Noteworthy FACULTY AND STAFF
CURRENT STUDENTS
Bryn Austin (theater) appeared in Love and Information with Apron Theater Company at Next Stage Arts in Putney, Vermont.
DANCE
Doug Perkins (percussion) was featured on NPR’s Deceptive Cadence for his music video performance of Filigree, composed by Robert Honstein. His work with the Red Bull Music Festival in New York, New York, was also given mention in the New York Times, May 2018.
Joy Davis (dance) completed the Bessie Schonberg Boston Choreography Residency at the Yard on Martha’s Vineyard with her sister and artistic collaborator, Alex Davis. The Davis sisters premiered their dance theater work Junk Drawer, September 2018.
Susan Hagen (strings) taught at the Rochester Bass Retreat in August, where she also gave the American premiere of David Heyes’s piece for solo double bass Seven Last Words. Jonathan Bailey Holland (chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies) had his work for chamber quintet, His House Is Not of This Land, featured as part of the MASS MoCa Bang on a Can Marathon, July 2018. Max Levinson (piano) performed over the summer at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Borromeo Music Festival (Switzerland), MusicFest Perugia (Italy), and San Juan Chamber Music Festival (Colorado).
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Elizabeth Kelley (B.F.A. '21, contemporary theater) participated in a summer internship at Ko Festival of Performance 27th season in Amherst, Massachusetts, summer 2018. Daisy Layman (B.F.A. '19, musical theater), Nigel Richards (B.F.A. '21, musical theater), Julia Solecki (B.F.A. '20, musical theater), Alexander Tan (B.F.A. '21, musical theater), and Melissa Zeller (B.F.A. '19, musical theater) performed alongside recent grads Carly Cherone (B.F.A. '18, contemporary dance) and Brendan Williamson (B.F.A. '18, musical theater) in Peregrine Theatre Ensemble’s production of Hair, summer 2018.
Michelle Parkos (staff) had a photo chosen for the annual Igersboston charity gallery benefiting the Transition House on October 22 at the Fairmont Copley. Rhonda Rider (strings) recently taught and performed at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, the Harvard Chamber Music Festival, the Cello Seminar, and the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong. Kevin Siegfried’s (theater) Vidimus Stellam, a cantata for choir and brass quintet, was published by E.C. Schirmer. Larry Sousa (theater) directed two original musicals for international entertainment company Creativiva that were rehearsed in Toronto andperformed in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos. Nathan Troup (voice/opera) directed Miller Theater at Columbia University’s New York premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up in September 2018, featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble.
Daisy Layman, center
David R. Gammons (theater) directed Nick Dear’s stage adaptation of Frankenstein at the Central Square Theatre, October through November 2018.
THEATER Michelle Parkos
Judy Eissenberg (chamber music) organized “Loving the Process,” a first-ofits-kind event in Harvard, Massachusetts, which included chamber music workshops and a performance, sponsored by the Harvard Cultural Collaborative, of which Eissenberg is vice president. The festival took place June 17 to 24, 2018.
Dylan Contreras (B.F.A. '20, contemporary dance) attended the Axis Connect summer intensive, which brings emerging dancers together with some of the most respected directors, teachers, choreographers, and agents from both the East and West coast dance industries.
Brian McGinnis (dance) received a Faculty Development Fellowship and a Faculty Development Travel Grant to travel to Tel Aviv, Israel to study Gaga Dance Technique with the Batsheva Dance Company.
Dylan Contreras
Danielle Davidson (dance) and Andrew Altenbach (conducting) respectively co-choreographed and conducted Jeanne & Elizabeth, an evening of dance accompanied by live classical music, which was presented by Doppelgänger Dance Collective and Ensemble Warhol in association with Fort Point Theatre Channel and Green Street Studios, August through September 2018.
Andrew Mark (cello) recently joined the Portland String Quartet for its 50th season.
MUSIC Allie D’Amico (M.M. '19, music education) spent the summer as an intern at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the VSA and Accessibility Office. Victoria Garcia-Daskalova (B.M. '14) performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, October 25.
