Utah Symphony goes teaching in Haiti
mainA Utah Symphony cellist John Eckstein has persuaded 14 colleagues and a music director, Thierry Fischer, to join him next spring in desperately impoverished Haiti, creating a national institute for young musicians.
All it takes is one musician and a dream.
Read more here and here.
photo: John Marquis Cahill
Great story. Much credit to John – however, “one musician” doesn’t really do justice to all the people in Haiti and abroad who are working to make this happen.
I hope they looked up Romeil Joseph, a US trained violinist who was injured in the quake a few years ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030602313.html
Alas, Romel Joseph passed away last year;
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article38114070.html
His children, Victoria and Bradley, are keeping the New Victorian School that Romel founded in Port-au-Prince, going. A huge loss to the Haitian musical community.
The photo of Janet Anthony and the students at the Grand Camp of the Sainte Trinité school used in this blog post was taken by John Marquis Cahill.