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Collaborative piano faculty member Jonathan Feldman and cello faculty member Darrett Adkins (DMA '99, cello) performed with James and Jeanne Galway and the Zephyr Trio in March at the CUNY Graduate Center.Pre-College faculty member Adelaide Roberts performed joint concerts with guitarist Richard Udell for the artist-in-residence program at Holy Cross Church in Kingston, N.Y., and at the Fountains in Millbrook, N.Y. In May, she and Michael Blum (BM '77, MM '78, piano) will give a four-hand piano concert at St. Gregory's Church in Woodstock, N.Y.Jazz studies faculty member Loren Schoenberg received a 2004 Grammy Award for best album notes for The Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947), issued on Mosaic Records.Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) led the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in April. Organ faculty member Paul Jacobs performed a preconcert recital. In March, Tritle led the same ensemble in a performance of Bach's St. John Passion.Elizabeth Fayette and Deborah Song, both Pre-College violin students of Shirley Givens, have won concerto competitions. Elizabeth Fayette, as winner of the Sound Symphony (L.I.) Concerto Competition, performed the Chausson Poème in April. Deborah Song, first-prize winner with the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, will be featured in Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the orchestra on June 5.Cello student Natalie Haas and violinist Mark O'Connor are to perform the premiere of O'Connor's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with the Grand Rapids Symphony May 13 and 14 in Grand Rapids, Mich.Yuri Namkung will perform Bach's Double Concerto with faculty member Cho-Liang Lin (DIP '81, violin) and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, under the baton of Li Jian, at Alice Tully Hall on May 25. The concert is presented by the Musicians Emergency Fund; Namkung and Yoon Kwon (BM '01, MM '03, violin) will receive M.E.F. Junior Awards. Kwon will perform a Vivaldi concerto grosso with Lin. First-year piano student Emely Phelps placed first in the Mary Graham Lasley Scholarship Competition co-sponsored by the Alexandria Symphony and the Symphony Orchestra League of Alexandria. She was awarded the $1,500 top prize with a unanimous vote from the three judges.Goose River Press published the second novel of 13-year-old Pre-College student Jourdan Urbach, titled Inside the Music. His first novel, Leaving Jeremiah, is now in its second printing. Urbach studies violin in Lewis Kaplan's studio.
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