Classical Strings Program Winter/Spring Semester 2018

The Tahoe Truckee School of Music is excited to announce the launch of the Classical Strings Program beginning in January 2018. The new program will feature private lessons ( violin, viola, or cello ) for children and adults, and opportunities for group classes and chamber ensembles (string trios/quartets) for more advanced musicians. We are thrilled to announce new professional string musicians that will join our teaching staff with this new program. These classical musicians have degrees from well known music conservatories such as Oberlin College and Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and have experience with the Suzuki Violin Method. This program is geared toward students of all abilities, from beginner to pre-professional musicians.

• Weekly lessons for children and adults
• Group Classes and Chamber ensemble (trios, quartets, quintets)
• Professional string teachers and coaches
• 1-2 week long Summer camps
• Performances at public events, fundraisers, private gatherings

Instructor Biographies

Autumn Burnett was born and raised in the North Lake Tahoe area. Her musical education began at the age of six, when her parents signed her up for piano lessons. At nine, Autumn picked up the viola, and started playing in youth orchestras in Reno. Viola became her primary focus throughout her youth, and she dove hard into her classical music studies. When it was time for college, Autumn was accepted into Oberlin, where she began studying classical guitar and experimenting with songwriting. Autumn majored in Musical Studies, which allowed her to diversify her education by learning audio engineering, theory, musicology, and lyricism. After college, she moved to Asheville, NC where she started her own teaching studio while playing viola with the Brevard Philharmonic and performing solo gigs as a singer/songwriter. Autumn’s lessons combine curriculum teaching with a student-driven approach– ensuring that her students have both the technical and creative skills to make music they are passionate about. She is open to a variety of styles and genres, but her favorite things to teach are; beginning classical guitar, classical viola and violin, fiddle tunes, songwriting, and music theory.

You can listen to more of Autumn’s music here: https://autumnburnett.bandcamp.com/

Nancy Ewing has 40 years teaching experience on both violin, viola, and cello having taught all ages and all levels. She is an active free-lance violist in the Bay Area and Sacramento, having appeared with the Oakland, Vallejo, San Jose, Reno, Marin, Berkeley, North State, Sacramento, Modesto, and California Symphony Orchestras, as well as with Western Opera Theater, Sacramento Opera, Sacramento Choral Society, Villa Sinfonia, Lamplighters and many others. She has also been a regular member of the Music in the Mountains Summer Festival Orchestra viola section since 1990. Nancy holds a Bachelor's of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Don Erhlich, Gennady Kleiman, and Dan Kobialka. She has studied string pedagogy with Zaven Melikian, Suzuki pedagogy with Dr. Walter Haderer, and has privately studied viola with Patricia Heller. Nancy currently teaches privately in the Greater Bay Area, at the Napa Valley Music Associates, and with "Music Matters" in Fairfield public schools. She also regularly coaches chamber music at the Villa Sinfonia's Zephyr Point Chamber Music Camp, and in the past has mentored for with All Hallows Academy Orchestra and the Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program.

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