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Faculty and Student News
Per Brevig
conducted the East Texas Symphony Orchestra and soprano Christine Brewer in a
program of music by Strauss and Wagner in November.
Buglisi/Foreman Dance (faculty member Jacqulyn Buglisi
and Donlin Foreman, artistic directors) participated in the 2003 Remember
Project, presented by Dancers Responding to AIDS, at St. Mark's Church in
December. "Last Call," the third section of Donlin Foreman's ballet suite
Arms Around Me, was performed in memory of Roger
Bellamy.
Faculty members Michelle DiBucci
and Ed Bilous welcomed their
first baby, a daughter named Isabella, in November.
Mark Gould and ensemble Pink Baby
Monster performed the multimedia piece Afterlife
in December at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall in New York.
The Juilliard String Quartet
opened the Peoples' Symphony Concerts season in October with a concert at
Washington Irving High School in Manhattan. The program included works by
Mozart, Webern, and Dvorak.
In November, comedy class teacher Floyd King
appeared in a new production of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Gary
Griffin, at the Signature Theater in Washington.
Kent Tritle conducted the Choir and
Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in Handel's Messiah
in December. The soloists were Melissa Kelley, Lorie Gratis, James Archie
Worley, and Richard Byrne. Also that month, Tritle and assistant conductor
Aaron Smith led the Choirs and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in Daniel
Pinkham's Christmas Cantata, Tomás Luis
de Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium , Morten
Lauridsen's Ave Maria, and other seasonal
favorites.
David Wallace gave the premiere of
Nahum, for six-string electric viper viola, in
December at HERE performance space in Manhattan. This was part of Target
Margin Theater's Faust promusica, which
celebrated a new translation of Goethe's Faust
.
Kate Wilson was the vocal consultant for
the revival of the musical Fiddler on the Roof
, starring Alfred Molina, which opens on Broadway this month.
In October, artist diploma student Tanya Becker-Bender
performed a recital at the Beethoven Festival Bonn. She also played the
Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concertos with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in
the Herkulessaal and in the Prinzregententheater. Becker-Bender played
Mozart's Concerto No. 4 on a tour in Germany with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten.
In November, she performed Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto in the Rosenthal
Contemporary Art Center with the Arc Ensemble of Cincinnati, conducted by
Demetrius Fuller, and the Philip Glass Violin Concerto in Bolzano and in
Rovereto, Italy, with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, conducted by
Ola Rudner.
The Chamber Music Society of Detroit announced the Claremont Trio as the first
recipient of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award in
December. The Claremont Trio members are Donna Kwong
(BM '00, MM '01, piano ), student
Emily Bruskin, and Julia Bruskin
(MM '03, cello ). The basis of the award
is a $2.1 million endowment, supported in part by the contribution of $30,000
by each of 20 participating chamber music presenters. Additional support has
been contributed by Samuel and Jean Frankel and by the Matilda Wilson Fund.
Doctoral student in composition Justine Fang Chen
(BM '98, MM '00, violin and composition)
was the violinist for the U.S. premiere of Rikka Talvittie's
Luonnonoikku for a young women composers' concert at
the Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art Gallery in New York.
Doctoral student Avner Dorman 's
Variations Without a Theme was premiered by the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta in November at
the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. In April, Dorman's String Quartet No. 1 was
premiered in New York City at a benefit for the American Friends of the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to Variations Without a
Theme, Avner Dorman's newest commissions will be
performed this month at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and by the Seraphim
Choir in Boston.
Playwriting student David Folwell
's play Boise will be produced in New
York by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater this spring, directed by Craig Lucas.
Organ student John Hong was
recently named Artist of the Year by the Korean Times
. He is the first organist to receive this honor.
Piano student Alicia Gabriela Martinez
won the first prize at the Rubinstein Piano Competition in November.
Master's degree student Saeka Matsuyama
was a second-prize winner at the Hannover International Violin Competition in
October.
Collaborative piano student Carol H. Wong
, along with mezzo-soprano Megan Latham, were the winners of the Marilyn
Horne Foundation Awards. Wong and Latham will be presented in recital at the
Kosciuszko Foundation on April 25.
Xiang Zou, a first-year master student,
won the 2003 Esther Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada.
The win helped Zou secure a two-year management agreement with concert tours
in Canada, America, and Europe and a CD recording contract.
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