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Feb. 21, 2001
VISITING MUSICIAN TO OFFER
STRING WORKSHOP, MASTER
CLASSES
OSWEGO -- SUNY Oswego's music department and Artswego
will present a workshop for strings at 7:30 p.m. March 12. Dr. Russell
Guyver, an accomplished violist, teacher and conductor, will be the
featured clinician.
Guyver will also teach both in master class settings and
one on one, conduct an orchestra concert and perform during his time in
Oswego from March 12 to 15.
To schedule spaces in the string ensemble or master
classes or for individual viola lessons, those interested should call
Juan F. La Manna, director of orchestras at SUNY Oswego, at
312-2978.
Master classes will be held at 3 p.m. March 12 and 4 p.m.
March 13 in Room 101 of Lanigan Hall. The string workshop will be at 7:30
p.m. March 12 on the lower level of Hewitt Union.
Guyver will conduct a workshop with the Oswego High
School Orchestra at 9 a.m. March 14 in Room 102 of Tyler Hall on the SUNY
Oswego campus. He will give individual lessons from 2 to 4 p.m. March 14
and 15 in Room 4 of Tyler Hall.
Guyver will perform in recital with La Manna at 8 p.m.
March 14 in Faith United Church in Oswego. He will conduct a joint
concert by the SUNY Oswego College-Community Orchestra and Oswego Middle
School Orchestra at 7 p.m. March 15 at Oswego High School.
As a violist, Guyver has played in many orchestras
including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English National Opera, Royal
Ballet and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela. He has frequently
appeared as conductor, soloist and chamber musician on three continents
and as guest artist at several annual music festivals in the United
States.
In 1984 Guyver co-founded the String Orchestra of the
Rockies, a professional chamber orchestra based in Montana. He served as
the ensemble's music director for three years.
Also active as a composer, he received an Emmy Award for
his score of a PBS docudrama on the life of painter Sidney
Lawrence.
Guyver has taught on the faculties of the University of
Montana, University of Alaska and Truman State University before his
appointment in 1997 to the University of Northern Colorado.
A native of England, Guyver pursued studies at the
Guildhall School of Music in London and received a doctorate of musical
arts in conducting from the University of Kansas, where he studied with
Brian Priestman.
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CONTACT: Juan F. La Manna, director of orchestras,
312-2978