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Students Like Their Violin Teacher! (Seattle & Ballard)
Don’t ALL parents want their children’s violin teachers to be their heroes? For that matter, wouldn’t YOU want your violin teacher to be YOUR hero? Halcyon Strings Music School Director and primary...
View ArticleThe Tacoma Symphony plays Schuman, Bruch, and Rachmoninoff
This Saturday, October 26th, Teo Benson will be playing with the Tacoma Symphony in their first concert of the season. Two for one tickets are available for students enrolled in lessons with Halcyon....
View ArticleTeo Benson Performs with Gloria Ferry-Brennan
On Friday and Saturday evenings, November 15 and 16, as part of the 2013-2014 UUCWI Chamber Music Series, Theodore Benson performed the Sonata for Two Violins by Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 – 1931) with Gloria...
View ArticleTeo Benson Performs Mozart
Teo Benson received accolades for his performance of Mozart’s Sonata in E-flat for Violin and Piano at the November 24, 2013, Island Consort Chamber Music Series concert with pianist, Sheila...
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Teo Benson Featured in 2013-14 Chamber Music Series
Teo Benson, lead instructor for the Halcyon Strings School and for Young Strings Project Outreach, performs with accompanist Nola Allen for the April 12th Springtime Rhapsody & Romance concert on...
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Halcyon Strings Instructors Use Drone Tone Tool to Enhance Intonation
Instructors at Halcyon Strings Music School are pleased to have the option of using the Drone Tone Tool, to enhance their students’ intonation! It is available at the new website dronetonetool.com,...
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Cello Lessons from talented Guadalajara native
Paula Nava Madrigal has long been committed to social justice and inclusion in music education. Helping children to learn about music and to play a musical instrument has been and continues to be the...
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Our Instructors Perform at Posada Concert in Ballard!
On Monday evening at the Sunset Hill Community Center, Paula Nava Madrigal, conductor, and Teo Benson, concertmaster, performed with the Sunset Hill Chamber Orchestra at the first-ever Concierto Posada...
View ArticleBallard Civic Orchestra Concert
Join us at our upcoming concert at the Sunset Hill Community Club at 7:00PM on Friday, March 25th! We will be performing Vivaldi Purcell, and Holst.
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Seattle’s World Youth Orchestra
Paula Nava Madrigal, youth orchestra conductor and Halcyon Strings cello instructor, at March 26, 2016 performance. Our winter concert at Orvis Theater (Seattle Academy of Arts and Science) took place...
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Teo Benson and Stop, Thief! perform on Whidbey Island
Stop, Thief! will perform their fusion of jazz, blues, funk, rock and swing Jan. 19. Members include Teo Benson, of Whidbey Island, Dylan Rieck, Bren Plummer and Joseph Shultz. by REBECCA OLSON, South...
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New Stop, Thief! CD features Halcyon Strings instructor
Teo Benson, founding member of the Seattle-based band Stop, Thief!, is both composer and performer for a recently released CD entitled Stop, Thief! You can listen to his compelling performances and...
View ArticlePaula Nava Madrigal, Halcyon Strings Instructor, featured by KCTS
Go to this link to read about Ms. Madrigal: http://video.kcts9.org/video/2365991933/
View ArticleMusic: The Key to Success!
Will music turn your kid into a Paul Allen or a Woody Allen–both of whom played musical instruments? New York Times writer Joanne Lipman says, “Probably not. These are singular achievers. But the way...
View ArticleBCO Concertmaster performs Faure Requiem “Sanctus”
At First Congreational Church in Seattle, November 5, in celebration of “Dia de los Muertos”
View ArticleTeo Benson performs Faure Requiem “Santos” Nov 5
At First Congreational Church in Seattle, November 5, in celebration of “Dia de los Muertos”
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