Joseph Kalichstein celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with a concert at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park (MD) that featured the premiere of the Grand Trio by David Del Tredici.

Violin and chamber music faculty member Nicholas Mann, Miriam Fried ('69, violin), Ulrich Eichenauer, and Marcy Rosen—the Mendelssohn String Quartet—presented a concert at the 92nd Street Y in November that juxtaposed the music of Beethoven with the spoken word. The concert featured Beethoven's Quartet in F Major with a reading from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Quartet in A Minor with a reading from Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point. The next concert in this series will be December 7, when Beethoven quartets will be heard alongside readings by T.S. Eliot.

Oxford University Press has just published American Encores, a vocal anthology edited by Paul Sperry (vocal literature, graduate studies) that presents 17 of his favorite encore songs for solo voice and piano. The wide range of repertoire includes contributions by many of America's finest song composers: Amy Beach, Robert Beaser, Christopher Berg, William Billings, Paul Bowles, Dudley Buck, Theodore Chanler, Tom Cipullo, Henry Cowell, Celius Dougherty, Stephen Foster/arr. Swenson, Richard Hundley, Stephen Paulus, Warren Swenson, Louise Talma, Virgil Thomson, and Maury Yeston.

Jazz faculty member Loren Schoenberg was named the executive director of the Jazz Museum in Harlem in May, and his new book, The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz, was published in August.

Vocal Arts faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, organ; MM '88, choral conducting and organ) directed the Dessoff Choirs in its Mostly Mozart collaboration with Nicholas McGegan and Mark Morris in August. The choir performed Handel's Acis and Galatea at Alice Tully Hall and L'Allegro, Il Penseroso at the New York State Theater. Both performances featured the period-instrument orchestra Philharmonia Baroque. Tritle performed at the harpsichord with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in October. He conducted Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Cantata No. 78, and Scarlatti's Te Deum in October to open the 14th season of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concerts at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan.

Piano faculty member Oxana Yablonskaya was the performer for the inaugural recital in a series at Maximiliaan's House of Grand Pianos in New York in November.

Guitar student Cem Duruöz performed a concert of 18th-century French Baroque music in San Francisco in October. He played selections from his CD Pièces de Viole (2001 Centaur), which includes his own transcriptions of gamba music by Marin Marais. The event was organized by Humanities West within the scope of its symposium about the reign of Louis XIV in France. Duruöz also gave a solo recital at the International Eskisehir Music Festival in Turkey.

Amos Fayette, Daniel Tsai, and Elizabeth Fayette, Pre-College violin students of Shirley Givens, have all won concerto competitions entitling them to orchestra dates this season. Amos Fayette, as winner of the Sound Symphony (L.I.) Competition, will perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto in June. Tsai won the Ridgefield (CT) Symphony Orchestra Music Performance Competition and played the Sibelius Concerto in October. Elizabeth Fayette was the winner of the New York State ASTA Solo Competition with a performance of Mozart's A Major Concerto and will appear with the Albany Orchestra.

Konstantin Soukhovetski has appeared with the Hilton Head (SC) Symphony, led by Mary Woodmansee Green, playing Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise and Liszt's Totentanz. He will make his New York City debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall on February 3 as first-prize winner of the 2002 Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

Master's degree pianist Gilles Vonsattel was heard in recital at Alice Tully Hall in November. The concert included works by Bach, Prokofiev, Schumann, Ravel, and Xenakis.