Whitney Crockett.

Joining the bassoon faculty is Whitney Crockett, a Juilliard graduate who has been principal bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1998. He has also been the principal bassoon of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, South Florida Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of the Dominican Republic. Mr. Crockett has taught at McGill University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Domaine Forget Academy of Music and Dance in St. Irenée, Quebec. He performs with the New York Kammermusiker, a critically acclaimed double-reed ensemble, as well as with his Metropolitan Opera Orchestra colleagues in their Carnegie Hall series.

Timothy Eddy.

Timothy Eddy, cellist of the Orion String Quartet (which is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Mannes College of Music), joins the cello faculty. He has also performed with pianist Gilbert Kalish and the Bach Aria Group; has toured with Musicians From Marlboro; and made solo appearances with the Dallas, Denver, Stamford, Jacksonville, and North Carolina symphony orchestras. He has recorded for Columbia, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, and Sony Classical. Mr. Eddy has also been a professor of cello at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a member of the faculty of the bi-annual Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall.

Paul Sheftel.

Paul Sheftel, who will teach piano pedagogy, is a leader in keyboard studies who has performed, lectured, and conducted workshops in nearly every state in the country. His published materials and software are widely used throughout the country, as well as in Europe and Asia. A pioneer in the creation of instructional materials using MIDI technology, Sheftel has also composed electronic orchestrations to support Carl Fischer’s “Music Pathways” piano method by Olson, Bianchi, and Blickenstaff, as well as the Bastien Piano Method. Paul Sheftel was born in Italy and grew up in Los Angeles, where he studied piano with Frances Robyn and Alfred Pryce Quinn and theory and composition with Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard (studying with Edward Steuermann), Sheftel went to Italy on a Fulbright to study with Guido Agosti. While in Italy, he formed the two-piano team of Rollino and Sheftel; the duo performed extensively in Europe and the United States, both in recital and with orchestra. In recent years, he has presented solo recitals in New York City at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Hunter College. Sheftel has served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Hunter College, and has been piano editor for Carl Fischer. He continues to teach privately.

A member of Juilliard’s music history and L&M faculty from 1968-77, Martin Verdrager returns this fall to join the music history faculty. He has been artistic administrator to the Aspen Music Festival, Festival Casals, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington; most recently he serves as artistic advisor to the New York Chamber Symphony. In New York, he performed as a contrabassoonist with numerous metropolitan area orchestras and ensembles, including several seasons with the New Jersey Symphony (where he was the personnel manager). Mr. Verdrager is a graduate of New York High School of Music and Art and The Juilliard School.

Donald Weilerstein, a founding member and former first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, joins Juilliard’s violin faculty. A graduate of Juilliard, he studied with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay. Currently, he performs as a duo with his wife, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, and as a trio with Vivian and his daughter Alisa Weilerstein. His recordings include the compete works for violin and piano of Ernest Bloch and the Janácek, Dohnányi, and Enesco sonatas (Arabesque Records); the complete Schumann sonatas, as well as the Second Sonata, Third Sonata, and Piano Trio of Charles Ives, and the Three Sonatas and Partitas of Bach (Azica Records). Mr. Weilerstein has served on the faculties at Sarasota, Chamber Music West, Round Top, Norfolk, Ravinia, Bowdoin, Ithaca College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Eastman School of Music. He also teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music as the Eleanor H. Biggs Memorial Distinguished Professor of Violin. His students have won prizes in major international competitions; many are now members of major orchestras. String quartets under his coaching have won prizes at nearly every major chamber music competition, including Coleman, Fischoff, Portsmouth, Banff, and Naumburg.

Two new faculty members have also been appointed to the Pre-College Division.

Katharine Brainard, a cello teacher at Mannes College of Music, School for Strings, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, and Meadowmount School of Music, will begin teaching this fall in the Pre-College Division. Ms. Brainard has studied with Leonard Rose, Margaret Rowell, Bernard Greenhouse, and Irene Sharp, among others, and has worked with world-renowned artists including Louis Persinger, Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, and Hans Letz. She earned a bachelor’s degree in cello from Bennington College, and both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard. Her lifelong commitment to teaching is reflected in her pedagogy courses for teachers at the School for Strings. She also serves as a board member in the Violoncello Society of New York and the Associated Music Teachers League.

Violist and composer Kenji Bunch joins the Pre-College viola faculty this fall. A Juilliard graduate, Mr. Bunch earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in viola performance as a student of Toby Appel, and a Master of Music in composition under the tutelage of Robert Beaser. He is the violist of the Flux Quartet and the Craftsbury Chamber Players, and is a fiddler in the bluegrass band Citigrass. Mr. Bunch has received more than 30 commissions and awards for his compositions, and has recorded on the EMI Classics, Helicon, and PonyCanyon labels. He has taught viola at Music at Maple Mount in Kentucky, the Craftsbury Summer Institute, and in numerous master classes here and abroad. He has also developed composition workshops for young musicians in Kentucky, Vermont, and Maine.