WSO STRINGS
VIOLIN
Lillian Scheirich, Concertmaster*
Konstantin Popovic, Assistant
Concertmaster
Kevin Filewych, Principal Second Violin*
Michèle Dumoulin, Assistant
Principal Second Violin*
Dawn Hrycak-Popovic*
Ewa Uziel*
Min Xie*
Suhashini Arulanandam
Ja Hee Chung
Tamara Hrycak
VIOLA
Joshua Greenlaw, Principal*
Nicholas Penny, Assistant Principal*
Pola Luboniecka*
Besnik Yzeiri
CELLO
Andrew McIntosh, Principal*
Andrea Lysack, Assistant Principal*
Peter Wiebe*
Vladimir Babin
DOUBLE BASS
Gregory Sheldon, Principal*
Marilyn Fung
Reuven Rothman
Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Lillian Scheirich studied violin at
the Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, Michigan, and was a scholarship recipient to the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York, where she graduated with a degree in Violin Performance and in
Music Education, studying with the late Catherine Tait.
Upon graduating from Eastman, Ms. Scheirich won the Assistant Concertmaster position with the Windsor Symphony, and two years later, was appointed Concertmaster, a position which she has held from 1991 until the present. In addition to her role as Concertmaster, Ms. Scheirich is the Violin Instructor at the University of Windsor,
and maintains an accomplished private violin studio.
Ms. Scheirich has played with various orchestras in Canada and in the United States, and has performed in music festivals in Europe, and North America. As a member of the La Corda Ensemble, the Ambassador Chamber Players, and the Detroit-Windsor Chamber Ensemble, she is involved in numerous concerts in the Windsor-Detroit area performing on violin and on viola. Since 1992, the Ambassador Chamber Players have been in summer residence at Schoolcraft College (Livonia, Michigan) for their summer chamber music programme. Ms. Scheirich has been recorded for CBC in various chamber music concerts in Ontario and Quebec, and in 2001 was awarded the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Music.
April 2006, marked the release of her first CD (a world premier) with pianist Mary Siciliano, and the Detroit-Windsor Chamber Ensemble, featuring the chamber works of Ignatz Waghalter. The CD has been heard on CBC Radio, WRCJ-FM in Detroit, and in Germany where it was featured at “Dussmann’s”, Berlin’s largest bookstore. In the Fall of 2006, Ms. Scheirich and colleague Mary Siciliano, recorded the Sonata for Violin and Piano by French composer Jacques de la Presle, which was released this Spring (2008) in France under the
“Polymnie” Label as part of a collection of his chamber music.
In July, 2008, Ms. Scheirich was awarded the Follow the Leader – Sun Life Financial Award for
Female Established Music Artist, and in May 2009, will join colleagues Mary Siciliano, piano,
and Nadine Deleury, cello for a series of concerts in France featuring the works of Jacques de la Presle and his contemporaries.
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Konstantin Popović began his violin studies at the tender age of five in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
A few months later, he was acknowledged as the most promising beginner violinist by the members of the board of education for strings. This recognition led to a performance on a national television program, about the history of violin music.
Parallel to his achievements in violin, at the age of seven, Konstantin was appointed vocal soloist in a renowned youth choir “Drinka Pavlovic”. This choir was frequently broadcast on radio and television and also created three separate recordings featuring Konstantin as a vocal soloist.
At the age of seventeen Konstantin graduated from a music high school in Belgrade having accumulated numerous awards at the highest national violin competition. Konstantin studied violin with Vlada Bobic in Belgrade. Shortly after graduation, Konstantin immigrated to Toronto, Canada where he continued his studies at the University of Toronto in the music performance department under Leo Wigdorchik.
After graduating from U of T, he extended his orchestral studies as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and National Academy Orchestra. As a member of the National Youth Orchestra, he toured most major Canadian cities, numerous countries in Europe and Asia.
In 2000, Konstantin became the Assistant Concertmaster of Windsor Symphony. The same year, he also won an equivalent position in Sinfonia Toronto, a string orchestra comprised of fourteen members. He performs chamber music with Wellington Music, the group that he started in 1997
and with First Generation Entertainment, a Greek ethnic music orchestra.
Konstantin has been featured as a violin soloist on numerous tracks of Kosta Arnakouros’
instrumental CD Mediterranean Rendezvous released in 2004. He recently finished studio work for composer-arranger Charles Cozens of Somerset
Entertainment and will be featured as a first violinist of a string quartet on that recording.
As a soloist Konstantin has had the honor of collaborating with conductors such as Giuseppe Lanzetta, Nurhan Arman, Peter Wiebe, Charles Greenwell, Ivars Taurins, Janez Govednik, Mark Skazinetsky, Fabio Mastrangelo and Maestro John Morris Russell.
Of all his achievements Mr. Popovic puts most value on the arrival of his son Dimitri and
daughter Tatiana. His never ending debt for encouragement goes to his parents and his brother. Finally his immeasurable gratitude for inspiration and support of “a not so starving” musician goes
to his wife Dawn.
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Dawn Hrycak-Popović is a native of Regina Saskatchewn. In 1993 she completed her bachelor of music degree under the late Bogdan Pietrzak at the University of Regina. After leaving Regina, she received a master of music degree in Performance and Literature from the University of Western Ontario under the late Lorand Fenyves.
Throughout her musical career, Ms. Hrycak-Popović has had the opportunity to play with many orchestras in North America and around the world. In 1993 she was the only North American violinist chosen to play with the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra for their two European tours. In the spring, 1996 she was concertmaster for the National Orchestral Institute (America), and served as concermaster for the National Youth Orchestra’s 1996 Japan tour and 1998 European tour. She has been a member of the Regina Symphony, and has played with Orchestra London.
In 1994 and 1995 Ms. Hrycak-Popović was a featured soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado. She has also had solo performances with the University of Regina orchestra and Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
Dawn Hrycak-Popović holds a bachelor of social work from the University of Windsor and a master’s degree in social work with a specialization in cognitive behavioral therapy from Wayne State University. When she is not playing with Windsor Symphony Orchestra, she is a health care case manager with the Erie St. Clair Community Care Access Centre (CCAC).
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Joshua Greenlaw began his post-secondary education at the Eastman School of Music. There, he studied violin with Camilla Wicks, continuing on viola with David Stewart at the University of Manitoba, and ending at the University of British Columbia with Gerald Stanick. In the second year of his master’s program, he won a position in the Vancouver Symphony, and remained in Vancouver for several years. During this time, he was featured on CBC radio, both as a soloist performing a recital on the Debut series, and as a chamber musician. Three years ago, Josh moved to Toronto after winning the Assistant Principal Viola position with the Canadian Opera Company as well as a position with the Santa Fe Opera (an annual 8 week summer festival). Currently, he also teaches violin and viola privately at Cardinal Carter Academy (a high school for the arts). Josh has been the recipient of several provincial and national grants, including a Canada Council artist’s grant to complete a residency at the Banff Centre. When not playing viola, he enjoys riding his bicycle, hiking and spending time with his girlfriend Dana, and cat Dug. He is very much looking forward to beginning work with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
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Marilyn Fung, a native of Hong Kong, received her bachelor of music degree with distinction from the Eastman School of Music, her master of music degree from the Juilliard School, and
her doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her double bass instructors have included James VanDemark, the late Homer Mensch and the legendary Stuart Sankey.
Ms. Fung has performed in the Hong Kong Platform for Young Music Makers Series, the Hong Kong Arts Festival Weekend Divertimento Series, and Radio Television Hong Kong Young Artist Program. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Hong Kong Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the
Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra London, to name a few. She has also participated in various orchestra tours to such countries and cities as Israel and Cyprus, England and France, Singapore, Scotland and Newfoundland.
Ms. Fung is also an experienced educator, having taught at the University of Windsor, University of Michigan in Flint, Flint Institute of Music, University of Michigan All-State Program at Interlochen, the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, St. Stephen’s Girls’ College. She has also coached members of The National Youth Orchestra of Iceland, and at the Zukofsky Seminar in Reykjavik, Iceland.
While attending the University of Michigan, Ms. Fung studied viola da gamba with Enid Sutherland
and fell in love with early music. She has participated in Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Baroque Performance Institute (Oberlin), the Viola da Gamba Conclave, the Bloomington Early Music Festival (Indiana) and the Grand River Baroque Festival (Ontario). She plays both tenor and bass viola da gamba, as well as violone. She is a founding member of Michigan Baroque and performs
with the Montgomery Consort of Viols and Waterloo-based Greensleaves.
Marilyn Fung is currently a member of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Talisker Players, Nota Bene Period Orchestra. She is also a frequent performer with Bach Collegium-Fort Wayne, and freelances with various orchestras in Toronto, Southwestern Ontario and Michigan.
Marilyn Fung
double bass
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