Dance faculty member Jacqulyn Buglisi choreographed The Dreame, which was performed by Ice Theater of New York in November at Chelsea Piers.

An article by Jerome Carrington, a member of the Pre-College cello faculty, on Haydn's D-Major Cello Concerto will be published by The Strad magazine. The study explores the ornamentation and several lingering errors in the concerto, and will be published in two parts, in the February and March 2003 issues.

As part of the Greenwich House Music School's series of master classes and recitals marking the centenary of Claudio Arrau's birth, David Dubal will play and discuss his collection of recordings of past interviews with Arrau in a lecture titled Arrau Speaks on February 28.

Aaron Flagg (BM '92, MM '93, trumpet) and Cristina Stanescu (MM '93, DMA '99, accompanying) opened the 92nd St. Y's Family Concert Series in November with a recital that featured music by faculty member Eric Ewazen (MM '78, DMA '80, composition). Stanescu is director of the collaborative piano program at Mannes College of Music. Flagg continued his performances with the Illinois Jacquet Big Band at the Jazz Standard in New York and toured Japan with the New York Ragtime Orchestra. He was featured in the January issue of Symphony magazine discussing diversity in American orchestras.

The Juilliard String Quartet participated in Chamber Music America's marathon concert at Symphony Space in January to celebrate C.M.A.'s 25th anniversary.

This season, Mari Kimura (DMA '93, violin) was the featured soloist at International Society of Contemporary Music (I.S.C.M.) World Music Days 2002 in Hong Kong, performing Kaija Saariaho's Graal Theatre with Hong Kong Symfonietta, as well as a solo recital that included her own work. At I.S.C.M., she gave the premiere of Axon, a work written for her by composer Tania León. Kimura also gave a solo recital at the 30th International Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico, the largest music festival in Latin America. In September, she performed in Goteborg, Sweden, invited by the International Computer Music Association, presenting her new work for violin and interactive computer Descarga Interactive, commissioned by the association.

Trumpet faculty member Raymond Mase has been named a New Horizons faculty member for the Aspen Music School beginning in 2003. He will serve a three-year term and will have the opportunity to choose three students to study with him at Aspen.

Decca Records has released a CD of the music of William Walter that features Paul Neubauer (BM '82, MM '83, viola). Neubauer performs the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton (BM '80, piano; MM '82, orchestral conducting).

Violin and chamber music faculty member Itzhak Perlman was featured on Live From Lincoln Center with students from the Perlman Music Program in January.

Pre-College faculty member Adelaide Roberts performed two piano recitals in Japan—one in Tokyo and one in Kitaibaraki City—in late November and early December.

Voice faculty member Robert White was invited to Beijing in October to judge the Second China International Vocal Competition. Other members of the panel included soprano Ileana Cotrubas and Paris Opera director Hugues Gall. White also gave a master class for singers at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music.

D.M.A. student Jesus Castro-Balbi performed works by Joan Guinjoan and Rachmaninoff with pianist Gloria Yi-Chen Lin at Chamber Music America's marathon concert in January at Symphony Space in New York.

Doctoral student Justine Fang Chen performed Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the Youth Orchestra, Chinese Youth Corps of New York, and conductor Jeffrey Liang at Marie Curie Middle School 158 in Bayside, Queens, in December.

Jazz trombone student Ryan Keberle is the first director for Jazz Band Classic, a new ensemble of the New York Youth Symphony. The group's first concert will be at Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem on February 9.