TEACHING: MUSIC LESSONS :
Children and Adults in Colorado Springs area,
teaching the Dounis Methodology and Techniques
for cello,violin and viola. My teacher,
Mr. George NEIKRUG,
Professor Emeritus,Boston, Massachusetts,
is the present-day proponent of the Dounis Technique,
having studied himself with Professor Dounis and
Emmanuel Feuermann in Germany.
and to listen ...
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Norah Clydesdale, started playing the piano at five years old and the cello at eight
which became her main instrument of studyShe comes from a family of musicians starting
with Mr. Robert Clydesdale from Glasgow, Scotland who was an orchestra conductor and
cellist and who immigrated to New York State on a cruise ship across the Atlantic in 1932
performing trios, to continue his career as a cellist and teacher in upstate New York.
Stuart Clydesdale, her father is a pianist and Norah’s mother, Joyce Clydesdale sang
professionally in opera productions in the Bay Area in California.
Norah studied with Colin Hampton of the Griller Quartet and Andor Toth, Jr. of the
Hungarian Quartet at the San Francisco Conservatory before going to Boston University
to study for seven years with George Neikrug, world-renowned concert cellist and pedagogue.
She participated in Masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Walter Trampler and Eugene Lehner
of the Kolisch Quartet. Norah played professionally in the Boston area particularly in
chamber music performing the entire Beethoven Quartets Cycle with the Artaria Quartet
and as a member of the Portland, Maine Symphonybefore moving to Paris, France to be
married. She taught music and the cello and violin to children and adults in Paris and
developed the string department in the Lycee Ombrosa in Lyon, France as well as teaching
five-year-olds music in the public schools in Milan, Italy before returning to Colorado.
Norah is bilingual in French and also speaks Italian.
Returning to Colorado Springs after Paris and Italy, she is now performing with the
Grace String Quartet, newly appointed Assistant Principal Cello of the
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, Principal Cello of the Pikes Peak Philharmonic and
performing with the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra.
Norah is a member of the Grace String Quartet performing
as well as at ST ANDREW'S Episcopal Church in Manitou Springs
as well as in the Recital Series at the Episcopal Church in Canon City.
Norah will be performing with the Boulder Symphony in March and May.
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
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