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Artist Faculty Members

mauriciofuks

 

Mauricio Fuks studied with Ilia Fidlon, Joseph Fuchs, Ivan Galamian, and Jascha Heifetz.

He won the first Young Concert Artists Competition in 1964. He performed as concertmaster, chamber musician, and soloist throughout Europe, North America, and South America.

Professor Fuks has taught master classes in schools and festivals throughout the world, and is a regular visiting professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal Academy of Music, Reina Sofia School, Mozarteum, and the Irish World Music Centre.

He has served as a jury member for many international competitions, was featured in The Strad magazine in March, 1993, and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.

 

 

 

chingyi

Dr. Ching-Yi Lin is Assistant Professor of Violin and Director of the WKU Pre-College Strings Program at Western Kentucky University.  Recent performances and masterclasses have taken her to the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Norway, Shenyang and Xi’an Conservatories in China, Northwestern University, University of British Columbia, Louisiana State University, and University of North Texas.  During the summer months, Lin serves on the faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy, String Explosion (WKU), and has also served on the faculty of the Sommersymfonien i Kristiansand in Norway.  In 2013, Lin was presented with the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service in Washington, D.C., recognizing her work in bringing music into the lives of young people throughout her community. 

Lin was appointed Associate Instructor of Violin at Indiana University in 2008 while also working as a teaching assistant to Professor Mauricio Fuks.  At the pre-college level, she has taught as an instructor for the IU String Academy, working closely with her mentors Professor Mimi Zweig and Dr. Brenda Brenner.  In 2008-2009, Lin acted as co-researcher, violin instructor, and piano accompanist for the Fairview Project – a research project designed to assess how underprivileged children can benefit academically and socially from learning the violin.

In addition to performing and teaching students of all ages, Lin also has a true passion for mentoring young pedagogues.  Her dissertation topic, “An Undergraduate Pedagogy Curriculum for Teaching Beginning Violin Students,” was chosen primarily due to her strong desire to train aspiring teachers. She is actively engaged in presenting seminars at various conferences such as the American String Teacher’s Association National conference, the Kentucky and Tennessee Music Educator’s Association conferences.

Lin earned her BM, MM, and DM in Violin Performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and studied in the Vienna Conservatory from 2001–2003.  Her principal teachers include Mauricio Fuks, Boris Kuschnir, Fredell Lack, and Nelli Shkolnikova.  She plays on a violin made in 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. 

 

braddock

 

Violist Andrew Braddock is currently on the faculty of the Western Kentucky University (WKU) and the WKU Pre-College Strings Program.  He teaches viola at the university and maintains a full pre-college studio of young violinists and violists. Recently, Andrew gave masterclasses at the Xi’an Conservatory (China), the Da’an School (Taiwan), and the Indiana University Summer String Academy.  In October 2013, he taught masterclasses and performed at the University of Tennessee Viola Celebration. Andrew has presented pedagogy sessions at the Kentucky and Tennessee Music Educators Association conferences (KMEA and TMEA), and currently serves as the New Music Editor for the Journal of the American Viola Society. In addition to his many recital performances in the Kentucky area, Andrew has performed in Israel, Austria, Indiana and Colorado.  He has served as a member of the Evansville Philharmonic and Owensboro Symphony Orchestras, and was assistant principal violist in the IU Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, and principal violist in the Vanderbilt Symphony.  Andrew has studied violin and viola pedagogy with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University and has taught in the IU String Academy.  He holds a Masters in Viola performance from Indiana University, under the tutelage of Atar Arad, and a Bachelors of Music (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University, where he was awarded the Jean Keller Heard Prize for Excellence in string performance. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Kentucky. His principal teachers are Atar Arad, Kathryn Plummer, and John Graham.

 


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