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Linda Laderach

Position: Professor of Music
Office: Pratt 215
Education: B.M. Indiana University
M.M. Ohio University

Graduate of Indiana University (B.M.) and Ohio University (M.M.) LINDA LADERACH combines a performance career on both Baroque and modern violin with her teaching career.

Linda Laderach

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Beethoven Op.23, 3rd movement
Linda Laderach, violin Larry Schipull, piano

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Telemann Paris Quartet in e minor
Mount Holyoke Faculty Baroque Ensemble
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Professor Laderach has been a member of the faculty at Mount Holyoke College since 1975. Sabbatical projects in 2000 included a five-week concert tour of the western United States and Hong Kong, participation in the Starling-DeLay Violin Teaching Symposium at The Juilliard School of Music and in a Five College Video Conferencing Workshop, creation of a web site for violin and viola and a web-based course for her studio class and completion of the Pratt Renovation Project which she chaired.

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Ms. Laderach performed with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. She also won concerto competitions at Indiana University and Ohio University where she performed the Barber Violin Concerto and the Brahms Violin Concerto respectively. She has studied violin with Urico Rossi, Josef Gingold and Howard Beebe and chamber music with Janos Starker, William Primrose, Albert Lazan, Fritz Magg, and Leighton Conkling. She also attended and performed at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Aspen Music Festival, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the University of Michigan in a week-long master class with Henryk Szeryng.

Ms. Laderach has performed frequently on both the modern and baroque violins in solo and chamber music concerts at Mount Holyoke College and in the Five College area. She has toured the United States, Europe and Asia with colleague Larry Schipull since 1989 and recently completed a CD of Beethoven Sonatas that is available on the Folger Library "Bard" label and the demo of an interactive CD-ROM program on historically-informed performance.

Ms. Laderach has also taught at Smith College, Ohio University, Bowling Green State University Extension Division, Eastern Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and in the Toledo Public Schools.

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