Karen Iglitzin
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Karen Cecile Iglitzin (born 24 December 1957) is an American violinist, chamber music player and educator. She was the first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet, and a faculty member at Western Washington University.
Biography:
Career with the Philadelphia Quartet
Ms. Iglitzin joined the quartet as first violinist 1984. They performed widely and held residencies at colleges around the Pacific Northwest. [1] In 1983, they toured Brazil, Columbia and Chile. In 1985 they spent six weeks touring India. The quartet played a series at Meany Hall at the University of Washington, featuring eight concerts each year, starting in the 1981-1982 season [2]
She co-founded the Olympic Music Festival "Concerts-in-the-Barn" near Port Hadlock, WA. [3] Ms. Iglitzin founded and directed the Chamber Music Institute, which hosted years of chamber music camps for teenagers.
Career as a professor and educator
In 1986, Ms. Iglitzin joined the faculty as head of strings at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. [4] Iglitzin founded the WWU Preparatory Music Program for area students to have a program on Saturdays. and for college music students to have training as teachers.[5]
In 1996, after receiving tenure from WWU, she took a leave of absence and spent it in the Shandong Province in China. [1] She was a guest music professor at Qufu Teachers University for the 1997-1998 year.
She was named "Teacher-of-the-Year" by the Washington State division of the American String Teachers Association. (1999) Iglitzin was also chosen by Chamber Music America as a national winner of the Heidi Castleman Award for Excellence in Chamber Music Teaching (2001). [6]
Moving to Seattle, she established a non-profit organization, Chamber Music Madness, that provided chamber music workshops and camps for young people from around the Puget Sound Area.[7] In 2010 Iglitzin left to establish a chamber music teaching studio.
Early life and Education
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon moving to Seattle in 1966, she studied the violin with Veda Reynolds, the first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet. She received her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University, studying with Josef Gingold.[8] Iglitzin received her Masters of Music at Yale School of Music in 1982, studying with Joseph Silverstein. She spent three years at the Tanglewood Music Center where she was awarded the Josef Silverstein prize.[9][10]
Other work
Ms. Iglitzin has written articles including for the American String Teacher: Teaching with Interpreters in China 1988; for Chamber Music America: Chamber Music Coaching Ideas for Starting Out [11] ; for the Strad Magazine, Fiddling on the Yangtze, August,1999.[2]
References
- ↑ Josephine, Emmons (May 1986). "The Philadelphia Quartet comes to Ferndale". The American String Teacher. 35 (2). doi:10.1177/000313138603600219.
- ↑ "Performance Archive". Meany Center. 2013-08-23. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ "History". Concerts in the Barn Quilcene, WA. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "For the love of music: Performer turned teacher puts the emphasis on fun | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "Music teacher with pioneer spirit recognized | Queen Anne & Magnolia News". queenannenews.com. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "Mystery Moment: Chamber Music Madness with Violinist Karen Iglitzin by Keeping Cup with Ariana". Spotify for Podcasters. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "About". Chamber Music Guild. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://mabel.wwu.edu/do/10071/iiif/828e19c9-1892-4691-b59f-cdbfaf28bf79/full/full/0/wfhc_1987_1110_Western-Front---1987-November-10.15732.pdf
- ↑ Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tanglewood Music Center yearbook, 1980. Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives. Lenox, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra.
- ↑ "Performance History Search". archives.bso.org. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ Iglitzin, Karen; Castleman, Heidi (February 1994). "Coaching Chamber Music Ideas for Starting Out". American String Teacher. 44 (1): 66–68. doi:10.1177/000313139404400119. ISSN 0003-1313.
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