Professor Nick Curry, Guest Clinician
Friday April 20 and Saturday April 21, 2012.
Hosted by Jessica Talbott at
Freedom High School
Cellist of all ages and abilities are welcome to participate.
Sponsored by the Florida Chapter, American String Teachers Association
Jessica Talbott, Coordinator
Select pictures from Cellobration 2012:
Dr. Nick Curry was recently appointed as Professor of Cello at the University of North Florida. He is a founding member of Trio Florida with violinist Simon Shiao and pianist Gary Smart, featuring new compositions as well as timeless classics. From 2004-2007, he served as the professor of cello and the cellist in the Rawlins Piano Trio at the University of South Dakota.
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he studied cello with David Starkweather from the University of Georgia. Nick received his Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt, where he studied with Grace Mihi Bahng. While at Vanderbilt, he served as Professor Bahng's teaching assistant and was the recipient of the Jean Keller Heard Award for Excellence in string performance. Nick then served as Hans Jorgen Jensen's teaching assistant for five years at Northwestern University, where he earned his Master of Music and Doctoral degrees. He also was the teaching assistant to Professor Jensen at the Meadowmount School of Music for four summers. While at Northwestern, Nick performed as soloist with the Northwestern Philharmonic Orchestra and won the Northwestern Chamber Music Competition.
Nick has played in master classes for Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirschbaum, Paul Katz, David Geber, the Emerson String Quartet, the Pacifica String Quartet, and the Blair String Quartet. Private studies have also included Harvey Shapiro, David Finckel, and John Kochanowski. Nick has played concerts in Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, France, Austria and throughout the United States. He has presented in national conferences and is a sought after clinician, adjudicator and plans special projects for the state chapter of the American String Teachers Association.
In April of 2006, he performed as a soloist on National Public Radio (USA) Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion on the King Amati (ca. 1538) cello. The performance was heard by over 4,000 people live and by approximately 4 million on radio and can be found on the Prairie Home Companion website archives.
This summer, Dr. Curry will be visiting faculty at the Meadowmount School of Music, will teach for ten days in Costa Rica, will premiere a piece by Daniel Roumain all over South Africa and will be on faculty at both the UNF string camp and the Tennessee Valley Music Festival.