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Dr. Sera Jane Smolen
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Current Projects

Dr. Sera Jane Smolen 2011-2012

Current and Upcoming Performances

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: regular member, Orchestra series concerts, Chamber Series Concerts, Sept.2011-May 2012

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Chamber Series: February 19, 2012 Quartet for the End of Time, Oliver Messaien

Guest Artist Mansfield University Faculty Concert Series, 2012

Guest Clinician in Toronto, Oakville, Guelph Ontario, February 2012

Guest performers Concert Tour of Netherlands and Belgium, Nov. 2011. See www.Tommank.net

Regional concerts with singer-songwriter Tom Mank: original music,
improvisation, blues, folk;

Improving original music with poet Susan Hoover, NYC March 2012

Completed book: Improvising String Quartets with Alice Kanack, being published by Alfred Publications

Summer Teaching 2012

"Music As Play" in Ithaca NY

Teaching at NESI: North Eastern Suzuki Institute: June 26-July 2 cello group classes, cello master classes,

New Directions Cello Festival: Assistant Director, Steering Committee, Educational co-ordinator, June 10-12
teacher-training co-ordinator, writer for bi-annual newsletter
Performing with Tom Mank, Susan Hoover, and friends

Teaching, ongoing projects:(see Teaching Schedule)
Private Cello studio, 210 North Corn St. Ithaca NY, 277-0761, teaching age 3 to adult,begining to advanced

210 North Corn St.Ithaca New York, private studio program includes:
31 weekly lessons and 18group classes covering Tonalization and review, Suzuki solo repertoire,regular reading assignments, improvisation assignments.
Practice Marathon- September -December: Practice strategies,
with parent workshops and guest consultants
Performing: Loaves and Fishes, a soup kitchen;
public solo and composition recital;
in-class recitals, regularly. Composition Master Classes;

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth Outreach program March-May 2012:
Researched for study guide for all second grades in the Ithaca
region (800 children),
Rehearsed Quartet for programs in classrooms;
Docented in classrooms (performance/teaching),
Performed in classrooms with Quartet.





 

 

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