Meadowmount News
2010 Dates Announced:
June 26th to August 14th
Celebrating our Sixty-Seventh Session!
Meadowmount School of Music Announces New Interim Director
The Meadowmount School of Music has appointed a new interim Director, ERIC LARSEN for the 2010 season replacing retired Director, Owen Carman. Mr. Larsen has been the Director of the Piano Program at Meadowmount since 1991 and performs with the Meadowmount Trio. He is currently on the Artist Faculty and Chair of the Piano Area at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Larsen will be instrumental in enhancing the quality of education that Meadowmount is famous for and we congratulate him on this appointment.
Faculty Member Hans Jorgen Jensen Wins Award
Meadowmount faculty member Hans Jorgen Jensen was named Artist Teacher of the Year by the American String Teachers Association at the 2010 ASTA Convention in California. Cello students who have studied with Mr. Jensen and those of us who have heard these students perform know this is a much deserved reward. We congratulate him and look forward to his continued contributions to teaching.
Richard Narroway, an incoming student to Meadowmount for 2010, won 1st prize in the 2010 Julius Stuhlberg International String Competition. Judges were the Juilliard String Quartet in the Annual Kalamazoo, MI competition. Richard is a cello student of Hans Jorgen Jensen at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and will study with him at Meadowmount.
ABC News "Nightline"
Features the Meadowmount School of Music for its ability to produce musical talent.link here: http://thetalentcode.com/nightline/
"The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle
Lists the Meadowmount School of Music as a hotbed for musical development. Link here: http://thetalentcode.com/Mrs. Judith Galamian
Nov 4, 1908 - Sept 15, 2005
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Proceeds donated to this Memorial Fund will help a scholarship student attend Meadowmount. All donations can be sent to the Meadowmount School of Music, 1424 County Route 10, Westport, New York 12993
Meadowmount mentioned in Parade Magazine
The January 30, 2005 issue has Yo Yo Ma on the cover and the article mentions how he first began to find his own voice at Meadowmount in 1971. Here is a link to the article.
Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Fellowship
Otis Mountain Press is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book GRISHA to the Meadowmount School of Music to create the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Fellowship. This fellowship will allow a worthy cello student the opportunity to study at Meadowmount.
For more information, go to http://www.otismountainpress.com/scholarship.html
Visit the Named Scholarship Awards Page
In 2002, Pinchas Zukerman returned to his alma mater to give master classes and a performance at our annual benefit concert. He especially enjoyed his visit to his old room in Piatigorsky dorm, providing for some fond remembrances of dorm life in the 1960's.
Back in Print and now available for purchase!
"Miraculous Teacher IVAN GALAMIAN
and the Meadowmount Experience"
Originally published in 1993 by Elizabeth Green, this book tells the story of Meadowmount and details the life and teaching of Ivan Galamian.
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