Rediscovered Prokofiev: Premieres and Rarities

Yale School of Music · Robert Blocker, Dean Yale in New York · David Shifrin, Artistic Director

REDISCOVERED

PROKOFIEV Premieres & Rarities

honorary co-chairs Valery Gergiev • Viktor Vexelberg

prokofiev society of america

february 8, 2010 Music of Sergei Prokofiev

yale in new york

REDISCOVERED

PROKOFIEV Premieres & Rarities

Schubert Waltzes (1928) Arranged for two pianos by Prokofiev boris berman* piano robert blocker* piano

Trapeze (1924) Moderato, molto ritmato (Overture) Allegro (Matelote) Theme and Variations (The Ballerina) Andante energico Allegro sostenuto, ma con brio (Dance of the Tumblers) Adagio pesante Allegro precipitato, ma non troppo presto Andantino (Mourning the Ballerina) stephen taylor* oboe emil khudyev ’11mm clarinet marc daniel van biemen ’10cert violin ettore causa* viola aleksey klyushnik ’11mm bass

intermission

preview concert

sergei prokofiev { 1891-1953 }

Music for Athletic Exercises (1939) boris berman piano adam hendrickson choreographer elysia dawn, colby damon, matthew renko dance soloists

Distant Seas (1948) elizabeth de trejo ’01mm soprano dann coakwell ’11mm tenor rolando sanz ’02mm, ’03ad tenor john hancock baritone boris berman* piano * Yale School of Music faculty

February 8 at 8pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

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REDISCOVERED

PROKOFIEV

by Boris Berman

Schubert Waltzes (1923) In 1923, Prokofiev made a two-piano version of a suite of Schubert waltzes.

Prokofiev had strung together the original suite, for one piano, back in 1919.

He made this arrangement for a small touring ballet company of the Russian Romantic Theatre in Berlin. The two pianos were meant to stay on stage, becoming a part of the stage setting.

Trapeze (1924) For the same performance, Prokofiev wrote music for the ballet Trapeze. Asked to use as small instrumental force as possible, Prokofiev chose a quintet of oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass. Six movements of the score became well known as the Quintet, Op. 39. Two additional movements were later used in Prokofiev’s Divertimento for orchestra, Op. 43. Recently, these two movements were reconstructed in their original quintet form by British musicologist Noelle Mann, and the eight-movement score of Trapeze was published. Tonight marks the New Haven premiere of the complete version.

Music for Athletic Exercises (1939) Prokofiev was commissioned to write music to accompany one episode of a huge athletic pageant which took place on the Red Square in Moscow on July 6, 1939 and involved 30,000 athletes from all over the Soviet Union. The performance of sportsmen from Leningrad was supposed to be staged by the great

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O The Prokofiev Society of America continues to bring the music of the great Russian composer to the attention of the New York audiences. The program in Morse Recital Hall and Zankel Hall consists of a world premiere and three rarely performed works.

director Vsevolod Meyerhold, but he was arrested shortly before the projected performance and subsequently shot in Stalin's prison. It was Meyerhold who recommended Prokofiev as a composer to be commissioned to write the music.

According to the contract, Prokofiev's music was to be orchestrated by another composer. While the orchestral score has disappeared, the manuscript of the piano score of the music survived and was published in 2004. The perormance version heard today has been prepared by the musicologist Simon Morrison.

The original choreography by Adam Hendrickson was created for this performance and receives its premiere tonight.

Distant Seas (1948) Although this title has appeared in the literature as one of Prokofiev’s unrealized opera projects of 1948, nobody knew how much music had been actually composed for it. The manuscript of the piano score of an extensive fragment of the opera was discovered in a Moscow archive by Simon Morrison, who kindly made the score available for this world premiere.

With this opera, Prokofiev attempted to write a light lyric comedy on a contemporary Soviet subject, with the intent of avoiding content that might seem politically controversial or problematic. Based on the play The Honeymoon Voyage (Svadebnoye puteshestviye) by Vladimir Dychovichniy, the libretto was drafted by the composer and his wife, Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva. After working on the opera for some two months, Prokofiev abandoned it for other projects. A few years later, the composer thought of resuming work on Distant Seas, but he died before realizing his intentions.

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What survived of the music is the beginning of the opera. It is fairly complete with the exception of some lines of the libretto, which are missing even though the music has been written. The missing text was reconstructed for this performance by Marina Kostalevsky, Associate Professor of Russian at Bard College. Prokofiev’s draft of the introduction was completed by the composer Yevgeniy Sharlat ’03mm, ’08dma, assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin.

Synopsis and Abridged Text The action takes place in a student dorm of a Leningrad university. The characters are three friends: Kostik, Andrey, and Mark, students in marine sciences.

They dream about the careers of Arctic sea explorers and hope to join a research expedition. Andrey and Mark suspect that Kostik has fallen in love with Zoya and decide to prevent him from marrying her. They concoct a plot in which Andrey will woo Zoya away from Kostik, and Mark will pretend that he has married so that he can scare Kostik with stories of the perils of married life.

Kostik tries to lighten the mood by telling a joke: A cab with three drunks pulls up to one of their houses. Two of them prop their friend against the wall and go to ring the bell. Before reaching for the bell they notice that their friend has fallen down. They return, stand him up, and go back to ring the bell, but he falls down again and again. Exasperated, they appeal to the driver: “See how bad it is to drink yourself to this state?” The driver responds: “It’s really awful.

For the third time you are trying to make your friend stand on his head.”

Andrey and Mark do not find the joke funny and punish Kostik by making him crawl under the table. They dance a mocking minuet.

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A rtis t P ro f i l e s

/ Boris Berman boris berman, piano, is well known to the audiences of more than forty countries on six continents. He regularly appears with leading orchestras, on major recital series, and in important festivals. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the distinguished pianist Lev Oborin. An active recording artist and a Grammy nominee, Mr. Berman was the first pianist to record the complete solo works by Prokofiev (Chandos). Other acclaimed releases include all piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (Music and Arts) and a recital of Shostakovich piano works (Ottavo), which received the Edison Classic Award in Holland. His recording of three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Neeme Jarvi (Chandos) was named the Compact Disc of the Month by CD Review. Other recordings include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Franck, Weber, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Joplin, and Cage.

In 1984, Mr. Berman joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he is professor of piano, coordinator of the piano department, and music director of the Horowitz Piano Series. He also gives master classes throughout the world, and in 2005 he was named an honorary professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2000, Yale University Press published Mr. Berman’s Notes from the Pianist’s Bench; since then, the book has been translated into several languages.

In 2008, the same publisher released Mr. Berman’s new book Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer.

/ Robert Blocker robert blocker began his study of piano at the age of five, presenting his first public recital two years later. Today, he concertizes throughout the world.

His engagements have included performances in the United States, Europe, Mexico, China, and Korea, Thailand, and several Pacific Rim countries. Recent orchestral engagements include the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Houston Symphony, Monterey Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony and Daejeon (South Korea) Symphony. In 2009, Naxos released a CD of three Mozart concerti performed by Blocker with the Biava Quartet. Robert Blocker has been the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music at Yale University since 1995. In 2006 Blocker was named Honorary Professor of Piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 2000, Steinway and Sons featured Robert Blocker in its film commemorating the tercentennial year of the piano along with Billy Joel, Van Cliburn and others. He appears regularly on national radio and television as both artist

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and commentator. In 2004 the Yale University Press published The Robert Shaw Reader, edited by Robert Blocker. Now in its third printing, the volume is presently being translated for publication in Korea.

/ Ettore Causa ettore causa, viola, studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy with Alberto Lysy, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and Johannes Eskar, and with Michael Tree at the Manhattan School of Music. He has been first solo viola of the Carl Nielsen Philharmonic (Denmark) and leader of the Copenhagen Chamber Soloists. In 2000, he was awarded the Peter Schidlof Prize and the John Barbirolli Prize at the prestigious Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. He has since made solo and recital appearances around the world, performing in such halls as Victoria Hall (Geneva), Zurich Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Barcelona Auditorium, Salle Cortot (Paris), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Hall, and MSM Auditorium (New York). He has played at major festivals including the Menuhin, Festival de Estoril, Salzburg, Festival del Pontino, Tivoli (Copenhagen), Perth, Prussia Cove (England), Savonlinna, and Lanaudiere (Canada). Devoted to chamber music, he is a member of the Aria Quartet and is regularly invited to play with colleagues such as Pascal Rogé, Thomas Adès, Jeremy Menuhin, Ani Kavafian, and others. In 2001 Ettore Causa was appointed professor of viola and chamber music at the International Menuhin Music Academy. He is regularly invited to give master classes in Europe and Argentina. His first recording, for Claves, was crowned with the 5 Diapason. A new recording (also on Claves) has already been highly praised by critics worldwide. Ettore plays on a viola made for him by Frederic Chaudiere in 2003.

/ Dann Coakwell dann coakwell ’11mm, tenor, is an avid performer of oratorio, opera, concert and chamber music, specializing in roles by composers such as Bach, Rossini, and Britten. Recent solo performances of note include J.S. Bach's Cantata 80, “Ein feste Burg,” with Masaaki Suzuki in New Haven, Conn; Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with Maestro Sidney Harth in Shreveport, La.; Tenor Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion in Dallas, Tex.; and solo tenor with 5-time Grammy®-nominated Conspirare in their period production of Handel’s Messiah in Austin, Tex. Also a singer in select vocal ensembles, Dann is on recordings that include all three of Conspirare's Grammy®-nominated albums (a

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featured soloist on the most recent), as well as the latest releases of Haydn’s late masses under Grammy®-winning German conductor Helmuth Rilling.urrently pursuing an Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, Dann holds a master of music degree from Texas Tech University and a bachelor of music degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

/ Elizabeth de Trejo elizabeth de trejo, soprano, made her solo Carnegie Hall debut under John Rutter and recently sang Gilda in Rigoletto with Toledo Opera. This season she debuts the role of Lucia with Opera Tampa and joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in its production of Lulu. Recent seasons include the roles of Adina in L’elisir d’amore (Dayton), Violetta in La Traviata (Miami), Adele in Die Fledermaus (Milan), a live recording with Orchestra Verdi in the title role of Mascagni’s Il Si, Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette (Tampa), and Rosina in Anton Coppola’s Sacco and Vanzetti. Elizabeth has given numerous concerts and recitals in Europe and the US, working with notable conductors and appearing as soloist in such works as Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Beethoven’s Mass in C, and the Brahms, Fauré, and Mozart Requiems. Her awards include the Gerda Lissner Opera Competition (second place), MacAllister Opera Competition (Matthias Award), Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Connecticut and Gulf Coast regions), Jenny Lind Soprano Competition, Rosa Ponselle Competition, Giulio Gari Foundation Opera Competition, and the Liederkranz Competition. Ms. de Trejo received a career grant from the Career Bridges Foundation and the Sergio Franchi Foundation. She can be seen on the recently released EMI Classics DVD of Der Rosenkavalier live from Opernhaus Zürich. Ms. de Trejo attended Loyola University (BM, 1999) and the Yale School of Music (MM, 2001). She sang in the International Opera Studio with the Opernhaus Zürich from 2003-2004.

/ John Hancock john hancock, baritone. Acclaimed for his refined vocalism and theatrical versatility, baritone John Hancock made his Metropolitan Opera debut as le Gendarme in Les Mamelles de Tirésias under James Levine. His other roles with the company include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Falke in Die Fledermaus, Albert in Werther, Brétigny in Manon, Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème, and the 2008-09 Renée Fleming gala. At San Francisco Opera, he has sung Sharpless, Yeletsky, and Lescaut. Hancock has created

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leading roles in several world premieres, including Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (l’Opéra de Monte Carlo), Stephen Paulus’s Heloise and Abelard (Juilliard), and Michael Torke’s Strawberry Fields (Glimmerglass Opera, later broadcast on PBS Great Performances). Other performances include Ramiro in l’Heure espagnole with Seiji Ozawa’s Veroza Opera Japan, the title role in Eugene Onegin at Opera Ireland, and John Buchanan in Lee Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke at Central City Opera. John Hancock made his Carnegie Hall debut in Carmina Burana with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Collegiate Chorale. His concert repertoire also includes Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Kindertotenlieder, Zemlinksy’s Lyric Symphony, Schoeck’s Nachhall, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, and Gounod’s Mors et Vita. He collaborates frequently with the Bard Music Festival, American Symphony Orchestra, and New York Festival of Song, and has received grants and prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Loren L. Zachary Society, Sullivan Foundation, and Shoshana Foundation.

/ Aleksey Klyushnik aleksey klyushnik ’11mm, double bass, studies with Donald Palma at the Yale School of Music. He is a winner of the 2008 Parness Young Artists Concerto Competition.

/ Emil Khudyev emil khudyev ’11mm. Born in 1986 in Turkmenistan, clarinetist Emil Khudyev ’11MM began his musical training under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory.

At the age of 7, Emil was admitted to the Special Music School of Turkmenistan.

In 2001 he won a full scholarship to attend the Interlochen Arts Camp; while there he was offered a full scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied for four years with Nathan Williams. In 2005 Emil began further studies with Franklin Cohen at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The following year he was selected to participate in the Carnegie Hall Workshop Young Artist Concert under David Robertson. Mr. Khudyev’s numerous awards include the Turkmen National Wind Competition, Presidential Scholarship, Harvard Music Association, International Yamaha Performing Artists (Chicago), Lake Shore Competition, Glenn Miller Scholarship Concerto Competition, and the Tuesday Music Club Competition (Akron, Ohio), among many others. Mr. Khudyev has played with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra and Mansfield Symphony, and currently holds a position with Opera Naples Orchestra (Florida).

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He has attended Tanglewood Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, and the Sarasota Music Festival. Currently Mr. Khudyev is working toward a master’s degree at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with David Shifrin.

/ Rolando Sanz rolando sanz. Cuban-American tenor Rolando Sanz is gaining recognition for his “sensitive” and “luminous” portrayals of such roles as Rodolfo, Tamino, Nemorino, Alfredo, Pinkerton, and Le Prince Charmant. Rolando’s 2008-2009 season included a debut with the Palm Beach Opera as Rodolfo in La bohème and Flavio in Norma. Upcoming engagements include a solo recital in Washington, DC and a debut with Baltimore Concert Opera in “A Flight of Verdi” in 2010.

Recent engagements include Alfredo in La traviata and L’Aumônier in Dialogues des Carmélites with the Aspen Music Festival, Mozart in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart & Salieri, and Lippo Florentino in Street Scene. As a concert performer and recitalist, Rolando has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the American Youth Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the New Jersey Philharmonic, Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Yale Camerata, and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Yale Philharmonia. Additional soloist engagements include Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Requiem, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Honegger’s Le Roi David, Handel’s Ode to St. Cecilia, and the Washington, DC premiere of the Donizetti Requiem. Rolando has won third place in the Florida Grand Opera/Young Patronesses of the Opera Voice Competition, first place in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Orange County), and first place in the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Voice Competition. He served as assistant conductor for Long Beach Opera’s 2004 production of Die Schweigsame Frau. Rolando is a graduate of the Yale School of Music.

/ Stephen Taylor stephen taylor holds the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Solo Oboe Chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is also solo oboe with the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), American Composers Orchestra, New England Bach Festival Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae. He plays as co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at such festivals as Spoleto, Caramoor, Aldeburgh, Bravo!, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe,

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Aspen, and Schleswig-Holstein. Stereo Review named his recording of Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante for winds (Deutsche Grammophon with Orpheus, 1991) the Best New Classical Recording. Among his more than 200 other recordings are Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle, as well as premiere recordings of the Wolpe Oboe Quartet, Elliott Carter’s Oboe Quartet (Grammy nominee), and works of Andre Previn. He has premiered many of Carter’s works, including A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, Trilogy for Oboe and Harp, Oboe Quartet, and A6 Letter Letter. Trained at the Juilliard School with teachers Lois Wann and Robert Bloom, Mr. Taylor is also a member of its faculty, as well as those at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Purchase, and the Manhattan School of Music. He collects and restores old wooden boats and plays on a rare Caldwell model Laree oboe. Mr. Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2006.

/ Marc Daniel van Biemen marc daniel van biemen ’10mm (b. 1986) is an emerging violinist. At the age of nine he was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he studied with Koosje van Haeringen. He then continued studying with Jaap van Zweden and Herman Krebbers. In 2005 he entered the Duquesne University Mary Pappert School of Music. He currently studies with Syoko Aki at the Yale School of Music. Marc Daniel has performed solo with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, The Hague Youth Orchestra, Royal Conservatory Orchestra of The Hague, members of the Residentie Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Soesterberg International Music Festival Orchestra. He has served as concertmaster and assistant concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Yale Philharmonia, Aspen Festival Orchestra, and Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra, and has worked with conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Reinbert de Leeuw, Marin Alsop, David Zinman, James Conlon, Alan Gilbert, Martin Sieghart, David Robertson, and Leonard Slatkin. In 2009, Marc Daniel won second prize in the 22nd National Violin Competition Oskar Back (Amsterdam). He has attended festivals including Meadowmount, Soesterberg, and Aspen, and has played in master classes and coachings with Gil Shaham, Peter Oundjian, the Tokyo Quartet, and Trio con Brio Copenhagen. Marc Daniel has given concerts in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, and the US. He plays on a Nicolò Amati violin from Cremona 1675.

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/ Adam Hendrickson adam hendrickson. Born in Pennsylvania, Adam Hendrickson, choreographer, has been a dancer with New York City Ballet since 1998. He was promoted to a Soloist dancer in 2005. While at NYCB Mr. Hendrickson has danced many principal and soloist roles, including Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in Three Movements, Tarantella (Balanchine), Fancy Free, Interplay, The Goldberg Variations (Robbins), The Jester in Swan Lake, Blue Bird, and Mercutio in Romeo+Juliet (Martins). He also originated roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons and Concerto DSCH. In 2007 Mr. Hendrickson began his exploits in choreography at The New York Choreographic Institute (NYCI), creating his first ballet, Six in a Studio, to a commissioned score by Noam Sivan. In 2008 he created Flit of Fury: The Monarch for New York City Ballet, to music by Aaron Severini. Returning to NYCI in ’08 and ’09, he choreographed Dots with music by Severini and Kaleidoscope to Joan Jeanrenaud. In both 2009 and 2010, he has been chosen to create ballets for The School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball. Mr. Hendrickson’s film credits include Center Stage and the upcoming film for PBS Great Performances series of Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Opus Jazz.

/ Elysia Dawn elysia dawn trained at North Carolina School of the Arts and Miami City Ballet School, attending summer programs at ABT, Chautauqua, and Rosella Hightower's Le Centre de Danse International in Cannes. She has studied various techniques under the tutelage of Edward Villella, Marion Tonner, Fernando Bujones, Nina Danilova, Marc du Bouays, and Henning Albrechtson.

Ms. Dawn has performed with Boston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, the Washington Ballet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montreal, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. While in Boston, she was one of two dancers selected to perform with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and was also a participant in Raw Dance. Ms. Dawn has danced a variety of leading roles, including Dwight Rhoden's Moody Booty Blues, The Cyclical Hour, and Pretty Gritty Suite, as well as George Balanchine's Who Cares? and Stanton Welch's Orange. Ms. Dawn currently attends Columbia University and is the Assistant Director of the Columbia Ballet Collaborative.

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/ Colby Damon colby damon was born and raised in Richmond, VA and received his training at the Richmond Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and the Virginia School of the Arts under Pertus Bosman, David Keener, and Martha Faesi. After graduation, he joined the Sacramento Ballet, where for five years he performed soloist and principal roles in numerous classical and contemporary works, including pieces

by George Balanchine, Trey McIntyre, Dwight Rhoden, and Ron Cunningham.

In 2007 Colby relocated to Brooklyn, NY to pursue a career as a freelance artist, and has since worked with Thang Dao Dance Company, Ballet X, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, among others, in addition to projects with John Selya and Luca Veggetti. Colby is currently working on his BA in dance through the New York LEAP program.

/ Matthew Renko matthew renko was born in Tampa, Florida, and raised in Sumter, South Carolina where, at age 8, he began his ballet training at Miss Libby’s School of Dance, then later at Columbia Conservatory of Dance under the tutelage of Serge Lavoie. At 15, he continued his training at North Carolina School of the Arts on scholarship, taught by Warren Conover, Kee-Juan Han, and Melissa Hayden.

After attending the School of American Ballet summer course in 2003 and 2004, he was asked to stay for the winter term on scholarship. As a student, he has danced principle roles in Western Symphony, Bourree Fantasque, Les Gentilhommes, and The Four Temperaments at the school’s annual workshops. He became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in September 2007 and was in the corps de ballet for the 2008-2009 season, and has done featured roles in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and Robbin’s Watermill with the company. He has choreographed for the 2005 & 2006 School of American Ballet Student Choreography Workshop, as well as for the New York Choreographic Institute Spring Session 2007-2009 and Summer Session 2008.

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