Vernam reunited their Black Swan party band, Split Point, to perform at the wedding of Adam Kearney ’11 and Rachel Heidenry ’11. The wedding took place on a gorgeous day at Clermont State Historic Site in southwestern Columbia County, New York, and was an amazing reunion/union for the Bard community members involved. | Danielle
Gilda Gross ’16 and her mother, Barbara S. Grossman ’73 photo Jane Brien ’89
’16 Thorvald Spartan Daggenhurst is attending the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program and Longy School of Music of Bard College. | Yegor Dukashin is studying at the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine. | Just after graduation, Gilda Gross went to Cuba with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra tour. Also on the tour was her mother, Alumni/ae Trustee Barbara S. Grossman ’73, and other alumni/ae, patrons, and friends of Bard. In September, Gilda begins work toward a master’s degree in historic preservation from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. | Jasper (Tema) Katz is attending Beasley School of Law at Temple University. | Travis Kennedy is pursing a double master of science degree in urban planning and historic preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. | Katherine Moccia is working toward a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Tennessee. | Troy Simon is excited to be pursuing a master of divinity degree at Yale Divinity School.
Sinay went on to receive her M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School in Manhattan. She currently writes for Teen Vogue and Man Repeller and coteaches journalism at Bronx Leadership Academy II High School. In her spare time, she tutors after school and serves on the development committee for 826NYC: a nonprofit organization that offers free creative writing, tutoring, and ESL programs to underserved New York City youth. Danielle lives with her boyfriend, Ian Lloyd ’12, and two dogs.
’12 5th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Plan now to be in beautiful Annandale for your reunion. Contact alumni@bard.edu or call 845758-7089 to join your reunion committee. In September 2015, Alex Friedman designed and built a mallet percussion instrument called the jimbira, a hybrid between the African mbira and traditional xylophone. It’s been on display as part of Sonic City, an exhibition that features New York’s “most innovative” instrument makers, at the City Reliquary museum in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
’11 Luosha Fang (B.Mus.), who gave the first performance in the Bard Conservatory of Music’s new Alumni/ae Recital Series at Bard in December 2015, went on to win the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award in January 2016. As a winner of the Astral Artists Program, an intensive fouryear mentoring program for the nation’s most promising young classical musicians, Luosha appeared at Trinity Church in Philadelphia in September 2016 with Astral Artists Trio in a performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio. | Rosie Lopeman graduated from the New York Studio School in May with a certificate in painting. She received the Hohenberg Travel Award and will go to Europe to reside in Italy and work with sculptor Jeff Lowe in London. Upon her return, she will have a solo exhibition at the New York Studio School in January 2017.
’10 Claire Brazeau (B.Mus.) is one of the newest members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. In July she made her solo debut with the Redlands Symphony Orchestra and Culver City Symphony performing Cimarosa’s Oboe Concerto and Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the 1986 film The Mission. | Johnny Brennan is starting a Ph.D. program in philosophy at Fordham University this fall. He and his wife, Amy Monaco ’06, are expecting their first child.
’15 Emily Banas is the decorative arts and design curatorial assistant at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
’13 Wyatt Bertz, Alex Palmer, and Zach Seman ’11 are enjoying the revolving cast of Bard characters that passes through their home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They invite all Bardians to drop a line when passing through the area. Zach produces music for Warner/Atlantic, Alex works as a photographer at Pier 59 studios, and Wyatt is excited to be part of a new high-end real estate team at Brown Harris Stevens. In June 2016, Wyatt, Zach, Ryan MacLean ’12, Brianna Reed ’12, and Daniel
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Evan Spigelman ’09, Ella Reily Stocker ’08, Emily Wolff ’10, Jen Overstreet ’09, Brian Dorsam ’09, Kent Gowen ’09, Bethany Dettmore ’09, Kaycee Filson ’11, Danny Lewis ’09, Thomas McCosker ’09, Olwen Philips, Catherine McCosker, Jason Reif, Emma Brinkman ’09, Ben Eskind ’10, Anna Henschel ’09, and Chris Vann. photo Rita Pavone