Tom Saul

Personal Information

Education

  • B.S. in Music Education, Magna cum laude, 1966  SUNY Fredonia
  • M.A. in Music Education, 1973  Eastman School of Music
  • Ph.D. in  Music Education, 1976  Eastman School of Music

Employment

  • Greece Central School District 1966-1999

Awards

  • Rochester Philharmonic Award for Outstanding Music Educators  1996 – Strings

Professional Organizations

  • NYSSMA  (Member for over 40 years)
  • American String Teachers’ Association (Life member)
  • American Viola Society
  • Viola d’amore  Society of America/International Viola d’amore Society
  • PerformQuintet ance

College

  • Fredonia College Symphony
  • Fredonia Faculty/Student Chamber Orchestra
  • Erie Philharmonic

Post-Collegiate

  • Many years of service with various community orchestras in the Rochester area, including some 15 years with the Greece Symphony, many of which as principal violist
  • Performed as soloist with the Greece Symphony, Ralph Vaughan Williams’  “Suite for Viola and Orchestra” under the direction of Dr. David Fetler

Chamber Music

  • Tellier String Quartet (Greece)
  • Rochester Piano Quintet (Roberts Wesleyan College)
  • Viola d’amore (since 1985)
  • Many recitals in the Rochester area (including some in the Greece schools)
  • Program on the viola d’amore at the 1989 NYSSMA Summer Conference.
  • Solo performance with the Roberts Wesleyan College Orchestra  under the direction of Dr. David Fray

Additional viola d’amore performences

  • Austin, TX   1986
  • Vermillion, SD  1990
  • Grantham, England  1992
  • Dayton, OH  1994
  • Michaelstein, Germany  1996
  • Ephrain, UT  2004
  • Rendsburg, Germany  2006
  • Ochsenhausen, Germany  2008
  • Evanston, Il  2010

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