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Faculty and Student News
David Berger led his jazz band, the Sultans of Swing, in concert at the Moscow Conservatory in January. The 15-piece band and their vocalist, Aria Hendricks, were joined by pianist Nikolai Petrov, mezzo-soprano Yelena Obraztsova, and violinist David Golshchokin. The concert included Berger's arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue, Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige, and 12 movements from the Ellington-Strayhorn-Berger version of The Nutcracker.Danceworks presented Blue Triangle, dances by faculty member Sue Bernhard and Margie Gillis, in January at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. Of the 19 dancers, four were alumni (Trey Gillen [BFA '96], Chesare Hardy [BFA '03], Laurel Lynch [BFA '03], and Elisabeth Motley [BFA '03]) and three are current students (Jonathan Alsberry, Anthony Smith, and Bobbi Smith).Violin faculty member Catherine Cho (BM '92, MM '94, violin) performed the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Daejon Philharmonic in Korea recently and also played the complete Beethoven Sonata cycle with pianist Mia Chung in Seoul, Korea. She had solo performances with the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada; the Mallorca Symphony in Spain; and the Tuscaloosa (AL) Symphony.Christopher Durang's latest play, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, was recently read at New York's Public Theater and featured Kristine Nielsen as Mrs. Bob Cratchit and Drama Division graduates Boyd Gaines (Group 8), Greg McFadden (Group 22), Kate Jennings Grant (Group 25), and Michael Arden (Group 34). The reading was directed by Peter Dubois.The American Guild of Organists is planning a gala benefit reception on May 2 to honor organ faculty member Gerre Hancock and Judith Hancock. The event will include a recital by the two honorees and proceeds will benefit the American Guild of Organists Endowment Fund.Seymour Lipkin will tour mainland China at the end of March, playing recitals and giving master classes in five cities. Beginning in mid-March, his recordings of the complete Beethoven Sonatas on nine CDs will be released by Newport Classic. They will also be released with all 32 sonatas on a single CD using MP-3 technology. This will be the first time these sonatas are available in this format.In January, faculty members Kent Tritle (BM '85, organ; MM '88, choral conducting/organ) and Thomas Stacy performed with trumpeter Scott McIntosh at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyala in New York. The concert was titled "Organ Plus" and included works by Gardner Read, Copland, and Holst. Tritle participated in another concert at the church in February, when he conducted the choir in Rachmaninoff's Vespers. The performance featured contralto Ory Brown and tenor James Archie Worley.
Piano Artist Diploma student Chuan Qin received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and Best Performance Prize of Catalogue d'Oiseaux in the Olivier Messiaen International Competition for contemporary piano music, which was held in Paris last November.
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