University
of Alabama
School of Music
String Faculty
Violinist
J. Patrick Rafferty has appeared as violin soloist and
recitalist throughout the United States. He has performed more than 40
works as concerto soloist
with such orchestras as the St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, and Mil-
waukee Symphonies. As concertmaster, he has performed with the Milwaukee, Dallas,
waukee Symphonies. As concertmaster, he has performed with the Milwaukee, Dallas,
Carlton McCreery maintains an active career
as cellist, conductor, and clinician. He has studied with such noted artists
as Gregor Piatigorsky,
Antonio Janigro,
and Lynn Harrell. McCreery’s conducting professors have included
Karl Melles at the Mozarteum and Elizabeth Green at the University of Michigan.
In addition to performing with the Cadek Trio, he is a frequent guest conductor
with many professional and university
San Diego, and Seattle Symphonies. One
of his teaching specialties is in the area of orchestral audition repertoire
and techniques, having won
auditions with 15 major orchestras. During the summers, he is Concertmaster
of the Brevard Music Center Festival Orchestra. He has been a University
of Alabama faculty member since 1991.
orchestras throughout
the United States. He has been on the artist faculty of the Brevard
Music Center since 1978. McCreery has served on the faculties of the Lawrence
Conservatory
of Music, Southwest Missouri and Pittsburg State Universities. He is Director
of University Orchestras at the University of Alabama.
Maggie
Snyder, viola, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her BM from the
University of Memphis and her MM and GPD from Peabody Conservatory. She
served as teaching assistant to Victoria Chang at Peabody and as teaching
and administrative
assistant to Victoria Chang and Heidi
Castleman at the
David
Mazanec, double bass, was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. While
a student, he was soloist with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra
conducted
by Leo- nard
Slatkin. Mr. Mazanec has been Principal Bass with the Alabama Sym- phony
Orchestra since 1972. He has served as principal bass in the St. Louis
Municipal Opera,
St. Louis Opera Theatre, Tuscaloosa
St. Louis Opera Theatre, Tuscaloosa
Aspen Music Festival. Ms. Snyder has
won many honors, including advancement to the semi-finals at the Primrose
Competition in 2001. She has
performed in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and has given concerts and
master classes at The Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Memphis,
and Ohio
University, where she was Visiting Professor of Viola in 2001-2002. Ms. Snyder
joined the Faculty of The University of Alabama as Assistant Professor of
Viola in 2002 and is Principal of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. She
is a member
of the Metropolitan String Quartet, which tours Europe on a regular basis.
Symphony and the New Hampshire Music Festival. Mr. Mazanec has performed
as a soloist in works by Dragonetti, Mozart, and Koussevitzky and has
also been
soloist with the Tuscaloosa Symphony. He has taught at The University of
Alabama since 1999.
Judith
Sullivan,
Harp, has been the Principal Harpist of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
since 1981. She received her Master of Music degree from the Eastman
School of Music, where she was a pupil of Eileen Malone. Before that, she
attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received her Bachelor
of Music degree.
She has also studied privately in New York with Pearl Chertok, former Harpist
with the CBS Orchestra. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Adademy,
Interlochen, Michigan.
Ms. Sullivan spent nine summers at the Aspen Music Festival as a scholarship student. In addition, with a professional contract, she was Principal Harpist with the Aspen Chamber Symphony.
Judy
maintains a busy teaching studio in Birmingham and has served on the faculties
of Vanderbilt University, Samford University, and is currently teaching
at the University of Alabama. She has appeared as a soloist with the Alabama
Symphony Orchestra and the
Tuscaloosa
Symphony.
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