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New Staff Welcomed Into the Juilliard Family Career Development administrative assistant Ben Barham is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He received his B.F.A. degree in theater arts with a concentration in directing. He has worked at such theaters as the San Diego Rep, the Old Globe, and La Jolla Playhouse as well as studying at Shakespeare's Globe in London. He has creatively supervised and produced events for the N.F.L. Players Association, Nokia, Sony, Ford, and BMW. He is very happy to be working at such a wonderful institution as Juilliard. Assistant orchestral librarian Justin Brown is a bassoonist and contrabassoonist who earned his bachelor's degree from Juilliard in 2005 and is continuing his studies in the master's program. Born and raised in Dallas, he was a four-year member of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and the Texas Music Educators Association All-State Symphony Orchestra. At Juilliard, Justin traveled to Spoleto, Italy, to perform with the Juilliard Orchestra, and performed the American premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Voyage II for bassoon and ensemble with the New Juilliard Ensemble in Alice Tully Hall. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Corinne Camillo is the assistant orchestra librarian for the Pre-College Division. Mimi Do, who joins the Business Office as budget and financial analyst, graduated last May with an M.P.A. from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. While pursuing her master's degree, she did various internships with the Lincoln Center Festival, the Office of the Mayor's Commission for the U.N., and the New York City Fire Department. Prior to moving to New York, she lived in Korea for two years teaching English as a Fulbright Fellow. Mimi is originally from Boston and attended Yale University as an undergraduate. She plays viola with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra and sings karaoke regularly. Also joining the Business Office is accounts payable clerk Dana Gordon. She previously worked at Warburg Pincus for two and a half years in the accounts payable department. Dana lives on the Upper West Side and loves music. Luis Hammer joins Health Services as a physician assistant. For the past eight years he worked in that capacity at Gouverneur Hospital, mostly in urgent care, with a multicultural and talented group of colleagues. He looks forward to starting a new chapter at Juilliard and helping students with their health issues. Ashley Hanson joins the Wig Shop as the assistant supervisor. Ashley is a former intern and has worked on and off Broadway, most recently for The Great American Trailer Park Musical. She grew up in Wisconsin and attended cosmetology school right out of high school. She enjoys going to concerts, D.J.'ing, and shopping. A part-time sales associate in the Juilliard Bookstore, Tim McCullough holds degrees in music from the University of Texas at Austin and the Manhattan School of Music. As a pianist, he has performed solo and chamber concerts in London, Monterrey (Mexico), and Austin, as well as at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Lindsay Morris, joining Juilliard as an assistant to the dean, is a 2005 graduate of N.Y.U. in linguistic anthropology and French. She fills her time outside the office studying Arabic, distance running, and baking pies. Jessica Simon is assistant for student programs in the Office of Student Affairs. She earned a B.F.A. from N.Y.U. with a major in drama and minors in English and art history. She is currently working on her master's degree in the Draper Program at N.Y.U., bringing together her interests in dramatic literature, Eastern-European culture, and gender studies. Jessica also recently became engaged. Archivist and cataloger in the Lila Acheson Wallace Library, David Snow holds degrees in music composition from the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, and a degree in library science from the University of Maryland. As a composer, he has been honored with awards from B.M.I., the ASCAP Foundation, the Maryland State Council for the Arts, and the N.E.A. His works have been performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the American Brass Quintet, and the Harvard Wind Ensemble, among others. In 2003 he designed and implemented an audio reformatting program at the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM), digitizing historic live recordings by Jorge Bolet, Alicia de Larrocha, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Ethel Leginska, Raymond Lewenthal, and William Masselos for preservation. George Stelluto, resident conductor and director of orchestral activities, is also music director of the Las Vegas Music Festival and of Musiciens sans Frontieres at the Loire Valley Music Festival in France. He has guest conducted the Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Ukrainian National Orchestra, Transylvania State Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Nevada Symphony Orchestra, and numerous other orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, and has collaborated with soloists such as Hilary Hahn, Samuel Ramey, Frank Huang, and Edgar Meyer. Currently an Artist Diploma candidate in orchestral conducting at Juilliard, he holds two master's degrees from the Yale School of Music, in conducting and violin, as well as a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University. His festival credits include Aspen, Peter Britt, Kiev International, the Quartet Program, Las Vegas, and Long Beach. Part-time Juilliard Bookstore sales associate Marlena Zahm received a B.F.A. in dance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She currently lives in New York, where she is auditioning for dance companies and taking dance classes. She hopes to go back to school someday for a master's degree in dance education.
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