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Juilliard School.
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Helen Kwalwasser
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In addition to spending nearly 40 years as a faculty member at the Boyer College, she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the New York Chamber Soloists and her music has been recorded for Odyssey Records, Vanguard, Westminster Records, Delos Records and Columbia Records. In 2006, she was honored with a prestigious National Artist-Teacher Award from the American String Teachers Association. Natural talent earned Kwalwasser a full scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with the legendary Efram Zimbalist, Senior
She later went on to study at Juilliard School with renowned pedagogue Ivan Galamian.
Achievements
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Her own accomplishments have already been recognized at Temple with the Creative Achievement Award (1984) and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (1998), as well as the Inspiration Award from Temple Music Preparatory (2006). Her husband, Harvey Wedeen, chair of Boyer’s Keyboard Department, won the Great Teacher Award in 1996.
