Faculty

Samuel Adler, Virginia Allen, David Berger, Michelle Di Bucci, Eric Ewazen, Philip Lasser, and Lawrence Widdoes were all recipients of 2002-2003 ASCAP Awards.

Christopher Bayes is currently in Seattle directing Molière's Scapin, assisted by Juilliard Directing Fellow Alex Correia. The production will originate at the Intiman Theater, and will then move to the Court Theater in Chicago. In addition to his teaching duties at Juilliard, Bayes will again this year teach at the Actors Center with other Juilliard faculty members Felix Ivanov, Richard Feldman, Deborah Lapidus, and alumna Anne Torsiglieri (Group 21).

Dance faculty member Sue Bernhard was guest choreographer and teacher for National Company Moderno y Folklorico de Guatemala in June. She was assisted by Brian McNeil, a second-year dance student.

Pre-College violin teacher Shirley Givens was a faculty member at the six-week Heifetz International Music Festival in Wolfeboro, NH. In addition to a busy teaching and master class schedule, Givens made frequent apperances on the Festival Concert Series, performing works by Bach, Elgar, Ravel, Copland, Bartók, Massenet, and her own arrangement of Gershwin's “The Man I Love.”

Sharon Isbin received Germany's Echo Klassik Award in the category of Best Concert Recording for her Christopher Rouse/Tan Dun premiere concerto disc in June. She is to perform in the Phono-Akademie's award ceremony on October 13 on Germany's ZDFTelevision. In September Isbin performed with Yo-Yo Ma ('72, cello), Gil Shaham ('90, violin), and the Juilliard String Quartet at Ground Zero on the anniversary of the attacks, accompanying the reading of names of those who perished.

Drama Division Director Michael Kahn's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale opened in September in Washington, D.C. at the Shakespeare Theatre. The production featured alumnus Donald Corren (Group 4).

Students

Juilliard students Tanja Becker-Bender, Emilie-Anne Gendron, Yi-Jia Hou, Tai Murray, and Stirling Trent and alum Masaaki Tanokura (BM '02, violin) participated in the Sixth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in September. Becker-Bender and Murray were semi-finalists.

Tammy Dyke, a fourth-year dance student, danced and choreographed for a group of five dancers who visited Tokyo to perform in a 10-day industrial for the Olympia Company, whose products include adult gaming videos.

Violinists Yevgeny Kutik, Daniel Tsai, Edmund Chung, and Deborah Song, all Pre-College students of Shirley Givens, performed at the Heifetz International Institute in Wolfeboro, NH. Kutik played Tzigane by Ravel, concertos by Sibelius and Glazunov, sonatas by Poulenc and Beethoven, Paganini's Caprice No. 24, and the Bach “Double” Concerto with institute director Daniel Heifetz. Tsai performed concertos by Mozart and Sibelius, Brahms's A-Major Sonata, Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia, and the Mendelssohn Octet led by Heifetz. Chung was heard in Bazzini's Round of the Goblins, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, and Beethoven's Sonata No. 8. Song played Saint-Saëns's Concerto No. 3, Beethoven's Sonata No. 1, and the Bach “Double” Concerto with Heifetz.

Fourth-year dance student Matt Stewart performed in Given Form: Dances by Four Choreographers at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York City in June.

Pianist Vasileios Varvaresos is scheduled to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington on October 20 as part of the Young Concert Artists Series.