1. Pamela Jeanne Bublitz 203 North 6th
Street
Kirkland, IL 60146-0026
(815) 522-2109 / (630) 327-1116
pamelajbus@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Graduate: Master of Music Degree, Violin Performance, summa cum laude, Wichita State University. Graduate Assistant to
David Perry, 1st
Violin, Pro Arte String Quartet UW- Madison. University of MN, Graduate School of Music, Graduate
Assistant to Almita Vamos, 3 years.
Master Classes: Stradivarius Society, Chicago, IL – Pinchas Zukerman and Joel Silverstein. Brown University Professor
Emeritus, violist/conductor Martin Fischer
Festivals: Weathersfield Music Festival (VT); Almita & Roland Vamos, Casals Festival (PR); Ruben Gonzalez, Bowdoin
Summer Music Festival (ME); Almita & Roland Vamos, Marlboro Music Festival (VT - Guest of Carla Maria Rodrigues),
L’Academie Maurice Ravel (FR); Jean Pierre Wallez.
Undergraduate: Bachelor of Music Degree, Violin Performance, magna cum laude, Lawrence University. Student of Martin
Fischer, former principal violist Busch/Serkin Chamber Orchestra/NY City Ballet.
SOLOIST APPEARANCES
L’Orchestre de Bordeaux d’Acquitaine, Bernkastel Kammersymphonie, BBC Symphony, Casals Festival Symphony,
Lawrence University Symphony, University of Minnesota Chamber Symphony, Wichita State University Symphony,
Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra.
RECITAL APPEARANCES
London, Paris, Biarritz, St. Jean de Luz, Oslo, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, San Francisco, San Diego, St. Louis, New York,
Chicago, Providence RI, Boston, Keene, NH, Quebec Province - 11 concert tour, “Live from Studio One,” WFMT Fine Arts
Radio, Chicago (twice).
AWARDS
Best work submitted by a University (UIC), IMAGINA, Monaco, for “A Small Comfort,” animated short film, score composed
by Pamela Bublitz. Best Original Score for “A Small Comfort,” 4th
Annual Digital Salon, New York. Wichita State University
Concerto/Aria Competition Winner. Wichita Riverfest Competition Grand Prize winner. Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Minneapolis, MN, 1st
Prize winner. Schubert Club Competition Finalist, St. Paul, MN.
RECORDINGS
“Five Canonic Duos” for violin & viola by Edith Steinkraus Fischer (violin & viola parts performed by Pamela Bublitz).
“Live from Studio One” 12 Fantasias by G. P. Telemann originally for violin, performed on viola. “Live from Studio One”
The Art of Playing on the Violin, by F. Geminiani, with Sarah Barton Alexander, cellist, Barbara Weiss, harpsichord. “A
Small Comfort” an animated short film score, presented by NY Digital Salon on NBC RainbowVision sign, Times Square,
NY, VH-1 Television Network (“Fashion Television”), Animated Film Festivals Amsterdam & Tel Aviv, Imagina Festival,
Monaco, 4th
Annual Digital Salon by NY School of Visual Arts, Wired Magazine & Sigraph. “Cauda Immensa” for voice,
violin, & feet by Pamela Bublitz/Jeffrey Kowalkowski. “Length of the Mugger,” National Library of Poetry “Sounds of
Poetry” Series, Library of Congress.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Chicago Literary Club, current. The Cliff Dwellers Arts Organization (Artist in Residence, Inaugural Class of 1999), past
member. Chamber Music America, past member. College Music Society, past member. Chicago Federation of Musicians,
past member. Twin Cities Federation of Musicians, past member. American String Teacher’s Association, past member.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015-present Violin/Viola Instructor, The German International School, Chicago, IL
1994-present Private Violin/Viola Studio – Naperville, IL, Aurora, IL, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI
2000-2001 Violin/Viola Faculty – Benedictine University, Naperville, IL
1997-1999 Resident Artist/String Specialist, Lycee Francais de Chicago
1994-1997 Suzuki Training - John Kendall, Professor Emeritus SIU (1st
American to study with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan)
1995-1996 Violin Specialist, Walt Disney School, Bell School for the Hearing Impaired, Edison School for the Gifted, Stone
Academy
1995-1996 Violin Instructor, Music Institute of Chicago (substitute for Rachel Barton)
1994-1996 String Specialist, Substitute Music Theory, Choir, Band, Symphony Orchestra, & General Music, The University
of Chicago Laboratory School
1992-1994 First Violin, Bloomfield String Quartet, Kinder Concert Series, 80 concerts/year, Wichita, KS
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

2. Pamela Jeanne Bublitz – Bio
Pamela began her musical career at the age of three on the piano, her debuts on the piano
at age six, and on the violin at 14. Since then, she has performed as soloist and recitalist
both in the United States and abroad. She has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall both on
the piano and violin.
Pamela has appeared as soloist with L'Orchestre de Bordeaux D'Acquitaine, the BBC
Symphony, the Bernkastel Kammersymphonie, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra,
amongst many. She has served as concertmaster, principle second violin, principle violist,
and section violinist, with both chamber orchestra and opera orchestra. She spent two
years as first violinist with the Bloomfield String Quartet, in residence at Wichita State
University in Kansas. She has participated in the Casals Festival (PR) with Ruben Gonzalez,
L'Academie Maurice Ravel, with Jean Pierre Wallez and Heather Kelly, Bowdoin Summer
Music Festival, Weathersfield Music Festival (with Almita & Roland Vamos), and was a
guest at the 1989 Marlboro Music Festival. She has twice been featured on “Live from
Studio One” broadcasts on WFMT, Chicago Fine Arts Radio, most recently performing her
viola debut with Georg Philipp Telemann's 12 Fantasias, originally composed for violin.
As a composer, her scores have been performed internationally, with broadcasts of her
animated film score on the VH-1 and NBC networks. She was recently invited to compose a
work for violin and voice based upon the award winning poetry of Chicago native Ted May,
who was co-artist in residence with Pamela at the Cliff Dwellers in Chicago 1999.
Her principle teachers are Martin Fischer (former principle violist with the Busch/Serkin
Chamber Orchestra), Carla Maria Rodrigues (principle violist San Francisco Opera), David
Perry (1st
violin Pro Arte String Quartet), and Almita & Roland Vamos. Pamela served as
graduate assistant to the Vamoses for three years and to David Perry for two.
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