RESUME

Lowell Crystal
Voice Mail. 310/874-1769
Member : Professional Musicians Local 47 & RMA (Recording Musicians Association) Los Angeles

EDUCATION

Royal Schools of Music , London, England .

• Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM) - in preparation for May 2009. Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music in Violin Performance (LRSM)
• Diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Violin Performance (DipABRSM)
• Associated Board Royal Schools of Music, Certificate in Music Theory & Certificate of Distinction in Violin Performance

U.S. Navy School of Music, Norfolk, Virginia.

• Graduate Diploma.

University of California Los Angeles,

• Towards Bachelor of Music. in violin performance.

MAJOR TEACHERS

Eunice Wennermark-Price, Joachim Chassman, Stanley Plummer, David Stockhammer, Angel & Pepe Romero, Dick Grove.

MUSIC EDUCATION POSITIONS ( in: violin, viola, music theory, string ensemble director, youth symphony orchestra director.)

Founder and Executive Director of Old Town Conservatory of Music and the Performing Arts, Pasadena, CA.

In the capacity of founder and executive director, I have been directly involved in the areas of, violin(beginner to very advanced) & viola(beginner to 4 th year student) pedagogy, general music curriculum development, program development, financial planning with the board of directors, budget management, establishing music education outreach programs in the Pasadena Unified School District, grant writing, office management, founder and music director of the Pasadena Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, organizer of youth orchestra annual concert tours, interviewing and hiring faculty and staff, organizing and presenting student recitals and annual catalog design. 1993 - 2007.

Music faculty, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA. 1976-1979

WORK EXPERIENCE AS VIOLINIST

Symphony & chamber orchestras (repertoire from Bach to Williams), opera & light opera orchestra (Figaro, La Bohme, Traviata, South Pacific, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, Guys & Dolls, West Side Story, Music Man, The King & I, Oliver, Brigadoon, etc.), free-lance violinist for studio session recording for TV, Film & records. A partial list of performances with the following conductors and artists have included : Performances with the following conductors, artists and film stars have included, Dr. Herbert Zipper, Thomas Osborne, Mehli Metha, Roger Wagner, Lalo Schriffrin, Bruce Healey, Victor Vener, Russell Stenger, Frank Fetta, Joseph Valenti, and artists, Carlos Montoya, Pepe Romero, Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescotti, Shirley Jones, Helen Reddy, John Raitt, Eddie Murphy, Suzanne Guzman, Diane Schurr, Lorna Luft, Mickey Rooney, Andy Garcia, Olivia Dukakas, Dick Van Dyke, Hector Elizondo, Edward James Olmos, Marie Osmond, and Jason Alexander.

ORCHESTRAL & STUDIO SESSION PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Positions include, concertmaster, principal 2 nd violin and section 1 st & 2 nd violin

Free-lance violinist for studio session recording for TV, Film & Records, California Philharmonic Orchestra, Disneyland ‘CandleLight’ Orchestra, Downey Symphony, Torrance Symphony. Glendale Symphony, Colburn Educational Touring Orchestra, Culver City Civic Light Opera Orchestra, Culver City Symphony Orchestra, Hamni Opera Orchestra, Norfolk Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, Carson Symphony, U. S. Nayy Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet Orchestra, UCLA Symphony Orchestra, UCLA Opera Orchestra.

RESEARCH AND WRITING

Author of a Thesaurus of Scales and Arpeggios titled "Velocity Studies for Violin"

A representative list of works conducted as Music Director and Conductor of the Pasadena Philharmonic Youth Orchestra: