FACULTY

Stephen Pier's ('77, dance) PierGroup Dance company—including Jonathan Alsberry (BFA '06), Nicole Corea (BFA '00), Helen Hansen (BFA '01), and Harumi Terayama (BFA '06)—performed at Reverb Festival 2006 in December at the Ailey CitiGroup Theater in New York. Pier's choreography to Puccini's Messa di Gloria was presented at New York's Di Capo Opera Theater in January. Bennyroyce Royon (BFA '06) and current Juilliard student Antonio Brown performed the work with PierGroup Dance.

Dance division faculty member David Wallace's (Advance Certificate '95, DMA '99, viola) new chamber piece William Blake Rhapsody was premiered by his wife, soprano Lauri Wallace, flutist Tanya Witek (MM '95, DMA '00, flute), clarinetist Richard Mannola, Misty Tolle Pereira (BM '98, MM '00, French horn), cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and pianist Leesa Dahl during Lauri Wallace's recital at the 92nd Street Y in December.

Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ, MM '88, choral conducting), music director of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series, presented Ottorino Respighi's Laud to the Nativity in two Christmas concerts at New York's St. Ignatius Loyola church in December. The choirs and orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola were joined by the Omega Liturgical Dance Company. The concerts also included the third movement of Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 with soloists Mitsuru Tsubota, violin; Anne Briggs (BM '72, MM '73, flute); Diane Lesser (BM '77, oboe); and Scott McIntosh (MM '80, trumpet). The choirs presented Morton Lauriden's O Magnum Mysterium and a group of traditional carols.

Graduate Studies professor Michael Musgrave contributed to the Festschrift for Dr. Otto Bilba, presented in October at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In October, Musgrave also advised in the preparations of Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem for a performance by the Jyske Sinfonietta in Silkeborg, on the Jutland peninsula, and lectured on it in Copenhagen at the Politikens Hus.

Drama faculty member Michael Kahn's production of Shakespeare's Richard III opened at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, in January. The production featured Group 25 alumna Claire Lautier.

Director of the Dance division, Lawrence Rhodes, was featured in Dance Magazine's December 2006 issue in "Teacher's Wisdom: Lawrence Rhodes," by Joseph Carman.

Dance faculty members Terese Capucilli and Yvonne Marceau were featured in Dance Magazine's "Dance Magazine Recommends" feature. Capucilli and former faculty member Christine Dakin contributed to the book Acts of Light: Martha Graham in the 21st Century. Marceau and former faculty member Pierre Dulaine launched the program featured in the DVD Mad Hot Ballroom.

STUDENTS

Current piano students Dae Hyung Ahn, Michael Brown, Soo Yeon Cho, Illya Filshtinskiy, Matthew Graybill, Natalia Kazaryan, Yiding Niu, Emely Phelps, Christopher Schmitt, Evan Shinners, and Hannah Sun, winner of the 2004 New York Piano Competition who will enroll in Juilliard in the fall, were featured in Beyond the Practice Room. The documentary, which focused on the competition, aired on Thirteen/WNET New York in December.