Music Northwest is offering five days of inspirational chamber music rehearsals and classes for music students. This camp is suitable for ages 7-21. A minimum of at least 3 years of experience on an instrument is required (strings, woodwinds, French horn, guitar, harp and piano.)

Our program features coached rehearsals with professional coaches; master classes in performance techniques and musical styles; sight-reading and rhythm classes; and a pizza party!

This year Grant Donnellan, violinist; Mara Finkelstein, cellist; Marcus Tsutakawa, conductor; Margaret Brink, Dalcroze specialist; Jane Harty, pianist and Marcus Tsutakawa, conductor will staff the August camp. Already formed groups are welcome or we will place students in groups appropriate to their level.

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Faculty Bio's

Grant Donnellan, violinist
Grant Donnellan received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory and Master of Music from Yale School of Music. He has performed with numerous symphony orchestras, and presently performs as a member of the American Sinfonietta. Grant is active throughout the Northwest as a clinician, recitalist and chamber musician. He is currently professor of violin at Western Washington University.

Mara Finkelstein, cellist
Mara Finkelstein studied cello at the Gnessin college of Music and the Tchaikovsky conservatory in Moscow, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1989. An active freelance musician, she has performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Cornish Chamber Series, Northwest Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra, Federal Way Philharmonic Orchestra, Fear No Music 20th Century Ensemble and Seattle International Music Festival. She is very dedicated to a large class of private students.

Marcus Tsutakawa, conductor
Marcus Tsutakawa has been an instrumental music teacher in the Seattle Public Schools since 1979 and the director of the prize-winning Garfield Orchestra since 1985. He and the orchestra have performed regularly at Meany Hall. He is also the conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony's Junior Symphony Orchestra, a select group of 100 young musicians. In 2000, 2003 and 2005 he led the Garfield Orchestra on a tour of Japan.

Margaret Brink, Dalcroze specialist
Margaret Brink promotes the use of improvisation, solfege and eurythmics to study music. She has been trained in the work of Emile-Jaques Dalcroze at the University of Washington and received her license in this work from the Juilliard School. She has presented this education at conventions, workshops, festivals, pedagogy classes, french horn camp, and in private lessons throughout the Pacific Northwest. As a pianist she has most recently served on the piano faculty and as Keyboard Coordinator for Washington State University. Her performance background includes a Carnegie Recital Hall debut and many chamber music performances.

Jane Harty, pianist
Jane Harty, a native Washingtonian, is an active and diverse recitalist of solo and chamber music repertoire, as both a pianist and harpsichordist. She has appeared in recital with members of the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Baroque, and well-known blues, jazz, and world music musicians. She holds a D.M.A. degree from the University of Southern California, and studied at L’Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. She is currently teaching at Pacific Lutheran University. Ms. Harty is the Artistic Director of Music Northwest. She is the grandniece of Sir Hamilton Harty, the “Irish Toscanini,” and has recently released the first recording of many of his songs for voice and piano.

Hadley Johnson, Suzuki specialist
Hadley Johnson as been a Suzuki violin teacher in Seattle for five years. She graduated from St. Olaf College in 2000,where she played in the touring orchestraand studied under Andrea Een and Charles Gray. She studied with MargaretPressley for three years. Currently she livesin Bellingham and is working towards apostbaccalaureate degree in violin performance at Western Washington University with Grant Donnellan. She will assist with our Prep level this year.

Leonid Keylin , violinist
Leonid Keylin, violin, is a member of the Seattle Symphony and is internationally known as a chamber musician. His early training was at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music.

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Pay registration fee and tuition online Click here for an application and brochure This is a pdf that can be filled out online and submitted, it can also be printed and saved to your hard drive and then emailed to Music Northwest or (click here to email)