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Faculty and Student News
L&M faculty member Vivian Fung's (BM '96, MM '97, DMA '02, composition) String Quartet was premiered by the Avalon String Quartet (Blaise Magniere [AD '03, resident quartet], Marie Wang [AD '03, resident quartet], Che-Yen Chen [MM '01, viola; AD '03, resident quartet], and Sumire Kudo [AD '03, resident quartet]) in January as part of the Chamber Music Columbus (OH) series. She will become composer-in-residence of the San José Chamber Orchestra as part of the Music Alive! program from Meet the Composer during spring 2005.The Choirs and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola, under the direction of faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, organ; MM '88, organ, choral conducting), gave the New York premieres in March of Stephen Paulus's Concerto for Organ, Chorus, and Orchestra, with organist Nancianne Parrella, and Songs of Eternity by faculty member Behzad Ranjbaran (MM '88, DMA '92, composition), featuring soprano Rachel Rosales.The Gay Gotham Chorus presented Orff's Carmina Burana in March at Brooklyn College's Whitman Auditorium and at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in Manhattan. The concert featured Juilliard Opera Center student Matthew Garrett and was conducted by Jonathan Babcock.In February, Andrew Henderson gave a recital of music for organ and percussion music with Joseph Tompkins at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.Fourth-year dance student Alison Mixon, who has been performing with Connecticut Ballet under the artistic direction of Brett Raphael, will go to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev to dance in West Side Story this spring.Master's degree piano student Konstantin Souhkovetski has been awarded a 2004 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study.
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