Suzuki Strings Cedar City, Utah Blog 2012-2019

Poster design and photo by Kindal Ridd You are invited to the 33rd annual Suzuki Strings Spring Concert on Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Center in Cedar City.  Music ranges from classical to fiddling. Rimi Fletcher will be the guest soprano soloist with the advanced violins for the  Laughing Song  by Strauss.  The orchestra has music by Bach, Handel, and Smetana plus the  Star Trek  theme.  Fiddle songs from Barrage include  Short Bow Jig  and  Blackberry Blossom .  Genesis and Matthew Gonzalez are the soloists for the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from Handel's oratorio  Solomon . Students range from 3 to adult.  Students participate in weekly group classes as well as private lessons.  Teachers are Marin Colby, Alexander Schwartz, Kindal Ridd, Ling Yu, and Sara Penny.  Pianists are Tasha Seegmiller, Rimi Fletcher, Beth Stephenson, and Mel Jeffs.  Twelve area teachers help prepare t...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the concert.   We always enjoy working with Jack Ashton and his Young Artist Chamber Players.  Music included  Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis , which was exquisite in St. Jude's.  Here's a link so you can revisit this wonderful music:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY    The full American Suite by Keith Bradshaw will be on the Orchestra of Southern Utah concert on April 21, 7:30 p.m. at the Heritage Center.  Thanks to soloists Natalie and Hannah Bradshaw who performed two movements as a preview with their sister Lydia Feild at the piano. Our combined pieces of Brandenburg #2 and "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" from Handel's oratorio Solomon will be on the upcoming Suzuki Strings Concert on May 12, 7 p.m., Heritage Center. Thanks to parents and teachers for the photos below of the rehearsal and performance.  Thanks to the St. Jude's Episcopal Church for sharing...

Jack Ashton and Young Artist Chamber Players, 2016 Exceptional young musicians touring southern Utah make an appearance in Cedar City on Sat., April 16, at 4 p.m. in St. Jude's Episcopal Church, 70 N 200 W.  You are invited to this free public concert.  Young Artist Chamber Players  join with  Suzuki Strings  in performing music ranging from Bach and Handel to Vaughn Williams and fiddling. The Young Artist Chamber Players are directed by Jack Ashton, recently named "Utah's Music Man" by the Deseret News for his exceptional teaching and performing career.  " In addition to playing year-round in the Utah Symphony, he taught orchestra part-time for 35 years at Olympus High, his alma mater, and for the past 31 years he’s been director of the Young Artist Chamber Players, an organization he set up with his brother Ted in 1985 for the purpose of “helping good kids play the hard stuff and get better.” If every teenager he’s taught, encoura...

Thanks to all of the students, teachers, and families who participated in the performance at Frontier Homestead Museum on Dec. 9, 2015.  Thanks to Mary Cozzens for providing a keyboard. We encourage the students to share their music with family, friends, and neighbors.   Group classes resume in January.   Thanks for the photos from parents, Sara Penny, and Joshua Stavros. Getting ready to perform. Thanks to everyone who came to share their music. Photo by Joshua Stavros.  It was a full house. Singing helps us play in tune.  Thanks to the Griffin family . Teachers Kindal Ridd and Sara Penny share a fiddling/carol mash-up. Thanks to Tasha Seegmiller for playing piano for our orchestra and soloists. More fiddling fun. Started the evening with a glorious sunset highlighted with outdoor warming fires.

Portion of 100 plus participants in workshop concert. Advanced violins perform Wings of Song, video link below Students, teachers, and parents performed at the workshop concert. Performances by Suzuki Strings Regional Workshop, Nov. 14, 2015.  Thanks to Minerva Gonzalez for the videos.   Guest clinicians:   Susan Reed and Xun Sun Orchestra directed by Xun Sun  Perpetuoso by Brian Holmes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfk16nAJOv8 March from “Love for Three Oranges” by Serge Prokovieff  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZQVfCyebs Where Love is Deep by Susan Reed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_P2y0zCMiI&index=87&list=PLc5YLs5F2mnx0wssDlod8gjT4PJGpaSUc Hunter’s Chorus  by von Weber  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym1flFZQtPw&index=84&list=PLc5YLs5F2mnx0wssDlod8gjT4PJGpaSUc Thank You Dr. Suzuki  by Monica Christian  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSEXN-kWM...