FACULTY

Eric Booth, director of the Mentoring program, gave the closing keynote address at Unesco's first ever worldwide arts education conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in March.

Christopher Durang, co-director of the playwrights program, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal in May, an annual honor awarded to alumni that have demonstrated artistic excellence and contributed to raising student interest in the arts.

Dance faculty member Laura Glenn (BS '67, dance) and her company participated in a four-hour marathon dance concert in memory of dancer Ted Hershey at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, Conn., in April.

In March, jazz faculty members Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Ted Rosenthal, Ben Wolfe, and Carl Allen performed as the Juilliard Jazz Quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in New York.

Organ faculty member Paul Jacobs was the featured artist for the syndicated radio program St. Paul Sunday on Easter Sunday 2006. The program, featuring the works of Bach, Vierne, Reger, and Messiaen, is to be repeated on Easter Sundays 2007 and 2008.

Pre-College faculty member Frank Levy ('92, piano), Dmitri Berlinsky ('93, violin), Cynthia Phelps, Julie Albers, Barry Crawford, and Vadim Lando gave a recital at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in New York in March.

Faculty members Carol Wincenc (MM '72, flute) and Charles Neidich will perform with pianist Stephen Gosling (BM '93, MM '94, DMA '80, piano) on May 12 at Alice Tully Hall. The Naumburg Foundation is presenting the concert; both Wincenc and Neidich are former winners of the Naumburg Competition.

STUDENTS

Avner Dorman, a doctoral candidate in composition, had his work Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! premiered by the Israel Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta, with percussion duo PercaDu, in April. Dorman's String Quartet No. 2 ("Mirage") was given its U.S. premiere that month by the Jerusalem Quartet at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Elizabeth Fayette, a Pre-College student, was given a Gold Award ($10,000) from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Out of 6,500 applicants nationwide, she received the only award given in music. She has also been nominated by the foundation as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.