Dr. Marilyn Seelman
Marilyn Seelman is Assistant Professor of String Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Prior to this appointment, she served for twelve years as an orchestra teacher in Atlanta Public Schools and Dekalb County Schools. She is Past-President of Georgia ASTA and has served on a number of ASTA national committees and is presently the National Publications Chairperson for ASTA.
Dr. Seelman conducts the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Atlanta (MYSO -Atlanta) which in summer 2008 performed in Budapest, Prague and Vienna and in 2006 performed in Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai, China at the request of the US-China Cultural and Educational Foundation. MYSO-Atlanta has also performed at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston S.C., Carnegie Hall and the Georgia Music Educators' Conference in Savannah.
Her private viola studio has produced prize-winning students, most notably the 2005 first-prize winner of the Primrose Competition. Many of her students have gone on to win admission to major conservatories such as Curtis, Juilliard and the New England Conservatory.
She has presented viola master classes at Vanderbilt University, East China Normal University and presented a session on viola pedagogy at the 2004 ASTA National Convention. Her "Member to Member" article, From Technique-Driven Sound to Sound-Driven Technique was included in the February 2005 issue of the American String Teachers' Journal. In addition she has presented string pedagogy sessions at the 2005 Georgia Music Educators' Association entitled: From Alpha Beta Alpha to Serenade for Strings: A Sequential Approach to Conducting Public School Orchestra Works and in 2006 presented Choosing Music for your First School Orchestra. She was a clinician at the 2008 Music Educators' National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has conducted the Georgia All-State Orchestra, East-Tennessee and Alaska All-State Orchestras along with numerous honor groups all over the United States.
