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.