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ABOUT THE 2009 CLINICIANS
JoAnna Basta
JoAnna Basta began her violin studies at the age of two as a Suzuki student.
In high school, she studied under Julliard graduate Lee Snyder and was concertmistress
of the Neshaminy High School Orchestra, the Bucks County Youth Orchestra and the Philadelphia
Young Artist Orchestra. JoAnna was also a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra performing
in concert halls around the world including Tchaikovsky Hall in Russia and the Ancient Ruins of Jerash in Jordan.
In 2000, JoAnna earned her B.M. in violin performance from Temple University. She studied under William DePasquale,
a former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra and graduate of the Curtis Institute. While attending Temple,
JoAnna studied abroad at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan. JoAnna continued her education by earning
her M.M. in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy from the University of Maryland in 2004, while studying under Ronda Cole.
After graduation, JoAnna became a faculty member at the Suzuki School for Strings in Kingston, PA, where she had 32 students
of various levels, four group classes and coached a chamber ensemble. JoAnna has taught at the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute
and presently has a private Suzuki violin studio at her home in Pennsburg, PA.
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Dominick Fiore
Dominick Fiore, cello and bass, began the study of the double bass with Wes Fisher in Reading, Pennsylvania,
at the age of 14. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy where he was a student of John Schaeffer,
principal bass of the New York Philharmonic. After graduation, Mr. Fiore freelanced
in the Philadelphia and New York City areas, performing in Broadway shows, The Brooklyn Orchestra, the National
Balet of Canada, and the Duke Ellington Pops Concerts. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree
from West Chester University and began teaching in the Ephrata, Pennsylvania School District. Mr. Fiore
has been director of orchestras and chamber music at the Mid-Southeast Suzuki Institute,
Snowmass Suzuki Institute, Chicago Institute, Calgary Suzuki Institute, Central Pennsylvania Institute, and the
Hartford Suzuki Institute, as well as clinician at the Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Hickory (North Carolina) and Augusta
(Georgia) Suzuki workshops. He and his wife Linda Fiore co-direct Ogontz Suzuki Institute in New Hampshire. Previously, he was
the director of the five Suzuki orchestras of the Community Division at the Hartt School
of Music. In addition, Mr. Firore had a thriving young bass program through the Community Division at Hartt. He and Ms. Fiore
Currently live in the Lehigh Valley where they have established a Suzuki studio and freelance throughout the region.
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Linda Fiore
Linda Fiore, violin, is a Suzuki teacher and teacher trainer. She bagan violin lessons at age 5
with her mother Louise Wear, a Suzuki violin teacher. She earned a B.Mus. in violin performance
at Hartt College of Music in Hartford, CT and studied with violinist Raphael Bronstein in New
York City. She studied with Dr. Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan for 18 months and earned her Japanese teaching
certificate. She was the first Suzuki violin teacher at the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential in
Philadelphia. From 1983-1997 and again since 2007, she and her husband Comenick have run DaCore Talent
Education. She has presented student performing groups in Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Europe, and throughout the
United States. From 1997 to 2007 she taught college students and young students at the Hartt School of Music
where she was also a Suzuki teacher trainer in the graduate degree program. The Fiores currently run Fiore
Performing Strings in the Lehigh Valley area and co-direct the Ogontz Suzuki Institute in New
Hampshire. Linda has done extensive orchestra, chamber orchestra, and chamber music performing over the course
of her career. She trains teachers and students nationally and internationally. |
Adriana Linares
(Web
page) Pedagogue and active chamber musician. Elite Strings
Program Founder and Director, Chamber/String Department
Faculty at Kutztown University, Head of Strings and Chamber
Music Director at the Community Conservatory of Music. Principal
Viola of the Philadelphia Virtuosi, Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, and
guest principal for the Harrisburgh Symphony. Member of
the Satori Chamber Players, Dali String Quartet, and Linaria
Ensemble. Served as guest artist and faculty at the Yellow
Barn Chamber Music Festival, the University of Louisville
Chamber Music Program, and the Festival Nuevo Mundo in Venezuela.
Recording under NAXOS label as soloist, world premiere of
American composer Hower Hanson, “Summer Sea Side #2. B.M
Indiana University, M.M Temple University. Studies with
Atar Arad, Roberto Diaz and Roger Tapping.
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Susan Reed
Susan Reed (Web page)
is a nationally renowned Suzuki violin clinician from the
Boston area. Susan is also a folk musician, singer and storyteller
who uses original songs and stories to work magic with families,
on local and national stages. Her aim is to inspire a life-long
love of music. Common to all of her performances is a trademark
sense of humor and optimism, and her conviction that music
has the power to broaden people's understanding of the world
around them.
Susan Reed has written and recorded several books and CD's for families and children. Her CD's have been
honored with Parents' Choice Awards and National Parenting Publications Honors Awards. She has a new book
of dance tunes out, called “Baker's Dozen” and has recorded several children's books in collaboration with
Barefoot Books and Villegas Editores. Susan's song “Up, Up, Up” will be coming out in a children's book with Barefoot Books in April,
2010. All of Susan's recordings and books are available on her website: www.susanreed.com.
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Nancy
Terlaak Poot
Nancy Terlaak Poot received her Bachelor of Music
Degree from SUC Potsdam, Crane School of Music, studying with
Nardo Poy, and her Master's Degree from the College of St. Rose,
studying viola with Nathan Godschalk, both with a concentration
in viola. She has been a member of the Albany, Schenectady, Trenton,
and Bucks County Symphonies. Nancy has subbed in the Allentown
Symphony as well as the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. She is
an avid chamber music player, and plays in groups in New England,
Philadelphia and New Jersey.
She has done extensive pedagogy study at Indiana
University with Mimi Zweig, Rebecca Henry (Peabody Conservatory),
and Jim Przygocki and Sherri Sinift (University of Wyoming), as
well as 5 years of pedagogy with Lee Snyder of Philadelphia. Nancy
has also completed 10 units of study registered with The Suzuki
Association of the Americas teacher training program. She has
a private studio in Coopersburg and is on the faculty at Moravian
College as well as the Community Music Institute. She combines
her private studio and the Music Institute students at the college
to teach performance skills, provide solo performance opportunities,
monitor and reinforce technique, teach music theory and reading
and provides a social outlet within a musical context. Her students
have gone on to pursue the study of violin, and viola at major
music schools, law, medicine, teaching, engineering, literature,
architecture, film industry, business, theater and parenthood.
Her students range in age 5 to adult.
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Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal
arts college located in eastern Pennsylvania tracing its founding
to 1742. It is recognized as America's sixth oldest college. The
Music Institute is the Community Lesson and Event division of
the Department of Music.
Music degrees include a Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelor
of Music in performance (vocal, instrumental, jazz), music education,
composition, or sacred music.
Of the college degrees, the Bachelor of Arts program allows for
musical study within a liberal arts curriculum. The Bachelor of
Music is for students who desire more comprehensive music studies.
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