DAVID
LITTRELL
University Distinguished Professor of music
David
Littrell is a University Distinguished Professor of music at Kansas
State University where he conducts the University Orchestra and
teaches or plays the cello, baroque cello, five-string violoncello,
piccolo, double bass, viola da gamba and electric cello.
As a reflection of his interest in the music education of young people, he is director of String Fling, an annual event at K-State that attracts 750 string students from Kansas. He also conducts the Gold Orchestra, which includes 71 Manhattan-area string students in grades 5-10. The Gold Orchestra toured England in 1997, Seattle and British Columbia in 1999, and performed at Carnegie Hall in 2001 and 2006. They performed for the Kansas Music Educators Association in 2004 and at the America String Teachers Association National Orchestra Festival in Dallas in March 2004.
He served six years as editor of the books and music reviews section of the American String Teacher, and was the editor of America String Teachers Association's two-volume String Syllabus. he is the editor and complier of GIA Publications' three volumes of Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra.
Littrell twice has received the Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award at K-State. In 1994 the Kansas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association awarded him the Certificate of Merit. He was the national president of the America String Teachers Association in 2002-2004 and planned America String Teachers Association's first stand-alone conference in March 2003. He represented America String Teachers Association on a trip to France in March 2004 to learn about import opportunities for French string instruments and bows.
Littrell adjucates solo and orchestra contests and is a clinician and conductor throughout the United States.
Littrell can be reached at 785-532-3804 or by e-mail at dlitmus@k-state.edu.