FACULTY

Trombone faculty member Per Brevig (PGD '67, BM '68, DMA '71, trombone) conducted the East Texas Symphony Orchestra in January in a program that included Mark O'Connor's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (For the Heroes). O'Connor and Natalie Haas (BM '05, cello) were soloists.

Guitar faculty member Sharon Isbin was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the category of outstanding music artist for her CD with the New York Philharmonic of Latin concertos by Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, and Ponce.

The awards ceremonies will be held in New York City on March 27, in Los Angeles on April 8, in Miami on May 25, and in San Francisco on June 10. They will be broadcast on VH1 and Logo. Isbin was profiled in the October/November issue of Travel & Leisure magazine.

Mark Kosower (AD '03, cello), assistant cello faculty member, performed works by Dohnanyi, Ginastera, Kodaly, Ligeti, and Popper in February at Merkin Hall in Manhattan.

Pre-College organ faculty member Matthew Lewis (MM '90, DMA '95, organ) directed St. George's Choral Society and Festival Orchestra in a program of music by Haydn, including the Te Deum and Missa in Angustiis, at St. George's Church in New York in November. Lewis is artistic director of St. George's Choral Society. He is organist and director of music at the Church of the Incarnation on Madison Avenue.

The complete Beethoven sonatas, recorded by piano faculty member Seymour Lipkin, are available on disk or MP3 format from Newport Classic Records.

Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) led the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola (which he directs) in a program of Russian a cappella music in February at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan.

STUDENTS

Kevin Chen, a Pre-College violin student, performed the third movement of Saint-Saëns's Concerto for Violin, No. 3 at a Livingston (N.J.) Symphony Orchestra young people's concert.

Nial Djuliarso, a student in the Jazz Studies department, won the first prize in the instrumental category of the 2005 U.S.A. Songwriting Competition. He is the first Indonesian to win first prize, and the only winner from Asia this year. He also won the overall third prize of the competition. Winning songs of the 2005 competition will receive airplay on a nationally syndicated radio program, Acoustic Café, as well as XM Satellite Radio.

Dmitry Lukin, a bachelor's degree student in violin, Dmitry Kouzou (AD '05, cello), and Milana Bahl (BM '00, MM '02, piano) are to perform as the Manhattan Piano Trio at Merkin Hall on April 18.

Artist Diploma violin student Saeka Matsuyama (BM '03, MM '05, violin) was a 2006 National Audition winner of the Astral Artistic Services Award.

Artist Diploma piano student Xiang Zou will make his Weill Recital Hall debut on March 29. The concert is a result of Zou's winning the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition. The recital will include works by Busoni, Godowsky, Liszt, Schubert, and the premiere of Namucuo by Xiaogang Ye.