Nissa Creates Winning Composition

For the third time, Nissa was recognized for her composition talents in the NE-ASTA Fiddle Tune Composition Contest. Her fiddle tune, "Pretty Little Girl", will be included in an upcoming publication of "Stringing Along".

Spitfire Performed at Cancer Survivor's Picnic

The Spitfire Fiddle Band performed at the Lincoln Zoo on Sunday, June 14th. This event was to support local cancer survivors and their families.

Emmi Takes 2nd Place at Monumental

Emmi Moll received 2nd place at the Monumental fiddling championships in Beatrice, Nebraska in the Junior Division. She performed the Mountain Canary, Liza Jane and Joys of Quebec. She also received a $125 prize! Way to go, Emmi!

Lincoln Symphony Orchestra welcomes Christine Widman

Christine Widman was welcomed back into the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. She recently moved back to Lincoln from Chicago, IL, where she completed her Master's Degree in Music at DePaul University. Christine is a violist with the LSO.

You can see Christine perform with the Symphony throughout the season.

View her LSO Biography at:
http://www.lincolnsymphony.com/bio_widman.asp

YES, we all made it into the YES

Yes, all of those 5th-8th graders in the studio who auditioned for the Youth Ensemble of Strings, YES, made it in!

Congratulations to Risa DeGraw, Marina Kushner, Alex Pytlik Zillig (3rd chair), & Chloe Pinkman for making it into this orchestra!

Congrats also to Spitfire Fiddle Band members who are also in the YES, Anna McCord & Rachel Jarvis, viola.

Dueling Concert Masters

One great honor a violinist can achieve is serving as the Concert Master of an orchestra. This position is filled by the top violinist in an orchestra. The Concert Master leads the entire violin section and is looked at, and up to by the entire ensemble, second to the conductor. This person is also in charge of tuning the orchestra.

I am proud to announce that both Kara Eide and Liz Frohman have risen to fill this position in their high school orchestras this year.

Liz, a junior, is currently the Concert Master of the North Star High School Orchestra. You can also see her perform a concert with the Nebraska Wesleyan Honors Orchestra on February 14, 2009.

Kara, a senior at Lincoln Southwest High School, is serving as Concert Master of her orchestra. Kara is currently preparing for her Senior Recital! Be on the lookout for this upcoming event.

Great leadership!

Liz and Kara into NE All State Orchestra again

For the second year in a row, Liz Frohman and Kara Eide made it into the Nebraska All-State Orchestra. This orchestra accepts, by audition, the top 40 high school violinists in the state of Nebraska.

This orchestra performed a concert at the Lied Center on November 22, 2008.