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Vol. XIX No. 2 October 2003 |
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Faculty and Student News FACULTY Robert Abramson just finished a very succesful workshop for piano teachers and students at University of Michigan on the subject "Doing the Dances in the Bach Suites and Partitas." He will appear at the Music Teachers National Association convention in March presenting on the "Difference Between Timing and Rhythm for Piano Teachers." Two new books, Improvisation for All Instruments and Book 2 of Piano Hand Dances, are to be published January 2004 by Music and Movement Press.After teaching at Tanglewood and the American Symphony Orchestra League's Conductor's Intensive at Aspen this summer, Eric Booth, who is artistic director of Juilliard's Mentoring program, led arts-education master classes at Manhattan School of Music and Curtis and worked with the Philadelphia and Oregon Symphonies in September.Per Brevig conducted two concerts in September with the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra in San José with soloist Oleh Krysa. Brevig is music director of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra and conducted the orchestra in the opening concert of the season last month with soloist Lang Lang, who played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. He spent July and August at the Aspen Music Festival.In June double bass faculty member Timothy Cobb coached and performed chamber music at the Sarasota (FL) Music Festival. Also that month he gave two performances of the J.B.Vanhal Concerto for Bass with the Vermont Philharmonic, conducted by Louis Kosma. He was a guest artist at the Hartwick Festival and Music School in July, where he gave a master class and performed a recital. In August, Cobb performed with the Mostly Mozart Festival, joining new music director Louis Langrée.Paul Jacobs has been invited to perform at the 11th annual Basically Bach Festival on October 4 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan, playing works of Bach and Reger. Jacobs joined the organ faculty this year.Mari Kimura (DMA '93, violin) appeared in a CNN Headline News "Cool Science" segment in July, performing the violin interactively with a guitar robot created by Eric Singer of LEMUR-League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, at the Robot Talent Show at Eyebeam Gallery in Chelsea.Philip Lasser's recent Sonata for Cello and Piano was premiered in April at the National Gallery of Art in Washington by Zuill Bailey (MM '96, cello) and J.Y. Song (DMA '98, piano). He also recently received a commission by the El Paso Pro Musici Festival for a trio to be performed in January 2004.Wynton Marsalis ('81, trumpet) is writing music for a new play, Eatonville, which will be premiered at the Amas Musical Theater in New York this fall. Lionel Party took part in the 14th Semaine Internationale de Piano in Blonay-St. Légier, Switzerland, in August. He gave a solo harpsichord/chamber music recital of early Baroque music with Baroque violin (played by his daughter), sackbut, Baroque trumpet, and Baroque bassoon. He also delivered three lecture-demonstrations: "Tempo and Rhythmic Freedom in the Performance of 18th-Century Music," "Baroque Ornamentation," and "Choosing Tempo in the Performance of the Music of J.S. Bach."Behzad Ranjbaran (MM '88, DMA '92, composition) traveled to London in September to record his orchestral cycle The Persian Trilogy with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of JoAnn Falletta (MM '83, DMA '89, orchestral conducting). Peter M. Rojcewicz, chair of the Liberal Arts Department, is teaching a course this fall at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology in New York titled "The Way of Mercurius: Alchemical Image and Paradoxical Psyche." The class traces the presence of the archetypal figure of Mercurius or Quicksilver in science, painting, and selected postmodern film. In addition, Rojcewicz is continuing his professional studies in analytical psychology at the foundation.The White House celebrated Black Music Month in June by hosting a concert called "Harlem's Song." It was produced by faculty member Loren Schoenberg, who led a band that included students Jumaane Smith, Carl Maraghi, and Ulysses Owens. Victor Goines, director of the Jazz Studies program, was also there as a featured soloist.Robert Neff Williams directed R.B. Sheridan's The Rivals for the Pearl Theater, which is currently playing Off-Off Broadway. His production features Chris Moore (Group 24), Eunice Wong (Group 28), and Sean McNall (Group 29).Flute faculty member Carol Wincenc, cello faculty member Jerry Grossman, Korliss Uecker (MM '86, voice), and pianist Tung Kwong-Kwong performed at Merkin Hall in September.Movement instructor Moni Yakim directed I Want the Whole World To See That I Can Cry!, a theatrical documentary based on the personal journals of Ester Herschberg, written and produced by Miri Ben-Shalom, for a production featured in the New York International Film Festival this summer. Mina Yakin was the associate director.STUDENTSVoice student Anton Belov is to give the opening concert of the Young Concert Artists series at the Kennedy Center in Washington on October 12.Organ student Colin Fowler will give a free concert on October 12 at Calvary Baptist Church, 123 W. 57th Street, in Manhattan. The program will include works of Bach, Franck, Hindemith, and others.
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