About Us
Lakefront String Quartet
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Meet our musicians
Iuliia Mykolyk
Violin
Born in Ukraine, violinist Iuliia Mykolyk has been playing the violin since the age of six. After graduating from the Lviv National Music Academy where she received her Bachelor and Master degrees in violin performance, Iuliia performed with the Lviv International Symphony Orchestra (INSO-Lviv) for five years. During that time she performed at numerous festivals in Switzerland, France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland. In 2013, Iuliia decided to pursue her musical training in the United States. She received an artist diploma in violin performance from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with Professor Mark Zelmanovich in 2014. In 2015 and 2016 Iuliia performed in master classes with Rachel Barton Pine, Mimi Zweig, and Clara-Jumi Kang at UW-Milwaukee. She also served as the concertmaster of the UW-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for three consecutive years. Iuliia holds a master’s degree in Chamber Music Performance from UW-Milwaukee, where she studied under Dr. Bernard Zinck.
As a teaching assistant, she was teaching violin to undergraduates of the UWM violin studio. As a violin instructor, Iuliia uses different teaching methods and studies such as Suzuki, Franco-Belgium School, Russian School (Yankelevich), and Czech School (Ševčík and Schradieck). Her goal as a music teacher is to share music knowledge with all of her students and their parents. Iuliia’s diverse background as a musician gives an opportunity to students not only to learn about violin performance, but to have a full understanding of music history and violin within its place. Currently Iuliia is working at Wauwatosa School of Music as a violin instructor and at Brass Bell Music Store in the education department.
Alex Gallatin
Violin
Alex Gallatin began learning the violin at the age of seven, and he has been raised and trained in the greater Milwaukee area since then. He has been a member of orchestras including the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Senior Symphony, the Waukesha Area Community Orchestra, the UWM Symphony Orchestra, and the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded second place in the Walter A. and Dorothy J. Oestreich Concerto Competition in 2019.
In 2019, Alex also became a member of Mariachi Monarcas, a mariachi band composed of college students based in Milwaukee that plays concerts all across Wisconsin and Illinois. His primary teachers include Bernard Zinck, Diane Duraffourg-Robinson, Heidi Barker, and Loree Simuncak.
Catherine Krause
Viola
Catherine Krause is a highly trained musician with an Undergraduate and Graduate degree in Viola Performance at DePaul University in Chicago and a Certificate in Chamber Music Performance at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Her primary professors in university include Rami Solomonow, Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, and Bernard Zinck. She has been teaching since 2008, and currently teaches in Milwaukee at Be Sound Music Studio. Catherine currently with the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra as co-principal violist, the Wisconsin Philharmonic, and the Milwaukee Philharmonic.
Lindsay Patterson
Cello
Lindsay earned her Master’s Degree from UW-Milwaukee in Cello Pedagogy. She completed her undergraduate degree in Music from UWM studying performance under Stefan Kartman, and Cello Pedagogy under Scott Cook. Her first two years of undergraduate were completed at Carthage College where she studied under Herine Koschak of Fifth House Ensemble of Chicago. She has also received Suzuki Certification through Cello Books One, Two, and Three from the Chicago Suzuki Institute from Barbara Wampner and Books Four through Eight with Avi Friedlander.
She has performed in world premieres of works by Christopher Tin, “Calling All Dawns”, and “The Drop that Contained the Sea” from the Video Games Live Tour. She is the Principal Cello with the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra where she’s been a member since 2012, and is an active chamber musician in the Sheboygan Symphony String Quartet and the Lakefront Quartet. Lindsay is an active symphony musician, regularly performing with the Wisconsin Philharmonic as well as the Racine Symphony Orchestra. In the fall of 2022, she performed Fauré’s Elegie with her alma mater the Sheboygan Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has performed in several masterclasses, including those by Christopher Rex, Principal Cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Adrien Zitoun, MSO cellist, Boris Andrianov, Russian Cellist and professor of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and the Daedalus String Quartet. She has performed on stage with nationally recognized artists including the Trans Siberian Orchestra and Michael Bublé.
Lindsay worked with the String Academy of Wisconsin while earning her Master’s degree teaching and assisting in private lessons and group classes of all ages of cello players. She taught cello fundamental techniques to undergraduates at UWM in the spring 2016 semester and was the interim cello teacher for the UWM String Academy for the 2016 summer session.
Her studio, Lindsay Marie Cello Studios, is at the Waukesha County Conservatory of Music where she has built her studio since 2014 and currently teaches 37 private students. She uses the Suzuki teaching methods as well as supplemental materials to create a firm technique base and to develop musicality. Her students come from all over the Lake Country Area, from kindergarten through retirees. They perform in all levels of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, WSMA, WSMA Honors, are leaders in their school ensembles, and focused pre-collegiate studies.