School of Music

Baylor Violas

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Kathryn Steely
Associate Professor of Viola

String Department
School of Music
One Bear Place #97408
Baylor University
Waco TX 76798-7408
Phone: (254) 710-3571
Fax: (254) 710-3574
E-mail: Kathryn_Steely@baylor.edu

Performing is what music is about. Opportunities for performance are numerous for Baylor string students.

All graduate, BM and BME string students are required to perform solo literature at least once every semester on a String Hour, a weekly concert attended by all string students. Also, each semester string students are nominated by faculty to perform on a school wide convocation, or the Dean's Honor Concert.

Additionally, students perform in chamber music concerts, orchestra concerts, and junior, senior, and graduate recitals. Many students take advantage of opportunies to perform additional special recitals outside of the degree program requirements.

Baylor also holds a yearly concerto competition providing winners the opportunity to perform a complete concerto with the Baylor Symphony.

Visiting Artists
Instrumental students at Baylor University have the opportunity to hear and work with the finest musicians in the world through master classes and clinics. Visiting artists are made possible through both Baylor University funding and the generosity of the Meadows Foundation, Inc. of Dallas , Texas . Listed below are some of the artists who have visited the School of Music to perform and teach:

• Paul Coletti, violist, concert artist

• Peter Slowik, violist, Oberlin Conservatory

• Ellen Rose, Dallas Symphony Principle Viola

• Kirsten Doctor, Cavani String Quartet

• Jeffrey Irvine, violist, The Cleveland Institute of Music

• Nokuthula Ngwenyama, 1993 Primrose Competition Winner

• Michael Tree, violist, Guarneri Quartet

• John Graham, concert artist; faculty, Eastman School of Music

• Samuel Rhodes, violist, Juilliard String Quartet

• James Dunham, violist, Cleveland Quartet