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James Przygocki
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James Przygocki teaches violin and viola at the String Academy of Wyoming. In addition
he is Professor of Music and Chair of the String Area at the University of Wyoming. At
UW his activities included teaching violin and viola, music education courses and
conducting the UW Chamber Orchestra. He is also the Director of the UW String Project.
In the summer Prof. Przygocki serves on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer
String Academy.
Prof. Przygocki’s education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Western
Michigan University and a Master’s in Viola Performance from Indiana University. He has
studied viola with Mimi Zweig and Jerry Horner, violin with Gerald Fischbach, chamber music
with Rostislav Dubinsky and pedagogy with Mimi Zweig. He has also studied chamber music
with the Fine Arts Quartet and at the Banff Center for the Arts.
Professor Przygocki is an active performer. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral
player his experience includes performances in Europe, China, Brazil, Canada and around
the U.S. He is a member of the Summit Chamber Players, a faculty ensemble at UW. He has
been involved in a number of recordings including a CD of music by Louise Talma on the
CRI label, a recording of Camargo Guarnieri’s Viola Sonata which accompanies Guarnieri’s
biography published by Indiana University Press and a recording, with the Summit Chamber
Players, of the music of Felix Draeseke and Arnold Krug entitled Homage to Stelzner on the A
K/Coburg label. In addition, Prof. Przygocki is the current Principal Violist of the
Cheyenne Symphony.
Prof. Przygocki has been involved in several publications including a contribution to the
book Teaching Music through Performance and articles for the American String Teachers
Journal. He currently serves as the editor of the ASTA Violin Forum. Several of his
viola transcriptions have been published by One World Strings. A collection of pedagogical
pieces is forthcoming.
Prof. Przygocki is a frequent clinician and guest conductor at numerous schools and festivals.
He also conducts the High Plains Sinfonia, a youth orchestra for young string players based
in Laramie. He has served as Music Director of the Lake Michigan
Youth Orchestra and the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has given numberous teacher
workshops as well and made presentations for various professional organizations
Prof. Przygocki is a founding board member of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the American
Viola Society as well as being their current President. He has also held leadership positions
with the American String Teachers Association, the Wyoming String Teachers Association,
the Music Educators National Conference, Music Teachers National Association and the National
String Project Consortium.
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