Faculty

Collaborative Piano faculty assistant Audrey Axinn and Claire Jolivet (BM '82, MM '83, violin) were among the musicians for a May concert of the Lyceum concert series at Greenwich House Arts in New York City.

Per Brevig (DIP '67, PGD '67, BM '68, DMA '71, trombone) has been appointed music director and conductor of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. He is also under consideration for the position of music director and conductor at the Costa Rica Symphony Orchestra.

Christopher Durang (drama) won an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May for outstanding literary achievement. Durang's new musical, Adrift in Macao, had its premiere at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College and New York Stage and Film in June, directed by Sheryl Kaller.

Bruce Brubaker (piano literature) presented a preconcert panel discussion at the Project Webern concert in April at the Morgan Library in New York City.

Larry Guy, clarinet faculty in the MAP program, was invited to give a lecture at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm this summer as part of the annual Clarinet Fest sponsored by the International Clarinet Association. His lecture, "The Performance Legacy of Daniel Bonade," won first prize. In addition to a cash award, Guy's lecture will be published in the December issue of Clarinet magazine. Daniel Bonade was a faculty member at Juilliard during the 1940s and '50s.

Rebecca Guy (drama) returned this summer as artistic director of the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company, where she directed Eric Overmyer's play On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning).

Felix Ivanov (drama) was a faculty member at the Chatauqua Conservatory Theater Company over the summer.

Mari Kimura (music technology) gave a recital of electronic music at the Birch Garden of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (NJ) in May.

James Kreger's (cello) summer activities included teaching and performing at the Heifetz International Music Institute, held at the Brewster Academy, in Wolfeboro, NH.

Ellen Lauren (drama) performed in a new play called Room, based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, with text adapted by Jocelyn Clarke and directed by Anne Bogart, created by the SITI Company, at the Classic Stage Company in New York in May.

Dawn Lille (dance history) wrote a chapter, "The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain" in Dancing Many Drums (Thomas F. De Frantz, ed.). She also had two articles, "Ethiopian Dance in Israel" and "An Interview with Ruth Eshel of the Eskesta Dance Company," in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology, Vol. 20, No. 1-2.

The New Juilliard Ensemble, led by Joel Sachs, performed a free concert at the Juilliard Theater as part of Lincoln Center Festival in July. The performance featured works by Bright Sheng and Guo Wenjing.

Dalit Hadass Warshaw's (Evening Division) 11th and most recent orchestral work, Camille's Dance, was premiered in May by the Grand Rapids (MI) Symphony, David Lockington conducting. The performance was aired on WNPR's Symphony Cast.

Ralph Zito (drama) was the voice consultant on Daniel Fish's production of Romeo and Juliet at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland. He also worked at Chautauqua over the summer and appeared in Rob Bundy's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which featured current Group 33 Drama Division students Abby Gerdts, Mahira Kakkar, Aric Martin, and Michael Paul Simpson. Zito directed Kaufman and Hart's Once in a Lifetime at Chautauqua in August.

Samuel Zyman (L&M) composed the symphonic score for the film The Other Conquest, which was screened at the Cantor Film Center in New York City in April.

Students

Master's student Kati Agocs received a Charles Ives Scholarship of $7,500, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to composition students of great promise.

Drama students Jeff Biehl, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, and Jess Weixler were three of the 14 students to participate in A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training summer program in Minnesota. In July, the actors performed seven 10-minute plays written for the program.

Doctoral student John Kaefer won a 2002 BMI Student Composer Award for his work Mosaic, for large orchestra.

Ji Yeon Kim, a 9-year-old Pre-College student of Jerome Carrington, was soloist with the Little Orchestra Society, under the baton of music director Dino Anagnost, in April at Avery Fisher Hall. Kim played the first movement of the Monn Cello Concerto in G Minor. She also appeared in the orchestra's June Alice Tully Hall concert, performing the third movement of Vivaldi's G-Major Cello Concerto.

Cellist Mark Kosower, pictured right, and pianist Orion Weiss, pictured left, were two of the four recipients of Avery Fisher Career Grants in April. The award stipend is $15,000 to be used for specific needs in the furtherance of the winner's career.

Playwright fellow Ellen Melaver was a writer-in-residence with the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company in August. Her residency featured a reading of her play The Baby and the Brie.

The National Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere performances of doctoral student Daniel Ott's (MM '99, compostition) Firebrand in April at the Kennedy Center, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, in Washington. The work was commissioned by the N.S.O. as one of five encores from American composers. The three-minute work is a parody of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, which immediately preceeded it on the programs.

Violinist Sabina Rakcheyeva gave a concert in April with pianist Fabrizio Soprano at the Museum of the American Piano in New York.

The student ensemble the Xanadu Trio (Elizabeth Roe, piano; Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; and Susie Yang, cello) received the Senior String Division Silver Medal of the 2002 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in May at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN.

Pianist Mei-Ting Sun received first prize at the First International Piano E-Competition in Minneapolis. Competitors performed on a Yamaha piano that was equipped with Disklavier Pro reproducing technology, capable of transmitting performances as MIDI computer data through the Internet, so that judges in Japan could hear the performances. Sun also received a special award for Best Performance of a Schubert Sonata.

Pianist Gilles Vonsattel won first place in this year's Naumburg International Piano Competition.

Violinist Michi Wiancko received the third-place prize in the college division of the Corpus Christi (TX) Young Artitsts' Competition in February.  In the pre-college division, Sun-A Park was the third-place winner.