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Bugonia, by faculty member Ed Bilous (MM '80, DMA '84, composition) and choreographer Alison Chase, was given its premiere in July at the Joyce Theater, featuring Pilobolus Dance. Lucid Dreams, another collaboration of Bilous and Chase, will be performed at Zankel Hall on November 11 and at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia on November 13.
Judith Clurman (BM '77, MM '78, voice), director of the Juilliard Choral Union, led members of that ensemble, the Chiara Quartet (AD '05, resident quartet), organists Martin Ennis and Keith S. Toth, and Samuel Solomon (BM '01, MM '03, percussion) in a performance commemorating the anniversary of the end of World War II in May at Central Synagogue in New York. The concert included the premiere of Nico Muhly's (MM '04, composition) Expecting the Main Things From You.
Ondine released the premiere recordings of composition faculty member John Corigliano's Phantasmagoria for orchestra, a work based on themes from his opera The Ghosts of Versailles and his piece Three Hallucinations for orchestra. The CD also includes Fantasia on an Ostinato for orchestra and To Music for double brass quintet. Eri Klas conducts the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra.
Michael Kahn, Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division, received the 2005 Helen Hayes Award for outstanding director of a resident play for his production of Cyrano de Bergerac with the Shakespeare Theater in Washington. The play also won the award for outstanding resident play. Kahn received the Annual Founders Award by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, which honors the region's outstanding contributors to arts and culture.
Clarinet faculty member Alan R. Kay (BM '82, MM '83, clarinet; ACT '90, orchestral conducting) recorded an all-Ravel CD with his wind quintet Windscape (Tara Helen O'Connor, Randall Wolfgang, David Jolley [MM '72, French horn], and faculty member Frank Morelli [DMA '80, bassoon]), which was released in June on the MCR Classics label. He also participated in a recording of Stravinsky's Renard with conductor Robert Craft. Kay commissioned composer Aaron Grad to write a jazz-influenced chamber concerto, which was premiered at the Cape May (N.J.) Music Festival. He was a chamber music artist at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, returned to the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont, and appeared at the Windham (N.Y.) Music Festival.
Organ faculty member Paul Jacobs received the Yale School of Music's Distinguished Alumni Award.
Pre-College piano faculty member Frank Levy ('92, piano) made his Mostly Mozart debut in a preconcert recital at Avery Fisher Hall in August. He performed Mozart's C-Minor Fantasia and sonatas by Scarlatti and Haydn.
Viola faculty member Paul Neubauer (BM '82, MM '83, viola) will give the premiere of Joan Tower's Purple Rhapsody with the Omaha Symphony, conducted by JoAnn Falletta (MM '83, DMA '89, orchestral conducting), on November 4 and 5. The concerto will also be performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.
Harpsichord faculty member Lionel Party (MS '72, DMA '76, harpsichord) was soloist with the New York Philharmonic in May, playing Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5.
Graduate studies faculty member David Wallace (ACT '95, DMA '99, viola) performed this summer with his Doc Wallace Trio at Columbia University in June, at New York's Church of the Holy Trinity in July, and at the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, Conn., in August. Wallace's CD The Doc Wallace Trio: Live at the Living Room is now available online at CDBaby.com.
Violin faculty member Donald Weilerstein (BM '63, MS '66, violin) was on the faculty of the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Putney, Vt., this summer.
Jazz faculty member Ben Wolfe appeared at the Victoria Jazz Festival in Spain as well as New York's Sweet Rhythm, 92nd Street Y, and Smalls. He was also part of a jazz rhythm section workshop at Snow College in Utah.
Organist Chelsea Chen won first place in the Augustana Arts/Reuter National Organ Competition and performed Rheinberger's F-Major Organ Concerto with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra.
Violinist Miranda Cuckson's CD of music by Ross Lee Finney was released on the Centaur label. Cuckson also performed at the Summergarden series at MoMA, in July, with Christina Wheeler, Claire Bryant (MM '05, cello), and master's students Philip Fisher and Glenda Goodman.
Doctoral student Andrew Elliot Henderson is succeeding John Weaver as director of music/organist for the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. Henderson will lead the church's adult and youth choirs in addition to directing the St. Andrew Music Society concert series and St. Andrew Chorale. He is an adjunct assistant professor of organ at Westminster Choir College, where he teaches graduate courses in organ literature, and is an organ instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dance student Anila Mazhary was selected for an Emerging Young Artist Awards four-year scholarship.
Pre-College student Conrad Tao won a 2005 B.M.I. Student Composer Award.
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