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The Peace in motion Multicultural music workshop is for you!
What is it?
The purpose of Peace in Motion is to bring people together of all cultures, languages, nationalities and religions. This multicultural music exchange program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to meet and learn from one another and make music together in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities – Krakow, Poland!
When is it?
June 28 - July 6, 2015 - during Krakow's 25th Jewish Culture Festival - the biggest Jewish culture festival in the Europe!
What will we be doing?
Every day will be different during the Peace in Motion workshop, but here are some highlights:
- Tour of Krakow – Beautiful Old Town and Kazimierz, the former Jewish District
- Tour of Auschwitz – one of the largest WWII Nazi extermination camps
- Shopping and eating in the Old Town and Kazimierz markets, restaurants, and coffee shops
- Jewish Singing and Israeli Dance Workshops
- Student-led workshops on the cultures and languages of each student
- Small group discussions on topics including Music in Community, Music in Post-War Communities, Music in International and Multicultural Communities and Peace-Making Through Music
- Concert performances of the world’s leading Jewish musicians – everything from classic cantors to to jazz to Orthodox Jewish rock concerts! http://jewishfestival.pl/fkz-archive,16,p,en.html
- Daily choir rehearsals
- Final concert performance/interactive workshop as a combined choir
Where will we stay?
You will be housed at a bed and breakfast in Kazimierz (Krakow's former Jewish district), on Szeroka Street, where thousands of people will gather for concerts each night of the festival!
What is the cost?
We are currently under the process of re-budgeting and funding the program. Please inquire at [email protected]
Who can apply?
To apply you must:
- Be a student at the upper high school, undergraduate, or first-year graduate level
- Have a native or advanced level of the English language
- Have experience in choral/vocal singing*
Where can I apply?
Click below! Applications are open from January 2 - 31st 23:56 (11:59 PM) US Central Time
Who is in charge?
This program will be led by Sonja Larson, American Fulbright Scholar and Yachad International Choral Community Founder and Director in cooperation with the Jewish Community Center, Krakow.
Collaborating educators include:
Collaborating educators include:
- Dr. Mary Ellen Haupert, composer, pianist, and professor at Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
- Jean Saladino, conductor, voice instructor, and professor at Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
- Dara Bramson, Program Coordinator at Museum of Jewish Heritage/Auschwitz Jewish Center - NYC/Krakow, Poland
Any questions? Need more information?
Please don't hesitate to contact Sonja Larson at [email protected] with any questions you have!
Faculty Biographies:
MARY ELLEN HAUPERT spreads her musical abilities between her roles as Music Director for Roncalli Newman Parish and as a tenured Associate Professor of Music at Viterbo University, both in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She holds a bachelors degree in music education with emphases in piano/flute performance from the College of St. Scholastica, as well as M.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Piano Performance Practice from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She has studied piano with LeAnn House, Seth Carlin, and Sona Haydon.
Her performing interests are almost exclusively in the realm of chamber music. In the four-hand world, her collaborations with Timothy Schorr have included appearances at Washington University in St. Louis, The University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, Winona State University, the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen. She enjoys an ongoing relationship with violinist Nancy Oliveros and the ARTARIA STRING QUARTET. Their frequent duo and piano quintet collaborations have become a staple of Viterbo University’s ONE-of-a KIND CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES (for which Haupert is both founder and artistic director), as well as performances at Hamline University’s Sundin Hall Chamber Series, the Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concert Series in St. Paul, MN, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen.
She has recorded Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in B-flat Major, Op. 46 (comp. 1857-1858) and the Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, Op. 39 (comp. 1850-1855) with violinist Nancy Oliveros and cellist Kirsten Whitson in July, 2012, and will soon release (2014) Farrenc’s two piano trios, Opus 33 and 34 with Nancy Oliveros and cellist Laura Sewell, both on the CENTAUR LABEL (http://centaurrecords.com/store/).
Haupert has received both of Viterbo University’s most prestigious teaching awards--the Alec Chui Memorial Award (2012) and Teacher of the Year (2014)--recognizing her dedication to excellence in student research and music composition. Her theory pedagogy, emphasizing music composition as an integral part of the curriculum, has been presented/published at the University of Wisconsin MACRO Workshop (Madison, WI, June, 2012), The 4th World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia (Novi Sad, 2012) Second Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts (Athens, Greece, 2010), the International Conference on Education and New Technologies (Barcelona, Spain, 2009 and 2012), the Lilly-West Conference on Teaching and Learning (Pomona, CA), and at the Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (Maryville University, St. Louis, MO).
She happily shares a home in La Crosse with her husband, Mike, and their four one-of-a-kind children.
Her performing interests are almost exclusively in the realm of chamber music. In the four-hand world, her collaborations with Timothy Schorr have included appearances at Washington University in St. Louis, The University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, Winona State University, the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen. She enjoys an ongoing relationship with violinist Nancy Oliveros and the ARTARIA STRING QUARTET. Their frequent duo and piano quintet collaborations have become a staple of Viterbo University’s ONE-of-a KIND CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES (for which Haupert is both founder and artistic director), as well as performances at Hamline University’s Sundin Hall Chamber Series, the Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concert Series in St. Paul, MN, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen.
She has recorded Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in B-flat Major, Op. 46 (comp. 1857-1858) and the Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, Op. 39 (comp. 1850-1855) with violinist Nancy Oliveros and cellist Kirsten Whitson in July, 2012, and will soon release (2014) Farrenc’s two piano trios, Opus 33 and 34 with Nancy Oliveros and cellist Laura Sewell, both on the CENTAUR LABEL (http://centaurrecords.com/store/).
Haupert has received both of Viterbo University’s most prestigious teaching awards--the Alec Chui Memorial Award (2012) and Teacher of the Year (2014)--recognizing her dedication to excellence in student research and music composition. Her theory pedagogy, emphasizing music composition as an integral part of the curriculum, has been presented/published at the University of Wisconsin MACRO Workshop (Madison, WI, June, 2012), The 4th World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia (Novi Sad, 2012) Second Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts (Athens, Greece, 2010), the International Conference on Education and New Technologies (Barcelona, Spain, 2009 and 2012), the Lilly-West Conference on Teaching and Learning (Pomona, CA), and at the Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (Maryville University, St. Louis, MO).
She happily shares a home in La Crosse with her husband, Mike, and their four one-of-a-kind children.
JEAN SALADINO received her degrees from Wichita State University and Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She has sung professionally in opera and oratorio in Central City Opera, regionally in Wisconsin and Southern California. Her professional choral experience includes singing with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers in their Emory-au Quercy tour in Southern France. Additional professional choral experience was with Helmut Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus.
As a choral and vocal teacher she has taught in high schools and universities across the United States. Prior to coming to Viterbo she taught at Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts where her ensembles performed at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. This is her 17th year as Associate Professor of Voice at Viterbo University where she also teaches sight singing and conducts the Concert Choir and 9th Street Singers. In 2003 she was selected Outstanding Teacher of the Year at Viterbo University.
The Viterbo Concert Choir under her direction was accepted to perform at St. Martin-in the-Fields and at Southwark Cathedral in London. Her Viterbo Choir was recognized regionally when it was selected to sing for Wisconsin State Choral Directors Association Convention in Green Bay and at the North Central American Choral Directors Association Convention in Minneapolis. In this 125th anniversary year of Viterbo University, conducted a performance of Handel’s Messiah.
As a choral and vocal teacher she has taught in high schools and universities across the United States. Prior to coming to Viterbo she taught at Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts where her ensembles performed at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. This is her 17th year as Associate Professor of Voice at Viterbo University where she also teaches sight singing and conducts the Concert Choir and 9th Street Singers. In 2003 she was selected Outstanding Teacher of the Year at Viterbo University.
The Viterbo Concert Choir under her direction was accepted to perform at St. Martin-in the-Fields and at Southwark Cathedral in London. Her Viterbo Choir was recognized regionally when it was selected to sing for Wisconsin State Choral Directors Association Convention in Green Bay and at the North Central American Choral Directors Association Convention in Minneapolis. In this 125th anniversary year of Viterbo University, conducted a performance of Handel’s Messiah.
Sonja Larson grew up on a farm in Western Minnesota and recently graduated with a degree in vocal performance from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wi. She is now researching in Krakow, Poland with a prestigious Fulbright Grant.
While at Viterbo, Larson researched Music in the Holocaust: A Means of Survival abroad in Poland with a summer research fellowship. She has presented her research at local and international conferences and retreats, including The 2013 National Conference for Undergraduate Researchers (La Crosse, Wi), The 5th Warsaw Conference for Young Judaic Studies Researchers (Warsaw, Poland), Protest Music in the 20th Century (Lucca, Italy) and The Holocaust and the Contemporary World (Krakow, Poland).
Larson participated in Canta in Italia, a month-long opera workshop in Lucca, Italy (June 2012) and was involved in the Viterbo Concert Choir, Platinum Edition Show Choir, the 9th Street Singers, and the St. Francis Chapel Choir (cantor). She played Panacea in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum and held covers and sang in the chorus of Viterbo operas and oratorios.
As the founder and director of the United International Choral Community, she organizes projects to bring international students together through music. She recently premiered her International Virtual Choir at TEDxKazimierz in Krakow, and is coordinating the Yachad International Choral Exchange Program. She hopes to expand Yachad into a global network through which she can develop a curriculum that will encourage multicultural understanding through social music in classrooms and communities around the world.
While at Viterbo, Larson researched Music in the Holocaust: A Means of Survival abroad in Poland with a summer research fellowship. She has presented her research at local and international conferences and retreats, including The 2013 National Conference for Undergraduate Researchers (La Crosse, Wi), The 5th Warsaw Conference for Young Judaic Studies Researchers (Warsaw, Poland), Protest Music in the 20th Century (Lucca, Italy) and The Holocaust and the Contemporary World (Krakow, Poland).
Larson participated in Canta in Italia, a month-long opera workshop in Lucca, Italy (June 2012) and was involved in the Viterbo Concert Choir, Platinum Edition Show Choir, the 9th Street Singers, and the St. Francis Chapel Choir (cantor). She played Panacea in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum and held covers and sang in the chorus of Viterbo operas and oratorios.
As the founder and director of the United International Choral Community, she organizes projects to bring international students together through music. She recently premiered her International Virtual Choir at TEDxKazimierz in Krakow, and is coordinating the Yachad International Choral Exchange Program. She hopes to expand Yachad into a global network through which she can develop a curriculum that will encourage multicultural understanding through social music in classrooms and communities around the world.