Scott Conklin
Assistant Professor
Violin
Phone: (319) 335-1645
Office: 3742 UCC
scott-conklin@uiowa.edu

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Scott Conklin

Scott Conklin regularly appears as a recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and clinician throughout the United States and Europe, and he is both Assistant Professor of Violin at The University of Iowa School of Music and a violin teacher at the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, IA. Conklin has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Louisville, Nashville, and Berlin Symphony Orchestras. He is the 2008 Iowa String Teachers Association Leopold LaFosse Studio Teacher of the Year and was named a "Rising Star" and featured artist at the 2004 Music Teachers National Association Conference in Kansas City, MO.

Conklin has recently recorded works by composers Kevin Beavers, William Bolcom, Ching-chu Hu, Joel Puckett, Kevin Puts, and Bright Sheng for an upcoming album release with pianist Alan Huckleberry. He has also recorded other compositions by Ching-chu Hu and Luke Dahn for Albany Records. Composer Joel Puckett of the Peabody Conservatory of Music recently expanded his BMI award-winning composition Colloquial Threads for Violin and Piano into a concerto for violin and wind ensemble. Both works were written for and dedicated to Conklin. In the spring of 2008, Conklin appeared on a concert tour of Germany with pianist Alan Huckleberry, and he also performed the complete violin and piano works by Brahms in 2007 with pianist Uriel Tsachor. The latter project included Brahms’s very own violin and piano transcriptions of the Op. 120 Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 for clarinet/viola and piano. In 2006, Conklin presented a recital with Dr. Linton Powell at Musica en Compostela Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Conklin is a former faculty member of The University of Texas at Arlington and he also taught on several occasions as a substitute violin professor at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music. In summer months, Conklin has served and/or continues to serve on faculty at The University of Iowa All-State Camp, Sound Encounters (KS), American Suzuki Institute (Stevens Point, WI), Ottawa Suzuki Institute Mid-Southwest and Young Artist Camp (KS), DFW WOW (TX), and the Interlochen Arts Camp All-State Division (MI) among many others. During the academic year, Conklin teaches at many clinics, conferences, and workshops throughout the country and serves on the Editorial Board of the American Music Teacher Magazine. Conklin also holds the honorary distinction of being a “Kentucky Colonel,” a title given to him by Governor Wallace G. Wilkinson.

During his youth, Conklin was a student of Carol Dallinger, Violin Professor at the University of Evansville (IN). He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with David Updegraff. Conklin also earned Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from The University of Michigan School of Music as a student of Paul Kantor.

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