Laura L. Gallucci

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Experience Performance

Interim principal viola, Bangor Symphony Orchestra 2004-present

Assistant principal viola Bangor Symphony Orchestra 2002-2004

Lead acoustic / electric violist / Celtic viola fiddler, composer and 1991-present

co-founder (with songwriter husband), St. Huckleberry band.

Averaged nine to fifteen live engagements per year in the Long Island

and New York areas, in clubs, public library settings, coffeehouse

concerts and outdoor shows organized through our non-profit

organization LIOMA (Long Island Original Music Association).

See www.sthuckleberry.com for details.

Substitute Stony Brook Graduate Symphony with Mitchell Stern 1998-1999

Third chair Carnegie Hall performance of Mahler s Second with

Gilbert Kaplan and Eastman Philharmonia, April 1990.

Principal Viola Eastman Philharmonia 1987-1989

Schlosspiele players, co-principal, Heidelberg, Germany 1987 & 1989

(for opera orchestra productions such as The Student Prince)

Violist Dmitri String Quartet 1986-1990

Various Musica Nova concerts with Sid Hodkinson 1987-1990

Various jazz band performances with Rayburn Wright 1986

Violist Debussy string quartet 1983-1986

Substitute Stony Brook Graduate Symphony 1985

Recording, radio and television

Appearance at Full Circle Fair with band St. Huckleberry Summer 2004

WERU Homespun appearances April 2004

August 2003

Freelance violist, Sound Move Studios, Shirley, NY 1997 -2002

Television appearance on LT1 with Guitarist /composer

Jeff Curtis Summer 2000

Television appearance on LT1 with St, Huckleberry Band Spring 2000

Co wrote and recorded theme song to LT1 (Local talent 1) television

show for producer Bruce Figarsky for broadcast on Cablevision

Winter 2000

The Wedding Song, recorded with the band This Island Earth and

executive producer of the band 10,000 Maniacs

(Album entitled, The Merry Go Round ) Spring 2000

Revision of 15 song CD Long Way Home by St. Huckleberry band Fall 2000

Radio appearance on WUSB Stony Brook with Jill Morrison Spring 1998

Release of 15 song CD Good Time by St. Huckleberry band Spring 1998

Radio appearance on WUSB Stony Brook with Jill Morrison Spring 1997

Release of 15 song CD Long Way Home by St. Huckleberry band Spring 1997

String cycle October, Vertigo and Hurdles, composed by Doctoral

candidate for composition at Princeton University Daniel Trueman.

Recorded for Dissertation 1997

Teaching

Opened f/t, 56 student violin / viola studio at RDL Strings Sept. 2005

Substitute teaching for private teachers in area on an ad hoc basis 2003-2005

1990-2000 Taught classical viola/violin to a fifty-student studio.

My specialty was eliminating tension and repetitive strain disorders through

the application of smart body mechanics / postural techniques such as the

Alexander Technique. None of my students ever suffered injury as a result of playing.

The studio averaged a cumulative grade point average of 95 at New York State Music Solo

competitions over the ten-year span.

Education Degrees

Masters in Library Science, Queens College, Queens, NY 1994

Bachelor of Music, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY 1990

Private mentors

James Dunham, Violist Cleveland Quartet 1987-1990

Steven Doane, Cello professor (relaxation and coachings) 1987-1990

Bruce Plumb, former Principal Viola Rochester Philharmonic 1987-1988

Karen Tuttle (Several private lessons) 1989

George Taylor, Professor of Viola 1986-1987

Donald Caldwell, Violinist Cincinnati Symphony 1983-1986

Phillip Preddice, Viola teacher Three Village Schools 1983

Phil Gelfer, Violinist of the country band Six Gun 1981-1983

Special Institutes and Studies

Alexander Technique studies with Marge Dorfman 1991-1993

Full Scholarship Banff Centre for the Arts 9/90 11/90

Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Summer 1998

(coachings and sectionals with Heiichiro Ohyama)

Saratoga Springs Orchestral Institute Summer 1984

(Sectionals with Joseph DePasquale)

Current

Employment Full time private lesson instructor at RDL Strings studios, Bangor, ME Sept. 2005-present

(56 violin / viola students)

Part time instructor of violin / viola at University of Maine Jan. 2005-Jan. 2006

Interests Promoting original music in any way I can, relaxation and postural techniques for pain-free

performance.

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