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The Eleanor Downing Maxine Miller Memorial FundEleanor Downing and Maxine Miller were great friends and taught together at Edna I. Murphy Elementary School from 1967 – 1982 when Eleanor retired from her position as music teacher for the Grand Rapids School District. Eleanor and Maxine’s friendship went beyond the school day. Eleanor convened a monthly music appre-ciation gathering for her friends who eventually referred to them-selves as the Music Depreciators. Maxine was part of the group and was one of the originators of the Eleanor Downing Fund. The fund originally procured small violins for beginning students but has grown significantly to support the Strings Program with instru-ment purchases and repairs. When Maxine passed away in 2011, the Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program added her name to this important fund, which honors two great ladies of the arts. The fund was moved to the Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation where another great friend of Maxine and Eleanor contributed to the fund. Roberta Fahlman held a donor designated fund at the Foundation in memory of her daughter Kirsten Fahlman-Wagner. This fund was joined with the Miller-Downing Fund. Roberta also taught at Mur-phy and also was a member of the Music Depreciators. What a story and a legacy! Donations may be made to the fund by mailing a check payable to IOSP and sent to PO Box 140, Grand Rapids MN 55744 or the Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation, 350 NW 1st Ave., Grand Rapids MN 55744. Please designate the fund in the memo line. Thank you!

Leave a Legacy: Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program Endowment Fund

With a charitable designation in your will, you can help ensure orchestral music and strings instruction in our community for years to come. The Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and therefore eligible to be named a beneficiary. The Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation and your attorney can help you leave a legacy to the IOSP endowment fund. In addition, a gift will often reduce estate and transfer taxes. If you decide to leave a legacy of music, we would love to know, so we can thank you.

PO Box 140 • Grand Rapids MN 55744218-327-5781 • www.itascaorchestra.org

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Thank you for your generous gift:

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Itasca Orchestra and StringsBoard of Directors

Dave Kooda, PresidentKatie Marshall, Vice President

Tom Nelson, SecretaryShannon Benolken, Treasurer

Tara Makinen, Executive Director

Cindy Aultman • Christa Berg • Joan Foster • Anissa Grotjohn • Brad JohnsonDr. Rebecca Kuntz • Cathy Shields • Amanda Skaudis • Heidi Wick

Our Conductor

Conductor Keith Swanson, received his under graduate degree from the University of Minnesota and his Master’s Degree in Educational Instruction from the University of Wisconsin Superior. He is recently retired as the Director of Music at Hermantown High School. He also has conducted the UMD Symphony Orchestra and orchestras for the Northland Opera Theater Experience and Colder by the Lake. As an avid opera fan and Music Director of Duluth’s Lyric Opera of the North (LOON), he has conducted for productions of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Handel’s Semele, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Once each summer you may also catch him playing French Horn in the Coleraine City Band under the direction of ISO’s trombone player, Tom Patnaude. You may also engage him in any discussion about the Minnesota Twins or Vikings.

Our Strings Program Staff

Sarah Kowitz, our Strings Program Director of String Instruction, has her undergraduate degree in Music Performance from Luther College in Iowa, and her Music Masters in Violin Performance and String Pedagogy, from the University of Texas, where she wrote her Master’s Report on Twentieth Century Music for Beginning Violin Students. She is originally from Cloquet and recently moved back into the area.

Her experience includes orchestra conducting and chamber music coaching, teaching lessons to students of all ages from beginner to advanced players as both a private teacher

and as music faculty at the Carolina Music Academy, the Palmetto Center for the Arts, and the University of Texas Strings Project. Additionally, she served as the Head of the Strings Department and Orchestra Conductor for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony School of Music. Mrs. Kowitz’s primary instrument is violin, but her teaching experience also includes viola, cello and bass. You may have recently seen her performing with the Northshore Philharmonic Orchestra in Duluth or the Mesabi Orchestra.

John Ondich-Batson has his Bachelors of Arts, Music from St. Olaf College in Northfield, and recently graduated from UMD with his Master’s in Conducting. John is an active violist/violinist in the Duluth, MN music community. He has performed in the MN Ballet’s annual production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, assisted in UMD’s Chamber Orchestra, and collaborated with local, nonprofit organizations such as the Arrowhead Chorale and Bluebird Foundation performing on violin and viola. He also has taught at the North Shore Summer Music Experience string program held on UMD campus, instructing students of various skill levels in rehearsals, sectional coaching, as well as chamber music coaching.

Elise Campbell received her Bachelor of Arts in Education, with a major in Music, from the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), a Bachelor of Applied Science with a major in Kindergarten/Elementary Education from UMD, and a Master of Science in Education from the University of Wisconsin Superior. Ms. Campbell is currently a second grade teacher at Van Dyke Elementary in Coleraine. In addition to her extensive elementary school teaching experience, Ms. Campbell has taught cello and piano through her own teaching studio, and as faculty at the Lowell Music Magnet School and the John Duss Conservatory. Ms. Campbell also taught classroom music, conducted choirs, delivered piano instruction and produced all-school music revues at the Holy Rosary and St. John’s Elementary Schools in Duluth. Ms. Campbell has also performed with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Itasca Symphony Orchestra and many other community groups.

Save the Date

Jazz in JanuaryJazz in January with the Arrowhead Region’s most

sought after collaborative artist and educator, Jazz, and Jazz Manouche guitarist Sam Miltich. This Jazz Workshop for Adult String Musicians will

develop jazz and improvisation technique for the violin, viola, cello, bass or guitar musician ranging in experience from beginner to advanced. No previous jazz experience

required. Choose to attend 1 or 5 workshops from 6:30 to 8:00pm on Tuesdays in January. The workshops will take

place in the Reif Performing Arts Center, Ensemble Room. Register online by following the link on our webpage

www.itascaorchestra.org.

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