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FacultyVivian Fung's composition Pizzicato was performed by the San Josè Chamber Orchestra in March. Her String Quartet will be premiered by the Avalon String Quartet as part of the 2003-04 season of the Columbus Chamber Music Society in Ohio.
Pre-College faculty member Shirley Givens was honored in May by the Ohio Bicentennial Committee. Juilliard founder, Augustus D. Juilliard, was honored posthumously at the same event. Governor Robert Taft of Ohio and Karl Rove, senior advisor to the president, were present at the ceremony.
Pre-College guitar faculty member Antigoni Goni performed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, in March.
The Wall Street Journal ran a feature article on guitar faculty member Sharon Isbin in July, titled "Classical Guitar? She Wrote the Book."
University of California Press has published Maynard Solomon's book Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. The book of essays examines the progress the composer made into his late thought and style.
Organ faculty member John Weaver received an honorary degree from the Curtis Institute this spring. He retired from Curtis the day before the ceremony, after 31 years on the faculty.
MAP faculty member Lisa Whitfield (MM '93, viola) performed as part of the Third Street Music School Settlement's faculty artist series in January. Siddhartha's Dreams, a duo for viola and vibraphone in eight movements by Louis Fujinami Conti (MM '93, composition), was premiered; the work was composed for Whitfield and percussionist Chris Nappi. Also last winter, Whitfield gave birth to her second child, a son named Iain.
Moni Yakim was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in August from the Association of Theater Movement Educators in New York City.
Faculty member Ralph Zito (Group 14) directed Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, featuring current drama student Amanda Steen, at the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater in July.
Students
Doctoral student Justine Fang Chen led the Youth Orchestra CYCNY at Alice Tully Hall in May. Chen also performed the violin solo for Spring from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi.
Michael Maniaci, a student in the Juilliard Opera Center, was a winner of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and 2003 ARIA Award. This summer he made his European opera debut as Ulisse in Handel's Deidamia with the Goettingen Haendel Festspiel and returned to Glimmerglass Opera to perform the role of Medoro in Handel's Orlando.
Doctoral student John McMurtery and pianist Ashlee Mack performed a recital at Christ and St. Stephen's Church in New York in May. The concert included works by Copland, Bach, Edward Taylor, James Romig, and faculty member Milton Babbitt.
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