Alumni and Student News 2015 – 2016
album In Truth: Lucas Richman. In 2015 she gave a workshop performance of a new commission, Legend of Sigh for cello and electronics, by composer Gity Razaz at VisionIntoArt’s second annual FERUS Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Other highlights include tours in China and Israel, a Bach recital at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse, and a performance in Krakow as part of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Inbal’s summer season included performances at the Kreeger Museum Chamber Festival with the American Chamber Players and at An Appalachian Summer Festival with the Broyhill Ensemble.
Mark Crociati ’88 MM, clarinet, is
Genevieve Feiwen Lee ’89 MM,
part of the I Musicisti Trio, which performed at the Orleans Historical Society in June of 2015. I Musicisti is a group of musicians from the Cape and greater Boston area whose mission is to educate and continue the performance of classical music.
’90 MMA, ’94 DMA and fellow pianist Nadia Shpachenko received a 2016 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their recording of Tom Flaherty’s Airdancing, for toy piano, piano, and electronics. This piece appears on Shpachenko’s new album Woman at the New Piano, released by Reference Recordings, which is also nominated in the category of Best Classical Compendium. The album also includes a duo piano performance by Lee and Shpachenko. The CD was among several that won the Marina and Victor Ledin a nomination for Producer Of The Year, Classical.
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Mesut Özgen ’93 MM, ’94 AD, guitar,
Stéphane Lévesque ’95 MM has been
Conductor Dante Anzolini ’89 MM, ’90 MMA, ’07 DMA was selected as a juror for the 2015 Besançon International Conducting Competition, which took place in September 2015. His solo piano transcription of Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra had its world premiere in Tokyo, Japan, on July 12, 2015, performed by pianist Hiroaki Ooi. Anzolini’s transcription is the first piano solo arrangement of Schoenberg’s famous work. Dante wishes to send “deep thankful acknowledgment” to his alma mater. » www.danteanzolini.com Steven Dube ’89 MM, trumpet, is
beginning his seventh year on the faculty of the International School in Basel, Switzerland. He previously taught at Pechersk School International in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has had several chances to conduct at festivals, where he has worked with international students in Prague, Moscow, Budapest, and Warsaw. After graduating from Yale, Dube spent several years performing with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City and with the Mexico City Philharmonic.
Owen Dalby ’06BA, ’07MM
has joined the faculty of the Florida International University School of Music after fifteen years of teaching at the University of California Santa Cruz. He will be the director of guitar studies and of the FIU Miami Guitar Orchestra. Winner of a 2007 Telly Award for his multimedia concert video New Dimensions in Classical Guitar, Özgen has been busy with concertizing, recording, composing, conducting, and teaching. His latest CD, Anatolian Fantasy, features entirely his own compositions. » www.mesutozgen.com
Cellist Inbal Segev ’93 CERT, ’98 MM released a solo recording, Inbal Segev: Bach Cello Suites, on Vox Classics, and was a soloist on the Albany Records
Matthew Plenk ’06 MM, ’07 AD
Mei Rui ’06 BA, ’06 MM, ’07 ADa 32
principal bassoonist of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) since 1998. He has appeared as a soloist with the orchestra on multiple occasions and in November 2015, he was again featured as soloist with the OSM in a performance of Richard Strauss’ Duet-Concertino for clarinet, bassoon, strings, and harp, with clarinetist Todd Cope and guest conductor Alexis Hauser. Lévesque is also Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. Conductor Jason Weinberger ’96 BA, ’97 MM has taken on a unique dual role with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony (wcfsymphony) as artistic director and CEO, after a number of years as the orchestra’s music director.
Shannon Thomas ’06 MM
Dennis Kim ’98 MM