Sue Jesch - Concertmaster and Education Director Sue Jesch has taught
violin and viola and performed professionally for more than thirty years. She
began playing in the Carson City Symphony when she moved to Nevada in 2004, and
she became founding director of the Symphony's successful Strings in the Schools
and Strings in the Summer programs in 2005. She is recipient of the 2011 Nevada
Governor's Arts Award for Leadership in Arts Education.
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Sue Jesch began her formal music
instruction at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and went on to become part
of its music faculty, serving as Director of the Preparatory School in
Strings. She studied violin performance and pedagogy extensively in Oxford,
England, with internationally acclaimed string teacher and lecturer, Kat—
Havas, author of A New Approach to Violin Playing, Stage Fright, Its Causes
and Cures, and other instructive books and videos. Ms. Jesch presented a
paper, "A New Approach to Practicing," at the 1990 "Playing Less Hurt"
Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. She is accredited as a representative
teacher of the New Approach.
Ms. Jesch has played professionally
with the Duluth Superior Symphony, the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, and
the University of Minnesota, Duluth, String Quartet. She served as
concertmaster of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Symphony Orchestra
and the Oklahoma Community Orchestra.
In Nevada, Sue Jesch has been
principal viola of the Carson City Symphony, concertmaster and principal viola
of the Ruby Mountain Symphony, and member of the Foundation Orchestra, the
Carson Valley Pops Orchestra, and the Silver Strings, Sierra Strings, and
other chamber music groups. She also has played fiddle with the
Celtic-inspired folk group G‡ir’n.
Ms. Jesch teaches violin and
viola privately in her studio at Play Your Own Music in Carson City, where
she also leads Carson City Symphony's Not Quite Ready For Carnegie Hall
Players, a string ensemble for adult beginners, and Strazz youth strings j
azz ensemble.