Dorothy
Kitchen,
Director
Dorothy Kitchen began her studies at
Eastman School of Music, finished Phi Beta Kappa at Case Western Reserve
University and took her Master's Degree from Brandeis University. She also
studied at the Longy School of Music and at the University of London on a
Holden Prize Fund Fellowship.
Her teaching experience has spanned
forty years, beginning as Director of Children's Chamber Music at the Longy
School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., to fifteen years of intensive summer
chamber music camps. She has done many workshops throughout North Carolina,
taught for fifteen summers in the Camp Musicale de Leogane, Haiti, and for
eleven years at UNC-Greensboro. She was the Youth Chamber Music Professor in
Lima, Peru for the IV International Festival. She has served as state chairman
for North Carolina Music Teachers Association, as a judge for Allstate
orchestra, has given master classes at UNC-Greensboro, Methodist College,
Appalachian State University and Virginia State University.
She was Associate Concertmaster of
the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for fifteen years and is a member emeritus of
the St. Stephen's Chambers Orchestra. She has soloed with the Dayton
Philharmonic, the Greensboro Symphony and the St. Stephen's Chamber Orchestra.
She has also received the Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Music from
the North Carolina School of the Arts and the North Carolina Symphony's Maxine
Swalin Outstanding Music Educator Award.