2012 Collage Concert to celebrate composer Dominick Argento tutti. (it.) all. every musician to take part.

Maria Schneider 2012 School of Music Convocation Speaker

Britten Peace Project Follow Up Season Events Preview Student, Faculty, and Alumni News

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Dear Alumni, Friends, and Colleagues, The world’s longest running musical, The Fantasticks, explores the universal theme of real-world discovery juxtaposed with cyclical predictability. One of the show’s songs (liberally paraphrased) evokes images of fulfilling visions:

. . . maybe All the visions we can see May be waiting for us to say Take us there, and Make us see it!

Make us feel it! Let us learn!

John Wooden, who but for a postponed phone call would have been Minnesota’s head basketball coach instead of UCLA’s, once remarked: Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. Embracing and leading change are hallmarks of maturation and progress, of reconciling perennial values with new challenges. Today’s students—having lived since birth in a techno-global society—think and learn differently from those of a generation ago; softened stylistic boundaries and emerging sonic and visual media are influencing music performance and study in complex ways; prevailing curricular and business models in education and the wider musical world are undergoing critical analysis as research demystifies music cognition and meaning-making, and advances our understanding of socio-cultural influences on audience behavior. Over the past year, our faculty, staff, students, and advisory council have been contemplating the work of the school and its future. Conversations initially occurred in six cluster groups: • Individual and Collaborative Performance • Historic, Stylistic, Theoretical, and Cultural Understanding • Pedagogy, Human Learning, and Development • Creative Studies and Collaborative Arts • Leadership, Engagement, and Entrepreneurship • Health and Human Potential

A persistent theme has been the tension between constancy and essential change, especially in view of the professional demands our students will encounter. Not only must they be artistically and intellectually accomplished, but they must embody initiative, flexibility, adaptability, portability, and willingness to engage diverse audiences – traits that a contemporary career in music requires – whether in performance, management, teaching, scholarship, or composing. The simple reality that the majority of music graduates teach, for example, begs us to ask how we equip graduates to teach effectively and remain current as their students and subject matter change. Facilitated by Alumni and Community Advisory Council member Lowell Noteboom, assisted by Ronnie Brooks, we have made progress in identifying our strengths and challenges, setting goals for progress, and thinking about imaginary “headlines” for the school in future years. We will continue the work this fall, hoping to have a guiding framework for the next five to seven years by the end of calendar year 2012. In the following pages, you will find a panoramic overview of the incredible work occurring in the School of Music day by day. From last March’s monumental collaborative performances of Britten’s War Requiem, April’s magnificent rendering of Parables, and distinctive residencies and partnerships to solo recitals, chamber music, ensemble performances, and energizing classes to Mobile Music Concerts and other engagement activities, we are seeing and feeling the vision of our place in assuring a musically enlivened world. We are learning to be the best mentors we can be, thus inspiring our students to pursue their own exciting visions with confidence and success. We thank all of you for the continuing support you offer our students and programs. Please attend any of our over 400 annual events as your schedules permit. And if you have questions, thoughts, or suggestions about pursuing our shared vision, please call, write, or schedule a visit at any time. With sincere best wishes,

David Director, University of Minnesota School of Music

The University of Minnesota School of Music gratefully acknowledges program support from Schmitt Music. The School of Music is an All Steinway School.

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Tutti is the magazine of the University of Minnesota School of Music and is published yearly. It supports the school’s community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends by providing information that highlights events, developments, and trends within the school, connects the school’s many constituencies, and celebrates the achievements of the school’s community.

James A. Parente, Jr. Dean, College of Liberal Arts David E. Myers Director, School of Music Lisa Marshall Editor and Writer

4 4 2012 Residency with Maria Schneider 6 Collage Concert Celebrating Dominick Argento

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12 8 Mobile Music Concert Program Trombone Choir in D.C. Celebrating 40 Years of Music Therapy 9 University Opera Theatre’s Parables Project

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Engagement Project Overview

Partnership with VocalEssence

In Memoriam 14 Britten Peace Project 16 Thank You Donors 19 2011/2012 Season Highlights 20 2012/2013 Events Calendar 22 School News

10 The Band Project: Teaching the Teachers 11 Experiencing the Music of Ghana SOM and MacPhail Chamber Series

Amber Lee Graphic Design Intern Modern Press Printing

13 Voice Collaborations

Celebrating Stanisław Skrowaczewski 7 Advisory Council Begins Work

Jennifer Schmitt Graphic Designer

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The School of Music The mission of the School of Music is to create and perform music and to apply and impart musical knowledge in all its diverse forms. We are committed to excellence in all scholarly, creative and pedagogical endeavors. We seek to provide the highest quality of professional training in music to students pursuing a broad variety of careers and offer artistic, cultural and intellectual enrichment to the community within and beyond the University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, founded in the belief that all people are enriched by understanding, is dedicated to the advancement of learning and the search for truth; to the sharing of this knowledge through education for a diverse community; and to the application of this knowledge to benefit the people of the state, the nation and the world. The University’s threefold mission of research and discovery, teaching and learning, and outreach and public service is carried out on multiple campuses and throughout the state.

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2012 RESIDENCY

MARIA Schneider

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The Convocation program will feature a conversation on Creativity for Music Careers: Leveraging Talent, Technic, and Tenacity with Maria Schneider, internationally renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, producer David Frost, and engineer Tim Martyn moderated by School of Music director David Myers. The University of Minnesota Jazz Ensemble I, under the direction of jazz professor Dean Sorenson, will perform works by Maria Schneider. On Schneider’s honorary degree, School of Music director David Myers says, “For years, Maria Schneider has been a musical proponent and mentor to faculty and students alike at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Schneider’s work in the arts exemplifies the School of Music’s important initiatives in preparing career-aspiring musicians to traverse new musical landscape to be engaged leaders and entrepreneurs in society and their communities.” Myers continues, “It’s time for her alma mater, the flagship institution of the state from which she hails, to bestow its highest honorary accolade on this superbly talented, successful, and deeply dedicated individual.” Maria Schneider U of M School of Music Residency Maria Schneider will be in residence at the U of M School of Music from September 24 to October 1, returning October 31. During her residency, she will give a Composer Master Class for School of Music composition and jazz students, engage in open and side-by-side rehearsals with School of Music Jazz ensembles, and give a talk on Building a Music Career. She will also offer a glimpse into the recording process as she records a new album with famed vocalist Dawn Upshaw and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Schneider’s return on October 31 coincides her orchestra’s performance at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis. Dawn Upshaw will sing Schneider’s Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories, a work commissioned and premiered by the SPCO, on Friday, September 28 at St. Paul’s UCC in Saint Paul. Schneider will also be the first guest in the Composer Conversation Series co-presented by the SPCO, Minnesota Public Radio, and the American Composers Forum on Friday, September 28. Visit classicalmpr.org for more information. About Maria Schneider Maria Schneider’s music has been hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization.” The Maria Schneider Orchestra has performed at festivals and concert halls worldwide. She has received numerous commissions and guest conducting invites, working with over 85 groups from over 30 countries spanning Europe, South America, Australia, Asia, and North America. Schneider’s music blurs the lines between genres, and as a result, her commissions are quite varied from the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra (El Viento) to The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with soprano, Dawn Upshaw (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories). Schneider and her orchestra have a distinguished recording career with nine Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards.

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Honoring Maria Schneider The University of Minnesota School of Music will confer an honorary degree on School of Music alumna, Grammy winning composer, arranger, and big band leader Maria Schneider on Monday, September 24 at 10 a.m. at the U of M School of Music’s Fall Convocation at Ted Mann Concert Hall. The Doctor of Humane Letters is the highest award conferred by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, recognizing individuals who have achieved acknowledged eminence in their field.

Monday, September 24 School of Music Convocation with Maria Schneider, Dawn Upshaw, David Frost, and Tim Martyn 10 a.m. ³ Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring a conversation titled Creativity for Music Careers: Leveraging Talent, Technic, and Tenacity with composer, arranger, and big band leader Maria Schneider; soprano Dawn Upshaw; producer David Frost; engineer Tim Martyn and School of Music director David Myers. Free & open to the public. SOM student attendance will be taken. Composer Master Class 2–4 p.m. ³ Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Maria Schneider works with U of M School of Music student composers. Free & open to the public. Tuesday, September 25 Maria Schneider Orchestra Rehearsal with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 7–8 p.m. ³ Ted Mann Concert Hall Open to U of M School of Music students, sign-up in Ferguson Hall, Room 100 required. Saturday, September 29 Open Rehearsal with U of M School of Music Jazz Ensemble I 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ³ Ferguson Hall, Rm 95 Open to U of M School of Music students. Monday, October 1 Maria Schneider Q & A: Building a Music Career 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. ³ Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Open to U of M School of Music students and the public.

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School of Music Collage Concert Celebrating

Dominick

Argento Collage Concert

Sat., Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring more than 300 students and faculty in a non-stop concert showcase!

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This year’s School of Music Collage Concert will honor Dominick Argento, America’s pre-eminent composer of lyric opera and U of M Regents Professor Emeritus. The Collage Concert will feature a selection of Argento’s works from throughout his distinguished career.

Collage Concert artistic director and School of Music director of bands and professor of conducting Craig Kirchhoff shares, “This year’s Collage Concert will showcase the artistry of one of the School of Music’s most distinguished emeritus faculty, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Dominick Argento. The concert will include a University Symphony Orchestra performance of ‘Spring’ from A Ring of Time and his joyous and exciting ‘Gloria’ from The Masque of Angels for large choral forces. Dominick Argento has been a major force in the world of music for nearly sixty years. Please join us to help celebrate his life-long contributions to the art of music.”

Argento was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1927. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Peabody Conservatory and his Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships allowed him to study in Italy and following his Fulbright, Argento became music director of Hilltop Opera in Baltimore, and taught theory and composition at the Eastman School. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, where he taught until 1997. Dominick Argento received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975 for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979, and in 1997 was honored with the title of Composer Laureate to the Minnesota Orchestra, a lifetime appointment. His song cycle Casa Guidi won a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Biography reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes.

BEGINS WORK Over the past several years, School of Music director David Myers has been considering how to reactivate the School of Music Advisory Council. He has met with dozens of community members and national alumni and listened to diverse perceptions of the school. In these conversations, he has also found enthusiastic support for enhancing the School’s visibility and relationships with practicing musicians and music organizations – locally, nationally, and internationally. Last November, the newly reorganized Alumni and Community Advisory Council (ACAC) held its first meeting. In addition to consideration of the School’s programs and budget, as well as hearing Anastasia Leavitt (B.M. candidate, harp/music education) and faculty musicians (Timothy Lovelace, piano; Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet) perform, the

Council considered its own role and agenda as a supportive organization. Members have agreed to serve three-year terms, and two meetings per year have been established. In April, under the leadership of council member Lowell Noteboom, ACAC held a discussion of the School’s strategic planning goals developed through earlier dialogue among faculty, staff, and students. They also attended an excerpt of the performance of University Opera Theatre’s production of Robert Aldridge’s Parables, which was being presented that weekend. ACAC’s annual meetings will include reviews of the school’s current work, perspectives on the School’s role in the wider Twin Cities and national/international music communities, supporting strategic initiatives, considering fiscal concerns, and helping advance catalytic leadership in the education of musicians in the 21st century.

Brent Assink*

Paula DeCosse

author; philanthropist; amateur oboist

pianist; community arts supporter

John Birge

Cathie Fischer

chief operating officer, Public Strategies Group

executive director, San Francisco Symphony

Minnesota Public Radio Blythe Brenden

Blythe Brenden Mann Foundation

Philip Brunelle

artistic director and founder, Vocalessence; choirmasterorganist, Plymouth Congregational Church Mary Ellen Childs*

composer

Burt Cohen

retired founder/publisher, MPLS-St. Paul Magazine

Thelma Hunter

Tom Moss

pianist; community activist; arts supporter

Eric Nilsson

Gwendolyn Freed

principal, Nilsson Law Offices, P.A.

oboist (Juilliard); executive director, Wallin Education Partners

Lowell Noteboom

general counsel, Leonard, Street and Deinard; board chair, League of American Orchestras; Board of Overseers, Curtis Institute of Music; co-chair, Arts Partnership Campaign for Ordway Expansion

Meg Gisslen

senior marketing and research professional Wayne Gisslen*

culinary textbook author; clarinet player

Tom Schmitt

president, Schmitt Music

Mike Hiatt

Ellen Sorenson

senior software engineer, UNISYS; Band Alumni Society Mary Steinke*

producer, Coffee Concert Fashion Shows, Minnesota Orchestra Ralph Thorp*

retired; community band member

David Myers

director, University of Minnesota School of Music Joe Sullivan

arts development officer, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts

retired music educator, Perpich Center for the Arts *Alumnus

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School of Music launches

Mobile Music Concert Program In April 2012, School of Music student Christa Saeger (D.M.A. candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) performed the School of Music’s first Mobile Music Concert in Johnston Hall on the Twin Cities West Bank campus, thanks to College of Liberal Arts assistant dean Nanette Hanks.

to create a similar program at the U of M. “We have all these great musicians here,” said Hanks. “I talk to colleagues who say, ‘Oh yeah, I want to go and hear them play,’ but they can never make the time. And I thought, ‘Well, what if we bring them to you?’” And bring them she did, funding the first concerts out of her own pocket. Hanks hopes that others will step forward to fund more Mobile Music Concerts. Saeger has now performed more than 20 Mobile Music Concerts in a variety of spaces – from large conference rooms to tiny cubicles a foot away from her audience. She has found performing outside of the concert hall enlightening. “It has been a great challenge for me to learn to quickly adapt to a new musical environment. I feel that classical musicians need to take time to step out of the concert hall setting and break

While listening to a NPR Tiny Desk Concert, an intimate musical performance recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen, Hanks was inspired

down the barriers between the performer and the audience, and these concerts have proven to do just that.” Her audiences have been receptive, “The feedback has been wonderful. I can honestly say these audiences have been some of the most appreciative I have ever experienced. They are engaging, ask questions, and want to know more. An audience member asked me about how I was creating sound out of my instrument, so I gave her a 30-minute cello lesson on the spot in front of her entire office. It was amazing.” She continues, “I had another woman say, ‘This is so wonderful. I feel like I know you. I feel like I know the School of Music.’” Watch a video of Saeger in action on the School of Music website at: https://music.umn.edu/news/tutti

To find out how you can sponsor and host a Mobile Music Concert, contact School of Music professor Jerry Luckhardt at 612/624-6873 or [email protected].

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The U of M Trombone Choir and Jazz Bones, led by Tom Ashworth, presented a recital at the 2012 Eastern Trombone Workshop (ETW) in Washington, D.C. on March 23. The program included a premiere of a new jazz work by professor Dean Sorenson featuring Victor Barranco (B.M., 2005, trombone, student of Tom Ashworth) soloist, assisted by the U.S. Army Blues rhythm section. Henry Charles Smith was the guest conductor. The program also included an original work by Twin Cities jazz pianist Laura Caviani.

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the 2012 Eastern Trombone workshop in Washington, D.C.

School of Music student Keith Hilson (D.M.A. candidate, trombone, student of Tom Ashworth) attended ETW and shared, “The sheer number of trombonists and ensembles we heard playing at an exceptionally high level surprised and inspired me” Catch the U of M Trombone Choir and Jazz Bones at the 2013 MMEA In-Service Clinic on February 15, 2013 and at the 2013 Siouxland Trombone Festival at Augustana College in March.

40 Years of Music Therapy The U of M School of Music will celebrate the 40th anniversary of music therapy at the U of M with program founder and special guest Judith A. Jellison. Jellison served as director of the SOM music therapy program, where she taught for more than a decade. Her experiences working with diverse populations as a music therapist and music educator in schools and hospitals have shaped her philosophy and her research which focuses on the musical development of children with disabilities and inclusive educational practices. She has served on the editorial boards of major journals in music education and music therapy and is the recipient of both the prestigious Senior Researcher Award from The National Association for Music Education, and the Publications Award from the American Music Therapy Association. She also has been honored with several teaching awards. Professor Jellison was selected to be a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and is a recipient of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. Jellison will give a talk on Thursday, October 25 at 3 p.m. in Ferguson Hall, Room 280.

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University Opera Theatre’s Parables Project topics of Parables including religion, politics, and the arts. Those who participated in the Parables Project were clearly awakened to the possibility that the arts (music in particular) do intersect with religion and politics in such powerful ways that shape modern day thinking and action. Project participants, in genIn conjunction with the University Opera eral, noted that they have few opportunities Theatre production, T.K. Vu (Ph.D. canin school to express their views about religion didate, music educaand politics. Aldridge tion, student of Keitha and Garfein’s work proHamann and Akosua vided students with new Addo) and University ways to dialogue about Opera Theatre director ‘taboo’ subjects that David Walsh spearotherwise, might go headed the Parables unquestioned in their Project, an engagement regular classes. I was program that explored incredibly impressed the powerful subject at the deep, critical Photo from University Opera Thematter of Parables. Vu, thinking skills today’s atre’s production of Parables, which Walsh, and Bergen secondary students posinspired the Parables Project. Baker (M.M. candisess; they understand so date, voice, student of Jean del Santo) led much and want to know as much as they religious and cultural dialogues with students can to better inform their futures.” in five high schools in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area – Lakeville, Burnsville, CenVu looks forward to new and continutral (St. Paul), St. Paul Conservatory for the ing engagement projects, including his Performing Arts (SPCPA), and St. Louis Park. doctoral research in the Hmong youth arts communities of St. Paul. “My docAfter classroom visits, students were invited toral project gives me occasion to call on to the Parables Forum “Religion and the my public engagement skills gleaned from American Dream: Religious Diversity in the Parables Project and my public school America,” an on-campus religious tolerance teaching career to inform my research as talk moderated by David Walsh along with a participant-observer who is interested in Parables composer Robert Aldridge and informal music teaching and learning.” librettist Herschel Garfein. In addition to his doctoral work, Vu will continue to serve as taskforce facilitator Vu conducted a follow-up roundtable disfor the Office for Public Engagement as cussion at SPCPA and shared, “Students well as in his role on the School of Music’s were incredibly keen to discuss the salient Community Engagement Leadership Team.

Look for University Opera Theatre’s production of Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Parables, directed by University Opera Theatre’s David Walsh, on Twin Cities Public Television this fall! The first Parables broadcast will take place on Sunday, October 28 at 8 p.m. Parables on Twin Cities Public Television is a Minnesota partnership production and is a coproduction of the University of Minnesota School of Music and Twin Cities Public Television with additional funding from Douglas and Andrew Reeves in honor of their parents, J.B. and Julie Reeves.

Photo: Les Koob

Photo: Les Koob

In spring 2012, the School of Music’s University Opera Theatre premiered Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Parables, a symphonic oratorio examining the themes of racial and religious intolerance in the U.S. in the wake of 9/11.

Get engaged with the University of Minnesota School of Music! Visit our website to learn about engagement opportunities for teachers, students, arts or education professionals, and community members as well as information on existing programs and volunteer opportunities. With the help of a U of M public engagement grant, and under the direction of Community Engagement Leadership Team, School of Music faculty and students coordinated projects within the past year, including: Band Project Coordinated by Laura Sindberg Britten Peace Project Coordinated by Kathy Saltzman Romey and Mark Russell Smith Cantus Residency Program Coordinated by Kathy Saltzman Romey Inspiring Young Musicians: The U of M Clarinet Studio on Tour Coordinated by Alexander Fiterstein The Parables Project Coordinated by David Walsh and T.K. Vu Robert Roberston, gospel singer Coordinated by Scott Currie Visit the Engagement section of our website for a complete list of engagement projects and project overviews. Find out how you can get involved with the School of Music Community Engagement program, by contacting Laura Krider, community engagement coordinator, at 612/624-0071 or at [email protected]. music.umn.edu/engagement

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U of M School of Music music education professor Laura Sindberg actively seeks opportunities for students and ways to engage with public school students and colleagues. She searches for meaningful teaching experiences for future music educators that strengthen the music education experience of students and promote broader approaches to music teaching and learning. To further this goal, Sindberg collaborated with alumnus Corey Needleman (B.M., 1999, percussion, student of Fernando Meza), band director at Ramsey School, a kindergarten through eighth grade public performing arts magnet in the Minneapolis Public Schools, to create Band Project, a teaching apprenticeship in which preservice educators provide instruction to beginning band students. Band Project launched in 2011 with eight School of Music apprentice teachers and 24 Ramsey students. On the surface, the Band Project wasn’t an atypical music education exchange – U of M School of Music undergraduate students need teaching experience and Needleman’s band students would benefit from extra instrumental coaching. However, this project went beyond one-on-one music lessons and endless renditions of “Hot Cross Buns” to challenge both School of Music apprentice teachers and pupils with innovative lesson plans that incorporate music composition and improvisation. This new program, guided by Sindberg’s desire to engage her students in meaningful fieldwork, diverts from the typical fieldwork by getting her students to think in new ways about music teaching and learning as well as being of use to students in public schools who may be underserved. The program offers beginners the distinct opportunity to break out of rote practice and memorization to think musically.

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“I look forward to working with another group of prospective music teachers that are creative and inquisitive. Selfishly, I look forward to the gains my students will experience and the affect on their identities in music.”

Melissa Choquette (B.M. candidate, clarinet/music education), apprentice teacher who taught seven students this past year, shares, “It was a little tough to get the students actively involved in our activities, but once they got the hang of it, I was surprised by how hard they all tried and how much each student wanted to succeed. Just a little encouragement went a long way and by the end of the semester, all the students greatly improved and were very eager to learn more.” Needleman was impressed by Sindberg’s music education students, “The apprentice teachers carried themselves very professionally, maintained a constantly creative and flexible approach dealing with beginners, were extremely reliable and continued to ask questions and improve their efforts.” This fall, Ramsey School is moving to the Folwell Building in Minneapolis to become the Folwell Performing Arts Magnet School. University of Minnesota–the Band Project will continue its mission at the Folwell School. Needleman is excited about the project’s continuation and confides,

The Band Project director Laura Sindberg has recently secured a grant through Laird Norton Family Foundation, which will provide significant support to the Band Project in the 2012-2013 academic year; additional support has been provided by the School of Music’s Community Engagement Leadership Team. Sindberg is excited about the future at Folwell and beyond, “If the Band Project can work in Minneapolis, it can be a model in other places, in all kinds of ways. The work we do in Band Project not only helps young students develop as musicians—the relationships they form with their apprentice teachers will, we hope, have deep and lasting effects that are just as important as the musical learning. In addition, the apprentice teachers will take away increased confidence in their abilities to teach and relate to kids who come from a different background; they will also be much more confident in their abilities to encourage young students to create their own music.” As a result of her work with the Band Project, Sindberg was nominated for the Betty Jane Reed Award, in recognition for volunteer efforts dedicated to the Minneapolis Public Schools.

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music of ghana

In spring 2012, School of Music professor Akosua Addo (music education) led a course titled Experiencing the Creative Arts in Ghana. This course was sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the Learning Aboard Center and was one of three new courses created to encourage early international immersion experiences for freshmen. On and off campus and during their spring break visit overseas, students in this class participated in and observed integrated African arts. In Ghana, students

participated in the local and contemporary music traditions in Accra, capital city of Ghana, and also in Kumasi. Staying at the SOS Children’s Village of Tema, students played with children, interacted with family units, sat in on classes at the basic school, and observed the children perform Ghanaian traditional music. The group attended a lecture on learning through play, presented by professor Darko-Gyeke of the University of Ghana and a lecture on the history of SOS villages in Ghana by Isaac Akon, director of Tema SOS.

School of Music & Macphail Center for Music collaborate on Chamber series This season, the University of Minnesota School of Music and MacPhail Center for Music will collaborate on a music performance series featuring students and faculty from the U of M School of Music and MacPhail. Performances will take place at MacPhail’s Antonello Hall in Minneapolis. The series will kick off with a percussion evening on December 1 at 8 p.m. and will feature Fernando Meza (SOM professor), Paul Babcock (MacPhail president, COO and teaching artist), and MacPhail Rimshots! Percussion Ensemble. An evening of guitar on February 14 at 7 p.m. will feature Maja Radovanlija (SOM professor) and Alan Johnston and Jean Seils (MacPhail teaching artists), and MacPhail students. Trumpet (brass) will be the focus on March 8 at 8 p.m. with performances by David Baldwin (SOM professor), Allison Hall and Timothy Bradley (MacPhail teaching artists), and The MacPhail Brass Quintet. The series will conclude with an evening of voice on April 3 at 7 p.m. featuring Adriana Zabala (SOM professor) and MacPhail teaching artists and students.

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Music with

a message Jane Ramseyer Miller

(2003, M.M., choral conducting, student of Tom Lancaster) artistic director - One Voice Mixed Chorus School of Music alumna Jane Ramseyer Miller was living in the Twin Cities and working as a musician for 20 years when she made the decision to attend the U of M School of Music. Miller shares, “I was a psychology major as an undergraduate, however music had taken over my life in a lovely way and at age 40, I wanted to go back to school.” After graduation, her career path lead her to One Voice Mixed Chorus, Minnesota’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and straight allies (GLBTA) chorus. Miller is now in her 19th year as artistic director of the chorus, and is working to fulfill its mission – “building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song.”

than other adults I have known a long time. I really liked that I could spill my guts and I would already be accepted. It is like they have gone through so much they can talk and be open to anyone. It makes me feel more confident and less like holding back my voice.” One Voice’s community engagement in Minnesota high schools has garnered Miller attention in the media and beyond. At the 2012 national convention of Chorus America in Minneapolis, Miller lead a session titled “Confronting Bullying Through Music” about her experience working in Minnesota high schools.

...they have gone through so much they can talk and be open to anyone. It makes me feel more confident and less like holding back my voice.

For more than 12 years, Once Voice has brought music, as well as a message of tolerance for difference and confronting bullying, to Minnesota middle and high schools through their OUT in Our Schools program. One Voice singers collaborate with educators and student singers to present in-school concerts, joint-rehearsals, and discussion opportunities in schools throughout Minnesota. With shrinking school budgets, One Voice’s program provides much needed music education. After participating in the OUT in Our Schools program, one student shared with One Voice, “I don’t have any GLBT friends but I felt a stronger connection with these singers

Miller’s passion for music and conflict resolution has strong roots, “I grew up in a family and community that taught and believed in peace making and social change and justice. That has influenced my programming, my interest in collaboration and performing concerts that take the audience beyond the status quo.” This year, One Voice marks its 25th anniversary, featuring groups they have collaborated with in the past, including Mu Daiko, dance companies, and more. Miller looks forward celebrating One Voice’s anniversary with a spring Minnesota Voices program that will focus on Minnesota composers and “all things Minnesota, including lumberjacks and music on a stick.”

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voice collaborations The voice division and University Opera Theatre are entering into the second year of ECCO (Educational Collaboration and Coaching of Opera) Program with the Minnesota Opera. The partnership allows School of Music voice students invaluable coaching with the Minnesota Opera music staff, including with artistic director Dale Johnson. The program also features three master classes per semester with Minnesota Opera music staff in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall. Adriana Zabala (voice) will sing the role of Sister James in the Minnesota Opera’s world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s Doubt this winter at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. See mnopera.org for opera dates and information.

School of Music Partners with VocalEssence This season the School of Music is teaming up with VocalEssence on two exciting projects. The first project, English Garden, is a concert of English folk music of Percy Grainger featuring the U of M Wind Ensemble along with VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers. This concert will be conducted by VocalEssence artistic director Philip Brunelle and professor Craig Kirchhoff and will take place on Saturday, March 9, 2013. A conversation with Classical Minnesota Public Radio host John Birge and Kirchhoff will take place before this concert. The second project will include School of Music students performing in VocalEssence’s production of Benjamin Britten’s operetta Paul Bunyan, directed by SOM professor emeritus Vern Sutton. SOM students will participate in engagement work around operetta. Visit music.umn.edu for program and ticket information.

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Stanisław Skrowaczewski

The School of Music is collaborating with Twin Cities Public Television in the production of an oral history video by the conductor laureate of the Minnesota Orchestra. Frederick Harris (Ph.D., 1999, conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff, Paul Haack, Stephen Schultz, Young-Nam Kim, and Jerry Luckhart) released his biography of conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski titled The Musical Life of Stanisław Skrowaczewski. The book traces Skrowaczewski’s life, beginning with his dramatic early years in Poland under Nazi-Soviet occupations, and is a result of nine years of research and more than 230 interviews with some of classical music’s most distinguished artists. Gunter Schuller wrote the book’s foreword and former School of Music staff member Carolyn Wavrin served as the final editor of the book. Harris is currently director of wind and jazz ensembles at M.I.T.

in memoriam The School of Music mourns the passing of long-time affiliate faculty member James Clute and donor Carol Easley Denny.

James Clute, affiliate double bass faculty and a musician in the Minnesota Orchestra, passed away on March 7, 2012. A memorial service celebrated his life in April 2012. Donations in his name may be made to Twin Cities Musicians Union - Young Musicians Scholarship Fund (www.TCMU.com).

Carol Easley Denny passed away on May 21, 2012. Denny was a woman of many interests and abilities, including a role she played as a piano accompanist for the LeagueAires and at the Basilica of St. Mary’s in Minneapolis. In the spring of 1999, Charles and Carol Denny made a generous donation to the U of M School of Music to establish the Carol Denny Accompanists Fund. This endowment has supported scores of graduate student assistant positions to fulfill an important role in a large music school – providing accompanists for solo and ensemble performances for every genre within the school. What a legacy Carol leaves behind. Long beyond her lifetime, the Carol Denny Accompanist Fund will continue to foster support for music and piano accompanying, a craft that she loved and appreciated dearly. We are grateful for the many memorial gifts given to the School of Music in Carol Denny’s honor. To donate to the Carol Denny Accompanists Fund, contact Joe Sullivan, development officer for the arts, at 612-624-8573 or [email protected]

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Britten Peace Project a co l l aborative triumph

The U of M School of Music presented Benjamin Britten’s contemporary masterpiece War Requiem on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. This concert was part of the School of Music’s Britten Peace Project, an unprecedented international collaboration, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the Britten’s War Requiem, a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem Mass (Mass for the dead) with nine poems by English poet and fallen World War I soldier Wilfred Owen interwoven throughout the piece. This ambitious concert featured the University of Minnesota School of Music Orchestra, Choirs, William Ferguson (tenor), Philip Zawisza (baritone), Mark Russell Smith,

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conductor, and Kathy Saltzman Romey, chorus master; members of Detmold Hochschule für Musik Orchestra, Choir, Caroline Thomas (soprano), Karl-Heinz Bloemeke, conductor and Anne Kohler, chorus master (Detmold, Germany); Macalester College Concert Choir, Matthew Mehaffey, director; Kantorei, Axel Theimer, director; Minnesota Boychoir, Mark Johnson, director; and members of Quad City Choral Arts, Jon Hurty, director (Davenport, Iowa). As part of an international exchange, a cohort of School of Music students and faculty traveled to Detmold, Germany to perform Britten’s War Requiem on February 18 and 19 at the Hochshule für Musik. This trip marked the School of Music’s

first foray into international performance. School of Music students and faculty also performed with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in Davenport, Iowa on March 3 at the Adler Theatre and in Rock Island, Illinois at Centennial Hall, Augustana College on March 4. School of Music director David Myers shares, “This project presented a once-ina-lifetime opportunity for School of Music students and faculty to perform a 20th century masterpiece for audiences in four cities across the globe. We were delighted to host 31 students from the Hochshule für Musik for the March 1 War Requiem performance.”

In their own words...

To sing the Britten War Requiem in 2012, fifty years after its debut in 1962 and in the eleventh year of various U.S. wars abroad, was for me a sober reminder of the persistent futility of war. Wilfred Owen described in his poems the folly of violence and lives squandered in battle, words that Europe and the world needed still to hear in Coventry some forty five years after the poems were first written and which need to be heard just as desperately today as sabers continue to rattle. To live in Owen’s words and Britten’s music, to reanimate their message of peace and nonviolence was for me a singular honor not soon to be forgotten.

The really important lesson I’ve taken away from this project is to remind myself why I got into music in the first place. With degrees, auditions, term papers, and contracts all hanging in the balance, it’s easy to forget how much music really means to us. Having the chance to perform this work multiple times in varied locations and with different people broadened my perspective and helped me understand and connect to the work in a really unique way. This was a truly memorable experience. Anna DeGraff // chorus member

Corbin Treacy // chorus member

Experiencing Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem from the standpoint of both performer and community outreach advocate has enabled me to better understand the demands and expectations of performers, and what community members would like and hope to take away from attending classical concerts. I believe that learning and understanding both sides of the equation is crucial for anyone who plans to hold an artistic position. This project has prompted me to think about aspects of music sharing I would not have otherwise. Sergey Bogza // organist, chorus member, and orchestral conducting student

Students documented their adventures and discoveries while on tour and reflected on the project on their Britten Blog: music.umn.edu/britten

The Britten War Requiem project has shown me first hand that art can serve as a gateway to the thoughtfulness that is necessary to change the lives of both performers and audiences for the sake of a greater good. Benjamin Davis // violist

The Britten Peace Project has altered my perception of the standing of the United States in the world, and opened new venues abroad for future scholarship and collaboration. Andrew Stoebig // chorus member and choral conducting student

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Photos (clockwise from top left): President Eric Kaler and wife Karen Kaler enjoy the sounds of Scott Currie’s World Music Ensemble during a campus crawl; flash mob performance at Carlson School of Management; President Kaler was welcomed by a brass quartet from the U of M Marching Band and Goldy on his first day of work; Convocation keynote speaker Helena Gaunt; and director David Myers, dean James A. Parente, and regent Venora Hung presented Philip Brunelle (second from left) an honorary degree.

2011/2012 season highlights School of Music Students and Faculty Provide Music for U of M President Kaler’s Inauguration Ceremony School of Music students and faculty were a major part of U of M president Eric Kaler’s Inauguration Ceremony on Thursday, September 22 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. They performed works by Brahms, Verdi, and SOM alumnus/composer Stephen Paulus. The day before the ceremony, SOM students and faculty welcomed president Kaler and his wife Karen Kaler with a tour of the School of Music. The Kalers met School of Music students in practice rooms and visited with ensembles in rehearsal. School of Music Fall 2011 Convocation Honoring Philip Brunelle, with Keynote Speaker Helena Gaunt The School of Music conferred an honorary degree on internationally renowned conductor and artistic director of Vocal-

Essence, Philip Brunelle, on Thursday, October 6 at the SOM’s Fall Convocation at Ted Mann Concert Hall. The Convocation featured keynote speaker Helena Gaunt, assistant principal at Guildhall of London’s School of Music and Drama, on “Becoming a musician in the 21st century” with an emphasis on improvisation and collaborative learning. School of Music Flash Mob Brings Holiday Cheer This past winter, the School of Music teamed up with the U of M Carlson School of Management to create a holiday flash mob video like no other. The video features SOM student Greg Wrenn (saxophone); Campus Singers Maroon, Gold, and Mosaic; Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus, University Singers, Kathy Saltzman Romey (coordinator, conductor); with audio by the SOM’s Technical Coordinator/Audio Engineer

Phillip O’Toole. Nearly 300 students participated in this flash mob, which has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube. Ted Mann Concert Hall Hosts Minnesota Orchestra’s 2012 Sommerfest The School of Music’s Ted Mann Concert Hall hosted the Minnesota Orchestra’s 2012 Sommerfest. Highlights of the 33rd annual festival included performances of such popular works as Dvořák’s New World Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. Anna DeGraff (D.M.A., 2012, voice, student of John De Haan and David Walsh) performed the role of Maddalena in the Minnesota Orchestra’s concert of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Sommerfest patrons enjoyed music and food on the beautiful Ted Mann Terrace before concerts.

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School of Music Convocation: Honoring Maria Schneider

Monday, September 24, 2012 • 10 a.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

See page 4 for more information on Convocation and the Maria Schneider Residency.

Collage Concert: Honoring Dominick Argento

Saturday, October 20, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring more than 300 students and faculty in a non-stop concert showcase! See page 6 for more information.



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Wind Ensemble: Wind Music From Around The World

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

An evening of international wind music including the music of Giovanni Gabrieli, Salvador Brotons, Jules Massenet, David Maslanka, and Arturo Marquez.

Symphonic/University Bands

Thursday, November 29, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring guitar faculty Maja Radovanlija performing the Midwest premiere of Bonecas de Chuva (Rain Dolls) by Andreia Pinto Correia. Symphonic Band conducted by Jerry Luckhardt; University Band conducted by Brian Messier.

Campus Bands

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Andrew Pettis, Ingrid Martin, and Laura Sindberg, conductors.

Featuring the University Campus Singers, Men’s and Women’s Choruses. Russell Adrian, Samuel Grace, Matthew Mehaffey, Andrew Morgan, Matthew Olson, Kathy Saltzman Romey, and Kelley Sundin, conductors. Free will offering: suggested donation $10.

Wind Ensemble

Thursday, April 25, 2013 • 7 p.m. Saint Andrews Church, Mahtomedi, MN

Andrew Pettis, Ingrid Martin, and Laura Sindberg, conductors.

A Choral Kaleidoscope!

Wind Ensemble: An Exciting Evening of Regional Premieres

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Guest composer Frank Ticheli joins the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble as guest composer for regional premieres of two new works, Concerto for Clarinet featuring Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, and Songs of Love and Life, featuring D.M.A. voice student Jennifer Olson. Also receiving its regional premiere will be Rio’s Convergence by Justin Freer.

The University Campus Singers, Men’s and Women’s Choruses perform seasonal music from different periods and faith traditions. Matthew Mehaffey and Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductors with members of the graduate conducting class.

Featuring the English folk music of Percy Grainger. Philip Brunelle and Craig Kirchhoff, conductors. Tickets: 612/371-5642 or VocalEssence.org

Saturday, March 9, 2013 • 8 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall



Featuring Minnesota composers Daniel Kallman and Stephen Paulus. Symphonic Band conducted by Jerry Luckhardt; University Band conducted by Brian Messier.

Saturday, December 1, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Music for a Grand Space!

Wednesday, October 17 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Thursday, October 18, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Sounds of the Season!

English Garden: U of M Wind Ensemble & VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers

Campus Bands

Symphonic/University Bands

Artists, Minnesota Boychoir, University of Minnesota Singers, and the ACDAMN State High School Honor Choir. Tickets: www.bethel.edu/benson-greathall or 651/638.6333 or 866/424.4849

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Saturday, November 3, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring Eastview High School Women’s Chorus, University Men’s and Women’s Choruses, and University Singers. Kari Douma, Matthew Mehaffey, Kathy Saltzman Romey, and Kelley Sundin, conductors.

Global Voices!

Sunday, November 4, 2012 • 4 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring the University Campus Singers Mosaic, Gold and Maroon. Russell Adrian, Samuel Grace, Andrew Morgan, Matthew Olson, and Kelley Sundin conductors.

A Golden Grand Finale: ACDA 50th Anniversary Celebration!

Sunday, November 18, 2012 • 4 p.m. St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi

Featuring a world premiere by René Clausen, composer and conductor. With the Concordia Choir–Moorhead, The Singers–Minnesota Choral

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Sunday, February 24, 2013 • 2:30 p.m. Cathedral of St. Paul, 239 Selby Avenue

Spring Fling!

Saturday, May 4, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall The University Campus Singers, Men’s and Women’s Choruses perform. Russell Adrian, Samuel Grace, Matthew Mehaffey, Andrew Morgan, Matthew Olson, Kathy Saltzman Romey, and Kelley Sundin, conductors.



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Jazz Ensemble I presents New Voices: Modern Works for Big Band

Thursday, October 11, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring contemporary big band works as well as student arrangements and compositions.

Jazz Ensemble I and University Symphony Orchestra: 2012 World Tour

Monday, October 22, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall The young musicians of the University Symphony Orchestra lead you on a tour of great European and American cities, collaborating with Jazz Ensemble I. The season’s Wagner exploration commences with the Prelude to Die Meistersinger von

Nürnburg, followed by Duke Ellington’s Harlem, showcasing Jazz I and conducted by Dean Sorenson. I solisti di West Bank present Mozart’s Prague Symphony, and the tour concludes with Respighi’s spectacular Pines of Rome. Pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. with director of jazz studies Dean Sorenson and director of orchestral studies Mark Russell Smith. With Wagner commentary and analysis by SOM professor Matthew Bribitzer-Stull.

Jazz II and Jazz Combos present Jazz Classics for Big Band and Combo

Monday, October 29, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Jazz Combos present: An Evening of Small Group Jazz

Monday, November 19, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Jazz Ensembles I and II present: A Gil Evans Centennial Celebration

Monday, December 3, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall With guest conductor and arranger School of Music alumnus Ryan Truesdell.



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University Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Ensemble I: 2012 World Tour

Monday, October 22, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall See description under Jazz events.

Maroon and Gold Campus Orchestras

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Sergey Bogza, Benjamin Klemme, and Erik Rohde, conductors.

University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Players

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall An evening of concerto soloists and singers, accompanied by the USO’s Concerto Players, conducted by doctoral candidates Erik Rohde, Benjamin Klemme, and Sergey Bogza. Featuring works by Barber, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sarasate, and Beethoven.

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Benjamin Klemme and Erik Rohde, conductors.

Brian Messier and Matthew Olson, conductors.

Guest Master Class: Gregory Hand, organ (University of Iowa)

University Symphony Orchestra: Mid-Winter Warmth

University Symphony Orchestra: Wagner Birthday Bash!

The USO’s multi-year Mahler cycle continues with the Fourth Symphony, Mahler’s most intimate and compact symphonic essay. Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan und Isolde and Debussy’s famous Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun offer two very different yet closely related views on passionate love. With commentary and analysis by SOM professors Matthew Bribitzer-Stull and Michael Cherlin.

The USO honors the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. From Tannhäuser, the Overture and Venusberg music, followed by the impetuous and arch-romantic Act I of Die Walküre. Heidi Melton, soprano and John DeHaan, tenor bring Wagner’s star-crossed lovers to life. With commentary and analysis by SOM professor Matthew Bribitzer-Stull.

Maroon and Gold Campus Orchestras

Friday, May 10, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Friday, November 30, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. University Lutheran Church of Hope

Monday, December 10, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Sergey Bogza, Benjamin Klemme, and Erik Rohde, conductors.

University Symphony Orchestra performs with the Joffrey Ballet

Friday, April 26, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. University Lutheran Church of Hope

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

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Featuring a performance of Carmina Burana with Campus Singers Maroon and Mosaic, and University Men’s Chorus, along with other works. Sergey Bogza, Benjamin Klemme, and Erik Rohde, conductors.

Tuesday, February 26, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403



Program to include Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ballet’s premiere. John Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony, played by the virtuosic I solisti di West Bank, opens this evening of music and dance. Mark Russell Smith conducts with the Joffrey Ballet. Tickets: northrop.umn.edu

Thu., Nov. 15 – Sat., Nov. 17, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Sunday, November 18, 2012 • 1:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra

Monday, March 4, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Performing Son of Chamber Symphony by John Adams and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The 2013 University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winner also offers this year’s winning concerto selection.

Maroon and Gold Campus Orchestras

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University Opera Theatre presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff

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Thursday, September 20, 2012 • 2:30 p.m. Ferguson Hall Organ Studio, Room 213 Dr. Gergory Hand, assistant professor of organ at the University of Iowa, will give a master class in organ for students at the University of Minnesota. Hand will perform the complete Gospel Preludes for Organ by William Bolcom on Sunday, September 23, at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in St. Paul.

Guest Recital: Indian Vocal Music by Vikas Kashalkar

Saturday, September 29, 2012 • 8 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Hindustani (North Indian) Vocal Recital by Vikas Kashalkar of Pune, India, a prominent vocalist of the Gwalior Gharana.

Guest Recital: Jose ZayasCaban, saxophone and piano

Saturday, October 6, 2012 • 3:30 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Guest Recital: Duo Violauto

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Duo Violauto (Júlio Ribeiro Alves, guitar and Wendell Dobbs, flute), Marshall University faculty members, will perform pieces of 20th century guitar-flute duo repertoire by American composers. In the first half of the recital Júlio Alves will perform J.S.Bach’s Suite BWV 1004.

David Walsh, director. Mark Russell Smith, conductor. Tickets: 612-6242345 or tickets.umn.edu

Guest Recital: Trio Americana

University Opera Theatre presents Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream

Guest Master Class: Duo Violauto Wednesday, October 24 at 6 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Featuring a lecture on Bach’s music for guitar and lute as well as a master class for guitar.

Thu., Apr. 18 – Sat., Apr. 20, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013 • 1:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall David Walsh, director. Sergey Bogza, Ben Klemme, and Erik Rohde, conductors. Tickets: 612-624-2345 or tickets. umn.edu

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 • 3:45 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Guest Master Class: Andrey Tchekmazov, cello

Thursday, November 8 • 3:30 p.m. Ferguson Hall, Room TBA

Guest Recital/Master Class: Andrew Cooperstock, piano

Saturday, April 13 • 4 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

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The 40th Anniversary of Music Therapy at the University of Minnesota

Thursday, October 25 • 3 p.m. Ferguson Hall, Room 280

Celebrate music therapy at the U of M with music therapy program founder and special guest Dr. Judith Jellison.

Percussion Ensemble Concert

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

The U of M Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Fernando Meza, presents their fall concert with a mix of eclectic 20th and 21st century music and guest soloists.

Chamber Music with Piano Concert

Friday, November 30, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Featuring student chamber music groups with piano.

Marimba Galore!

Sunday, December 9, 2012 • 5 p.m. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Members of the percussion studio present an evening of music centered around the marimba, an instrument of multiple ethnicities and cultural connotations. Come prepared to be taken to many different places around the world!

32nd Anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert

Sunday, January 20, 2013 • 4 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall

Honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Reginald Buckner, founder of the MLK, Jr. Concert. This event is a joint program of the University of Minnesota’s Office for Equity and Diversity and the School of Music.

Wednesday, March 13, 2012 • 7:30 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Sergey Bogza, Benjamin Klemme, and Erik Rohde, conductors.

PLEASE NOTE: Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Events may be added during the course of the semester. This calendar does not list the numerous free student recitals presented each week. For directions and an updated and complete events calendar, visit music.umn.edu or call 612/62-MUSIC. music.umn.edu

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Cities Symphony under Mark Russell Smith (orchestra). Artymiw and her former student, Andrew Staupe (B.M., 2005/M.M., 2007), were featured on APM’s Performance Today in a nationwide broadcast of the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä.

Akosua Obuo Addo (music education) received the 2012 Education Service award for her contribution to innovative learning for students through Ordway programming at their Annual Liaison Appreciation Event to honor educators and institutions for advancing Ordway’s arts programming, as well as its education and community programs mission. Educators and institutions receive awards for Philanthropy, Vision, Community Commitment, and Education Service. Addo also published a chapter in Ukpokodu, O. & Ukpokodu, P. Ed. Contemporary Voices from the Margin: African Educators on African and American Education titled “African Education through the Arts.” Tom Ashworth (trombone) and the U of M Trombone Choir participated in the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Trombone Summit on October 9. Marissa Penner (M.M. candidate, trombone and music therapy) and Orin Larson (B.M. candidate, performance) were coached on solo repertoire by guest artist James Miller, associate principal trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Trombone Choir performed on the final concert, featuring Ashworth as soloist on Kim Scharnberg’s No Risk=No Reward. The concert concluded with a mass trombone choir comprised of students from the U of M, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Concordia College, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Lydia Artymiw’s (piano) January to April 2012 featured recitals with violist Kim Kashkashian at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University and at UTEP in El Paso, TX, with cellist Marcy Rosen in Sandy Spring, MD and for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and with the Miami String Quartet in Pensacola, FL and for the PCMS series. She presented master classes at Vanderbilt and at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School. Concerts with Arnaud Sussmann, Toby Appel, and Yehuda Hanani followed in Scottsdale and Great Barrington, with the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet in Tempe, and with the Quad

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Dean Billmeyer (organ) performed at the Église Saint Jean-Baptiste in Long-sur-Somme in northern France on the 1876 organ built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in July. The concert was the centerpiece of a week-long tour of historic French organs, during which he also performed at the Church of Ste. Sulpice in Paris. He presented a recital of Austrian and German music in January at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Edina. Billmeyer gave a master class and recital at the University of Iowa in April, and continues as director of music at the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis. Mark Bjork (violin and pedagogy) appeared as soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K 218 with the Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra on November 5 at Northfield Methodist Church in Northfield and November 6 at St. Ansgar’s Church, Cannon Falls. Bjork was featured in the Northfield News article, “Two Northfield-born musicians return for concert with CVRO.” The article was a preview for the Nearby Stars Concert on November 5. Julia Bogorad-Kogan (flute) was featured on MPR’s Performance Today. During the five-minute interview, she discussed and played examples of how she practices the flute. Alexander Braginsky (piano) is the president/ artistic director of the Minnesota International e-Piano Competition, which was held in July. In 2011 Braginsky presented five master classes at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in July in New York City, and the talk titled “Piano competition in every home” at the 2011 National Conference on Piano Pedagogy in Chicago. In August, he was a judge at the National Piano Teachers’ Association of Japan’s piano competition and gave master classes. Braginsky was featured in International Piano Magazine (November/December 2011) participating in the symposium panel “Clearing hurdles.” He gave master classes at Hong Kong Academy of Arts, and in Korea’s Seoul National University and Ewa Women’s University in March 2012. Five of his students were winners in regional and national contests.

Michael Cherlin (theory) gave a paper at the international seminar Transformations of Musical Modernism in Paris in October 2011. The seminar was hosted by the Centre Franco-Norvegien en Sciences Sociales et Humaines. Cherlin was one of 15 scholars from an international pool to be invited (one of two Americans). His topic was James Dillon’s (composition) piece for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble, Come live with me, a setting of the Song of Songs from the Hebrew bible. Immanuel Davis (flute) was featured on Classical Minnesota Public Radio with host Steve Staruch on Bach’s fateful meeting with Frederick the Great. Davis performed Bach’s masterpiece The Musical Offering on October 30 with the Bach Society of Minnesota on period instruments. Davis’s recent performance with the Bach Society was broadcast by Steve Staruch on May 17 on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. On the broadcast, he performed a Telemann Quartet from Tafelmusik for flute, oboe, violin, and continuo (playing baroque instruments). Davis received a $10,000 Artist Initiative Award grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in March. With the grant, he will perform a series of concerts around the state of Minnesota with world-renowned colleague Barthold Kuijken. James Dillon’s Nine Rivers, conducted by Steven Schick, received its American premiere at the Miller Theatre (NY) in September. The Cikada Ensemble performed Dillon’s Oslo/Triptych in its world premiere at the November Musik International Festival for Contemporary Music (Holland), its U.K. premiere at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and its Norwegian premiere at the 2011 Grønland Kammermusikkfestiva. Dillon’s Eos for solo Violoncello, played by Arne Deforce, and String Quartet No. 6, played by Diotima Quartet, were also performed. Dillon’s new orchestral work White Numbers was given its premiere by the Basque National Orchestra in January in San Sebastian. Dillon was ranked among the top ten living composers in the londonist.com article “Top 10 Contemporary Classical Music Composers.” Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) gave the world premiere of Bennu’s Fire, written for him by composer Roger Zare, at ClarinetFest 2011 in Los Angeles. Other appearances included Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (Lubbock Symphony Orchestra,Texas) and Sean Hickey’s Clarinet Concerto (Saint Petersburg Symphony, Russia). Fiterstein was selected in South Florida Classical Review’s “Top 10 Performances of 2011” for his

Sumanth Gopinath (music theory) was a featured scholar of ringtones in John Timpane’s article “Symphony in B(eeps)” in The Philadelphia Inquirer. David Grayson (musicology) presented papers at three international conferences celebrating the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth: “The Early Recordings of Pelléas” at the Cité de la Musique and Opéra-Comique in Paris in February, “Paysage sentimental: si doux, si triste, si dormant...” at the University of Montreal in March, and “Reflections on the new edition of Pelléas” at Gresham College in London in April. All three are scheduled for publication. Another article, “L’Édition scientifique de Pelléas” will be published later this year in “Pelléas et Mélisande” cent ans après: études et documents (Paris: Symétrie). He also gave several pre-concert talks for The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Phil Hey (jazz, percussion) has been touring North America with Blue Note artist Stacey Kent. The last stop on the six week tour was their annual week at New York City’s Birdland from June 7-12. Barbara Kierig (voice) served as a judge for the Great Lakes Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions in Pittsburgh on December 11. Kierig judged the Regionals in St. Louis three years ago, and the District Auditions in St. Louis two years ago. Kierig was chosen as the 2012 Teacher of

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performance with the Friends of Chamber Music of Miami. He performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall (New York) and at the Kennedy Center (Washington). He also toured as a featured soloist with the Interlochen Arts Academy in Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Interlochen to celebrate the institution’s 50th anniversary.

October 2011 marked the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Van Daalen organ in Ferguson Hall. The 2-manual, 32-stop tracker organ is used for teaching and performances in Ferguson Hall’s Organ Studio. In October 1986, professor Dean Billmeyer (organ) and visiting artist David Craighead from the Eastman School of Music each performed three recitals.

the Year by the Thursday Musical Competition in honor of her dedication and service to their organization. She was celebrated at the winners’ recital/award ceremony in March at the Bloomington Arts Center in Schneider Hall. Young-Nam Kim (violin) led the 10th Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute/Festival culminating with three concerts in Ely and St. Paul during August. As artistic director and principal violinist of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota he presented five subscription concerts of wide ranging repertoire, and the December concert was reviewed by the Star Tribune as “A concert that detaches itself from the pack and inscribes in the memory.” Kim was invited to perform at the 2012 International Spring Arts Festival in North Korea in which appeared as soloist with Pyongyang National Symphony. This was his third appearance at the festival since his historic first concert in 2004 representing the U.S. at the festival. The second visit was in 2008.

Anne Barnes (assistant director) has been invited to join the CLA P&A board for a two-year term (2011-2012 and 2012-2013). The board is a twelve-member body consisting of Academic Professional and Administrative Professional employees representing the College of Liberal Arts. The CLA Constitution defines the P&A Board as the principal instrument for achieving participation of P&A staff in the affairs of the college.

Korey Konkol (viola) brought the Parker Quartet to the School of Music as part of the SOM’s Creative Instructional Residency Initiative. The Parker Quartet’s Ted Mann Concert Hall performance received a review by Pioneer Press music critic Rob Hubbard titled “Yes, the Parker Quartet really is that good.” Scott D. Lipscomb (music education) reported research on an innovative music education internship program at the National Association for Music Education conference. Lipscomb has been working with colleagues at UMass-Lowell toward the goal of reinforcing musical and computational learning through a team-teaching model, supported by a $450,000 NSF grant. Alex Lubet’s (composition) MN Fringe performance with Mu Daiko was reviewed positively in the Pioneer Press, Mpls/St. Paul, and KARE. He keynoted the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium. His Music, Disability, and Society was featured

Michael Duffy (music technology, media lab, and studios specialist and M.A. candidate, composition, student of James Dillon) was one of six composers chosen to work with Ensemble Dal Niente, composer Hans Thomalla, and cellist Lucas Fels of the Arditti Quartet, in a two-part composition workshop culminating in July 2012 at the 46th International Summer Music Courses in Darmstadt, Germany.

Anabel Wirt (recruitment coordinator) received the 2012 John Hugelen Cajun Music Scholarship to study with master Cajun accordionists, Walter Mouton and Jason Frey, at Folklore Village in Dodgeville, WI. The John Hugelen Cajun Music Scholarship Fund is a nonprofit fund dedicated to realizing the long-standing dream of John and Sandy Hugelen to supporting emerging Cajun musicians in the Upper Midwest. music.umn.edu 23

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Alexander Fiterstein’s (clarinet) album Ronn Yedidia: Impromptu, Nocturne and World Dance, released on Naxos, was reviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered. In the review, NPR music reporter Tom Huizenga says the recording shows “Fiterstein at the top of his game.” Erkki Huovinen (Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer visiting professor in Finnish Studies) released a duo double CD, Nothing Is Not de minimis (Insides Music lesson 84) with the Minneapolis-based free improvisor Milo Fine. Scott D. Lipscomb (music education) saw the seventh edition of his co-authored rock history textbook Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development and is finalizing the content for The psychology of music in multimedia (Oxford University Press), for which he is co-editor and author of three chapters. Alex Lubet (creative studies/composition) and Guerino Mazzola (creativity, improvisation, and mathematical music theory) are featured with Nicolai Zielinski (M.A. candidate, composition, student of Alex Lubet) on the jazz album Relentless on Silkheart Records.

in the Chronicle of Higher Education and “highly recommended” in Choice. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Utah. He appeared on Radio Australia’s Connect Asia. New articles appeared in the International Journal of Inclusive Education and Critical Studies in Improvisation. He spoke at “Bob Dylan and the Law” in New York. His Dylan course was a front-page feature in the Star-Tribune. Jerry Luckhardt (bands) was featured on the August 8 edition of the Radio K program Cul-

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Guerino Mazzola (creativity, improvisation, and mathematical music theory) and Joomi Park’s (Ph.D., 2010, composition, student of Alex Lubet) album Passionate Message, a synthesis of composed and improvised music, was released on Silkheart Records. Laura Sindberg’s (music education) book Just Good Teaching Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance in Theory and Practice was published by R&L Education. Maud Hickey, associate professor at Northwestern University, says “This book is a must read for band, choir and orchestra teachers who want to teach in more meaningful and educational ways. It will also be valuable in our collegiate pre-service methods classes.” Dean Sorenson’s (jazz) book First Place for Jazz, published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, is described as a new and innovative method book for beginning jazz players that provides a comprehensive jazz curriculum built from the ground up – essential for implementing the jazz ensemble curriculum.

ture Queue. Luckhardt conducted the U of M Symphony and University Bands in the world premiere of composer Alex Shapiro’s Immersion on February 16, 2011 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. This concert was broadcast on Classical Minnesota Public Radio on Steve Staruch’s Regional Spotlight on September 22. Guerino Mazzola (creativity, improvisation, and mathematical music theory) and Florian Thalmann gave an invited talk at “The Second International Symposium on Music and Sonic

Art” in Baden-Baden, Germany in August. Mazzola gave invited talks at the STEIM Symposium in September in Amsterdam, and at the 3rd conference of the Society for Mathematics an Music at IRCAM, in Paris in June. Mazzola participated in Georgia State University’s Symbols for Sound Conference (April). Radio K interviewed Mazzola on creativity and had him perform in May. Mazzola and professors Carl Flink and Guillermo Sapiro were advisors on student Lauren Butler’s project Voices of Fire, using electronic body sensors to control sound, and performed in May at TekBox Theater in Minneapolis. Fernando Meza (percussion) performed throughout the year with the Minnesota Orchestra and was part of their Common Chords touring residencies in the state. He also performed for The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s subscription series, as well as their Engine 408 Contemporary Music Series. More recently, Meza was part of the world premiere of Vassil Kazandjiev’s Fantasy Concertante for flute, horn, cello, and marimba; presented clinics and master classes at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia and SINEM in his home country of Costa Rica; and was in residence as percussion faculty with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Chile in preparation for their 2012 South American tour. David Myers (director) recently reviewed music and community engagement programs at University of Kansas, University of Hawaii, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Recent chapters on lifespan and community music education have been published in volumes by Oxford University Press and the National Society for the Study of Education. He attended the conference of the Association of European Conservatories in Valencia, Spain, and presented a session for the National Association of Schools of Music on U of M’s affiliation with the joint European master’s degree for new audiences and innovative practice. He gave several presentations at the national meeting of the College Music Society in Richmond, VA. He will serve as scholar-in-residence at James Madison University in October. He has accepted invitations to join the boards of the College Music Society, the American Composers’ Forum, and the MacPhail Center for Music, where he keynoted the opening convocation last September. Maja Radovanlija (guitar/creative studies and media) made her Minnesota solo recital debut on February 24 at the School of Music. She also performed solo concerts sponsored by the Minnesota Guitar Society on May 19 in Osseo, MN and at Hamline University on May 26.

Radovanlija worked with SOM composition students Joey Crane, Adam Bergman, and Adam Zahller in a freely improvised quartet and performed their original works in a concert at Dreamland Arts (St. Paul, MN) on March 24 and at the SOM on May 9. On January 28 she gave a master class at MacPhail Center for Music. Tanya Remenikova (cello) taught, gave master classes, and gave recitals at Bravo String and Keyboard Institute in June and at Cello: An American Experience Summer Camp (International Summer Academy for cellists). CAAE was held at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN in July. She also participated in two faculty chamber music recitals in October. Programs included variety of solo and chamber works by Mozart, Brahms, Kodaly, Stravinsky and Franck. Remenikova and Thomas Turner (viola) performed with the Hill House Chamber Players in November, February, and April. The recitals included music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Brahms, Paganini, and the Minnesota premiere of Jeffrey Van’s (former guitar faculty) Meditation for cello and piano. On August 23, Paul Shaw (piano) and Adriana Zabala (voice) performed a program entitled “Music from Jamaica, Spain and Latin America” for the Salzburg International Chamber Music Concerts series in Salzburg, Austria. Shaw played music of Adderly, Russel, and Lecuona, and Zabala sang sets of Falla and Montsalvatge, accompanied by guitarist Danilo Cabaluz of Chile, and professor of piano Stan Ford of the Mozarteum. Laura Sindberg (music education) presented a session titled “Let the Revolution Begin Already: Revisiting Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (again)” at the New Directions in Music Education Conference, held at Michigan State University. Sindberg presented two sessions at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Conference – “Student Centered Strategies” and “Subversion in the Band Room: A CMP Demonstration Rehearsal.” Sindberg was selected to present “Music Teacher Isolation and Connectedness: An Urban Perspective” at the National Association for Music Education Biennial Music Conference in Saint Louis, MO in March. She was a visiting scholar at Penn State University, where she presented a Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance demonstration rehearsal. Mark Russell Smith (orchestra) conducted concerts and gave a master class as part of Curtis

On Tour in China and Korea in October at the Beijing Concert Hall and at Seoul Arts Center. As part of the Britten Peace Project, he was the keynote speaker for CommUniversity, presented by Eastern Iowa Community Colleges, where he discussed Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. With the Minnesota Orchestra, Smith conducted Sweet Honey in the Rock and Vocal Essence performing William Banfield’s new work Symphony 10: Affirmations for a New World at Orchestra Hall as well conducting concerts in the Common Chords community outreach festival in Willmar, MN. He was featured on Classical Minnesota Public Radio with host Alison Young in “The Inspiring and Innovative Mark Russell Smith.” Dean Sorenson (jazz) appeared on Jazz 88 KBEM’s Big Band Scene with Jerry Swanberg in a program titled “Glenn Miller Orchestra of Today Preview” on the Glenn Miller Orchestra concert on September 8, 2011. Sorenson performed in the pit orchestra for The Lion King, which played at FACULTY PUBLICATIONS the Orpheum Theatre. He presented a clinic on jazz rehearsal techniques at the Jazz Education Network conference in Louisville, KY. Sorenson’s book First Place for Jazz, was published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company. After two weeks in Cincinnati for the annual CCM guitar workshop in July, Jeffrey Van (former guitar faculty) returned to Minnesota to write and record music for violin and guitar. This piece was used in the TPT production of Honoring Choices: End of Life Decisions. David Walsh (opera) was a judge for MacPhail Center for Music’s Mini-Met Competition of 23 contestants. The competition took place on December 3. The Ancia Saxophone Quartet—Angela Wyatt (saxophone)—performed at The Weisman Art Museum on April 1, 2012, featuring Glazunov’s Quartet for Saxophones. The program also included William Albright’s Fantasy Etudes; Caroline Mallonee’s Hammering Away (at the great unknown); and works by Charles Ives and Jean Absil. The quartet gave concerts on May 4 at Century College and May 5 at MacPhail Center for Music. The program included Glazunov’s Quartet, Charles Ives’ Quartet No. 1, Caroline Mallonée’s Hammering Away (at the Great Unknown), William Albright’s Fantasy-Etudes, and Jean Absil’s Suite sur des thèmes populaires roumains. In March 2012 the quartet received a Community Arts grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council to fund these concerts.

Adriana Zabala (voice) was featured on the Twin Cities Public Television program Minnesota Original, in a profile of the Resident Artists Program at the Minnesota Opera. In June, Zabala performed in Opera Saratoga’s production of Cosi fan Tutte. Zabala joined the Minnesota Orchestra as Annina in der Rosenkavalier as a part of Sommerfest 2011. In September, Zabala was a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony in Lawrence Siegel’s oratorio Kaddish. The event was televised on Israeli National Television. In December, Zabala was the alto soloist in four performances of Messiah with the Colorado Symphony.

JOURNAL EDITORS

Michael Cherlin (theory) was named editor of Music Theory Spectrum, 2013-2015. Music Theory Spectrum, a publication of the Society for Music Theory, features articles on a wide range of topics in music theory and analysis, including aesthetics, critical theory and hermeneutics, history of theory, post-tonal theory, linear analysis, rhythm, music cognition, and the analysis of popular musics. Kelley Harness (musicology) was named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of SeventeenthCentury Music published by the Society for SeventeenthCentury Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. Scott D. Lipscomb (music education) continues as editor of the Journal of Technology in Music Learning.

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George Sakakeeny at Oberlin Conservatory of Music; and at Southeast Horn Workshop 2012 at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN in March. Choi’s CD with Wonkak Kim (clarinet), François Devienne Clarinet Sonatas, was released on the Naxos label. Lars Christensen (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Gabriela Currie) received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese) for the academic year 2012-2013. Kate Yeonjoo Bae (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) served as a collaborative pianist for Sally O’Reilly’s Bravo Institute in June, followed by a trip to Pienza, Italy in August where she was both a collaborative pianist and chamber music coach at the Italy Summer Music Festival. She is on the piano faculty at the St. Joseph Music School in St. Paul.

Three organ students of Dean Billmeyer performed works of Bach in the Twin Cities American Guild of Organists’ Before Bach’s Birthday Bash in Minneapolis on March 17. Joseph Henry (D.M.A. candidate) performed at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, and Philip Radtke (B.M. candidate) and Aaron Hirsch (B.M. candidate) performed at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church.

Eric Bate (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed on KARE 11’s Sunrise with guitarist-singer-composer Paul Doffing on January 26.

Aaron Hirsch (B.M. candidate, organ, student of Dean Billmeyer) performed works of Buxtehude, Bach, Franck, Vierne, and Widor in the annual summer organ recital series at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.

Mark Bilyeu (M.M. candidate, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace), along with soprano Katy Compton, was selected as one of four pianists/singer duos to perform in an all-Schubert master class given by renowned pianist Martin Katz in late March. This master class was hosted by the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago as part of its first annual Collaborative Arts Festival in Chicago, IL. Carolyn Cavadini (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of John De Haan/M.M., 2011, voice, student of Jean del Santo) was accepted into the Opera in the Ozarks summer opera training program in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Cavadini performed Rosalinda in their production of Die Fledermaus, along with opera scenes and their annual Gala Concert. Eun-Hye Grace Choi (D.M.A. candidate, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) was a guest artist for the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium 2012 at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, California. She served as an official pianist and played with bassoonists in three concerts. Choi performed at a house concert hosted by composer and SOM alumna Libby Larsen (Ph.D., 1978, composition, student of Dominick Argento) in January; a guest artist recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio in February; with bassoon professor

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Scotty Horey (D.M.A. candidate, percussion, student of Fernando Meza) won the audition as the principal percussionist/timpanist for the Ohio Light Opera this summer and performed in 60 musical shows and pops concerts. Percussion student Scotty Horey (D.M.A. candidate, student of Fernando Meza) and alumni Joel Alexander (M.M., 2012, student of Fernando Meza) and Adam Rappel (D.M.A., 2012, student of Fernando Meza) performed with the Minnesota Orchestra during its holiday programs: Scandinavian Christmas, Jim Brickman Holiday Concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Hosanna! Christmas Concert. The concerts were held at Hosanna! Lutheran Church in Lakeville, MN under conductors Sarah Hicks and Courtney Lewis. Jeffery Kyle Hutchins (M.M. candidate, saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) won the Music Teacher’s National Association Minnesota State Competition and traveled to Boulder, CO in January 2012 to compete at the regional level. Laura Hynes (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of Adriana Zabala) was named winner of the 2012 University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She performed with the University Symphony Orchestra on May 4, 2012. Concerto Competition runner-up, Rosalind

Leavell (D.M.A. candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova), performed with the Campus Orchestra on May 2, 2012. Jinhee Kim (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) and alumnus Denis Evstuhin (D.M.A., 2011, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) competed in the San Antonio International Piano Competition among 24 contestants selected in preliminary auditions. Danielle Kuntz (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Kelley Harness) received two fellowships for the academic year 2012-2013: the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (Portuguese). Lauren Lammers (M.M. candidate, voice) and Sidney Walker (B.A., 2012/M.M. candidate, voice), students of Jean del Santo, competed in the preliminary round of Schubert Club vocal competition and were advanced to the semi-final round on March 31. Lammers also won first place in Thursday Musical Advanced Voice Division Competition. Joe Matson (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) presented his paper “Ungrammaticality in the Music of Weezer” at a conference of the American Musicological Society–Midwest Chapter on March 31, 2012. Matson was also named a winner of the 2012 President’s Student Leadership and Service Award by U of M President Eric Kaler. He accepted a position as instructional assistant professor of music at Illinois State University, to begin fall 2012. Matson’s article “Eminem [Mathers, Marshall Bruce III; Slim Shady]” was featured on the Oxford Music Online website. Garrett Moss (M.M. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) performed the world premiere of Gregory Vajda’s Csardas Obstine for Piano and Orchestra with the Texas Festival Orchestra at the Round Top Festival Institute and with the Music in The Mountains Festival Orchestra in Northern California. He will also go to the Banff Centre this fall with cellist Ruth Marshall for their Fall Creative Music Residency to perform, record, and study the Beethoven Cello Sonatas with Thomas Sauer and Colin Carr. Miryana Moteva (M.M. candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Prelude & Fugue in G # minor from the Well Tempered Clavier Book I for the March 17, 2012 Bach Birthday concert in St. Paul. The concert was

organized by Michael Barone and was broadcast live on Minnesota Public Radio. Robert Nordstrom (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Mark Bjork) won second place and Baylen N. Wagner (B.M., 2012, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) came in tenth place in the U of M’s Driven to Discover video contest. Eric Olson (D.M.A. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) and Eun-Hye Grace Choi (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) won the First Annual Artistic Ambassadors Competition sponsored by Minnesota Music Teachers Association on January 29. They each received a $600 prize and performed recitals in the Bemidji area during the spring. Phillip Radtke (B.M. candidate, organ, student of Dean Billmeyer) was accepted into the American Guild of Organists’ Pipe Organ Encounter Advanced Technical Course, Boston, July 1723. This program is designed for students who wish to learn the art and craft of organ building. Classes in the history, design, construction and maintenance of the pipe organ include study of the work of various builders, pipe building and voicing, tonal design and visits to builders’ shops. Of special interest was contact with the new Fisk organ at Harvard Memorial Church. Joel Salvo (D.M.A. candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) performed with Ensemble 61 in a concert titled Corey Dargel: Song Cycles, sponsored by the Walker Art Center and the SPCO on November 9 and 10 at SPCO Center. Justin Schell (music minor) will return to Puerto Rico in July to continue work on his documentary film We Rock Long Distance, which weaves together the sounds and stories of three Twin Cities hip-hop artists—M.anifest, Maria Isa, and Tou SaiKo Lee—as they journey home to Ghana, Puerto Rico, and Thailand to create unique and unexpected cross-generational collaborations. Minjeong Shin (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Prelude and Fugue in F # minor from the Well Tempered Clavier Book II for the March 17, 2012 Bach Birthday concert in St. Paul. The concert was organized by Michael Barone and was broadcast live on Minnesota Public Radio.

Angelika Strub (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) won the grand prize in MNSOTA’s Mary West Competition on November 6. She performed the first movement of the Sibelius Concerto with the Bloomington Symphony in 2012 and received a cash prize. Strub is from Stuttgart, Germany and is the recipient of a U of M Global Excellence Scholarship.

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Jacob Tews (B.M., viola/M.M., viola/D.M.A. candidate, viola, student of Korey Konkol) accepted the assistant professor viola position at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Tews will teach applied viola and theory. Kinh (T.K.) Vu (Ph.D. candidate, music education, student of Scott Lipscomb) received an Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship. PAGE is a network of, and fellowship program for, early career publicly engaged scholars in the arts, humanities, and design. PAGE broadens notions of scholarship and professionalization within the academy through activities which enhance the theory and the tools for students and scholars to articulate their own public scholarship; foster a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and create opportunities for collaborative knowledge production. Adam Zahller Brown (M.M. candidate, composition, student of James Dillon) composed the music for the U of M presidential couple Karen and Eric Kaler’s animated seasonal e-card. Complete with falling snow, a crackling fire, and a crescendo of music, it went out to faculty, staff, students, and friends—more than 100,000 people in all. Wei Zheng (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) and Banchinda Laothai (D.M.A. candidate, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) performed two solo recitals (German Lieder and Chinese Art Song) at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI on March 12 and 14. They also conducted a joint master class for vocal students at Calvin College. Zheng is the North Central Region winner of the biennial National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award and represented the U of M School of Music at the national NATS convention in Orlando this summer.

CELEBRATING A JAZZ

The School of Music recognized Jeanne Arland Peterson on August 20, 2011 in celebration of her 90 th birthday for her years of dedicated performing excellence as a pianist and jazz musician; and for selfless devotion to enriching the lives of the citizens of the State of Minnesota. Peterson’s life was celebrated in a birthday concert at the Old Log Theater. School of Music director of jazz studies Dean Sorenson and School of Music director David Myers were in attendance. Myers presented her with a citation on behalf of the School of Music.

Branden Steinmetz (M.M. candidate, percussion, student of Fernando Meza) was appointed as percussion instructor for Woodbury High School.

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Fellowship for 2011. A national grant-making and advocacy organization, each year USA selects 50 artists from the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, film and media, music, theater arts, and visual arts to receive unrestricted grants of $50,000. The new USA Fellows for 2011 represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents in the country.

.............................1983............................. ............................. 1965.............................. Arlin Snesrud’s (M.A., music education, student of Arnold Caswell) Christmas Traditions for chorus and orchestra, which was premiered in December 2009 by the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Phoenix Symphony Chorus, received additional performances in December 2011 by the Yakima (WA) Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; the Minnetonka (MN) Music Association Orchestra and Chorus; and the Arizona State University Concert Choir.

............................. 1972.............................. Nancy Cox (B.S., music education/voice, student of Robert Laudon, Vern Sutton, Arnold Caswell, and Lois Wittich) retired in May 2011 from her position teaching voice in the music department of Minneapolis Community and Technical College. She also retired from her position of vocalist in the chamber ensemble womenperformhers and as soprano in the choir of Mindekirken Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church. She continues to teach in her home studio and to give solo performances throughout the Twin Cities with Steve Haskin, classical guitar and Jim Reilly, piano.

............................. 1978.............................. Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra launched their 2011-2012 season with the world premiere of Stephen Paulus (M.A., 1976/ Ph.D., 1978, composition, student of Dominick Argento) and his son Greg Paulus’s TimePiece. The work featured Greg Paulus on trumpet with four additional jazz soloists from the Twin Cities. The two were featured in a Pioneer Press article, “Father-son collaboration goes the distance for Minnesota Orchestra piece.”

............................ 1980............................. Composer Mary Ellen Childs (B.A., music) was named a recipient of a United States Artists (USA)

Robert Strusinski (B.S., 1970, music education/ M.A., 1983, music history/M.M., 1983 vocal performance and pedagogy, student of Lawrence Weller) retired June 2011 from 33 years as director of Chapel Music and founder/conductor of the Liturgical Choir at the University of St. Thomas. He was honored with the Distinguished Service Award “in recognition and grateful appreciation for dedication and outstanding service to the University of St. Thomas.”

.............................1988............................. Sondra Wieland Howe (M.A., 1985, musicology, student of Donna Cardamone Jackson/ Ph.D., 1988, music education, student of Charles Furman) presented a paper on “Isawa Shuji, Nineteenth-Century Administrator and Music Educator” at the 8th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2011. At the NAfME (formerly MENC) Biennial Research Conference in St. Louis, Howe presented a poster on “Music Teacher Education before 1940: The Role of Women in the Development of Music Schools.” She was also elected chair-elect of the NAfME Gender Special Research Interest Group. Lawrence Zbikowski (B.A., 1984/M.A., student of Jeffrey Van and David Damschroder) is chair of the department of music at the University of Chicago.

............................. 1989............................. Lynn L. Petersen (Ph.D., music theory and composition), associate professor of music at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, was awarded the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award at Carroll’s Commencement, recognizing her work as a composer and pianist. Her collection Thankfulness and Praise: Ten Organ Settings was published by Augsburg Fortress. Her composition “Whirlwind Duo” was included in the collection Pipings for Flute and Organ, also published by Augsburg Fortress.

............................. 1993.............................. Paul Siskind (Ph.D., composition) received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York last May. A recording of his Etwas für Bratsche (etwas rasch!) by violist Shelly Tramposh and pianist Cullan Bryant was released on the Ravello/Parma label. Major performances from the past few years have included Pittsburgh Symphony, Bluegrass Opera, the Great Noise Ensemble, and San Francisco Cabaret Opera.

............................. 1994.............................. Iris Shiraishi (Ph.D., music therapy) was featured on the Twin Cities Public Television program Minnesota Original for her work as performer and artistic director of Mu Daiko drum ensemble. Michael Wittgraf (M.A., composition, student of Alex Lubet) is department chair and professor, department of music, University of North Dakota.

............................. 1995............................. Anne Kilstofte (Ph.D., composition, student of Dominick Argento) was awarded the Miriam Gideon Award for her String Quartet No. 2, Songs of the Night Wind by the International Alliance for Women in Music’s Search for New Music. The piece was commissioned and premiered by the Stockholm String Quartet. Kilstofte had two premieres at the International Alliance for Women in Music International Congress in September in Flagstaff, Arizona. The first was Chrysalis for brass choir and percussion. The second was Soft Footfalls, Song of the Anasazi, originally commissioned for the Jerome Foundation/Dale Warland reading sessions in 1995—read but never performed.

............................. 1996............................. John Haspel Gilbert (D.M.A., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed the Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 by Kurt Weill and the Kammerkonzert for violin, piano, and 13 winds with Timothy Muffitt and members of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra on Friday, March 16 at the Shaver Auditorium on the Louisiana State University campus. This concert was recorded and will be released on the Sono Luminus label. Gilbert has been professor of violin at Texas Tech University for 16 years.

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recorded these pieces in June 2012. Along with pianist Holly Roadfeldt, Astolfi launched a piano duo (Duo Artia) with performances at Lafayette College (Easton, PA); Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA); Chatham University (Pittsburgh, PA); and Youngstown State University, OH. She is on the Board of Directors of the Piano Arts Piano Competition in Milwaukee and continues as tenured associate professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

The U of M & Friends Trombone Ensemble’s third annual State Fair performance took place on August 31, 2011. Directed by Jerry Luckhardt and hosted by Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s John Birge, this ensemble comprised of SOM students, alumni, faculty, and friends performed on MPR’s stage. Ensemble performers included SOM faculty members Tom Ashworth, Dean Sorenson, John Tranter; SOM students DJ Clovis, Tim Endorf, Keith Hilson, Marissa Penner, Dallas Petersen, John Sens; and School of Music alumni Nathan Berry, Charlie Birge, Joe Jakubowski, Jeremy Kolwinska, Josh Kubasta, Jeff Merriman, Benjamin Skroch, and Alex Wolff.

In the Blue Glen by David Evan Thomas (Ph.D., composition, student of Dominick Argento) was performed at the 2011 World Harp Congress in Vancouver, BC by The Debussy Trio as part of an Encore grant from the American Composers Forum. He spent two weeks in March 2012 at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, a new residency program in Wyoming’s Medicine Bow Mountains, working on a woodwind quintet for the Monmouth (NJ) Winds.

............................. 1997............................. Susan Billmeyer (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano by Kalevi Aho for a Minnesota Orchestra Chamber Music at MacPhail concert on March 18, 2012. Joining her were Osmo Vänskä, clarinet, and SOM faculty member Thomas Turner, viola. Amy Hamann and Sara Hamann (B.M., piano, students of Alexander Braginsky) were signed by Naxos records, who will distribute a two CD album of complete works for four hands by Beethoven, on piano and three different fortepianos. Daniel Rieppel, (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) formed a new piano trio, the Schubert Trio, with violinist Helen Chang (Minnesota Orchestra) and cellist Tom Rosenberg (former cellist of the Chester and Artaria Quartets). He is associate professor of piano at Southwest

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Minnesota State University in Marshall, MN and serves as director of the SMSU Orchestra. In summer 2012, he joined the faculty of the Wirth Summer Institute, with performances and master classes held at Bethel College.

.............................1998............................. Angela Fuller (B.M., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) was the violin soloist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Coffee & Classics: Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky. Fuller performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 on June 9 at the Meyerson Symphony Center. She received a positive review from classical music critic Scott Cantrell in The Dallas Morning News. Young Kim (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) joined the Camerata of St. Rose, a chamber group at the College of St. Rose where she is assistant professor of piano. She performed the Dvořák Piano Quintet with the Camerata on February 11, 2012.

........................... 2001............................ Jeri-Mae Astolfi (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed music for piano and electronics, with new works composed by Brian Belet, Jim Fox, Tom Lopez, Ed Martin, and Phillip Schroeder. Concerts took place at the University of Florida, Gainesvillen (January 2012) and for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in Appleton, WI (February 2012). Astolfi

Paul Kovacovic (B.M., 1993/D.M.A., 2001, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) was hired as assistant professor of music at Central College in Pella, Iowa.

.......................... 2002........................... Steve Olsen (M.A., music education) and Bojan Hoover (B.M., 2010, music education and percussion, student of Fernando Meza) were featured in School Band and Orchestra magazine’s article “Up Close: Rosemount High School Band.” The article focused on their roles as instrumental music teachers in the successful Rosemount High School (Rosemount, MN) performing arts program. Composer, copyist, and producer Ryan Truesdell (B.M., music education, student of Dean Sorenson) was featured on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday in the story “Gil Evans, Essential Jazz Arranger, At 100” in connection with the release of his CD Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans. Truesdell will return to the School of Music to perform the music of Gil Evans with the U of M Jazz Ensembles on December 3, 2012.

.......................... 2004........................... Matt McCright (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) launched a new piano trio, the Minneapolis Trio, with flutist Linda Chatterton and cellist Joshua Koestenbaum (assistant principal of the SPCO) with their debut concert in Eagan in March 2012. He continues to teach at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.

.......................... 2005........................... Corey Hamm (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His solo recitals featuring Rzewski’s The People United….! were in Winnipeg, New York, Chicago, Ball State, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, and

Grace Huang (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was one of the winners for the concerto competition for PianoTexas in Fort Worth, TX in conjuction with the Van Cliburn Competition. She performed two movements of the Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto on June 14 with the Fort Worth Symphony conducted by Geoffrey Simon. Huang is on the piano faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Nicole Schwartz Navratil (B.M., choral and vocal music education) and Sonic Love Child celebrated the release of their first EP, Old is the New New, on December 9 at the Riverview Cafe in Minneapolis. Wonny Song (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) continued his duo recital collaborations with Canadian violinist Alexandre da Costa in February and March 2012 performing the three Violin/Piano Sonatas of Brahms in Montreal, Pointe Claire, St. Hyacinthe, Valleyfield, Quebec and in San Antonio, Texas, and at the Festival Bougival in France in May. He is a member of Trio Fibonacci (Julie Ann Gerome, violin and Gabriel Prynn, cello) with performances in Montreal. Song continues to teach at the Lambda School in Montreal.

Marcia Thoen (Ph.D., student of Paul Haack) presented her research paper “John Davison’s Contributions to the Contemporary Music Project in Music Education (CMP) in the Kansas City, Missouri, Schools 1964-1965,” at the Chattanooga Symposium on the History of Music Education (June 2011), sponsored by the History SRIG of the Music Educators National Conference, the Music Departments of the Universities of Tennessee (Chattanooga) and Mississippi, the Tennessee Music Education Association, and the American Music Archives/Library of Congress. Thoen teaches middle school instrumental music (band) and music exploration in the Wayzata District #284 Public Schools. She serves as president of the South Central Region of the Minnesota Band Directors Association.

.......................... 2007........................... Abbie Betinis’s (M.A., composition, student of Judith Zaimont) work Expectans expectavi received its world premiere by Chorus pro Musica and the New England Philharmonic on June 5 at Jordan Hall in Boston. Betinis was named one of National Public Radio’s Top 100 Composers Under 40. Her annual Christmas carol, “Let Christmas Be Merry,” was featured on Classical MPR. Betinis and fellow SOM alumna Laura Krider (B.M., 2005, music education, student of Jean del Santo) were featured in MPR’s video singing the alto part for The Abbie Betinis Carolers. Christopher Brody (M.M., 2006/D.M.A., 2007/M.A., 2007, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) completed his Ph.D. in theory at Yale University, thereby earning two doctorates.

Seongwon Han (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) presented a solo recital at the Sejong Cultural Palace Recital Hall in Seoul, Korea in June 2012. She continues teaching at Taegu National University in Taegu, South Korea. William Helmcke (M.A., music theory) received a Fulbright grant from the U.S. Department of State to research Chopin’s polonaises in Warsaw, Poland between September 2011 and July 2012. His project, “Analyzing Chopin’s Polonaises: Cross-cultural Listening Strategies, Methods, and Techniques,” seeks to obtain new ways of understanding Chopin from Polish people, namely musical meaning. In return, the project seeks to provide new ways of understanding Chopin to Polish people, namely Schenkerian Analysis. The objective is to create an innovative yet contextualized analytical approach to Chopin’s music that blends American structural analysis with Polish metaphorical meaning. Anna Hersey (M.M., 2007, voice, student of Lawrence Weller/M.A., 2009, musicology, student of Kelley Harness), with pianist Matti Hirvonen, was featured guest artist at the opening concert of the Leiv Eriksson International Festival in Minneapolis on October 1. Hersey studied with professor Hirvonen at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, this past year as a Fulbright Fellow. The pair presented a program of art songs from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Andrew Staupe’s (B.M., 2005/M.M., 2007, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) victory in the 2011 Pro Musicis International Competition Photo: Shelly Mosman

University of Indiana, Evansville. He performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at the Chan Centre in Vancouver with the UBC Symphony and presented a master class at NYU’s Steinhardt School for the Arts. Additional master classes took place in Hong Kong where he was on the jury for the Hong Kong Schools Music Competition in March. He gave the world premiere of the Jordan Nobles’s Piano Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey in Vancouver and recorded the Rzewski The People United….!

Oleg Levin (D.M.A., 2005, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) accepted an adjunct piano position at Concordia University. Levin maintains an active performance schedule, which includes the Conservatory Coffee Concerts, the Schubert Club, and the Thursday Musical Series.

.......................... 2006........................... Meagan Hughes (B.M., music therapy) was featured on PBS NewsHour in “The Healing Power of Music” for her work with the Center for Music National Service, a program that sends music therapists into hospitals and schools to expand the use of music.

Four former members of the University of Minnesota Jazz Ensembles toured with the Doc Severinsen Big Band. Trumpets players Mark Bobnick (B.M., 2001, music education), Zach Lozier (B.A., 2002, English), and Adam Rossmiller (M.M., 2004/D.M.A., 2008, trumpet) performed with trombonist Scott Agster (D.M.A. candidate) on the “Once More With Feeling” tour playing shows in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado, and Texas.

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Win Prestigious Awards Lars Christensen (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Gabriela Currie) has received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese) for the academic year 2012-2013. Danielle Kuntz (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Kelley Harness) has received two fellowships for the academic year 2012-2013: the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (Portuguese). Joe Matson (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) was named a winner of the 2012 President’s Student Leadership and Service Award by University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler.

resulted in his New York debut recital in April, 2012 at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall with rave reviews in ConcertNet and the New York Review. This year he made his Boston solo recital debut at the Longy School’s Pickman Concert Hall. He also performed with the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Glacier Symphony Orchestra (Kalispell, Montana), and the Kenwood Symphony. Staupe was a finalist in the American International Pianists Competition (Indianapolis) and received Fourth Prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the Ima Hogg Houston Symphony Competition. He is completing his D.M.A. degree at Rice University. Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant recipient Kim Sueoka (M.M., voice, student of Lawrence Weller) celebrated the CD release of Wai: Hawaiian Fresh Water Songs at Sundin Music Hall on May 11, 2012 with Lau Hawaiian Collective and Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education. On the CD, Sueoka (vocals, ‘ukulele, hula ‘ili‘ili), David Burk (guitar), Rahn Yanes (bass), Shahzore Shah (vocals), and Dave Kapell (glass harp, ‘ukulele) perform music of the Hawaiian Islands with arrangements of Hawaiian cowboy songs, hulas, Jawaiian reggae tunes, and ballads.

.......................... 2008........................... Allison Adrian (Ph.D., musicology/ethnomusicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) was featured in the Star Tribune article “Make room, Socrates, for Lady Gaga and Beyoncé” on her course “Music & Image Monster: Lady Gaga in Context” at St. Catherine University.

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Elise Bonner (B.M., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) is completing her Ph.D. in musicology at Princeton University and won a Fulbright to study in Russia for one year (2012-2013). Noah Rogoff (M.M., 2005/D.M.A., 2007/M.A., 2008, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) was selected for presentation and performance at the College Music Society Conference in Korea during summer 2011. Biennial international conferences of The College Music Society provide its membership with international educational and cultural enrichment opportunities.

.......................... 2009........................... Pianist Eric McEnaney (D.M.A., collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai) served as the recitative accompanist for the Minnesota Opera’s fall 2011 production of Così fan tutte. McEnaney served as resident artist pianist/coach with the company where he worked on the music staff for productions of Silent Night, Werther, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Madama Butterfly. McEnaney joined the music staff of Wolf Trap Opera Company for the summer 2012 season as a coaching fellow. Season highlights included productions of Don Giovanni and The Rake’s Progress, as well as recitals at the Wolf Trap Center for Education and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Joe Millea (B.M., percussion, student of Fernando Meza) was the first-prize winner, with Jordan Drum, in the duo category of the 2011 Southern California Marimba Competition. On April 21 and 22, he performed the American premiere of Bajo el Volcan for Marimba Solo

and String Orchestra by Patricia Moya with the Scottsdale Arts Orchestra, Brett Robison conducting. Millea is the principal percussionist/ timpanist with the Scottsdale Arts Orchestra and is pursuing his D.M.A. in percussion performance at Arizona State University. Heidi Johanna Miller (D.M.A., conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) has accepted the interim position as director of the Symphonic Winds at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Woobin Park (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed a solo lecture-recital at the Black Box Theatre sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council in Maryland and a chamber music concert at Joppa Hall, Harford Community College. She presented a solo recital dedicated to Liszt’s bicentennial celebration at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul and Harmony Hall in Washington D.C. and performed in a chamber program at the Kaist University Auditorium in Korea. Other concerts took place at the Strathmore Mansion, Sumner Museum, Calvary Baptist Church Concert Series in Washington D.C., and at the Old Town Hall, Fairfax where she was selected as a performer by the Friday Morning Musical Club in Washington. She is on the piano faculty of Harford Community College and the Gilman School in the Washington D.C. area. Allison (Buivid) Schardin (M.M., voice, student of John De Haan) performed a series of art songs by Schubert at the June 9, 2011 Annual Luncheon of The Schubert Club at Ordway Center with Andrew Fleser (D.M.A., collaborative piano) as accompanist. Schardin was invited to perform as a result of her winning first prize, graduate voice, in the Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition. Tyler Wottrich (B.M., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) won the auditions for the prestigious Academy program in New York, joining Ensemble ACJW (Academy Carnegie Juilliard Weill). He was offered a two year fellowship (from 20122014) to study and perform varied chamber music repertoire during this period regularly in New York at both Weill and and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, as well as outreach concerts in various NY schools. He completed his M.M. in performance at Stony Brook University in 2011 and is now in the third year of his D.M.A. in piano performance at Stony Brook with Gilbert Kalish. On January 18, 2012 he performed with several voice students from Stony Brook for a

vocal master class with Graham Johnson at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

........................ 2010......................... Ian Hodges (D.M.A., guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) performed a solo classical guitar tour of Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Canada), performing seven recitals in ten days in April. Hodges spent the weekend in Norway House, Manitoba, teaching guitar and performing with some of Canada’s finest fiddlers. Valerie Little (D.M.A., viola, student of Korey Konkol) and Huldah Niles (M.M., 2006, violin) were featured soloists with the Mankato Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Geoff Hudson’s Meeting Ground for solo string quartet and orchestra on October 9 in Mankato, MN. Elizabeth O’Neal (B.A., student of Sally O’Reilly) is a member of Ensemble Emport, which was named artists in residence at the St. Paul Cathedral for 2012-2013. The group includes Jon Visser, guitarist (student of James Flegel); Rebecca Visser, pianist/organist; and Nick Chalmers, tenor and will give a series of three concerts during the season. Marina Veiler (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) is teaching piano at the New Music School in Chicago, IL. On September 16, Megan Wagner (M.M., voice, student of John De Haan) performed in Pride and Passion: An Operatic Evening at the Rose State Performing Arts Theatre in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The evening featured performances of arias and duets by Verdi and Saint-Saëns. Wagner was joined by tenor William Nield Christensen, baritone Les Flanagan, and mezzo-soprano Catherine McDaniel. Wagner has been awarded the Kenneth Hoving Fellowship for Graduate Study at the University of Oklahoma in pursuance of her doctorate in voice performance. Rachel Ware (D.M.A., voice, student of Jean del Santo) served on the faculty of The Voice Foundation’s 40th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice where she presented a paper. In July 2011 she spoke at The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII in Newfoundland, Canada. Ware is on the faculty at Luther College as an alumni guest lecturer in music.

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Laura Blair (M.M., voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was accepted to the Midwestern Institute of Opera where she covered Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and performed concerts this summer. Julia Che (B.M., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) won the position of concertmaster for the Lakewood Symphony in the greater Denver area. Che holds a fellowship at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. She came from Macao to study with O’Reilly in 2006. Sophie Christian (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was first prize winner in the American Protégé Awards Competition in New York in February 2012. She performed the Debussy L’ isle joyeuse at the Winners’ Concert held at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York in May 2012. In June, she was invited to be a juror for the Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) Piano Competition in her native Indonesia. Denis Evstuhin (D.M.A., piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) played his New York City debut recital in July at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival. Evstuhin performed a recital devoted to Chopin at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. The Cleveland Plain Dealer said of Evstuhin’s performance, “Throughout the six works he played, Evstuhin placed a distinctive stamp on the music’s fervent and tender emotions. He chose judicious tempos and treated phrases with flexible sensitivity, finding the expressive heart of each piece even as he made crisp and fluent work of the technical demands.” Evstuhin performed a solo recital in Torun, Poland, as a part of his win at Paderevski International Piano Competition. Loren Fishman (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Beethoven “Emperor” Concerto with the Minnesota Sinfonia under the direction of his father, Jay Fishman on March 16, 2012 at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and on March 17, 2012 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. He was on the faculty at St. Cloud State University for the 2011/12 academic year teaching piano and pedagogy. His cartoons (Humoresque Cartoons) have gained national attention and have been published in Clavier Magazine.

National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Students of Adriana Zabala were semi-finalists in their respective categories: Laura Mogdlin, Regina Stroncek, Gina Hanzlik, and Katherine Skovira. Skovira advanced to the final competition in her category and won first prize. Wei Zheng student of Jean del Santo was the North Central Region winner of the biennial NATS Artist Award and represented the School of Music at the national convention in Orlando.

14th Annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition Emerging Professionals Category

Soojung Hong (D.M.A., 2011, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) Jinhee Kim (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) Anton Melnichenko (M.M. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) All were accompanied by Denis Evstuhin (D.M.A., 2011, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky). The winners performed with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra in February 2012.

Schubert Club Scholarship Competition College/Graduate Level

Strings - First Place Rosalind Leavell, cello (student of Tanya Remenikova) Strings - Second Place Angelika Strub, violin (student of Sally O'Reilly) Piano - Second Place Nai-Fang Ko (student of Alexander Braginsky)

Thursday Musical Competition College Level

Advanced Voice - First Place Lauren Lammers, soprano (student of Jean del Santo) Advanced Voice - Second Place Tara Loeper, soprano (student of Barbara Kierig) Piano - Second Place Stella Wiering (student of Paul Shaw) Strings - First Place Nathaniel Yaffe, cello (student of Tanya Remenikova) Strings - Honorable Mention Angelika Strub, violin (student of Sally O'Reilly) Winds - First Place James Hodges, clarinet (student of Alexander Fiterstein) Winds - Second Place Lucas Hopkins, saxophone (student of Eugene Rousseau) Former voice faculty member Lawrence Weller participated as one of the judges for the voice division. music.umn.edu 33

Elizabeth Grondin (M.M., violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy, student of Mark Bjork) is the administrator and Suzuki violin teacher for the Centenary Suzuki School, an adjunct faculty position at Centenary College of Louisiana, in Shreveport, LA. Shanti Nolan (D.M.A., conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) is serving as the assistant conductor of the Air Force Band in Washington, DC. JiHye Shin (B.M., violin, student of Mark Bjork) appeared as soloist in Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen with the Clamu Orchestra in Jeonju, Korea on December 9. Rachel Vickers (M.M., voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was accepted to the Opera in the Ozarks where she performed the Third Lady (Magic Flute), a major role in A Little Night Music, and the mezzo in Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes.

............................ 2012............................. Eric Allen (D.M.A., conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) has accepted the position as associate director of bands (tenure-track) at Texas Tech University where he will be conducting the Symphonic Band and teaching undergraduate conducting.

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which aimed to recreate the legendary marimba orchestras of Clair Omar Musser, performed under the baton of a variety of marimba experts from around the country. Anna DeGraff (D.M.A., voice, student of John De Haan) performed the role of Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto in Concert as part of Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest on Saturday, July 28 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. The cast also included Paul Hindemith (D.M.A, voice) as Count Ceprano and Jeffrey Madison (D.M.A., voice, student of John De Haan) as Monterone. Paula Gudmundson (D.M.A., flute, student of Immanuel Davis) received the 2012 Paul Revitt Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Presentation at the 31st College Music Society’s Regional Conference at Luther College in March 2012 for her lecture recital titled “La Flauta of Buenos Aires” based on her research and performance of works by Argentine composer Amancio Alcorta. Colin Holter’s (Ph.D., composition, student of James Dillon) string quartet There’s No Place was mentioned in a New York Times review of a concert by the Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church in New York City on August 25. He was awarded a $2,500 grant from the U of M’s Institute for Advanced Study to fund the research and creative collaborative Music and Sound Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Group. Lucas Hopkins (B.M., saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) performed the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in Eb Major with the Oak-

land East Bay Symphony. Hopkins won the symphony’s Young Artist Competition in June and returned to perform with the symphony on January 27 for a sold out performance with more than 3,000 people in attendance. Hopkins was reviewed as giving a “stunning performance” and a “spectacular rendering of Alexander Glazunov’s saxophone concerto” by a local paper, the Benecia Herald. Katherine Anne Skovira (D.M.A., voice, student of Adriana Zabala) performed in the opera program at the Aspen Festival and Summer School of Music from June 20 to August 19. She performed in its productions of Die Zauberflöte, Sweeney Todd, and Harbison’s Great Gatsby. Brett Wartchow (Ph.D., composition, student of Alex Lubet) won the U of M Graduate School’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2011-2012 for “Nexus: Composition for Mixed Ensemble and Interactive Electronics.” The fellowship is a non-service award that carries an academic year stipend of $22,500 plus tuition for thesis credits and/or required dissertation seminars during the academic year and subsidized health insurance. Doctoral Dissertation Fellows participated in a research showcase on April 17, 2012 in Coffman Union’s Great Hall. John Zarco (D.M.A., conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) accepted the director of bands position at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. This is a tenure-track position.

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