Susan Krongold

207.576.5298    jazzaria@roadrunner.com

www.linkedin.com/in/susankrongold

 

SUMMARY

 

Music educator, skilled in voice, violin and piano, with international experience.  Known as charismatic teacher who balances nurturing compassion with tough discipline and honesty.  Experienced teaching and mentoring European and African multicultural/multinational students, and working with inner city youth.  Specialist in arranging music and writing lyrics that expose younger audiences to their own and other cultures.  Fluent in Spanish.

 

EXPERIENCE

 

HILLVIEW CULTURAL CENTER, Lewiston, ME

                                                    2008 – present

Educator/Coordinator of Somali Refugee Music Program

·    Organize and facilitate Somali Refugee Music Program

·    Teach voice, violin and piano

·    Founded “Drum Circle” to include Somali elders in process of educating younger generations and develop Somali children’s natural talent

·    Produce and execute seasonal concerts and performances

·    Arrange and stage annual May concert, for neighborhood children, their families and other residents, in coordination with Spring art exhibition and local nutrition centers and hospitals

                                             

BATES COLLEGE, Lewiston, ME

                                                  1998 – present

Music Educator/Violinist

·    Perform student compositions to enable students and young performers to hear their newly written compositions played at professional level

·    Perform orchestral performances

·    Perform recitals, bringing students’ performing skills and compositional ideas to higher, more professional levels

 

CRITS MARINS, IBICENCIAN FOLK FUSION, Ibiza, Spain

    1990 – 1998

Violinist and Music Arranger

·    Kept traditional, regional folk music in public sphere, rendering it contemporary, accessible and relevant, and preventing cultural traditions from fading from consciousness of younger generations

·    Performed at major festivals on island and in surrounding area: Formentera, Majorca, and Barcelona

 

SPANISH GOVERNMENT SPONSORED CONCERT TOUR, Ibiza, Spain

    1990 – 1997

·    Violinist and Vocalist for annual ‘Tour of the Churches’ Performance Series

·    Performed concerts in San José, Jesús, San Miguel, San Antonio, Santa Eularia, Santa Gertrudis and town of Ibiza

 

PRIVATE VIOLIN and VOICE INSTRUCTION, NY, ME, FL, Spain, Netherlands

     1988 – present

 

 

OTHER PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

 

CETA PROGRAM & HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, New York, NY

·    Government funded Music Educator and Performer, New York, NY

·    Conductor of Chamber Orchestra at Henry Street Settlement

·    Classical Violinist in Chamber Orchestra

·    Touring member of Chamber Orchestra; performed in New York City boroughs, housing projects, hospitals and schools

 

 

 

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PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Portland, ME

·    First Violinist, Section Violinist

 

MAINE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE , Portland, ME

·    First Violinist, Section Violinist

 

WILLIAM DUNAS’ TRUST COMPANY, New York, NY

·    Solo Violinist at Merce Cunningham Studios, blending contemporary dance with classical music

 

CLEVELAND COMPOSERS FORUMCarnegie Recital Hall, New York, NY

·    Violinist in String Quartet

 

NEWARK COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Newark, NJ

·    Music Theory Teacher

 

JOSEPH PAPP’S AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York, NY

Violinist and Vocalist

·    Performed as violinist and vocalist in production of ‘Wake Up, It’s Time to Go to Bed’ by Carson Kievman, featuring Keith Carradine & Ellen Greene

·    Performed in Percussion/Chamber Piece with Dave Van Tieghem

                                                                                                                                                  

ROBERT WILSON’S PRODUCTION OF ‘A LETTER FOR QUEEN VICTORIA

·    Contemporary Theater, String Quartet, European tour and Broadway run

 

SPOLETO FESTIVAL OF TWO WORLDS, Spoleto, Italy

Chamber Orchestra Performer

·    Performed in orchestra for Bergs’ ‘LuLu’, directed by Roman Polanski

 

EDUCATION & PRIVATE INSTRUCTION

 

Bachelors of Music in Violin Teaching, Hartt College of Music, West Hartford, CT

 

·    Latin Jazz Voice Study with Mili Bermejo, Boston, MA

·    Opera Vocal Performance study with Bonnie Scarpelli, Portland, ME

·    Opera Vocal Studies with Ernst Haefliger, Ibiza, Spain

·    Kodaly / Orff Music Methods with John Kendall, New York, NY

·    Eurhythmics, Manhattan School of Music with Joy Kane, Joy Yelin & Bob Abramson, New York, NY

·    Piano Improv/Jazz Voice with Joy Kane, New York, NY

·    Advanced Violin Studies with Arianna Bronne, New York, NY