Credo Chamber Music Camp

Credo Faculty come from many of the leading music schools and orchestras across the country. Together they make the CREDO experience a life-changing experience for many students and enjoy this opportunity to be a part of Credo's holistic, learning environment. Their goal is to help students develop the gift of music, acknowledge the source of the gift, and cultivate an attitude of service with the gift.

Ruth Marie Ballance has been a faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Department, the Broadway School of Music and the Arts in Cleveland and maintains a private studio in Cleveland Heights. She has been on faculty at the Austin Chamber Music Center Summer Workshop and has performed with the Alaska Quartet in the Mid-West as well as additional outreach tours in Alaska. Ms. Bridge holds BM and MM degrees from Cleveland Institute of Music. In the fall she will be moving to Rochester, NY and joining the faculty of the Hochstein School of Music and Dance.

Noted as a "poetic violist" by the New Yorker, violist Lawrence Dutton has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher of viola and chamber music. As violist of the world renowned Emerson String Quartet, Mr. Dutton performs over 100 concerts each season and has won six Grammy Awards. Mr. Dutton has collaborated with many of the world's great performing artists, including Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Walter Trampler, Menahem Pressler, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha Dichter, Jan DeGaetani and Edgar Meyer. In addition, he has performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri quartets, and with the Beaux Arts and the Kalichstein, Laredo, Robinson trios.

As a soloist, Mr. Dutton has appeared with many American and European orchestras including those of Germany, Belgium, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, and Virginia. He has also appeared as guest artist at the music festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Ravinia and Chamber Music Northwest, and has collaborated with the late Isaac Stern in the International Chamber Music Encounters at both Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Mr. Dutton is currently a Professor of Chamber Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music and resides in Bronxville, New York with his wife, violinist Elizabeth Lim-Dutton and their sons Luke Thomas and Jesse Lee.

John Fitchuk is an active violist in the Chicago area and has taught all levels and areas of music in Illinois for thirty-six years. For twenty-two years, he was Director of Orchestras at both Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville High Schools. Mr. Fitchuk has served as Organizational Chair of the All-State Honors Orchestra and President of the Chicago American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and he has been the Director of the Fox Valley and West Suburban Youth Symphonies. In 1996 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois Music Educators Association. Mr. Fitchuk has been a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Hinsdale Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the Dubuque Symphony and also serves on the music staff of Christ Church of Oakbrook.

Kangwon Kim has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and Norway. Dr. Kim has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and CRI labels. She has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Opera Company, Brandywine Baroque and Delaware Symphony, and the Galena String Quartet. An avid baroque violinist, Dr. Kim has presented lecture recitals on performance practice at many leading schools of music. She is currently Assistant Professor of violin and chamber music at Biola University.

Violinist Lisa-Beth Lambert joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2001 following six seasons with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. An active chamber musician, Ms. Lambert has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, on Marlboro's Fiftieth Anniversary recording, and at the White House. She has performed with many chamber groups, including the Brandenburg Ensemble, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and the Twentieth Century Consort, on the Philadelphia Art Museum and Kennedy Center Terrace Theater Series, and has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the National Symphony Orchestra and the New World Chamber Orchestra of Mexico City. A graduate of the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes of Music, her major teachers included Jaime Laredo, Yumi Ninomiya Scott, Donald Weilerstein, and Ronda Cole, with whom she began studying at age three. In addition to teaching privately, Ms. Lambert developed and directed the Intensive Study Program for advanced students at the MasterWorks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana. She has appeared on the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series and Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble Series, and during the past two seasons, has presented the Mozart sonata cycle with pianist Lambert Orkis at several venues in and around Washington and Philadelphia.

Marilyn McDonald has toured world-wide as a member of the Castle Trio, the Smithson String Quartet, the Oberlin Barooque Ensemble and Ensemble Pierrot, a group specializing in contemporary music. She currently is a member of the Axelrod Quartet, performing on the Smithonian’s Stradivarius instruments. Ms. McDonald has appeared as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States. She is concertmaster of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Boston Baroque. Summer festivals include the Baroque Performance Institute, Colorado College Festival, Fairbanks (AK) and Bowdoin Festivals. She has held visiting professorships at Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music and is Artist-in-Residence at Boston University. Ms. McDonald is Professor of Violin at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.