Free I No ticket required

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Justine Ostrander Master’s Violin Recital

Justine Ostrander, violin
Hope Ostrander, piano

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Program 

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001       Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
I. Adagio
II. Fuga

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Canzonetta
III. Finale

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Justine Ostrander grew up in Newton, KS and began taking Suzuki violin lessons at age 10 through the Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts. During this time, she participated in the Wichita Youth Symphony and the Bethel College Orchestra. After moving to Wisconsin during high school, she participated in the Maranatha University Orchestra. Justine graduated with her BA in Violin Pedagogy and Performance with a Proficiency in Piano from Maranatha Baptist University in 2019. While there, she was concertmaster of the university orchestra and won the university Commencement Competition in 2017 and 2019.

Justine taught private lessons, group classes, and theory classes through the Maranatha Prep School from 2016-2019. In 2016 she took Suzuki violin training for Book 1 at Stevens Point under Ann Montzka-Smelser, and in 2017 she took training for Books 2 and 3 at Trinity International University under Kathleen Spring and Vera McCoy-Sulentic. Justine was certified under the Music Teachers National Association. Justine worked at Prairie Music & Arts from 2019-2021 teaching private violin and piano lessons, groups classes, and theory classes. She now teaches in her own studio and is currently in her last semester of her master’s degree at UW-Madison.