User:Slinnger

This user is a participant in WikiProject Classical music.

I am a cellist completing my master's degree at Longy School of Music. I have joined Wikipedia as part of my Future of Classical Music course, and will be contributing to a new music topic as part of my coursework.

Contributions

• Expanded composer Richard Wernick from a stub into an article.

Musical Background

I graduated with a degree in music from Haverford College, where I studied cello with Michal Schmidt. I have performed solo recitals for PBS Philadelphia, Rutgers-Camden Noontime Recital Series, and as a guest performer for the Network for New Music at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. I have collaborated with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Richard Wernick. In addition to being a guest soloist with the Salem Philharmonic, I have performed as part of the Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra, Symphony by the Sea, MIT Concert Choir Orchestra and the Dirk Hillyer Festival Orchestra. I have performed in masterclasses with Matt Haimovitz, David Finckel (of the Emerson String Quartet), and the Colorado, Modigliani, and Momenta String Quartets. I currently live in Salem and am completing my master’s degree at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where I study with Terry King.

I am also very interested in using Wikipedia tags to name-drop even more effectively than ever before!

Musical Interests

This hardly covers everything, but here are a few areas of interest that are relevant to my own choice of repertoire (thus the lack of vocal music - interesting, but I don't play it myself).

• String music
• Chamber music
• Period baroque performance
• New music

My Homepage

http://simonlinn-gerstein.bandcamp.com

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