Member Profile: C.M. Sunday

Username: csunday

Contact: cmsunday@alumni.rice.edu

Home page: http://beststudentviolins.com/Home.html

Preferred Language: English

Interests: Violin pedagogy, composition, conducting, animal rights, veganism

Author of: 14 Modules (view statistics)

Biography:

Currently a freelance violinist and violist, private teacher and chamber music coach, Connie Sunday has led an active musical life as a studio musician working in major cities throughout the US and the Caribbean, including Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Memphis, Phoenix, Dallas, and Nassau. Ms. Sunday's early training included numerous orchestral experiences in the Midwest, and studies with Samuel Applebaum at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Ms. Sunday has enjoyed great success as a teacher of violin since beginning her teaching career, which has spanned several decades.

She received an undergraduate degree in violin performance and conducting at Rice University in Houston (1987), where she studied violin with Raphael Fliegel and conducting with Samuel Jones. She performed in the Grand Tetons Orchestral Seminar, and performed in a wide variety of chamber music ensembles at UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, including performing in a National Endowment of the Arts opera orchestra at Duke University and in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

At Chapel Hill she studied violin with Richard Luby, conducting with Tonu Kalam, participated in Baroque Performance ensembles and did extensive research on pedagogy of exceptional children and ethics in education. She went on to perform in the Memphis Opera, and teach violin at Rhodes College in Memphis. She held a teaching assistantship at University of California, Irvine, studying violin with Horotune Bedelian, and received her M.M. in violin performance at University of North Texas in 1992, where she studied violin with Robert Davidovici. While at North Texas, she was founder and director of a Suzuki program, based at Selwyn School.

Ms. Sunday studied composition in a Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, working with Mary Jeanne van Appledorn at Texas Tech University. Ms. Sunday also designs webpages and manages Connie's Violin Page and BestStudentViolins.com, an online store featuring stringed instruments, string accessories and sheet music. She is currently freelancing as a conductor and string player in California and Nevada, and pursuing doctoral work in conducting.