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Kama has played solo, with other violinists, in ensembles, and as concert mistress in string orchestras and young symphony orchestras. She has played for weddings, parties, benefits and around campfires. She is as comfortable outdoors as she is indoors. She has played a wide variety of music for young and old, in many different situations. Kama is versatile, competent, and a delight to work with.
Kama recently won third prize in the 2008 Orchestra of Northern New York Young Artists Concerto Competition performing Concerto No.1 in G minor by Max Bruch.
Kama currently studies violin with Prof. Ioan Harea at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. This summer she studied with Walter Schwede and Steve Rochen at Meadowmount School of Music. She plays first violin for the Backwater Orchestra in Saranac Lake, under the direction of Elaine Dewar, and was Concert Mistress for the 2007 Crane Youth Music Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Andrews. Kama played first viola in The Biava Quartet's Mozart and Vivaldi Projects and first violin in the Pit Orchestra for SLHS's productions of Guys and Dolls and Carousel. She was a solo performer for the Adirondack Artists' Guild 10th Anniversary Winter Carnival Art Show and for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts' 2007 Summer Benefit, Under the Tuscan Moon. Kama was Concert Mistress of the Essex All-County Orchestra for three years and has played with the Adirondack Youth String Orchestra under the direction of Beth Gorevic and The Homeschool Ensemble under the direction of Lynn Waickman.
Her prior studies were with Carl Kokes with whom she studied violin, viola, cello and flute. She has also studied viola with Elaine Dewar, cello and the Alexander Technique with Beth Robinson and piano with Carol Carpenter.
Kama participated in the Lake Placid Institute's 2006 and 2007 Chamber Music Seminars with Linda Rosenthal (artistic director, violin), Jeffrey Solow (cello), Gwen Thompson (violin and viola), Walter Schwede (violin), Laura Klughertz (violin and viola) and Steve Heyman (piano).
At Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp in Nashville, Tennessee Kama studied with over 20 different instructors including Mark O'Connor, Colin Jacobsen, Buddy Spicher, Christian Howes, Tracy Silverman, Samantha Raubichaud, George Gao, Victor Lin, Mark Wood, and Jeremy Kittel. She has participated in fiddling workshops with Jay Unger & Molly Mason, and with Brian Wicklund (The American Fiddle Method).
In addition to performing, Kama teaches and mentors students young and old. She teaches the After-School Violin Program at Bloomingdale Elementary School and maintains a private studio for string students.
Kama lives in Rainbow Lake, NY in the northern Adirondack Mountains
(near Saranac Lake, Lake Placid, Tupper Lake,
Malone, Saranac, Plattsburgh, Lake Clear,
Wilmington, Whiteface Mountain, Keene, Keene Valley, Jay,
Gabriels, Bloomingdale, Vermontville, and Onchiota).
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Kama is pictured below with the Biava Quartet
after the Vivaldi Project concert in Saranac Lake.
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