SUE TOMLIN
512 Shadow Moss Drive, Macon, Georgia 31204
email or phone: (478) 757-2227 cell: (478) 696-0163
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Experienced in the musical fields of performing, teaching, conducting, composing, arranging, music calligraphy, and recording. Specializing in stringed instruments as well as the piano.
EDUCATION:Columbus College and Albany State (Georgia). Teacher certification. 1985
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Graduated in 1976. Bachelor of Arts Degree.
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. Freshman year.
Baldwin High School; Milledgeville, Georgia. Graduated 1972. Beta Club.
PRESENTLY:
Presently performing as well as teaching violin, fiddle, and piano in private studio in Macon, Georgia. Performing on viola and coaching viola sectionals with the Georgia College and State University String Orchestra in Milledgeville one day a week. Violist/violinist with the Macon Symphony Orchestra. Pianist at Beulah Baptist Church second and fourth Sundays. Presenting educational performances with "The Vivace String Trio" to young school children.
IN ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA (1993-2001) :
Instructor/director of Reynold’s Middle and High School Orchestras.
Violist with the Asheville and the Kingsport (Tennessee) Symphony Orchestras.
Violinist/fiddler/vocalist and leader of “The Back Porch Symphony,” a swing string trio.
Pianist and fiddler with “Razzmatazz,” a contra dance band.
Pianist from April 1994 until departure from Asheville for the Jubilee Community Church.
Choir director and organist for West Asheville Presbyterian Church. 1993-1994
Coordinated, arranged music for, and led fiddle workshop, Summer 1995.
HONORS, DISTINCTIONS, AND WORK EXPERIENCE:
Conductor/Director of Macon Junior Symphony for 6 seasons.
Private studio teacher of 35 violin, viola, and fiddle students for 8 years I lived in Macon.
Founder/Leader of “The Back Porch Symphony” (Georgia). Voted “Best of the Bands” in oldies category in readers’ poll.
Organized and promoted the “Symphony Extravaganza,” a mass concert of area string ensembles and arts organization promoters. April 1991.
Musical Director for Theatre Macon’s productions of “Hair, “ “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Pump Boys and Dinettes,” and “Ebenezer.” Transcribed to piano vocal score original music by Chuck Leavell for “Ebenezer.”
Predominate composer/arranger/producer of music for musical, “When Dinosaurs Ruled the World.” 1988.
Instructor/Musical director of Children’s Community Theatre. Summers 1988-1991.
Organized “Practice-athon” for string students. Raised over $500 for Muscular Distrophy in preparation for recital. May 1992.
Director of “Arts in the Parks” through Macon Arts Alliance. Summer 1989.
Violist with Macon Symphony String Quartet.
Violist with Macon, Savannah, Columbus, and Albany Symphony Orchestras.
Organist/Pianist/Accompanist 1987-1991, Faith Lutheran Church, Lynmore Methodist Church, and Ingleside Methodist Churches. Interim Choir director, summer 1991. Organist/Choir Director at Forsyth Presbyterian Church, 1993.
String Instructor, Dougherty County Public Schools, Albany, Georgia. 1983-1985.
Fiddle Instructor, group lessons, Allied Arts in Milledgeville, Georgia. 1983.
Other experiences include teaching preschool music, strolling violin engagements, providing background music on piano, coordinating ongoing bluegrass jam sessions, producing advertising jingles, teaching a course called “MEusicology” exploring self-made music, performing educational shows in schools about music and sports. Copied orchestral parts for James Oliverio, composer in Atlanta; work performed by Macon Symphony Orchestra.
DULUTH, MINNESOTA ( 1975-1982) :
Violist with Duluth String Quartet and Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra.
Fiddler with four performing groups of non-classical nature.
Founded Northeast Minnesota Fiddlers’ Club. Wrote and received $600 grant.
Fiddle Instructor at River Bend Institute for the Arts, Faribault, MN. Summer 1979.
Winner of numerous fiddle contests and talent shows.
Music Calligrapher of “Symphony,” a massive orchestral score by Henri Lazarof. Published by Theodore Presser.
COLLEGE YEARS (1972-1976) :
Scholarship recipient, University of Southern Mississippi and University of Alabama.
Full scholarship recipient, Carmel Valley (Ca.) Summer Music Camp. 1973.
Violist with Mule Barn Summer Theatre in Tarkio, Missouri. Summer 1974.
Violist with Meridian, Gulfport, Tupelo, Starkville, and Huntsville Symphony Orchestras.
HIGH SCHOOL YEARS (1968-1972) :
Georgia Allstate Orchestras, 1968-1972. First chair violist senior year.
Governor’s Honors Program in music. Summer 1971.
Violist with Macon-Wesleyan String Ensemble.
Oboist in school band. Marched with bell lyre. Pianist for chorus and jazz ensemble.
MEMBER:
American String Teachers Association, Music Educators National Conference
INSTRUCTORS:
Hazel Rankin; Minden, Louisiana. Piano 1960-1968.
Marybell Benton; Georgia College, Milledgeville. Piano 1968-1971.
Public schools of Shreveport, Louisiana. Viola. 1966-1968.
Henri Schwartzenberger; Macon, Georgia. Viola. 1970-1972.
Ted Madson; University of Southern Mississippi. Viola. 1972-1973.
Henry Barrett; University of Alabama. Viola. 1973-1976.
I have also studied on a limited basis voice, organ, harp, hammered dulcimer, lap dulcimer, oboe, cello, and sign language.
INSTRUMENTS:
Viola: Very fine Helmuth Keller model previously owned by principal violist of the North Carolina Symphony.
Violin: Deep rich sounding copy of an Amati.
Phonofiddle: A rare novelty instrument complete with horn. A unique turn of the century instrument and an ebay find.
Keyboards: DX7 Electronic Digital Synthesizer. Earlier model of Kimbell upright piano.
Cello: 100+ year old German make.
Troubadour harp: 4 ½ octave original by Bob Cunningham of Atlanta.
OTHER:
Awarded an Emerging Artists Program Grant (1995-1996) to produce music book entitled “21 Fiddle Tunes” of original arrangements. Text used in my fiddle workshop summer of 1996.
On the faculty of the Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, NC, teaching “Jump-Start Fiddling” and some “Violin Technique,” 1996-2003.
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