Faculty

Susan Moses
Assistant Director of String Academy
Director of Cello Program

bloom@indiana.edu
812.339.9322

Susan Moses earned her degrees with the highest honors at Indiana and Yale Universities before completing her studies at the renowned Jascha-Heifetz-Gregor Piatigorsky Master Classes at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Prize and has performed throughout the world in recital, with orchestra and as the solo violoncellist of the celebrated I SOLISTI VENETI. While living in Europe she taught for Boston University, in the Conservatoires Regionales de France and founded the Chicago String Trio that was awarded a special Prize by the University of Milan for outstanding contributions in chamber music. She records for ERATO and CONCERTO and was nominated for a Grand Prix du Disque. Susan also was recognized by the University of Padua for her outstanding research on the school of Giuseppe Tartini in the 1700's and created for Trinity College a special music program for their Italian Elderhostel where she is principal lecturer and performer. She presently heads the cello department of the String Academy at Indiana University, has been on the faculty of Oberlin College and represents the United States in International cello competitions.

Helen Ford
Instructor

helen_ford@sbcglobal.net

Helen Ford received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Minnesota where she studied with Tanya Remenikova and Robert Jamieson. In Minneapolis, Helen was a member of the Sartory string quartet and performed with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, Philomusica, Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble, the Plymouth Music Series Orchestra, and other regional ensembles. Recently, Helen has been active in the contemporary music scene in Austin, Texas, as a member of the group Audio Inversions and as a frequent guest with the University of Texas New Music Ensemble. For more than a decade, Helen was a cello and chamber music instructor at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, where she also served as string department chair and chamber music coordinator. Helen has also been on the faculty of the Armstrong Community Music School in Austin and was one of the founders of the Sartory String Quartet Institute.

Janus Kubiak
Instructor

tkubiak@indiana.edu
812.335.9116

Born in Poland, JANUSZ KUBIAK began his musical education at age of eleven. After graduating with honors from the State Lyceum of Music, he continued his studies at the Lodz Conservatory of Music under the guidance of a very well known cellist and conductor Professor Arnold Rezler. Janusz Kubiak was a prize winner at the Katowice Intercollegiate Competition of Solo and Chamber Music and later he played in the International Chamber Competition of L. Weiner and P. Casals in Budapest – Hungary. Having received his Master of Art degree with Honors from the Conservatory of Music in Lodz in 1962, he was engaged as principal cellist for the orchestra of the Lodz Grand Opera family. This position he held for twelve years until he became principal cellist of the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1962 he became a member of faculty at the Lodz Conservatory of Music and taught cello and chamber music classes until 1975, when he came for the first time to the United States. His students won numerous competitions and awards. Several of them held principal cellist positions at the Opera Theaters in Poland and abroad.

During 1972-3 concert season, Janusz Kubiak was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Government and studied cello in the Master Class of Professor George Weigel at the famed Mozarteum in Saltzburg- Austria. Mr. Kubiak has also been heard in the orchestral and chamber music repertoire as well as a soloist in concerts on radio and television in Poland, Yugoslavia and Italy.

Since becoming a resident of the United States, Mr. Kubiak appeared with the New Jersey State Opera Orchestra, Boston Opera., Little Opera Orchestra of New York, New Jersey Symphony, New Jersey Pops and The Metropolitan Opera, where he has played for such productions as Tosca, Lulu, The Marriage of Figaro, Walkure and Lohengrin, with the conductors like E. Leinsdorf, R. Wojtach and James Levine.

In 1987, Janusz Kubiak joined the faculty of the music preparatory division at Montclair State University- New Jersey, where he taught advance cello and coached chamber music ensembles. In 2001 Janusz Kubiak joined the faculty of the String Academy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington where he lives now with his wife internationally known soprano Teresa Kubiak.

Cara Miller
Instructor

caracello81@hotmail.com

Miss Miller is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, in cello performance. She holds the position of assistant instructor and assistant to Professor Emilio Colon. She has studied and taken lessons with many leading cellists including Janos Starker, Emilio Colon, Anne Martindale-Williams, Mikhail Istomin, and Andres Diaz. She has soloed with the Reading Symphony Orchestra and the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra. She also has an interest in chamber music, most recently serving as the coordinator of the Ashlawn Opera Chamber Players. She has held the position of principal cellist of the Ashlawn Opera Festival for the past two years. She is certfied in the Suzuki Method and has had experience with the Alexander Technique, Feldenkreis, and Pilates. Miss Miller pursues an active teaching schedule as a faculty member of the Indiana University String Academy and the Indianapolis Academy of Music.