THE MAVI FACULTY
is an internationally-trained and recognized group of
performing musicians and teachers. Each member of the faculty brings a unique
area of expertise to the Institute - including freelance skills, working in
recording studios, symphony orchestras, performing chamber music, concerto
repertoire, and solo recitals.
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Joyce A. Ramée, Co-director, Co-founder,
violist,. is
active throughout the Northwest as clinician, recitalist, teacher and coach. A
graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Paula Fendler, Co-director, received a Bachelor of Music from
Pacific Lutheran University and Master of Music from Indiana University, both
in organ performance, and she has performed in recitals throughout
Washington. She studied piano and organ throughout her school years, singing
in and accompanying church, school, and civic choirs, and the Choir of the
West and Concert Chorus at Pacific Lutheran. Ms. Fendler has taught Music
History, Music Theory and Choir; she has also held administrative positions
in private schools and non-profit organizations. She served for many years as
Organist and Choir Director at St. Luke's Episcopal Church and other churches
throughout the Tad Margelli, oboist, is principal English horn of the Pacific Northwest Ballet
Orchestra and the Auburn Symphony. Following undergraduate studies at Pacific
Lutheran University and at the Curtis Institute of Music (as a student of
John de Lancie), he completed his Doctor of Musical
Arts degree at the University of Washington, where he studied with Laila Storch. At the
University, he performed with the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet and was awarded four Brechemin scholarships. He has been Principal Oboist with
the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Yakima Symphony, and the Seattle Concert
Band, and he played English horn with the Tacoma Symphony for three seasons.
Dr. Margelli has performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Oregon
Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Philadelphia String Quartet and the Bolshoi
Ballet. Other collaborative work includes Second City Chamber Series, Seattle
Bach Cantata Society, St. Mark’s Cathedral, and the Baroque Collective. Dr.
Margelli served on the faculty at Central Washington University for several
years. Dr. Margelli has also performed as a keyboardist and accompanist, and
has written articles published by the International Double Reed Society. to
top Rodger Burnett, French horn, became interested in classical music at age 7 when his father brought home a recording of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony from the grocery store. After 4 years of piano lessons, he began French horn and was asked to join the University of Nevada Orchestra after only 1 year. During his student years, he worked as a member of the orchestras of several Reno casinos and later played principal horn in the Peoria Symphony and attended the Aspen, Claremont, and New College Music Festivals. He was a finalist in the Heldenleben International Horn Competition. Mr. Burnett is a graduate of Illinois State University and the University of Washington; his teachers include Christopher Leuba, Julie Landsman and David Krehbiel. Mr. Burnett was principal horn of the Hong Kong Philharmonic from 1980-81. Since 1981, Mr. Burnett has performed regularly with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera, where he has performed all four of the Wagner tuba parts in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As a member of the Northwoods Quintet, Mr. Burnett has performed in educational programs in more than 300 schools throughout Washington. He is principal horn and personnel manager of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and plays regularly with the Fifth Avenue and Paramount Theater Orchestras. He has appeared as soloist with Northwest Chamber Orchestra and Auburn Symphony and in recitals at Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, Methow Music Festival, Orcas Chamber Music Festival, Belle Arte Concerts and the Chamber Music Society of Seattle. Mr. Burnett serves on the faculties of the University of Puget Sound and Seattle Pacific University and teaches privately in the Seattle area. An avid cyclist, he rode cross-country from Los Angeles to Orlando in support of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center He is an intrepid traveler, sea kayaker and nature photographer. to top Denise Dillenbeck, violinist, holds degrees from New England Conservatory and
the University of Minnesota. She has toured Europe and America with the
Philadelphia Orchestra, and has performed with Seattle Symphony, Baltimore
Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet Theater, Philly Pops, and the Oregon Symphony,
where she also appeared as soloist. She was associate concertmaster of the
Tacoma Symphony and has served as concertmaster for various orchestras in
England. Ms. Dillenbeck was a Fellow at Aspen, and
has performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, Ernest Bloch Festival, Chautauqua
Music Institute, Musicorda, Siletz Bay Music
Festival, the International Congress of Strings, and for the Lake Chelan Bach
Festival as concertmaster. As a teacher, Ms. Dillenbeck
has been Dean of Charles Castleman's Quartet
Program, program coordinator of the Philadelphia Orchestra's Strings International
Music Festival and Lead Teaching Artist in the Philadelphia Orchestra's
Community Partnership Program. Her chamber music performances and coaching
include American Church of Paris, Westminster Choir College, Bravo Summer
String Institute, Max Aronoff Viola Institute (2001), the Quartet Program at Bucknell University, and Icicle Creek Summer Academy. She
has recorded solo and chamber works for the Albion and KOCH International
labels. The San Francisco Chronicle hails Ms Dillenbeck’s
playing as "simply first-rate". She is currently violinist with the
Kairos Faculty Quartet at Central Washington
University. In her spare time, she loves to walk her dogs, run, practice
yoga, and read good books! to
top Betty Agent, violist, is a member of the Regency
Faculty Quartet at Pacific Lutheran University. She was recently featured as
viola soloist in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Regency Quartet Violinist Svend Rønning. Ms. Agent is a
founding the faculty member of MAVI and is a performing artist on the Aronoff
Chamber Music Series. She is principal violist of the Auburn Symphony and
associate principal violist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and
frequently performs with Seattle Opera and Seattle Symphony. Ms. Agent is a
graduate of the Thane Lewis, violist, is
Principal Violist of the Tacoma Symphony and Assistant Principal Violist of
the Northwest Sinfonietta. He has performed as
Assistant Principal Viola of the Boise Philharmonic, and as an extra with the
Oregon Symphony, the Anchorage Symphony, the Auburn Symphony, the Pacific
Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and the 5th Avenue Theater Orchestra. Mr. Lewis
has appeared as soloist with the Tacoma Symphony, the Eastside Symphony, Octava Chamber Orchestra, the Vashon-Maury Island Chamber
Orchestra and the Lake Union Civic Orchestra in Seattle’s Town Hall. The
Tacoma News Tribune described his performance as “full of passion and
flourish." As a chamber musician, Mr. Lewis has performed with the Onyx
Chamber Players at Town Hall and in the Second City, Cascadia
Sounds of Summer, Jacobsen, Mostly Nordic, Seattle Symphony Young Composers
and Governor’s Mansion Chamber Series. He has also performed with the St.
Helens String Quartet at the Cornish School of the Arts, with his own Trio Antonie, and as an Artist in Residence at Ascension Arts
in Magnolia. Mr. Lewis is on the faculty of Midsummer Musical Retreat and the
Puget Sound Chamber Music Workshop and was adjunct string faculty for
Northwest University from 1997 to 2008. In 2000, his biography of violinist
Steven Staryk, Fiddling With Life, was
published by Mosaic Press of Toronto. A graduate of the MAVI festival, he
joins the Festival faculty in 2011. to
top Scott Ligocki, violist, is a graduate of the Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied viola and chamber music
with acclaimed violist Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet and with the
eminent pedagogue Karen Tuttle. Since returning to his native Seattle, Mr.
Ligocki has enjoyed a varied career that includes orchestral and chamber
music performances, recording for major motion pictures, and teaching. He is
currently the principal violist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra,
and was formerly principal violist with the Northwest Sinfonietta,
where he also appeared as soloist. He frequently performs with the Seattle
Symphony, Seattle Opera, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and the Oregon
Symphony. Chamber music performances include Belle Arte, Bellevue; Musical
Experiences, Seattle; Second City, Tacoma; and Chamber Music in the San Juans. Besides his performing activities, Mr. Ligocki
maintains a large studio of violin and viola students. His two books, Hodgepodge
College of Violin Knowledge and Hodgepodge College of Viola Knowledge,
have been well received by students and teachers. Mr. Ligocki joined the MAVI
faculty in 1994. to
top Ellen Gutter McGlone, violist, is a studio teacher in the Washington DC
Metropolitan area. She studied with Max Aronoff briefly as a middle school
student, and then periodically during college. After earning a Bachelor of
Music Education degree from the University of Michigan, Ms. McGlone studied
with Mr. Aronoff from 1975-1977 at the New School of Music before she won a
job in the San Antonio Symphony. While in San Antonio, Ms. McGlone played in
the Galliard String Quartet and in numerous other chamber ensembles. She also
performed at the Victoria Bach Festival and the Graz Institute of Music in
Austria. Ms. McGlone subsequently worked at the Symphony Department of the
American Federation of Musicians. She earned a J.D. from the Fordham
University School of Law and practiced law in Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. McGlone
currently performs classical chamber music, Celtic fiddle, jazz and rock, and
teaches violin and viola students in all these styles. She has coached viola
sections and chamber ensembles for the American Youth Philharmonic
Orchestras, and her students have won positions in area youth orchestras and
Virginia regional and all-state orchestras.
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top Richard Treat, cellist, is a recent addition to the Tacoma area music scene.
Richard is a native of Kevin R. Aanerud, pianist, is a long-time resident of Seattle. Most of his
musical activities are devoted to a large private piano studio and freelance
accompanying. Many of Mr. Aanerud’s performances
have been of contemporary works, including collaborations with William O.
Smith and Stuart Dempster. He studied with Bela Siki as an undergraduate
at the University of Washington in the 1970s. He continued his graduate work
with Mr. Siki at the College-Conservatory of Music
at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Aanerud’s
recordings of contemporary music with Christopher Leuba
and Stuart Dempster were produced during these
student years. Kevin Aanerud has served on the MAVI staff as a class
accompanist since 2008. to
top Sandra Bleiweiss, pianist, has been the official accompanist for the Northwest Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions and both Seattle and Tacoma Opera Companies. Ms. Bleiweiss studied at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, after earning a Bachelor of Music from Whitman College. By invitation of the Mozarteum's Director, Sandra Bleiweiss accompanied master classes for Kim Borg, Ivry Gitlis and Henryk Szeryng. Performance opportunities in Salzburg, Vienna and Munich followed. Ms. Bleiweiss' teachers have included Dalton Baldwin, David Burge and Gwendolyn Koldofsky. Ms. Bleiweiss has taught piano at Seattle's Bush School and joined the Max Aronoff Viola Institute faculty in 1996. She has performed on Seattle Symphony's Taste of Mozart Series, Second City Chamber Series and the Dame Myra Hess Series, Chicago. to top |