Biography

Malina Rauschenfels, born in 1978, began to study the cello with her mother aged five. Her serious musical education began when she was thirteen, and began to study flute with Sondra Bergeland in her hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. A few months later, after a successful audition, Malina started studying the cello with Tanya Remenikova in Minneapolis. Four years later she became a student of Robert Jamieson, with whom she studied for one year. Other musical involvement included playing the violin in her school orchestra, viola in a quartet, and cello in the city’s youth orchestra for many years. She decided to pursue music as a career at the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont where she studied cello with Tanya Remenikova and was inspired by many incredibly talented young musicians.

Malina wrote her first formal composition for an audition for the Minnesota Center for Arts Education Arts High School (MCAE), which she attended for her junior and senior year of high school. Living in Minneapolis also gave her the opportunity to become principal cellist in the Greater Twin Cities’ Youth Orchestras, see many of her compositions premiered with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and speak with several of the composers, such as Janika Vandervelt (one of her teachers at MCAE), Libby Larson and Arron J. Kernis.

In September 1997 Malina commenced her first year of undergraduate study in the area of cello performance at the prestigious Eastman School of Music, under the tutelage of Professor Steven Doane. Having taken one semester of composition for non-majors under Koren Cowgill, she was accepted to the composition program in January ‘98. Her subsequent teachers included Sydney Hodkinson and David Liptak. Currently in her second year, Malina is studying with the renowned composer, Augusta Read Thomas. In addition to her performance and composition majors, Malina is also a Spanish major at the University of Rochester, to which Eastman is affiliated. Selected compositions include Zodiac for Orchestra, Sonata for Marimba and Violin and Siete Canciones for countertenor, tenor and baritone with text by Federico García Lorca.

Selected performances of her compositions include Meanderthal for chamber orchestra and guitar, for ‘Cello- a communion for cellist and speaker, and Time Traveling through a Black Hole for String Orchestra. Selected awards include Scholar Finalist in the National Hispanic Scholar Recognition Program, winner of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony’s Concerto Competition, and two-time winner of the Cecilian Society Scholarship.

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  Cello Teachers

  Composition Teachers

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  Festivals

# Bowdoin Summer Music Festival—six weeks of private lessons with Steven Doane, recitals, quartets, master classes, contemporary music opportunities (Summer 2000)

# University of Minnesota Bravo String Institute—four weeks of private lessons with Tanya Remenikova, technique class, recitals, quartets, self-initiated small ensembles, master classes, and string orchestra (Summer '95 & '96)

# Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont—six weeks of private lessons with Tanya Remenikova, recitals and quartets (Summer '94)

  Masterclasses

# Janos Starker ('96)

# Libby Larson (composition) ('96)

# Helga Winold ('94)

# Peter Howard ('91)

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  Awards and Competitions

# National Deans List ('99)

# Scholar Finalist in the National Hispanic Scholar Recognition Program ('97)

# Participated in the Schubert Club Senior String Division ('96)

# Participated in the Sinfonia String Competition ('96)

# Winner of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies Concerto Competition to perform with orchestra ('95 & '96)

# Two-time winner of the Cecilian Society Scholarship ('95)

# Winner of Duluth Superior Youth Symphony Scholarship Performance Opportunities

# Composed and recorded music for J.Otis Powell! On CD, Theology

# Acted as principal cellist in top Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony

# Improvised music for two CDs with Jessie Smelter

# Member of the Duluth Superior Youth Symphony Orchestras for seven years, principal cellist for two years

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  Resumé in List Form

Compositions

Meanderthal (music for chamber orch.) ('99)
Cyberswing ('99)
Siete Canciones ('99)
Emptiness ('98)
Nightsong ('98)
Chaos Traveling Through a Black Hole (String Quartet) ('98)
Suite for Solo Guitar ('99)
The Dawn of a New Day ('98)
Time Traveling Through a Black Hole (String Orch.) ('98)
For ‘Cello ('98)

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Performed with Orchestra

Vivaldi Popper Boccherini

Double Cello Concerto-mov. 1   Hungarian Rhapsody Concerto in bb-mov.1

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Mississippi Valley Chamber Orch. Mississippi Valley Chamber Orch. Greater Twin Cities’ Youth Orch.

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Symph. Competitions

Vivaldi Boccherini Boccherini Brahms Boccherini Saint-Saens   Saint-Saens   Bach

Double Cello Conc.-mov. 1   Concerto in bb-mov.1 Concerto in bb-mov.1 Sonata #1 in E-mov.1 Concerto in bbmov.1 Concerto-mov. 3 Concerto-mov. 3 Suite #1 in DM-Prelude

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GTCYS concerto comp. Sinfonia comp.--third place Schubert Club comp.--finals GTCYS concerto comp.--winner Duluth Superior Youth Orch.--winner Cecilian Society comp.--winner Cecilian Society comp.--winner

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Auditions

Popper Lalo J.C.Bach Glazunov Van Goens Faure Klengel Sammartini Bach Tchaikovsky

Hungarian Rhapsody Concerto-mov. 1 Concerto-mov. 1 Chant du Menestrel Scherzo Elegy Concertino in c-mov. 1   Sonata-mov. 2 Suite #1 in g-Gigue Chanson Triste

GTCYS--first chair GTCYS--third chair Duluth Superior Youth Orch.--first --first chair DSYO--third chair DSYO--sixth chair

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Masterclasses

Popper Saint Saens Klengel

- Hungarian Rhapsody - Concerto mov - Concertino in Cm, mov 1

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Janos Starker Helga Winold Peter Howard

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Recitals

Arts High School Recitals

Kodaly Dvorák Katie Miller Bach Boccherini Brahms Faure Popper Shostakovich Mendelssohn Händel

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Duo for Violin and Cello - mov. 1 "American" Quartet - mov. 1 & 2 *played Viola Obsidian Wall - premiere work for cello and two prerecorded cellos Suite # 2 in d - mov. 1 & 2 Concerto in bb Mov. 1 & 2 Sonata # 1 in e - mov. 1 & 2 Apres un Réve Hungarian Rhapsody Trio for piano, violin and cello - mov. 1 Scherzo - Midsummer Night's Dream for two flutes *played first flute Double Cello Sonata - mov. 1

Bravo String Institute Recitals

Wolf Schubert Popper Bach Mozart Shostakovich   Lalo Mozart

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"Italian Serenade" Quartet "Death and the Maiden" Quartet - mov. 1 Hungarian Rhapsody Suite # 2 in d - Prelude Quartet in d, KV499 - mov 1 & 2 Quartet # 1 Concerto - mov. 2 Quartet KV566 - mov. 1 & 2

Weatherfield Music Festival recitals

Mozart Bach Bach Saint-Sains

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Quartet KV465 "Dissonance "-mov. 1-3 Suite #2 in Dm-mov. 1-4 (church) Suite #1 and Suite #2 mov. 1-4 (Guthrie Theater Party) Allegro Appassionato (Woodland Middle School concert)

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Recitals at Eastman

Chamber:

Dvorak Haydn Castelnuovo-Tedesco Boccherini

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AbM Quartet Quartet No. 3 ;) Guitar Quintet (complete) Guitar Quintet#4 (complete)

Jury 98:

Boccherini Beethoven Bach Popper

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Gm 1st 2nd mvt. Judas Maccabeus Suite III in CM # 3

Recital/ Jury 99:

Kabalevsky Bach Britten

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Concerto #1, 1st mvt. Suite II dm Sonata in C

Jury 2000:

Popper Shostakovich Crumb Hindemith Popper Bach

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#28 Concerto #1 Solo Sonata Solo Sonata Elfentanz Suite V in Cm

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