FACULTY

Liberal arts faculty member Greta Berman presented a talk titled "Visual Music or Musical Vision? Genuine Synesthesia vs. Metaphorical Synesthesia" at the medical school of the University of Texas, Houston, as part of a conference of the American Synesthesia Association in October.

New York's Edvard Grieg Society presented a concert of Norwegian music with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by trombone faculty member Per Brevig (DIP '67, BM '68, DMA '71, trombone) at Alice Tully Hall in November. The premieres of Arne Nordheim's Violin Concerto with soloist Arve Tellefsen and Johan Halvorsen's Norway's Greeting to Theodore Roosevelt were heard. Faculty member Darrett Adkins (DMA '99, cello) also performed.

The Equus Projects/Dancing With Horses presented Rules of Engagement, an interdisciplinary performance incorporating three dancers, a horse and rider, and site-specific video, in October at New York's Claremont Riding Academy. The choreographer was dance faculty member JoAnna Mendl Shaw; the video artist, Janet Biggs; and the composer, Steve White.

Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, organ; MM '88, choral conducting, organ) led the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in the music of Schütz, Praetorius, and Scheidt in November at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York. In October, he led the ensemble in Haydn's The Creation.

Robert White (MS '68, voice), voice faculty member, travelled to Shanghai and Ningbo, China, in October to judge the Third China International Vocal Competition. On January 25, he will give a master class in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall for the Marilyn Horne Foundation on the theme Shakespeare in Song.

STUDENTS

The ensemble Argento, which includes students Miranda Cuckson and Cyrus Beroukhim and alums Joanne Lin (MM '00, cello), Stephanie Griffen (MM '97, DMA '03, viola), Matt Gold ('98, percussion), and C.J. Camerieri (BM '04, trumpet) performed music of Gerard Grisey at St. Paul's Chapel in October. Argento also performed at Merkin Hall in September. Cuckson performed a string trio by her father Robert Cuckson in November at Mannes College with members of the Momenta Quartet.

Fourth-year violin student Dmitry Lukin won the second prize and the audience prize at Sion Valais International Violin Competition in 2005 in Switzerland in August.

Reverb: Six Directions in Dance was presented at the Joan Weill Center for Dance at the Alvin Ailey Studios in New York in October and included performances by dance students Shamel Pitts and Annika Sheaff. Translucent Moves by Lane Gifford, who is a dance production intern, was performed. Pitts danced in Language and Possession by Sidra Bell. Sheaff danced in The Destruction of Chi Cheen 'Itza by Ofelia Loret de Mola.

Current students Katya Sonina, Igor Lovchinsky, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Andrew Le, and Michael Berkovsky performed in a series of concerts in November at Faust Harrison Pianos in New York. Eleni Traganas (BM '75, MM '76, piano), Kimball Gallagher (MM '04, piano), Assaff Weisman (BM '99, MM '01, piano), Jung Lin (BM '96, piano), and Vassily Primakov (BM '03, piano) also performed.