"However, the cello was so large and I had to walk down the street to the lessons carrying that big thing, so I rebelled" against playing it, she said.īy the time she entered junior high school, she said, the number of students playing violin sparked her own interest in the instrument. Woyton started her music training at age 8, when she took up the piano, an instrument she still plays.Ī couple years later, she said, her teacher decided she should take on the cello in addition to the piano. They laid quite a foundation for me that I can build on." I've had some awfully, awfully good teachers ? some of the best in the country ? so I was very lucky in that respect. "They could just hand me the music and me not look at it and go to rehearsals, but I wouldn't be improving myself," she said. ![]() Woyton said she improves every time she practices music for a symphonic concert. That's a town of 20,000 but it's quite a lot of talent that comes in." I always say every time I go there, I learn something new. "They're fantastic orchestras to play in, wonderful talents to work with and great conductors," Woyton said of Big Spring and Midland-Odessa. She was concertmaster for the San Angelo Symphony for a number of years and has played in the Big Spring and Midland-Odessa symphonies off and on for the past decade. ![]() Woyton has played in a number of symphonies, including Austin's and Abilene's. "One chair opens up, and you've got thousands of applicants for that one chair, so it's pretty difficult." "You think, 'My teacher trained me to be like an orchestra player,' but jobs in professional orchestras are hard to get," Woyton said. Woyton, who has a bachelor's degree and master's degree in violin performance, said she fell into teaching music. "For the kids that have gotten that privilege, they're really hardworking kids. "I can instruct them on how the pieces are to sound and what they're doing right and wrong and interpret, but then it's up to them to take what I say and apply it and to practice," she said. Paula Woyton has a talent of making music, and it's a gift she's giving to others.įor more than 20 years, Woyton ? a violinist in regional orchestras ? has taught violin, viola and cello to adults and children in her home.Ĭal Hengst II this year became the second of her students selected to play at Carnegie Hall as part of the American High School Honors Performance Series, a fact for which Woyton doesn't take much credit. "I see this as a long-term goal, probably something I'll be doing for a long while," she said.Īnd that, Woyton said, suits her just fine. Violin teachers typically teach well into their 70s and 80s, Woyton said, adding that she probably won't be much different. ![]() "The mom called and said, ?Congratulations, you have a new student.' She was kind of born into the studio." "Her sister took from me before she was born," Woyton said of Dierschke. ![]() Another student, Sadie Dierschke, also started with Woyton at 4. It makes it really hard when they have to graduate."Ĭal Hengst II, a Central High School senior, started taking lessons with Woyton at age 4. "It is a nice little family within a family. "A lot of them become really close, the families, the parents and students," she said. She doesn't have children, but some of her students are like her kids, she said. Woyton has conducted music lessons in the same apartment for more than two decades. Paula Woyton practices music and teaches music.
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