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Dance

Adam H. Weinert (BFA ’08) has just joined Shen Wei Dance Arts and will be performing with the company at the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., from June 18-20. Weinert will also dance with the company in the upcoming Lincoln Center Festival this summer in New York City.

Julia Boudreaux (BFA ’06) has just joined the faculty of Atlanta Ballet Center for Dance Education in Atlanta, Ga.

Cody Green (’01)—along with Sam Rogers and Michaeljon Slinger, current students on a leave of absence—can be seen in the current Broadway production of West Side Story, which opened at the Palace Theater in March. Green plays the character of Riff. Rogers plays 4H and also is an understudy, while Slinger is working as a swing and is also an understudy.

Justin Leaf (BFA ’01), performed his cabaret theater piece titled Junkyard Spectacular, as his drag alter-ego, Mistress Ginger, with his special guest, Irita Foucault, in March at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater in Minneapolis, Minn.

Jason Reed (BFA ’00), founder of REACH, in Carlisle, Pa., was featured in a local news story in March. REACH (Respect Education Through the Arts Challenge) is a nonprofit dance program that motivates local kids to achieve their goals, teaching them dance and putting a strong emphasis on academics by providing tutoring. Students perform twice a week, every week. The program is two years old and now has more than 400 students.

Kate Skarpetowska (BFA ’99) taught a four-week Saturday workshop as part of the Modern Guest Artists Series at Peridance in New York. Using traditional and contemporary techniques, the class concentrated on introducing highly physical and athletic movement.

The Vineland (N.J.) Regional Dance Company’s 30th annual spring dance concert, titled “Elements of Dance,” featured pieces by Bruce McCormick (BFA ’98) and Kimberly Chapman (BFA ’88). The program was presented in April on the campus of Cumberland County College in Vineland.

Excerpts from Jessica Lang’s (BFA ’97) Matisse in Motion were performed by the graduating class of the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program in April at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York. The Ailey II company performed excerpts from Lang’s Splendid Isolation II there in April as well. The same month, excerpts from Lang’s La Belle Danse were performed by the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theater at John Jay College in New York.

Sebastian Prantl (’82), artistic director of Tanz Atelier Wien, is currently working on a project bringing Tanz Atelier Wien together with the Choreographic Laboratory at the Danube University Krems for the International ChoreoLab Austria (ICLA). The collaboration, which is set to begin in September at Danube University Krems in Krems an der Donau, Austria, aims to provide postgraduate education in dance and choreography.

The American Dance Festival will present Ohad Naharin (’77) with the 2009 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement on June 25 at the Durham (N.C.) Performing Arts Center, in a special ceremony prior to the performance of Naharin’s Decadance by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Established in 1981 by Samuel H. Scripps, the annual $50,000 award honors choreographers who are dedicated to the creation of modern dance. In March, the Batsheva Dance Company, which Naharin directs, presented his piece Max at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Included in the cast was Bobbi Smith (BFA ’06). Douglas Letheren (BFA ’07) and Ariel Freedman (BFA ’05) are also members of the company but did not perform in this work.

The premiere of Martha Clarke’s (BFA ’65) Sandman was offered by Jeanne Ruddy Dance in April at the Performance Garage in Philadelphia. Loosely inspired by the work of photographers Diane Arbus and Ralph Meatyard and set to a score that includes the music of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, the piece shared the program with Ruddy’s Lark, which also premiered. Ruddy is a former Juilliard faculty member.

Marcia Jean Kurtz (BS ’64) directed Emily Levine’s one-woman show, Emily at the Edge of Chaos, in March and April at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York.

Drama

In April, Francois Battiste (Group 35) was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding featured actor for his performance in the Public Theater’s The Good Negro, written by Tracey Scott Wilson and directed by Liesl Tommy.

In March, Michael Arden (Group 34) joined the cast of the new NBC’s mid-season drama Kings.

Julie Jesneck (Group 32) will appear in Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns at the Intiman Theater in Seattle. The production, directed by Sari Ketter, runs May 15 through June 17.

Daniel Breaker (Group 31) will co-host the 2008 Obie Awards with Martha Plimpton on May 18 at Webster Hall in New York.

Through June 6, Matt D’Amico (Group 31) is appearing in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s production of Othello, directed by Geoffrey Sherman.

In April, Daniel Talbott (Group 31) directed a production of Crystal Skillman’s Birthday at Rising Phoenix Repertory (where Talbott serves as founding artistic director) in New York. The production featured fellow alumnus Denis Butkus (Group 31).

In April, Sean McNall (Group 29) appeared in a production of Molière’s Tartuffe, directed by Gus Kaikkonen (who directs one of the third-year Shakespeare productions at Juilliard this month), at the Pearl Theater Company in New York.

In January and February, Anne Bates (Group 27) appeared in the Fulton Theater’s production of Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest in Lancaster, Pa. The production, directed by Kate Saxon, also featured Melissa Gallagher (Group 14).

Kevin Spacey (Group 12) was presented with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Monte Cristo Award in April. In June he will receive the 2009 Pell Award for distinguished achievement in the arts, sponsored by Trinity Repertory Company. Both awards are in recognition of his tremendous contributions to the American and international theater communities.

In April, Glen Williamson (Group 11) appeared in a performance of Aeschylus Unbound at the Anthroposophical Society in New York. The production, co-written by Williamson and Mala Powers, was devised and performed by Williamson and Laurie Portocarrero.

In April, Kevin Kline (Group 1) appeared in the premiere of Queen to Play, an independent film directed by Caroline Bottaro, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Music

Salima Barday (BM ’08, double bass), who is studying with Thomas Martin for her master's degree on full scholarship at Guildhall in London this year, is featured in the film The Bass Player, a documentary by London filmmaker Peter Cutts that was shown in March at the Royal Society of Arts as part of the London International Documentary Festival. She has been playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, and Stavanger Orchestra, among others. She is principal bass at Guildhall, and played Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in Barbican Hall in February. Barday coaches young musicians who performed in London’s Cadogan Hall in January and will perform at Exhibition Road Music Day in June. Her newly formed band, including both Indian and Western instruments, will also perform in June and run music workshops for the youth. In May, her jazz band will perform at the Pigalle Club in London’s West End theater district.

In December, James Button (MM ’05, oboe) joined the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra as the associate principal oboist after being appointed to the position by music director Myung-Whun Chung (Postgraduate Diploma ’78, orchestral conducting). In February, he was featured with the orchestra as soloist in the Cimarosa Oboe Concerto.

Melody Fader (MM ’04, piano) and Erik Carlson (BM ’02, MM ’04, violin) performed with Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet at City Center Studio 4 in New York in March.

Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin’s (BM ’01, viola) has two Carnegie Hall commissions coming to fruition this spring. The first, Sugar Hill Bump (co-commissioned with Juilliard and the Weill Music Institute) received its premiere in March with members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, students from New York City public schools, and conductor Alondra de la Parra. The second commission, Niña Dance, will premiere in Zankel Hall in May, as part of the Osvaldo Golijov and Dawn Upshaw workshop for composers and vocalists, featuring the singer Sofia Koutsovitis, as well as Juilliard alumni ensemble members Jared Soldiviero (BM ’02, MM ’04, percussion) and Nathan Botts (MM ’05, trumpet). Zhurbin’s group, Ljova and the Kontraband, makes its Washington debut at the Kennedy Center’s Contemporary Music Festival on May 4. Ljova is presently working on a commission for Kristjan Jarvi and Absolute Ensemble, featuring the bandoneon soloist Carel Kraayenhof, as well as a soundtrack for an upcoming feature film.

Lance Horne (BM ’00, MM ’02, composition) presented a program of his music in April in a residency encore at Ars Nova in New York. The program, titled “Lance Horne, or What You Will,” featured the composer at the piano for a wide range of songs with lyricists ranging from Maya Angelou to Shakespeare. Surprise performers from both the Broadway world and the downtown scene joined Horne for the evening.

Arash Amini (MM ’99, cello) and Melissa Marse (’99, piano) performed with Roseanne Cash and violinist/composer Mark O’Connor in Princeton, N.J., at the McCarter Theater in April. The program, titled “Poets and Prophets,” included O’Connor’s Piano Trio No. 1, and also featured Cash’s husband, singer/songwriter John Leventhal, and bassist Zev Katz.

Justine Fang Chen’s (BM ’98, MM ’00, violin; DMA ’05, composition) song cycle Philomel was premiered by soprano and current Artist Diploma candidate Jennifer Zetlan and pianist David Shimoni (MM ’98, piano) on the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s “On Wings of Song” concert in March at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in Manhattan. Also on the program were works by Ravel, Debussy, Boulanger, Schubert (with guest pianist Ken Noda [’82, piano]), Ives, and Cole Porter. The concert was broadcast later in the month on WQXR-FM.

Jeffrey Savage (MM ’96, DMA ’02, piano) and Karen Hsiao Savage (MM ’96, piano, MM ’99, DMA ’05 collaborative piano), as the 88²  piano duo, won the 2009 Ellis Competition for Duo-Pianists and the Abild American Music Prize for best performance of an American work. In addition to receiving the $10,000 first prize, 88² will present recitals secured by the National Federation of Music Clubs over the next two years. In February, the duo gave the premiere of Centaurus A by Heather Schmidt (Professional Studies ’98, composition) and performed Pieces of Reich by Daniel Ott (DMA ’04, composition) on their recital at Weill Hall.

Music by Cornelius Dufallo (BM ’95, MM ’97, DMA ’02, violin) was included on the program presented in April by Ne[x]tworks at Le Poisson Rouge as part of the MATA Festival, which showcases new works by emerging composers from around the world.

Antigoni Goni (MM ’95, guitar) will direct the third Volterra Project Summer Guitar Institute in the hills near Volterra, Italy, from July 10 to 18. Among the faculty members is Eddy Malave (BM ’93, MM ’95, viola) who will teach Alexander Technique.

Miranda Cuckson (BM ’94, MM ’01, DMA ’06, violin) will perform with the Melodia Women’s Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Cynthia Powell, on May 16 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York. The program celebrates the splendor of French choral music and the centenary of Messiaen’s birth with an all-female performance of his Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine.

Aaron Flagg (BM ’92, MM ’93, trumpet) has been named dean of the Hartt School of the University of Hartford (Conn.), effective June 30. He has been executive director of the Music Conservatory of Westchester since July 2005.

Viviana Guzman (MM ’90, flute) played a recital with her quartet, Festival of 4, at the Ethical Society in St. Louis in January. She performed in Argentina and Aruba in February and in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam in March.

Wendy Parciak (‘87, cello) won the 2008 Montana Honor Book Award in March for her debut novel, Requiem for Locusts. More information is at www.requiemforlocusts.com.

Marianne Piketty’s (’86, violin) CD Night’s Dream with the accordionist Pascal Contet has just been released in Europe and Japan. Featured are works by French composers Bernard Cavanna, Renaud Gagneux, Graziane Finzi, and Laurent Mettraux, as well as transcriptions by Bloch, Bartok, and Piazzolla. Piketty and Contet will be touring in France, in Reunion Island, and to various festivals over the summer. Piketty teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and will give master classes in France and at the Musikhochschule Hans Eissler in Berlin. For four years, she has been artistic director of the violin festival Les Musicales de l’Abbaye d’Auberive in France.

In March, Sam Ruttenberg (MM ’86, percussion) gave a series of drum set, snare drum, and hand drum clinics to the music students at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. The sponsors were Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, Remo drum heads, and Taye drums. Ruttenberg’s student of six years, 18-year-old Justin Faulkner, is currently touring with Branford Marsalis.

Clare Shore’s (DMA ’84, composition) Queen Esther for clarinet, narrator, and dancer was performed in March at Calvary United Methodist Church in Lake Worth, Fla., with clarinetist Eugene Jones, narrator Amy Dillon, and dancer Tiffany Teate.

Andrew Appel (DMA ’83, harpsichord) led the Four Nations Ensemble in a Joseph Haydn celebration at the New-York Historical Society in March. Alyssa Smith (Advanced Certificate '97, viola) was a member of the ensemble.

In March, Jeffrey Biegel (BM ’83, MM ’84, piano) performed Lowell Liebermann’s (BM ’82, MM ’84, DMA ’87, composition) Third Piano Concerto with the Louisiana Philharmonic and Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. In April, he played for performances and recording sessions featuring Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s (DMA ’75, composition) Millennium Fantasy and Peanuts Gallery with the Florida State University Orchestra, as well as for a Naxos CD project with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic featuring Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto and Leroy Anderson’s Piano Concerto.

Scott Eyerly’s (MM ’82, composition) Spires, a 20-minute choral work, will be premiered on May 14 at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York. The church commissioned the work for its Choir of Men and Boys, and their choirmaster, John Scott. Also on the program will be Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.

Lowell Liebermann’s (BM ’82, MM ’84, DMA ’87, composition) Sonata, Op. 23, is included on a new CD titled Diverse Voices, by flutist Linda Chatterton with pianist John Jensen, released on Chatterton’s own independent label in November.

In February, Sara Davis Buechner (MM ’81, piano) performed the Ravel Piano Concerto in G with the Victoria Symphony, conducted by Edwin Outwater. She also performed Mozart piano concertos with the New West Symphony, conducted by Boris Brott, in Thousand Oaks and Brentwood, Calif. In January, Buechner performed Mozart’s Concerto No. 9 with the Edmonton Symphony, conducted by Maximiano Valdes. In April she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Michael Morgan and the Oakland East Bay Symphony. That same month, she launched the Sara Davis Buechner music store at www.sarabuechner.com.

In March, mezzo-soprano Carolyn Sebron, (BM ’81, MM ’83, voice) debuted with the Chicago Sinfonietta at Symphony Center Orchestra Hall as soloist, singing the vocal solos for El amor brujo by Falla and “Canzone del velo” from Verdi’s Don Carlo. Leslie B. Dunner, music director of the Joffrey Ballet, conducted.

Wynton Marsalis (’81, trumpet) delivered the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center during National Arts Advocacy Day in March. He also testified at a Congressional hearing titled “The Arts = Jobs,” making the case for funding to sustain valuable arts programs during the recession and beyond.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Diploma ’80, Professional Studies ’82, violin) performs four concerts with the New Century Chamber Orchestra this month in California: in Berkeley on May 14, Palo Alto on May 15, San Rafael on May 17, and San Francisco on May 19. The program features the premiere of Clarice Assad’s Dreamscape, commissioned by the orchestra for Salerno-Sonnenberg. During July and August, she will perform Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at the Ravinia Music Festival with conductor Christoph Eschenbach.

Shinji Eshima’s (MM ’79, double bass) August 6th for string orchestra was recorded last year by the Millennium Symphony, conducted by Robert Ian Winston, and is part of the CD Made in the Americas released in December by ERM Media. Eshima is a member of both the San Francisco Ballet and Opera orchestras. The current production of E.O.9066 by Lunatique Fantastique (www.lunfan.com) is performing at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco and incorporates music composed by Eshima. He is also on the faculty at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music prep division.

Richard Fletcher (MM ’79, DMA ’83, orchestral conducting) has been appointed principal conductor of Germany’s Bremerhaven State Opera, effective September 2009. In December, Fletcher led a debut run of performances at the Danish Ballet.

Bass Kevin Deas (BM ’78, voice) sang the role of Christ and tenor Matthew Garrett (MM ’03, voice; Artist Diploma ’05, opera studies) was a soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Choirs and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola, conducted by faculty member Kent Tritle (BM ’85, MM ’88, organ; MM ’88, choral conducting) and presented by Sacred Music in a Sacred Space at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.

In January, Meral Guneyman (Diploma ’76, Postgraduate Diploma ’78, piano) played a program of transcriptions at Bargemusic in Brooklyn called “Romantic Transcriptions” that included works by Gluck-Sgambati, Rachmaninoff-Kreisler, Rachmaninoff-Bach, Strauss-S. Evler, Ellington-Hyman, and Gershwin-Wild. In March, she played a concert at New York’s 92nd Street Y, on which she and pianist Dick Hyman premiered Asphalto by Pablo Ziegler and Hyman’s Danzas Tropicales. A week later, Guneyman and Hyman also recorded the latter work for an upcoming album for Rykodisc/WMG titled Danzas Tropicales, which will also feature compositions by Nazareth, Jobim, Ziegler, and Piazzolla.

Jeffrey Kahane (’76, piano) was presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers at Alice Tully Hall in April. The program included the premiere of Nico Muhly’s (MM ’04, composition) Short Stuff (Etude No. 4), along with the New York premieres of selections from Kenneth Frazelle’s (BM ’78, composition) Wildflowers and Gabriel Kahane’s Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog. Works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff rounded out the program.

Margaret Steele, née Bungay (BM ’76, MM ’77, oboe), will perform her recreation of vaudeville’s “Queen of Magic,” Madame Adelaide Herrmann, at the 100th Annual “Salute to Magic” presented by the Society of American Magicians on May 16 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. Mme. Herrmann herself performed on this show in 1910.

Victoria Bond’s (MM ’75, DMA ’77, orchestral conducting) work Bridges was performed by the Argento Ensemble on the Cutting Edge Concerts’ New Music Festival at Symphony Space in April.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s (DMA ’75, composition) Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet was premiered in April at the 92nd Street Y in New York by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio—which includes faculty member Joseph Kalichstein (BS ’67, MS ’69, piano)—and the Miami String Quartet. The work was commissioned by the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the composer’s 70th birthday.

The Tokyo String Quartet—whose members are violinists Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda (’73, violin), violist Kazuhide Isomura (Diploma ’71, violin), and cellist Clive Greensmith—completed year one of its three-year Beethoven cycle in April with a concert at the 92nd Street Y in New York that included guest pianist Alon Goldstein.

James Jeter (MM ’73, bassoon) and oboist Sarah Schram performed a duo recital at the Calhoun School in New York in March. Featured works included the Mozart Oboe Quartet, Fiala Duo for Oboe and Bassoon, Ibert Trio for Winds, and the Devienne Bassoon Quartet, assisted by clarinetist William Bachman, violinists Sage Cole and Luke Cissell, and cellist Ben Clinesmith.

In January, pianist and psychiatrist Richard Kogan (Pre-College ’73, cello) performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and gave an address titled “The Power of Music in Healing Mind and Body” at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Jeffrey Swann (BM ’73, MM ’73, DMA ’80, piano) performed at the Greenwich House Music School in New York in April, offering a program of works by Haydn, Schumann, Liszt, and Verdi—Liszt. He also gave a master class there the day after the concert.

Soprano Sarah Levine-Simon (’72, voice) will sing with the Concerts con Brio presentation of “David Alpher: Celebrating 30 Years of Song,” featuring art songs by the Hudson Valley composer at Poughkeepsie’s Christ Episcopal Church on May 30. Alpher will be at the piano for many of the songs, based on texts by Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Anne Spencer Lindbergh, and others.

Yo-Yo Ma (Professional Studies ’72, cello) will premiere Bruce Adolphe’s (BM ’75, MM ’76, composition) Self Comes to Mind in the LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History on May 3. Adolphe collaborated on the work with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, whose writings inspired the piece and who will join Ma and Adolphe in a post-concert conversation moderated by science writer Jonah Lehrer.

In March, Nina Tichman (BS ’71, piano) performed for the third time on the Prominent Pianist series in Boulder, Colo., and for the Oakmont Concert Series in Santa Rosa, Calif. Also in March, she played a recital on the Steinway Series in Tampa, Fla., as part of a weeklong residency with Lila Brown (MM ’81, viola) highlighting the Music from Salem Festival, of which Brown is founder and artistic director. The residency also featured chamber music recitals, master classes, and lectures at the University of South Florida, and was curated by Scott Kluksdahl (MM ’88, cello), Carolyn Stuart (BM ’89, violin), and pianist Svetozar Ivanov.

Christina Petrowska Quilico (BM ’69, MS ’70, piano) will perform a recital of works written for her by composer Ann Southam on May 12 at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. At a reception following the concert, the Canadian Music Center will release Petrowska Quilico’s 22nd CD, Pond Life, on the Centrediscs label. Last year she released Ings (a two-CD set) with composers Lowell Liebermann (BM ’82, MM ’84, DMA ’87, composition), David del Tredici, Frederic Rzewski, Art Tatum, and others, as well as So You Want to Write a Fugue (Centrediscs), performing music by Kati Agocs (Certificate ’00, MM ’02, DMA ’05, composition) and Ana Sokolovic.

Pinchas Zukerman (Professional Studies ’69, violin) performs this month with the Zukerman Chamber Players in Ottawa, Canada; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Istanbul, Turkey. He also tours China from May 16 to 30.

Misha Dichter (BS ’68, piano) and Cipa Dichter (BM ’68, piano) will premiere Felix Mendelssohn’s unpublished work Seven Songs Without Words, Op. 62 and Op. 67, for piano four-hands at the Ravinia Festival on June 20. The performance will be repeated at the Aspen Music Festival on August 20. The pieces are among more than 270 unpublished works recovered by the Mendelssohn Project.

Miriam Brickman (MS ’67, piano), soprano Marni Nixon, and composer Ronald Senator presented a concert in April at Manhattan College in Riverdale, for the college’s Holocaust Center and the fine arts department.

Susan Alexander-Max (BS ’65, MS ’66, piano) and pianist Simon Standage performed works by Bach and Beethoven at the Banqueting House in London in April, presented by the Music Collection.

Chick Corea (’61, piano) and guitarist John McLaughlin were featured with the all-star Five Peace Band, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center at the Rose Theater in New York in April. The band also includes saxophonist Kenny Garrett, bassist Christian McBride (’90, double bass), and drummer Brian Blade.

Leonardo Balada’s (Diploma ’60, composition) Faust-bal, an opera in two acts commissioned by Teatro Real of Madrid, was premiered in February, with nine performances conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos (’70, orchestral conducting). The libretto is by Fernando Arrabal and the production was staged by the group Comediants. In March, the Dutch National Students Choir gave the premiere of the revised version of Balada’s Voices No. 2 in a nine-city tour that ended at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. The Orquesta de Cámara Iberical commissioned his Caprichos No. 5—Homage to Isaac Albéniz for cello and string orchestra, which will be premiered June 29 in Leon, Spain, with solo cellist Aldo Mata.

The Antara Ensemble, directed and conducted by Harold Jones (Diploma ’59, flute), closed its New York season with a concert in April at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. Ashley Horne (BM ’92, violin) was featured in Joseph White’s Violin Concerto in F-sharp Minor. Also on the program were works by Mozart and Nielsen, as well as Ibert’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra and Mary Ann Joyce’s Aceldama for flute and strings, both with guest conductor Ariel Rudiakov and Jones as flute soloist.

Alan Mandel (BS ’56, MS ’57, piano) was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington to write a major piano composition for the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. He premiered the work, Lincoln Celebration, in March at the National Portrait Gallery for a Lincoln music festival for which he served as artistic director. Mandel also performed in January at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and in March at the National Gallery in Washington.

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