Private Lessons with Ms. Mary S
Ms. Mary S
Background: Ottawa Suzuki Strings Institute and Oberlin Conservatory of Music in violin performance. Her teachers include Shirley Star, Joseph Kaminsky, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Almita, Vamos, Brian Lewis, Erin Schreiber, Noah Geller, Benny Kim, Connie Heard, and Joseph Genualdi.
Ms. Mary has been playing her violin for more than 5,848 (and counting) consecutive days! In 2014, 2016, and 2018 she was selected to be in the Suzuki Association of the Americas Biennial Conference Youth Orchestra in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She later became a recipient of the G.A., JR. and Kathryn M. Buder music scholarship for the years 2021-2024. After she had received her grant from the Buder Foundation in 2021, she placed first in the Rising Talents Competition and had her debut performance with the Town and Country Symphony Orchestra in St. Louis on March 28, 2022. After her debut with the Town and Country Symphony Orchestra, she was awarded the grand prize of the Northland Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition in North Kansas City Missouri under the leadership of Maestro James Murray III. After her performance with the Northland Symphony Orchestra (NSO), she competed at the MFMC (Missouri Federation of Music Clubs) State Concerto Competition and received first place in the strings division. She was also invited to perform with the Gateway Symphony Orchestra, led by Dr. Leon Burke in July 2022. A couple months later, she performed Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarantella with the University City Symphony Orchestra (UCSO), as the prizewinner of the UCSO William Schatzkamer Young Artist Competition. This performance with the UCSO was also under the guidance of Dr. Leon Burke. In November 2022, she received first place in the Missouri Teachers’ National Association (MTNA) Young Artists Competition for the Senior Division in the State of Missouri. She was also selected to be the 2nd place runner up for the MTNA semi-finals out of 7 states (MN, MO, IA, CO, AR, OK, KS). In October 2023, she won the Heritage Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artist Competition and performed under the direction of James Murray III a second time. The most recent competition Mary has participated in was the MFMC State Concerto Competition a second time for the year 2024 and won first place in the senior strings division.
Apart from her solo competitions, she was a member of the Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis "Share a Stand Program” and the Northland Symphony Orchestra in Kansas City, Missouri.
With regards to extracurriculars, she enjoys playing classical guitar and she competes in Global Traditional Martial Arts (GTMA) tournaments as a Fourth-Degree Black Belt. In her free time, she also loves to watch Disney short films with her younger sister on the weekends.
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