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The Credo Faculty come to Credo from many of the leading music schools and orchestras across the country.
Together they create the (often life-changing!) CREDO experience.
Faculty for 2010 include:
Mark Butin, Chamber Music, Principal Violist, Honolulu Symphony
Stephen Clapp, Violin; Dean of Julliard School
The Credo Trio:
Karen Burgman, piano
Elizabeth Larson, violin
Steuart Pincombe, cello
Bryan Dumm, Violoncello; Cleveland Orchestra
John Fitchuk, Chamber music;
Alan Harrell, Violoncello; Cleveland Orchestra
James Howsmon, Piano, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Dr. Lee Joiner, Violin; Wheaton College
Dr. Kangwon Kim , Concertmaster, Madison Bach Musicians
Marilyn McDonald, Master Classes, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Matthew Michelic, Viola; Lawrence University
Peter Slowik, Viola; Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Dr. Kathryn Schmidt Steely, Viola; Baylor University
Milan Vitek, Violin; Oberlin Conservatory (on leave in 2010)
Anne Martindale Williams, Principal Cello; Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Clapp is a winner of the Josef Gingold Prize of the Cleveland Society for Strings and the Walter W. Naumberg First
Chamber Music Award as a member of the Beaux-Arts String Quartet. He has performed in solo and chamber music concerts in much of the United States, Canada,
Europe, Asia, Central and South America, and in the Aspen, Casals and Spoleto Festivals, including performing chamber music with such artists as Itzhak Perlman,
Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline DePre and Yo-Yo Ma. He was a founding member of the Blair String Quartet and The Oberlin Trio. Having served as Dean at
The Juilliard School 1994-2007, Dr. Clapp is now Dean Emeritus, and has been a faculty member at Juilliard since 1987 teaching violin and chamber music.
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Cellist Bryan Dumm, has been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1986. Prior to this appointment he was Principal Cellist
of the Alabama Symphony and a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to orchestral work, Mr.Dumm has performed in chamber music concerts
across America and in Europe and Asia. He has been a member of the Brioso and Amici String Quartets, the Cleveland Octet and the Myriad Ensemble. He is a
founding member of the Samaris Piano Trio whose debut CD Café Music can be heard on the Newport Classics label. Mr. Dumm is currently on the cello faculty of
the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cleveland State University.
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Noted as a "poetic violist" by the New Yorker, violist Lawrence Duttonhas earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with
orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher of viola and chamber music. As violist of the world renowned Emerson String Quartet, Mr. Dutton
performs over 100 concerts each season and has won six Grammy Awards. Mr. Dutton has collaborated with many of the world's great performing artists,
including Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Walter Trampler, Menahem Pressler, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha
Dichter, Jan DeGaetani and Edgar Meyer. In addition, he has performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and
Guarneri quartets, and with the Beaux Arts and the Kalichstein, Laredo, Robinson trios.
As a soloist, Mr. Dutton has appeared with many American and European orchestras including those of Germany, Belgium, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Colorado, and Virginia. He has also appeared as guest artist at the music festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Ravinia and Chamber Music Northwest, and
has collaborated with the late Isaac Stern in the International Chamber Music Encounters at both Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Mr. Dutton is currently a
Professor of Chamber Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music and resides in Bronxville, New York with his
wife, violinist Elizabeth Lim-Dutton and their sons Luke Thomas and Jesse Lee.
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John Fitchuk is an active violist in the Chicago area and has taught all levels and areas of music in Illinois for thirty-six
years. For twenty-two years, he was Director of Orchestras at both Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville High Schools. Mr. Fitchuk has served as Organizational
Chair of the All-State Honors Orchestra and President of the Chicago American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and he has been the Director of the Fox Valley
and West Suburban Youth Symphonies. In 1996 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois Music Educators Association. Mr. Fitchuk has been a
member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Hinsdale Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the Dubuque Symphony and also serves on the music staff of Christ
Church of Oakbrook.
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Alan Harrell has been a member of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1995. Alan has won numerous competitions and awards including
the 1994 Cleveland Institute of Music Cello Prize, MTNA National Scholarship and the Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship and has played concerti with a number of
orchestras. He has been a member of the Virginia Symphony, Sir Georg Solti's Carnegie Hall Project, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Mr. Harrell has given
lessons and master classes at a number of colleges nationwide. He is on the faculty of Cleveland State University.
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Pianist James Howsmon is Professor of Instrumental Accompanying at Oberlin College, where he oversees the instrumental
collaborative activities of the school’s piano majors. He has played in over 1,000 recitals in North America, Europe, and Japan, and has performed with
principal players of every major American orchestra. In recent seasons he has played in Japan, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. (at the Kennedy Center),
Philadelphia, Dallas, Montreal, and Minneapolis. He has given guest master classes in accompanying and chamber music at, among others, the Juilliard School, the
Cleveland Institute of Music, Arizona State University, the University of Colorado, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Alabama. He is married to
violist Louise Zeitlin. They live in Oberlin with their two teenaged children, both avid musicians.
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Dr. Lee Joiner serves as Professor of Violin and Chair of the String Department at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music,
Wheaton, Illinois. An active chamber musician, Joiner has been a member of the Blair, a quartet-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, a regular organizer and
participant in the Faculty Chamber Series at Wheaton College, and a guest artist with the Rembrandt Chamber Players and the Orion Chamber Ensemble. Other
performing opportunities in the Chicago area have included Ars Viva, Fulcrum Point and the Lyric Opera, and Chicago Jazz Orchestra. His musical studies include
degrees from Juilliard and Eastman, with additional studies taking place at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Aspen Music School, and Yale University Summer School.
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Kangwon Kim currently concertmaster of Madison Bach Musicians, is a versatile violinist with repertoire ranging from baroque
to 21st century using both baroque and modern violins. She has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland,
and Norway, and she was featured in the Rising Young Artist Series at the Seoul Arts Center. She has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Concerto
Soloists Chamber Orchestra and has collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser. She taught at Biola University as
Assistant Professor from 2006-2008. During the summers, she has appeared at Banff Centre for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival and at Token Creek Festival.
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Violinist Lisa-Beth Lambert joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2001 following six seasons with the National Symphony
Orchestra in Washington, D.C. An active chamber musician, Ms. Lambert has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, on Marlboro's Fiftieth Anniversary
recording, and at the White House. She has performed with many chamber groups, including the Brandenburg Ensemble, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and the
Twentieth Century Consort, on the Philadelphia Art Museum and Kennedy Center Terrace Theater Series, and has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras,
including the National Symphony Orchestra and the New World Chamber Orchestra of Mexico City. A graduate of the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes of Music, her
major teachers included Jaime Laredo, Yumi Ninomiya Scott, Donald Weilerstein, and Ronda Cole, with whom she began studying at age three. In addition to
teaching privately, Ms. Lambert developed and directed the Intensive Study Program for advanced students at the MasterWorks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana.
She has appeared on the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series and Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble Series, and during the past two seasons, has presented
the Mozart sonata cycle with pianist Lambert Orkis at several venues in and around Washington and Philadelphia.
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Marilyn McDonald has toured world-wide as a member of the Castle Trio, the Smithson String Quartet, the Oberlin Barooque
Ensemble and Ensemble Pierrot, a group specializing in contemporary music. She currently is a member of the Axelrod Quartet, performing on the Smithonian’s
Stradivarius instruments. Ms. McDonald has appeared as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States. She is concertmaster of the
Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Boston Baroque. Summer festivals include the Baroque Performance Institute, Colorado
College Festival, Fairbanks (AK) and Bowdoin Festivals. She has held visiting professorships at Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music and is
Artist-in-Residence at Boston University. Ms. McDonald is Professor of Violin at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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Matthew Michelic has concertized throughout the United States and internationally as a member of the Kenwood, Da Vinci and
Delos Quartets and has recorded on the Orion and CRI labels. In chamber music recitals, he has collaborated with such artists as Jeffrey Solow, Jose-Luis Garcia,
Robert McDonald, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Amelia Trio. As an orchestral player, he has performed frequently with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Milwaukee
Ballet Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Lawrence Chamber Players, and has recently toured Vietnam and China with that ensemble. Currently, Mr.
Michelic is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Peter Slowik, Artistic Director of Credo, is one of the country’s leading artist-teachers of viola. An active chamber musician,
Mr. Slowik has performed with cellists Anner Bylsma and Leonard Rose, the Mirecourt Trio, the Saint Petersburg Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, the Smithsonian
Chamber Players, and members of the Cleveland, Chester, Orford and Smithson Quartets. He has been a featured performer at five International Viola Congresses,
and recent Master Class trips have taken him to Australia, New Zealand, and China. Orchestral experiences include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and service as
Principal Viola of the American Sinfonietta and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Slowik spent thirteen years on the faculty of Northwestern University, where
he was awarded the McCormick Prize for Teaching Excellence. He has served as President of the American Viola Society and currently is Professor of Viola and
String Division Director at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
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Dr. Kathryn Schmidt Steely is Associate Professor of Viola at Baylor University where she received the Outstanding Professor
Award in 2007. A frequent recitalist and avid chamber musician, she has performed across the country including appearances at two Viola Congresses, the National
Flute Convention, the Mostly Music series of the University of Chicago, and the Armonico Chamber series of the Austin Chamber Ensemble. She has performed with
the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Florida's Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Steely is in frequent
demand as an adjudicator and has presented master classes at the national ASTA convention in 2004-2009. She served five years as Editor of the Journal of the
American Viola Society and two terms as a member of the AVS national executive board.
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Robert Vernon has served as Principal Violist of the Cleveland Orchestra and Head of the Viola Department at Cleveland Institute
of Music since 1976. He has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra in over 100 concerts in Cleveland and on tour, with appearances at Carnegie Hall,
Avery Fisher Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center. Mr. Vernon has participated in chamber music performances at the Aspen, Blossom, La Jolla,
Marlboro, Ravinia, Roundtop, Sarasota, Tanglewood and Yellow Barn festivals. He headed the viola section of the World Orchestra for Peace, an orchestra
assembled by Sir Geor Solti Solti for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
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Milan Vitek has more than thirty years of experience teaching throughout the world. He has taught at the Royal Danish Academy
of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has taught at summer programs in Israel, England, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong. Eleven
years ago, Mr. Vitek founded his own summer program for advanced violin studies in the composer Smetana's birth town of Litomysl in the Czech Republic. He has
been a member of the judging panels at several international violin competitions. In 1999 Mr. Vitek received Denmark's RD (Knight of Dannebrog, 1st Order) for
his outstanding contributions to the cultural life of that country. Mr. Vitek was the first violinist of the Czech Nonet, the Czech String Quartet and co-founder,
concert master of the Prague Chamber Soloists, and co-founder of the Trio Pro-Arte. Mr. Vitek is on the String Faculty at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
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Anne Martindale Williams has enjoyed a successful career as Principal Cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1979.
She frequently has been featured as soloist with that orchestra and also has collaborated with such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Previn, Lynn Harrell and
Pinchas Zukerman in chamber music performances. Mrs. Williams teaches at Carnegie-Mellon University and Duquesne University and has given master classes at
many institutions across the country, including SUNY at Stonybrook, Manhattan School of Music, the National Orchestra Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival.
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Credo Residential Director, Mark Butin, received his B.M. and M.M. from Northwestern University, where he studied with Peter
Slowik. He has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the New World Symphony, and is currently Principal Violist of the Honolulu Symphony. Mr. Butin
is also an avid surfer and commercial pilot.
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