections. The first, Feldenkrais for Musicians (FFM), is open
to all instrumentalists and singers. The second section, National Summer
Cello Institute (NSCI), grows from the first and is a workshop for professional
cellists examining all aspects of performing and teaching
Feldenkrais for Musicians (June 5 - 10, 2010)
The workshop is for instrumentalists, singers and cello institute participants.
Its focus is to enhance awareness of the intimate relationship between
the way musicians use their body and the music they create. The benefits
of the heightened awareness are increased artistic vocabularies in performance
and teaching, the ability to efficiently express musical intention,
pain and injury prevention and healing from current injury.
National Summer Cello Institute (June 5 - 19, 2010)
Twenty professional and graduate level cellists, selected by audition
submissions, delve more deeply into the connections between body awareness
and higher degrees of cellistic proficiency, artistic performance, and
creative and effective teaching. Participants are exposed to a variety
of performance and pedagogical topics, presented by internationally
acclaimed faculty.
Selected participants attend the entire program (June 5-19). The application
deadline for cellists is April 1. Application materials will be posted
on the website and supplied upon request after January 1, 2010.
The Feldenkrais for Musicians Workshop, June 5-10, is open to all
instrumentalists and singers and is required for National Summer Cello
Institute attendees.
Activities include:
· Feldenkrais group classes (Awareness Through Movement - ATM)†
that address ..playing related issues
· Feldenkrais private sessions (Functional Integration - FI)±,
which will focus on each ..participant's
specific tendencies
· individual sessions with the instrument
· body-focused masterclasses
· lectures about the method and its application to musicians
· discussions on specific topics brought by the participants
· videos of great masters who incorporated body awareness into
their teaching.
Activities during the National Summer Cello Institute, June 5-19,
include
· private cello lessons: one with Uri Vardi and one with either
Timothy Eddy or Steven ..Doane
· seminars by guest master teachers on their chosen topic related
to cello playing and ..teaching
· a cello forum guided by participant questions, concerns and
observations
· Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) group lessons†
· private Feldenkrais Functional Integration (FI) session
±
· a body-focused masterclass applying somatic awareness to cello
playing
· cello masterclassesƒ given by Timothy Eddy, Steven
Doane, and Uri Vardi
· pedagogy sessions and masterclasses
· seminar on Teaching Beginners
· seminar on Scales and Intonation
· Baroque Dance Workshop focusing on the dances of the Bach suites
ƒ participants taking a lesson with Mr. Eddy will play
in a masterclass for Mr. Doane and vise versa.
†Awareness Through Movement (ATM) is a model for discovering
new possibilities for the use of self, which can expand the options
for musical expression.
±Functional Integration is a hands-on session tailored
to each participant's unique needs, which enhances the learning gained
from the group lessons (ATM). Both modalities are part of the Feldenkrais
Method of somatic education. For more information on the Method, visit
www.harmoniousmovement.com
Faculty
Violoncellist Timothy Eddy is Professor of Cello at the Julliard
School and the New York's Mannes College of Music. He is cellist of
the Orion String Quartet, which has residencies at the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes College and Indiana University
and he collaborates regularly in recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish.
. Mr. Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra,
chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher of cello and chamber
music. A former member of the Galimir Quartet, the New York Philomusica
and the Bach Aria Group, he was a frequent faculty member at the Isaac
Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Eddy has performed
with numerous symphonies including Dallas, Colorado, Jacksonville, North
Carolina and Stamford and has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia,
Aspen Santa Fe, Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Spoleto and Sarasota music festivals.
A winner of numerous national and international competitions, he received
first prize in the 1975 Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition
in Italy. He has recorded a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to
avant-garde for the Angel, Arabesque, Columbia, CRI, Musical Heritage,
New World and Sony Classical labels, among others.
A member of the cello faculty at the Eastman School of Music since
1981,
Steven Doane has earned an international reputation both as performer
and teacher. Formerly principal cellist of the Milwaukee Symphony and
Rochester Philharmonic, and a member of the Naumburg Award-winning New
Arts Trio during the 1980s, Mr. Doane has since built a performance
career as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Currently
a member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, he has also participated
in several period instrument performance projects with the Smithsonian
Chamber Players in Washington, D.C. Recital appearances with pianist
Barry Snyder have included concerts at New York's Alice Tully Hall,
Boston's Sanders Theater, London's Wigmore Hall, and numerous other
engagements in the United States and United Kingdom.Mr. Doane holds
the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Eastman School,
and the Piatigorsky Commendation for teaching excellence from the New
England Conservatory. Appearances as guest teacher and performer have
twice taken Mr. Doane to the Manchester International Cello Festival,
and as guest artist and teacher to most of the major music colleges
in England. He is currently a visiting professor at the Royal Academy
of Music in London. Mr. Doane studied at the Oberlin Conservatory with
Richard Kapuscinsky, at SUNY Stony Brook with Bernard Greenhouse, and
at the International Cello Centre in Scotland with Jane Cowan
Uri Vardi has performed as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber
player across the United States, Europe, South America, and his native
Israel. He studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, was an artist diploma
student at Indiana University and earned his master's degree from Yale
University. In 1990, following an extensive teaching and performing
career in Israel, Mr. Vardi was appointed professor of cello at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught and conducted master
classes at numerous music schools, including the Juilliard School, Eastman
School, New England Conservatory, Indiana University, Yale University,
Geneva Conservatory, Paris Conservatory, and the Jerusalem Music Center.
In recent years, Vardi has initiated three major projects: The St. Petersburg
School-Music for Cello, Fusions and a double concerto for cello, oud
and symphony orchestra. The Fusions project toured Israel and the U.S.,
garnered favorable reviews by major newspapers and inspired the commission
of Joel Hoffman's 2007 Forty Steps, a double concerto premiered in 2008
by the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Taiseer Elias, oud, and Vardi, cello.
Vardi's students have been successful as soloists, chamber players,
faculty members of major music schools and members of major orchestras.
Vardi puts great emphasis in the relationship between body awareness,
movement and sound. He received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty
Development Award to pursue Feldenkrais training and received certification
as a Feldenkrais Practitioner from the Feldenkrais Guild of North America
and International Feldenkrais Federation in 2003.
Susan Moses is Director of the Cello Program and Assistant Director
of the String Academy at Indiana University. She earned her degrees
with the highest honors at Indiana and Yale Universities before completing
her studies at the renowned Jascha-Heifetz-Gregor Piatigorsky Master
Classes at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a
Ford Foundation Prize and has performed throughout the world in the
orchestra and as the solo violoncellist of the celebrated I Solisti
Veneti. Ms. Moses has been on the faculties of Oberlin College, Boston
University and the Conservatoires Regionales de France. She represents
the United States in international cello competitions and is a founding
member of the Chicago String Trio, recipient of Milan University's prize
for outstanding contributions in chamber music. She records for ERATO
and CONCERTO and has been nominated for a Grand Prix du Disque. Recognized
by the University of Padua for her outstanding research on the school
of Giuseppe Tartini in the 1700's, Ms. Moses is a principal lecturer
and performer at Trinity College and creator of its Italian Elderhostel
music program. .
Russell Rolen currently is pursuing his doctorate degree at Northwestern
University. He received his undergraduate degree from Peabody Conservatory,
Baltimore, MD, and his Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Distinguished Graduate
Fellowship. His major teachers include Hans Jorgen-Jensen, Uri Vardi,
and Steven Kates. He had festival studies with Janos Starker, Ronald
Leonard, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, and members of the Guarneri, Cleveland,
Juilliard and Emerson string quartets. He presents numerous solo and
chamber music recitals in the United States, Canada, and Europe, performing
regularly in the Chicago area and around the Midwest. He has appeared
on the PianoForte Salon Series on Chicago's WFMT and the Embassy Series
in Washington, D.C. and has collaborated in performances and workshops
with artists such as Rachel Barton-Pine, fiddler Mark O'Connor, Ilya
Kaler, Christopher Taylor, and Anner Bylsma. His festival appearances
include the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Musicorda Festival, and the
Summer Festival at Lenk, Switzerland. An avid performer of new works
by living composers, he is very active in the new music scene in Chicago,
performing often with ensembles like dal niente, Anaphora, and Sonic
Inertia. Russell is passionate about teaching. Formerly on the faculty
of Ripon College, Ripon, WI, he is coaching chamber music at Northwestern
University while completing his doctorate.
A specialist in dance history, Jane Peck has researched,
choreographed, and performed dance across the U.S., Canada, and France
for twenty years. She has studied extensively the court and concert
dances of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and, since 1990, has
directed performances with her company, Dance Revels Moving History.
Highly regarded as a dance educator of students of all ages, Ms. Peck
has taught historical dance at the Bloomington Early Music Institute,
in the Madison Early Music Festival and at National Suzuki conferences.
Ms. Peck has done landmark research into Midwest regional dance history
and has multiple publications in academic journals.
Hagit Vardi is currently the Feldenkrais Practitioner at the Integrative
Medicine Clinic of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
She also has a private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. She collaborates
with medical and professional staff working with diverse groups of people.
Her work includes individual and group classes for those who suffer
from musculoskeletal and neurological disorders, anxiety, trauma, cancer,
and cardiac conditions. Hagit co-teachs the Feldenkrais for Musiciasns
course at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She also works extensively
with musicians who suffer from playing related injuries.
General Information
Location: Feldenkrais for Musicians Workwhop and National Cello
Institute are hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of
Music, Mosse Humanities Building at the corner of Park Street and University
Avenue, Madison, WI. Detailed maps will be mailed to all who enroll.
Dates: Feldenkrais for Musicians is June 5-10, 2010; the National
Cello Institute is June 10-19, 2010. Cellists must attend both sections.
On-site registration for all participants is 9-11:00 a.m. Saturday,
June 5th.
Tuition: Enrollment for cellists is $1,160 (for fifteen days).
Enrollment for the six-day Feldenkrais for Musicians Workshop is $550.
Housing and parking are paid separately. A $100.00 deposit is required
with application. The balance is due by May 1, 2010.
Applications will be available on-line and by mail after January
1, 2010, and will be accepted thereafter through April 1, 2010. Cellists
are required to submit a performance CD.
Hours: Cellists must attend both sections. All participants
check-in at 9:00 am on Saturday, June 5.
Housing: Campus housing is available in the University
of Wisconsin CALS Housing. and at Lowell
Center. Additionally, there are several hotels
available near the workshop site.
Meals: Madison is
known for its excellent restaurant scene, and the workshop site is in
very close proximity to some of its best casual, fast food, and fine
dining restaurants.
Parking: A campus parking permit may be purchased directly through
the UW-Madison Transportation Department. A reservation form will be
supplied upon enrollment. Hourly parking is also available near the
workshop site, but not for overnight parking.
For Further Information
uvardi@wisc.edu
608 833 0537
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