ABOUT THE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
As world-class chamber musicians in their own right, our artists in residence offer everyone tips, hints and tricks of the trade to improve the groups’ ensemble playing as well as that of individual players; they also suggest approaches to making better music.
Artists in Residence for Spring, Fall 2010
Bruce Uchimura
Bruce is professor of music at Western Michigan University,
where he conducts the University Symphony Orchestra, teaches cello,
and coaches chamber ensembles. He is also on the faculty of the
Encore School for Strings in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Uchimura received the bachelor of music degree from the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied cello with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins and chamber music with Felix Galimir and the Juilliard String Quartet. He received the Master of Music degree with an Artists Diploma in Cello from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied cello with Alan Harris and chamber music with Koichiro Harada and Bernhard Goldschmidt.
For more, go to www.merlingtrio.com
Susan Wiersma Uchimura
Susan is a resident artist on piano with the Merling Trio and
staff accompanist at Western Michigan University. Previously she served
on the piano faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Augusta
College in Georgia, and the accompanying faculties of the Meadowmount
School of Music and the Aspen Music School.
She received bachelor of music degrees in theory and piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master of music degree in pedagogy from the University of South Carolina. She has also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and in New York with Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky.
For more, go to www.merlingtrio.com
Tony Arnone
Currently associate professor of cello at The University
of Iowa School of Music, Tony is on the faculty of the Eastern
Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he teaches, conducts
and performs chamber and orchestral music during the summers. He
is also on the faculty of the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City,
where he conducts the Preucil School String Orchestra. An active
clinician as well, Tony has given master classes throughout the country,
most recently at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory
of Music, University of New Mexico, Oklahoma State University, Texas
Christian University, and the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
As a cello soloist and chamber musician, Tony was a founding member of the Meridien Trio and the Sedgewick String Quartet, which performed regularly at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston. More recently, he has been part of the Matisse Trio, faculty trio at the University of Iowa. The Matisse Trio has played throughout the United States and at international conferences.
For more, go to Tony’s cello page.
Katie Wolfe
Katie
leads an intriguing career mix as a violin soloist, recording
artist, chamber musician, orchestral leader and adjudicator. She
has performed in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Bolivia,
Malaysia, Korea, Japan, the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain and the
Netherlands. She also shares her passion for music as a teacher.
Originally from Minnesota, she joined the string faculty of The
University of Iowa in 2004 as Associate Professor of Violin. Prior
to teaching in Iowa, Katie taught violin, viola, and chamber music
at Oklahoma State University. She also served as Associate Concertmaster
of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
In addition, Katie is a founding member of the Matisse Piano Trio, formed in 2004 with fellow University of Iowa faculty pianist Ksenia Nosikova and cellist Tony Arnone. The trio is as committed to teaching as well as performing, and they have given master classes and performances at universities and other concert venues in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
As a recording artist, Katie appears on Centaur Records, Albany Records, Newport Classics, and Kleos Classics.
For more, go to Katie’s
home page.