A Program Offering Intensive Viola Playing and Exceptional Instruction

Nancy Buck, Artistic Director

Louis Privitera, Educational Coordinator

Calling all violists! Join us for The Arizona Violacademy, a program offering intensive viola playing and exceptional instruction for students aged 11-19. Participants will improve their individual technique, perform in guest master class and/or mock college audition sessions, have an opportunity to take a mini-private lesson, attend a viola recital and perform together in the finale festival viola ensemble piece.

Students will register for one of the following groups that best represents their playing level:

Level 1: Beginning Level  

(Students in their first 2 years of playing)

Level 2: Intermediate level

(Students comfortable with 2 octave scales and fluent in 3^rd position)

Level 3: Advanced Level

(High School Students preparing Regional & All-State Excerpts and 3 octave scales)

Anticipated Schedule 

9:00-9:55 Viola ensemble rehearsal

10:00-11:25 Split into Levels 1, 2, & 3

11:30-12:25 Masterclass with Juliet White-Smith

12:30-1:25 LUNCH (provided)

1:30-2:00 Viola ensemble rehearsal

2:15 Student and Faculty recital (Open to the public)

Instructors

Nancy Buck – Arizona State University

Louis Privitera -Tetra String Quartet

Juliet White-Smith, Guest Artist and Clinician (Professor of Viola at The Ohio State University)

Allyson Wuenschel – Arizona School for the Arts

Cicely Brazier – Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Stapley Junior High School