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Mary Papoulis celebrates her twenty-first season with the Great Falls Symphony's Cascade Quartet as well as the String Orchestra of the Rockies. A dedicated teacher in the community, she has also taught at the Olympic Music Festival in Washington, the Summer Youth Orchestra Workshop in Bozeman and workshops with the Ying Quartet. Her musical performances have taken her as far as China, Italy, Norway, Vancouver, Amherst, and Cambridge England. She holds a DMA from SUNY Stony Brook, MM from Eastman and BM from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Joyce Robbins, Peter Salaff, Zvi Zeitlin, Stanley Riche and the Turtle Island String Quartet. She has been soloist with the Great Falls and Butte symphonies as well as Long Island Pops Concerto Competition winner. She can be heard on several recordings with the Cascade Quartet as well as the String Orchestra of the Rockies with Jeni Fleming. Papoulis is the proud mother of her two young sons, Brian and Kevin Gemberling. In her spare time, she plays folk, blues, and gypsy music with guitarist Rich Matoon. |