Faculty

Edward Berkeley will direct the operas La bohème and Béatrice et Bénédict, with performances in July and August, at the Aspen Musical Festival.

Pre-College faculty member Antigoni Goni (MM '95, guitar) gave three recitals at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, in March.

Faculty member Rebecca Guy (Group 7) is the director of Studs Terkel's American Dreams: Lost and Found, an adaptation by the Acting Company having its New York debut this month prior to a national tour.

In April, Warner Classics released Sharon Isbin's recording Baroque Favorites for Guitar, which includes music by Bach, Vivaldi, and Albinoni.

Dance faculty member Dawn Lille gave a paper titled "Classic Black: Is Ballet Blanc for Whites Only?" at the meeting of European Dance Historians at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London in February. She was also guest lecturer in the graduate program at the University of Surrey.

Curtis Macomber (BM '74, MM '75, DMA '78, violin) finished his performance series of the complete Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas and Schubert Sonatinas, with pianist Marija Stroke, in April at Wave Hill in Riverdale.

Per Brevig (DMA '71, trombone) conducted two performances of Mahler's Sixth Symphony with the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra this winter.

In May, Adelaide Roberts, a Pre-College faculty member, and Lisa Kovalik, an Evening Division faculty member, will perform at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Roberts and Michael Blum (BM '77, MM '78, piano) will perform at Holy Cross Church in Kingston, NY, in memory of Edgar Roberts. In June, she will give a solo recital at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.

The first act of Greg Sandow's opera Frankenstein (libretto by Thomas M. Disch) will be performed on May 8 at New York City Opera's VOX series of new opera workshops at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew.

Students

Guitarist Cem Duruöz was featured on the WQXR Young Artists Showcase, hosted by faculty member Robert Sherman, in March. The program included live recordings of works by Piazzolla, Giuliani, Marais, Matos-Rodriguez, and Turkish folk songs from his recent recital at the CRR Concert Hall in Istanbul/Turkey.

The Naxos label recently released a CD by Hyun-Sun Kim, a second-year artist diploma student in piano, and Bin Huang ('00, violin) called Baroque Favorites. The CD includes music by Vitali, Tartini, Corelli, Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach.

Yvgeny Kutik, Pre-College violin student of Shirley Givens, has won first prize in the Boston Symphony Youth Competition and will be performing the Sibelius Concerto with the orchestra in May.

Alexei Podkorytov, a current master's degree student in piano, performed with violinist Mikhail Simonyan in March at the 20th annual presentation of the Musical Armenia Concert at Carnegie Hall.

Vassily Primakov will give his Young Concert Artists series debut on May 4 at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center in Washington. He is scheduled to perform works by Bach, Schumann, Shostakovich, and Ravel.

Jonathan Schiffman, a master's student in conducting, was selected for the fourth National Conducting Institute, a program dedicated to the advanced development of conductors. Created by National Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin, the project is designed to help conductors successfully make the transition from leading student or part-time orchestras to working with a full-time professional orchestra. Stephen Czarkowski, who is taking part in the Professional Internship Program at Juilliard, was also selected for the institute.

Pianist Vasileios Varvaresos made his debut in the Young Concert Artists series in April at the 92nd Street Y. The recital included works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin, Ravel, and Balakirev.