FACULTY

Collaborative piano faculty member Audrey Axinn performed recitals of Mozart's keyboard sonatas on the fortepiano last June at Bargemusic and in August at the Edinburgh Festival.

Drama faculty member Becky Guy (Group 7) appeared over the summer with the Chautauqua (N.Y.) Theater Company in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, directed by Ethan McSweeny.

Jazz faculty member Wynton Marsalis ('81, trumpet) performed in August in Celebrate Jazz Trio: Rebuild the Soul of America, a three-day event to commemorate Hurricane Katrina and help support the cultural infrastructure of New Orleans. It included a concert, a talent search contest, and a free jazz and culinary event.

In September, Kent Tritle (BM '85, organ; MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) performed a program of works by Bach, Franck, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, and Duruflé on the N.P. Mander Pipe Organ, New York City's largest mechanical action pipe organ, in St. Ignatius Loyola Church. The program also included a performance of Vincent Persichetti's Shimah B'Koli (Psalm 130).

On October 17, Robert White, voice faculty member, will sing at the Metropolitan Museum in an evening honoring New York Times writer James Barron's newly released book, Piano — The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand. On October 21 and 22, the tenor sings with composer/pianist Lowell Liebermann (BM '82, MM '84, DMA '87, composition) and violinist Mark Peskanov (DIP '77, violin) at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. White will perform a solo song recital for the inaugural season of the new concert hall at the Morgan Library on November 8 with pianist Philip Fisher (MM '06, piano). The recital, "Songs From the Gilded Age — The Time of J. Pierpont Morgan," will include songs of Fauré, Schumann, Sullivan, Tosti, and Berlin.


STUDENTS

Dance students Erica Furst, Emily Proctor, Kevin Shannon, Riley Watts and Karell Williams participated in the Nanon Residency at the Yard on Martha's Vineyard this summer. New works were created on them by choreographer Adam Hougland (BFA '99).

Jazz student Brandon Lee was chosen in August to receive a 2006 Alumni Astral Grant from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which provides funding for new artistic projects.

Drama student Brian J. Smith made his film debut in Hate Crime, which is being released on DVD on November 14.