VJC Q&T podcast host Russell Schmidt has shared a journey in music education with violist Nancy Buck since they first met in 1995 at Bowling Green State University’s new faculty orientation. And for more than two decades, Nancy and Russ have maintained a joyous partnership on and off the concert stage. Nancy is a nationally-renown artist/teacher who presently serves as an Associate Professor of Viola at Arizona State University. She is also the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Arizona Violacademy.
Nancy recently stopped by the MSW-Tempe studio to share questions and tangents with Russ. In this, the second of two podcasts together, they discussed why playing with others must be an “ears-over-eyes” experience, what it means to contribute texture to music, and even how varieties of chocolate might relate to a performing artist’s concept of sound.
Learn more about Nancy Buck here:
https://music.asu.edu/profile/nancy-buck
Learn more about the Arizona Violacademy, for which she serves as Artistic Director and Co-Founder, here:
https://astaaz.org/event/violacademy/
Learn more about some of the people, institutions, and other topics mentioned in the podcast here:
Johannes Brahms – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms
Elizabeth Buck – https://music.asu.edu/profile/elizabeth-buck
Steven Cornelius – https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/steven_cornelius
Vincenzo Sannino – https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/vincenzo-sannino/
Shinichi Suzuki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Suzuki_(violinist)
Georg Philipp Telemann – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Philipp_Telemann
Rayburn Wright – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright
Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts – https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts.html
Oberlin Conservatory of Music – https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory
Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_School_for_the_Arts
University of California, Berkeley – https://www.berkeley.edu/
Afro-Caribbean Music – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_music
Chamber Music – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_music
Dance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance
Dark Chocolate – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chocolate
Kinesthetic (or Physical) Intelligence – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_intelligence
Milk Chocolate – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate#Milk_chocolate
Mona Lisa – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Plasma – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)
Suzuki Method – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method
Viola Repertoire – https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_Compositions_Featuring_the_Viola
White Chocolate – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_chocolate
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About The Host: Pianist/composer/educator Russell Schmidt has performed with such celebrated artists as Carl Allen, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, John Hollenbeck, Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Lucas Pino, Arturo Sandoval, and Clark Terry. Among his recordings as a leader are Anachromysticism (2012), which highlights Russell’s wide-ranging efforts as a jazz composer, Jazz Triptych, Volume I – The Sacred (2018), a collection of hymns and spirituals reimagined in the jazz language, and his most recent recording, the companion album Jazz Triptych, Volume II – The Secular (2019).
After a distinguished career in academia, Russell joined Music Serving The Word in June 2014 as Coordinator of Education, founding MSW’s Valley Jazz Cooperative program in 2016. Previously, he served as Director of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Utah. He was also a member of the Eastman School of Music jazz faculty, where he co-conducted the Eastman Studio Orchestra. A student of Rayburn Wright, Russell holds two degrees from Eastman.
Find music from VJC Q&T host Russell Schmidt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ?
The Questions & Tangents podcast is produced by Caleb Kilian, for the Valley Jazz Cooperative, an outreach of MSW Ministries, a 501(c)(3) organization.
