Niel E. Weintrob
Niel Weintrob taught violin at ASMC between 1973 and 1975 (possibly between 1974 and 1976).
Mr. Weintrob has earned acclaim throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia (including concert tours to Israel and Thailand) both as soloist, where he has performed a repertoire of 31 concertos with orchestra, and chamber musician.
At 16, Weintrob made his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Of that performance, Samuel Singer (Philadelphia Inquirer) wrote: »Weintrob showed phenomenal talent and technique to burn....He played with burnished tone, delicacy of dynamics, and an amazing ease of bow arm and finger technique.« Two years later, he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein as the winner of the prestigious New York Philharmonic Young People's Competition.
Of his New York recital debut, Donal Henahan (The New York Times) wrote: »Neil Weintrob's background is certainly impressive. Not unexpectedly, Mr. Weintrob turned out to be a solid musician and a violinist with technique.« Indeed, a list of the teachers with whom he has studied reads like a »Who's Who« of the violin world: Oscar Shumsky, David Madison, Ivan Galamian, and Raphael Bronstein. Professor Weintrob has been on the string faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (New York University), the School of Music of Ball State University, and was Chair of the String Performance Area. As a cofounder of the American Piano Trio, he toured internationally and recorded for the Musical Heritage Society label.
Professor Weintrob recently relocated to Charleston with his wife Susan, the new principal of Addlestone Hebrew Academy.
Nel Weintrob's wonderful wife Susan was with him at ASMC. She radiated an inner happiness which was contagious to all those around her and added a special touch to camp life.
Ms. Weintrob is an educator with over 25 years of experience in teaching and administration. She has worked as an administrator in Jewish Day Schools in New York.
She joined Hannah Senesh Community Day School in 2002, and immediately began working with the Board of Trustees and parent body to transition the school to expand enrollment and facilities, modernize the technology throughout the school, expand programs and begin formal recruitment and fundraising efforts. Afterschool programs have begun, a full hot lunch program instituted, curriculum expanded and a collaborative administrative and staff partnership strengthened.
Prior to Hannah Senesh and her other day school administrative positions, Susan was on the full-time faculty of the English Department at Ball State University, where she had extensive experience in developing curricula, and working with the University agencies to promote new programs and expanding already existing ones. There, she developed a Service Learning Curriculum, in which she paralleled students’ coursework with service to the community. She coordinated activities with 150 agencies and worked with individuals in the business world and the student government. For this, she won the Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award.
Her knowledge and interest in Jewish history and literature is substantial. As part of a steering committee at Ball State University, Susan helped create a Jewish Studies Program, through which, each year, she taught courses on the Holocaust, the Bible as Literature, Selected Themes in Jewish-Christian Literature and Introduction of Judaism. As well, she began a Hillel, for which she was the Faculty Advisor for 10 years. In addition, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of a local synagogue for 13 years.
She is an experienced journalist who has written articles for the Jewish press for almost two decades. She has lectured to community groups, to university classes and at conferences and written on Jewish subjects ranging from raising Jewish children in the Midwest to Medieval Jewry, from Jewish homeschooling to Jewish characters in historical mysteries.
Susan lived in France and speaks French. She minored in Hebrew in college, attended an ulpan on Kibbutz Neot Mordechai, has attended the Principals’ Center at Harvard University and at the Bar Ilan’s Lookstein Center.
Neil E. Weintrob and Susan have two children.
(Sources: Many passages of this text were extracted verbatim from sources on the internet: (source 1), (source 2), (source 3))
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