2010 Award Recipients
Please
join us in congratulating to this years award
recipients.
Cate Howard, MA-ASTA Studio Teacher of
the Year - 2010
Cate Howard
began her undergraduate studies at the New School of
Music, Philadelphia, and completed her degree program
at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa in violin performance and pedagogy. She
continued graduate work through Temple University
(studying with Jascha Brodsky), and in Cologne,
Germany where she was a student of Christiane Hutcap
and Igor Ozim. She has been an active teacher and
performer in South Africa, the New Jersey, Delaware
and Pennsylvania areas, Germany and Boston. Since
1994, Ms. Howard has been the director of the String
Arts School of Concord MA, teaching violin and viola,
and in 2001 joined the faculty of the New England
Conservatory Preparatory School.
Using music as a medium which can touch and enrich peoples' lives, Ms. Howard (often in collaboration with her students) has played and organized numerous African benefit concerts for the building of clinics, improved education opportunities, and the prevention of AIDS. In 2007 she received the Danial Orjiako Foundation Award in recognition of her contributions. As a workshop clinician, Ms. Howard has taught in Germany, Florida, California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Maine. She is also on the Suzuki summer institute faculty in DC, Maine, western Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Ms. Howard has training in Brain Gym, Reiki, and practices Vinyasa Yoga.
In 2008, Cate published her first book, How the Violin Plays the Violinist. “...this book offers players, students, teachers, and parents of young musicians, insights into what the violin asks of its players and suggestions on how one might open doors to increased efficiency, competence and free expression of our selves through our instrument.” The text is clarified and brought to life through the inclusion of graphics, hands on exercises, illustrative stories, and her own pencil sketches.
Using music as a medium which can touch and enrich peoples' lives, Ms. Howard (often in collaboration with her students) has played and organized numerous African benefit concerts for the building of clinics, improved education opportunities, and the prevention of AIDS. In 2007 she received the Danial Orjiako Foundation Award in recognition of her contributions. As a workshop clinician, Ms. Howard has taught in Germany, Florida, California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Maine. She is also on the Suzuki summer institute faculty in DC, Maine, western Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Ms. Howard has training in Brain Gym, Reiki, and practices Vinyasa Yoga.
In 2008, Cate published her first book, How the Violin Plays the Violinist. “...this book offers players, students, teachers, and parents of young musicians, insights into what the violin asks of its players and suggestions on how one might open doors to increased efficiency, competence and free expression of our selves through our instrument.” The text is clarified and brought to life through the inclusion of graphics, hands on exercises, illustrative stories, and her own pencil sketches.
Kathy I. LeBoeuf, MA-ASTA Orchestra
Director of the Year - 2010
Kathy I.
LeBoeuf is the director of the Oak Middle School
orchestras, Shrewsbury MA. Over the years, she has
taught every level from 4th grade string orchestras
through high school full and string orchestras as
well as string instrument instruction, general music,
recorder and elementary choir in the Shrewsbury
Public Schools. Over the past 18 years in Shrewsbury,
she has developed a comprehensive string program,
incorporating curriculum development that integrates
orchestral methodology and string instrument
pedagogy. She is responsible for the development,
piloting and subsequent acceptance of the string
pedagogical curriculum. Kathy’s orchestra performed
the world premier of “Silent Snowfall” while teaching
in Shrewsbury.
Kathy previously taught in Guilderland, NY at the Farnsworth Middle School. During her tenure, the orchestral program grew incredibly in size, musicality, and motivation. The retention of string students caused the high school orchestra to out-grow their rehearsal space! Kathy also found an honor string orchestra; which is still in existence today, along with a chamber music program. Her students performed solos, in chamber groups as well as string and full orchestras at the highest levels of NYSSMA.
Kathy has worked on the national and international levels, mostly in Double Bass curriculum and pedagogy. She was appointed to the Double Bass Committee and helped to develop the Suzuki School Double Bass books 2 and 3. Kathy was a driving force behind the Suzuki Association of the Americas International Conferences in Chicago. Kathy was the double bass coordinator as well as a guest performer, conference presenter, moderator and master class clinician. Kathy graciously hosted teachers from as far away as Israel and Australia in her Shrewsbury home, to facilitate a visit to her school to learn first hand about Kathy’s methodology. Kathy has designed and produced a number of music listening presentations for elementary and middle school classes. Educators around the world have requested those presentations.
On the state level, Kathy was the Director of the Massachusetts ASTA with NSOA Fall High School Orchestra Festivals and the Spring Orchestra Adjudication Festivals. She coordinated every aspect of the festivals; all the while her orchestras received the highest rating at the same festivals. She has been an adjudicator for the Western District and a guest conductor of various orchestra festivals throughout Massachusetts.
Kathy is published in a number of professional journals, including the American Suzuki Journal and the MA-ASTA Bay State Bridge. She was also a contributing editor of the Bay State Bridge.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Music Ed, with a minor in Double Bass performance, from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston MA. In addition, she has studied with many of the top string educators in the country.
Receiving the MA-ASTA Orchestra Director of the Year award honors Kathy. Her most important work, and a blessing to her life, is her family. Kathy resides in Shrewsbury with the loves of her life; her husband, Ray daughters Kate and Amanda, who are both ‘cellists, but more importantly wonderful, caring adults.
Kathy previously taught in Guilderland, NY at the Farnsworth Middle School. During her tenure, the orchestral program grew incredibly in size, musicality, and motivation. The retention of string students caused the high school orchestra to out-grow their rehearsal space! Kathy also found an honor string orchestra; which is still in existence today, along with a chamber music program. Her students performed solos, in chamber groups as well as string and full orchestras at the highest levels of NYSSMA.
Kathy has worked on the national and international levels, mostly in Double Bass curriculum and pedagogy. She was appointed to the Double Bass Committee and helped to develop the Suzuki School Double Bass books 2 and 3. Kathy was a driving force behind the Suzuki Association of the Americas International Conferences in Chicago. Kathy was the double bass coordinator as well as a guest performer, conference presenter, moderator and master class clinician. Kathy graciously hosted teachers from as far away as Israel and Australia in her Shrewsbury home, to facilitate a visit to her school to learn first hand about Kathy’s methodology. Kathy has designed and produced a number of music listening presentations for elementary and middle school classes. Educators around the world have requested those presentations.
On the state level, Kathy was the Director of the Massachusetts ASTA with NSOA Fall High School Orchestra Festivals and the Spring Orchestra Adjudication Festivals. She coordinated every aspect of the festivals; all the while her orchestras received the highest rating at the same festivals. She has been an adjudicator for the Western District and a guest conductor of various orchestra festivals throughout Massachusetts.
Kathy is published in a number of professional journals, including the American Suzuki Journal and the MA-ASTA Bay State Bridge. She was also a contributing editor of the Bay State Bridge.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Music Ed, with a minor in Double Bass performance, from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston MA. In addition, she has studied with many of the top string educators in the country.
Receiving the MA-ASTA Orchestra Director of the Year award honors Kathy. Her most important work, and a blessing to her life, is her family. Kathy resides in Shrewsbury with the loves of her life; her husband, Ray daughters Kate and Amanda, who are both ‘cellists, but more importantly wonderful, caring adults.
Thanks to Margot Buescher Reavey for coordinating the MA-ASTA Awards Process