Location: TBD
Dates: July 12-13 & July 19-20
Based upon the enthusiastic reviews from participants in our prior two summer String Chamber Music Workshops, TCMS will again be offering the workshop in 2025. The workshop will be held over two weekends in July, July 12-13 and July 19-20.
Coaching will be provided by Dustin Budish, viola, and Dan Flanagan, violin. Dustin is well known to our local young musicians through his role as the conductor of the Reno Philharmonic’s Youth Concert Orchestra. Dan will be great addition to the workshop faculty, and familiar to some of the young Reno Philharmonic youth orchestra players, who participated in the workshop he offered last April.
The Workshop
The TCMS String Chamber Music Workshop is open to intermediate and advanced players of violin, viola, cello or bass of all ages, with particular focus on school age musicians.
Applications will be posted on this website on April 1, 2025.
Save the dates and apply early as space may be limited!
Participants have the opportunity to:
- Play and rehearse chamber music with other musicians
- Develop ensemble playing skills, including listening, blending, and balance
- Learn and perform a selection of repertoire, based on participants’ experience level
- Receive coaching and feedback from an experienced chamber musician
- Develop performance techniques and strategies for effective rehearsal and performance preparation
- Participate in a final performance for friends and family
The Coaches
Dustin Budish
A native of Reno, Nevada, Dustin began his musical training at the age of eight studying the piano, but soon after a suggestion by his middle school strings teacher he realized his true passion was for the viola. While in high school, Dustin received numerous honors including principal viola of the Nevada All-State Orchestra and a Command Performance. He went on to study at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute with Jeffrey Irvine for which he received his BM in viola performance and then received his MM with honors at the New England Conservatory with Martha Katz.
While in school, Dustin was a founding member of the Mephisto Quartet, which worked with and performed alongside members of the Cavani, Tokyo, Vermeer, and Cleveland Quartets, and received the Russell Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in 2001. As a Chamber musician, Dustin has performed at the Ravinia and Norfolk Festivals, and in 2005 was invited to Israel to perform with Maxim Vengerov’s Mozart Project with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. As a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Dustin was featured as soloist with the orchestra as a winner of the annual concerto competition under Maestro Alasdair Neale’s direction. Also while in Miami, he served as artistic advisor and electric violinist to the “Friends” of New World, catering custom innovative fusions of classical music with hip-hop, electronic, reggae and funk . Mr. Budish is currently Principal Viola of the Reno Philharmonic and Reno Chamber Orchestra, as well as conductor of the Youth Strings Symphonia. He also substitutes regularly with the San Francisco Symphony.
Dan Flanagan
Dan Flanagan has built a multifaceted career as a soloist and orchestral musician, performing concertos with orchestras in California and recitals throughout the United States and Europe. Flanagan currently serves as Concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Concertmaster of West Edge Opera, and Instructor of Violin at University of California, Berkeley. Described as an “excellent violinist” (New York Concert Reviews), “stellar musician” (Nevada Reviews) and “superior violinist” (Piedmont Post), he has been praised for his “exquisite tones” and “forthright brio” (Sacramento Bee), and his “solos were excellent” (San Francisco Classical Voice).
For more information, see https://danflanaganviolin.com