AMEA 2010 Clinicians and Performers Dr. Anne C. Witt
is Adjunct Professor in the School of Music at the University of Alabama, where she teaches music education and strings. She also teaches classes for adult beginners and private cello lessons. She recently started a string program in the Tuscaloosa City Schools, and is a past president of Alabama ASTA. In Texas, she taught middle school and high school orchestra and strings for fourteen years, was Director of the University of Texas String Project, and taught at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Witt has presented clinics in many states and at national conventions of ASTA, MENC and at the Midwest Clinic. Her presentations include “student tested” teaching strategies on such topics as creative classroom management, communication, and motivation. She has served as guest conductor for many All-Region orchestras in Texas, and at festival orchestras and All-State orchestras. Dr. Witt is co-author of Teaching Stringed Instruments: A Course of Study, published by MENC. She is author of A Rhythm a Week, published by Alfred Publishing, used by school classes and private students nationwide and internationally. She served as Consulting Editor for the new series Orchestra Expressions, also published by Alfred. Dr. Witt has served as President of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association and President of the American String Teachers Association. She earned the Bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama, and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a professional cellist in the Austin Symphony for twenty years, and now plays in a wedding quartet called Four Strings Attached. She serves on the Tuscaloosa Symphony Board and is president of the String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa.
Daniel Sweaney made his New York debut in Avery Fisher Hall at the 1999 Mostly Mozart Festival performing with world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. “..extremely talented and highly trained...poised and accomplished...” said Strings Magazine. Mr. Sweaney began his musical studies at age eleven and has since had a diverse education in the United States and Europe. He has won many prizes and performed across the globe. He has won prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Down Beat Magazine Chamber Music Competition, was a two time recipient of the Interlochen Arts Academy Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Performance in Viola, he was the recipient a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant, and winner of the Fifth Annual Sister Mary Faustina Memorial Concert in Marylhurst, Oregon. He has been teaching assistant to Heidi Castleman and a chamber music coach at The Perlman Music Program. He participated in exchange programs through The Perlman Music Program on trips to Tel-Aviv and Shanghai. Mr. Sweaney has held faculty positions at the Cleveland School for the Arts, Rice University Preparatory Department, the Lovett School in Atlanta Georgia, The Boulder Arts Academy, was a guest artist at the St. Joseph’s School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, and is on the faculty of the North American Viola Institute. He has given masterclasses at the University of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Southern Illionois, Bowling Green State University, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana Cuba. Mr. Sweaney has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Ani Aznavoorian, Ron Leonard, His major teachers include Heidi Castleman, David Holland, Thomas Riebl, Martha Strongin-Katz, Roger Tapping, Erika Eckert, and Geraldine Walther. In 2007 Mr. Sweaney toured with the Signum String Quartet and was heard on a live broadcast by West German Radio. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Alabama. In his spare time he enjoys training for endurance events such as open water swimming, triathlons, and marathons.
Dr. Dan Hornstein
is the director of the Arts Magnet Orchestra program for the Huntsville City Schools, as well as teaching German at Lee High School and online. He has been a faculty member at the University of North Alabama, Minot State University (ND), and the University of Texas at Arlington. He has a major career as an orchestra conductor, appearing in engagements in the US and Europe. In 2000, he received the “String Teacher of the Year” award from the North Dakota American String Teacher’s Association, and was named by MENC as one of the countries’ “Top 500 Music Educators”. He has served as President of the Alabama Orchestra Association and is currently President of Alabama ASTA. He is one of only 13 music teachers in the state to hold National Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He will guest-conduct the Colorado All-State Philharmonic Orchestra in February 2010.
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