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New Faculty Members at Juilliard
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| James DePreist (Photo by Nan Melville) |
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James DePreist, Juilliard's new director of conducting and orchestral studies, has been music director of L'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Sweden's Malmo Symphony, L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and the Oregon Symphony. (He is currently laureate music director of the last and principal artistic advisor of the Phoenix Symphony.) Mr. DePreist has been a guest conductor with virtually every major orchestra in North America and numerous orchestras in Europe and Asia. He first led the Juilliard Orchestra in 1987 in Avery Fisher Hall, in a concert that featured Gil Shaham as soloist in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. He has returned to conduct at the School nearly every season since then. Mr. DePreist's 50-album discography includes 15 recordings with the Oregon Symphony. A native of Philadelphia, Mr. DePreist studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He was selected by Leonard Bernstein as an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1965-66 season, and made his European debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic in 1969. Among his numerous awards are 13 honorary doctorates (including one from Juilliard in 1993). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music; a recipient of the Insignia of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland and the Medal of the City of Québec; and is an Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco.
Baltimore native Cyrus Chestnut, who will teach jazz piano, earned a degree from Berklee College of Music before working as a sideman with leading players including Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, George Adams, and James Moody, as well as vocalists Jon Hendricks, Joe Williams, and Betty Carter. Two of his four albums for Alfa/Evidence received the Gold Disk award from Japan's Swing Journal. Since 1993, he has recorded with Atlantic Records. Chestnut is featured on the 2000 A Charlie Brown Christmas and the 2001 Soul Food (on Down Beat's list of the best records of 2002). He has also performed and/or recorded with Kathleen Battle, Freddy Cole, Bette Midler, Jimmy Scott, Isaac Hayes, and Kevin Mahogany, and has been featured as a soloist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra. He made his screen debut as a Count Basie-inspired pianist in Robert Altman's film Kansas City. Chestnut's trio, which includes bassist Michael Hawkins and drummer Neal Smith, tours festivals, clubs, and concert halls around the world.
Richard DeRosa, who will teach jazz composition and arranging, received his education at Jersey City State College and the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed and recorded with Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Susannah McCorkle, Jackie Cain and Roy Kra, and Chuck Wayne. His arrangements have been recorded by the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (Vanguard Jazz Orchestra), Gerry Mulligan, Glenn Miller, and Susannah McCorkle and he also has served as arranger/conductor for the recording project Brassworks, with Garry Dial and Dick Oatts. Other writing credits include music for TV shows The Guiding Light and Another World; audiobook productions for Scholastic, Bantam Doubleday, and Random House; and scores for the national touring theater company Artspower. In addition to composing and arranging, Mr. DeRosa has written Concepts for Improvisation: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching and Performing that is distributed worldwide by Hal Leonard. He has been on the faculty of William Paterson University since 1998 and served on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.
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| Jeffrey Khaner (Photo by Jerome Lukowicz) |
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Jeffrey Khaner has been principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, a post he previously held with the Cleveland Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed concerti ranging from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen, Ibert, and Corigliano, as well as premieres of works by Hans Werner Henze and Ned Rorem. He has collaborated with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus-Peter Flor, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser-Möst, and David Zinman. He has three solo CDs on the Avie label: American Flute Music, British Flute Music, and French Flute Music. Mr. Khaner is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, and has been a teacher and clinician at the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall, the New World Symphony, the Hamamatsu Festival, the Grand Teton Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Pacific Music Festival. He is a graduate of Juilliard, where he studied with Julius Baker.
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| Eugene Izotov (Photo by Terry McCarthy) |
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Eugene Izotov is principal oboist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has served as associate principal oboist of the San Francisco Symphony and principal oboist of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Izotov has performed as guest principal oboe with the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony Orchestra. He won first prize in the 2001 Fernand Gillet International Solo Oboe Competition, and is a laureate of the 1995 New York International Competition for solo oboists, among other honors. Mr. Izotov has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops and the Kansas City and San Francisco Symphonies. He began his musical studies at the age of 6 at the Gnessin School of Music and continued with Ralph Gomberg at the Boston University School of Music, where he received the 2001 Alumni Award.
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| Sharon Gail Levy |
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Sharon Gail Levy, who will teach piano literature, has been professor of music theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University since 1996. She also has taught in the humanities division of Johns Hopkins, the humanities and music history departments at Peabody, and both piano and theory divisions of the Peabody Preparatory. She holds a B.A. in music from the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in English literature, an M.M. in piano from the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Chicago (with advisor Philip Gossett), and a D.M.A. in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky.
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| Michael Musgrave (Photo by Dan Demetriad) |
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Michael Musgrave, who will teach graduate studies, was born in London and was educated at the Royal College of Music and University of London. A specialist in German music of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the social history of British music in the same period, he is the author or editor of six books on Brahms. He also is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition, 2001) and The Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming). He has been on the faculty of Goldsmiths College; a visiting lecturer at King's College, London; Royal Holloway College, London; and guest lecturer at the Universidad de Alacalá and Centre Cultural in Barcelona. He was reviews editor for Music Analysis from 1982-1987 and still serves as a member of its advisory board; he also is a member, Trägerverein, Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe, since 2000.
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| David Soyer (Photo by Stephen Dunn) |
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Cellist David Soyer was raised in Philadelphia and studied with Diran Alexanian, Emanuel Feuermann, and Pablo Casals. As a winner of the Youth Competition of the Philadelphia Orchestra, he appeared as soloist with Eugene Ormandy conducting. After four years in the U.S. Navy Band, Mr. Soyer came to New York and began performing with the Bach Aria Group, the Guilet String Quartet, and the New Music Quartet. His participation in the Marlboro Festival led to his becoming a founding member of both the Marlboro Trio and the Guarneri Quartet. Mr. Soyer has performed duo concerts with Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Rudolf Firkusny, and Peter Serkin. He has recorded on labels including RCA, CBS Masterworks, Vanguard, and Monitor, performing the works of Bach, Couperin, Fauré, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven, among many others. His many international music festival appearances include performances at Marlboro, the Casals Festival, and Spoleto, among others. He is on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Boston University.
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| Risa Steinberg (Photo by Johan Elbers) |
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New York City native Risa Steinberg was trained at the High School of Performing Arts and at Juilliard. She was invited by José Limón to join his company, where she danced for 11 years. Ms. Steinberg is internationally known as a solo artist, teacher, and director of the works of José Limón, which she has reconstructed for companies around the world. She performs frequently as a guest artist and has appeared with the companies of Bill Cratty, Daniel Lewis, Annabelle Gamson, Anna Sokolow, Danzahoy of Caracas, American Repertory Dance Company of Los Angeles, Colin Connor, Wally Cardona, and Sean Curran. She performs A Celebration of Dance, a solo concert featuring choreography spanning 100 years of modern dance, and was presented by the Holland Dance Festival in the fall of 1999. Ms. Steinberg has taught extensively throughout Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and the Far East. A guest teacher last year at Juilliard, she joins the faculty this year to teach modern dance.
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| Martine van Hamel |
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The daughter of a Dutch diplomat, Martine van Hamel studied ballet in Denmark, Holland, and Venezuela before settling down at the National Ballet School of Canada. She earned widespread public acclaim in 1966, capturing both the gold medal and the seldom-awarded Prix de Varna at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. After dancing most of the major classic roles as a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, she performed with the City Center Joffrey Ballet before joining American Ballet Theater in 1970, where she spent two illustrious decades. Since her first work for A.B.T., Amnon V'Tamar, was premiered in 1984, Ms. van Hamel has created works for Milwaukee Ballet, Washington Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and New Amsterdam Ballet, a company she formed in 1986 She is a co-founder of Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, N.Y., where she directs the Extreme Ballet pre-professional summer course. Ms. van Hamel teaches at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater, and has also worked with choreographers Martha Clarke and Anne Marie de Angelo.
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| Jane Nichols |
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Comedy teacher Jane Nichols is an actress, director, and teacher of physical theater, clowning, and Shakespeare. She studied with Philippe Gaulier, Bolek Polivka, and Antonio Fava, and has been associated for more than 20 years with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. She was founder and artistic director of Crosswalk Theater in Boston. Ms. Nichols taught at the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at American Repertory Theater, and at Harvard University, where she directed Les Liaisons Dangereux, Feed the Monkey, Noises Off, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her acting credits include appearances in Off-Broadway productions at En Garde Arts, New Georges and SoHo Rep, as well as at regional theaters including Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Shakespeare & Co, Lyric Stage, Nora Theater, and Berkshire Public. Film and television credits include School Ties, Heights, Law & Order SVU, Ed, America's Most Wanted, and Rachel's Dinner with Olympia Dukakis. She is currently on the faculties of Shakespeare & Co, the Actors' Center, and Yale School of Drama.
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| Renée Marie Baron |
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Renée Marie Baron earned her bachelor's degree cum laude in English and French from Amherst College and her master's degree in Afro-American Studies from Yale University in 1989. Awarded a Presidential Merit Fellowship from George Washington University and Dartmouth College's Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship, she completed her doctorate from George Washington University's American Studies Program in 1999 with concentrations in African-American literature, Caribbean literature and culture (with distinction), folklore, and United States cultural history. She has taught at Howard University and Hofstra University, and is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences. She was the keynote speaker at New York University's first annual Caribbean Students Association Conference. Dr. Baron has published in American Studies International and has developed curriculum for ProQuest Information and Learning. She currently is working on a manuscript that investigates the relationship between African-Americans and Caribbean immigrants in 1920s Harlem (specifically, the manner in which each of these groups represented the other in the literature and popular culture of the period).
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