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table of contents fall 2006 Broadening our vision: An anonymous donor gives $100 million to the School of Music

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Robert Blocker returns to Yale as Dean of the School of Music

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Leigh Hall

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Thomas C. Duffy challenges students to become leaders, advocates, and "good citizens of the world" in his year as acting dean

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President of China visits Yale, makes major speech from Sprague Hall Alumni donor supports School of Music’s education programs

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Yale celebrates “Mozart 250”

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A world-class concert hall

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Awards and citations

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YSM Alumni Reunion 2006

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The Yale Cellos in Korea, May 2005

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YSM’s International Partners

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Music Briefs

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Faculty Appointments

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New Staff

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Faculty News

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Alumni News

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In Memoriam

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Contributors to the Yale School of Music Annual Fund, 2004–05

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Broadening our vision: An anonymous donor gives $100 million to the School of Music

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n November 2, 2005, Yale President Richard C. Levin announced that the Yale School of Music received a transformational gift of $100 million. Levin said the gift, the largest in the history of the school, came from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. “This generous gift will enhance the ability of the school to attract the world’s finest musicians and will support a number of important advances at the School,” Levin stated when the gift was announced last fall.

Among the immediate benefits of the unprecedented gift are the accelerated pace

and expansion of the School’s international agenda, acquisition of state of the art technology that will offer interactive access to global partners, fully subsidized tuition for students, and enhanced exchange programs and outreach efforts. Through creative and thorough planning, additional dimensions of the gift will be realized in the future.

Dean Robert Blocker, who with President Levin helped secure the gift, said that “these resources are a transformative foundation on which the School can be sustained and developed in future decades.”

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president richard c. levin announced on may 1 that robert blocker would return to lead the school of music on july 1. During his tenure as dean from 1995–2005, Blocker was credited with reestablishing the School of Music as one of the world’s premier institutions for the professional training of performers and composers. Among his many notable accomplishments was the quadrupling of the school’s endowment, an extensive plan for revitalizing facilities, and significant increases in applications to the school. Under Blocker, the percentage of students accepting offers of admission reached a historic high.

Blocker made outstanding appointments to the School of Music faculty as dean, renewing the artistic programs in percussion, horn, and composition. He also created an international advisory board to serve the school.

“Robert was an extraordinary dean who brought the School of Music to the highest level of prestige,” Levin said. “As we searched for a new dean, we were seeking someone of Robert’s vision, talent, energy and accomplishment. We have surpassed that goal by welcoming Robert back to the School he led so ably.”

Last November, Yale announced that the School of Music had received a $100 million gift from a donor who wished to remain anonymous. Blocker worked closely with Levin to attract that gift, which has allowed the School to subsidize fully the tuition of all students at the School, and will support other important advances. Blocker’s return will allow him to see and enjoy the fruits of that gift.

Dean Blocker’s legacy also included serving an indispensable role in the major renovations of the School’s facilities. His new tenure will allow him to oversee the exquisitely restored Sprague and Leigh Halls, and complete the new “music campus” by joining President Levin in securing donor support for the renovation of Hendrie Hall.

“Robert has built community as effectively as he has renovated buildings,” Levin said. “The fall convocation, the annual dinner, town meetings, and the student tailgate are emblematic of the attention Robert gave to creating a stronger community for those at the School of Music.”

Blocker spent last year as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He held professorial appointments in music at the Meadows School of the Arts and in management at the Cox Business School at SMU. Blocker, one of the nation’s leading spokespersons on the arts and their relation to the business community, has contributed to New Haven by serving on the boards of the New Haven Symphony, the New Haven Business/Arts Alliance, and the Neighborhood Music School.

Blocker, who maintains an active international concert schedule, holds a bachelor’s degree from Furman University and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of North Texas. Prior to coming to Yale in 1995, Blocker was at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he served as the first dean and professor of the School of the Arts and Architecture and as adjunct professor of management.

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dear alumni and friends,

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he events of the last year will be heralded in the annals of the Yale School of Music. From the historically unprecedented 100 million dollar gift to the Mozart celebration, the vigor and energy of the school was seen and heard throughout the world.

A visible symbol of these activities is the sheer thickness of the magazine in your hands.

As I return to the YSM and resume my decanal responsibilities, I find a changed and renewed school. Leigh Hall is again fully utilized, new faculty have been appointed, expanded musical offerings are scheduled in New York, Boston, and across the globe, and the entering class comes with extraordinary artistic promise. None of this could have happened without the distinguished YSM faculty, a dedicated staff, and the contributions of Acting Dean Duffy. The role of our loyal alumni and friends, quite naturally, is fundamental to our ongoing success.

It is a privilege and an honor to serve you as Dean.

I am humbled by the opportunity to return to Yale and to work together to assure the School’s pre-eminence as an internationally renowned institution.

Warmest regards,

Robert Blocker The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music

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President Levin and Mitch Leigh ’52MM cut the ceremonial ribbon on September 11, 2005, officially dedicating Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall. Joining them are Abby Leigh, Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, Jane Levin, and Dean Robert Blocker.

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fter a full year of meticulous renovation, Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall was officially dedicated on September 11, 2005, in an outdoor ceremony attended by over a hundred students, faculty, staff, and guests. The event marked the end of the third phase of the School’s facilities renovation plan. Speaking at the dedication were Mitch Leigh ’52MM, who was accompanied by his wife, Abby, President Richard C. Levin, Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, and Dean Robert Blocker. After the speeches and the cutting of the ceremonial ribbon, members of the YSM staff provided the guests with guided tours of the building.

“All I want to say today is that my heart is full. God has been very good to me,” Mitch Leigh said at the ceremony. Best known as the Tony Award-winning composer of Man of La Mancha, Leigh made another gift to the University that day—a manuscript score of that timeless musical.

Acting Dean Duffy noted that “the change of name for this space reflects the spiritual thing that has happened to our School of Music. 435 College Street, as it was so impersonally called, was just a location. Our guests of honor today, Abby and Mitch Leigh, have made it possible for this building, which we have occupied for twenty-

four years, not only to house the School of Music but now truly to serve as its home.”

Dean Blocker reflected on the support that President Levin provided the Music School, especially the commitment to create a first-rate music campus. The renovation of Leigh Hall was a vital part of that commitment, and Blocker, speaking directly to Mitch and Abby Leigh, said, “Yale, and all of music, will always be grateful to you.”

Designed by the distinguished architectural firm of Cross & Cross, the building at 435 College Street was constructed in 1930 to house the Department of University Health — a function that accounts for the medical symbols still visible on the limestone facade. The School of Music obtained the building in 1981, during the tenure of Dean Frank Tirro, through the generosity of Irving S. Gilmore, YC ’23. At the time, the School occupied the building at 51 Prospect Street — nicknamed the “Music Annex” — which was not only dilapidated, but at some distance from the other buildings in the music complex. The renovations to the centrally-located facility were designed

by Cesar Pelli, then dean of the School of Architecture, and took two years to complete. The building served many

purposes over the next two decades.

However, with the renovation of Sprague Hall and the assignment of Stoeckel Hall to the Department of Music, the function of 435 College needed to change to that of a teaching center, devoted almost entirely to faculty studios and classrooms.

The building would need major renovations once again.

At the School of Music Convocation in September 2001, Yale President Richard C. Levin formally announced the gift by composer and alumnus Mitch Leigh. The gift would allow these renovations to 435 College Street as well as give the building a name of its own: Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall. The architectural firm of Butler Rogers Baskett was chosen to design the Leigh Hall renovations, and construction began in the summer of 2004. The project has not only updated and restored the facility, but has also reconfigured interior spaces, housing most of the School’s faculty studios in an acoustically balanced environment. Elevators and passageways that were originally designed to accommodate gurneys have been expanded to allow for the transport of pianos. The Dean’s Office has been updated to provide a distinctive and efficient headquarters for the School and a strong center for Yale’s music campus.

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Thomas C. Duffy challenges students to become leaders, advocates, and “good citizens of the world” in his year as acting dean On September 1, 2005, Thomas C. Duffy addressed the 217 students of the Yale School of Music at the School’s Academic Convocation, the official start of the school year. It was, as it always is, a festive occasion with buoyant spirits, camaraderie, and music ringing through Sprague Hall. As could be expected, Dean Duffy’s remarks were filled with humor, clever juxtapositions, and alliterations. And he made sure that the new group of Yale musicians understood the depth and richness of the school’s musical heritage. But as he neared the end of his speech, he defined a series of challenges to the class that proved to be prophetic; for over the course of the next nine months he would address those very challenges as acting dean.

“Your Yale School of Music experience should not be detached from world events and important issues from outside the academy.

“You have come to this place to study the art of music at a time when our country is at war; you have come as students to learn from master teachers at a time when there are great crises in American public education; you have come to this place to learn how to affect the human soul through sound at a time when public support for the arts is under constant assault and, more and more, commercial interests dictate artistic opportunities and make heroes of artists who succeed by appealing to the lowest common denominator of public taste; you have come to this place to become accomplished composers, conductors, and performers at a time when advanced consumer technology can make a virtuoso out of any dilettante with a computer; you have come to this place at the height of your preparation and talent at a time when access to beginning musical instruction is becoming increasingly less accessible.

“Will you construct an experience here that will prepare you to address these issues? What responsibilities do you, as contemporary artists, have as citizens? How will your accomplishments contribute to the evolution of culture in our time?”

He would not have to wait long for Yale students to have an opportunity to show that they were not to be

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“detached from world events,” for, as he was speaking, the extent of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was just becoming evident. Calling his staff and faculty over the weekend, he announced the following Monday that the constituent performing organizations that comprise Music at Yale would perform a concert on September 8 — exactly a week after Convocation — to benefit victims of the disaster. Even though some of the groups had yet to meet for their first rehearsal, Duffy decided that help was needed immediately.

“People are dying, and the victims of this disaster can’t wait for us to practice and rehearse more,” he said. “Contemporary artists have a responsibility to respond to current events, and I am grateful for the outpouring of support from Yale’s performers and staff, all of whom have volunteered for this concert.” [For details, see “Music Briefs.”]

The biggest news surrounding the School during Thomas C. Duffy’s year as acting dean was, of course, the announcement of the $100 million gift. While the school was in the spotlight, over a dozen local, national, and international news organizations interviewed Duffy. He patiently answered questions about the nature of the YSM as a graduate professional institution (part of Yale, but separate from the college), what free tuition means to young musicians (with the cost of some string instruments in

six figures, it’s a relief), what a recent graduate can reasonably expect to earn (let’s just say less than six figures), and what the influx of money means to the school’s programs (we can accomplish our goals in years rather than decades).

He described the School’s position in the world of professional music education and drew, with broad strokes, a picture of a school that would now be able to take on the mantle of leadership through the recruitment of extraordinary faculty and students, international partnerships, research in pedagogy, and community outreach.

With all the attention focused on the School, he challenged students to be “prepared to articulate the place of music in our contemporary culture, the value of music to our contemporary society.” He guided them in developing the rhetoric by which they might define the significance of music in the lives of humans and to understand how important it is to not only become great musicians, but — in the words of his Convocation speech — “to learn how to affect the human soul through sound at a time when public support for the arts is under constant assault.”

Duffy also made the case to alumni and friends that the gift, though historic, was a first step in a longer journey toward achieving the resources needed to achieve our loftiest goals.

He stressed that the gift should serve as the impetus for increased breadth of support, particularly among the School’s alumni.

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Acting Dean Duffy with his wife Valerie and son Christopher.

As Dean “when our country is at war,” Duffy felt that Veterans Day 2005 had special significance. Though a large number of YSM alumni are members of the most prestigious and elite military musical organizations around the country, few think of this type of service as a common career path for our graduates. With a long-standing relationship with the nation’s military musicians (he composed a large work, “1776,” for the 200 anniversary of West Point, for example) and with pride in the accomplishments of our alumni in the military, Duffy invited a quintet of five recent alumni serving in Washington, D.C., to participate in the University’s commemoration of Veterans Day and later to perform a recital in Sprague Hall. [See Music Briefs] “At a time when there are great crises in American public education,” Duffy strengthened Yale’s outreach to the New Haven Public Schools, and with the infusion of $2.5 million by Donald Roberts to the Class of 1957 Music Education Endowment [see related article], he reaffirmed the school’s plans for a professorship and operational support for a music education program at the School.

Throughout the year, Thomas C. Duffy presided over numerous other important events in the life of the School. The Yale in New York series was begun, with two concerts in Steinway Hall, an opera production at the Knitting Factory, and a performance by the Philharmonia in Carnegie Hall. He surveyed our alumni to get an accurate picture of the career th

Barbara Shailor, Deputy Provost for the Arts, Associate Dean Thomas G. Masse, ’91AD, Vincent Oneppo ’73MM, Director of the Concert and Press Office, and Professor Joan Panetti made presentations at a reception honoring Thomas C. Duffy for his year of service as acting dean.

paths and interests of our graduates.

Our School was host to a visit by the president of China, Hu Jintao, and Dean Duffy demonstrated the quality of our school through performances by our talented students for a delighted international audience of VIP’s. He welcomed to campus numerous artists, teachers, and administrators from our overseas partners, and went to Moscow to strengthen our ties with the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. He traveled to Oklahoma with Prof. Willie Ruff to present the School’s Cultural Leadership Citation to the Muscogee (Creek) Indians for keeping alive a form of seventeenth-century psalm singing. Locally, he strengthened the relationship between the School and the New Haven Symphony and engineered a collaboration with the summer festival, Arts and Ideas New Haven, to present Yale Opera on the New Haven Green.

After the Commencement concert on May 21, Duffy was honored at a reception for his year of service as acting dean. President Levin, hosting a dinner for the recipients of Yale’s honorary doctorate, sent a tribute, read

by Joan Panetti. “After your service, Tom, I decided that Yale needs to coin a new word. At first I thought that word should be ‘Duffian.’ A ‘Duffian task’ would be one that needed vigor, energy, and excellence. But then I paused, and realized that because of your non-stop motion, the adjective actually should be a verb, and that that verb should be — ‘to duffy.’ ‘To duffy’ means to undertake a hard task in a time of uncertainty, make everyone feel

comfortable that you are there, do the job incredibly well, address hard and big issues without waiting around for change, accomplish a lot, act with grace and discretion, and earn everyone’s admiration….You have earned the gratitude, admiration, and regard of your colleagues, the other officers of the University — and especially me.”

Barbara Shailor, Deputy Provost for the Arts, also praised Duffy for his effectiveness and presented him with a duplicate of a nameplate that will be fixed permanently to a chair in Sprague Hall. Similar presentations were made

by Associate Dean Thomas G. Masse ’91AD and Vincent Oneppo ’73MM, director of the concert and press office.

The next day at Commencement, one could hear a recapitulation of the themes that he stated at Convocation and developed through the year. “You may be orchestral musicians, solo artists, chamber musicians, private instrumental or vocal teachers, conductors, coaches, elementary or secondary school teachers, music administrators, and church musicians. But is that enough? Can you also stand up to the responsibility to be good citizens of the world? … Ethical and moral issues always accompany the assignment of limited resources to worthy but competing causes. I hope that the discussions started here at Yale will be the framework around which each of you will construct your own philosophies of aesthetics, your own campaigns for the presence of the arts in daily life, [and] your own rationalizations of why you have committed yourselves to the service of others through music.”

— Vincent Oneppo

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President of China visits Yale, makes major speech from Sprague Hall

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ooking out at the young faces in the audience gathered in Sprague Memorial Hall for his lecture on April 21, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao said, “If time could go back several decades, I would really like to be a student of Yale just like you.”

Hu’s declaration — echoing the ambition of Yale’s first Chinese graduate, Yung Wing, over 150 years ago — was an affirmation of the close academic ties that flourished since then between Yale and China. Hu’s visit to the University, the first by any president of China, was indicative of the ways that those ties are continuing to strengthen and expand.

The Yale campus was the final stop on Hu’s trip to the United States, his first since becoming president of the People’s Republic of China. Hu had earlier visited Seattle, where he toured Microsoft headquarters with founder Bill Gates, and Washington, D.C., where he met with President George W. Bush.

A 55-car motorcade brought the Chinese delegation from Bradley International Airport to campus. Because of security concerns, the area around Sprague and Woodbridge Halls had been closed off, but crowds of people bearing banners of both welcome and protest lined the perimeter.

Supporters and detractors had also gathered on the New Haven Green and on Old Campus, which was opened to student protesters for the first time in Yale’s history.

The Chinese officials were formally welcomed to the University by President Richard C. Levin and the Yale delegation at a ceremony held in Woodbridge Hall’s Corporation Room.

After a brief private meeting, Levin and Hu took part in a formal gift-exchange ceremony, where the memory of Yung Wing was also evoked.

Levin presented Hu with a portrait of Yung Wing, who became the first Chinese citizen to earn a degree from a North American university when he graduated from Yale in 1854, as well as a book once owned by the historic alumnus. Yung Wing, after returning to his homeland, launched a program to send other young Chinese students to Yale and other U.S. colleges of higher education, and he was one of the first Chinese diplomats to the United States.

In 1878, the alumnus gave his personal book collection of 1,280 volumes to the University for its East Asia Library.

That collection has now grown to over 700,000 volumes

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Yale President Richard C. Levin and Chinese President Hu Jintao greet the audience in Sprague Hall.

and is considered one of the finest outside of China. In a gesture that echoed Yung Wing’s gift, Hu presented Yale with 1,346 volumes in both Chinese and English to benefit the University’s students and faculty. The gift from China includes titles in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and together they comprise a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Chinese scholarship and learning.

Following the gift-exchange ceremony, the Yale and Chinese representatives went to Sprague Hall, where an audience of Yale faculty, students and other invited guests had gathered to hear an address by Hu. While waiting for the Chinese president’s arrival, the audience had been treated to a concert of music by students from the School of Music. It included performances

by Mingzhu Wang, a first-year Master of Music (M.M.) student, on flute; Romie de Guise-Langlois, a secondyear M.M. student, on clarinet; Wayne Lin, a third-year Artist Diploma student, on violin; Scott Borg, a secondyear Artist Diploma student; and Matthew Rohde, a Yale College senior in the B.A./M.M. program at the School of Music, on guitar. The program concluded with traditional Chinese folksongs, performed by Jie Gong, a first-year composition student.

The Sprague Hall address was history making on several fronts. It was the first speech by a Chinese head-of-state ever broadcast live back to China; it was also the first speech at Yale to be web-streamed live campus-wide. The event was also broadcast live on the Yale Cable service, both in English and in Chinese, and the English version was cablecast by Citizens Television and Comcast of New Haven. Members of the audience in Sprague Hall were able to listen to Chinese or English versions of Levin’s and Hu’s remarks via special headphones.

— LuAnn Bishop, Office of Public Information.

For the complete story, visit www.yale.edu/opa

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Donald Roberts, third from left, gave a $2.5 million gift to the Class of 1957 Music Education Endowment to help the Class of 1957 reach their goal of $5 million.

Joining him here are (left to right) Reginald Mayo, New Haven Superintendent of Schools; Ramona Gatison, Principal of Lincoln-Bassett School; Regina Warner, Supervisor of Music, New Haven Public Schools; Donald’s wife, Mary Gordon Roberts; and Charles Warner, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, New Haven Public Schools.

Alumni donor supports School of Music’s education programs Donald Roberts, Yale College Class of 1957, has provided generous seed funding that will enable the Yale School of Music to continue and enhance its efforts to embrace and promote advances in music education in public, elementary, and secondary schools. Acting Dean Thomas Duffy announced the gift at a reception for Mr. Roberts in Sprague Hall on March 2.

Roberts has made a $2.5 million gift to the Class of 1957 Music Education Endowment in the hope that his generosity will encourage fellow classmates and others to support the School of Music’s innovative music education and outreach programs. The ultimate goal is to raise a total of $5 million, which will provide both an endowed professorship in music education and permanent operational support for the programs.

The Class of 1957 Music Education Endowment was established in the summer of 2005 in honor of the Class’s upcoming 50th reunion. Members of the class agreed to focus a substantial

part of their reunion fundraising efforts to create a permanent endowment for the Yale School of Music. Funds will be used by the School to develop initiatives in music and human learning and address issues of music education in elementary and secondary schools.

Roberts’ leadership contribution to the fund will have particular impact in New Haven’s public schools. Already, the Class of 1957 gift enables 18 School of Music graduate students to intern in New Haven public schools. The graduate students gain invaluable music teaching experience, a key component of their overall educational program, while the schools enjoy expanded music education opportunities such as weekly lessons and concerts. “The Yale School of Music and the City of New Haven Board of Education have been eager partners in our class project to improve the quality of music education in public schools across the country,” Roberts said.

At Lincoln-Bassett Elementary School, where Yale initially focused its existing outreach efforts, the

Class of 1957 gift provides resources for teaching staff, instruments, and consulting for the music program.

Students at Lincoln-Bassett receive music classes four times per week.

The program provides keyboard classes for students in Kindergarten through second grade, choral and recorder lessons for third graders, and band and string instrument instruction in grades four through seven. The Endowment makes possible substantial support for these efforts as well as facilitates an expansion of the School of Music’s music education initiatives.

“Part of our mission is to contribute to the advancement of music education by training musicians who can succeed as performers and composers and pass along their knowledge of and love for musical expression to the next generation. This gift will help us fulfill that mission,” Duffy said.

— Yale University Office of Public Information

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Yale celebrates “Mozart 250”

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On February 19, Syoko Aki, violin, and Joan Panetti, piano, completed their series of recitals covering the entire cycle of Mozart's violin-piano sonatas in Sprague Hall.

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his past winter, a monumental celebration occurred throughout the musical world. The cause for the festivities was the 250 birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and leading musicians and musical organizations from around the globe joined with eager historians and a Mozart-loving public to commemorate the festive occasion. Many groups planned specific birthday events, with most extending the proceedings on for a week, month, or even the entire year. The actual birth date, January 27, was used as a handy point of departure; one evening would hardly suffice to properly and adequately commemorate such a towering figure in Western Art. Yale’s musical organizations opted to pay tribute to the master composer with concerts throughout the spring ’06 semester, with the majority of the performances concentrated in a month-long celebration of Mozart’s music. The programs highlighted the wide range of the prolific composer’s output and showcased the variety and depth of talent Yale student and faculty performers have to offer.

The celebration began on the birthday evening itself with an orchestral concert by the Yale Philharmonia under music director Shinik Hahm. The concert, held in Sprague Hall, presented three of Mozart’s most popular orchestral compositions: the Overture to the opera The Marriage of Figaro, the “Jupiter” Symphony, and the Clarinet Concerto, featuring YSM faculty member David Shifrin.

On the weekend of February 10–12, Yale Opera brought Mozart’s birthday to the historic Shubert Theater with a new production of Cosi fan tutte.

Specially conceived for Yale Opera by renowned Britishborn director Colin Graham and conducted by French conductor Dominique Trottein, the comedic opera also featured an original set designed by Yale Drama School alumna Blythe Quinlan. All singers and musicians involved in the production were YSM students.

Faculty members also joined in the celebration, programming Mozart works on their recitals throughout the month. On February 19, Syoko Aki, violin, and Joan Panetti, piano, performed an all-Mozart program of violin and piano sonatas, the final installment in a series of recitals covering the entire cycle of Mozart’s violin-piano sonatas. The Collegium Musicum, a Yale Department of Music ensemble directed by Richard Lalli ’86DMA presented a January 31 concert of Mozart’s works from the autographs, early manuscripts, and first editions housed th

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Yale Opera’s production of Cosi fan tutte, which was performed in the Shubert Theater from February 10–12, featured a beautiful set

by Yale Drama School alumna Blythe Quinlan.

in the collection of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

On February 22, YSM faculty Jesse Levine, viola, David Shifrin, clarinet, and Peter Frankl, piano, presented Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” trio on the Faculty Artist Series.

The month-long celebration came to its conclusion with the highly anticipated arrival of acclaimed guest conductor, Sir Neville Marriner. Founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-theFields, Marriner spent a week at Yale giving talks, master classes, and leading rehearsals, all culminating in a largescale concert featuring Yale’s choruses, the Philharmonia, and soloists. The event was co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Held on February 24, the concert was sold out a month in advance, filling the vast Woolsey Hall to capacity.

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in Woolsey were directed next door to Sprague Hall, where they could watch and hear the proceedings projected on a large screen via closed-circuit video.

The program opened with the Yale Schola Cantorum performing the Solemn Vespers K. 339 followed by the Yale Camerata rendition of the Coronation Mass K. 317. The Yale Glee Club performed Regina Coeli K. 108 and Ave Verum Corpus K.618.

Soloists were from both the Yale Opera program and the ISM’s voice program. After accompanying the various choral ensembles all night, the Yale Philharmonia finally took center stage, presenting the delightful Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” to conclude the epic and festive concert. It was an inspiring and memorable event, one that lived up to its much-ballyhooed buildup.

Two months after the Marriner concert, on April 22, the Yale Glee Club

under director Jeffrey Douma performed Mozart’s Requiem in Woolsey Hall. This immortal yet controversial work featured YSM soloists Sumi Kittelberger ’06MM, soprano, Abigail Nims ’07AD, mezzo, Matthew Plenk ’06MM, tenor, Eric Downs ’06MM, bass, and an orchestra filled with YSM students and alumni.

These concerts confirmed the power of Mozart’s music to remain meaningful and relevant centuries later, with the composer now arguably more popular than ever. The Mozart celebration continues into the ’06–’07 season, with the return of pianist Robert Blocker for the inaugural concert of the ’06–’07 Horowitz Piano Series in Sprague Hall on October 3. He will perform an all-Mozart program of solo works and two piano concerti — K. 414 and 449 — accompanied by the Biava Quartet.

Guest conductor Sir Neville Marriner led the Yale Philharmonia, Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Camerata, and soloists from both the Yale Opera program and the Institute of Sacred Music’s voice program in an all-Mozart program in Woolsey Hall on February 24.

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The historic Music Shed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival has been the “host to legends” (The New York Times) for 100 years.

A world-class concert hall

By Patricia D’Ascoli Photography: Michael Marsland

Paul Hawkshaw has the good fortune to spend his summers in close proximity to his favorite space — the music shed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

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s director of the prestigious chamber music festival, for the past three years he has presided over the comings and goings of world-class chamber musicians and serious music students who arrive from all over the world to participate in the highly respected Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and to perform in the glorious Music Shed.

From Memorial Day until the festival’s conclusion in late August, Hawkshaw and his wife Susan, who usually reside in New Haven, live in the grand house known simply as “Whitehouse” on the grounds of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Norfolk Connecticut.

Hawkshaw, a professor of music history at Yale University since 1984, and previously a professional trombonist, says that he loves the informal elegance of the Music Shed and the sense of nostalgia about it.

Designed by famed architect E.K. Rossiter and built in 1906 by the Battell Stoeckel family, the Music Shed will celebrate its 100th anniversary this summer and remains virtually unchanged since such illustrious musicians as Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Jean Sibelius first graced its stage in the early twentieth century.

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Clive Greensmith, of the Tokyo String Quartet, coaches members of the Parker String Quartet at Norfolk.

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Since 1941, shortly after the entire Battell Stoeckel estate was put into trust, the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival has served a dual purpose: to present chamber music of the highest caliber to the widest possible audience and to provide advanced professional development for emerging career musicians. Hawkshaw notes that over the years, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival has been an important venue for many world-renowned classical musicians and singers, and the Music Shed continues to offer performances by such well respected groups as the Tokyo String Quartet, who return to Norfolk every summer.

The Music Shed is a unique concert hall which seats approximately 600–700 patrons comfortably in the cozy ambience of its elegant redwood interior, a bit like a large lodge surrounded by screened-in windows and covered with rustic, weathered cedar shingles. Calling it more “boutique-like” than Tanglewood in Lenox, Hawkshaw refers to concerts at the Music Shed as “high class music-making in an informal environment.” Like its Tanglewood neighbor, the Norfolk venue provides

concert-goers with the opportunity to picnic on the 8 luscious green lawns surrounding the concert hall before they venture inside to enjoy the musical performance, which Hawkshaw describes as an intimate chamber music experience.

“One of the incredible things about the Shed which makes people keep coming back is that it has absolutely extraordinary acoustics — it is world class in that regard,” Hawkshaw comments, adding further, “It is one of great concerts halls on the East Coast.”

Hawkshaw considers himself lucky to be involved in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and to have frequent access to the Music Shed — that wonderful concert hall he first discovered almost 20 years ago when he and Susan brought their young daughter to Norfolk to hear a Sunday afternoon concert there.

“It is a wonderful space for a terrific audience,” Hawkshaw says with a smile.

For more information about the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, please visit www.yale.edu/norfolk.

*Reprinted with permission from the Summer 2006 issue of Home Living Connecticut.

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Awards and citations From upper left: 1) Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman ’67MM was awarded the School’s highest distinction, the Sanford Medal, at the Academic Convocation on September 1, 2005.

After the ceremonies, he performed Steve Reich’s “New York Counterpoint.” 2) After his Horowitz Piano Series Recital on January 17, Claude Frank was surprised on stage by Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, who presented him with the Gustave Stoeckel Award for distinguished teaching. 3) At the Annual Dinner on April 23, André Raphel Smith ’86MM, conductor, received the Ian Mininberg Distinguished Service Award. Currently music director of the Wheeling Symphony, Smith has served as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and St. Louis Symphony.

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of the Yale School of Music. 5) Recipients of the DMA at the 2006 Commencement: Vadim Serebryani, piano; Marcus Maroney, composition; Jessica Wiskus, horn.

6) Also at Commencement, oboe professor Richard Killmer, who retired at the end of the year, received the Stoeckel award. He is pictured here with one of his oboe students, Sarah Schram ’06 MM, and pianist Hando Nahkur ’06Cert. 7) Willie Ruff and Thomas C. Duffy gave the School’s Cultural Leadership Award to the Second Chief Alfred Berryhill (center) and the Muscogee (Creek) Indians for their preservation of Creek hymn singing and the retention of the original Muscogee language.

8) Acting Dean Duffy awarded the Alumni Certificate of Merit to Earl Banquer ’56MM at the School’s reunion banquet on June 3.

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YSM Alumni Reunion 2006 Over 40 alumni returned to campus for the 2006 Yale School of Music Alumni Reunion on June 2–4. For the first time, the School of Music held the reunion on the same weekend as the Yale College reunions, offered each year by the Association of Yale Alumni. Regularly scheduled for the two weekends following commencement each year, alumni are welcomed back to a campus alive with activities, lectures, tours, and much more. Alumni were able to enjoy the campus as a whole, encounter the School of Music as it is today, and experience performances by both alumni and current students.

Alumni heard lectures by Yale’s faculty on Friday and Saturday mornings as a part of the “Morning at Yale” lecture series. Some of the most talked about lectures included Actors at Work — A Scene from Shakespeare, by Murray Biggs, Associate Professor of English and Theater Studies, What Made Mozart a Musical Genius, by Craig Wright, Professor of Music History, and a lecture on Music and the Brain by Thomas Duffy, Acting Dean of the School of Music.

On Friday afternoon, music school alumni joined the Class of ’56 to hear John Eaton ’56, a celebrated pianist and performer. Mr. Eaton gave a rousing performance in Morse Recital Hall to celebrate his class’s fiftieth reunion.

Saxophonist Gary Louie and soprano Maureen McKay join Lori Laitman ’75BA, ’76MM in a performance of her art songs.

Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy brings alumni up to date in Sprague Hall.

Judith Alstadter ’75DMA took an active role in discussions held in Sprague Memorial Hall for the 2006 Yale School of Music Alumni Reunion.

Lori Laitman ’75BA, ’76MM presented a lecture on the development of her music and the discovery of her voice in art song composition.

The next afternoon, the School of Music presented the art songs of Lori Laitman ’75BA, ’76MM, performed by Lori, soprano Maureen McKay, and saxophonist Gary Louie. Ms. Laitman presented a lecture on the development of her music and finding her voice in art song composition.

A series of poems written by children imprisoned in concentration camps and Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust set to music by Ms. Laitman highlighted her sensitive portrayal of poetry as song.

Acting Dean Thomas Duffy then updated the alumni on the activity of the school and led a discussion on the importance of producing world-class musicians and responsible contributing citizens. Associate Dean Thomas Masse ’91AD offered a guided tour of newly renovated Leigh Hall at 435 College Street, Sprague Hall, and the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library with Kendall Crilly ’86MM, ’92MA, the Andrew W. Mellon Music Librarian.

Earl Banquer ’56MM, was awarded the Alumni Certificate of Merit for his longstanding service and commitment to music education on Saturday evening. Mr. Banquer served as an educator in public schools for many years, and remains active as the director of the Earl Banquer Wind Ensemble.

Yale Opera students performed Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti to a full house in Morse Recital Hall on Saturday evening. The reunion ended the next morning with a campus-wide brunch in Commons at Woolsey Hall.

It was wonderful to welcome our alumni back to campus.

Thank you for coming!

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In May 2005, Professor Aldo Parisot and the Yale Cellos spent a week touring three cities in Korea.

The Yale Cellos in Korea, May 2005 If you’ve never seen twenty cellists napping against their cello cases on an international flight, you’ve never been on tour with the Yale Cellos. In May 2005, Prof. Aldo Parisot and the Yale Cellos spent a week touring three cities in Korea. Guided by the expertise of our eight Korean Yale cellists, the ensemble gave four concerts and collectively ate something on the order of eight tons of kimchee. It was a week of discovery, cultural exchange, and virtuosity.

The odyssey began at the check-in line at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. (Well, the real odyssey began months before that, when Mr. Parisot led us in rehearsing every night for 3 hours.) Fortunately for our bridges and soundposts, the school provided us with extra tickets to bring our cellos aboard. We packed our endpins in our baggage -- after all, maybe you could hold up a plane with one of those things – and successfully negotiated the security checkpoint. After an 18-hour flight, we arrived at Incheon Airport with the same number of cellos (and cellists) with which we’d begun, so the tour was off to a successful start.

Those of us in Korea for the first time were able to rely on the team of expert tour guides in our midst – the eight Korean members of the Yale Cellos, who took it upon themselves to show the rest of us around. With their help, we had no trouble navigating the streets, ordering from daunting restaurant menus, and seeing uncommon sights. It was fun to see our peers, who are understandably limited by language barriers at Yale, blossom into our leaders when we depended on them in Korea. I know the rest of us are grateful to them for their generosity, hospitality, and tolerance of our inexperience. Jet-lagged as we were, we set off for Daejon, where we stayed at the Spapia Hotel for our first few days.

We traveled from city to city in a bus decorated in neon pink and blue, at the mercy of a bus driver who would make a good candidate for NASCAR. Still, we got where we

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were going, and fast. We sampled spicy Korean noodles at roadside rest stops, and learned (upon Mrs. Parisot’s advice) to carry our own toilet paper at all times. Fortunately for us, Christine Lin, orchestra manager for the Philharmonia, agreed to act as our manager for the tour, so we always knew where to go and how to get there. Mr. Parisot, always enterprising, offered to make neckties out of Christine’s dresses every day, but Christine turned him down.

And the food – always the food! At the hands of the Korean cellists, the studio was treated to a slew of Korean feasts. At traditional Korean restaurants, literally dozens of tiny dishes of pickled vegetables, fish, and meats would propagate at the table before our disbelieving eyes, which were always tragically bigger than our stomachs. “Keep eating – don’t give up!” – one Korean cellist was overheard encouraging a faltering American in the throes of a fruitand-ice dessert. We sampled kimchee, kalbe, bibimbap, and bulgogi (or “Bulldoggie,” as a certain professor liked to call it). We were hosted by the father of Sun-Kyung Hwang ’06MM at an unforgettable multi-course lunch in Daejon.

And once we got used to eating beef soup for breakfast, we decided we liked it.

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Aldo Parisot conducts the Yale Cellos at Seoul National University.

Our first concert was in Kwangju, where the crowd was good and the program was well-received. Mihai Marica ’04Cert, Dmitri Atapine ’05MMA, ’06AD, and Xian Zhou began the show with cellistic fireworks, and YSM faculty member Ole Akahoshi ’95Cert brought the house down with his whirlwind rendition of Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody.

Another popular work was Ezra Laderman’s Simoes, the powerful middle movement of a three-movement work Prof.

Laderman wrote for Aldo (Simoes) Parisot and the Yale Cellos. We played four encores — three short Bach pieces and an arrangement by cellist Chao-Chun Liu ’05MM, ’06AD, of the Areran, a traditional melody learned by all Korean schoolchildren (though Mr. Parisot insists it sounds Brazilian). To much applause, Mr. Parisot introduced the work with Korean phrases he learned from his students, and we could see dozens of children mouthing the words along with our playing. At every show, the Areran received some of the biggest cheers of the night.

Our second concert took place in Daejon, where Prof.

Shinik Hahm, conductor of the Yale Philharmonia, is also the music director of the Daejon Philharmonic. After another well-received performance, we were treated to a reception for Korean Yalies and alumni, hosted by Guncheol

Kim and Jeong Keun Ahn, who received their Ph.D.s from Yale in chemistry and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, respectively. Dean Robert Blocker and Associate Dean Thomas Masse joined us for this concert and traveled with us for the remainder of the trip. In Daejon, we also had a chance to visit a beautiful Korean Temple nestled in the hills outside the city. A few brave souls (those undaunted by public nakedness) sampled the famous Korean traditional bathhouses in our hotel.

After our first and biggest concert in Seoul, we were treated to another reception for current and former Yalies in Korea. Among the attendees were many alumni of the School of Music, including William Il-Hwan Bai ’90MM, cello; Angela In-Kyung Sohn ’89MM, ’90MMA, ’95DMA, violin; Min Jung Lee ’91MMA, ’96DMA, piano; Kyungok Park ’84MM, cello; Sung-Hyun Yun ’86MM, composition; Eun-shik Kim, violin; and Jae-Hoon Chung ’99MM, violin.

Our final concert was a morning performance for students at Seoul National University, the alma mater of several current Yale School of Music students. Since our flight wasn’t until the following day, we had a chance to take a whirlwind tour of the city. We visited the beautifully-restored Korean Palace, a street full of vendors of arts and crafts, several traditional Korean restaurants, and a popular 24-hour spa and sauna. Any bystander must have been baffled at the sight of our multi-racial ensemble, sweating in the 160-degree heat of the sauna at midnight, singing our parts to our cello ensemble music!

The tour was a success for the school and an adventure for those of us who traveled and performed. I am left with several things: an oversaturation of kimchee; a true respect and gratitude to my Korean colleagues for showing us a great time; and an appreciation of the amount we, as musicians, have in common with the flourishing musical culture in Korea.

Elizabeth and Aldo Parisot in Korea ready to eat some kimchee, kalbe, bibimbap and “Bulldoggie” in Daejon.

— Ariana Falk, ’05 AD (Ariana Falk is continuing her cello studies in Berlin as a recipient of a Fulbright award.)

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The Yale School of Music has established partnerships with leading musical institutions from around the world and future plans call for strengthening and expanding international alliances.

Left: President Cizhao Wang of Beijing's Central Conservatory with Dean Blocker at the signing ceremony for the exchange agreement between the two institutions. Above: Two days after his Horowitz Series recital, Tigran Alikhanov, director of the Moscow Conservatory (third from left) participated in a panel discussion on Music Education in Russia and the United States. Joining him on the panel were (left to right) Moscow Conservatory piano student Sergey Sobolev, Ilya Poletaev ’04MMA, Prof. Boris Berman, Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, and voice student Rebecca Ringle ’06AD.

YSM’s International Partners For many years, the School has enjoyed a major presence in Asia. Most notably, large numbers of graduates came to Yale from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China. Ties with leading institutions in these countries have been strengthened and enhanced by the numerous YSM faculty members who have presented concerts and master classes, many returning year after year.

In the fall of 2004, Dean Blocker made an extended trip to Asia that included Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He visited the College of Music at Seoul National University, with whom Yale has had an exchange agreement since 1997. As a result of this agreement, Min Kim, the Dean of Music and Conductor of the Korean Chamber Orchestra, brought his university orchestra — along with the Mannheim Conservatory Orchestra — to Woolsey Hall for a performance in April, 2005. Dean Blocker also developed a close relationship with Seong Y. Park, Honorary Chairman of Kumho, who passed away in May, 2005. A Yale graduate, Park was a close friend of

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President Levin and a staunch advocate of Yale and the School of Music, inviting many faculty members to perform at his concert halls in Seoul. In 20052006, ties to Korea were strengthened as the School hosted pianist Meehyun Ahn, a Kumho Young Artist, as a research associate and Daejin Kim, pianist and professor at the Korean National University of Arts, as a Woodward Fellow.

On that same 2004 trip, Dean Blocker visited both Shanghai and Beijing in China. The internationally renowned cellist, Jian Wang ’88Cert, orchestrated the meetings in Shanghai with, among others, Liqing Yang, President of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

One result of these discussions was Boris Berman’s participation as guest pianist at the conservatory’s International Festival in the spring of 2005. At the Central Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Beijing, Blocker signed an agreement with President Cizhao Wang reflecting the shared values and the presence of several YSM alumni on the CCM faculty.

Similar partnerships and exchanges have been made with European institutions. In addition to the School’s sponsoring the above-mentioned concert by the combined Seoul National University and Mannheim Conservatory orchestras, Yale invited Rudolf Meister, director of the conservatory, to give a piano recital and a master class in January, 2006.

Tigran Alikhanov, pianist and director of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, made an extensive visit to Yale in December, 2005. He performed in recital on the Horowitz Piano Series, gave a master class, and also participated in a panel discussion on music education in Russia and the United States. In June, 2006, Professors Boris Berman and Ransom Wilson, Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, and Ryosuke Yanagitani ’05AD traveled to the Moscow Conservatory for recitals and master classes. In New Haven, Acting Dean Duffy welcomed a delegation from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, headed by President Dr. András Batta, for discussions about possible exchanges.

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music briefs Five Yale School of Music alumni, all members of America’s premiere military bands based in Washington D.C, performed a Veterans Day concert on November 11, 2005, in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. Earlier in the day, the group played the National Anthem at Yale’s Memorial Day Ceremonies, and are shown here flanked by Yale President Richard C. Levin and Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy. The quintet members are, left-right, Rick Lee ’98AD, horn, U.S. Army Band; Erika Schafer ’01MM, trumpet, US Navy Band; Brian Stiles ’00MM, trumpet, US Air Force Ceremonial Brass; Sam Woodhead ’01MM, trombone, and Mike Eberly ’99MM, tuba, both US Army Band.

Peter Frankl (far right) with his Yale colleagues Claude Frank, left, and Boris Berman, center, rehearse Mozart’s Concert in F major for Three Pianos K. 242 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall.

Peter Frankl’s 70th birthday coincided nicely with the season in which we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. For his birthday celebration, Frankl decided to perform three Mozart concertos, for one, two, and three pianos, with his piano faculty colleagues Boris Berman and Claude Frank, former Dean Robert Blocker, and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Shinik Hahm. The Concert took place in Sprague Hall on October 14, 2005, as part of the Horowitz Piano series, and was completely sold out.

Responding to the great humanitarian need created by the Hurricane Katrina disaster, hundreds of musicians from Yale University—faculty, students, alumni, and guests—performed a special benefit concert entitled “Help Can’t Wait” in Woolsey Hall on September 8, 2005. The University’s major choruses and instrumental ensembles, as well as several faculty soloists and conductors responded immediately to a request by Thomas C. Duffy, Acting Dean of the School of Music, for performers for the program. Even though some of the groups had yet to meet for their first rehearsal, Duffy decided that help was needed immediately. The program included the Yale Philharmonia, Yale Camerata, Yale Glee Club, Yale Symphony, Schola Cantorum, and performances by YSM faculty pianists Boris Berman and Peter Frankl, flutist Ransom Wilson, and organist Martin Jean. One of the more poignant moments in an already emotionally-charged evening was the Yale Camerata’s performance of the hymn “Precious Lord,” featuring tenor saxophonist Michael Breaux ’84MM, a native of New Orleans. The musicians and the employees working at the concert all volunteered their services.

Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy presented violinist Sarah Chang with a framed copy of the plate that will adorn a chair in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall in her honor.

Violinist Sarah Chang, one of classical music’s most indemand soloists, accepted an invitation from Shinik Hahm, music director of the Philharmonia, to appear as soloist in a Benefit Concert for the Yale Philharmonia’s tour fund. The concert took place on Thursday, November 10, 2005, with Miss Chang performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

In recognition of her artistry and generosity, Acting Dean Duffy named a chair in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall in her honor, and presented her with a framed copy of the plate that will adorn her chair in Sprague.

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music briefs On January 29, three current piano students, Hye-yeon Park ’06AD, Jeewon Park ’06AD, and Ryosuke Yanagitani ’05AD, performed in Steinway Hall. Another Steinway Hall concert, on April 18 featured four recent alumni, Natalie Zhu ’01AD, Stephen Buck ’01MMA, Anna Grinberg ’02AD, and Liam Viney ’03MMA.

Andy Summers, left, and Benjamin Verdery perform Ingram Marshall’s Dark Florescence, with members of the Philharmonia and conductor Julian Pellicano ’07MM.

The New Music New Haven concert on November 17, 2005, featured Dark Florescence, for electric guitar, classical guitar, and chamber orchestra by composer and visiting professor Ingram Marshall. The soloists, Benjamin Verdery, chair of the guitar department at the School of Music and Andy Summers, former guitarist of The Police, had performed the world premiere of the piece earlier in the year in Carnegie Hall. For the New Haven premiere, members of the Philharmonia provided the orchestral accompaniment, under the baton of conductor Julian Pellicano ’07MM. Given the celebrity of the guest soloist, Sprague Hall was packed with a large number of rock guitar enthusiasts, many of whom had never been to Sprague Hall. Said one audience member, who provided comments to the New Haven Independent, an online publication, “I was smiling from hair to toe during the second part while Summers and Verdery traded improvisational solos…Dark Florescence was a thrill, and it was easy to respect Andy Summers as an electric guitar musician, rather than former member of The Police. Thanks to Ingram Marshall for composing with imagination and flexibility and the Music School for offering the free concert.”

The Yale School of Music has begun an ambitious program of presenting several events each year in New York City. The first event this season was the premiere of the one-man chamber opera Feynman at the Knitting Factory, composed by Jack Vees and performed by baritone Michael Cavalieri ’04AD and So Percussion, whose members are Lawson White ’04MM, Douglas Perkins ’00MM, ’01AD Jason Treuting ’02AD, and Adam Sliwinski ’04MMA. In the same evening, So Percussion performed Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood and Jack Vees played his Surf Music Again.

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So Percussion performs Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” at the Knitting Factory in New York City with Ryan Bishop ’04MM (center).

Baritone Michael Cavalieri ’04AD in “Feynman” by Jack Vees, with So Percussion members Lawson White ’04MM, Jason Treuting ’02AD, Adam Sliwinski ’04MMA, and Douglas Perkins ’01AD.

The program included Grinberg and Viney’s performance of the world premiere of Ezra Laderman’s Interior Landscapes for two pianos. The last and largest event was April 30, as the Philharmonia Orchestra took the stage of Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall under the orchestra’s music director, Shinik Hahm. The program included New Era Dance

by Aaron Jay Kernis, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Jian Wang ’88Cert, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2.

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On April 30, the Philharmonia Orchestra played in Carnegie Hall under Shinik Hahm. The program included New Era Dance by Aaron Jay Kernis, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Jian Wang ’88Cert, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2.

The School of Music celebrated Claude Frank’s 80 birthday with a surprise presentation and reception following his Horowitiz Piano Series recital on January 17, 2006. Prof. Frank received the Gustave Jacob Stoeckel Award, the School’s highest honor for teaching excellence, on stage before a sold-out house and an adoring audience.

Afterwards, his birthday celebration continued with students, alumni, and colleagues. Among the many guests and family were his daughter, violinist Pamela Frank, Gary Graffman, Joseph Kalichstein, and Jerome Lowenthal. th

Cellist Jian Wang ’88Cert, Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy, Composer Aaron Jay Kernis ’83, and conductor Shinik Hahm at the reception in Carnegie Hall on April 30.

Claude Frank cutting the first slice of his 80th birthday cake, following a surprise presentation at his Horowitz Piano Series recital on January 17.

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faculty appointments Mikhail Hallak, pianist and voice and opera coach, has distinguished himself in recital, performing extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, as well as Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Israel. He has extensive experience as a music and French coach at the Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program, Spoleto Festival USA, the Santa Fe Opera, and Virginia Opera, among others, as well as the International Vocal Arts Institute and Voice Experience. He has served as accompanist for master classes with renowned artists, including James Levine, Renata Scotto, Martina Arroyo, Diana Soviero, Martin Issep, and Rudolph Piernay. With a grant from Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium, Mr. Hallak studied at Indiana University, having already completed degrees at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, the Mons Conservatory, and the Maastricht Konservatorium. He has appeared twice on the A&E program “Breakfast with the Arts” and was featured prominently in the French documentary “Une Recontre avec Natalie Dessay.” In 2004 he was selected by soprano Jessye Norman as the official accompanist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Founder of the Belgian Concert Series, “Les nuits d’hiver au chateau” and “Theater of Song” in Washington, D.C., Mikhail Hallak is both a Fulbright and Rotary Scholar.

Robert Holzer, music history, received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the music of the Italian Baroque and the Second Viennese School, he has served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He taught in the Yale University Music Department from 1997 until he joined the School of Music faculty in 2005. His work has been published in Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Il saggiatore musicale and Studi musicali. He is also a musical commentator for Radiotelevisione Italiana.

Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor, joined the Yale faculty in 2005 as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

He is also conductor of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra, music director and chief creative officer of the Trinity Music Partners, LLC, in New York, which holds the worldwide rights to the Vatican Library Music Collection, and principal conductor of the Vienna Modern Masters, in Vienna, Austria. Prior to Portland, he was associate conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra for six years, beginning in 1981. He has served as music director of the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra at Rice University, and music director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles from 1978-81. Maestro Shimada has been frequent guest conductor of the Moravian

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Philharmonic Orchestra in Czech Republic, since 1998; the Slovak Philharmonic in Slovakia; Tonkuenstler Orchestra in Austria; Orchestre National de Lille, in France; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the UK, in the Edinburgh Festival; and Prague Chamber Orchestra to name a few.

He has also guest conducted the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the San Jose Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and many other US and Canadian orchestras. Maestro Shimada has studied with many distinguished conductors of the past and the present such as Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Herbert Blomstedt, Hans Swarovsky, Sergiu Comissiona, David Whitwell, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He was a finalist in the 1979 Herbert von Karajan conducting competition in Berlin and a Fellow Conductor in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, in 1983. Maestro Shimada records on the Vienna Modern Masters label with the Moravian Philharmonic, and currently he has twelve Compact Discs.

Hyo Kang has been appointed visiting professor of violin, beginning in 2006. The artistic director of the International Sejong Soloists, Kang made numerous concert tours in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Central America as both violin soloist and chamber musician. As a member of the highly acclaimed Theatre Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for more than 20 years, he has given many works their American premieres and enjoyed musical collaborations with such artists as Leon Fleisher, Pina Carmirelli, Walter Trampler, and André Watts. A world-renowned violin teacher, he has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1978 and has given master classes in the United States, Korea, and Japan. He has also been on the faculties of the Aspen Music School in Colorado since 1978 and the Nagano Aspen Music Festival in Japan since 1994. He was a visiting professor at the Seoul National University in 1994 and served as a judge in several international competitions, including the Wieniawski-Lipinski in Poland. His students have distinguished themselves with top prizes at the world’s most prestigious competitions and are performing with major orchestras worldwide. Kang’s former students include Gil Shaham, Sarah Chang, and Chee-Yun, among many others. Kang was born in Seoul, Korea, and graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. He was most recently the subject of a Korean Broadcasting System documentary titled “Teaching Genius-Juilliard Professor, Hyo Kang.” The governor of Gangwon province

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faculty appointments asked Kang to bring the first international music festival to Pyeong Chang and appointed him as the music director in March 2003.

Ani Kavafian, violin, who has taught at Yale as an interim lecturer since 2004, has been appointed professor (adj) of violin. Ms. Kavafian has performed with most of America’s leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Delaware, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Utah, and Rochester. Her numerous solo recital engagements include performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as in venues across the country. In recent years, she has premiered and recorded new works written for her by Henri Lazarof, Todd Machover, and Michelle Ekizian. Ani Kavafian has appeared with major orchestras around the country with her sister, violinist and violist Ida Kavafian, and the duo has recorded the music of Mozart and Sarasate on the Nonesuch label. Kavafian is an artistmember of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and is in great demand at such summer music festivals as Ravinia, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, OK Mozart, Virginia Waterfront International Arts Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and Bridgehampton. She is a member of the Trio da Salo, with violist Barbara Wesphal ’76CERT and cellist Gustav Rivinius, and recently has collaborated with clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Andre-Michel Schub. Along with cellist Carter Brey, she is the artistic director of the New Jersey chamber music series “Mostly Music.” Kavafian’s list of prestigious awards includes the Avery Fisher Prize and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Her recordings can be heard on the Nonesuch, RCA, Columbia, Arabesque, Delos, Artek, and Helicon labels. Born in Istanbul of Armenian descent, Kavafian began her musical studies with piano lessons at the age of three. At age nine, shortly after her family moved to the United States, she began the study of the violin with Ara Zerounian and, at 16, won first prize in both the piano and violin competitions at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Two years later, she began violin studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, eventually receiving a master’s degree with highest honors. Kavafian resides in Westchester, New York, with her husband, artist Bernard Mindich, and their son, Matthew.

Ingram Marshall, who taught at Yale in the fall of 2005, returns as visiting professor of composition in

the 2006–2007 season. He lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1973 to 1985 and in Washington State, where he taught at Evergreen State College, until 1989. His current base is Connecticut. He studied at Columbia University and California Institute of the Arts, where he received an M.F.A., and has been a student of Indonesian gamelan music, the influence of which may be heard in the slowed-down sense of time and use of melodic repetition found in many of his pieces. In the mid-seventies he developed a series of “live electronic” pieces such as Fragility Cycles Gradual Requiem and Alcatraz in which he blended tape collages, extended vocal techniques, Indonesian flutes, and keyboards. He performed widely in the USA and Europe with these works. In recent years he has concentrated on music combining tape and electronic processing with ensembles and soloists. His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Theater of Voices, Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and American Composers Orchestra. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His most recent recordings are on Nonesuch (“Kingdom Come”) and New Albion (“Dark Waters”). Among recent chamber works are Muddy Waters, which was commissioned and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and In Deserto (Smoke Creek), commissioned by Chamber Music America for the ensemble “Clogs.” January 2004 saw the premiere of his Magnum Opus/Meet the Composer commissioned orchestra work, Bright Kingdoms, by the Oakland East Bay Symphony with conductor Michael Morgan. The American Composers Orchestra in New York premiered his concerto for two guitars and orchestra (Dark Florescence) at Carnegie Hall in February 2005, with guitarists Andy Summers and Benjamin Verdery. The work was performed in Sprague Hall with the same soloists on November 17, 2005 (See Music Briefs).

American lyric tenor James Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2005 after serving as professor of voice at the Musikhochschule in Augsburg, Germany, since 2001. He is a widely-sought after oratorio soloist, appearing worldwide with such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Harry Christophers, Osmo Vänskä, Phillipe Herreweghe, and Franz Welser-Möst, and he is touring extensively with Helmuth Rilling. Important guest appearances have included concerts with the Bavarian

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faculty appointments Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. He has recorded Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and the songs of John Duke. Professor Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a vocal ensemble which has appeared in major European music festivals and recorded on the Orfeo label. A recording of Scottish and Welsh songs

by Franz Josef Haydn, together with Donald Sulzen and the Munich Piano Trio, has recently been released. He holds degrees from Texas Christian University and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich.

Stephen Taylor will teach oboe at the Yale School of Music upon the retirement of Richard Killmer in the fall of 2006. Mr. Taylor holds the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Solo Oboe Chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is also solo oboist with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), the American Composers Orchestra, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, and the renowned contemporary music group Speculum Musicae, and he plays as co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

He appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at such major festivals as Spoleto, Caramoor International Music Festival, Aldeburgh, Bravo! Colorado, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein.

Included among his more than 200 other recordings are Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle, Bach’s Oboe d’amore Concerto, as well as premier recordings of the Wolpe Oboe Quartet, Elliott Carter’s Oboe Quartet for which Mr. Taylor received a Grammy Nomination, and works of Andre Previn. He has premiered many of Carter’s works including A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, Tempo e Tempi, Trilogy for Oboe and Harp (US), Oboe Quartet (US), and A 6 Letter Letter (US). Trained at the Juilliard School with teachers Lois Wann and Robert Bloom, Mr. Taylor is a member of Juilliard’s faculty as well as those of SUNY Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music. The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University awarded him a performer’s grant in 1981.

Orianna Webb ’03MMA, hearing, was born into a family of visual artists in Akron, Ohio, and grew up playing the bassoon and the piano. She earned degrees in music from the University of Chicago, the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), and the Yale School of Music. Her teach-

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ers have included Martin Bresnick, Margaret Brouwer, John Eaton, Joseph Schwantner, and Roger Zahab, and she has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris with Samuel Adler and Philip Lasser. Her chamber and orchestral music has been performed around the U.S., and recent premieres have included Ways the Sky Meets the Sea, winner of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize and composed in residence at the Camargo Foundation, and commissions from Guitars International, SCI and ASCAP, and the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program.

Ms. Webb’s music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia, the Bowling Green Philharmonia, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO), Flexible Music, the Prism Players, the University of Iowa Center for New Music, Vox Novus, and the Mostly Modern Chamber Music Society, and has been heard at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Newburyport (Mass.)

Chamber Music Festival, the 2003 International Trombone Festival in Helsinki, Finland, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s AKI Festival of New Music, and the Ohio & Erie Canal Opera Project. Ms. Webb’s music has been recognized with prizes from ASCAP, the American Music Center, SCI, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the International Trombone Association, and the Darius Milhaud Society. Orianna Webb has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, and Yale College. She is also a founding faculty member of the Young Composers Program at CIM, a week-long summer program that draws composers ages 14–19 from around the country.

A pianist from Taiwan, Wei-Yi Yang ’04DMA, has concertized on four continents as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals. Winner of the Gold medal in the Fifth San Antonio International Piano Competition in Texas, Mr. Yang’s performances have been featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia, NPR, Minnesota Public Radio, WCNY-New York, WFMT-Illinois as part of the “Live from Studio One” concert series, and KLRN public television in Texas. He has also garnered top prizes and awards in the Manhattan Concerto Competition, New York’s Five Town Arts Foundation Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Long Island Young Artist Competition. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Yang was a student of Boris Berman at Yale, receiving instruction as well from Claude Frank and Peter Frankl. An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Yang has performed in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, Scotland, the Great Hall in Leeds, England, and the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland, among many other major concert venues

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faculty appointments around the world. Having performed at festivals in Novi Sad (Serbia and Montenegro), Monterrey (Mexico), Napa Valley and La Jolla (California), just to name a few, Mr. Yang has collaborated with members of some of the world’s finest orchestras such as London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra do Estado de Sao Paulo, and members of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II.

Together with violinist Kyu-Young Kim and cellist Pitnarry Shin, Mr. Yang co-founded the award-winning Soyulla Ensemble, which recently debuted at Alice Tully Hall, and released a CD of live performances on the Renegade Classics label. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Yang chaired the keyboard department at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music, where he was awarded tenure in May 2005. Mr. Yang joined the Yale faculty as associate professor of piano in the fall of 2005.

new staff Krista Johnson is delighted to join the Yale School of Music as the Ensembles Manager, assuming responsibilities for the Yale Philharmonia and New Music New Haven.

Most recently, Krista served for five years as the General Manager and Director of Operations of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she managed seven ensembles for Oberlin Conservatory and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Krista received a degree in Arts Education Administration from Oberlin College while simultaneously pursuing studies in Piano Performance at Oberlin Conservatory, and was subsequently a finalist in the American Symphony Orchestra League Orchestra Management Fellowship Program. When not backstage, she can often be found hiking with her cameras, or curled up by the fire with a stack of good books.

Phanny Lonh is a graduate of Yale College PC ’04 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Her interest in music and cultural development brought her to the School of Music where she serves as Customer Relations Manager for the Concert and Press Office. Before coming to the School of Music, Phanny worked as an Administrative Assistant for Yale University Accounts Payable and as a Literacy Tutor for the America Reads program. She continues her literacy promotion efforts by serving as a volunteer for New Haven Reads.

Grant Meachum, a native midwesterner, joins the staff of the School of Music as the Opera Coordinator. He has spent the previous five years on the staff of Boston Lyric Opera, most recently as artistic administrator. A graduate of Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) with a degree in arts administration, Grant has also worked for San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and OPERA America. Outside of his professional life, Grant enjoys playing basketball, traveling, cooking large dinners, and attending concerts with his wife Renata, who is a violinist.

Elizabeth Muller serves as the Development Assistant to the Dean. She is happy to join the students, faculty, alumni, and staff at the School of Music in promoting the musical arts. Prior to her work at the School, Elizabeth developed youth and young adult conferences at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she received a Master of Arts in Theology. Elizabeth also served for a year at a homeless shelter in Los Angeles with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps after graduating from Loyola University Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. When she is not working, she can be found running through various neighborhoods in the greater New Haven area with her husband, John Michael Muller ’05MM. Patricia Pappacoda serves the School of Music Business Office as the Senior Administrative Assistant. Patty’s background includes twelve years of administrative experience in the legal field, with an emphasis on family and domestic matters. Patty is also a licensed residential real estate agent with Prudential Connecticut Realty in East Haven, Conn.

Elizabeth Wilford is delighted to join the staff of the School of Music as the Receptionist at Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall. Prior to her employment at Yale, Elizabeth served as an Office Manager for a dental practice in Hamden.

A graduate of Southern Connecticut State University with a Master of Arts in Reading Education, she has worked as a teaching assistant with learning disabled students in the Wallingford School System. At the Sylvan Learning Center, she implemented individual educational programs for kindergarten through high school age students. Elizabeth and her husband, Kim, have a son, Christopher and a daughter, Courtney.

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Faculty News Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department, has been elected to membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. The public announcement of the election was made on March 1, 2006. Secretary of the Academy Richard Howard inducted the twelve new members at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May.

The School of Music will celebrate Mr. Bresnick’s 60th birthday with a concert in Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York.

The music on the program represents Bresnick’s great range as a composer. The works will be presented in order of their date of composition, beginning with “B’s Garlands,” a 1973 work for eight cellos performed by members of the Yale Cellos. Marguerite Brooks will conduct 16 singers of the Yale Camerata in Three Choral Songs (1988), followed by Bresnick’s 1997 trio for clarinet, viola, and piano, “***” which will be played by David Shifrin, Jesse Levine, and Lisa Moore. The largest piece on the program, “Grace” (2000), a concerto for two marimba players and orchestra will feature members of the Yale Philharmonia, Shinik Hahm, conductor, and Robert van Sice.

Bresnick’s multimedia work “For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (2001)” follows with pianist Lisa Moore, and the evening will conclude with “My Twentieth Century” (2002)with an ensemble conducted by Ransom Wilson. For more information, visit the School of Music web site, or www.carnegiehall.org.

Professor Emeritus Donald Currier ’47MM has recently produced both a book, Why the Piano? and a CD of piano music by Robert Schumann. The book consists of conjectural writing about the piano, the people involved with the piano, and memoirs of concerts in Europe, New York and at Yale. The CD is devoted to music by Schumann composed between 1846 and 1852. For more information please contact Prof. Currier at ccurrier@cshore.com or write to 12 Long Hill Farm, Guilford, CT 06437.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday in October 2005, Peter Frankl, Visiting Professor (Adjunct) of Piano, received one of the highest civilian awards: the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, for his lifetime of artistic achievements in the world of music.

Professor of Composition and former Yale School of Music Dean Ezra Laderman has been enthusiastically elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Louis Auchincloss, chair of the Academy’s Nominating Committee, made the announcement. Mr. Laderman, who was inducted into the Academy in 1991, follows painter Philip Pearlstein in a three-year term as president.

Professor of Music and former Yale School of Music Dean Frank Tirro was the recipient for the Alumni Achievement Award in Music from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was honored at the College’s Honors Day Dinner on Saturday, April 22 at 5pm in the Johnny Carson Theater for demonstrating outstanding achievement and overall professional excellence in music.

On November 17, 2005, Benjamin Verdery, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Guitar, was given an award at Weill Recital Hall by the Classical Recording Foundation for his new CD Start Now. The event was the Foundation’s fourth annual awards ceremony. His 11 Etudes, which appear on the CD, have just been published by Doberman-Yppan.

On March 25, 2006, alumni and current students of Benjamin Verdery came from all over the world to honor him for of his twenty years of teaching at Yale and to perform in a concert of his compositions. The final work on the program, “Ellis Island” included all the performers on the program as well as all the guitar alumni in attendance — 40 performers in all who played under Verdery’s direction. Earlier in the day, there was a panel discussion on “Life After Yale” with Peter Argondizza ’94DMA, Tom Clippert ’97MM, Bryce Dessner ’99MM, Lars Frandsen ’93MM, Rene Izquierdo ’01AD, Andrew Leonard ’93MM, Mesut Ozgen ’94AD, Marc Teicholz ’86MM, Kevin Vigil ’90MM and David Nadal ’95MM who was instrumental in organizing the whole event.

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Listings are by year of the last degree awarded. Please send in news and updated information to Elizabeth Muller (elizabeth.muller@yale.edu). Over 90 YSM Alumni web pages are posted at www.yale.edu/music/alumni.html.

1950s After his departure from the Yale School of Music and the Columbia University School of the Arts faculties in 1992, Frank Lewin ’51BM continued working on the libretto and music of his opera (Burning Bright), based on the novel and play by John Steinbeck. It was premiered in November 1993 in Woolsey Hall. The Opera Festival of New Jersey presented the second production of Burning Bright in 2000. Three years later, Albany Records issued a three-CD set of Burning Bright.

Other CDs have followed, also issued by Albany: Three Song Cycles (2004), Ethnic Kaleidoscope (2005) and Sacred Music (2005). In addition, the New Violin Society released a CD of Lewin’s music performed on the Family of New Violins designed and constructed by the lutenist Carleen M. Hutchins in 2004.

In 2005, Lewin’s Requiem for Robert Kennedy was performed in the city of his birth, Wroclaw, Poland. Mr. Lewin celebrated th his 80 birthday this past year, and reflected that his life has been one of great challenges and achievements. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife Elsbeth.

She is active as an adjudicator in the New England area and as a performer in solo, chamber music and accompanying.

She conducts the Good Spirit Children’s Choir at the First Congregational Church in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and is active as a substitute organist in the Shoreline area.

Yehudi Wyner ’50BA, ’52BM, ’53MM, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto Chiavi. The work was premiered by the Boston Symphony, with Robert Levin as soloist, on February 17, 2005. The prize recognizes a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.”

Currently Wyner is the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition at Brandeis University and has been a frequent visiting professor at Harvard University. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wyner joins fellow Yale alumni Lewis Spratlan ’62BA, ’65MM and Aaron Jay Kernis ’83 as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Holly Hamilton ’78MM, violin, is in her 28th season with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. Four other School of Music alumni are also members of the NSO: Elisabeth Adkins ’87DMA, violin; Jane Stewart ’79MM, violin; Paula Sisson Akbar ’75MM, violin; and Mahoko Eguchi ’00DMA, viola.

1960s Graham Farrell ’67MM has retired as music director for the Church of the Sacred Heart in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Preludes on English Hymn Tunes of the 18th Century, for trumpet and organ, was published by Hinshaw Music in 2005. Other works have been published by Galaxy, C. F. Peters, and E. C. Schirmer.

He was awarded a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony, and has performed his own works at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and at the Assisi Music Festival in Italy.

Karen A. Nelson ’68MM, ’69MMA is on faculty at ChoateRosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. She was recently selected as a performer in the Teachers Program for the Piano Texas International Academy and Festival. Nelson teaches out of her private studio in Westbrook, Connecticut, as well as at Choate.

Gerald Rizzer ’65MM is the founder, artistic director, and pianist for the Chicago Ensemble, a professional chamber music group now in its 28th season. For more information, please visit their website at www.thechicagoensemble.org. Mr. Rizzer’s teaching activities include music appreciation classes at DePaul University, as well as piano, theory, and ensemble at Sherwood Conservatory of Music. He has been a long-time participant in Theatre Building Chicago’s writers’ workshop for new musicals and has written the music for several works that have been presented at Theatre Building Chicago.

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Christopher Hasty ’72 MM, ’78 Ph.D. has been appointed the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music Theory at Harvard University. Hasty is a specialist in music of the 20th century. His publications treat problems in the theory and analysis of posttonal music, particularly in relation to problems of temporality.

Among works now in progress is a book on problems of musical form conceived as process. He began his teaching at Harvard in the fall of 2002.

Melissa Mann (Holland) ’79MM has been working as a performer and songwriter for twenty years. She has been featured as a flutist, back-up singer, and keyboardist on contemporary folk, pop, and jazz recordings. Two CDs of her own songs have been released: Melissa Holland and Moving Away. A CD with her trio, Holland, Thompson, & Tooche, was released in 2005.

She has a 14 year old, Emily, and they reside in the Hudson Valley.

Dr. Max Stern ’71MM was recognized in 2004 with a ‘special mention’ in the 1st International EPICMUSIC Composition Competition for his work Three Ancient Pieces. The piece was noted especially for the writing ability and a very personal language in balance between tradition and innovation.

Recently, Stern’s new opera, Messer Marco Polo, was performed by the New York City Opera in the VOX 2006 Showcase. It is based on an unscholarly tale, by Donn Bryne, of Marco Polo’s courtship of Golden Bells, the daughter of Kublai Khan, and of his journey from Venice to the courts of Cathay.

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alumni news James Wallenberg ’76MM, violin, is now in his 27th year with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He continues to perform chamber music in the Toronto area as well as teaching and coaching. His biggest “life coup” was recently getting married for the first time to Jacqueline Flinker, President/ CEO of Artsmarketing Services Inc., on June 5, 2005. Outside of music, James continues to dabble in performing standup comedy with the violin and enjoys competitive tennis and scrabble.

Tammy Preuss ’87MM is starting her internship as a Certified Music Practitioner through the Music for Healing and Transition Program. This course of study; in recognition of music as a therapeutic enhancement to the healing process and the life/death transition; prepares musicians to serve the ill and/or dying, and all those who may benefit, by providing live music as a service to create healing environments. Tammy will be playing clarinet at the bedside of patients in a hospital or hospice. Tammy has also accepted a position at First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue as the kindergarten and first grade children’s choir director.

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Since 2001, Kate Ransom ’81MM, has been violinist with the Serafin String Quartet (which received critical acclaim for its 2005 Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall concert, and actively performs throughout the United States). Prior to her work with the Serafins, Ms. Ransom also received high praise from New York critics for her debut violin recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and she was a founding and six-year member of the Alexander String Quartet, which took first prize at the 1985 London String Quartet Competition. She has been director of The Wilmington Music School in Delaware since 1999.

Pedro de Alcantara ’83MM lives in Paris, France, and travels the world giving workshops and master classes in the Alexander Technique. His first book, Indirect Procedures: A Musician’s Guide to the Alexander Technique, was published by the Oxford University Press in 1997 and has been translated into French and German. A Japanese version is due out in 2007. His most recent book is a children’s novel, Befiddled, whose heroine is a 13-year-old violinist. Befiddled was published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House.

Chester Biscardi ’80DMA is the director of the Music Program at the Sarah Lawrence College. In recent years, he had residency fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and The Ligurian Center for the Arts and Humanities in Italy. He was visiting guest composer at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, composer-in-residence at the Dartington College of the Arts and guest composer at the Srinakharinwirot University Composers Festival in Bangkok and Payap University in Chiang Mai. His Piano Quintet, for piano and string quartet, was completed in the fall of 2004. Current projects include a song for baritone and chamber ensemble based on a poem by James Laughlin, commissioned for the Cygnus Ensemble for its 20th Anniversary, and a work for viola and piano in memory of the violist Jacob Glick.

The 48th annual Grammy Awards has nominated The Borealis Wind Quintet as one of five finalists for Best Classical Chamber Music Performance for their latest CD, A La Carte – Short Works for Winds. Borealis is honored to be the first wind quintet ever nominated for a chamber music Grammy. The quintet consist of Katherine Fink (flute), Tamar Beach Wells (oboe), Kathryn Taylor (clarinet), Wayne Hileman ’87MM (bassoon) and Dan Culpepper ’87MM (horn).

On July 7th 2005, after terrorist bombings struck London, Robert Parker ’85MM composed a commemorative anthem, A Promise of Comfort. The work is dedicated to the victims of the tragedy and their families. It was premiered three days later in Newport Beach at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. In September, Parker premiered the organ version of Toccata in Dialog in Los Angeles. His CD, Music for Melodrama: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was released in October 2005. Two months later, Festival Processional, for brass and organ, was premiered at the inaugural concert of the Southern California Chamber Singers. Recently, he has released the CD, A Festival of Carols: Yuletide Favorites on the King of Instruments, a celebration of favorite carols from England, France, and Germany. More information can be found at www.robertparkermusic.com.

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Mark Ryan ’88MM was honored by an award as a distinguished alumnus by Western Connecticut State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1985. The university honored Mark for his contributions in the field of music at the fourth annual Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award ceremony in December 2005. Mark has pursued a varied career as both a performing musician and music educator. Ryan has served as music director at St. John the Evangelist Church in Watertown for the past thirteen years and has been a music instructor in Connecticut public schools for sixteen years, teaching theory classes and directing four instrumental ensembles as a member of Stratford High School’s music faculty. Mark has also served for seven years as an adjunct professor in WestConn’s music department.

Christoph Tietze ’82MMA has recently published two books. Hymn Introits for the Liturgical Year (Liturgy Training Publications) discusses the origin and early development of the introit and contains a complete cycle of metrical introits in English. Introit Hymns for the Church Year (World Library Publications) takes the same metrical introits and sets them to music. In August 2004, Tietze presented a paper, “The Use of Old Latin in the Introits”, at the Cantus Planus conference in Hungary. He is music director and organist at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco and lives with his wife and three children in Marin County.

1990s Amy I-Lin Cheng ’98MM, ’99AD has been appointed head of the piano program at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University. She began her appointment in August 2006. After a concert tour of Taiwan, she returned to judge the Lee University Piano Competition from June 21–24.

Currently, Cheng is a candidate for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory. She is also vice president of the Chopin Society of Mid-America and active in the Music Teachers National Association and the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association. She met her husband, clarinetist Chad Burrow ’01MM, at Yale University and moved to his native

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alumni news Oklahoma five years ago. Burrow, principal clarinetist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, has taught at the Bass School of Music since 2001. Cheng and Burrow comprise Duo Clarion and are founding members and co-directors for the Brightmusic Chamber Music Series at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oklahoma City.

Stéphane Lévesque ’95MM has been Principal Bassoon of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) since 1998, and is assistant professor at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. During the 2005-06 season he performed Mozart’s Concerto for bassoon, KV 191, with the OSM, as well as the Montréal premieres of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto for bassoon and low strings, with the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, and of Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis for bassoon and chamber ensemble and Theodor Burkali’s TRaInspOrt for bassoon and two percussionists, both on the Allegra Chamber Music Series. Mr. Lévesque was second vice-president of the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) from 2002 to 2005, and he has appeared at numerous IDRS conferences, including the closing gala of the 2005 IDRS conference at the University of Texas in Austin, as well as the opening concert of the 2006 conference at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. The Headwaters Dance Company commissioned and premiered, with support from a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant, the Montana Suite: Boulder Batholith, a collaboration between choreographer Jance Comfort and composer Charles Nichols ’92MM which consists of two movements for clarinet, violin and piano trio, one movement for soprano and eight movements for computer-processed sound, accompanying six dancers.

“New Dimensions in Classical Guitar,” the multimedia new music video by Mesut Özgen ’93MM, ’94AD, has won a 2006 Bronze Telly Award in the Music Video category at the 27th Annual Telly Awards, an international competition honoring outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs. The DVD of the video, produced by Özgen, will soon be released on Golden Horn Records. The video excerpts from the award-winning program can be seen at http://mesutozgen. com/en/clips/vidoe.php.

John Palumbo ’96MM and his wife, Kyra Philippi ’97Cert, reside in an historic townhouse in downtown Amsterdam with their beautiful 11-month-old daughter, Cecelia and their sweet dog, Miles. John is project manager at Hewlett Packard but still finds time to play in various chamber music events.

Kyra is a member of the Lago String Quartet, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra.

Jack Perla ’99DMA was recently commissioned by ODC Dance, San Francisco’s leading modern dance company, to compose a major new work for the company’s 2005–2006 season. The commissioned work, On a Train Heading South, was a collaboration with founder/choreographer Brenda Way and lighting/ stage designer Alex Nichols. It is a dance theatre work exploring media saturation and human inattention to the environment and climate change. On a Train Heading South was premiered in March 2005 as part of ODC’s 34th home season at the Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center in San Francisco.

The work received extensive media coverage, including a featured interview on NPR’s “Living on Earth”. On a Train Heading South recently toured with ODC Dance, which included a week at the Joyce Theatre in New York City this past fall.

ODC Theatre recently announced that Perla is one of six groups/artists awarded an eighteen month developmental residency to explore new directions in contemporary performing and creative arts.

Meighan Stoops ’98MM, ’99AD joined the critically acclaimed and award winning Da Capo Chamber Players in 2002. Since then, she has appeared as chamber musician and soloist in many festivals and at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Fisher Center at Bard and the Composer’s Union in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Upcoming recording releases include Alla Borzova’s Scherzo for clarinet and piano on Albany Records, chamber works by Brian Fennelly, and Clarinet Passport, the premier recording of the Daniel Bonade Clarinet Quartet on Northbranch Records. Stoops has also appeared with the Orion and Colorado Quartets, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sequitar, non sequitar, Ensemble Sospeso, Quintet of the Americas, Pocket Opera Players, and the Key West, Charleston, New Haven, and Princeton Symphonies.

Carol Williams ’97AD, San Diego Civic Organist, gave the premier in June 2005 of Spreckels’ Fancy by Dan Locklair at the International Summer Organ Festival in Balboa Park, San Diego.

Concerts in 2005 included performances in the UK, Canada and Germany. In February 2006, Dr. Williams recorded at the Church of Saint Martin, Dudelange in Luxembourg. Her concerts in 2006 will include Canterbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Reading Town Hall, and the AGO National Convention in Chicago.

2000s In June 2005, Newport Baroque Orchestra, with Paul Cienniwa

’03DMA, founder and director, completed its third season with an all-Bach program in Newport, RI. The Yale Association of Rhode Island made the concert a special event for its members, with a pre-concert dinner lecture by Calvin Bowman ’05DMA. For more information on Newport Baroque Orchestra, visit www.newportbaroque.org.

Vincent Carr ’06MM was awarded Second Prize in the 2006 National Competition in Organ Improvisation. Vince competed against four other organists at the finals held this July in Chicago as part of the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

The Connecticut Association of Professional Financial Aid Administrators (CAPFAA) has awarded Garrick Chak ’06MM the first scholarship to be received by a Yale Music School student.

Yves Dharamraj ’04MM received the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship and is pursuing a DMA at the Juilliard School in the studio of Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins. Dharamraj captured Bronze Medal and the Commissioned Work Prize at the 2004 Irving M. Klein Competition and was named Silver-Medalist in the 2005 Ima Hogg Competition. Performance highlights include a solo appearance with Maestro Carlos Prieto and the Houston Symphony and collaboration with pianist Misha Dichter at Ravinia’s Martin Theatre. Dharamraj was invited to

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alumni news join Ne(x)tworks, a cutting-edge group of performing composers, who recently recorded Earle Brown works for a CD on the Mode label set to be released in the summer of 2006.

Kyle Mustain ’06MM will be returning to play oboe in the Santa Fe Opera for a third season. At the end of this season, he will be up for tenure.

Sumi Kittelberger ’06MM received a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdients (German Exchange Service) Scholarship for 2006–2007. In the New England region, she received the Francesco and Hilda Riggio Award at the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Kittelberger also gave her Carnegie Hall Debut in March 2006.

In November 2005, Hando Nahkur ’06CERT performed in Canada at the 30th Anniversary Celebrations of Estonian Arts Centre and was given the Golden Medal of Merit Award by the Estonian Arts Centre.

Joan Jooyeon Lee ’00MM, ’01AD received a DMA in choral conducting from SUNY Stony Brook in May 2005. In 2004, she joined the faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville as a visiting assistant professor. She serves as the interim director of choral activities and voice/opera. She recently conducted Puccini’s Suor Angelica in April 2005, sung and staged by TAMUK Opera Program.

Katherine Lee ’02AD was nominated for the 2006 American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship in Indianapolis. The competition lasts seven months and includes solo, chamber and concerto performances. Miss Lee is currently on the faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago and the Merit School of Music. Upcoming performances include appearances in Nichols Hall for the MIC Alumni Concert and the Duo-Piano Festival.

Katherine was the Competition Director for the 2006 Society of American Musicians Competition (www.samusicians.org).

In 2003, Todd Meehan ’01MM was appointed lecturer of percussion and director of Percussion Studies at Baylor University.

He currently performs as principal timpanist of the Waco Symphony Orchestra and percussionist with the Orchestra of New Spain in Dallas, Texas. Todd and his wife, Jessica, live in Waco.

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Sue-Jean Park ’02MM graduated from the Doctoral program at University of Texas at Austin in May, 2006. She has been appointed as assistant professor at Murray State University, where she will begin teaching in the fall.

Jemmie Robertson ’03MM recently completed the coursework for a DMA in performance at Northwestern University. He currently serves as adjunct professor of Low Brass at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and as instructor of trombone at the Music Institute of Chicago. Jemmie is a freelance trombonist in the Chicago area, and has recently performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Elgin Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, and Chicagoland Pops as well as numerous regional orchestras. In June 2005, Jemmie played at the wedding of John Cord ’04MM with fellow brass alumni Brian Umlah ’03MM, Craig King ’03MM, and Troy Hascall ’04MM. Hector Sanchez-Fernando ’04DMA, is currently living in Alcobendas, Madrid. He is the Chamber Music Professor of the Conservatory of Music in Salamanca, located about 120 miles northwest of Madrid, and is the piano accompanist for the viola studio at the Escuala Superior de Musica Reina Sofia.

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Homer R. Mensch Homer R. Mensch, bassist and pedagogue, who taught at the Yale School of Music from 1974 to 1984, died at home on December 9, 2005, at the age of 91. In addition to teaching at Yale, he was Chairman of the Bass Department at the Juilliard School and served on the faculty of the Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music, Rutgers, Dalcroze School, Queens College, and Catholic University. He served as assistant Principal Bass of the Pittsburgh Symphony, under Reiner and Klemperer; was a member of the New York Philharmonic under Barbirolli, Bernstein, and Boulez; the NBC Symphony under Toscanini, staff member at CBS, played for Eileen Farrell, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Parr, Tonight Show and Ed Sullivan. In 1975 he began playing Principal Bass for Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, NY Chamber Symphony, NY Choral Society, Little Orchestra Society, and NY Pops. He played on recordings of Heifitz, Piatagorsky, Stern, Milstein, Bach Aria Group, Casals Festival Orchestra, Columbia Symphony, and on virtually every commercial recording made in NY. He

recorded with Sinatra, Streisand, Paul McCartney and more. He taught 45 students a week, ranging from young beginners to conservatory students, including both classical and jazz professionals. Teaching until his death, he was held in highest esteem by all. His wife, the late Constance Mensch, a violinist and teacher, died in 2000. Donald Palma, current teacher of double bass at the Yale School of Music, said “I had the priveledge to study privately with Homer for one year following my graduation from Juilliard.

He was a great technician and stressed technical excellence in his teaching. Like all committed teachers, he was constantly inventing ways to do things better and passing on that valuable information to his students. He will be missed by many generations of students and colleagues.”

Homer R. Mensch is survived by former students carrying on his traditions and dedicated to his memory. Homer and Constance Mensch Scholarship Funds will be created at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes College of Music.

in memoriam Vera W. Hardman, ’29 Martha W. Humiston, ’30 Virginia B. Marsden, ’31 MM Mario L. Garofalo, ’32 MM Helen K. Olmstead, ’32 Cert Lois S. Murray, ’33 Cert Gladys Weissbuch, ’34 MM Harry S. Hull Jr., ’35 MM George Grosberg, ’36 BM Richard Robert Kopnicky, ’37 Joanne S. Martin, ’37 Cert Simon Selden, ’37 BA Perry Lafferty, ’38 Cert Louise L. Olmstead, ’38 Muriel C. Williamson, ’38 BM Mary T. Winters, ’38 Winston Budrow, ’39 Gilbert Taylor Gledhill, ’39 BM James D. Lewis, ’39 BM Betty W. Leibiger, ’40 MM

Simon Selden, ’40 MM John F. MacEnulty Jr., ’41 BA, ’42 MM Stanley U. Volpe, ’43 Eugene Rodman Lester, ’47 BM Mildred Freiberg, ’47 MM Olga Gorelli, ’48 BM Florence J. Clodius, ’50 MM William H. Dale, ’50 BM Gordon C. Pentz, ’50 BM Evro Z. Layton, ’51 BM Jane Ashlock Harris, ’51 BM, ’52 MM William J. Moffat, ’53 MM Joy R. Crocker, ’50 BM, ’57 MS Sarah H. Brodsky, ’58 MM M. Bellamy Hamilton, ’64 Lawrence H. Willingham, ’66 MM Lynden E. W. Emery, ’70 MM Rodger Allan Warner, ’72 Christina Maureen Tryk-Connell, ’74 MM Timothy M. Vernon, ’76 MM

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Contributors to the 2004–2005 Yale School of Music Annual Fund Thank you for your generous support of the School’s educational and artistic endeavors.

Class of 1926 Mrs. Martha W. Feldman Class of 1934 Mrs. Anne W. Lafarge* Dr. M. Louise Miller Mr. Ian Mininberg Class of 1935 Mrs. Dorothy B. Reeves Mrs. Helen B. Rhein Class of 1939 Mr. Norman F. Leyden Class of 1941 Professor Leonard Berkowitz Mr. Victor E. Cherven Mrs. Dorothy Smith Havens Mr. Pliny H. Hayes III Mrs. Mary D. Torrence Class of 1942 Harry B. Ray, Ph. D. Professor John Woldt Class of 1943 Mrs. Josephine C. Del Monaco Mrs. Jean Harris Mainous Mrs. Libbe R. Murez Mrs. Hope L. Whitehead Class of 1944 Mrs. Alice G. Canaday Mrs. Florence G. Smith Professor David S. York Class of 1945 Mrs. Muriel Port Stevens Mrs. Janice S. Woodhull Class of 1946 Professor James M. Beale, Jr. Dr. Joseph B. Carlucci Professor Bruce Prince-Joseph Professor Gerhard Samuel Mrs. Melba H. Sandberg Class of 1947 Mr. Herman Chessid* Professor John R. Cowell Professor Donald R. Currier

Mrs. Mildred Pansy Freiberg* Mrs. Olga B. Johnson Mrs. Charlotte K. Krosnick Miss Martha F. Lachowska Class of 1948 Mrs. Patricia E. Harding Mrs. Mary Louise Yoder Hicks Mrs. Jane S. Lee Mrs. Grace P. Lukas Mrs. Mildred McClellan Krebs Ms. Betty Whitehill Olsson Mrs. Janet Weeks Roberts Professor Ruth E. Schonthal* Mr. Albert C. Sly Mrs. Helen W. Wriston Class of 1949 Professor Robert W. Baisley Professor Arthur Campbell Mr. Herbert J. Coyne Professor Emma Lou Diemer Mrs. Hannah K. Friedman Robert B. Hickok Mrs. Eleanore H. Lange Kard Donald H. Keats, Ph.D. Professor Henry N. Lee, Jr. Professor Franklin E. Morris Mrs. Marie B. Nelson, Ph.D. Ms. Jean Belfanc Northup Mrs. Arleen G. Rowley Professor Julia Schnebly-Black Class of 1950 Professor John C. Crawford Mr. Kurt R. Glaubitz Mr. Lee Howard Mrs. Virginia H. Jenkins Mrs. Anne P. Lieberson Mrs. Marjorie J. McClelland Boris I. Rybka Professor William F. Toole Class of 1951 Miss Martha H. Bixler Mrs. Renee K. Glaubitz Professor Fenno F. Heath Mrs. Hannelore H. Howard Mr. Thomas B. Jones Mr. Robert L. Mahaffey Mrs. Lorraine L. Schaefer

Class of 1952 Mr. Robert C. Barker Mr. William C. Duffy, Jr. Ms. Mary G. George Professor Jean Hakes Mrs. Norine P. Harris Mr. Edward H. Higbee, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Jones Mrs. Judith L. Lipner Mr. David A. O’Leary Professor Eckhart Richter Mrs. Gwendolyn H. Stevens Mrs. Cynthia T. Stuck Class of 1953 Professor Leonard F. Felberg Prof. Joanna B. Gillespie Ms. Madlyne Carlson Guthrie Mr. Edwin Hymovitz Dr. Donald Glenn Loach Mr. Richard C. McCoy Ms. Joan G. Stanko Professor Armin J. Watkins Class of 1954 Professor Galen H. Deibler Ms. Jo Ann B. Locke Mr. Glen Michaels Professor Robert A. Montesi Dean David W. Sweetkind Professor Charles Vun Kannon Mrs. Cora W. Witten Class of 1955 Mrs. Eleanore D. Avery Mr. Earl M. Banquer Mrs. Elaine A. Flug Mr. Robert C. Hebble Professor G. Truett Hollis Mr. George A. Mathes, Jr. Mr. John A. Riley, Jr. Professor Walter A. Schenkman Mr. William W. Ulrich, Jr. Class of 1956 Miss Gerda E. Bielitz Professor Robert S. Conant Mr. Joseph Lawrence Gilman Mrs. Linda W. Glasgal Professor Margaret A. Strahl

Class of 1957 Prof. Richmond Browne Mrs. Choo-Hi K. Chang Mrs. Ernestine S. Griswold Mrs. Ella A. Holding Mrs. Joan B. Mathes Denis Mickiewicz, Ph.D. Mrs. Joyce B. Osborn Mr. Thomas M. Osborn* Mr. Goff Owen, Jr. Mrs. Joan F. Popovic Mrs. Dorothy C. Rice Mr. Ronald D. Simone Mrs. Lorraine S. Snowden Mr. Pablo B. Svilokos Dr. Anne Yarrow Class of 1958 Professor John K. Adams Mrs. Margaret D. Gidley Professor Richard W. Lottridge Class of 1959 Ms. Bernadette B. Gutter Mr. Robert H. Gutter Ms. Colleen P. Hagen Dr. G. Lawrence Jones Mrs. Alice K. Kugelman Mrs. Catharine M. McLelland Mrs. Linda L. Rosdeitcher Class of 1960 Mr. G. Carleton Hepting Mrs. Sheila A. Marks Professor Donald Miller, Jr. Dr. Robert W. Molison Miss LoisAnn Oakes Mr. Dwight L. C. Oarr Professor Gerard Rosa Professor Victor W. Ryder Mr. Stephen A. Simon Professor Chester F. Smith Class of 1961 Mr. John J. Contiguglia Mr. Gordon C. Emerson Professor Peter J. Hedrick Professor William Lee Hudson Professor Mary W. Krosnick Ms. Lois Wetzel Regestein Professor Werner G. Rose Mr. Bernard Rubenstein

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contributors: 2004–2005 ysm annual fund Dr. Carl B. Staplin Mr. Haskell L. Thomson Class of 1962 Mr. Raymond P. Bills Professor Joel A. Chadabe Ms. Charlotte M. Corbridge Professor James E. Cunningham Mr. Ralph P. D’Mello Mrs. Sylvia W. Dowd Professor Roger Ermili Mrs. Linda T. Lienhard Professor James R. Morris Mr. Peter P. D. Olejar Mrs. Florence Fowler Peacock Mrs. Neva S. Pilgrim Mr. Louis W. Pontecorvo Professor John E. Rogers Mr. Robert S. Rogers, Jr. Mr. George R. Schermerhorn Professor Arthur Welwood, Jr. Class of 1963 Professor Charles Aschbrenner Mrs. Jean S. Bills Miss Grace Ann Feldman D.V. Gladden, CSP, EA Dr. Daniel M. Graham Dr. Maija M. Lutz Mr. Harry Rohinsky Mrs. Joyce M. Ucci Class of 1964 Mr. Stephen T. Anderson Dr. Marcia S. Beach Dr. Robert C. Mann Professor Bruce G. McInnes Professor Richard T. Rephann Professor Smith Toulson III Class of 1965 Miss Rosemary Colson Professor Brian Fennelly Dr. Roderic M. Keating Professor Charles E. Page Mr. Gerald M. Rizzer Professor Alvin Shulman Ms. Rheta R. Smith Professor Melinda K. Spratlan Class of 1966 Judith R. Alstadter, Ph.D. Dr. Lucy E. Cross Mrs. Louise Duis Cary Mrs. Ethel H. Farny Mr. John M. Graziano Mr. Alan D. Hirschhorn Mr. Graham H. Hollobon Ms. Patricia Grignet Nott Ms. Lola Odiaga Mr. Peter H. Salaff

Mr. Timothy M. Sullivan Mrs. Mary C. Tilton Professor Donald F. Wheelock Mr. Joseph L. Wilcox Class of 1967 Mr. Howard N. Bakken Mr. George S. Blackburn, Jr. Mr. W. Ritchie Clendenin, Jr. Professor Richard L. De Baise Mrs. Paula Blank Fearn Mr. Daniel Robert Harris Mr. Thomas F. Johnson Mr. Richard E. Killmer Professor Carol F. Lieberman Professor Vincent F. Luti Mrs. Linda S. Reinfeld Mrs. Abby N. Wells Class of 1968 Mr. Ronald L. Baldwin Professor Sara Lambert Bloom The Rev. Dr. Robert Carpenter Professor Frank V. Church Professor Garry E. Clarke Professor Carleton C. Clay Ms. Carole Cowan Mr. William L. Douglas Mr. Richard F. Green Mr. David J. Longmire Professor Judith A. Solomon Class of 1969 Mrs. Helen B. Erickson Mr. Jeff Fuller Ms. Helen K. Hui Mr. Clinton L. Ingram Ms. Jane P. Logan Lois C. Lounsbery Ms. Paige E. Macklin Mr. Mallory Miller Mr. Bryan R. Simms Ms. Susan D. Stanley Ms. Patricia M. Zahrt Class of 1970 Mr. Geoffrey Groshong Ms. Anita La Fiandra MacDonald Ms. Georgia McEwan Palmieri Ms. Janet S. Schmalfeldt Ms. Jill Shires Dr. Martin R. Sunderland Ms. Elizabeth Ward Class of 1971 Ms. Patricia Ruth Brewer Mrs. Ellen L. Camm Dr. Marc-Antonio Consoli Prof. Preethi I. de Silva Ms. Nancy H. Eaton

Randall S. Edson, M.D. Ms. Laura E. Jeppesen Professor Mark R. Kroll Ms. Wendy S. Schwartz Mr. Paul H. Severtson Mr. Allan D. Vogel Professor William F. Westney Class of 1972 Rev. Joseph P. Bronder Professor Ronald A. Crutcher Mr. David B. Johnson Ms. Chouhei Min Professor Myrna S. Nachman Professor Richard D. Parke Dr. Richard S. Steen Dr. Daniel J. Stepner Ms. Julie Margaret Stoner Mr. Anthony C. Tommasini Class of 1973 Professor David B. Baldwin Mr. William B. Brice Mr. Gene Crisafulli Mrs. Marybrent Debes Debth Ms. Adrienne M. Drapkin Mr. Charles W. England Ms. Christine M. Ims Wayne J. Kirby, D.A. Ms. Penney K. Maloney Professor Charles M. McKnight Ms. Francine Nolan Pelegano Mrs. Sharon L. Ruchman Rogene Russell Professor Frank Shaffer, Jr. Mr. Frank A. Spaccarotella Mr. Norman P. Waite Class of 1974 Mr. Michael C. Borschel Professor Gene J. Collerd Mr. Robert L. Hart Mr. Ian R. Hobson Dr. Janne E. Irvine Mr. David E. Irwin, Jr. Ms. Ola Verine Jones-White Mr. David Lasker Mr. Thomas S. Mansbacher Ms. Madalena B. Marx Mr. Stephen Osmond Ms. Susan Poliacik Mrs. Permelia S. Sears Ms. Phylis Secrist Mr. Kenneth D. Singleton Ms. Jennie A. Wagner Ms. Antoinette Zinn-Zinnenburg

Class of 1975 Ms. Elyse R. Cherry Mr. Daniel S. Godfrey Mr. Hall N. Goff Ms. Mariel I. Jensen Bailey Professor Larry E. Jones Mr. Anthony M. Lopez Mr. David A. Marshall Ms. Christie A. Rollason-Reese Ms. Christina T. Soule Mr. John D. Stevens Dale A. White, DMA Class of 1976 Professor Lenard C. Bowie Ms. Katherine A. Brewster Ms. M. Susan Brown Professor Joan Osborn Epstein Mr. Ralph E. Evans Ms. Karen M. Froehlich Mr. Robby D. Gunstream Professor William G. Hoyt, Jr. Mr. Richard A. Konzen Professor Susan J. Marchant Mr. Henry G. Mautner Mr. J. Reid Patterson, Jr. Mr. Allan J. Rickmeier Mr. Stephen Thomas Roberts Mr. Dale Thomas Rogers Mr. Donald S. Rosenberg Ms. Lori Laitman Rosenblum Mr. Eric Saunders Prof. Michael C. Tusa Ms. Barbara M. Westphal Class of 1977 Mr. James M. Bates Mr. David A. Behnke Dr. Mark Allen Brombaugh Mr. Robert D’Angelo Mr. Eliot Hamilton Fisk Professor Boyd M. Jones II Mr. Dennis P. Michel Rev. Kathryn L. Nichols Mr. Philip D. Spencer Ms. Leslie Van Becker Class of 1978 Mr. William H. Beermann Professor K. Butler-Hopkins Professor Paul Garritson II Professor Fern A. Glass Boyd Ms. Laurie Hartzel Haller Ms. Holly A. Hamilton Mr. Frank Heuser Ms. Gretchen N. Perrett Mr. Jerrold Pope Mr. Stephen P. Rapp Professor Dan Joseph Rizner Mr. David J. Snow Mr. Jamie K. Syer

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contributors: 2004–2005 ysm annual fund Mr. John P. Varineau Ms. Cheryl R. Wiener Ms. Ann Yarbrough Professor Donald R. Zimmer Class of 1979 Mr. Evan C. Ahern Ms. Sharon Dennison Ms. Elizabeth J. Frohrip Ms. Monica L. Gerard Mr. Frederick L. Giampietro Ms. Susan Bell Leon Mr. Arthur Levering Dr. Thomas Lloyd Mr. William J. Myers Mr. William A. Owen III Professor Jan Radzynski Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan Ms. Pamela Sverjensky Ms. Susan E. Thompson Mr. Marvin Warshaw Ms. Deborah Dewey Westberg Mr. Kevin D. Willmering Class of 1980 Mr. Eliot T. Bailen Ms. Laura B. Cook Mr. F. Franklin Covey Mr. Gary Crow-Willard Mr. Richard Lalli Mr. David Lockington Ms. Pamela J. Marshall Mr. Peter M. Marshall Ms. Ida Mercer Ms. Rachel Esther Schenker Mr. Randall W. Steere Mr. Joaquin M. Valdepenas Ms. Mary D. Willis-Stahl Mr. Rodney A. Wynkoop Class of 1981 Ms. Nadine Deleury McKay Mr. Robert E. Eberle Mr. Alan K. Fetzer Ms. Pamela Geannelis Ms. Evelyn M. Grau Professor Glenn Guiles Ms. Karen E. Hopkinson Dr. Marie Garritson Jureit Dr. Edward C. Nagel Mr. Stephen B. Perry Ms. Rebecca L. Schalk Ms. Susan J. Seligman Mr. Regan W. Smith Mr. Christopher P. Wilkins Class of 1982 Dr. M. Teresa Beaman Mr. Kevin Dolan Mr. Charles L. Kaufmann

Mr. Grant R. Moss Mr. Larry Dean Schipull Jeffrey Charles West M.D. Class of 1983 Ms. Elizabeth Teoli Abbate Ms. Holly Jean Ager Dr. David A. Arcus Mr. James R. Barry Mr. Jeffrey Evans Brooks Ms. Marina Brubaker Ms. Carol I. Crawford Ms. Daphne A. Foreman Ms. Maureen Horgan Ms. Jessica B. Papkoff Mr. Robert J. Straka, Jr. Class of 1984 Ms. Katharine Strenge Anderson Ms. Betsy Adler Brauer Ms. Violeta N. Chan-Scott Mr. Edward H. Cumming III Mr. Andrew F. Grenci Mr. Claudio Jaffe Ms. Lynn A. Kane-Nixon Ms. Cynthia Kempf-Bruck Ms. Youngsun Koh-Lee Mr. Christopher M. Laughlin Mr. David L. Loucky Ms. Shari Lucas Mr. Richard T. Quigley Dr. Jody A. Rodgers Class of 1985 Mr. Christopher J. Creeger Mr. Steven F. Darsey Dr. Thomas Stephen Dubberly Ms. Justina B. Golden Ms. Susan Merdinger Greene Mr. Gregory M. Peterson Ms. Melissa Kay Rose Ms. Sally L. Rubin Dr. Timothy D. Taylor Ms. Carol Kozak Ward Class of 1986 Dr. Dale L. Adelmann Ms. Kirstin Fife Mr. Richard H. Goering Ms. Brigitte Paetsch Gray Mr. Steven F. Greene Ms. Elizabeth S. Lim-Dutton Mr. Dennis Neil Parker Ms. Terri Rae Sundberg Mr. William G. Whitaker Class of 1987 Ms. Elisabeth Adkins Mr. Allen H. Bean Mr. Andrew M. Campbell

Richard W. Dowling, DMA Mr. Jeffrey P. Higgins Ms. Elizabeth Purdy Mars Dr. Peter J. Nikiforuk Ms. Tammy L. Preuss Mr. Charles A. Reynolds Ms. Katrina J. Smith Mr. Antonio D. Underwood Mr. Marc I. Weber Class of 1988 Mr. James Charles Barket Mr. Mark David Crociati Mrs. Wendy Dunkle Dziurzynski Mr. John Anthony Frisch Ms. Veronica Erna Heinlein Mr. Mark A. DeW. Howe Ms. Jennifer Louise Smith Class of 1989 Mr. Dante Santiago Anzolini Mr. Mark P. Bailey Mr. William Jerold Crone Ms. Linda Jane Edelstein Ms. Laura C. Knoop Very Ms. Genevieve Feiwen Lee Ms. Sharon L. Sasse Silleck Mr. Robert Scott Satterlee Ms. Jo-Ann Sternberg Ms. Sarah Deborah Swersey Ms. Patti Wolf Class of 1990 Ms. Kathleen M. Brauer Mr. James G. Casey Mr. Bruce A. Demaree Mr. James A. Lotz Ms. Kirsten Peterson Mr. Benjamin Carey Poole Ms. Rebecca M. Rischin Dr. John A. Sichel Ms. Ellen M. Zimmer Lewis Class of 1991 Mr. Richard D. Adams Ms. Amy Feldman Bernon Dr. Benjamin P. Broening Mr. Lei Fan Ms. Eva Marie Heater Mr. Darin J. Lewis Mr. Thomas G. Masse Mr. Ian C. McNutt Ms. Tamara A. Meinecke Mr. Michael J. Nicolella Mr. Svend J. Ronning Ms. Dangsun Song Mr. D. Thomas Toner Prof. Nadine C. Whitney

Class of 1992 Ms. Dawn Michelle Alitz Mr. Cheung Chau Mr. John Scott Marshall Mr. Arthur J. Post Ms. Milana Elise Reiche Mr. Christopher P. Shepard Mr. Ferenc Xavier Vegh, Jr. Mr. Kevin Vigneau Mr. Gregory Christopher Wrenn Class of 1993 Mrs. Lisa C. Azzara Ms. Kin Chau Ms. Alison Eileen Graff Dr. Barbara J. Hamilton Ms. Rebecca Keith Matusovich Mr. Robert H. Levin Mr. Jonathan Allen Noel Ms. Clara J. Park Ms. Jill A. Pellett Levine Ms. Mary E. Phillips Ms. Inbal Segev Brener David E. Spies Class of 1994 Ms. Julie Anne Bates Mr. Matthew R. Polenzani Ms. Ying-Liang Shen Mr. Christopher M. Vaneman Dr. John E. Viton Mr. Ian R. Warman Ms. Susan L. Wiles Class of 1995 Ms. Tanya Anisimova Mr. Michael Edward Asetta Mr. Anthony Joseph Bancroft Mr. Bruce Redmon Baumer Mr. David James Chrzanowski Mr. James Harold DeCorsey Ms. Jane E. Dutton Mr. Robert A. Elhai Ms. Minhye Clara Kim Mr. Ronald Ling-Fai Lau Mr. Stephane Levesque Ms. Michelle Lynn Louer Ms. Kelly A. McElrath-Vaneman Mr. David Henry Nadal Ms. Amy Lieberman Roberts Mr. Eric Jason Samuelson Mr. Peter Savli Ms. Motoko Toba Ms. Christina Otten Toner Ms. Cheryl Rita Wadsworth Ms. Noralee Anne Walker Ms. Cynthia Zielski Reinhardt

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contributors: 2004–2005 ysm annual fund Class of 1996 Halina D. Avery Mr. Carlos Ruben Carrillo Mr. Ning-Shiang Chu Ms. Karen E. DiYanni Mr. Jayson R. Engquist Mr. James K. McNeish Ms. Ingrid Ann Sweeney

Class of 1999 Mr. Alexander Sylvain Bauhart Ms. Heather J. Conner Ms. Cornelia Flunker Ms. Pamela Ellen Getnick Mr. Robert Lynn Goodner Ms. Rebecca Rosenbaum Mr. Timothy Charles Snyder

Class of 1997 Ms. Monica Joan Bellner Mr. Stephen Matthew Black Mr. Paul D. Cienniwa Mr. Peter Joseph Light

Class of 2000 Mr. Thomas Nathaniel Dickinson Ms. Suzanne Marie Farrin Dr. Joan Jooyeon Lee Ms. Chiao-Han Liao Ms. Maureen Kristin Nelson Jonathan Reuning-Scherer, Ph.D. Mr. Brennan Dale Szafron Mr. Sebastian Zubieta

Class of 1998 Mr. William R. Funderburk IV Ms. Jeeyoung Kim Ms. Brigit M. Knecht Mr. Lawrence J. Loh Ms. Melissa J. Marse Ms. Joanna C. Mongiardo

Class of 2001 Mr. Edward A. Castro Mr. Andrew Elliot Henderson Ms. Mary Wannamaker Huff Ms. Jennie Eun-Im Jung Mr. Daniel Dixon Kellogg Ms. Nora Anderson Lewis Mr. Robert M. Manthey Mr. Todd Ryan Meehan Mr. Michael West Nickens Mr. John Christian Orfe Mr. Gerardo C. Perez Giusti Mr. Gilles A.D. Pugatch Mr. Daniel A. Tapia-Santiago Class of 2002 Ms. Na-Young Baek Mr. Michael B. Benninger Mr. Paul Abraham Jacobs Ms. Katherine Koeun Lee Mr. David Aaron Markowitz Mr. William Anthony Martin Ms. Elizabeth Lee Meeker Ms. Catherine Ramirez Mr. Mateusz Boguslaw Zechowski

Class of 2003 Mr. David Julian Davies Mr. Eric John Dudley Mr. Austin Peter Glass Ms. Margaret Kwon Ms. Christina Clara Lee Mr. Daniel Kevin Roihl Mr. Yevgeniy Sharlat Mr. Andrew Peter Sheranian Mr. Adam Gilbert Sliwinski Mr. Paul Mathew Weber Class of 2004 Mr. John Theodore Cord Mr. Yaroslav V. Kargin Ms. Christina Martos Ms. Katherine Mireille Mason Mr. Nathan P.M. Williamson

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