Christian Howes Scholarships
Creative Strings Workshop 2015 
Register by Dec. 31 for the Best Price!

• Immerse yourself in small ensemble coaching, clinics, masterclasses, jams, and concerts spanning world music, jazz, rock, and fiddle styles.
• Rehearse and perform improvised music in small ensembles alongside master artists, with over 25 performances in different venues.

Christian Howes has made a particularly generous offer for DSA students:

1. Anyone from DSA can receive a $500 scholarship off the full tuition price
2. To receive this they only need register and pay a $200 deposit by no later than February 1st.
3. If they accept this before January 1st they will receive an additional $100 off the full tuition.

To-Do for this week

• Prepare for January concerts and auditions.

Virtuoso Double-bassist and Composer
Renaud Garcia-Fons 
Master Class 1/9, 1p at DSA
Concert 1/10, 7:30p at DUs Newman Center

“From the moment he held a double bass in his hands for the first time at age sixteen, Renaud Garcia-Fons saw possibilities to explore all the music that interested him — classical, jazz, Persian, Indian, Mediterranean, South and North American. Driven by new ideas and the talent to translate them into compositions, Garcia-Fons reinvented the way the double bass could be played. The result is an utterly new sound — an amalgam of double bass, cello, violin, guitar, lute and more — that exceeds any conventional idea of playing the double bass.

“For his solo concerts, he brings to the stage the repertoire recorded on the album, Solo — the Marcevol Concert, where he is accompanied only by sounds produced on his double bass; and for his quartet concerts, he offers the repertoire recorded on the album La Línea del Sur.”

In Case you missed it…

An End-of-year Treat:
Liam Ramsey-White
“Reverie Twilight Summer Sunset”

This is a recording made by DSA Advanced Orchestra on 11/2014 of senior Liam Ramsey-White’s “Reverie Twilight Summer Sunset.”  Congratulations on such a wonderful composition and we look forward to more great performances in the new year.

Master Mentor/Visiting Artist Program

Your orchestra is so grateful to the 50% of families who have been able to make this commitment thus far.  If you have not given your $300 contribution yet please do so as soon as possible.

Contributions can be made by check or through the DSA Friends Foundation at www.dsafriends.org.  If you can’t make the payment all at once, please do so in monthly installments.   Please make checks payable to DSA Friends Foundation, and put “Orchestra family contribution” or “master mentor” in the memo line.

This is also a fantastic way for family and friends to support your student! Please pass along the dsafriends.org website link to those you know are interested in supporting our programs.

For further information, please visit the OFA Fundraising website.