Karen Iglitzin, violinist, camp director (coach for all camps) Karen has been coaching since 1984, running countless chamber music camps and workshops. She is proud to have been in collaboration since that time with Washington high school orchestra teachers in developing and honing offerings to enhance life for music students and teachers alike. In 2001, she was named “Chamber Music Teacher of the Year” by Chamber Music America. Karen received her B.A. at Indiana University with Josef Gingold, and her Master of Music at Yale University with Joseph Silverstein. In 1984 Karen joined the renowned Philadelphia String Quartet as first violinist and performed over eighty concerts each year. This included two major international tours, to South America and the other to India in 1986.
With her dad, PSQ violist Alan Iglitzin, she helped to found the Olympic Music Festival, now www.ConcertsintheBarn.org Iglitzin was a professor at Western Washington University, where she led the string program for 10 years. She spent the 1997 academic year as professor of violin in the Shandong Province in China at Qufu Teachers University. In 2000 she established Chamber Music Madness for year-round programs for young players, directing until fall 2009. She is also an avid folk-fiddler and choro player, having appeared many times at Northwest Folklife Festival and been on the faculty of the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes Festival at Centrum. She has selfproduced two CDs: "Fiddling on the Yangtze" and "Stay Tuned". Karen runs a practice as a consultant to college-bound students from all over the country, and is known as the „financial aid whisperer”.
Roger Nelson, piano, composer, conductor, educator Coach for High School/College Chamber Week #2: June 27-July 1 2022 and many other previous activities with Karen’s activities.
Roger Nelson was a member of the Cornish faculty from 1979-2018, Roger Nelson performs frequently as a pianist and conductor. He holds a B.A. degree from Pomona College and an M.M. in Choral Conducting from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His early teachers were Adolph Baller and John Steele Ritter. As a pianist, he frequently accompanies for singers and instrumentalists.
Nelson's previous conducting appearances have included engagements with the Minnesota Opera's New Music Theater Ensemble, the George Coates Performance Works, and the Floating Opera on Puget Sound. Nelson also served as conductor of the Bainbridge Orchestra from 1987 to 2000 and was the pianist with the New Performance Group from 1979 until 1997. During the 1997 - 98 academic year, Nelson was a visiting professor at Qufu Teachers University in China.
As a composer, Nelson has produced a book of fiddle tunes for violin and piano in a variety of styles. He has written more than 1,500 fiddle tunes as well as choral works and ensemble pieces. He currently conducts and sings with Canzonetta, an a cappella ensemble, conducts the Seattle Chinese Orchestra, and conducts music theater in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Daniel Wing, viola Middle School chamber music July 11-15 2002 (Summer 2021, middle school chamber music week; and mixed strings/winds chamber music week)
Dan Wing had a double career: first as a professional orchestra violist; and then as a public school orchestra director. He spent years in Germany playing with the orchestras of Radio Luxembourg and West German Radio in Cologne. He was the principal violist in the orchestras of Heidelberg and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. His string quartet recorded for Southwest German Radio. Dan was also the principal violist of the Sacramento, Evansville, and Charlotte Symphonies. In 2018, Mr. Wing retired from the Shoreline School District in Washington State after 30 years of teaching. His orchestras produced many All-State musicians and state champions, and garnered numerous awards from the Northwest Orchestra Festival. Dan took his orchestras on tour to New York City five times, each trip with performances at Carnegie Hall. He is past president of Washington String Teachers Association where he won Outstanding String Educator. He is also past president of Washington Music Educators Association, won Music Educator of the Year and is in their Hall of Fame. Dan played with the Virginia Commonwealth String Quartet, the Charlotte Symphony Quartet, and his Indiana University quartet performed at Carnegie Hall. He holds a M.M. degree in viola performance from Indiana University, graduating with Highest Distinction. Since retirement, Dan continues to adjudicate and give clinics, maintains his performing career, and enjoys spending time with his family including his 5 grandchildren.
Stuart Zobel, guitar Choro Camp Seattle, July 18-22 2022 (Choro camps in summer Summer 2021, Winter 2022)
Stuart is a guitarist and composer who specializes in Latin American and theatrical music. Stuart is a member of Choroloco, a Seattle based acoustic trio that performs choro music, vintage Brazilian jazz. Choroloco has toured widely throughout the West, giving performances and workshops at many festivals including the Berkeley Choro Festival, Wintergrass and the Bellingham Folk Festival. He also plays tango, performing regularly as part of the GloZobel duo, as well as with many other tango musicians and singers in Seattle. He composes and is often a bandleader for theatrical productions. These include Seattle's Moisture Festival, Fremont Players, the Cirque du Flambé and Book-It Repertory Theater. He has also composed music for several films, including an upcoming dance film of The Odyssey. For several years he was on staff at Seattle Symphony teaching at Soundbridge Music Discovery Center, where he did outreach through music history classes, teaching instruments, and musical storytelling. He recently taught improvisation and electronic music with Path With Art. Stuart is a popular teacher of all ages, teaching guitar, as well as music theory and composition. He has also taught Spanish classes, using art, music, and movement to teach the language. Stuart held live-stream events weekly during the pandemic, ranging from cabaret shows, to choro concerts to virtual tango gatherings though Tango Happy Hour, all from his “Dagger Moon Barn”.
Previous years
Meg Brennand, cellist for chamber music camps (Summer 2021, high school chamber music; adult chamber music)
Meg is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and she has enjoyed an eclectic professional life on both baroque cello and modern cello. Meg has served on the faculty of Seattle Pacific University, and Midsummer Musical Retreat, an adult music camp in Walla Walla. Like Karen, Meg grew up in a musical family, and some of her earliest memories are attending Philadelphia String Quartet concerts in which her father, Charles Brennand, was the cellist, along with Karen’s father, Alan, who was the violist!
Meg is well-known for her historically informed performances on period instruments with Seattle Baroque. She was part of the critically-acclaimed piano trio, Onyx Chamber Players, with whom she performed the complete piano chamber music works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Schubert. She completed an album in 2022 with her daughter, baroque violinist Eleanor Legault. Their combo, “Duo Moda” plays rarely heard 18th century duos played on period instruments. Her focus now is to impart the musical skills necessary to become a successful and deeply satisfied chamber music performer. She firmly believes that the interaction among musicians in the string chamber music repertoire to be one of the most elevated forms of communication possible. Meg is a member of the quartet Cellicatessen, Meg is on the far right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNWioukCXVg