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Guest Summer Camp Teachers

March 21, 2019 by ryanreardon

Meet Charles Calloway and Iva Raykova! They will be assisting with our Chamber Camp the week of June 17-21.

 

Charles Calloway, trumpet/high brass

Raised in Northeast Georgia, Charles taught and performed nine years in Dallas and Kansas City before returning home to be the Artist Affiliate of Trumpet at Berry College. Adept at orchestral, popular, and chamber music, Charles has performed in concert halls in Germany and China as well as at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. He recently premiered a piece for unaccompanied trumpet on the New Works Recital at the International Trumpet Conference in Anaheim, California, and played at the New Theatre in Kansas City where he worked with Broadway stars such as Shirley Jones.

A passionate teacher, Charles maintained a private studio of over fifty students and taught trumpet for some of the premier high school band programs in Texas. His students have been accepted to district and all-state bands in Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Georgia, and have gone on to continue their studies at colleges such as Baylor, Arkansas, Kansas State, and the Conservatory of Dance and Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC).

Charles has degrees from the University of Louisville, Southern Methodist University, and UMKC and has studied under master teachers and performers such as Michael Tunnell, Tom Booth, Ryan Anthony, Keith Benjamin, and Charles Aiken.


Iva Raykova, viola/high strings
Iva Raykova, originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, began her musical studies at the age of 4 and graduated the National Musical School “Lyubomir Pipkov” where she studied viola in the class of Stefan Jilkov. Iva earned a BM and AD in viola performance from Texas Christian University  and a MM in performance from Southern Methodist University.
Iva is an active teacher and performer and has appeared in festivals such as Ohio Light Opera, AIMS in Graz, Castleton Festival, Brevard Music Center and Music in the Mountains. As an orchestra musician, Iva has performed with Irving Symphony, San Angelo Symphony, Plano Symphony, Waco Symphony and Odysseus Chamber Orchestra among others.
Since 2016, Iva is a Teaching Artist at the El Sistema inspired program B Sharp Youth Music, based in Fort Worth, which focuses on achieving social change through music and maintains a private violin/viola studio.
Iva has performed in master classes with Elias Goldstein Erika Eckert, Michael Strauss, Gertrud Weinmeister, Hugo Wolf Quartet, Samuel Rhodes, Alexander Zemtsov and others. Iva has also performed as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician in United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

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