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, |
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
|
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,
|
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, |
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, |
1988 – present |
OTHER PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
CETA PROGRAM &
· 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
207.576.5298 |
Susan Krongold |
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· First Violinist, Section Violinist
· First Violinist, Section Violinist
WILLIAM DUNAS’ TRUST COMPANY,
· Solo Violinist at Merce Cunningham Studios, blending
contemporary dance with classical music
· Violinist in String Quartet
· 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
· Contemporary Theater, String Quartet, European tour and
Broadway run
SPOLETO FESTIVAL OF TWO WORLDS,
Chamber Orchestra Performer
· Performed in orchestra for Bergs’ ‘LuLu’, directed by Roman
Polanski
EDUCATION & PRIVATE INSTRUCTION
Bachelors of
Music in Violin Teaching, Hartt
· 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