FRED JEWELL, NEWSLETTER EDITOR

FRED JEWELL

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Originally from West Texas, Fred received his B.M.Ed. from the University of Texas at El Paso and continued studies toward a Master’s degree. Fred began his teaching career as a Suzuki Talent Education violin teacher in 1980 in El Paso. He later expanded his teaching to include violin instruction at the El Paso Hebrew Day School and later as an Orchestra Director with the El Paso School District. He studied violin for ten years with Abraham Chavez, Jr. Fred maintained a private Suzuki violin studio in El Paso and in Boulder for over two decades. Fred has been a resident of Colorado since 1994 and now teaches in the Boulder Valley School District as the Orchestra Specialist for the Lafayette and Louisville schools.

Since 1999 Fred has been on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Chapter of the American String Teachers’ Association and serves as Newsletter Editor for the String Vibrations newsletter. He also serves as the Northern Governor for Colorado All State Orchestra and serves on their Board of Directors.

In El Paso, Fred performed with the El Paso Symphony for fifteen seasons. In Colorado, he substituted as a violinist with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra for two seasons between 1994 and 1996. In 2003 Fred was hired as Concertmaster for the Denver Pops Orchestra under the direction of Zina Richardson and performed with DPO until May of 2009. Fred now performs with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra as section violist under the direction of Robert Olson.

Fred has done extensive work with the Board of Directors of the Trouble Clef Theatre Company, a fully professional theatre company based in Boulder. TCTC produced several shows in the Greater Denver Metro area for over six seasons specializing in shows by Stephen Sondheim. Fred is also a founding member of the Eagle String Quartet affiliated with St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder.

A prolific free-lance composer of string, keyboard and vocal music, Fred has seen his works performed frequently in public and private settings by ensembles such as the Ars Nova Singers, the Eagle String Quartet, Colorado high school orchestras, and many individual professional musicians.

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