Dana Huyge

Dana Huyge is performing for one season with Gibbs & Main while Marc Anderson is on leave with his new baby, Charlotte and son, Milo.

Dana is an accomplished violist, violinist, and singer. He has appeared as an ensemble violist with groups throughout New York State, and is constantly engaged in chamber and solo recitals in Cortland and Rochester. He has also sung with the University of Rochester YellowJackets, and played in masterclasses and coachings with Simon Carrington, Susan Dubois, Edward Parmentier, Carol Rodland, Andrew Jennings, the Takacs Quartet, members of the Ying Quartet, 8th Blackbird, and Time for Three. Dana has spent summers working extensively with children at Camp Casowasco in Moravia, New York, and has been involved with the Eastman Community School, and Eastman's Public School #17 after-school lesson program. He is currently employed as a teacher of viola, violin, orchestra and chamber music at the Kanack School of Music.

Education:

University of Michigan, Bachelors of Music in viola performance
Eastman School of Music, Masters of Music in viola performance

Trained with:

Yizhak Schotten
George Taylor
Melissa Matson
Peter Slowik

Performed with:

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Eastman Graduate Chamber Orchestra (principal)
Penfield Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes
Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra
Binghamton Philharmonic

Home town:

Cortland, NY

It all started at home:

I come from a musical family. My dad teaches jazz saxophone and high school bandm and my mom plays marimba and drum set. My big sister used to play the violin, and when I was very young, I started sneaking into her room to play it when she wasn't looking. My parents got me my own instrument and Suzuki lessons when I was four, and the rest is history.

Other musical inclination:

I have training as a bass singer and, if you want to get fancy, in vocal percussion.

Favrorite performance memory:

That's a tie between two experiences. The first was playing Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra in my senior year. We were really pumped up! The second was singing the University of Rochester YellowJackets alumni song during Meliora Weekend in my final year with the group. The opportunity to represent over fifty years of musical tradition and brotherhood was a privilege I'll never forget.