We welcome our new Honorary Director,
Maestro Gerard Schwarz,
Music Director, Seattle Symphony.
The future of Classical Music is NOW.
Our major
public concerts listed below are the perfect opportunity to see what the Academy of Music Northwest offers to talented young artists as
the only comprehensive pre-college, classical music academy in the Pacific
Northwest, and to recognize the importance of the Academy of
Music Northwest to this community, and to this region.
Donations are essential to provide
opportunities for young artists.
The Academy proudly
celebrates its 11th year of having
every graduate accepted by major
U.S. music colleges & conservtories;
and where each graduate
received scholarship support!
We cannot do this without ongoing support from the
community.
We thank you for your support !
Please join us at these remarkable concerts:
11th Annual Spring Chamber Music Ensemble
Concert
Honoring all Mothers on
Mother's Day
Sunday, May
11th, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Bellevue Christian Church
10808 SE 28th St
Bellevue, WA 98004
Nancie Linn Shaw, Ensemble
Director
Enjoy all of our pre-professional young
chamber music ensembles.
Spring Benefit Concert
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, at 7:30 PM
Illsley Ball Nordstrom
Recital Hall, 3rd & Union, Seattle.
Nancie Linn Shaw, Ensemble Director
Alan
Futterman, Chamber Orchestra Director.
You will be
delighted and amazed at the caliber of our
chamber
orchestra
finest chamber music ensembles
soloists!
Tickets $25. Adult. $15. Student/Senior. Group discounts available.
Tickets can be ordered through the Academy or Brown Paper Tickets
and will be held at the Will Call table in the upstairs Recital Hall
where
additional tickets will be available for sale on the
21st.
Spring Chamber Orchestra Concert
Tuesday, June 7th,
2008 at 7:30 PM
Alan Futterman Director
Mercer Island
Congregational Church
4545 Island Crest Way, M.I.
98040
www.academychamberorchestra.org.
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In
Memoriam
Kent Coleman
(1955-2007)
Academy String Chair
1997-2007
March 31, 2008. Kent
Coleman was named an
MTNA Foundation
Fellow
at the MTNA National Conference in Denver,
CO.
Jan Coleman accepted the award on his behalf at the Gala
Awards Banquet.
Kent was also honored
in the March program of the
2008 Seattle Young Artists Music Festival:
"The Seattle music community lost a truly gifted educator
when Kent Coleman passed away in June, 2007 at the age of 52. Kent died
suddenly and unexpectedly from Hodgkin's disease, which he had lived with
for many years.
Kent was an inspirational violin teacher and a very
generous volunteer as a member of the Seattle Young Artists Music
Festival Association Music Advisory Panel. Kent served on thje panel for eleven years and made a
significant contribution to the growth and development of the
Festival.
We will all miss his guidance and devotion to our
organizatiion a well as the
incomparable standards and level of
achievement he set for both
violin teachers and
students."
The Academy continues to honor Kent, our founding
Academy String Chair and outstanding violin teacher.
A beautiful
service was held June 24th 2007,
at First Presbyterian Church of
Bellevue,
where Kent was also honored by former and current
students
who performed beautifully in unison and in solo works
for
over a thousand friends.
A Kent Coleman
Violin Scholarship Fund
has been established and remains
open for donations.
See the Donations web page.
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MAJOR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
http://www.amnw.org/majaccomp_07-08.shtml
See this page for our stunning latest annual record to date.
Student Accomplishments from 1997are also online.
Faculty News is on our Faculty News page.
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR FALL 2008
Select Application from the Home
Page.
Pre-College Auditions are open for new
students ages 11-18
Strings Winds
Piano Harp Voice
Music Studies & Composition
Weekly
Performance Class
Chamber Music Ensembles & Vocal Ensembles
Chamber
Orchestra
Solo Performance
Regular public and private
performances.
Children's Placement Appointments are open for
new students ages 4-10.
Music &
Movement, Music Skills, Children's Choir, Performance Class
Also
Composition and Chamber Music Ensemble for qualified students.
Classes and Ensembles can be held in other
locations with adequate registration.
Contact the Office to be placed
on a notification list.
info@amnw.org or 425 778 7711.
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See Master
Classes / Workshop page for those
announcements.
Watch video segment of the Erioca Trio Master Class
The
video may take a few minutes to download depending on your Internet
connection speed. This requires Windows Media Player.
