 |
Guitar faculty member Sharon Isbin makes her Showtime Television debut April 3 as the featured guest on The L Word. She plays herself, exchanging lines with actress Pam Grier, and performs Zapateado by Spanish composer Regino Sainz de la Maza.L&M faculty member Behzad Ranjbaran's Concerto for Violin was performed by Joshua Bell and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra March 31-April 2, marking the American premiere of the work.Drama faculty member Ralph Zito (Group 14) was the dialect coach on The Light in the Piazza, book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, directed by Bartlett Sher, at the Lincoln Center Theater. Violist Rebecca Albers received the Wayne Crouse Award for best performance by a violist at the Corpus Christi International Competition in February.Doctoral student Justine Fang Chen (BM '98, MM '00, violin and composition) had her piece Transient Dances for string quartet performed by the Vinca String Quartet at the Church of the Eternal Hills in Tabernash, Colo., in February. Also that month, The Maiden Tower (Overture), the first installation of a computer-enhanced chamber opera by Chen and Liam O'Rourke, was performed at Cornelia Street Café in New York.Organ student Isabelle Demers won the Audience Prize in the Miami International Organ Competition in February.Violin student William Harvey (pictured left) performed on the Suzuki and Friends concert series in February at the Indiana History Center Theater in Indianapolis. Harvey, his brother Theodore Harvey (MM '02, cello), and Erinn Frechette performed as former fellows in chamber music with the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.Pre-College student Deborah Pae was the soloist for Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra with the Livingston (N.J.) Symphony Orchestra on April 2.Pianist Elizabeth Roe has received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
|
