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Vocal arts faculty member Steven Blier is to perform with Amy Burton, Michael Barrett, and John Musto at the New York Festival of Song concert on November 17 at Merkin Hall. The performance will feature scenes and verses inspired by Greek mythology and poetry.The September issue of Strad magazine included an article by Pre-College faculty member Jerome Carrington on the "Servais" Strad cello. The famous instrument is named after Belgian cellist Adrien-François Servais, who is receiving renewed interest as his bicentennial year of 2007 approaches. Among planned project for the bicentennial are a re-examination of Servais's music and a definitive biography. Readers who are interested in these projects should contact Peter François, director of the Servais section of the ZuidwestBrabants Museum in Belgium, at francoispeter@yahoo.com.Double bass faculty Timothy Cobb appeared at the Sarasota Music Festival in June, coaching chamber music and performing the Hindemith Sonata on its faculty showcase series with pianist Jonathan Spivey. He participated in the Boston Bass Bash at New England Conservatory in June, giving master classes and performing a recital. In July, he coached chamber music at the Bowdoin Music Festival. Cobb performed as principal bass with the Mostly Mozart Festival in August, also joining the Leipzig Quartet and pianist Christian Zacharias for a "Trout" Quintet in Alice Tully Hall. This fall he began his first year as principal bass of the Met Orchestra after 18 seasons as associate principal. In September he gave a recital at Steinway Hall and collaborated with the Moritzburg Festival from Germany in Weill Recital Hall in October, as well as giving a double bass master class at the David Gage Bass Shop. Also that month he appeared at the Bridgehampton Festival with Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, playing a chamber version of excerpts from his new opera Ca Ira.Drama faculty member Felix Ivanov took first place at the Wong Fei Hung All Kung Fu Championship in kung fu wrestling.Pre-College organ faculty member Matthew Lewis (MM '90, DMA '95, organ) presented an organ recital and master class at Wayne (Pa.) Presbyterian Church in May for the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. The recital included works by Franck, Duruflé, and Messiaen. Lewis received a Fulbright Grant in 1992 for private study in Paris with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. He is organist and director of music at Church of the Incarnation on Madison Avenue.Pre-College faculty member Adelaide Roberts gave a recital in Honolulu in August. In October, Roberts and Michael Blum ('78, piano) gave recitals of one-piano, four-hands works, with vocalist and Pre-College faculty member Rebecca Scott (MS '70, choral conducting), at St. Paul's Church in Nyack, N.Y., and on the Montgomery (N.Y.) Chamber Music series.Jazz faculty member Ben Wolfe was recently awarded a grant from Chamber Music America. Part of the New Works: Creation and Presentation program, Wolfe's project is an extended composition for sextet that goes beyond rhythmic and harmonic progressions to employ various types of improvisation. It is to be performed twice between September 2004 and December 2005.Organ student Lily Ardalan won second place in the Albert Schweitzer National Organ Competition.Master's cello student Margret Arnadottir (BM '04, cello) and Lin Hong (MM '03, piano) toured China by an invitation from Beijing Central Conservatory in June. The duo performed in Beijing, Xiamen, and Quanzhou, where they played for a full house in a hall that seats more than 1,000. The concert was broadcast in its entirety on television and was the subject of a front-page newspaper story. In August, Arnadottir and Hong gave a recital in a summer concert series in Reykjavik, Iceland. Organ student David Enlow won first prize in the Arthur Poister National Competition in Organ Playing.Violinist Erin Keefe, a second-year master's student, received second prize at the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. Keefe also received the Odense Symphony Orchestra's Prize at the competition.Chris Vo, a first-year dance student, was featured in Parade magazine in September in connection with his being an Arts Recognition and Talent Search winner and Presidential Scholar in the Arts recipient.Doctoral candidate Ofra Yitzhaki (MM '00, piano) performed last spring as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. She played Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue under the baton of Mati Lazar. At the Greenwich House Music School, she performed parts of William Mayer's piano concerto Octagon. She recently performed a recital of music by Robert and Clara Schumann at the Piano Circle Festival of the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
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