Bonnie Hampton

A founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Francesco Trio, Ms. Hampton also performed as a duo with her late husband, pianist Nathan Schwartz. Her chamber music guest appearances have included performances with the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland, Mendelssohn, Alexander, Budapest, and Griller string quartets. Long a champion of new music, Ms. Hampton has worked with many composers, among them Carter, Copland, Dallapiccola, Harbison, Imbrie, Kim, Kirchner, Kodály, Milhaud, Powell, and Shifrin. During the summer, she teaches in the chamber music programs at Yellow Barn and Tanglewood and has appeared at the Chamber Music West, Seattle, Ravinia, and Santa Fe chamber music festivals. Ms. Hampton is a former president of Chamber Music America.

Paul Jacobs, who joins the organ faculty, began studying piano at 6 and organ at 13; by 15 he was chief organist of a parish in his hometown of Washington, Penn. He graduated from Curtis with a double major in organ (studying with John Weaver) and harpsichord (studying with Lionel Party) before earning his master's degree from Yale (studying organ with Thomas Murray).

Mr. Jacobs first came to national attention as a concert organist in 2000, when he performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach in 14 consecutive evenings, both in New York and Philadelphia. (He offered an 18-hour, non-stop Bach marathon in Pittsburgh that year, and a Messaien marathon in six American cities the next.) Mr. Jacobs recently made his South American debut (in Brazil) and his European debut (in Germany), and has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipedreams" (distributed by PRI), Bavarian Radio, and Brazilian Arts Television. He is the first organist to receive the Harvard Musical Association's prestigious Arthur W. Foote Award.

Peter Bernstein

Peter Bernstein, who will teach jazz guitar, has made over 60 recordings and participated in numerous festival, concert, and club performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader, he has made five recordings for the Criss Cross Jazz label; the latest, Heart's Content, was released last spring.

While still a student at the New School, Mr. Bernstein met legendary guitarist Jim Hall, who asked him to play in his "Invitational" Concert as part of the 1990 JVC Jazz Festival. (The concert was released on CD by Music Masters.) That same year, Mr. Bernstein took part in the first of four recordings with saxophonist Lou Donaldson and was a regular member of his group throughout the 1990s. He has also enjoyed long musical associations with drummer Jimmy Cobb (Cobb's Mob), and organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart as a member of their trio. Mr. Bernstein was a member of Joshua Redman's band from 1995-97, and Diana Krall's quartet from 1999-2001 (performing in North America, Europe, and the Far East). As a teacher, he has also been in demand for workshops at Berklee College of Music, North Texas State, the New School Jazz Program, and the Jazz Conservatory in Amsterdam.

Robert Sadin

Robert Sadin will teach Jazz Composition and Arranging II. His orchestrations and arrangements have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony, among others. In 1999 he produced and arranged the award-winning album Gershwin's World, featuring Herbie Hancock with guest artists Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Kathleen Battle, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has produced, arranged, or conducted albums featuring Wayne Shorter, Placido Domingo, Kathleen Battle, the Clark Sisters, Gilberto Gil, Marcus Roberts, Busta Rhymes, and Jimmy Scott.

Mr. Sadin has conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, toured as guest conductor of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and been a frequent guest conductor at the New York City Ballet (beginning with an invitation from Wynton Marsalis and Peter Martins to conduct the premiere of their work Jazz). He has been musical director for the "Jazz in August" festival in Lisbon and conducted the first complete concert performance in the United States of Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron. Mr. Sadin taught at Princeton University for six years and was previously music director and conductor of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Orchestra. He studied at Juilliard for two years and dedicates his work here to the memory of Jean Morel.

Musical coach Mary-Mitchell Campbell was music supervisor of The World of Nick Adams, performed at Lincoln Center in New York and the Kodak Center in Los Angeles (featuring an undiscovered Aaron Copland score and an all-star cast of Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Morgan Freeman, and Paul Newman, among others). Her Broadway credits include Beauty and the Beast and The Scarlet Pimpernel; Off-Broadway and regional credits include The Prince and the Pauper, Early One Morning, Our Town, Requiem for William, and 3hree. Ms. Campbell has toured with the Boston Pops on their holiday tours, and conducted the Grease national tour in 1999. She also worked in Amsterdam on a new Cy Coleman show titled Grace, the Musical. Ms. Campbell was a music director for the National Music Theater Conference for three years at the O'Neill festival. She has music directed many workshops and readings of new pieces and worked on numerous benefits including Sweet Charity at Lincoln Center, Nothing Like a Dame at the Shubert and Richard Rodgers Theaters, and celebrity-filled productions for Paul Newman and his charities. She holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Furman University.

Poetry teacher Tyehimba Jess was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry and a first-prize winner in the 2001 Chicago Sun Times Poetry Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Awards. He was also a 2001-02 Ragdale Fellow and the Duncan YMCA Writer's Voice Fellow in Chicago for 2000. Mr. Jess's writing has appeared in Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century; Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art; and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, among other publications. He has won slams and earned high scores at venues in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. As the winner of Chicago's Sister Cities Poem for Accra Contest, he served as poetic emissary to Ghana in 1995, performing for the mayor of Accra and at the Ghana Union of Theatrical Societies. Mr. Jess has worked with various Chicago schools and arts organizations as a teacher and consultant, as well as with the Community Word Project in New York. He is a Cave Canem fellow and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in creative writing/poetry at N.Y.U.

JoAnna Mendl Shaw