Full Program - Missouri Music Educators Association

Thursday, 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Salon A
Parkway Central Symphonic String Orchestra
Winifred W. Crock, Susan M. Hampton
St. Paul’s Suite Opus 29 No.2.................................................................................... Gustav Holst
G. Schirmer
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 8 in G Minor..........................................................Archangelo Corelli
Fatto per la notte di Natale
Kalmus
October...................................................................................... Eric Whitacre/arr. Paul Lavender
Carl Fischer
Concerto Grosso No. 1................................................................................................Ernest Bloch
Movement 1
Broude Brothers
Winifred Crock is currently the Orchestra Director at Parkway Central High School and maintains a
private violin studio in St. Louis. During her tenure, the Central High music department was been
awarded Grammy Gold Signature school status as one of the top music departments in the country.
She has taught in private studio situations including university and conservatory preparatory
programs and independent private studio for 33 years. She has taught in public school string
programs for 27 years.
Mrs. Crock is in demand as a clinician, lecturer and conductor. She has presented at numerous
ASTA and SAA conferences and has been the featured string clinician at TMEA, MMEA and other
music conferences over twenty states, Canada and New Zealand. In 2010, Mrs. Crock was the
conductor of the Suzuki Association of the Americas International Suzuki Youth Orchestra. A
frequent contributor to the Suzuki Journal of the Americas and ASTA publications, she is also the
co-author of the new Alfred string publication “Learning Together: Sequential Repertoire for Solo
Strings or String Ensemble.”
Mrs. Crock holds music degrees from SIU Edwardsville and Kent State University in Ohio. Mrs.
Crock attended and graduated from the Suzuki Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan
under the tutelage of Shinichi Suzuki. A certified Kodaly instructor, Mrs. Crock is also a music
literacy specialist for string students. Mrs. Crock is married to Steve Crock and has a son, William,
age 15.
Susan Hampton is currently the Orchestra Assistant at Parkway Central High School and maintains
a private cello studio in O’Fallon, Missouri. Ms. Hampton was an orchestra director in the Fergusson-
Florissant schools for 3 years and at Parkway Central Middle School for 22 years and then retired
to raise her daughter Olivia. We have welcomed her back to Central High as the Orchestra Assistant
for the last 6 years. A cellist and lower string specialist, Ms. Hampton holds music degrees from
Southern Illinois and Lindenwood Universities.
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