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NOTEWORTHY
Noteworthy LEADERSHIP
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND BOSTON CONSERVATORY Susan Whitehead, Chair Jeff Shames, Chair Emeritus Michael R. Eisenson, Vice Cochair Martin J. Mannion, Vice Cochair Roger H. Brown, President David Abrams G. Leonard Baker, Jr. Michael A. Brown David Clem John Connaughton Cynthia K. Curme Michael R. Eisenson Emilio Estefan Gloria Estefan Monica Giraldo Dean F. Goodermote David Gross-Loh Joshua Gruss Dan Harple Kristine Moyer Higgins Charles Hirschhorn Steven Holtzman Bill Kaiser Joel Katz B. J. Krintzman Laura D. Kunkemueller Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Miky (Mie Kyung) Lee Demond Martin Marc Mayer Jane L. Mendillo Frederick T. Miller Peter Muller Megan O'Block Anthony Pangaro Alexander Rigopulos Darius Sidebotham David Scott Sloan Susan Solomont Marillyn Zacharis Barry Zubrow LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Teresa Koster, Chair Laura D. Kunkemueller, Board Liaison Elizabeth S. Boveroux Gregory E. Bulger Davi-Ellen Chabner Caroline McMillan Collings Diana Dohrmann '71 Kate Sides Flather Mimi Hewlett Kelly C. McKernan Lyle J. Micheli Pamela A. Murray Megan O'Block Christopher D. Perry Santosh Perumbadi Wanda Reindorf Geraldine R. Ricci Jan Steenbrugge '99 Peter J. Wender Edward G. Wertheim Tania Zouikin
BOARD OF OVERSEERS Ivy C. Scricco, Chair Anne N. Cuervo, Vice Chair Brendan Murphy, Vice Chair Howard H. Bengele, Ph.D. Joan M. Broderick Frederic D. Carter, III Doreen Donovan Corkin Miles A. Fish, III '63 Jill A. Fopiano, C.F.A. John S. Foster Remmi Franklin Jennifer A. Fraser Christina P. Glen Ricardo Lewitus, M.D. Greg Mailloux Michele Manganaro Sean M. Murphy '94 '96 Barbara G. Papesch Snow Qin Suzanne H. Rollert Warren A. Seamans Anne C. Tolkoff Rosamond Vaule Jason S. Weissman Amy K. Wertheim George C. White
TRUSTEES EMERITI/AE* Caroline McMillan Collings Franklin Warren Hobbs, III Alfred D. Houston Gary R. Mikula Robert P. Moncreiff, Esq. Glendora M. Putnam, Esq William A. Seymour, President Emeritus Donald R. Sohn, Ph.D. *Legacy Conservatory Trustees
BOSTON CONSERVATORY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Cathy Young
FACULTY AND STAFF
Jonathan Bailey Holland (chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies) was featured in the January 2018 issue of Harvard Magazine for his compositions Synchrony and Dream Elegy, based on his meditations on police brutality against African Americans. Holland was also featured in The Boston Globe’s 2018 Most Stylish Bostonians.
Rachel Bertone (theater) directed and choreographed Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of In the Heights, featuring seven current Conservatory students and four alumni, with musical direction by Conservatory accompanist Dan Rodriguez, November 2017.
Joseph Foley (trumpet) performed with members of the Boston Pops at Boston Logan International Airport to spread holiday cheer, December 2018.
Joesph Foley
Michael Lewin (piano) performed at the RoundGlass Music Awards and took home an award for Best Classical Music Recording for his
CURRENT STUDENTS
recording of Claude Debussy’s Jardins sous la pluie, January 2018.
Sara Stackhouse (chair of theater) has been developing a crosscultural artistic project with women from Boston and Cape Town, South Africa called the Mama Project, which now includes faculty and students from Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
George Case (conducting) guest conducted a performance of composer Kile Smith’s Canticle with The Boston Cecelia. The performance included current Conservatory students Victoria Peacock (M.M. '19, choral conducting), Madeline Bawden (B.M. '18, voice), and Laura Pernas (B.M. '20, voice). In addition to the performance, Smith also provided current composition students with professional advice leading up to the concert, March 9–11, 2018.
DANCE Da’Rius Malone (B.F.A. '18, contemporary dance) recently toured Europe with John Leher and dancers. The tour, titled Shadows in Motion, had 27 performances in three countries, March through April, 2018. THEATER Contemporary theater sophomores won three national awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF Region 1) for their devised work, Displaced: A Response to Qurban, directed by guest artist Mauricio Salgado and produced by faculty member Theresa Lang: Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award; Outstanding Sound Design and Composition; and Distinguished Production of a Devised or Company Generated Work. Kendyl Yokoyama (B.F.A. '21, musical theater) performed “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman with actress Keala Settle at the Oscars Awards Ceremony, March 2018. MUSIC Hagar Adam (B.M. '20, voice) and Felix Aguilar-Tomlinson (B.M. '20, voice) performed in the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra performance of Tomorrow’s Stars Today, March 24, 2018. Adam is a student of Kathryn Wright and AguilarTomlinson is a student of Victor Jannett. Roselyn Hobbs (M.M. '18, contemporary classical music) volunteers as a music and environmental conservation teacher in Moshi, Tanzania, and is the author and illustrator of the Mpingo Coloring Book, which centers around the Mpingo tree, the national tree of Tanzania, from which many instruments are made. Felix Aguilar-Tomlinson
Kendyl Yokoyama
Julia Kornick (B.M. '19, voice) participated in a Berklee sponsored trip to Silicon Valley, where she was able to visit major technology companies and explore how virtual reality and other innovations apply to classical music, February 2018. Kornick is a student of Sara Goldstein.
Rebecca Miller (B.M. '18, viola) began work at Shelter Music Boston, a local nonprofit that brings live chamber music to area homeless shelters. Miller is a student of Rictor Noren.
ALUMNI
1960S Rene Rancourt (M.M. '69, voice) announced that he will retire at the end of the NHL’s 2017–2018 season, concluding a legendary career as the national anthem singer for the Boston Bruins.
1980S Roy Lawler (B.M. '81, brass) makes custom trumpets and trombones by hand and is one of the few remaining custom brass instrument makers in the country.
Daniel Doura (B.M. '82, composition, piano) had his piece “Summer Dreams” performed by Boston Civic Symphony at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, conducted by Berklee College of Music faculty member Francisco Noya. Boston Conservatory alumna Gabriella Reyes de Ramirez (B.M. '16, voice) performed arias from La Bohème Act I in the same program, March 24, 2018.
Kermit Poling (B.M. '82, violin), composer, conductor, and violinist, received glowing reviews for his album Music of Kermit Poling featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, February 2018.
1990S Sandra Piques Eddy (B.M. '94, music education, voice) sang the title role of Dido in Florentine Opera Company’s staging of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, January 2018.
Kostis Protopapas (M.M. '95, piano) was named general director of Opera Santa Barbara, in addition to his role as artistic director, December 2018.
2000S Mariesther Alvarez (M.M. '09, G.P.D. '11, violin), Marielisa Alvarez (M.M. '09, G.P.D. '11, violin), and Taide Prieto (G.P.D. '12. P.S.C. '13, strings)—founders of the Boston String Academy—are teachers of students who were chosen to perform with Gustavo Dudamel in Mexico City as part of the El Sistema tradition, March 2018.
Jonelle Margallo (B.F.A. '03, musical theater) made her debut on Broadway in Miss Saigon U.S., December 2017.
Quinton Morris (M.M. '04, violin), associate professor of violin at Seattle University, is founder and director of Key to Change Studio, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching young musicians in Seattle’s South King County, 2017. Ewa Nowicki (B.M. '03, voice) assumed the role of registrar at Amherst College, January 2018.
2010 S Sam Bagala (B.M. '14, piano) plays keyboard, conducts, and is a rehearsal stand in for the American tour of Hamilton: An American Musical.
Vanessa Becerra (M.M. '14, opera) performed the title role in the American premiere of Cinderella, an opera composed by 12-year-old music prodigy Alma Deutscher, spring 2018.
Jillian Butler (B.F.A. '15, musical theater) took on the role of older Cosette in the North American touring production of Les Misérables, October 2018.
John Cardoza (B.F.A. '16, theater) and Ebony Williams (B.F.A. ‘05, dance) are a part of the ensemble for American Repertory Theater’s production of Jagged Little Pill, May–July 2018.
Megan Callahan (M.M. '18, opera) received an Encouragement Award at the the Metropolitan Opera National Council—Tulsa District Auditions, January 2018.
Jessica Davison (B.F.A. '11) who has been a member of the Radio City Rockettes for more than five years, was featured in Broadway World to speak about her experiences, December 2017.
Liam Forde (B.F.A. '11, musical theater) made his London stage debut in the lead role of Eugene in The Other Palace’s production of Eugenius, spring 2018.
Reynaliz Herrera (M.M. '12, percussion) composed, directed, and performed in her theatrical percussion show “Ideas, Not Theories and its Bicycle Orchestra” at Illuminus Festival, November 2017.
Jonathon Heyward (B.M. '14, cello) stepped in as a substitute to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic “Bernstein 100” anniversary concert, December 2018. Elena Korableva (B.M. '11, cello) won first place at the American Protege International Competition of Romantic Music 2017 and performed in the winner’s recital at Carnegie Hall on March 17, 2018.
Charlie Mantione (B.F.A. '15) is forging a successful career path as a drag queen in New York City, and was featured in a LG USA Mobile video ad, fall 2017. Shoba Narayan (B.F.A. '12, musical theater) is performing the role of Eliza Hamilton in the national tour of Hamilton: An American Musical, 2018. Andrew O’Shanick (M.M. '16, opera) starred in an off-broadway production of Dog Sees God, February 2018. Ivan Javier Valbuena Paez (M.M. '15, clarinet) was the winner of Boston Woodwind Society’s 2017 Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition for Clarinet, December 2017. Shoba Narayan
Holly Wilder (B.F.A. '15, contemporary dance) is a choreographer, dance film director, performer, and dance teacher based in New York City and perhaps best known for Wilder Project, a company she cofounded with her brother, videographer Duncan Wilder. Wilder Project has quickly become an award-winning dance film company based in New York City. Their works have been presented at film festivals across the country and in live dance performances at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and Gibney Dance Center (NYC). Wilder serves as the artistic director of Wilder Project, choreographing and often performing in sophisticated, highly-captivating, site-specific dance pieces, which her brother films to create a final product that is nothing short of spectacular.
Outside of Wilder Project, Wilder has performed work by Anthony Tudor, Robert Battle, Paul Taylor, Trey McIntyre, Chet Walker, Camille Brown, and Karole Armitage, among many others. She has toured Guatemala and Mexico with the JUNTOS Collective, and some of her professional credits include the national tour of Debbie Allen’s musical Brothers of the Knight, performing with the Thang Dao Dance Company, performing Grease The Musical with Royal Caribbean International, and most recently, playing the role of Cassie in A Chorus Line (Compass Rose Theater). While at Boston Conservatory, Wilder was the recipient of the Jan Veen and Julie Ince Thompson scholarships and the Alumni Award for Academic Achievement.
To view works by Wilder Project and to learn more about the company, visit wilderprojectdance.com.
