Dr. Carolann Martin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2006
Dr. Kexi Liu
(417) 625-9355

 

Dr. Carolann Martin

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - Dr. Carolann Martin has recently joined the faculty of the Missouri Southern Suzuki Violin Academy.

 

Dr. Carolann Martin is a Professor Emeritus of Pittsburg State University, where she taught music from 1977 to 2001. During that time she was Musical Director and Conductor of the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted orchestras in many states throughout the United States of America as well as in England and South America.

 

Dr. Martin was the first woman ever to conduct the national orchestra in Paraguay, the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Ciudad de Asuncion. Dr. Martin was winner of the National Adult Conducting Competition in 1980. She was the first woman ever to win or reach the finals in that contest.

 

Dr. Martin is also an accomplished cellist and teacher of cello and bass. Her cello instructors include Gorden Epperson, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, and Frank Miller. She was principal cellist with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Civic Orchestra and the Sioux City Symphony in Iowa.

 

She also performed professionally with symphony orchestras in Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), Columbus (Ohio), Norfolk (Virginia), and Tucson (Arizona). She currently plays with the North Arkansas Symphony in Fayetteville and has played with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Missouri. She is a member of the Pittsburg State University Faculty String Quartet.

 

Her education includes a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Oklahoma City University, Master of Arts from Ohio State University and Doctor of Musical Arts degree with a double emphasis on cello performance and conducting from Arizona University. She has had further study at Indiana University and at numerous workshops and clinics.

 

Dr. Martin is listed in the International Who's Who of Music, the World's Who's Who of Women, the Who's Who of American Women and others.

Dr. Martin is teaching both Suzuki students and university students this fall. She is accepting new students For enrollment information, please contact Suzuki Violin Academy Director Dr. Kexi Liu at (417) 625-9681 or e-mail liu-k@mssu.edu.

 

 

 

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