Dr.
Anderson,
piano, has been a full-time member of the music faculty at Olivet
Nazarene University since 1978. Dr. Anderson is active as a collaborative
musician, having been a member of the Canterbury Trio and accompanist
for Orpheus Choir and Dean Wilder Singers, with which he has toured
extensively though USA and South Korea. He has also appeared as
soloist with orchestras in Illinois and Texas. Gerald Anderson
holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Nazarene University,
Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from Texas Tech University,
and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the American Conservatory
of Music, in Chicago. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
national music fraternity, and is a certified teacher through
the Music Teachers National Association. His teachers include
Thomas Redcay, Judith Burganger, Fernando Valenti, Wanda Paul,
Ian Hobson, and Katherine Glaser.
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Ms.
Gasse teaches
viola, violin and chamber music at The Gasse School of Music
in Forest Park where she is also a Founding Director. Mrs.
Gasse plays principal viola in the Kankakee Valley Symphony
Orchestra, violin in the Opus 3 Piano Trio and viola in
the Convergence String Quartet Mrs. Gasse is a native of
Sunderland, England. She attended the Royal Scottish Academy
of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland and Glasgow University
where she earned the BA (Musical Studies)HONS degree. After
performing with renowned ensembles such as Britten-Pears
Orchestra, Scottish Early Music Consort and the Cruic Quartet,
in 1995 she emigrated to the United States for a career
in performance and teaching. She has coached the string
sections of The McHenry County Youth Orchestra and The Kankakee
Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has been on the faculty
of Olivet Nazarene University, The Suzuki Orff School for
Young Musicians in Chicago and the McHenry County Music
Center. She also was the Director of Chamber Music at the
McHenry County Music Center. Mrs. Gasse training and experience
include both traditional and Suzuki method for strings and
early childhood music education.
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Dr.
Gasse,
is a Founding Director of the Gasse School of Music in Forest
Park, where he teaches cello and coaches chamber music. He also
is a music director of the Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians
in Chicago. Dr. Gasse serves as principal cellist of the Kankakee
Valley Symphony Orchestra and plays in Opus 3 Piano Trio. He is
a member of the Convergence String Quartet and the Chicago Twentieth
Century Music Ensemble. Previous experiences include numerous
performances as a recitalist, and soloist with orchestras in Argentina,
Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and U S A, as well as holding the position
of principal or assistant principal cellist in orchestras in Argentina,
Brazil, and USA. Dr. Gasse has a Profesor de Violonchelo degree
from the Concervatorio Provincial de Musica de la Provincia de
Cordoba, a Master and a Doctor in Musical Arts with a minor in
Music Education from the University of Illinois. Dr. Gasse has
more than 20 years of experience teaching cello and coaching chamber
music and orchestra. His training and experience includes traditional
methods as well as the Suzuki method. He also has experience teaching
college students as a former faculty member of the Columbia College
and Olivet Nazarene University. Many of his students have taken
cello for their music major college degrees and two of them have
earned the first prize in the Concerto Competition of the Kankakee
Valley Symphony Orchestra in the last three years. Dr. Gasse also
is trained in and has large experience in early childhood education.
He has extensively taught Orff and Musikgarten classes. Dr. Gasse
is also the author of the books The Music Written for the Cello
By Argentinean Composers, and The History of Spain Through the
Art.
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OPUS
3 is a piano Trio of violin, Cello, and piano committed to bringing
great chamber music to a variaty of audiences. While active as solo
performers and teachers, the members of this group have a special
affinity for the beauty of ensemble music and its power to inspire
people of all ages
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