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The January issue of Strings magazine included an article by Pre-College cello faculty member Jerome Carrington on "The Cadential Trills in Haydn's C-Major Cello Concerto." Music of composition faculty member John Corigliano was performed in December at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Jon Magnussen (MM '95, DMA '99, composition) gave a preconcert talk. Corigliano also spoke with Michael Boriskin (BS '73, piano) and Magnussen in another event that month. Composition faculty member Robert Beaser, Boriskin, and Mark Laycock were part of an event at the institute in November titled Great Music Programming (in Theory and Practice). In October, organ faculty member Paul Jacobs performed a nine-hour marathon of Olivier Messiaen's complete organ music at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. He also performed a concert of works by Bach, Widor, Duruflé, and Reger at the Miami Beach Community Church. The Juilliard String Quartet performed Ezequiel Viñao's (MM '87, piano) Quartet No. 2 in Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Canada, and Europe after giving the premiere at the School on October 20. The group is recording Shostakovich's Quartets Nos. 3 and 15 for Sony BMG. Assistant faculty member Mark Kosower (AD '03, cello) gave a recital with Jee-Won Oh at the Walter Reade Theater in December. Installments of graduate studies faculty member Greg Sandow's book on the future of classical music are available online at artsjournal.com/greg. Evening Division faculty member Emily White (MM '85, piano) was an adjudicator for the Hksmsa piano competition in Hong Kong in spring 2005. During the fall, she gave guest lecture-recitals on the piano music of Szymanowski at the University of Oregon, University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Western Washington University, and Trinity University in San Antonio, Tex. She also performed Beethoven's "Spring" and "Kreutzer" Sonatas with violinist Kees Kooper for the Historical Piano Concerts series in northern Massachusetts. Jazz faculty member Ben Wolfe's Quintet performed at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Conn., in October.
Doctoral candidate Miranda Cuckson (BM '94, violin) performed with the Momenta Quartet in December at Symphony Space. Stephanie Griffin (MM '97, DMA '03, viola) was another of the performers. Three Pieces for Piano by Huang Ruo, a doctoral candidate in composition, were given their New York premiere by master's degree student Chu-Fang Huang at Alice Tully Hall in November.
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