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Vol. XX No. 1 September 2004 |
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 Faculty Dance faculty member Carolyn Adams directed the 2004 School of Dance program of the New York State Summer School for the Arts at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Skidmore College.Collaborative piano faculty member Audrey Axinn (DMA '98, accompanying) performed at Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York in April for a benefit concert that raised money for Doctors Without Borders. The concert included works by Grieg, Liszt, Debussy, and Chopin.The Martha Graham Dance Company performed at City Center Theater in New York in April. Artistc directors and principal dancers Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin are on the dance faculty. Gelan Lambert (BFA '99) and Heidi Stoeckley (BFA '01), both Martha Hill Prize recipients, danced with the company. Works by Stoeckley and Andrea Miller (BFA '04) were presented in the Student Choreography Showing, which took place at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in May.Viola faculty member Heidi Castleman was awarded the Maurice W. Riley Viola Award at the American Viola Society Congress in June. The Maurice W. Riley Viola Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Viola in Teaching, Scholarship, Composition, Philanthropy, or Service to the A.V.S. History is named for the second A.V.S. president and author of History of the Viola, Dr. Maurice W. Riley. Andra Corvino, of the dance faculty, replaced her sister Ernesta in June and part of July, teaching ballet classes at Gina Gibney's Studio 5-2 in New York.Faculty member Vivian Fung's (BM '96, MM '97, DMA '02, composition) and Howard Quilling's new song cycles received their New York premieres by Max Lifchitz (BM '70, MS '71, composition) and Gayla Bauer Blaisdell in May at Christ and St. Stephen's Church. Also at this concert Lisa Hansen (BM '81, flute) gave the New York premiere of Harry Bulow's Syntax and Helena Michelson's Enchanted Flutist. Dance faculty member Laura Glenn (BS '67, dance) was the artistic director of White Mountain Summer Dance Festival at Springfield (Mass.) College.Drama Division Director Michael Kahn's production of Cyrano de Bergerac opened at the Shakespeare Theater in June. The production featured Group 25 alumni Ryan Artzberger and Claire Lautier and Group 27 alumnus Gregory Wooddell.Linda Kent (BS '68, dance), a member of Juilliard's dance faculty, was dance department head at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Elizabeth Keen was a faculty member and Stephen Pier ('77) was guest artist. Christina Paolucci Duncan (BFA '95) was a faculty member and Jessica Lang (BFA '97) and Elisa Clark (BFA '01) were guest artists.Graduate studies and music technology faculty member Mari Kimura (DMA '93, violin) performed at the Music at the Anthology Festival in May at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. She played Shatter Cone, commissioned for her by the festival from Panayiotis Kokoras, and performed alongside GuitarBot, a mechanical guitar developed by the League of Musical Urban Robots. Drama faculty member Kate Mare was the voice coach on a revival of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by David Esbjornson, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park during the summer.Playwriting faculty members Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang have received the Margo Jones Award, established by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, given yearly in memory of one of the pioneers of the American professional theater. (see related article.) Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother will be revived on Broadway this fall in a production to be directed by Michael Mayer and starring Brenda Blethyn and Edie Falco. A new musical based on Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple, for which Norman is writing the book, will receive its premiere in a production by Gary Griffin at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta this month.Stephen Pier ('77), of the dance faculty, worked on a suite of dances from Stravinsky's Petroushka at the Atlanta Ballet and taught at its summer professional program with his wife, Miki Orihara, in July.In May and June, dance faculty member Alphonse Poulin was guest teacher for the Ballet Gulbenkian in Lisbon, where he had the pleasure of seeing Jermaine Spivey (BFA '02) featured in many of the works the company performed on its tour of Portugal. In August he was guest teacher for the Ballet da Cidade in São Paolo, Brazil, the company with whom he danced in the 1970s when it was called Corpo de Baile do Teatro Municipal.Vocal Arts faculty member Paul Sperry performed with the chamber ensemble American Voices in a concert at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan in May. Sperry performed a selection of songs by Richard Hundley. The concert also included the premieres of works by Stephen Coxe, Shirish Korde, and Tony Steve, as well as a performance of composition faculty member Milton Babbitt's Beaten Path.Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) will conduct six concerts in the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series this season. Organ faculty member Paul Jacobs will give a preconcert recital on this series in April. Tritle will also give a solo organ recital on September 26. The concerts are held in the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York. Jacobs was a featured artist for the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists, which was held in July in Los Angeles. He also offered lectures, master classes, and performances for the 35th annual Toronto Summer Institute of Church Music.Graduate studies faculty member David Wallace (ACT '95, DMA '99, viola) and Paola Balsamo Prestini (BM '98, MM '00, composition) were the "scribes" for New York City elementary school students who wrote compositions for New York Philharmonic musicians. The pieces were given their premieres at Barnes and Noble in June. This collaboration was part of the Very Young Composers Program at the Philharmonic. Also in June the Doc Wallace Trio performed outside on the Columbia University campus and in July the ensemble performed at the Church of the Holy Trinity. In May, Wallace played fiddle and sang back-up vocals for The Rock and the Rabbi, an acoustic rock oratorio. The performances were at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan.Evening Division faculty member Dalit Warshaw ('95, MM '97, DMA '03, composition) was composer-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival this summer. She just completed a year as visiting professor at Middlebury College.Dance faculty member Alexandra Wells served a third summer as artistic director of the Professional Project in Montreal, a program she created. This summer 50 dance students, 24 of them from Juilliard, worked with 11 professional companies. She also visited Tokyo as ballet mistress for Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo for a seventh summer. StudentsPiano student Greg Anderson (BM '04, piano) has received a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. He was selected from a pool of 1,226 applicants to be one of 39 individuals to receive graduate scholarships beginning in fall 2004. The Graduate Scholarship Program provides funding for tuition, room and board, required fees, and books. The Foundation awards recipients as much as $50,000 annually for up to six years, depending on the student's choice of graduate program and institution.Organ student Chelsea Chen won $6,000 from a competition in San Diego sponsored by the Musical Merit Foundation. Chen took top prize in the keyboard division with a program of the Bach, Duruflé, and Messiaen.Violin student Keats Dieffenbach was one of 12 semi-finalists in the 19th Annual Irving M. Klein International String Competition, held in San Fransisco in June.A number of Juilliard composition students were recipients of the 2004 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Winners included students Avner Dorman, Jonathan Keren, Norbert Palej (MM '04, composition), Huang Ruo, and alum Daniel Ott (MM '99, DMA '04, composition). Matthew Fuerst received an honorable mention. Pre-College students Jay Greenberg, Conrad Tao, and Christopher Lim also received awards, as well as recent Pre-College graduate Athena Adamopoulos.Doctoral candidate Martin Kennedy and Pre-College alum Timothy Hall Andres were both recipients of the 2004 BMI Student Composer Awards. Winners receive scholarship grants to be applied toward their musical education.
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