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CALLING BOYS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 9-12! PARLOR CITY BOY'S CHORUS The Parlor City Boy’s Chorus directed by Ghislaine Stewart is now in its sixth season. PCBC released its first CD, performed at First Friday venues, holiday concerts and sung the National Anthem at sporting events. They also competed in the Music in the Park competition at Hershey Park in May of 2006 and took 1st place in the Middle School Men’s Choir AAA Division.
If you have questions, call Wendi Stetson 773-0898. BIOGRAPHY Ghislaine Stewart graduated from the Crane School of Music,S.U.N.Y. at Potsdam, with a B.Sc. in Music Education, majoring on the violin. She was Director of String Education at the Maine-Endwell School for five years, where she was responsible for developing that school’s string program on every level. She studied Suzuki Violin with Harry Kobialka and Sandford Reuning, and developed a "Suzuki" public school teaching method for all stringed instruments. While Ms. Stewart studied voice at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she also studied viola with a member of the Denver Symphony and played in the University Orchestra and the Arapahoe Chamber Orchestra in Denver. In Germany, she continued her study of voice with Tsuyako Mitsui, Arleen Auger, and John Stewart (not related) a tenor at the Frankfurt Opera. She continued playing the violin in an orchestra which her husband Fitzroy conducted and had founded.......The Oberursel Chamber Orchestra. For the next five years they managed this orchestra together. During this time, Stewart also sang as an Oratorio Soloist and German Lieder Singer and taught Suzuki Violin in the German Public Schools and privately. Upon her return to the USA, she taught Elementary Vocal in the Catholic Schools and Suzuki Violin in Corning, and conducted the Intermediate Junior Orchestra, which performed with her husband’s Youth Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Presently she continues to sing German Lieder and Church Music and totally enjoys teaching elementary vocal and Strings in Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Binghamton, where she directs the Binghamton All City 5th Grade Chorus. During two weeks of the summer months, Ms. Stewart is on the faculty of the Suzuki Institute at the Ithaca College as conductor of two Suzuki Children’s Chorus. _______________________________________________________________________________ Mrs. Wendi Stetson is the Business Director. She holds a Bachelors in Music from Crane School of Music/Potsdam College, a Masters in Reading degree, and a School District Administrator degree from SUNY Cortland. She is an elementary vocal music teacher in the Binghamton City School District. She was the Assistant Director for Administration for the New York State Summer Schools of the Arts - Choral Studies program, a State Education-run program, for three years.
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