Jacob Bitinas

Dickerson Middle School, Cobb County Public Schools

 

         Assistant Orchestra Director - July 2014 - Present

 

Mr. Bitinas provides daily string instruction to over 500 students in

grades 6-8. All six classes of strings are heterogeneous, with

extracurricular opportunities before school each morning. These have

included a chamber orchestra class meeting twice weekly, two double

bass ensembles, a viola choir, and 5 consorts of viola da gamba.

 

 

UA Community Music School

 

 

          Private Instructor - August 2012 - December 2013

 

Jacob Bitinas teaches private double bass lessons through the

University of Alabama's Community Music School. His students

have been accepted to both ASTA Honor Strings festival and Alabama

All State Orchestra. 

 

         Ukulele Instructor - Fall 2012

 

This position was offered through the Community Music School.

It involved traveling to Tuscaloosa Magnet School to teach a beginning

ukulele class to a group of 4th grade students. 

 

 

Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra Mentor

 

 

      String Bass Mentor - Fall 2012

 

Jacob Bitinas was one of the founding members of ASYO's mentor program. Through several concert cycles, he aided the 55 piece orchestra of high school and middle school students in small group instruction, full orchestra rehearsals, and concerts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instrumental Representative

 

       Collegiate National Association for Music Education - UA Chapter - 2013

 

 

As an elected member of the University of Alabama CNAfME chapter, Jacob Bitinas assisted in organizing and planning monthly music education meetings, fundraising functions, and social events. As the instrumental representative, his specific task was to represent the demands and desires of all instrumental music education majors in CNAfME. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starkville Symphony Orchestra

 

 

         Section Double Bass - August 2011 - December 2013

 

​Jacob Bitinas performed regularly as a double bassist in the Starkville Symphony Orchestra located in Starkville, Mississippi. His performances included a series of classic works by Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Grieg, Schumann, Gershwin, Purcell, Haydn, Wagner, et cetera, in addition to pops and children's concerts programmed to entertain over 1,000 children over the course of one day.

 

 

Huxford Symphony Orchestra

 

 

         Principal Double Bass - 2013

 

The organizational duties of a principal orchestra player include cooperating with the other principals to determine bowings, distribute parts, decide on seating arrangements, and help the conductor's interpretation of a score become reality.