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Artist Advocates
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A growing number of well-known solo performers, chamber music players, orchestral musicians, and performers in contemporary and alternate styles are choosing to become NSPC Artist Advocates. Each recognizes and supports the work of the National String Project Consortium and its member String Project universities. Each believes in our mission of educating the next generation of string teachers in order to help pass on our cultural heritage to the future. We appreciate their support and advice, and are proud to introduce them to you here.
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Gary Hoffman
Gary Hoffman is one of the outstanding cellists of our time, combining instrumental mastery, great beauty of sound, and a poetic sensibility in his distinctive and memorable performances. Mr. Hoffman gained international renown upon his victory as the first North American to win the Rostropovich International Competition in Paris in 1986. He performs on major recital and chamber music series throughout the world, as well as in such prestigious festivals as Ravinia, Marlboro, Aspen, Bath, Evian, Helsinki, Verbier, Mostly Mozart, and Schleswig-Holstein. He is a frequent guest of string quartets including Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Brentano, and Ysaye. In addition, Mr. Hoffman is an Artist Member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
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Paul Katz
Paul Katz is known to concertgoers the world over as the cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. In September of 2001, Mr. Katz joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, following five years at Rice University in Houston, and twenty years of teaching at the Eastman School of Music.
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Merry Peckham
Merry Peckham is a founding member of the Cavani String Quartet and the host of CIM's radio program, Offbeat. She received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University and a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. Additional graduate studies were completed at The Ohio State University and the Yale School of Music. Deeply committed to arts education, she has given master classes and lecture demonstrations at music festivals, universities, public and private schools in communities across the country and abroad, and has adjudicated and served as panelist for national arts-advocate organizations.
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Ian Swenson
Ian Swensen is one of the few musicians to have been awarded the Walter W. Naumberg International Competition's top prize for both chamber music and violin. As a teenager, he formed the Meliora String Quartet and toured with them for many years. Passionate about chamber music, Ian has performed in many festivals, including Music@Menlo, Spoleto, Santa Fe, and Marlboro. He has performed with members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Emerson, Takács, Concord, and Tokyo String Quartets; the Beaux Arts Trio and the Peabody Trio; Gilbert Kalish, Mark O'Connor, Yo-Yo Ma and Martha Strongin Katz.
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Mark Wood
Mark Wood began his career with a full scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York and had the privilege of studying under Maestro Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Program. Mark is currently starring in a national television ad campaign for Pepsi. The music track is a Kanye West-produced hip-hop version of 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' (featuring the rapper Nas). As an electric violinist, Mark Wood is a highly acclaimed international recording artist who has released six CDs of his highly original music, showcasing his unique approach to the electric violin, playing on his own line of patented instruments; he has toured and recorded with many of the industry's most prominent performers.
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