KAMA Prellwitz, Violinist - Bio

Kama Prellwitz, Violinist

her music is beautifully alive and moving.

Kama has played solo, with other violinists, in ensembles, and as concertmaster in string orchestras and young symphony orchestras. She has played for weddings, parties, benefits, memorial services 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 received the Crane School of Music Bailey Award for worthy and promising students who exhibit character, scholarship, aptitude and demonstrate excellence in instrumental music. In 2008 she was a prizewinner in the Orchestra of Northern New York Young Artists Concerto Competition.

New Year's Eve 2010
Kama will be a solo performer at First Night Saranac Lake.
She will be performing light classical violin music
including works by Bach, Elgar, Kreisler, and Sarasate.

Kama is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam where she studies with Prof. John Lindsey and is Associate Concertmaster of the Crane Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Andrews. Kama will spend her third summer at the Meadowmount School of Music where she studies intensively for seven weeks. At Meadowmount she studies violin with Walter Schwede and chamber music with Steven Rochen and Walter Schwede.

Outside of school, Kama plays in the Orchestra of Northern New York under the direction of Kenneth Andrews. She plays first violin for the Tri-Lakes Orchestra in Saranac Lake under the direction of Elaine Dewar, and was Concertmaster 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 starred as the Fiddler in CTP's production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She was a solo performer for the Habitat for Humanity Benefit Gala, 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 Concertmaster 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 Ioan Harea (violin), Elaine Dewar (violin and viola), Carl Kokes (violin, viola, cello and flute), Beth Robinson (cello and the Alexander Technique) and Carol Carpenter (piano).

Kama participated in the Lake Placid Institute's 2006, 2007 and 2008 Chamber Music Seminars with Linda Rosenthal (artistic director, violin), Kathleen Butler-Hopkins (violin), Laura Klughertz (violin and viola), Anthony Elliott (cello), Walter Schwede (violin), Gwen Thompson (violin and viola), Jeffrey Solow (cello), 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 taught 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).

Experience the joy of beautiful music!