The Columbus Suzuki Strings Program is incredibly proud of our students who auditioned for All-State Symphony. Not only did everyone who auditioned get selected this year, but we virtually swept the table!
Charity James — 1st cello
Abby Swartzendruber — 2nd violin
Hope Bassett — 4th violin
Gracie Swartzendruber — 5th violin
Aidan Dunkelberg — 6th violin
And when you consider that Daniel Jones, who started in our program and played with us for many years until moving to Starkville, is 1st violin, we can say the Columbus program is very well represented with 5 of the top 6 violins and the top cello.
Congratulations on all of your hard work on your audition tapes! And good luck learning this year’s pieces and performing April 16 at Belhaven!
I am a poet, translator, and professor of literature and creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, where I direct the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, the undergraduate concentration in creative writing, and the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. I am Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, and I have published four collections of poetry, Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as a collection of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, and the textbook A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. I was born and raised in Osage, Iowa, and have lived for over thirty years in Columbus, Mississippi, where my wife Kim and I let wildflowers grow in our yard to the delight of spring polinators and only some of our neighbors.
Suzuki Strings of Columbus, Mississippi 