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String Faculty
of the University of South Carolina
 Gail V. Barnes Associate Professor of string teacher education, Director of the USC String Project and area coordinator of Music Education. BM and MM, University of Michigan, Ph.D from The Ohio State University. Eighteen years teaching in the Norfolk (VA) public schools; Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera Company and Puccini Festival Orchestra of Torre del Lago (Italy), Long Bay Symphony and South Carolina Philharmonic. Active guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. Publications in Update, Music Educators Journal, Journal of String Research, American String Teacher and the Journal of Research in Music Education; Editorial Board of the Journal of Music Teacher Education and the Journal of String Research. Editor of Applying Research to String Teaching and Playing. Recently developed an Online Community for String and Orchestra Teachers, presenting best practices in string and orchestra teaching through video in an online forum. Current presentations are developing musicianship in the school orchestra and making the transition from public school teaching to teaching in higher education. Research interests include developing self-efficacy in pre-service and in-service teachers and cultivating musicianship in school-aged string players.
Christopher Berg Christopher Berg: Professor, guitar, guitar pedagogy, guitar literature, guitar ensemble. BM and MM Peabody Conservatory; master classes with Andrés Segovia at the University of Southern California; Renaissance and Baroque lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis, Basel, Switzerland; New York Debut at Carnegie Recital Hall; numerous solo concert tours throughout United States, including performances at Merkin Hall in New York and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago; receipt of a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship in 1987 and two South Carolina Arts Commission Solo Artist Fellowships (1982 and 1993); author of Mastering Guitar Technique: Process and Essence and Giuliani Revisited (Mel Bay Publications); composer and performer of The Pilgrim Forest (Laughing Heart Records); recipient of a Michael J. Mungo Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2000; awarded the Cantey Outstanding Faculty Award by the School of Music in 2003. In 2003 his former students created the Christopher Berg Guitar Endowment Fund, which supports The Christopher Berg Guitar Award presented annually to an outstanding undergraduate guitar student at USC.
Websites: christopherberg.com, Guitar Studies at USC, Downloads for current USC guitar majors
 Craig Butterfield is a bassist, composer, and arranger. Comfortable in many styles of music, Mr. Butterfield has toured extensively as a jazz artist as well as a classical soloist and clinician. During 2004 and 2005 Craig toured with the legendary jazz trumpet player Maynard Ferguson. As a member of Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau Band, he performed in some of the most famous venues in the world, including the Blue Note in New York, Ronnie Scott's in London, the Kungstradgarden in Sweden, and the Bangkok Cultural Arts Center as a special guest of the King of Thailand. A week at Ronnie Scott's in London, in August 2005, was recorded for a forthcoming live CD. Craig has been active in the studio as well, appearing on several jazz CDs, as both a performer and as a producer. In the classical field, Craig Butterfield has given masterclasses and recitals as a soloist in several universities. He has been invited twice to perform recitals at the semiannual International Society of Bassists Convention. His many compositions and arrangements include works for bass quartet, jazz string ensemble, solo double bass, and percussion ensemble.
 Constance Whitman Gee DMA University of Maryland, M.M. Yale School of Music, M.F.A and BFA, California Institute of the Arts; liberal arts studies; Bennington College, VT. Major Teachers included Jesse Levine, James Dunham, Stuart Canin, Jacob Glick and Emanuel Zetlin, a pupil of Leopold Auer. Chamber music studies with Tokyo String Quartet, Guarneri String Quartet, Philadelphia String Quartet, Sequoia String Quartet, Fine Arts String Quartet, Richard Goode, Anton Querti, Mischa Schneider and others. Principal Viola Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife, Orquesta de Ciudad de Granada in Spain for six years. Performed extensively as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist throughout Spain and the United States. Has premiered numerous works and worked with such composers as Henry Brant, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Vinko Globakar, Jacob Druckman and many others. Over twenty-five years teaching experience including all ages and levels; from age three to eighty, to professional level students in conservatories. Formerly on faculties at University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Coastal Carolina University and Eastern Music Festival. Founder and Artistic Director of “Beyond the Notes” Chamber Music Workshop at the University of Virginia. Founder and former President of Virginia Viola Society; President of South Carolina Viola Society.
 Robert Jesselson Professor, cello. Diploma, Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg, West Germany; MM Eastman School of Music; DMA Rutgers University; studied with Paul Katz and Bernard Greenhouse; Recitalist and soloist with orchestras in USA, Europe, South America, and Asia; Participant in music festivals at Nice, Granada, Santiago, Aspen, Spoleto, and the Grand Tetons; former principal cello South Carolina Philharmonic and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Las Palmas, Spain; member, American Arts Trio and the Jesselson/Fugo duo; Former conductor, USC Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Youth Orchestra; winner Elizabeth Verner Award (1992), Michael Mungo Teaching Award (1995), SC Artist Fellowship (1989); first SC ASTA Studio Teacher Award in 2005. faculty of SC Governor's School for the Arts for 17 years; national president, ASTA with NSOA (2000-2002); Former director, USC String Project. In 2001 he led a delegation of string players and teachers to Cuba to begin professional contact with Cuban musicians; In 2004 he taught for a semester at Sookmyung University in Korea. Summer teaching at the Green Mountain Music Festival in Vermont and at a music festival in Vale Veneto, Brazil.
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 Ryan Kho is the concertmaster of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra (Georgia), and has studied with Dorothy Delay, Paul Kantor, Tibor Vaghy, and Thomas Wang. He attended New England Conservatory of Music and upon graduation Mr. Kho made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as guest artist with Boston Musica Viva. He was also awarded a fellowship to study at Aspen where he spent four summers. Since then he has held many positions as Concertmaster, Guest Concertmaster and Principal Second Violin of orchestras in Canada, the United States and Hong Kong. While holding these keypositions, he has worked with conductors including: Charles Dutoit, Pierre Boulez, Simon Streatfield, Leon Fleisher, and Klaus Tennestedt. His solo and chamber performances have also taken him worldwide playing in Canada, US,Europe, Asia and most recently in Mexico. Mr. Kho’s teaching positions include Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, University of Georgia (Athens), and presently,University of South Carolina (Columbia) and Georgia Southern University, where he is artist-in-residence as first violinist of the Magellan String Quartet.
 Donald
Portnoy is a graduate of the Juilliard School. He received his M.A. from Catholic University of America and his D.M.A. from Peabody Conservatory. He holds the Ira McKissick Koger Endowed Chair for the Fine Arts at USC. He is also founder and director of the Conductors Institute of South Carolina, an institution that annually attracts conducting students and professionals from around the world to the USC campus in Columbia for three weeks of intensive podium work with full orchestra under the watchful eyes of many of this country's noted teachers and composers. In addition to the USC Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Portnoy has conducted the Augusta Symphony (GA) for eleven years. He has also been the guest conductor of orchestras in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltimore, Savannah, and Charleston. His acclaimed appearances overseas have included concerts in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and South Korea. For the past three seasons Maestro Portnoy has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Opera Orchestra of China in Beijing.
W illiam Terwilliger Professor, violin, viola, chamber music, BM, MM, DMA Eastman School of Music; Studies with Zvi Zeitlin and Donald Weilerstein, chamber coaching with the Cleveland, Emerson, Juilliard and Tokyo quartets; member of Opus Two (with pianist Andrew Cooperstock), chosen in 1993 as USIA Artistic Ambassadors, concerts and lecture recitals throughout Latin America, tours of Australia, Asia and repeated tours of Europe; performances at Australian Festival of Chamber Music, as well as festivals of Piccolo Spoleto, Round Top and Brevard; critically acclaimed CD recordings of Copland (Azica label), Lowell Liebermann (Albany) and Paul Schoenfield (Copland Grant recipient); New York recital debut in 1999, London debut in 2000; soloist with the Orquestra Nacional of Bolivia, Orchèstre des Alpes-Maritimes (France), the Toledo Symphony and the South Carolina Philharmonic; Concertmaster, Long Bay Symphony (SC); former violin and conducting faculty, the University of Toledo and member of the Toledo Trio; former first violinist, prize-winning Augustine Quartet, Artist Faculty of the Brevard Music Center since 1991; commissioned works by Robert Starer, Donald Grantham, Kathryn Mishell and John Fitz Rogers; adjudicator for MTNA and NFMC national competitions; articles published in American String Teacher and Strings.
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