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Music for children ages 4 to 7 years of age
This program integrates the essential
Please click on the teachers link to view bios Violin: Gillian Gresham, Lotta Lundsten Cello : Nicholas Simpson Read
Gillian Gresham is a classically trained violinist and an experienced teacher. She teaches students of all ages and difficulty levels, combining the traditional and the Suzuki methods of study. She prepares students for Royal Conservatory of Music examinations, orchestra seating placement and entrance auditions for high school or university, and music festivals such as the Kiwanis Music Festival. Gillian is open to teach different musical styles including the celtic/fiddle style, jazz, or popular music of today. Currently, Gillian is a student of master violinist Joan Milkson of the National Art Centre Orchestra. She has completed the grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music examination with first class honours and is now pursuing an ARCT certificate in performance. She is a founding member of the Four Seasons Strings, a string quartet that actively performs at different functions and events in the city. She is also a past member of the University of Ottawa Orchestra, the Junior Thirteen Strings, the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra, as well as first violinist in the Ottawa Youth Orchestra and concert master for both the Ottawa Junior Youth Orchestra and for the Orchestre Symphonique De La Salle where she has also appeared as a soloist on two different occasions. She has had the opportunity to travel across Canada as well as overseas to England, Wales and Ireland with her orchestra. In the past years she has studied music at the Conservatoire de musique de Hull and at various summer music programs including the International academy of Music, Le Domaine Forget. She has won several bursaries in music including the CEA bursary (Centre d’Excellence Artistique), and the Anantaraman Orchestra Scholarship. Gillian continues to be actively involved in the Ottawa music scene where she volunteers for the Young String Performers Foundation and has worked at the NAC summer music institute. She also continues to perform in the city as a soloist, in master classes, with her quartet, and as a guest violinist including a past performance with the Capital Vox jazz choir at the NAC. Gillian graduated from the faculty of science at the University of Ottawa with a double major in biochemistry and second language studies in April 2010. She will be pursuing a post graduate degree in the fall at the University of Ottawa. Gillian is bilingual and is happy to teach in both official languages. Gillian’s violin lessons are fun while providing a solid musical structure to build upon. Gillian encourages and inspires her students to do their personal best by creating new challenges and opportunities for each one of her students. She focuses on creating a positive and enriching learning environment that accommodates the different needs and goals of her students.
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Lotta Lundsten graduated with her Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance and Music Education from Lahti University in Finland and a Master of Music Violin Performance Degree from the University of Ottawa, where she studied the violin with Professor David Stewart. She has also studied the violin with among others Juhani Palola and Pertti Sutinen and chamber music (and orchestra) with Rennie Regehr, Esa Heikkila, and Anna-Maria Helsing. Lotta teaches students of all ages from beginner to Grade 10 Royal Conservatory using a variety of teaching materials based on the individual students learning style. Lotta enjoys teaching students at various stages in their development whether they are preparing for Royal Conservatory Exams or University auditions, studying for their own enjoyment or preparing to join a local community string ensemble or orchestra. Her performance experience includes: Principal second and first violin section player in the University of Ottawa symphony orchestra, Concertmaster of the Liminka Music Festival Symphony Orchestra (Finland), Concertmaster of the German-Scandinavian Youth-Philharmonic (Berlin, Germany), Concertmaster, principal second violin and section player of Lahden Nuori Sinfonia (Finland), Violin player in Orkester Norden (Sweden/Norway) and Violin player and founding member of the Wegelius Chamber Strings (Finland). Lotta was the first-time recipient of the Marina Kun Scholarship for International Students at the University of Ottawa. Lotta is an experienced violin teacher in both Finland and Canada. Her violin lessons are fun while providing a solid musical structure to build upon. She encourages and inspires her students to do their personal best in a creative, positive and enriching learning environment.
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Nicholas teaches through the Suzuki or Royal Conservatory methods. He encourages collaboration in music, even from an early age, by way of playing duets with his students, having parents participate in lessons, or encouraging the student to pursue ensemble participation in the community. Nicholas has his specialisation in Baroque music, but teaches from all eras.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Nicholas has studied cello performance in Suzuki and Royal Conservatory methods at the Vancouver Academy of Music and Capilano University, where he completed a Diploma in Music. He studied cello under the instruction of Kristl Armstrong, Audrey Nodwell, and Heather Hay. Nicholas came to Ottawa in 2008, in order to pursue a Bachelor of Music at Carleton University, which he graduated with in 2010.
Nicholas has participated in the Pacific Basin Music Festival in Honolulu, the Rocky Mountain Music Festival in Banff, has toured Western Europe twice with the Capilano Singers, and he recently performed with the Ottawa Bach Choir at Carnegie Hall in New York. He has also been a member of Cellissimo!, Gilbert and Sullivan Society of UBC, Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, Magee String Quartet, Carleton University Baroque Opera Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble, and has collaborated with Canadian folk artist, Aspen Switzer. He is also a member of the Ottawa-based Con Brio String Quartet.
Nicholas has also studied classical voice and piano, and has a minor in English. His grandmother, Peggy Read, was a well-known Canadian soprano who sung often on CBC radio and was a founding member of the Vancouver Opera Association.
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