|
 |
|
|
When Viva’s Founder and Artistic Director Shulamit Hoffman picks up her baton, there’s electricity in the air. What Shulamit wants, she gets...with skill, authority, imagination, daring, dazzle, and a dash of irresistible playfulness. In Shulamit’s hands the conductor’s baton becomes a magic wand, coaxing, coaching, and demanding the best of singers and orchestra alike. |
|
|
|
|
|
Shulamit Hoffmann serves on the faculties of Notre Dame de Namur University and of the College of San Mateo. She founded Viva la Musica! choir and orchestra as part of her final Masters degree project in 2002. She is conductor of Los Altos United Methodist Chancel Choir, a worship and concert choir.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Her performances—as pianist and conductor—span repertoire from Mozart to multi-cultural music, from the Renaissance to Prepared Piano. She recently guest-conducted the Saratoga Symphony, Ragazzi Boys’ Choir, and combined adult choirs in John Rutter’s Mass of the Children. A particular interest of Ms. Hoffmann is multi-media presentations of art, music, and poetry and her productions have included French Impressionism in Art, Music, and Poetry; Mozart in Multi-Media; Baroque Splendor; Out of the Shadows—Women Artists, Composers, Poets; and collaborations with symphony orchestra on Charles Griffes' The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan and Beethoven Egmont Overture.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ms. Hoffmann has been a member of the music faculties of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and of Idaho State University and Brigham Young University Extension, Idaho. She has served as president of branches of the Music Teachers’ Association of California and of the National Federation of Music Clubs and she is a frequently invited competition judge and guest clinician. Many of her students are themselves pursuing careers in music.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ms. Hoffmann holds a Master of Arts in Conducting and a Master of Music in Piano Performance. She was named Outstanding Graduate of the Year in the School of Music and Dance at San José State University, where she was privileged to study under Dr. Charlene Archibeque. She has received several national scholarships from her native South Africa where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music. She has earned Licentiate Diplomas in Music from the University of South Africa and from the Royal Schools of Music, London. She is the recipient of a U.S. Congressional Award in recognition of her musical contributions to her community. |
|
|
|
|
|
