DANCE

Lawrence Rhodes. Photo by Krystyna Sanderson

Lawrence Rhodes becomes director of the Dance Division, following the untimely death of Benjamin Harkarvy last spring. Mr. Rhodes was artistic director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens for 10 years (1989-1999) before becoming a freelance ballet master and coach for various New York City institutions and European companies. Previously, he chaired the dance department at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School from 1981-89 (having taught there since 1978). In his varied and long career as a dancer, Mr. Rhodes danced most of the classical ballets along with the works of Bournonville, Balanchine, Limón, Tudor, and Béjart, among others. He has been part of the creation of dances by numerous choreographers such as Ailey, Arpino, Joffrey, Macdonald, van Dantzig, Lubovitch, Harkarvy, Neumeier, Cole, and Butler.

Mr. Rhodes began his professional career dancing with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and in 1960 became a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet (where he won praise for his dramatic premieres of many works, including Gerald Arpino's first works for the company). In 1964 he became principal dancer with the newly formed Harkness Ballet, and was voted artistic director by company members in 1968, while still performing. He danced with the Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam in 1970 before returning to the U.S. to become co-director of the Milwaukee Ballet from 1971-73. Beginning in 1972, he was guest artist and then principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet, where he remained until 1978.

Martha Clarke will serve as mentor and advisor for the Senior Production choreographers, replacing Benjamin Harkarvy in this capacity. (Benjamin Harkarvy had assumed this role after the death of Bessie Schonberg in 1997.) A native of Baltimore, Ms. Clarke graduated from Juilliard in 1965. She became one of the first female members of Pilobolus in 1973, leaving the group in 1979 to form Crowsnest with Robert Barnett and Felix Blanska. She first attracted widespread attention in 1984 with The Garden of Earthly Delights (based on a Hieronymus Bosch painting), the first of her non-linear imagist collages, followed by Vienna: Lusthaus two years later. Her Vers la Flamme (based on short stories by Chekhov) was performed in New York and at the Kennedy Center. Other works have included The Hunger Artist, about the life of Kafka, and Miracolo d'Amore, an exploration of erotic love. Ms. Clarke was the subject of Martha Clarke, Light and Dark: A Dancer's Journey, a 1981 PBS documentary, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (informally known as the "genius grant") in 1990.

Richard Cook, who will teach classical pas de deux, received his early training in California and at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Dance in the Netherlands. After performing with the San Francisco Opera, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and LINES ballet company, he became a teacher and choreographer. Mr. Cook also served as associate artistic director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet for 10 years and is a frequent guest teacher for professional and pre-professional ballet companies throughout the United States. His works have been performed by the Atlanta Ballet, Dayton Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Opera, as well as being featured in three of the Carlisle Projects' annual summer showcases. A three-time recipient of the choreographic fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mr. Cook is also a member of the ballet faculty at the State University of New York's Purchase Conservatory of Dance.

Aaron Landsman will teach the Dance Division's production class. He teaches self-production, fund-raising, and publicity for graduating seniors in theater and master's students in the dance department at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School, where he also is faculty advisor for seniors' independent theater projects. From 1994-2000 he served as director of development/senior staff for the Field, a nonprofit organization offering programs that help independent artists in a variety of areas. Mr. Landsman has also worked as an independent theater artist, writer, administrator, and consultant in New York for the past 10 years.

MUSIC

Joining the cello faculty is Darrett Adkins, who received bachelor's and master's degrees from Oberlin College and Rice University, respectively, before earning a doctorate at Juilliard (where he was a student of Joel Krosnick). He is the winner of numerous prizes, including the Presser Music Award and Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. As a chamber musician, he has recorded for RCA, Tzadik, MMC, and CRI, with upcoming releases on Mode and Koch. Mr. Adkins also tours regularly with the Zephyr Trio, featuring flutist Jeanne Galway and pianist Jonathan Feldman. He made his New York concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall in a performance of the Barber Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He also participated in the in 2001 Carnegie Hall festival When Morty Met John… performing Morton Feldman's Projection No. 1 to critical acclaim. Mr. Adkins regularly collaborates with figures such as free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman and electronic pop wizard David Baron. Originally from Tacoma, Washington, he is a member of FLUX, a string quartet dedicated to cutting-edge music.

Timothy Cobb. Photo by Christian Steiner

Timothy Cobb, associate principal bass of the Met Orchestra, joins the double bass faculty. Mr. Cobb appears on New York stages such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Bargemusic, and many other venues throughout the country. He has performed in places as varied as Tokyo and St. Barthelemy (the French West Indies). Mr. Cobb has collaborated with the Emerson Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, Pinchas Zukerman, and James Levine, and is a former participant in the Marlboro Music Festival and a former member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is the principal bass of the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, and can be heard in frequent solo recitals in New York. Mr. Cobb has recorded several CDs with the Harmonie Ensemble, as well as all Met recordings after 1986. He serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Conservatory of Music, Purchase College.

David Fedderly

Tuba faculty member David Fedderly has been principal tuba with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 1983. He received his B.M.E. and musical training at Northwestern University, studying with Arnold Jacobs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A talented clinician and teacher, Mr. Fedderly held the position of lecturer at the Peabody Institute until fall of 2000. His duties there included both instruction of tuba/euphonium as well as work with all wind players in a course titled Respiratory Function in Wind Instruments. He has also held teaching positions at DePaul University, University of Maryland, and the Catholic University of America. Mr. Fedderly has appeared as an extra or substitute principal tuba with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Vivian Fung

Canadian composer Vivian Fung joins the L&M faculty. She has received commissions and performances from the Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, San José Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, American String Quartet, New England Philharmonic, Avalon String Quartet, Music Teachers' Association of California, and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, among others. She is the recipient of two BMI Awards and an ASCAP award, as well as a number of others. Ms. Fung completed several residences at the MacDowell, Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Banff arts colonies. She was composer-in-residence with the Billings Symphony for 1999-2000 and will serve in that capacity for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra for the 2003-04 season. Ms. Fung earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Juilliard, where she was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music. Her teachers included David Diamond, Robert Beaser, and György Sándor (piano).

Hsin-Yun Huang, who joins the viola faculty, was born in Taiwan and received her education at the Menuhin School in England, the Curtis Institute, and Juilliard (where she earned her master's degree in 1994). Her teachers included David Takeno, Michael Tree, and Samuel Rhodes. She was the top prize-winner in the 1998 Lionel Tertis International Viola competition and the 1993 Competition of the ARD in Munich, as well as the recipient of Japan's Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. She has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Russian State Philharmonic, the Zagreb Soloists, and the National Symphony of Taiwan, and has been featured at various chamber music festivals in the United States and abroad. She was the violist of the Borromeo String Quartet (winner of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award), performing with them throughout North America and in Europe, including an appearance on PBS' Live From Lincoln Center. Ms. Huang also serves on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music.

Robing A. Leaver

Graduate faculty member Robin A. Leaver is professor of sacred music at Westminster Choir College and visiting professor of liturgy at Drew University. He is currently president of the American Bach Society. An internationally recognized hymnologist, musicologist, liturgiologist, Bach scholar, and Reformation specialist, Dr. Leaver has written numerous books and articles in the cross-disciplinary areas of liturgy, church music, theology, and hymnology. Dr. Leaver has participated in scholarly symposia and practical workshops throughout Europe, Korea, Japan, Canada and the United States; has written program and record notes, and given preconcert lectures for concerts in England and the United States. He has also worked on liturgical reconstructions of Bach's music, the most recent being St. John Passion in the setting of Vespers in Kings College, Cambridge, England, directed by John Butt; the Bach "Epiphany" Mass recordings of the Gabrieli Consort and Players, directed by Paul McCreesh (Deutsche Grammophon); Bach Vespers for Advent in Trinity College Chapel, Dublin, Ireland, directed by Andrew Megill; and a reconstruction of the Leipzig Christmas morning liturgy for the Washington Bach Consort, directed by Reilly Lewis last December.

Nicholas Mann

Nicholas Mann, who rejoins the chamber music faculty and serves as violin assistant to Robert Mann, is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet (now in its 23rd season). The quartet tours throughout the world and is the quartet-in-residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Mann received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Juilliard, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Since his debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983, he has performed extensively as a recitalist and soloist, including appearances with the Saint Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Washington Symphonia, Juilliard Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Naumburg Orchestra, and the Orchestra Da Camera. Mr. Mann has taught at the University of Delaware, University of Miami, and Harvard University, and has participated in the Aspen, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Chamber Music West, Musicorda, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals. He is currently on the faculty of the North Carolina School for the Arts, the Hartt School of Music, and the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival.

Pianist Ron Regev will join the L&M faculty. Born in Israel, Mr. Regev has won awards in numerous competitions. He was awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships consecutively since 1987 and, in the summer of 1998, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to continue his studies in the U.S. Mr. Regev has performed as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Rishon LeZion, and the Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra on its tour of Israel and Europe. His music festival appearances include the PRO festival in Germany and the Aspen Music Festival. A former student of Professor Emanuel Krasovsky, he was registered in the Special Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music. Mr. Regev received his master's degree (as a student of Jerome Lowenthal) from Juilliard, where he is currently a doctoral candidate.

Michael Tree

Renowned violist Michael Tree studied at the Curtis Institute with Efrem Zimbalist, Lea Luboshutz, and Veda Reynolds. Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1954, Mr. Tree has appeared as violin and viola soloist with orchestras around the country and participated in numerous chamber music festivals. In 1964, he co-founded the Guarneri String Quartet. One of the most widely recorded musicians in America, Mr. Tree has recorded more than 95 chamber music works, including 10 piano quartets and quintets with Artur Rubinstein, and two complete Beethoven Quartet cycles. These works appear on the Columbia, RCA, Sony, Phillips, Nonesuch, Arabesque, and Vanguard labels. His television credits include repeated appearances on NBC's Today show and the first telecast of chamber music on Live From Lincoln Center. Mr. Tree serves on the faculty at Curtis, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Maryland.

Kent Tritle will join the graduate school faculty. As director of the Dessoff Choirs, he has presented a wide array of choral repertoire, from Monteverdi to Menotti. The ensemble won the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming in 1999, and has appeared on PBS Live From Lincoln Center. As director of Music Ministries at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, he founded and directs its Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series. He served as artistic consultant on the design and installation at St. Ignatius of New York City's largest mechanical-action pipe organ. Mr. Tritle is the organist of the New York Philharmonic and principal organist of the American Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded on the Telarc, Gothic, VAI, Cala, Epiphany, and AMDG labels. As an organ recitalist he has performed widely in the United States and Europe; last April he was a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. An Iowa native, Mr. Tritle received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Juilliard.

JAZZ

Greg Knowles

Greg Knowles, who will teach The Business of Jazz, has been a record producer and record label exec in Los Angeles for the past 24 years. As president of the Hellion Group of Record Producers, he produces records in all styles of music, as well as spoken word and children's albums. Now based in New York, he continues to produce mostly classical recordings. Dr. Knowles received his B.M.Ed. from Aquinas College, his M.F.A. from Honolulu University of Arts, and his Ph.D. from Central Pacific University. He also studied conducting and harmony at Juilliard under Vincent LaSelva, Judith Clurman, and Kendall Briggs. He is the author of Reading Exercises for Solfège, and one of the editors of The Language and Materials of Music Through Harmony and Voice Leading by Kendall Briggs. Mr. Knowles was on the board of governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for eight years; he also served three terms as Los Angeles president of the Academy and six years on the national board of trustees.

Ben Wolfe. Photo by Lisa Martin

Bassist-composer Ben Wolfe started his career in his 20s, freelancing in the Portland area and backing Woody Shaw and other national touring acts. He then moved to New York, where he worked with musical luminaries such as Junior Cook, Jimmy Cobb, Dakota Staton, and the Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1988, after an initial gig with Harry Connick Jr., he went on to record more than a dozen albums and soundtracks and to perform on numerous world tours as musical director and a key performing member of the Harry Connick Jr. Orchestra. Mr. Wolfe then went on to the Wynton Marsalis Septet, where he stayed until the group disbanded. His collaborations with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra have included performances with Joe Henderson, Doc Cheatham, Jon Hendricks, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and Billy Higgins. Mr. Wolfe has recorded with Wynton Marsalis, James Moody, Marcus Roberts, Branford Marsalis, Eric Reed, Benny Green, Ned Goold, and Diana Krall. He has also recorded three CDs of his own compositions and arrangements.