FACULTY

In honor of Mozart's 250th birthday, piano faculty member Emanuel Ax (DIP '70, PGD '72, piano) performed the Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat with the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Simon Rattle.

Vivian Fung (BM '96, MM '97, DMA '02, composition) is the composer-in-residence for the Music in the Loft Chamber Music Series in Chicago this season. In this capacity, she was commissioned to write a new work for clarinet quintet, Miniatures, which was premiered in November by the Maia Quartet—Tricia Park (BM '98, MM '00, violin), Zoran Jakovcic (MM '85, PGD '87, violin; '92, resident quartet), Elizabeth Oates ('96, resident quartet), and Hannah Holman—and John Bruce Yeh (BM '80, clarinet), clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony.

Assistant violin faculty member Joan Kwuon (MM '91, violin) performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 with London's Royal Philharmonic at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Behzad Ranjbaran's (MM '88, DMA '92, composition) Songs of Eternity was performed by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in February.

Violin and chamber music faculty member Joel Smirnoff (BM '75, MM '76, violin) was guest conductor with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Haydn's Tempora Mutantur and Mozart's "Prague" Symphony.

Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) was appointed music director for the Oratorio Society of New York. Tritle led the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in a concert that included Poulenc's Stabat Mater in March. The soloists included Rachel Rosales (MM '86, voice).

STUDENTS

Master's piano student Michael Bukhman received the first place award at the 2006 Corpus Christi International Competition.

Dance student Idan Sharabi will join Nederlands Dance Theater after graduation.

Dance student Annika Sheaff will join Pilobolus Dance Theater after graduation.

Organ student Daniel Sullivan won second prize in the the 2006 Miami International Organ Competition.