Faculty

The Lyceum concert series at the Greenwich House Music School, co-directed by faculty member Audrey Axinn (MM '90, DMA '98, accompanying) and Amelia Roosevelt, gave a Valentine's Day-themed concert in February, including Tartini's Didone Abbandonata and songs of love lost by Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. Axinn also organized a marathon concert honoring Muzio Clementi's 250th birthday in February at Elebash Recital Hall of the City University of New York, which featured faculty members Jerome Lowenthal (MS '56, piano), Seymour Lipkin, and Brian Zeger (MM '81, piano).

The Martha Graham Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin, performed at the Joyce Theater in January and February. Dakin was featured as principal dancer in major roles of the repertory. Heidi Stoeckli (BFA '01), in her first season with the company, made her debut in the role of the Pioneering Woman in Appalachian Spring.

Dance Gallery presented NINE LIVES/Dances by Pat Catterson at the Construction Company in New York, in February. Catterson's Crowd Pleaser was given its premiere and Nicole Corea (BFA '00) and Helen Hansen (BFA '01) were among the dancers who performed.

Michael Kahn, the director of the Drama Division, recently directed The Silent Woman at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. The production featured John Livingston Rolle (Group 30) and Daniel Breaker (Group 31). Ralph Zito (Group 14) was vocal consultant for the show.

Curtis Macomber (BM '74, MM '76, DMA '78, violin) released two CDs in fall 2002: the complete Grieg Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Marija Stroke, pianist) for Arabesque, and an all-American solo violin music disc for CRI, titled Casting Ecstatic, including works of Maw, Boykin, Kreiger, and Anderson. In January he gave the premiere of Triptych for Solo Violin and Piano by George Perle, written for Macomber.

Faculty members Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano, as well as John Adams, participated in a composer's roundtable at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's Contemporary Music Festival in January and February. The festival also featured performances of the composers' works and comments on the works by the composers.

Piano faculty member Oxana Yablonskaya gave a master class at the Lucy Moses School in New York in February.

Students

Drama student Mahira Kakkar performed the one-act, one-woman play The Moonshot Tape at Obsession Gallery in Calcutta, India, in January.