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Graduate Studies faculty member David Dubal ('61, piano) gave a master class in January at the Greenwich House Music School in New York. Pre-College faculty member Frank Levy ('92, piano) performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the New York Sinfonietta, conducted by Pre-College faculty member Ki-Sun Sung, at Merkin Hall in New York in December. The Juilliard String Quartet performed a series of concerts in California in October. In January, the quartet performed with oboist Heinz Holliger in seven recitals in New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Detroit, San Francisco, and Alaska. The ensemble toured England, Germany, and the Netherlands in November and will return to Europe in April for concerts in France, Norway, Germany, England, and Finland. In May, the group will begin a seven-concert tour in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.Graduate studies faculty member Michael Musgrave received a 2004 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for excellence in historical recorded sound research in the category Best Research in Recorded Classical Music for Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performing Style (Cambridge University Press), edited by Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman.Double bass faculty member Orin O'Brien (DIP '57, double bass) appeared at the Metropolitan Museum in November with the Guarneri Quartet, performing Dvorak's Quintet in G Major for strings.Piano student Greg Anderson won the opportunity to be an intern for MTV on the set of upcoming movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Master's degree student Karina Canellakis began playing in the first violin section of the Berlin Philharmonic in January.A new recording, titled Crossing Bridges, with Mark O'Connor, Carol Cook, and student Natalie Haas was released in November.Pre-College violinist Jourdan Urbach was soloist for the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in January.Fourth-year violin student Andrew J. Wan has been awarded the 2004 Schnurmacher Fellowship presented by the Music Performance Fund. Funding for the scholarship was provided by the Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation.Composition student Cynthia Lee Wong has been commissioned by Musica Viva to compose a 15-20 minute work, Three Portraits, for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which will premiere the piece with conductor Paul Zukofsky (MS '64, violin) on March 11 at the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich, Germany. The performance is to be broadcast on radio station Bayern 4 Klassik.
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