URI VARDI
From this Teacher:
Feldenkrais Masterclass Violin
Feldenkrais Masterclass Cello
Feldenkrais Masterclass Piano
Course: Cello
Fundamentals
Professor Emeritus of Cello at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Uri Vardi studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, was an Artist Diploma student at Indiana University, and earned his Master’s degree from Yale University.
His teachers have included Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Eva Janzer, and Uzi Wiesel. Born in Szeged, Hungary, Vardi grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh, Israel.
In 1990, following an extensive teaching and performing career in Israel, Vardi was appointed professor of cello at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Feldenkrais Practitioner Master Teacher
Uri Vardi has specialized in the Feldenkrais Method, for which he received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty Development Award. He completed a Feldenkrais Practitioners Training and was certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and by the International Feldenkrais Federation as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2003. For the last five years, Vardi has created a new course at UW – Madison: ” Feldenkrais for Performing Artists”.
In 2012, Vardi was awarded the UW Art Institute Emily Mead Baldwin Award to create a Program for Somatic Education in the Performing Arts at UW-Madison.
Founder and Artistic Director of the National Summer Cello Institute
Prof. Vardi is the founder and artistic director of the National Summer Cello Institute (NSCI) in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2017 the Institute was renamed to: Your Body Is Your Strad(YBIYS), and re-located to Caroga Lake, NY.
Prof. Vardi is regularly invited to perform and present workshops, seminars, and master classes at major music schools, summer music festivals, and professional orchestras including: Musicorda Festival, Greenwood, Heifetz Institute, Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival, New World Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Steans Music Institute (RSMI) among others.
Uri Vardi's Cello Fundamentals
Besides four Masterclasses for cello, piano, and violin based on the Feldenkrais Method, Uri has created his course Cello Fundamentals, exclusively available on iClassical Academy.