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Sarah Berry
Sarah received her Masters in Cello Performance from Rice University and her Bachelor of Music degree from Vanderbilt University with majors in Cello Performance and German. She performed most recently with the San Antonio Symphony, the Charleston Symphony and locally with the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra. Mrs. Berry has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Charleston and was recently a Guest Artist at Southeastern College in Florida. In 2001, her string quartet won First Prize at the MTNA National Chamber Music Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition to performing, Mrs. Berry has taught general music at Charleston Collegiate School, cello for the Shepherd Preparatory Program and substitute strings for the Charleston County School District. She has served on the faculty of the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and has spent her summers performing at the Spoleto Festival USA, the National Orchestral Institute, Brevard Music Center, and the Meadowmount School for Strings. She teaches pre-college and college cello lessons, public school strings classes, collegiate classes and performs as Principal Cellist with the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra.
Andrew Braddock
Andrew Braddock, a native of Lakeland, Florida, began his viola studies at the age of 12. He is actively engaged in many facets of the musical world, including solo, chamber, and orchestral performances, in addition to teaching violin and viola. Andrew has given recent solo and chamber performances in Graz, Austria at the AIMS Festival; Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University; and in Aspen, Colorado, in Spotlight Recitals during the Aspen Music Festival. He is currently a member of the Evansville Philharmonic and Owensboro Symphony Orchestras, and has served as assistant principal violist in the IU Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, and principal violist in the Vanderbilt Symphony. Andrew has studied violin and viola pedagogy with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University and has taught in the IU String Academy. He is currently completing a Performers Diploma at Indiana University, under the tutelage of Atar Arad. He holds a Masters in Viola performance from IU and a Bachelors of Music (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University, where he was awarded the Jean Keller Heard Prize for Excellence in string performance. His principal teachers are Atar Arad, Kathryn Plummer, and John Graham.
Mary Boronow
Mary is originally from Utica, New York. She graduated from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. with a B.S in Music Education. She studied Instrumental Conducting at the University of Texas in San Antonio and was a student of Dr. Robert Rustowitz. Mrs. Boronow is currently teaching Elementary Strings for the Bowling Green Independent School District. As the wife of a retired Air Force officer Mrs. Boronow has had a varied teaching career and has taught Orchestra in Texas, California, Virginia, Alabama, and Kentucky. Mrs. Boronow taught for 5 years at Bradley Middle School in San Antonio, TX in a highly successful program with over 200 String students. Her groups consistently received Superior Ratings at state contests and music festivals. Recently Mrs. Boronow worked with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra's "Symphony School" program. She also served as a guest conductor for the Tennessee Valley Music Festival in 2009 and 2010.
Dr. Ching-Yi Lin
Dr. Ching-Yi Lin is Assistant Professor of Violin at Western Kentucky University, where she serves as Concertmaster of The Symphony at WKU, Artist Violin Faculty, and directs the Pre-College Violin/Viola Program. Active as a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Taiwan. Recent performances and master classes have taken her to the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway; Northwestern University; the University of Missouri at Kansas City; and the University of Wyoming. During the summer, Dr. Lin serves on faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy and teaches in The Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists.
Dr. Lin holds performance degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and studied in the Vienna Conservatory from 2001–2003. At IU, she served as an assistant to the internationally renowned Professor Mauricio Fuks. At the Pre-College level, she taught as an instructor at the IU String Academy while working closely with her mentors, Professor Mimi Zweig and Dr. Brenda Brenner. In 2008–09, she acted as co-researcher, violin instructor, and piano accompanist for the Fairview Project—a research project designed to assess how underprivileged first graders can benefit from learning the violin. Her principal teachers include Mauricio Fuks, Boris Kuschnir, Fredell Lack, and Nelli Shkolnikova.
