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Fall 2010 Convocation Preview Learning Through Music Student, Faculty, and Alumni News

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Dear Alumni, Friends, and Colleagues, John Gardner, secretary of health, education, and welfare during the 1960s, characterized the challenges of his day as incredible opportunities masquerading as insoluble problems.

Today, these words offer welcome respite from disheartening news regarding the world’s economic downturn.

Like most institutions, music schools must evidence discipline to ensure the best use of available dollars.

As Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, observes, greatness requires confronting the brutal facts of reality and retaining unwavering faith that we will prevail.

In this context, the School of Music held an energizing faculty-staff retreat in fall 2009. As focus groups reported on their work, three overriding themes became evident: collaboration; community; and communication.

Under executive committee leadership, subsequent forums defined ways to realize progress out of the retreat’s momentum. This year will see several “common hours” convening the school around timely topics, presenters, and performances. The

first will feature Paul Phoenix, tenor with The King’s Singers and an avid spokesperson for engaging diverse audiences. Additional work includes organizing instruction and performance around unifying themes. We are pursuing strategies to improve communication across divisions and to increase students’ engagement in the work of the school.

A task force is considering improvisation in the curriculum and a faculty-community committee is looking at the composition program and its relationships with technology and improvisation. The catalytic work of the Engaged Department Leadership Team (EDLT ) has resulted in 17 seed grants that are paving the way toward integration of public engagement into our curriculum. A new program, Creative Instructional Residencies Initiative (CIRIs), will support innovation that complements current curricular offerings. And thanks to the generosity of The Office of the Vice President for Research, we recently installed $50,000 worth of technology upgrades.

Clearly, the brutal reality of budget reductions is not thwarting our unwavering commitments. This past spring’s innovative production of The Magic Flute brought a record 2200 people to Ted Mann Concert Hall. Professor Fernando Meza oversaw a successful international marimba festival that featured collaborations with major Twin Cities music organizations. Our performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms received a standing ovation at the north central conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

A vast array of achievements and recognitions among students, faculty, and alumni is profiled in this issue of Tutti, where you will also enjoy reading about Collage. This year’s 10th anniversary concert honors president Bruininks and his wife, Dr. Susan Hagstrom. If you are in the area, I hope you will attend.

The intersections between core values and fiscal strategies will be key to assuring that our school continues to fulfill a significant role in preparing career musicians. I am pleased to report that recent pledges and donations yielded over 3.5 million dollars, a much appreciated mark of confidence and trust in our work.

As we pursue the goal of being a world-class music school in a worldclass metropolitan center, we invite your input, your encouragement of prospective students, and your financial investment in our programs.

Together, we can assure Minnesota’s role in advancing the place and value of music in our local, national, and global communities.

With gratitude and all best wishes,

David

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

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Greetings

Message from David Myers, Director, School of Music

Celebrating 10 Years of Collage Convocation Preview

Paul Phoenix to Keynote School of Music 2010 Fall Convocation

Engaged Department Leadership Team Update Improvisation with Erkki Huovinen, Musicology

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Lisa Marshall Editor and Writer Jennifer Schmitt Graphic Designer Modern Press Printing

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.

Š 2010 Regents of the University of Minnesota.

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Learning Through Music Catching Up With Adriana Zabala Alumni and Student Stories

Alumni Profile: Victor Barranco SOM Alumna Libby Larsen Awarded Peabody Medal Student Profile: LaTannia Ellerbe

Welcome New Faculty

Alexander Fiterstein, Matt Rahaim, and Laura Sindberg

2009/2010 Season Highlights Fall Events Calendar Bonus Pull Out!

Fall Events, Spring Events Preview, Information, Directions, and Ways to Connect

Meet the New Development Officer

Joe Sullivan, College of Liberal Arts Development Officer

Thank You Donors See and Be Seen

A Photographic Journey Through 2009/2010

School News

Faculty, Student, Alumni, and Staff News In Memoriam

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CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF

COLLAGE Ten years have elapsed since the inaugural School of Music Collage Concert in 2000, when students and faculty took the Ted Mann Concert Hall Stage (and aisles!) for a non-stop musical and theatrical extravaganza.

The Collage Concert’s marathon style not only provides the perfect introduction to the School of Music, it allows the audience to sample a vast array of musical styles in one evening.

Photos: Greg Helgeson (2007 and 2008), Sara Specht (2006)

Erik Rohde (B.M., violin, student of Mark Bjork; M.M. candidate, orchestral conducting, student of Mark Russell Smith) attended his first Collage Concert in 2002 and has since performed in six Collage Concerts. “My initial experience with Collage was a strong one. I went to the concert with a friend and we planned to stay for fifteen minutes and then head out for dinner. We were so taken by the experience that we didn’t even look at our watches and stayed until the end of the concert.” Rohde now looks forward to being an integral part of the concert as a graduate conducting student in the orchestral conducting program.

The non-stop nature of the concert poses logistical challenges for School of Music faculty, teaching assistants, and staff. School of Music professor and director of choral activities Kathy Saltzman Romey says, “I enjoy bringing students together for Col-

lage because it’s important for them to experience community and interact with different parts of our School. The evening has a hectic energy and there’s always a flurry of activity when managing the flow of the evening.”

Craig Kirchhoff, professor of conducting and director of university bands, reflects on the Collage Concert experience, “To audience members the concert appears seamless, however backstage it’s organized chaos.

Over the years the work of our graduate conducting students has been legendary in making the Collage Concert work. Longtime producer and Ted Mann Concert Hall staff member Valerie Stedman is the driving force behind the concert. I can’t imagine doing Collage without her.”

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Then SOM director Jeffrey Kimpton says of his vision for the concert, “When I came to the School of Music, I felt that the school needed to showcase the tremendous talent of the students and faculty. We planned the first Collage Concert to coincide with University’s 150th homecoming celebration.

Collage caught on right away and we were packed on Saturday night and did a second concert on Sunday.”

This year’s Collage Concert will honor University of Minnesota president Robert H. Bruininks and his wife Dr. Susan Hagstrum for their service to the University and their abiding support of the School of Music.

10th Anniversary Collage Concert

Saturday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall Tickets: $16 adults/$11 children, U of M students, faculty, staff, alumni, and retirees General admission. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu All proceeds will support the School of Music Community Engagement Initiative.

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Paul Phoenix to Keynote School of Music 2010 Fall Convocation

Paul Phoenix, acclaimed tenor with The King’s Singers and an avid spokesperson for musicians’ ability to engage diverse audiences, will give the University of Minnesota School of Music Fall Convocation program keynote address in Ted Mann Concert Hall on Wednesday, October 13th at 10 a.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Paul Phoenix began his musical training at age nine as a chorister with the St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir, during which time he made several successful recordings as featured treble, including the Geoffrey Burgon award-winning theme to the BBC’s 1979 adaptation of John le Carré’s novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

School of Music Fall Convocation Wednesday, October 13 at 10 a.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall Free and open to the public

After graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music in 1991, Phoenix worked as a freelance singer for six years enjoying a varied existence, from backing Elaine Paige in concert, to coaching singing with the boy trebles of Westminster Under School. In September 1997, he joined The King’s Singers with whom he travels singing in some of the finest concert halls, churches, and cathedrals in the world. His two-day residency at the school will include working with the Men’s Chorus and meeting with students, faculty, and university administrators.

One of the world’s most celebrated vocal groups, The King’s Singers have a packed schedule of concerts, recordings, media, and education work that spans the globe. Championing the work of young and established composers, they remain consummate entertainers, a class act with a delightfully British wit. From Gesualdo and György Ligeti to Michael Bublé, The King’s Singers are instantly recognizable for their spot-on intonation, their impeccable vocal blend, the flawless articulation of the text, and incisive timing.

School of Music director David Myers says, “Paul is a charismatic speaker and world-class professional musician. His real-world experience and expertise will inspire our students about both the challenges and possibilities for success in 21st century music careers.”

Paul Phoenix’s Convocation keynote will address the importance of community engagement in relation to the continuing U of M School of Music initiative to integrate public engagement into its curriculum and research. In addition to other events, Phoenix will meet with the school’s Engaged Department Leadership Team.

The 2009 School of Music Fall Convocation featured renowned conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop.

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Last fall the School of Music launched a new initiative to integrate public engagement into its curriculum and research.

Supported by a $10,000 grant from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Community Engagement, the school is moving forward on a career enhancing effort for aspiring professional musicians of the 21st century: preparing them, through projects, internships, and entrepreneurial efforts, to become engaged artist-leaders among the increasingly diverse societies and communities in which they live.

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“The School of Music Engaged Department Leadership Team is off to a good start. The faculty and student involvement was been tremendous—we’ve approved 17 engaged department grant proposals for work in the upcoming year. Of the 17 proposals, seven were from students and the rest were from faculty,” reports team chair and music education professor Keitha Hamann.

In spring 2010, professor Erkki Huovinen, who holds the Government of Finland and David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies, and musicology/ ethnomusicology professor Scott Currie introduced an improvisation course into the School of Music curriculum with Music in

The team will next create ways to measure its work and to research the effectiveness of the programs that grow from the new proposals. The team is creating engagement curriculum connections and standalone classes that meet the engagement needs of music students.

Hamann says, “Today’s students want a holistic education. In the fast changing music profession, it’s important to teach our students to be entrepreneurial about their careers. We are ideally situated in the Twin Cities with its rich cultural and musical diversity, and our neighborhoods and networks provide us endless opportunities. With the work of the Engaged Department Leadership Team and dedicated faculty and students, we are in line with the University’s push toward more public engagement and the need for the U to be more involved in the world outside of academia.”

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Engaged Department Leadership Team Update

Look to the School of Music website (music. umn.edu) for updates throughout the year on the work of the SOM Engaged Department Leadership Team and to find out how you can become involved.

Improvisation with Erkki Huovinen, Musicology the Moment: Worlds of Improvisation. The course explored traditions of improvisation from a variety of world cultures including Arabic (maqam), Hindustani (raga), AfroCaribbean (salsa), and African-American (jazz). Huovinen and Currie encouraged students to gain insight into the processes of composition in performance, from ethnomusicological, music-theoretical, and applied vocal/instrumental perspectives.

Students explored improvisational systems through academic study and lecture-demonstrations and gained first-hand experience with extemporaneous music making.

Students responded positively to the course and were enthusiastic to find personal ways of incorporating their own backgrounds into their work.

In the 2010/2011 academic year professor Huovinen will teach parts I and II of the course Improvisation for the Artist/ Teacher: Exploring Sound, Structure, Freedom, and Interaction. This workshop is directed toward musicians in the classical

tradition and uses concepts and exercises related to improvisation for the purpose of deepening, extending, and personalizing the participants’ musicianship. The course’s goal is to give musicians with little or no previous experience in improvisation a platform for experiencing improvisatory situations and ideas that help them to become more versatile artists and/or teachers, and to project a sense of spontaneity, personal commitment and freedom even in basically non-improvisatory contexts.

On his approach to teaching improvisation, Huovinen says, “I’m trying to help students find new relationships to their instruments, encouraging them to take a few steps back from their usual performances to regain the ability to play even one simple note with conviction. We will explore different relationships between musicians creating music together, striving towards musicianship that doesn’t fear unexpected situations.”

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LEFT: School of Music student Tharon Knowlton (left) and alumnus Jonathan Edington (right) working on composition with students at Ramsey School.

RIGHT: View from a Ramsey School classroom.

Learning Through Music When entering Ramsey International Fine Arts Center, a public K-8 fine arts magnet school in south Minneapolis, one is immediately aware of being in an extraordinary school. From the outside, the structure looks like your typical brick school built circa 1931, but inside is a bustling artistic incubator. Murals adorn the hallway walls and musical vocabulary posters rather than school rules posters are the norm.

Ramsey School has a unique partnership with the Minneapolis-based Learning Through Music Consulting Group, which provides connections to local arts organizations and university partners, including the University of Minnesota School of Music. SOM students and faculty are a vital part of this partnership. The Learning Through Music Consulting Group is part of the Music-in-Education National Consortium which provides funding and collaborative research opportunities. School of Music professor of music education Scott Lipscomb has been an integral leader and

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researcher with the Ramsey School project and says of its impact on our students, “The Learning Through Music internship provides a unique opportunity for our undergraduate music education students to collaborate with classroom teachers and teaching artists for the purpose of using music as a tool to facilitate learning in the arts and to enhance learning in other academic subject areas. The realization that music can serve as a catalyst for learning in many contexts presents a world of possibilities unknown to many pre-service music teachers. The internship also provides these selected students hands-on opportunities to engage with other teachers in strategic planning to enhance this student learning, an experience that will prove very helpful as they enter a school music teaching position where specialists often find themselves isolated from other members of the school community.”

The SOM’s partnership with The Learning Through Music Consulting Group brings

music to Ramsey’s general curriculum beyond the specialty music class model.

Our students and alumni play important roles in Ramsey School classrooms and are gaining valuable hands-on music education experience.

In one first grade classroom 20 children sit in a circle on the floor holding their blue practice sticks, as conductors would hold batons. Learning Through Music teacher and SOM alumna Jennifer Josephson (B.M., 2005, music therapy) leads the group in a conducting session and says, “When do you know when to play? What’s the million dollar word? It’s ictus—that little hit when you conduct.” The children then practice following the ictus and become little conductors. Within minutes the group comprehends the rudiments of the language of conducting. Josephson asks for volunteers to conduct the group and hands raise wildly. A student is picked to conduct, and she takes her role seriously.

Josephson reminds her that she needs to

tell the class to respect her lead, and the student conducts with a smile. Josephson ends the conducting session with a goodbye song, and the class is reminded to listen to their teacher Mrs. Kruse because she’s their everyday conductor.

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Adriana Zabala

In another classroom SOM student Tharon Knowlton (B.M. candidate, music education) and SOM alumnus Jonathan Edington (B.M., 2010, voice/music education) are each working with a group of three students on composing music and lyrics for their annual spring fourth grade opera, a production based on the life of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, president Barack Obama.

Prior to joining the School of Music faculty, voice professor Adriana Zabala performed the title role of the American premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. The New York Times praised her “vivid, fearless presence” in Glass’s Waiting for the Barbarians. This summer she sang in Salome and Carmen at Palau de les Arts Opera Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain with Maestro Zubin Mehta.

An avid recitalist, Zabala has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Barns at Wolf Trap. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Mozarteum and served as the artistic director of the Southeastern Festival of Song.

Zabala sat down with us to talk about her first year at the School of Music and to discuss her future endeavors.

Knowlton is huddled around a keyboard with three students and says, “Our priority is to come up with a melody.” The three girls focus and try out a few different styles of melody and then stand together to sing, “Take a risk by voting/don’t be afraid to use the power of your vote/yes we can change.”

They are pleased with the outcome and share that they never composed a song prior to this experience. When asked if they’d be interested in writing their own songs in the future, they answer with a confident and resounding “yes!”

Edington is in his third year of involvement with the Learning Through Music program at Ramsey and says, “With the program I

Q. You’ve successfully completed your first year at the U of M School of Music. What has surprised you about your School of Music experience?

A. I expected to spend a lot of energy on a daily basis, but I was amazed at what energy my students and colleagues gave each day, and how much more that generates to help us all with our daily and longer-term goals.

Q. How would you describe School of Music voice students?

A. Talented, thoughtful, intelligent, creative, and with great senses of humor!

Q. What excites you about the next academic year at the SOM? A. The opportunity to make wonderful progress; each hour, day, and semester.

I can’t wait to establish goals with each student, and for the classes that I am teaching, and to enjoy the process every day. This is priceless and something we all tend to take for granted. I absolutely love to see what greater things come from this focus and attention to every day. Also, I want to make a stronger effort to attend, enjoy, and participate in the phenomenal offerings that are ongoing in our SOM and in the wider University community. I will continue to strongly encourage my students to be models of this awareness, appreciation, and participation in creative activities across the board.

get to teach in a nontraditional and fun way and kids enjoy it. It’s great to invent your own way of teaching. It’s difficult to get kids to understand complex musical concepts.

What I’m most amazed about is how many innate musical things I can realize because of them. For example, kids added claps to a song to make four measures rather than three because it naturally sounded better to them.”

It’s revelations such as Edington’s that make the Ramsey School project a fertile learning laboratory for music educators and students alike. To learn more about the Ramsey School and the Learning Through Music Consulting Group and their partners, visit learning-through-music.org.

Q. What projects are currently on your plate? Do you have any 2010/2011 season projects on the horizon?

A. I will join the Minnesota Opera for its spring production of Wuthering Heights.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to return to my “home company!” In the fall I will sing in the Sing for Hope gala concert in Houston. In the winter I will be the alto soloist for Messiah with both the Lexington Philharmonic and the Phoenix Symphony. In the fall I will collaborate with Jeffrey Van (SOM guitar faculty) in a performance of his cycle for guitar and voice, and I am planning a recital for the spring. I’m very excited about an all-Sondheim program my studio will be giving this fall to commemorate his 80th birthday. This will be the first themed program my studio will give, and I’d like to establish this at least on a yearly basis.

I think we will have a wonderful time developing these programs together, and they are sure to be artistically compelling and entertaining!

Q. Do you have advice for students who are considering studying voice at the School of Music?

A. Sing what you love, this is likely the music at which you excel at this point. Be open-minded about what people have to teach you, and at the same time, begin to look for what makes you unique. Study languages like crazy, listen to all good music, irrespective of genre, and attend as much live music and drama as possible! music.umn.edu music.umn.edu

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Alumni Profile: Victor Barranco

B.M., 2005, trombone performance, student of Tom Ashworth Q. Where did you grow up?

A. North Pole, Alaska. Professor Ashworth jokes that I was his first student who was attracted to Minnesota because of the warm weather.

Last summer alumnus Victor Barranco won the third trombone spot with the U.S. Army Blues jazz band, one of the premier jazz bands of the U.S. military.

Barranco competed against some of the finest trombonists in the U.S for the position.

Q. Do you come from a musical family?

A. My parents are from Puerto Rico and when I was a child we traveled there to visit family in the summer. Our family had a country house by the rainforest and they would gather to dance and play guitar and conga drums until three a.m. I gained an appreciation for the folk music of Puerto Rico as a small child. My parents gave me aspirations to be a professional musician. They were positive role models and demonstrated how to work for what you want in life.

I’ve known I wanted to be a musician since the fifth grade. My parents recently shared a school project they saved where I stated that my life’s goal was to be good enough to earn a scholarship to play at a university and then to perform in a big band as a professional musician.

Barranco’s SOM faculty mentor Tom Ashworth was not surprised by his former student’s success, “He came in as a classical/jazz trombonist. Victor is outgoing and adept at creating and capitalizing on opportunities. Once Victor shows up to perform regardless of the gig, bands and organizations want to re-engage him. He has ambition and the talent to back it up.”

Q. What brought you to the SOM? A. When I was searching for colleges, I wanted to be in a city where I would be a small fish in a big pond. I contacted professor Tom Ashworth and heard back from him within three hours. His quick response alone represented the SOM in a positive way. Professor Ashworth invited me to the Twin Cities for the audition and after a meeting with the trombone studio and a lesson with professor Ashworth it was a done deal. It was a no brainer that the SOM was the place for me.

Barranco spoke with us from the home of The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in Fort Meyer, VA. On his new position, Barranco says, “Not only do I get to make a living being a musician, but I get to serve my country doing what I love to do. It’s such a gratifying notion to think that every day I wake up and get to serve my country by playing music.”

Q. What did you take away from your SOM experience?

A. There’s no way I would be in the position I am now if it wasn’t for Professor Ashworth. I’m still learning lessons from what he taught me, and his mentorship and dedication prepared me for the real world. In a sense I’m still learning from the SOM!

Being in the Twin Cities allowed me the opportunity to experience diverse musical cultures. The SOM helped me adapt to different cultures of music—orchestral gigs, club dates, salsa gigs, and wedding dates. The SOM gave me a taste of what it was to be a professional orchestral musician, freelancer, and educator.

The SOM laid down the foundation for the musician I am today. I don’t consider myself a classical or jazz trombonist—I’m a musician.

Q. What advice would you give students considering or starting at the SOM? A. Take advantage of the vast array of music around the Twin Cities—check out the Minnesota Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the local salsa clubs, polka bands, and beyond. In the Twin Cities you’re surrounded by professional musicians—watch, learn, and listen to them to see how they play and how they interact with people. Following their professional lead is just as important as spending time in the practice room.

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SERVING IN MILITARY BANDS Michael Dugan, United States Air Force A Band of Liberty David. J. Miller, The United States Navy Band Clifford Dale Moore, United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" Matthew Nudell, United States Air Force Band Twig Sargent, United States Naval Academy Band Ryan Terronez, United States Air Force Band of the Golden West

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SOM Alumna Libby Larsen Awarded Peabody Medal B.A., 1971/M.A., 1975/Ph.D., 1978, composition, student of Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento Libby Larsen was awarded the 2010 George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America along with James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Larsen, composer and founding member of the American Composers Forum (originally the Minnesota Composers Forum), received the Peabody Medal and addressed the Peabody Institute Conservatory’s graduation ceremony on May 27, 2010.

Student Profile: LaTannia Ellerbe D.M.A. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly LaTannia Ellerbe remembers her first meeting with Professor Sally O’Reilly. “Five minutes after meeting Ms. O’Reilly, I knew I’d be happy working with her. After observing a lesson, I was sold. I called my folks in my hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina and said ‘I’m going to Minnesota’”

just realizing that I like performing. When I arrived at the School of Music, I didn’t have technical ability—I didn’t have the chops.

I was nervous, scared, and self-conscious when performing. Ms. O’Reilly helped me to develop the ability to convey what I felt when I perform.”

Since her arrival at the School of Music, Ellerbe has kept an active calendar. In the span of one day, she spent the morning rehearsing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 with the University Symphony Orchestra, travelled across town to play with Christian rapper Ryan Daniel, and performed a fundraiser concert for Haiti with the nine-piece Twin Cities based salsa ensemble Charanga Tropical. This summer Ellerbe performed with Charanga Tropical at both the Minnesota State Fair and in the Chicago SummerDance Series in Chicago’s Grant Park.

On the subject of performance, Ellerbe recalls her fondest School of Music performance memory—performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs at Northrop Auditorium to a sold out audience last spring. She says, “It was such a rewarding experience because it was obvious we had an effect on the audience. It reminded me of the reason why we play music—to share with people. One of my good friends came up to me after the concert and all she could say was ‘oh my god.’”

As she embarks upon her final year at the School of Music, Ellerbe looks forward to giving her D.M.A. recital in the fall, “I’m

After graduation Ellerbe plans to perform and teach at the collegiate level.

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Welcome New Faculty

Alexander Fiterstein

Matt Rahaim

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Laura Sindberg

sean gregory

fernando meza Photo: Kym Thomson

irvine arditti

marin alsop Acclaimed Conductor Marin Alsop in Residence

gunther schuller

Photo: Thibault Stipal

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The SOM hosted internationally acclaimed conductor and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop in residence on October 5-6, 2009.

Alsop received an honorary degree from the University of Minnesota and gave the keynote address at the SOM Fall Convocation program in Ted Mann Concert Hall. Alsop will return to the SOM in April 2011, in connection with guest conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. She will meet with students and faculty currently participating in the school’s engaged department initiative.

A Musical Conversation with Gunther Schuller

On December 4, 2009, Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, performer, educator, and record producer of classical music and jazz, presented a talk and Q & A session for the SOM community. Schuller, one of the most important musical personalities of the 20th century, began his early career playing with Toscanini and Duke Ellington. The conversation was moderated by SOM director David Myers and was spon-

2009/2010 SEASON

highlights sored by the School of Music, The Schubert Club, and the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota.

Violinist Irvine Arditti Visits

In December 2009 the SOM’s Contemporary Music Workshop presented a special series of events featuring world-renowned British violinist Irvine Arditti in his first visit to the Twin Cities in more than 15 years. The series featured Arditti in a recital of new compositions for solo violin by students in the Contemporary Music Workshop lab and in concert with SOM professor/pianist Noriko Kawai performing the works of composer Iannis Xenakis and SOM composition professor James Dillon.

Le Quatuor Diotima Residency

In April 2010, the SOM presented internationally acclaimed Parisbased string quartet Le Quatuor Diotima. This ensemble is known for their rare ability to perform both classical and the most demanding contemporary repertoire at the highest level. During their four-day residency at the School of Music, they gave a master class, gave a lecture recital with faculty member Michael Cherlin, and performed a concert. The Diotima String Quartet Residency was funded through the Imagine Grants Special Events Fund.

Professor Fernando A. Meza’s Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference

Fernando A. Meza hosted the Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference from April 28 through May 1, 2010. Marimba 2010 brought innovative marimba artists from more than 20 countries to the Twin Cities for the common purpose of celebrating the marimba in its many formats around the world.

Marimba 2010’s artistic partners included prestigious Twin Cities organizations: the Minnesota Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, VocalEssence, The Schubert Club, Southern Theater, University of Minnesota School of Music, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, and Minnesota Public Radio.

Guildhall School of London’s Sean Gregory in Residence

Sean Gregory, director of Creative Learning for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Barbican Centre in London, UK, visited the SOM in April 2010. Creative Learn­i ng is a unique collaboration among the Guildhall, the Barbican Centre, and the London Symphony Orchestra to create the world’s leading center for performance, training, and education in the arts. Gregory gave talks and Q & A sessions with students, faculty, and the music community.

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University of Minnesota School of Music

FALL 2010 EVENTS AT A GLANCE Date Event

Time

Location

9/8

Guest and Faculty Recital: Instant Composition

5 p.m.

FH, 213

9/16

Guest Recital: Jürgen Essl, organ

7:30 p.m.

NMA

9/20

Faculty and Student Recital: Music of Bach and Baldwin

7:30 p.m.

LURH

9/24

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

TBD

FH, 225

9/25

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

TBD

FH, 225

10/12

Wind Ensemble

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/12

U of M Organ Alumni Showcase

7:30 p.m.

NMA

10/13

School of Music Convocation featuring Paul Phoenix

10 a.m.

TMCH

10/13

Symphonic Band and University Band

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/14

Jazz Ensemble I: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/16

10th Anniversary Collage Concert

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/18

Jazz Ensembles II and III

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/21

Campus Bands

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

10/22 Campus String Orchestra

7:30 p.m.

TBD

10/25 University Symphony Orchestra

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/1

Campus Orchestra: A Night of Dances

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/5

University Men’s and Women’s Chorus: Fall Program

7:30 p.m.

Off Campus

11/12

University Singers Fall Concert: The Music of Jeffrey Van

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/13

Marching Band Indoor Concert

7 p.m.

NMA

11/14

Marching Band Indoor Concert

3 p.m.

NMA

11/15

Faculty Recital: Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet and Timothy Lovelace, piano

7:30 p.m.

LURH

11/18

Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/19

Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/20

Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/20

Jazz Ensemble I opens for the JazzMN Orchestra

7:30 p.m.

Off Campus

11/21

Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry

1:30 p.m.

TMCH

See pages 16 and 17 for complete event and ticket information.

11/23

Wind Ensemble

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

11/23

U of M Organ Student Showcase

7:30 p.m.

NMA

11/29

Jazz Combos in Concert

7:30 p.m.

LURH

The School of Music 2010/2011 season is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and Radio K (www.radiok.org).

11/30

Wind Ensemble Chamber Music

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

12/1

Symphonic Band and University Band

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

12/2

Campus Bands

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

12/3

U of M Guitar Ensemble

4:30 p.m.

LURH

12/3

University Choirs: Sounds of the Season

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

FH : Ferguson Hall

12/6

Jazz Ensembles I and II: Old Wine, New Bottles

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

LURH : Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

12/11

Conducting Symposium

8 a.m.

FH

NMA : Northrop Memorial Auditorium

12/13

University Symphony Orchestra

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

12/15

Campus Orchestra and String Orchestra

7:30 p.m.

TMCH

12/21

Faculty Recital: Dean Billmeyer, organ

7:30 p.m.

NMA

TMCH : Ted Mann Concert Hall

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ALL SCHOOL EVENTS School of Music Convocation

With keynote speaker Paul Phoenix, member of internationally renowned The King’s Singers.

Wednesday, October 13 • 10 a.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

FALL 2010

EVENTS

10 Anniversary Collage Concert th

Featuring more than 300 students and faculty performing in a musical extravaganza on the beautiful Ted Mann Concert Hall stage!

Tickets: $16 adults/$11 children; U of M students, faculty, staff, alumni, and retirees. General admission.

612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu All proceeds support the School of Music Community Engagement Initiative.

Saturday, October 16 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

BAND EVENTS Wind Ensemble

Featuring the world premiere of Gregory Mertl’s Piano Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Winds with Solungga Liu, guest pianist (written for Solungga Liu and the U of M Wind Ensemble). Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, October 12 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Symphonic Band and University Band Jerry Luckhardt and Alicia Neal, conductors Wednesday, October 13 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Campus Bands

Eric Allen and John Zarco, conductors Thursday, October 21 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Marching Band Indoor Concerts

PLEASE NOTE

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 an updated and complete events calendar, visit music.umn.edu or call 612/62-MUSIC. Visit music. umn.edu to sign up for our free weekly e-newsletter.

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

University of Minnesota Alumni Association members receive faculty/ staff ticket prices.

Campus Bands

Eric Allen and John Zarco, conductors Thursday, December 2 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Conducting Symposium

Advanced registration required. Call 612/624-6873.

Saturday, December 11 • 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ferguson Hall

CHORAL EVENTS University Men’s and Women’s Chorus: Fall Program Friday, November 5 • 7:30 p.m.

University Lutheran Church of Hope 601 13 th Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN

University Singers Fall Concert: The Music of Jeffrey Van

Kathy Saltzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Christopher Owen, conductors Jeffrey Van, guitar Friday, November 12 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Choirs: Sounds of the Season

An all choir holiday event. Kathy Saltzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and graduate student conductors Friday, December 3 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

JAZZ EVENTS Jazz Ensemble I: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer Thursday, October 14 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Jazz Ensembles II and III

Tickets: 612/624-2345 – on sale after September 7 Saturday, November 13 • 7 p.m.

Sunday, November 14 • 3 p.m.

Northrop Memorial Auditorium

Monday, October 18 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Wind Ensemble

JazzMN Orchestra – Kenton’s 100th Kickoff featuring vocalist Stephanie Nakasian.

Tickets: www.jazzmn.org Saturday, November 20 • 7:30 p.m.

Hopkins High School Performing Arts Center 2400 Lindberg Dr, Minnetonka, MN

Featuring the regional premiere of Carter Pann’s Concerto Logic for Piano and Wind Symphony with Carter Pann, guest pianist. The program will also feature the The Singers, Minnesota Choral Artists, (Matthew Culloton, conductor) who join U of M Wind Ensemble in a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Mass. Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, November 23 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, November 30 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Symphonic Band and University Band Jerry Luckhardt and Alicia Neal, conductors Wednesday, December 1 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Jazz Ensemble I opens for the JazzMN Orchestra

Jazz Combos in Concert Monday, November 29 • 7:30 p.m.

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Jazz Ensembles I and II: Old Wine, New Bottles

Modern arrangements of classic jazz tunes.

Monday, December 6 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

OPERA EVENTS University Opera Theatre presents Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry

Libretto by Herschel Garfein. Based on the novel

by Sinclair Lewis. David Walsh, director Tickets: $22/$12 students & children. Two for one tickets for U of M students, faculty, alumni, staff, and retirees. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Thurs., Nov. 18 – Sat., Nov. 20 • 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 21 • 1:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

ORCHESTRAL EVENTS Campus String Orchestra

Performing Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Sibelius’s Rakastava (The Lovers). Foster Beyers, conductor Friday, October 22 • 7:30 p.m.

Location TBD

University Symphony Orchestra

Mark Russell Smith conducts the music of Johann Strauss, Jr. (Die Fledermaus Overture) and Berlioz’s ground-breaking Symphonie fantastique. Doctoral candidate Jeffrey Specht conducts Richard Strauss’s orchestral tour-de-force Don Juan.

Monday, October 25 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Campus Orchestra: A Night of Dances

Featuring Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite, Gounod’s Faust ballet music, Bizet’s Carmen Suite 1 and 2, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, and Strauss’s Blue Danube or Emperor’s Waltz.

Monday, November 1 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra

Featuring the Concerto Competition winner and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Master’s candidate Erik Rohde leads Gershwin’s American in Paris.

Monday, December 13 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Campus Orchestra and String Orchestra

ABOVE AND BEYOND U of M Organ Student Showcase

University of Minnesota organ students perform on the historic 108-rank Æolian-Skinner Pipe Organ in Northrop Memorial Auditorium.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Northrop Organ www.northroporgan.org Tuesday, November 23 • 7:30 p.m.

Northrop Memorial Auditorium

U of M Guitar Ensemble Friday, December 3 • 4:30 p.m.

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

GUEST/ALUMNI EVENTS Guest Recital: Jürgen Essl, organ

One of the foremost organists and composers in today’s European musical scene and a professor at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik, Jürgen Essl performs on the historic 108-rank Æolian-Skinner Pipe Organ in Northrop Memorial Auditorium.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Northrop Organ northroporgan.org Thursday, September 16 • 7:30 p.m.

Northrop Memorial Auditorium

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI)

Experience the finals of the Eighth Quadrennial IVCI in real time on a large screen format via Internet2. The competition will feature the finest playing from the next generation of concert artists.

Fri., Sept. 24 and Sat., Sept. 25 • Time TBD Ferguson Hall, Room 225

U of M Organ Alumni Showcase

University of Minnesota organ alumni perform on the historic 108-rank Æolian-Skinner Pipe Organ in Northrop Memorial Auditorium.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Northrop Organ northroporgan.org Tuesday, October 12 • 7:30 p.m.

Northrop Memorial Auditorium

FACULTY EVENTS Guest and Faculty Recital: Instant Composition

Finnish organist, music theorist, and composer Atte Tenkanen will give a lecture-demonstration on contemporary, art music related free improvisation together with SOM visiting professor Erkki Huovinen as his multi-instrumental duo companion.

Wednesday, September 8 • 5 p.m.

Ferguson Hall, Organ Studio (213)

Faculty and Student Recital: Music of Bach and Baldwin

Performing eight arias by Bach with trumpets, horns, timpani, and continuo featuring John De Haan, Thomas Ashworth, Fernando Meza, and John Tranter. Also featured are Dean Billmeyer, Charles Ullery, Michael Gast, and Caroline Lemen. Seven of Baldwin’s graduate students will perform his Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani.

Monday, September 20 • 7:30 p.m.

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Faculty Recital: Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet and Timothy Lovelace, piano

Debut recital of award winning clarinetist and faculty member Alexander Fiterstein with faculty member Timothy Lovelace, piano. The program will include works by Brahms, Debussy, and Weinberg.

Monday, November 15 • 7:30 p.m.

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Faculty Recital: Dean Billmeyer, organ

University organist Dean Billmeyer performs a special Winter Solstice Recital on the historic 108rank Æolian-Skinner Pipe Organ in Northrop Memorial Auditorium.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Northrop Organ northroporgan.org Tuesday, December 21 • 7:30 p.m.

Northrop Memorial Auditorium

Performing Dvorak’s New World Symphony and a symphony by F. J. Haydn.

Wednesday, December 15 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Wind Ensemble

Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Wednesday, February 17 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra

Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 Mark Russell Smith, Conductor Monday, March 7 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Time Lag Zero: A James Dillon Portrait featuring ensemble dal niente

Presented by the Southern Theater with support from the U of M School of Music Tickets: southerntheater.org or 612/340-1725 Sunday, April 3 • 7:30 p.m.

Southern Theater | Minneapolis

University Opera Theatre presents Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus

David Walsh, director Tickets: $22/$12 students & children. Two for one tickets for U of M students, faculty, alumni, staff, and retirees. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Thurs., Apr. 7- Sat., Apr. 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 10 at 1:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Band Extravaganza

Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, University Band/Campus Bands Thursday, April 29 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

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Meet Joe Sullivan,

College of Liberal Arts Development Officer little on piano, violin, and mandolin, but guitar is really where my heart—and abilities—are.

Q. Tell us a bit about your professional background.

A. I’m the new development officer for the Arts at the U. That means that I help raise much-needed funds for the School of Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, and the Department of Art. Prior to this position, I was the associate director for institutional giving at MacPhail Center for Music. And in the ten years before that, I was the founder and executive director of the East Metro Music Academy, a non-profit community music school based in St. Paul. Way back in 1982, I was a pre-business major in the College of Liberal Arts here at the U. So, this is a homecoming of sorts for me to be back on campus.

Q. What’s your musical background?

A. I started taking guitar lessons in second grade, and I graduated with a music and business degree from UW-Oshkosh.

Like the music majors here at the U, I completed a senior recital in classical guitar—so I know a lot about spending hours and hours practicing. I married a wonderful singer, and we continue to be active in music ministry at our church (along with our two children: a drummer and a budding pianist). My wife and I are also members of a vocal jazz ensemble called Shoop! I dabble a

Q. Favorite composer?

A. Seriously? Depends on hour of the day, day of the week. Debussy to Boling, Fernando Sor to Freddie Greene. I have way too many CDs, and yet I still continue to buy and download new music all the time. One of the great benefits of this position is the privilege of listening to so much great music performed by School of Music ensembles. My music history and music literature courses are coming alive!

Q. What excites you about working for the arts?

A. We now know more about the positive impact of music than ever before. Music fosters creativity, celebrates beauty and joy, and connects people across the globe. Music therapy harnesses the power of music to address health and behavioral issues. I love being able to raise money for arts causes that have such positive impact. As I’ve met music department graduate fellows and scholarship students, I’m astounded—not only with their talent, but with their desire to use music as a force for positive social change, for improving the lives of individuals, neighborhoods, and communities. Very exciting.

Q. Have you had the opportunity to attend SOM concerts and meet students?

A. Indeed! I’ve heard the Wind Ensemble, the University Symphony, marimba students, and attended two famous choral works, The Magic Flute (Mozart) and Elijah (Mendelssohn). And all of that, just since January. The biggest surprise?

That’s only about 1% of the scheduled events at SOM. On any given day, a person could attend one or more free

performances here at the U. That’s incredible! What other arts or music organization in town can say that? We have a right to be proud. Go Gophers!

Ski-U-Mah! Q. What is your favorite Twin Cities musical venue (besides Ted Mann Concert Hall)?

A. Again, this is like asking me my favorite food—I like it all! OK, well, for Minneapolis, I’d say The Dakota for jazz, First Avenue for rock. I’m a St. Paul boy, so I have to say the Ordway is a great place to hear classical, see Broadway shows, children’s festivals, many, many genres.

Q. Say I’m a music lover, but do not have the resources of Donald Trump.

How would a small gift benefit the School of Music?

A. You know, each gift is a miracle. People have no idea how SOM is stretching dollars these days—trying to assist on everything from student scholarship support, to maintaining musical instruments, supporting cutting-edge research and community outreach by our student interns. Even a small gift helps us so much. Donors can either designate how they’d like their gift used, or provide it to the general fund for the SOM. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested in making a gift. Please call me at 612/624-8573 or send me an email at jmsulliv@umn.edu. Thanks!

Interested in making a gift?

Contact Joe Sullivan at 612/624-8573 or jmsulliv@umn.edu

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Gifts made July 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010

Future gifts Natalie A. Gonzalez

Gifts of $100,000+ John E. Free Estate H. Eugene Karjala

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baton of Mark Russell Smith with the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra as part of the Marimba

2010 International Festival and Conference. 2. Voice student Phong Nguyen and bassoon student Rebecca Wilson perform in Le Renard (The Fox) in the University Opera Theatre’s fall 2009 production of Stravinsky in

Paris. 3. Staff member Sari Baker preps bratwursts for

the 2010 West Bank Arts Quarter Cooks. 4. Music education student Aaron Marks gives the student

address at the 2009 SOM Convocation. 5. Staff member Stanley Rothrock hands out chips at the 2010

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Woma performs at Marimba 2010. 8. Event narrator Dr. Joel Boyd and donor Craig Swan celebrate after the

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Jonathan Kolm. 9. Alumna Elizabeth Karelse on tour

in Japan with students. 10. Dancer Laura Miller and voice student Peter Frenz perform in Mavra in the University Opera Theatre’s fall 2009 production of

Stravinsky in Paris. 11. Marimbist Pei Ching Wu with U of M Percussion Ensemble members Hans Fredrickson, Eric Richardson, and Derek Olson during Marimba

2010. 12. Director of orchestral studies Mark Russell Smith leads the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs in performing Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide at convocation.

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School of Music News from July 2009 to May 2010

SCHOOL NEWS FACULTY NEWS

Akosua Addo (music education) and Guerino Mazzola (theory/composition) were recipients of 2010 Grants-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship awarded by The Office of the Vice President for Research.

Faculty emeritus Dominick Argento (composition) was featured in the November 2009 Star Tribune article “Argento still ‘making a statement.’” The Minnesota Opera launched a revival of Argento’s 1985 opera, Casanova’s Homecoming, at the Ordway Center in November.

In 2010, Lydia Artymiw (piano) performed solo recitals in Boston (MA), Louisville (KY), Santa Rosa (CA), Seoul (Korea), Chicago (IL), and Stephenville (TX). She performed Mozart concerti twice with the LaCrosse (WI) Symphony and with the U of M Symphony Orchestra (May). Chamber performances included two concerts with Minnesota Orchestra musicians, three recitals with cellist Angela Lee (Santa Rosa and Oakland, CA, March), Hampden Sydney Music Festival, VA (May), and Close Encounters with Music (Great Barrington, MA and Hunter, NY in June and at the Frick Museum in New York in October). She gave two world premieres in 2010: a July performance of Joan Tower’s Piano Quartet at the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Colorado and a November recital with cellist Zuill Bailey for the Music in the Park Series in St. Paul. Master classes were presented at MacPhail, Seoul National University, and Tarleton State University (TX).

David Baldwin (trumpet) presented a lecture recital at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Sydney, Australia in July: The Trumpet Etudes of Theo Charlier. Baldwin is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Trumpet Guild.

Dean Billmeyer (organ and harpsichord) was featured with the Minnesota Orchestra in the 2009 Sommerfest performance of Camille SaintSaëns’s Organ Symphony. Billmeyer performed music of Anton Heiller and lectured in German on the composer William Albright at Akademietage Regensburg - Anton Heiller and his Time held in Regensburg, Germany this past

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October. His article on the AGO Fellowship certification exam essay appeared in the April 2010 issue of the national publication The American Organist. In addition to appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw this spring, Billmeyer presented solo recitals in Ottumwa, IA, and La Crosse, WI. MinnPost.com featured Alexander Braginsky (piano) in the July 2009 article, “Piano-e-Competition: a Q&A with artistic director Alexander Braginsky” by Tatyana Thulien.

Immanuel Davis (flute) was featured on MPR’s Performance Today in April with guest and Belgian baroque flute virtuoso Barthold Kuijken.

The duo performed a Couperin duet. Davis also joined Kuijken and harpsichordist Dongsok Shin in a February recital of works by Bach, Couperin, Leclair, and Weiss. The recital took place at Sundin Hall at Hamline University.

The CD recording of James Dillon’s (composition) opera Philomela won the Grand Prix de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique 2010. A new recording of Dillon’s opera Philomela was released on the AEON label. In October, the world premiere of Dillon’s work The Leuven Triptych for 11 was given at the Transit New Music Festival (Brussels). In March, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra presented Dillon’s work for BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now. In November, Dillon was a featured composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival where five of his works were performed.

Dillon was featured in The Times of London article titled “James Dillon: ‘I am looking for an endless intensity.’”

James Flegel (guitar) performed a recital and master class at the U of M, Duluth in April, a co-presentation by the Minnesota Guitar Society and UMD. In February, Flegel participated in the 11th Columbus State University Guitar Symposium and Competition in Georgia where he adjudicated the College/Professional Division and the finals of the competition. Flegel performed Manuel Ponce’s Concierto del Sur for guitar with the University of Minnesota Morris Symphonic Winds in February. Flegel performed a solo recital at the University of St. Thomas in October. In November, he performed in a faculty concert at the U of M, Morris.

David Grayson’s (musicology) article “Finding a Stage for French Opera,” appears in a new book, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914, edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist and published by the University of Chicago Press.

Keitha Lucas Hamann’s (music education) article, “Music at Lincoln Junior High (Minneapolis) and the Lincoln Junior High Girls’ Band: 1923-1940,” was published in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Research in Music Education. Hamann also presented a session, “The Hip Hop Modules: Building Cultural Competency in Music Teacher Education” at the 2010 Biennial Music Educators National Conference in Anaheim, CA in March. Her session was one of 12 accepted for presentation out of more than 70 that were submitted.

Kelley Harness has been named Editor-inChief of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Elizabeth Jackson (former instrumental music education faculty member) was selected as the Minnesota Music Educators Association 2009/2010 Educator of the Year.

Noriko Kawai (keyboard) performed the piano concerto Alternative World-versions for Piano and Orchestra by Saed Haddad with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra for the New Music Festival Arena in Riga, Lativia in October.

In November, Kawai gave solo recital featuring two large-scale works by Emmanuel Nunes, Litanies du feu et de la mer I and II, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK).

The program included three world premieres: a new work by Thomas Simaku and two works by James Dillon. Kawai gave a concert of works by Saed Haddad in Villa Medici (French Academy), Rome, Italy in December.

Barbara Kierig (voice) served as one of two advisory judges along with Gayletha Nichols (executive director of the National Council Auditions) at the Midwest Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions and was asked to return to judge for the St. Louis District Met Opera Auditions.

In July, Craig Kirchhoff (associate director for curriculum advancement, director of bands, conducting) gave the keynote address at the American School Band Directors Association (ASBDA) in Orlando, FL and received the national Goldman Award (awarded to a nonASBDA member) from the Association. Kirchhoff also participated in conducting symposiums at the University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, Ithaca College, and Northwestern University.

Scott Lipscomb (music education) was the featured speaker at the Center for Cognitive

Sciences’ Colloquium in April. He gave a talk entitled “Music integration in the K-12 classroom: A collaborative research model.” Lipscomb was also one of three national music technology experts interviewed for the cover article of the February 2010 issue of Teaching Music. Entitled “Making the Tech Connection,” the article poses the following question to music teachers: Are you ready to integrate technology into your classroom?

In April Tim Lovelace (collaborative piano and coaching) and Young-Nam Kim (violin) joined Fred Sherry for a Chamber Music Society of Minnesota concert in Columbia Heights, MN. The program featured works by Elliott Carter, Shostakovich, and Brahms. Lovelace performed with Helen Callus in Santa Barbara. “Together they demonstrated the wonders of collaborative music-making. A seamless continuum of music existed… channeling the intent of the composer as if of one mind,” said the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Alex Lubet (theory/composition) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Disability Studies. In January, Lubet was a featured artist along with Hmong-spoken word artists in People of the Book (the song, the dance, and the picture), a Theatre Or presentation. In April and May, Lubet performed in the Mu Performing Arts’s Becoming, featuring School of Music alumna Iris Shiraishi (Ph.D., 1994, music therapy, student of Chad Furman). In April, Lubet hosted violinist Adrian Anantawan’s residency at the SOM in connection to Lubet’s new book Music, Disability, and Society (Temple University Press).

Glenda Maurice (voice, faculty emerita) was named classical arts activities associate at The Rivers, a senior independent and assisted-living facility, where she produced classes and organized a concert featuring David McGill (B.M., euphonium/trumpet, student of David Werden), soprano Tracy Gorman (D.M.A., voice, student of Glenda Maurice), bass baritone Nick Nelson (B.M., voice, student of Glenda Maurice), tenor Mario Perez (B.M., voice, student of Adriana Zabala), mezzo-soprano Reyna Sawtell (B.M., voice, student of Jean del Santo), baritone Benjamin Schoening (D.M.A., voice, student of Philip Zawisza), mezzo-soprano KrisAnne Weiss (D.M.A., voice, student of Glenda Maurice). Maurice’s program at The Rivers was featured in the Star Tribune article “A new stage for singer.”

In June, Guerino Mazzola (music theory/ collaborative arts) gave a talk titled “Gestural Shaping and Transformation in a Universal Space of Structure and Sound” at the International Computer Music Conference (New York City) on Rubato’s Composer Music Software component BigBang Rubette. In December,

The Functorial Approach in Music Informatics conference was dedicated to Mazzola’s theories and held at IRCAM (Paris). Mazzola and Lisa Rhoades (M.M. and music minor candidate, saxophone/composition) were invited to a series of jazz concerts in Tokyo and Yokohama in October 2010. They will co-author an invited talk “Embodiment of Authority in Performance” at the Sibelius Academy Conference (Helsinki) in September 2010. Springer Publishers will publish Mazzola’s forthcoming book on musical performance theory.

SOM faculty members Guerino Mazzola (theory/composition and collaborative arts), piano and Alex Lubet (theory/composition), bass and composition students James Holdman (D.M.A. candidate, student of Alex Lubet), guitar and Nicolai Zielinski (D.M.A. candidate, student of Alex Lubet) participated in Heart for Haiti: A Benefit Concert in February at the Ordway McKnight Theatre with all proceeds donated to Feed My Starving Children and The Clinton Bush Haiti Relief Fund. The Ordway, School of Music members, and the greater Twin Cities theater community sponsored the event to help those affected by the Haiti earthquake.

David Myers (director) keynoted the national conference of the Society for Music Teacher Education in September and the national research conference of MENC: The National Association for Music Education in March. He is an editorial board member for the Council for Research in Music Education and serves on several committees for the College Music Society. In September, he will deliver the Robert Trotter lecture for CMS’s national meeting.

Fernando Meza (percussion) was featured as the Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference artistic director and host in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press’s April article “A percussion professor’s dream comes true as marimba masters meet in the Twin Cities.” Meza’s CD J.S. Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites performed on marimba recently received a Just Plain Folks Music Award. Meza earned fourth place in the Classical Solo Album category.

Sally O’Reilly (violin) judged the national finales of Music Teachers National Association’s Junior High String Competition at their annual conference in Albuquerque and taught a master class for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony.

She also gave master classes in Graz, Austria at the Kunstuniversitet and in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Prague Conservatory.

Karen Painter (musicology/ethnomusicology) was featured in Barbara Isenberg’s article “Renoir paintings of his later years are on display at the LACMA” in the February 14, 2010 edition of the Los Angeles Times.

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In March Tanya Remenikova (cello) performed recitals at St. Paul Conservatory in collaboration with pianists Alexander Braginsky and Thelma Hunter, and a recital at the Museum of Russian Art (“Music at the Museum” series) with pianist Denis Evstyukhin (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky). In April she performed a duo recital in Excelsior for the “Music in Trinity” series with Braginsky. She performed two recitals with the Hill House Chamber Players in May. Tom Rosenberg (chamber ensembles) coached and travelled with two pre-college piano trios that both received honorable mention in the Chicago Chamber Music Competition. More than 30 groups participated from six states, and only one overall prizewinner was declared. Recent performances include a recital of solo Bach on a Yamaha electric cello in the Willamette View Auditorium in Portland, Oregon and local chamber music performances with both the Schubert Piano Trio and Isles Ensemble.

Rebecca Shockley (piano) visited the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing in June. She spent two weeks there, giving private lessons to piano students and a lecture on some littleknown works from the piano repertoire. In October, Shockley and her brother Karl Payne will perform with other pianists in a special concert in Cincinnati honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Keyboard Club. The organization was founded in 1935 by her mother, Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne, a prominent Cincinnati pianist.

Dean Sorenson (jazz) was Jerry Swanberg’s guest on Big Band Scene in October on KBEMFM (88.5). He performed with the Black Elk Jazz Band for a Band Boosters Fundraising event in March. His work Four by Four, commissioned by the Bucknell University Jazz Ensemble, received its premiere in April. His work And Of, commissioned by the Tennessee All State Jazz Enemble, was premiered in Nashville, TN in April. Sorenson was the featured soloist with the Willis Junior High Jazz Ensemble from Chandler, AZ. He wrote brass and string arrangements for Brother Ali’s latest album release, Us.

STAFF NEWS M a x G r i e s ( Te d Mann Concert Hall House Manager) was awarded PFund’s 2010 Power of One Award as a pioneering Twin Cities transgender activist and leader.

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Jeffrey Van’s (guitar) work A Procession Winding Around Me: Four Civil War Poems was the focus of the cover story by John Warren in the April 2010 edition of Choral Journal. Van performed in The Schubert Club and Minnesota Landmark Center’s Courtroom Concerts in April with Vern Sutton (voice, faculty emeritus). Van performed several of his own works as well as works by de Falla and Brouwer. His song cycle A Ring of Birds received its world premiere as a part of The Schubert Club’s Signature Songs series in September at the Landmark Center.

David Walsh (opera) was interviewed by the University of Minnesota’s Radio K for the Minnesota Notebook program in November 2009.

Clif Ware (voice, professor emeritus) performed We Sing of America which was a featured YouTube video.

David Werden (euphonium) performed at the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference in Tucson, AZ in May. He performed the world premiere of Summit for five euphoniums and piano by Ethan Wickman.

Angela Wyatt (saxophone) and the Ancia Quartet performed a concert in April at the Weisman Art Musuem. The concert featured the title work from Ancia’s recent CD, Short Stories by Jennifer Higdon, and the Minnesota premiere of Jeff Herriot’s as night descends, the waters beckon. The Quartet also performed Phil Woods’s Three Jazz Improvisations and Will Gregory’s High Life, based on the Highlife style of African pop music.

Mezzo soprano Adriana Zabala (voice) performed the role of Hansel in Hansel and Gretel in Austin Lyric Opera’s May 2010 production.

She also returned to the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain, to reprise the role of Mercedes in Carmen and sing the role of The Page in Salome, both under the direction of Zubin Mehta.

She finished the summer season performing her most frequent role, Rosina, with the Sugar Creek Symphony & Song in Illinois. Zabala also joined Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence for a rare performance of Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning in March.

Judith Lang Zaimont’s (composition, faculty emerita) Zones (Piano Trio No. 2) and the world premiere of the duo version of her Serenade were presented by the Appassionato Trio and the composer in February at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. This performance was part of Zones, a 4-day interdisciplinary symposium. Zaimont’s Hitchin’ – A Traveling Groove for solo piano was broadcast on WRTI-HD2 (Philadelphia), in August as part of Now is the Time, a weekly program of American contemporary music. Hitchin’ was written in 2007 and was commissioned by Nicola Melville’s Contemporary Music Project.

STUDENT NEWS

Bergen Baker (M.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) was accepted into the La Musical Lyrica summer program in Novafeltria, Italy where she performed the role of Annina in La Traviata.

In January, Jennifer Berg (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) won the North Central Division of the Music Teachers National Association’s Collegiate Artist Auditions in strings at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

She was first place winner in the College Division of MNSOTA’s Mary West Competition.

Berg and SOM alumna Margaret McDonald (B.M., 1998; M.M., 2000, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed in the finals of the Collegiate Artists String Competition at the Music Teachers National Conference held in Albuquerque, NM in March. Berg represented the North Central Division.

Laura Blair (M.M. candidate, voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was accepted into the Austrian Institute of Musical Studies in Graz for summer 2010. Blair was awarded a partial scholarship from the program.

Carolyn Cavadini (M.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) was accepted into the Sieur Du Luth summer program in Duluth, MN. She performed the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, as well as in song recitals and an aria gala concert with orchestra.

Hsiao-Chien Chou (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) won honorable mention in the 2009 New Tang Dynasty Television International Chinese Vocal Competition. After competing in the preliminary round in Taiwan, Chou competed in semi-final and final rounds in New York in August.

Matthew Culloton (M.M., choral conducting; D.M.A candidate, conducting, student of Kathy Romey and Matthew Mehaffey), founding artistic director and conductor of The Singers, Minnesota Choral Artists, received a review for The Singers’s performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37 in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.

Anna E. DeGraff (M.M. candidate, voice, student of John De Haan) was featured in the February 11 edition of The Minnesota Daily. The article followed DeGraff through her master’s recital process and discussed her journey as a School of Music student.

Kaylah Dockter (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) participated in the Miss Twin Cities Scholarship Organization Pageant and was crowned Miss Capital City. This crowning allowed her to compete in the 2010 Miss Minnesota competition.

Denis Evstyukhin (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) performed Chopin’s Scherzo No. 1 on American Public Media’s radio program A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at the Fitzgerald Theater in February. Evstyukhin is currently competing in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. The competition began with 366 contestants. After surviving the initial cut, Evstyukhin traveled to Warsaw in April for the next selection by international jury where the number of contestants was reduced to 81.

Evstyukhin will return to Warsaw in October with the remaining contestants to continue the competition, with all expenses paid by the Polish government.

Loren Fishman (M.M., 2009; D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Mozart D Minor Concerto with the Minnesota Sinfonia twice to capacity audiences at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis in March under the direction of his father Jay Fishman.

Ian Hodges (D.M.A. candidate, guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) spent a year of performing and teaching in Canada. Highlights included: recording electric and acoustic guitar tracks for two made-for-television movies; performing throughout Manitoba with the chamber ensemble Emerado, consisting of outstanding members of the University of Manitoba’s music faculty; presenting solo classical guitar recitals in Winnipeg, MB and St. Paul, MN for the Minnesota Guitar Society; presenting a jazz concert with some of Winnipeg’s finest players; and designing and presenting a series of guitar classes at the Long and McQuade Music School, including Introduction to Improvisation and Jazz Improvisation.

Colin Holter’s (D.M.A. candidate, composition, student of James Dillon) piece *Netwrought, commissioned by the Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra, was premiered on March 12. The premiere was featured in the Frederick News Post.

Bojan Hoover (B.M. candidate, percussion, student of Fernando Meza) hosted the 2010 Minnesota Percussion Association Day of Percussion at Anoka High School in Anoka, MN in January. More than 600 high school and college percussionists were in attendance. School of Music professor Fernando Meza (percussion) presented clinics on marimba transcriptions and Latin American percussion instruments, and affiliate faculty member Phil Hey (percussion/jazz) presented clinics on jazz drumset and Latin drumset playing. School of Music alumnus David Birrow (M.M. 2007, percussion, student of Fernando Meza) led a drum circle in the afternoon.

Valerie Little (D.M.A. candidate, viola, student of Korey Konkol) was invited to perform in the master classes at the 38th Annual International Viola Congress. Participation in these master classes is highly selective. Little performed Quincy Porter’s Suite for solo viola at this year’s congress, which took place in June in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tara Loeper (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Barbara Kierig) won second place in the Thursday Musical Club’s College Level Intermediate Division.

Aja Majkrzak (B.M. candidate, violin performance, student of Mark Bjork) participated in the Miss Twin Cities Scholarship Organization Pageant and was crowned Miss South Central.

This crowning allowed her to compete in the 2010 Miss Minnesota competition.

Tenor Mario Perez (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Adriana Zabala) was a winner in the first round of the Classical Singer vocal competition in the college division. Perez also competed in the next round in May in New York City.

Bryanne Presley (B.M. candidate, oboe, student of John Snow) was selected to perform on the National Public Radio show From the Top. She performed the first movement from Concerto in A minor for Oboe and Strings

by Ralph Vaughan Williams, accompanied by Christopher O’Riley. The live recording was held in May in Ames, IA. Joshua Rohde (B.M. candidate, cello and civil engineering, student of Tanya Remenikova) won the Senior Division performance category of the MNSOTA Mary West String Competition in November.

Bree Sprankle (M.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) was accepted into the Austrian Institute of Musical Studies in Graz for summer 2010. She was also accepted into La Musica Lyrica summer program in Novafeltria, Italy where she performed the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

Cassius Stein (B.M. candidate, guitar, student of James Flegel) performed in a master class with Michael Partington in December at the MacPhail Center for the Arts.

Yun-Chun (Jasmine) Sun (D.M.A. candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) was a winner of the Kenwood Symphony Concerto (KSO) Competition. She performed the Tchaikovsky’s Rococ variations in January as part of a fundraiser event for the KSO. Florian Thalmann (Ph.D. candidate, student of Guerino Mazzola) gave an invited talk at International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in New York City in June on the mu-

sic software Rubato’s composition component BigBang Rubette that is being developed in collaboration with professor Guerino Mazzola (theory/composition).

Sharri Van Alstine (Ph.D. candidate, music education, student of Akosua Addo) presented a poster of her ongoing research “Preservice Elementary Education Teachers: An International Approach to Music Methods Coursework” at the Internationalizing the Curriculum and Campus Conference at the University of Minnesota McNamara Alumni Center in March.

Rachel Vickers (M.M. candidate, voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was selected for the Opera in the Ozarks Festival’s production of Bizet’s Carmen, which ran in summer 2010.

Daniel Volovets (B.M. candidate, P.S.E.O. student, guitar, student of James Flegel) recently released his third album, Silhouette, featuring Brazilian, jazz, and flamenco music, as well as original compositions. In November, Volovets performed a recital of Russian music for classical guitar for the St. Paul Public Library and the Minnesota Guitar Society.

Soprano Elizabeth Windnagel (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Adriana Zabala) was accepted into SongFest 2010, a summer program of song immersion for young artists, which takes place in Malibu, CA. Yuhsuan Yang (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) and Elizabeth Karelse (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) won first and second prizes respectively in the graduate division of the Schubert Club competition in April 2010.

School of Music students presented an impromptu musical in April at Byerly’s in Golden Valley, MN which was featured on Minnesota’s KARE 11 News. Kristin Kenning (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of John De Haan, Jane De Haan, and Lawrence Weller) directed and Colin Holter (Ph.D. candidate, composition, student of James Dillon) composed the Mealtime Hero song. Cast members included students and alumni: Anna E. DeGraff (M.M. candidate, voice, student of John De Haan), Reyna Sawtell (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo), and Julia Engel (B.M. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo). The event was recorded and featured on YouTube. Professor David Walsh (opera) oversaw the production.

The University of Minnesota chapter of CMENC, the national student music education association, received national recognition for growth in membership, due to the work of its student officers: Tharon Knowlton (B.M. candidate, music education, student of Angela Wyatt), president; Ross Wolf (B.M. candidate, music education, student of Angela Wyatt), vice

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president; Emmi Schlaefer (B.M. candidate, clarinet, student of John Anderson and Karrin Meffert-Nelson), secretary; and Melissa Adorn (B.M. candidate, french horn, student of Michael Gast and Caroline Lemen), treasurer.

Members of CMENC participated in Relay for Life as part of the School of Music Team in April raising over $1000.

The electroacoustic improvisational quartet earWorm performed at the International Society for Improvised Music Fourth Annual Conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz in December. earWorm consists of SOM students James E. Holdman (Ph.D. candidate, composition, student of Alex Lubet) and Zachary Crockett (Ph.D. candidate, composition, student of Doug Geers and Alex Lubet), as well as SOM alumni Marc Jensen (Ph.D., 2008, composition, student of Alex Lubet) and Elliott McKinley (Ph.D., 2007, composition, student of Doug Geers and Alex Lubet).

IN MEMORIAM

Minnesota National Association of Teachers of Singing student audition semi-finalists included SOM voice students of Philip Zawisza: Ashley Adams (B.M. candidate), Will Bryant (B.M. candidate), and Anna Lorenzo (B.M. candidate); students of Jean del Santo: Shelby Adams (B.M. candidate), Bree Sprankle (M.M. candidate), and Johna Prichard (B.M. candidate); and a student of Barbara Kierig: Tara Loeper (B.M. candidate). Finalists include students of Jean del Santo: Beth Leverich (B.M. candidate), third place, Lower College Women Division; Renya Sawtell (B.M. candidate), first place, Lower College Women Division; Kaylah Dockter (B.M. candidate), first place, Upper College Women Division; Wei Zheng

(D.M.A candidate), second place, Graduate Division; and Carolyn Cavadini (M.M. candidate), third place, Graduate Division; and a student of Philip Zawisza: Anna Overlein (B.M.E. candidate), second place.

String students Esther Peterson (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), David Preston (M.M. candidate, viola, student of Korey Konkol), Hannah Schendel (B.M. candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), and Vivian Sun (D.M.A. candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) performed Mendelssohn’s String Quartet, Op. 13 for a Haiti benefit concert in May in Roseville, MN.

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VocalEssence founder and artistic director Philip Brunelle was honored with a “Local Legend” award at the 20th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast.

The event, hosted by the United Negro College Fund and the General Mills Foundation, was held in January. Under his leadership 20 years ago, VocalEssence launched WITNESS, an initiative that celebrates the contributions of African Americans to American heritage through concerts, recordings, and education.

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University of Minnesota brain researcher Roger Dumas (B.S., music education; M.A., Learning Technology (UST); Ph.D. candidate, cognitive science) and coauthor Apostolos Georgopoulos’s paper, “What

Frances Wilma Gilman Miller Aspnes (harp, former SOM faculty member) passed away on March 10, 2010. A memorial celebration of Miller’s remarkable life was held on Monday, May 17 at Plymouth Congregational Church, in Minneapolis, MN. Memorial contributions in Frances Miller’s name may be made to the Minnesota Chapter of the American Harp Society, scholarship endowment, c/o Jann Stein, 444 Lonesome Pine Trail, Lino Lakes, MN 55014.

Donna Cardamone Jackson (music history, faculty emerita) passed away on October 17, 2009. Cardamone joined the music faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1969 and retired in 2007. During her tenure, she guided many music history students to successful careers with colleges and universities around the world. Her scholarly research and writings focused on music and musicians in social, cultural, and historical contexts. She published three books of sixteenth-century compositions in modern editions. This effort as well as consulting with performing groups, writing album liner notes, and translating song texts brought the music of 400 years ago to life.

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Prewhitened Music Can Tell Us About MultiInstrument Compositions” was accepted for publication by the Journal of Mathematics and Music.

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Peggy Hill-Breunig (B.S., music education), oboist, pianist, and management and education consultant, was awarded the Wisconsin Music Educators Association 2009 Distinguished School Board Member Award “for exceptional support of an environment in which music and the other arts can be an important part of the school and community.” Serving on the Waunakee Community School District Board of Education since 2003, she performs in community groups and accompanies high school instrumental students at solo/ensemble festivals. She received the award at the state music conference where, in 2008, she co-presented a session entitled “21st Century Skills and Music.”

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Gregory Walker (Ph.D., composition, student of Paul Fetler) was appointed head of the Fine Arts Division of the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in May 2009. Walker has taught in the joint music department of the colleges for the past 31 years.

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Michael Hiatt (M.A., music education, student of Stephen Schultz), former president of Minnesota Music Educators Association and director of professional development and research at the Perpich Center for Arts Education, was elected to the MMEA Hall of Fame.

Lynn L. (Kitzerow) Petersen’s (Ph.D., music theory/composition, student of Dominick

School of Music alumna Ruth Jacobson (D.M.A., 2008, voice, student of Jean del Santo) passed away on February 17, 2010. Jacobson taught voice at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and Bemidji State University during the past few years. In March, the Jacobson family held a memorial in Duluth, MN. Jacobson joined the voice faculty at University of Nevada Los Vegas in August 2009. Her duties included vocal instruction for graduate and undergraduate students and head of the opera department.

Stephen Schultz (music education, faculty emeritus) passed away on October 16, 2009. Schultz joined the U of M School of Music faculty in 1969. Schultz attended Northwestern University where he earned his B.A., M.M., and Ph.D. An innovator in music education, he inspired many future teachers. The Minnesota Music Educators Association honored him with a Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Schultz retired from the University of Minnesota in 2000.

Donations can be made to the SOM Scholarship Fund, payable to the U of M Foundation; “In memory of Steve Schultz.”

Argento and Paul Fetler) Whirlwind Duo was performed by organist J. Melvin Butler and flutist Brian Fairbanks at the 2009 AGO Regional Convention in Seattle. Her song cycle, Patterned for Thee, based on poetry of the late Sister Annette Moran, was commissioned for Carroll College’s Centennial and premiered in July 2009, accompanied by professional dance.

In fall 2009, Petersen completed a sabbatical studying jazz composition with Dr. Gregory Yasinitsky at Washington State University. Her latest publications with Augsburg Fortress are Starry Crown Suite and More: Hymn Tune Settings for Organ and In Royal David’s City: Carols for Piano.

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John Knutson (B.M., piano, student of Paul Freed), choral music professor at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, was selected as Teacher of the Year by his colleagues.

He conducts three choirs: a small select choral jazz group and two larger ones.

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Glenn Donnellan (B.M., M.M., violin) performed The Star-Spangled Banner at a Washington Nationals game on a homemade violin-bat. His performance was featured on YouTube and in The New York Times’s Arts Beat column. Donnellan is currently a violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra.

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John Gilbert (D.M.A., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), chair of strings and professor of violin at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, was featured in The Barrie Examiner. Gilbert is currently serving as concertmaster of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

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Scott Anderson (D.M.A., trombone, student of Thomas Ashworth) was promoted to professor of trombone at the University of Nebraska School of Music. Anderson has taught at UNL since 1996.

David Evan Thomas’s (Ph.D., composition, student of Dominick Argento) work AFFECTIONS, commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with assistance from Dobson and Jane West for the Blue Baroque Band, was premiered by the Band in February in Saint Paul, MN.

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Susan Becker Billmeyer (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed in one of the Minnesota Orchestra’s chamber music concerts at MacPhail in May. Alejandro Cremaschi’s (M.M./D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) CD for the Meridian label (CDE 84571), La Puertas del Tiempo – Music of Luis Jorge Gonzalez, received a rave review in Fanfare. He continues as associate professor of piano and pedagogy at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Philip Norris (D.M.A., trumpet, student of David Baldwin) is professor of music at Northwestern College in Roseville, MN, where he has taught since 1993. In February 2009, the Memphis Symphony and its principal trumpet, Scott Moore, performed Norris’s arrangement of Eric Ewazen’s Sonata for Trumpet entitled Concerto No. 1 for Trumpet and Orchestra. In July 2009, he served as trumpet instructor and performer at Masterworks Festival (IN), and he played off-stage trumpet in the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest concert performance of Verdi’s Aida.

Tami Lee Hughes (B.M., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), assistant professor of violin at the University of Kansas, received a New Faculty Research Grant to record pieces by African American composers. She will record five pieces written between 1810 and 2009, including Jazz Suite by David Baker. This project is dedicated to her grandmother who passed away in August 2009. Hughes performed recitals at the University of Kansas, the University of Iowa, and the University of Costa Rica.

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Chisato Eda Marling (M.M., saxophone, student of Richard Dirlam) completed her doctor of musical arts in saxophone performance and literature with minor in music wellness and arts leadership certificate in March 2008 from Eastman School of Music.

In 2003, she began teaching at Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). She started teaching at Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, NY) in 2004 and Houghton College (Houghton, NY) in 2005. She formed Duo du Soliel with pianist Sharon Johnson (D.M.A., 2008, accompanying/coaching, student of Margo Garrett and Timothy Lovelace), and the duo completed its Midwest tour in 2008. The duo regularly performs in New York. Marling also formed Vertex Saxophone Quartet, which successfully completed its first season of concerts.

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Christopher Gable (Ph.D., composition, student of Judith Lang Zaimont) teaches theory and composition at Macalester College. In 2009 he began teaching at the University of North Dakota. December saw the publication of his first book, The Words and Music of Sting (Praeger Publishers). Gable’s work By the Fireside received its premiere and was commissioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus in honor of the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. His second opera, The Ladysmith Story, was premiered in Ladysmith, Wisconsin in July 2010. It featured several School of Music alumni in major roles and in the creative and production staff.

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Gail Olszewski (D.M.A., piano, student of Margo Garrett and Karl Paulnack) was hired in August 2009 by the University of Wisconsin, River Falls as adjunct piano faculty.

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Kirsten Volness (B.A., student of Judith Lang Zaimont) is the recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts’s most prestigious award in the field of music composition, the 2010 RISCA Composition Fellowship Award. The RISCA Fellowship review panel described her work as, “sophisticated and interesting.” In February, Volness was featured in the 2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition at Imago Gallery in Warren, Rhode Island. Volness currently resides and teaches in Providence, RI.

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David France (M.M., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed with Quincy Jones, Kenny Rogers, and John Legend, along with an all-star line-up of musicians and performers, in the 14th Annual Bermuda Music Festival in October.

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Robb Asklof (M.M., voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra in their Scandinavian Concert in December; sang the role of Janek in The Bartered Bride with Western Plains Opera; sang Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Skylark Opera; sang Janek in the Bartered Bride with Western Plains Opera in September; and sang Camille in Skylark Opera’s The Merry Widow in June.

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Victor Barranco (B.M., trumpet, student of Tom Ashworth) was chosen to be jazz trombonist with the U.S. Army Blues, the premiere jazz ensemble of the U.S. Army based in Washington, DC. Barranco won the third trombone spot after competing in a long multi-round audition involving 12 contestants. He was also chosen to join the orchestra for the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof. The tour group, based out of New York City, traveled to several U.S. cities throughout 2009.

Corey Hamm’s (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) current University of British Columbia D.M.A. piano student Chris Morano won third prize at the 33rd Eckhardt-Gramatte Contemporary Piano Music Competition in Canada. Morano played works by Canadians Howard Bashaw, Paul Frehner, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Karen Sunabacka, and S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatte and Henri Dutilleux, Arno Babadjanian, Ronn Yedidia, Gyorgy Ligeti, and David Rakowski. Hamm continues as assistant professor of piano at UBC in Vancouver, Canada.

Stefan Kac (B.A., tuba, student of David Werden) presented and performed with the Symphonic Transients Orchestra in February at the Bedlam Theatre. The Symphonic Transients Orchestra project was created by Kac’s Consortium of Symphonic Transients.

Wonny Song (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) had a concerto tour with the Latvian

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National Orchestra in January in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Okayama, Ehime, and Aichi) and also performed concerti with I Musici of Montreal (in Montreal and New York) and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. He played a solo recital at Williams College in Williamstown, MA in April and continued his partnership with violinist Alexandre da Costa with duo recitals in Canada. Song continues to teach at the Lambda School in Montreal.

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James Plante (B.M., voice, student of Barbara Kierig) sang in the ensemble and several feature roles in Maury Yeston’s Phantom with the Arizona Broadway Theater in May. Marcia L. Thoen’s (Ph.D., music education, student of Paul Haack) article “Early Twentieth Century Orchestra Education Outreach in Minneapolis: Young People’s Symphony Concert Association and the Repertoire Programmed and Conducted by Emil Oberhoffer 1911-1922,” was published in the October 2009 Journal of Historical Research in Music Education.

Thoen teaches in the Wayzata Public Schools and taught music education during the 2009 spring semester at the SOM.

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Hyeson Sarah Ahn (D.M.A., piano, student of Alex Braginsky) was appointed to the adjunct piano faculty at Normandale Community College for the 2010 spring semester.

Abbie Betinis (M.A., composition, student of Judith Zaimont) was recently featured on Minnesota Public Radio with host John Birge.

For the ninth straight year, Betinis brought her friends to the MPR studio to sing the world premiere of an original Christmas carol. This year’s Betinis original was Be Like the Bird. The MPR Carolers, featuring SOM alumnae Carrie Henneman Shaw (D.M.A., 2009, voice, student of John De Haan) and Kim Sueok (M.M., 2007, voice, student of Lawrence Weller), joined Betinis.

K. Christian McGuire (M.A., musicology, student of Donna Cardamone Jackson) lectured on medieval music manuscripts for the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Medieval Studies and HMML at St. John’s University. He was named treasurer for the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies. Currently McGuire is the resident studio artist of Electric Bass at Augsburg College where he also directs the Improvisation and Rock Ensembles and instructs music history and theory.

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Andrew Staupe (M.M., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed a second tour in Europe in April 2010, with solo recitals in Bucharest, Rumania (Ateneul Roman) and Riga, Latvia (Small Guild Hall). Chamber concerts were at the Terrace Theater (Kennedy Center) and the Library of Congress (both in Washington, DC) in March. Summer 2010 appearances included the Orcas Island Chamber Festival (WA) and the Festival of the Hamptons (NY). Staupe won two gold medals in 2010: Young Texas Artists Competition and the Shepherd School Concerto Competition. He is completing his D.M.A. at the Shepherd School at Rice University in Houston.

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Vicki Fingalson (D.M.A., voice, student of Barbara Kierig) sang Musetta in a concert version of La Boheme with the West Virginia Symphony. Fingalson performed the role of Hanna Glawari (the Widow) in Skylark Opera’s The Merry Widow in June. She also performed Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel with the Minnesota Orchestra in December.

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Allison Buivid (M.M., voice, student of John De Haan) was the national first place winner at the Classical Singer magazine University Vocal Competition. She was named top collegiate soprano by the National Federation of Music Clubs and received the Fowler/Theisen/Muir scholarships. She performed in productions with Opera Theater St. Louis (summer 2010). Buivid was selected to be part of the Gerdine Young Artist program where she performed in the choruses of Marriage of Figaro and Eugene Onegin and the role Miranda Grope in The Golden Ticket. She will perform in the chorus for the Minnesota Opera’s 2010/2011 season.

Anna Hersey (M.M., 2007, voice, student of Lawrence Weller; M.A., musicology, student of Kelley Harness), currently a doctoral student at the University of Miami, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2010/2011 academic year. She will use the Fulbright award, in addition to a grant from the Swedish Women’s Education Association, to study at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm, Sweden. While there, she will work closely with renowned pianist and coach Matti Hirvonen to further her research in the area of Swedish song repertoire and lyric diction.

Pianist Eric McEnaney (D.M.A., collaborative piano, student of Tim Lovelace and Noriko Kawai) made an appearance on KSTP-TV’s Twin Cities Live with tenor Bruno Ribeiro. The duo performed an excerpt from Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux to promote the Minnesota Opera production.

Jennifer Osterman (M.M., piano, student of Paul Shaw) was hired to teach piano at the MacPhail Center for Music.

Woobin Park (D.M.A., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed at the Seoul Arts Center Recital Hall in March 2010. Half of her program was solo, and her former teacher Lydia Artymiw (piano) joined her in the other half with two piano works by Ravel and Schumann.

Both received a rave review in the May issue of Korean Piano Magazine. Park recently became Artist-in-Residence for the Strathmore series in Maryland.

Zachary Saathoff (B.M., violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Graz, Austria, where he is a pupil of professor Yair Kless at the Kunstuniversitet.

He was selected from recordings sent in by American grantees all over Europe as the only violinist to perform at the Fulbright Program’s Berlin Seminar. Saathoff performed the Mozart G Minor Piano Quartet at the Universitet der Kunst in Berlin. At age 20, Saathoff is one of this year’s youngest Fulbright grantees.

Carrie Henneman Shaw (D.M.A., voice, student of John De Haan) was one of four soloists/ensembles awarded a McKnight Artists Fellowships from MacPhail Center for Music. MacPhail administered the competition, a component of the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships program, which is intended to provide recognition and financial support to Minnesota musicians as they explore and develop their skills.

Tyler Wottrich (B.M., piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed in the Madeline Island Music Festival’s 25th anniversary concert in July with former faculty Jorja Fleezanis and the Pacifica String Quartet.

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In May, Elizabeth Karelse (D.M.A., piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) was invited to give a piano recital series in Okayama, Japan. A review in the Sanyo newspaper stated that, “Her beautiful tone was full of variety. Her exciting performance was often passionate, sometimes melancholy, and other times cheerfully uplifting. Her strong melodic lines deeply moved the hearts of the more than 800 audience members.” Part of the profit was donated to help support education in the Okayama region, a cause that Karelse, a former piano teaching assistant with a secondary area in pedagogy, is passionate about.

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