Faculty

Piano faculty member Emanuel Ax (Diploma '70, Postgraduate Diploma '72, piano) performed works by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart, and Juilliard faculty member Christopher Theofanidis with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, under Robert Spano, in a five-city Florida tour in February and March.

Graduate studies faculty member Robin A. Leaver is the subject of the recently released festschrift Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver. Leaver's book, Luther's Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications, is scheduled to be released by Eerdmans in March.

Pre-College faculty member Frank Levy ('92, piano) played a concert with the Music of the Spheres Society and faculty members Hsin-Yun Huang (MM '94, viola) and Darrett Adkins (DMA '99, cello) as well as Juilliard alumni Michi Wiancko (MM '02, violin) and Jon Manasse (BM '86, MM '87, clarinet) at Weill Recital Hall in February. The program included works by Ernst Dohnanyi, Brahms, David Jaedyn Conley, and Milhaud.

Piano faculty member Seymour Lipkin is celebrating his 20th anniversary as the artistic director of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Me. Since October, he has given combination master classes and performances at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, Hochschule fuer Musik in Rostock, Germany, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with plans to visit St. Bonaventure University in New York. Lipkin recently collaborated with Arnold Steinhardt in a recording of the complete violin and piano works of Schubert, released on two CDs by Newport Classic Records, which also released Lipkin's recordings of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas.

Jazz faculty member Wynton Marsalis ('81, trumpet), artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will host its radio series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, taking over for the late Ed Bradley. Juilliard faculty member and Jazz at Lincoln Center curator Phil Schapp will be a guest host during the upcoming season.

The Juilliard String Quartet [Joel Smirnoff (BM '75, MM '76, violin), violinist Ronald Copes, cellist Joel Krosnick, violist Samuel Rhodes] performed works by Bartok, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven at concerts and master classes in January at Pro-Musica in El Paso, Arizona State University, and Da Camera in Houston.

Viola faculty member Steven Tenenbom played with Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo, and Sharon Robinson in a concert of works by Luigi Dallapiccola, Max Reger, and Mozart at the 92nd Street Y in February.

Students

Pre-College piano student Alice Burla performed works by Bach, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff at Paris's Ecole Normale de Musique in December. She was invited by the Parnassus Foundation to perform in Monterrey, Mexico, in January, where Burla played Bach's Concerto in D Minor and Beethoven's Concerto No. 2 with the Chamber Orchestra Amadeus, directed by Jesus Medina.

Pre-College violinist Ashley Kim performed the solo in the first movement of Eduard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnol at the Livingston (N.J.) Symphony Orchestra's young people's concert, "Famous Heroes and Villains." The January concert featured selections from the movies Harry Potter, Superman, James Bond, and Star Wars as well as Humperdinck's Overture to Hansel and Gretel.

Dance student Shamel Pitts was featured with Sidra Bell Dance New York at the Cool New York Dance Festival in January. The performances took place at White Wave's John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn.

In February, J.O.C. member Faith Sherman won first prize in the Houston Grand Opera vocal competition, which includes an award of $10,000.