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India Carney India made it to the "Top 5" on Season 8 of the hit TV show, The Voice. In September she joined the Artists in Residence on the Crown Stage at the Crown Guitar Festival. She recently performed for Lady Gaga at the 2015 National Arts Awards. India will also be on ABC-TV for the Christian Cultural Center Christmas Show, to be broadcast on December 25, 2015.
Isabel Leonard Isabel performed as Ada in the world premiere of Cold Mountain with Nathan Gunn at the Santa Fe Opera in August 2015. She returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago this fall in the title role of Rossini's La Cenerentola and will also be performing as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera in December 2015. In February 2016 she returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. The recent DECCA Classics release of Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortilèges, featuring Isabel as the Child, has been nominated for a 2016 GRAMMY for Best Opera Recording.
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson Alexandra was interviewed in the New York Times in the context of her role as Chief Executive Officer of Glamsquad, an app-based beauty provider.
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Angelo Badalamenti (BM '58/MM '59) Angelo was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award at the 2015 MSM Alumni Reunion and is on tap to compose the score for director David Lynch's reboot of the cult television series, Twin Peaks.
Dianne Flagello (BM '52, MM '52) and MSM Honorary Doctorate 1999 In June 2014, Henry Fogel, nationally recognized critic, featured four hours of the music of Dianne's late husband, Nicolas Flagello (BM '49, MM '50), on his widely syndicated radio series Collectors' Corner. In April 2015, Nicolas's Divertimento for Piano and Percussion was performed by pianist Pam Asberry with the University of Maine Percussion Ensemble. In July 2015, Pianist Tatjana Rankovich performed his Symphonic Waltzes at the International Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. This October, MSM alumnus Joseph Rescigno conducted two performances of Nicolas's Notturno Romano with the string orchestra of the Chicago College for the Performing Arts and the University of Houston Wind Ensemble performed his Symphony No. 2.
Fredrick Kaufman (BM '59, MM '60) Fredrick's composition Stars & Distances, performed by the Florida Grand Opera and conducted by Andrew Bisantz, will be played on loop at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Science Museum Planetarium in Miami starting in spring 2016. The piece will be performed live by the Florida Grand Opera at the opening next summer. His new album Stars and Distances was released November 2015.
Kenneth Lane ('54) Heldentenor Ken Lane performed an All Wagner solo concert at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City in October 2015.
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Kenneth Force (BM '64, MM '65, PD '70), 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Captain Kenneth Force received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Foundation's Board of Directors at this year's USMMA Alumni Awards Banquet.
Rhoda Scott (BM '66, MM '67) This fall, world-renowned jazz organist Rhoda Scott was featured in the Blues People Festival International Organ Jam at Newark Symphony Hall. She also performed at the Music Village in Brussels, Belgium. At the end of this year and continuing into January 2016, Rhoda will be performing with the Rhoda Scott "Lady" Quartet in Paris, France.
Joseph Rescigno (MM '69) Joseph guest conducted Roosevelt's CCPA Contemporary Ensemble in its first concert of the 2015-16 season, which included repertoire composed by alumnus Nicolas Flagello.
Judith Blazer (BM '77) Judy is currently playing Miss Shingle in the Broadway production A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Douglas Hedwig (BM '73) Douglas's debut album as conductor, Thomas Coates: The Father of Band Music in America, has just been released on the MSR Classics label. He has recently had two of his compositions accepted for publication by Carl Fischer Music Publishers, A Certain Slant of Light and Onyx. The pieces will be available worldwide sometime in 2016. Douglas has also been appointed symphony reviewer and music critic for one of the most important newspapers in the Southeast[or southeastern U.S.], the Chattanooga Times Free Press. His article-length reviews began being published in November 2015.
Larry Hochman (BM '75) Larry orchestrated the 2015 Tony and Drama Desk nominated Broadway show Something Rotten. He also recently orchestrated Broadway's The Visit, On the Twentieth Century, and the upcoming 2016 Broadway revival She Loves Me. Larry orchestrated The Book of Mormon and he has received 5 Emmy awards as the composer of The Wonder Pets!
George Manahan (BM '73, MM '76), 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient George's recording of Ask Your Mama with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra has been nominated for a 2016 GRAMMY in the areas of Best Classical Compendium, Producer of the Year (Classical), and Best Engineered Album (classical).
Penny Prince (BM '74, MM '76) Penny was awarded a prize by the Music Educators' Association of New York City (MEANYC) for her collaborative teaching style in April 2015. In June, she received the 2015 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award for music composition from the Bronx Council of the Arts. Professor Prince has written some 200 musicals and has won fourteen ASCAP merit awards. She is Assistant Professor of Music and also a supervisor of music student teachers and interns at Lehman College.
Thomas Sefcovic ('78) Thomas is performing in the orchestra pit of Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Lorrie Ann Berkshire Brown (MM '85/PS '87) Lorrie is the Director of Potentiating Love Potentiating Leadership ®, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that coordinates resources, customizes outreach, and provides musical advocacy to uplift the spirit and improve access to creative learning opportunities for those in society's hidden peripherals. She is also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University's School of Music in Fairfax, Virginia. The first female to serve as Oboe Section Leader for The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own", Master Sergeant Lorrie Brown retired from the United States Army in 2015 and joined the ranks of Military Veterans who served with Honor. As a Soldier-Musician since 1989, she performed around the globe, coordinated, designed and scripted many audience focused projects and supervised mentors and interns. Her initiatives featured world premieres, included esteemed guests, and attracted media and international recognition. Her former students enjoy careers as professional educators, performers and leaders in arts management and in the music industry. Former students are also giving back serving in the U.S. Military and in volunteer service capacities.
Edward Cibener (MM '85) Edward participated in world premieres of works by Stanford-based composer and lyricist William Byron Webster at Bethany Lutheran Church in Menlo Park, California. In an evening of operatic songs and piano solos, the November 14th event celebrated France's contribution to American liberty.
Anthony de Mare (BM '80) Anthony de Mare, acclaimed concert pianist and MSM faculty member, conceived Liaisons, a landmark commissioning and concert project based on the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim. The Project invited 36 of the world's foremost contemporary composers to choose a song by Sondheim and re-imagine it as a solo piano piece. This fall 2015, in celebration of the release of LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano on ECM Records, de Mare performed the entire collection across a three-concert series at Birdland, the Sheen Center, and Symphony Space in New York City. In addition, Anthony recently did a featured segment on NPR's "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, which aired nationally in October 2015. Liaisons is also one of NPR's 50 favorite albums of 2015.
Carolyn Enger (MM '89) Carolyn performed most recently in 3@3@3 – Three Concerts of Three Composers at Three PM at Spectrum in New York City. Other recent concerts were performed at Steinert Hall in Boston, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Fulton Recital Hall at the University of Chicago, and the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago. Over the summer of 2015 Carolyn participated in Make Music New York and performed in the "Maira Kalman Selects" series at the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Matt Goeke (BM '86, MM '88) In addition to Matt's regular performing and teaching schedule, there was a lot of preparation and recording for two CDs that are now out: The Music of Merrill Clark (with the di.vi.sion piano trio; Albany Records) and Albert's Window (with Eight Strings & a Whistle; PARMA Recordings). Both chamber groups are also featured on Douglas Anderson: Chamber Symphonies 2, 3 & 4, which will be released on PARMA on January 8th, 2016.
Steven Lutvak ('81) Steven wrote music and lyrics for Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Steven attended MSM for the 1980-81 academic year.
Anne-Marie McDermott (BM '82) Anne-Marie will be on the jury for the fifteenth edition of the Van Cliburn Competition at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall.
Peri Mauer (BM '88/MM '90) Peri received a 2015 ASCAP Plus award. In November her composition Trumpet Trio received its world premiere at Good Shepherd RC Church in Brooklyn, NY. Upcoming performances include an encore of Thought's Torsion at Symphony Space in June 2016 and a new work for the Jackson Heights Orchestra to be premiered December 2016. She can be seen playing her cello in the new hit Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle.
Susan Merdinger ('87) Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger released her CD, Four Centuries, in September 2015. Recorded with internationally-acclaimed violinist, David Yonan, the CD has garnered excellent reviews and two prizes- for Silver Medals in the Global Music Award for Classical Album and Instrumental Performance, and First Prize in the Alexander and Buono International String Competition for David Yonan. The duo performed in Carnegie Hall to a standing ovation in October 2015. In September, Merdinger and her three colleagues comprising Pianissimo! - Svetlana Belsky (DMA '94), Elena Doubovitskaya (MM '01/PS '02) and Irina Feoktistova - Chicago's Premier Virtuoso Piano Ensemble, performed their Chicago Debut Concert to critical acclaim. The Live Concert CD features world premieres commissioned by Pianissimo!, by James Stone, Margarita Zelenaia and Grammy-nominated composer, Ilya Levinson, and beloved classics by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saens. The Chicago Debut Concert CD was released December 2015 and will be available for free streaming or purchase. www.pianissimoensemble.com Susan performed a chamber music program of Piano and Strings in a concert at the Northbrook Public Library and repeated this program on LIVE from WFMT with Host Kerry Frumkin in January 2016.
Pete McGuinness (MM '87) Pete's arrangements were featured on the Maiden Voyage Suite tribute to Herbie Hancock with the MSM Concert Jazz Band this fall 2015 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Gregory Nissen (BM '86) Greg's score of Martin Eden was recently performed for the Museum of Music Project at the National Opera Center in New York City.
Ross Novgrad (BM '83) Ross finished his second year as camp coordinator of the Summer Jazz Camp at the Community Music School of Springfield in Springfield, MA. Ross also played Lead Alto in the 25-piece Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival at the Riverfront Recapture in Hartford, CT in August 2015.
Anik Oulianine (BM '85, MM '87) Anik is performing in the orchestra pit of Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Jack Perla (MM '84) Jack released his new jazz recording Enormous Changes on Seattle-based Origin Records. The world premiere of his opera, An American Dream, was performed in April 2015 with Seattle Opera.
Ted Rosenthal (BM '81, MM '83) Ted was honored this year as the 2015 recipient of the MSM Presidential Medal for Distinguished Faculty Service. This fall he performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Piano Concerto in F during the 92nd Street Y's opening night to rave reviews by the New York Times.
Sunita Staneslow (MM '89) Sunita was featured on the front cover of the July-August 2015 issue of Harp Column.
Richard Sussman (MM '85) The New York City premiere of Richard Sussman's The Evolution Suite for jazz quintet, string quartet, and electronics will be performed in late December 2015 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space. In September 2015 the world premiere of Trio for Violin, Piano, and Laptop was performed at Barge Music in Brooklyn, NY. This past summer he performed master classes and concerts on a tour in China.
Steve Turre (MM '88) Steve was named Trombonist of the Year at the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Richard G. Williams (MM '87/MM '88) is keeping busy as the Principal Trombonist with the Westchester Symphonic Winds (www.westchestersymphonicwinds.org). He is also performing a solo recital on Sunday, April 24th 2016 at Larchmont Avenue Presbyterian Church.
David J. Wolfsohn (DMA '84) David, a partner at Duane Morris LLP in the Philadelphia office, was reappointed Co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's Intellectual Property Litigation Committee for 2015–16.
Dolora Zajick (MM '83), MSM Honorary Doctorate 2002 Dolora is performing as Azucena in Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera this season. She celebrated her 25-year anniversary with the Met and has sung the role of Azucena 53 times— more than anyone in the Met's history—and marked her Met debut with the role in 1988.
Robert Zubrycki (MM '86) Robert is performing in the orchestra pit of Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Kate Aldrich (MM '98) Kate sang the title role in the Chorégies d'Orange production of Carmen opposite Jonas Kaufmann in July 2015.
Rebecca Barnes (MM '93) Rebecca was recently appointed the Priest-in-Charge of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Scranton, PA.
Jamie Baum (MM '99) In November 2015, Jamie's ensemble, the Jamie Baum Septet, performed at the Rubin Museum of Art as part of their series "Jazz at the Rubin" playing the premiere of a commission by the Rubin Museum, Honoring Nepal, along with music from their recent Sunnyside CD, In This Life. The Septet also performed as part of the "Jazz at the Atlas" series at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. and at An Die Musik in Baltimore.
David Blinn (BM '93) David is performing in the orchestra pit of Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Jay Brandford (MM '93) Jay's arrangements were featured on the Maiden Voyage Suite tribute to Herbie Hancock with the MSM Concert Jazz Band this fall 2015 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Sarah Chan (BM '94) Sarah presented a solo piano recital at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 22, 2015 and will perform at St. James's Piccadilly in London on January 14, 2016. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music (Keyboard Studies and Music Theory) at California State University, Stanislaus.
Bradley Colten (MM '97, DMA '14) Bradley was featured in an interview in Guitar magazine in September 2015. He performs outreach concerts at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City. In April 2015 he performed in a faculty concert at the Diller-Quaile School of Music. He also lectured and performed a recital at the Guitar Foundation of America International Convention in Oklahoma City and the Classical Guitar Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Kirill Gerstein (BM '99, MM '00) Following Kirill's return from the U.S. and Canada in fall 2015, he performed Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Cello Sonata No. 3, and Piano Trio, Op. 70, no. 2 in Basel, Navarra, and Florence. Kirill also presented three further concerts of Strauss's Enoch Arden in Pirmasens, Iffeldorf, and Munich. Kirill returned to more Beethoven, performing his Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Dorset, Exeter, and Basingstoke. He also gave two performances of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. Kirill recently published an article in the New York Review of Books in homage to Radu Lupu on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
Eve Gigliotti (BM '97) In December 2015 excerpts from Wolf-in-Skins, a dance opera that Eve wrote in collaboration with choreographer Christopher Williams, were performed at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, with the wonderful period instrument ensemble New Vintage Baroque.
Gila Goldstein (MM '90) During the 2014-15 season, Gila performed recitals and taught master classes at Boston University; San Francisco's Old First Church; California State University Northridge; San Diego State University; New York City's NY Piano Academy; Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; Seoul National University; Dong Eui University in Busan, Korea; the 2015 Kansas Music Teachers Association Conference at Friends University in Wichita, KS; the Chopin Symposium at Rivers School Conservatory of Music in Weston, MA; the Colburn School of Music Piano Summer Festival; the Korean Liszt Society and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Gila is on the piano faculty at Boston University's School of Music and was recently appointed to the faculty of NYU Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts.
Kelly Hall-Tompkins (MM '95) Kelly is the violin soloist in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.
Stephen Hamilton (DMA '94) Stephen performed an organ concert at Saint Paul Chapel at Columbia University in October 2015. He also performed at Saint Ignatius of Loyola in New York City in November. In 2016 he will be playing at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Bloomsbury Central Church in London, and the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Regensburg, Bavaria.
Stefon Harris (BM '95, MM '97) Stefon was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award at the 2015 MSM Alumni Reunion. This fall he also led a master class at MSM. Performances this year have included venues like the Jazz Standard in New York City, Lila Cockrell Theatre in Texas, and Berkeley Stage in Boston. Upcoming shows include Miller Theater at Columbia University, San Francisco Jazz Center, Symphony Center in Chicago, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Shuler Hensley (BM '90), MSM Honorary Doctorate 2014 Tony award-winning Shuler is the subject of a major feature in the fall issue of Stay Thirsty magazine. Hensley is currently performing in Tokyo for the Broadway-bound production of The Prince of Broadway, a musical tribute to legendary Broadway director Harold Prince.
D.D. Jackson (MM '91) D.D. Jackson is an accomplished jazz pianist and Emmy-nominated composer/producer whose work spans 12 CD's, featuring almost entirely original material, ranging from his Juno Award-winning solo piano CD "...so far" to his larger-scale meditation on the events of 9/11, "Suite for New York". Jackson has performed all over the world and recorded with some of the most distinguished names in jazz and beyond, including Jack Dejohnette, James Carter, David Murray, and (most recently) Questlove and "The Roots" on their Grammy-nominated CD "Undun", and on "And Then You Shoot Your Cousin" (for which he also wrote, produced, and performed). Jackson is also a composer for such hit television shows as multiple-Emmy-winners "Peg+Cat" (PBS), and "The Wonder Pets" (Nickelodeon). Jackson is also a Visiting Lecturer at Hunter College and serves as Chair of Jazz and Contemporary Studies at the Harlem School of the Arts.
Jason Jackson (MM '95) Jason's album Inspiration has been accepted as an official entry to be considered for the Recording Academy's 58th GRAMMY Awards. The new disc is on Planet Arts/Jack & Hill Music labels. In August 2015 he played in the Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines Festival and in November he performed in Bill Charlap: Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Georgia Jarman (MM '99) Georgia performed Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Santa Fe Opera. The New York Times wrote: "As Gilda, the soprano Georgia Jarman had a melting tone that benefited from hints of birdlike fragility."
Jose Llana ('95) Jose joined the cast of Lincoln Center Theater's Tony award-winning revival of The King and I as the King, opposite Kelli O'Hara, who won a Tony for her performance as Anna. Llana is on the Artistic Advisory Committee of MSM's new Musical Theatre Program, which launches in fall 2016.
Alex Mincek (BM '98, MM '02)
Alex received a 2015 Chamber Music America commissioning grant for the ensemble Yarn/Wire, for which he composes.
Anne Mironchik (BM '92) In January 2016, Anne received her Master of Science degree from Boston University in Speech-Language Pathology with a concentration in Voice Therapy.
Jane Monheit (BM '99), 2008 MSM Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipient Jane was recently featured in Jane's Way, a special concert celebrating the centennial of Frank Sinatra's birth, with the MSM Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Justin DiCioccio (MM '71). in She is currently touring the U.S. with stops in New York City Birdland, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Blue Note Jazz Club, the Waldorf Astoria, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in spring 2016.
Jason Moran (BM '97), 2011 MSM Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipient Jason was named Musician of the Year at the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Kristin Norderval (DMA '93)Kristin recently performed the vocals on a new recording of Frances White's chamber opera She Lost Her Voice That's How We Knew, for solo soprano with electronic sound, with Ravello Records (a PARMA label).
N'Kenge Pacurar (BM '96)In fall 2015 N'Kenge performed in Classic FM's Four Decades of Radio Hits show with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She also performed excerpts from the Broadway-bound musical production Akhenaten: The Musical at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, performing the lead role of Queen Ti. N'Kenge's new album also recently debuted on the Angels Like Rebels record label.
Chris Potter (MM '92)Chris was named Trombonist of the Year at the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Cynthia Scott (BM '93, MM '95)Cynthia's one-woman play with original music, One Raelette's Journey, won first place for the Jerry Kaufman Award in May 2015. She also often performs at the Smoke Jazz Club in New York City.
Jonathan Smith (MM '94)Jonathan continue in his role as Associate Music Supervisor of the global "Jersey Boys" franchise, having worked on new companies in The Netherlands, South Africa, and the UK, as well as 2 US tours. Starting December 2015, Jonathan is Music Director of the world premiere of the new musical A Bronx Tale at Paper Mill Playhouse. Written by Chazz Palminteri, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Alan Menken, the show is co-directed by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks.
Keve Wilson ('92)Keve is performing in the orchestra pit of Broadway's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Yolanda Wyns (BM '90)Yolanda was selected as one of Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year for 2015. She is the Music Program Director of Harlem School of the Arts.
Andy Akiho (MM '09)Andy received an award from the 2015 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund. In May, the National Symphony Orchestra performed his composition New Work for Steelpan & Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Andy wrote music for the recently released RighteousGIRLS album gathering blue.
Ambrose Akinmusire (BM '05)Ambrose was named Trumpeter of the Year at the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. He was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "These Millennials are Shaking Up the Jazz World". Ambrose also wrote music for the recently released RighteousGIRLS album gathering blue.
Fabian Almazan (BM '07, MM '09)Fabian has been touring Europe, the U.S., and Canada with the Terence Blanchard Group, the Mark Guiliana Quartet, and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. He was also featured on alumnus Adam Larson's album Selective Amnesia, which was released in November 2015.
Camila Barrientos (BM '08, MM '11)Camila won principal clarinet of the Orquesta Sinfonica do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.
Erin Benedict ('02)Erin released her debut jazz album, Steal Away, in November 2015.
Claudia Boonenberg (MM '09)Claudia was appointed Senior Associate Attorney at Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook in November 2015.
Rupert Boyd (MM '06)Rupert participated and performed in the Newport Music Festival this summer and the Gharana Music Festival this fall. He also performed numerous solo recitals in India and the Philippines in October 2015.
J'nai Bridges (BM '09)J'nai recently completed her third of three years at the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. In May 2015 she performed with the Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She recently had performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. J'nai was among the "25 Rising Opera Stars" featured in the October 2015 issue of Opera News. She is performing as Carmen in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere production of Bel Canto. J'nai is the 1st Prize winner of the 53rd Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition.
Jenny Q Chai (MM '06, PS '07, DMA '13)Jenny will be performing "Where Is Chopin?", the second program in her Piano Steampunk series exploring the relationship between piano and electronics, at New York City's Le Poisson Rouge in January 2016. This past September Jenny performed Manoury's double piano concerto Zones de turbulences with Adam Kosmieja and the National Radio Symphony Orchestra in the inaugural concert of Poland's largest contemporary music festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival. Jenny's dissertation, Manifesto on Marco Stroppa's Miniature Estrose, was published in February 2015. She was in residency at IRCAM until the end of February and participated in a series of residencies at Harvard, Boston Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Roosevelt University, Piano Forte Salon Series, and the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz thereafter.
Gerald Clayton ('05)Gerald was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "These Millennials are Shaking Up the Jazz World."
Joshua Cohen (BM '01)Joshua received an extraordinary review in the New York Times for his recently released novel Book of Numbers. Cohen's book "is in its fractured way, more impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade. Mr. Cohen, all of 34, emerges as a major American writer."
Chanell Crichlow (BM '08)This fall Chanell, aka Tubafresh, performed with Shamir on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She is also the leader of PitchBlak Brass Band and in February 2016 will be performing with the band in the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
Amanda Crider (MM '01)In the summer of 2015, Amanda sang Laurey in Oklahoma with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. The 2015-16 season will see her return to Eugene Opera as Olga in Eugene Onegin, her debut with Florentine Opera as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, Alma in the world premiere opera Persona with Beth Morrison Projects, her European debut as Nana in Jan Jirasek's world premiere opera R.U.R. at the Prague State Opera House, a series of concerts with Seraphic Fire, and Handel's Messiah with Augustana College.
Elina Christova (MM '06) Elina, with her partner Andrew Smith of the Elan Duo, recently released "Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Violin Sonatas" to rave reviews. Critics are praising them for a "style that shows the way some of the finest artists perform Beethoven in the 21st century", a "deeply considered interpretation", and a rendition to "rival any number of famous performers in this repertoire." elan-duo.me/
Gideon Dabi (MM '06)Gideon Dabi is a Studio Artist at Sarasota Opera.
Jeanine De Bique (BM '06, MM '08, PS '09)Jeanine performed the role of Climene in Theater Heidelberg's production of Fetonte in early 2015. Over the summer she performed the role of Pearl in Morning Star with Cincinnati Opera. She was recently the Brahms Requiem soprano soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony in November 2015. This month she is the soprano soloist in Mahler's Fourth with the World Doctor's Orchestra in Barbados and the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with Boston Baroque.
Alondra de la Parra (MM '08)Alondra was recently appointed the Music Director, a designation that will include the combined roles of Chief Conductor, Artistic Director, and Community Arts Leader, of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Sequina DuBose (PS '08)Sequina made her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2015 with pianists the Altino Brothers— Nerva (MM '01) and Robenson (MM '01).
Shirin Eskandani (MM '08)Shirin performed as Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Sarasota Opera in fall 2015.
Daryl Freedman (MM '09)Daryl joined the Washington National Opera's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program this fall. She will be seen as Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel, as Lili'uokalani in Better Gods, and as Rossweisse in the Ring cycle. In the 2014-15 season she sang the role of Amelfa in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le coq d'or at Sarasota Opera and was an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera, where she covered the role of Herodias in Salome.
Carlos Gardels (BM '09)Carlos recently joined the faculty of Citrus College, near Los Angeles. He also appeared as the piano soloist in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Beach Cities Symphony in November 2015.
Jeffrey Gavett (MM '09) Jeff received a 2015 Chamber Music America commissioning grant for the vocal ensemble Ekmeles, of which he is the director.
Lisa E. Harris (MM '04) Lisa recently performed "Work Songs" by Jason Moran (BM '97) and Alicia Hall Moran (BM '00) at the 56th International Biennale di Venezia 2015 in Venice, Italy. She is also one of five inaugural artists in residency at The New Quorum in New Orleans, LA in January 2016.
Soloman Howard (MM '10)Soloman Howard is a recent graduate of Washington National Opera's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. His 2015-16 season includes performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. Howard makes a role debut as Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried in Washington National Opera's Der Ring des Nibelungen directed by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. Other engagements include the Santa Fe Opera, North Carolina Opera, and Kentucky Opera. The past season was marked most notably by performances at the Metropolitan Opera as the King in Verdi's Aida, the Los Angeles Opera as Doctor Grenvil in La traviata and at the Glimmerglass Festival in Verdi's Macbeth and as Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute. Howard created the role of Muhammad Ali in the world premiere of Approaching Ali by composer D. J. Sparr. Notable concert performances include Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht at Carnegie Hall; Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, and Fauré's Requiem with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; and the male lead in Porgy and Bess with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
Amy Justman (MM '02)Amy is currently performing as a swing in the Broadway production A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. She recently performed in the Encores! concert production of Annie Get Your Gun at New York City Center starring Megan Hilty.
Jonathan Karschney (BM '07)Jonathan won the Assistant Principal Horn/Utility position with the Seattle Symphony in fall 2015.
Martin Labazevitch (PS '08)Martin released his debut CD with his label, Delos Records, in August 2015. For the recording, featuring the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Labazevitch teamed up with emerging conducting star Ewa Stusinska.
Rebecca Jo Loeb (MM '07)Rebecca is covering Garderobiere, Gymnasiast, and Groom in the Metropolitan Opera's Lulu. She performed the same roles with De Nederlandse Oper in Amsterdam this past summer. In September 2015 she performed as the 2nd Lady in Die Zauberflöte and 2nd Voice in Turandot with Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Clarissa Lyons (MM '09)Clarissa joined the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Earlier this year she won the grand prize at Florida Grand Opera's Young Patronnesses of the Opera Competition and the Glenn & Ginger Flournay Award at Shreveport Opera's Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition.
Laquita Mitchell (MM '01, PS '02), 2009 MSM Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipientLaquita was recently featured in the New York Philharmonic's "In Their Footsteps: Great African American Singers and Their Legacy" concert with renowned bass-baritone Eric Owens in October 2015.
Alicia Hall Moran (BM '00)Alicia released her debut album, Heavy Blue, in October 2015.
Alexandre Moutouzkine (MM '03, PS '05, AD '06), 2012 Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipientAlexandre received a glowing review from the Philadelphia Inquirer for his August 2015 recital as part of the Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy. According to Dobrin, "Clarity and brilliance propelled the last etude, gathering intensity to a rather thrillingly paced last few bars."
Linda Oh (MM '08)Linda was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing."
Lindsay Rider (MM '09)Lindsay was most recently involved in producing and performing in "More Than Me," a benefit concert for BCEFA at Joe's Pub. This past season she also performed at 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, The Cutting Room, Toshi's Living Room, and with Encompass Opera. Last season she premiered her one-woman show "Uncharted" at the Triad Theater in NYC. Ms. Rider can be heard on the recent CD release of Michael Mott's Where the Sky Ends & Where the Sky Ends Remix albums (Broadway Records); on Fox's Season 11 of American Idol; and as a soloist for the Philadelphia Phillies. Ms. Rider is the Associate Director of Campaign & Constituent Engagement for Northwestern University.
Anthony Roth Costanzo (MM '08)Anthony recently completed his run in the world premiere of composer Jake Heggie's new opera, Great Scott, at Dallas Opera. The production also starred Joyce DiDonato, Frederica Von Stade, Ailyn Perez, and Nathan Gunn. In its review of the production, the Dallas Morning News called Roth Costanzo one of "the vocal stars of the show" and cited his "astonishingly powerful and well-focused countertenor." He is performing as Cesar in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere production of Bel Canto.
Kyle Saulnier (MM '06) Kyle will be composing and premiering a symphony in three parts across the span of the entire 2016 election season, to be performed by the Awakening Orchestra. election year: a Work in progress. is a project that will see the symphony composed and revealed in real time as events occur, and each performance will see material added to the work. The performances will be at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY on March 20th, July 14th, and November 11th of 2016.
Joe Saylor (BM '08)Joe is the new percussionist for the Colbert Late Show. Joe was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "These Millennials are Shaking Up the Jazz World."
Amy Shoremount-Obra (BM '01, MM '03)This November Amy performed the role of Donna Anna in Venture Opera's production of Don Giovanni. During the 2015 season, Ms. Shoremount-Obra toured with a recital program of Rachmaninoff songs with pianist Christopher Cooley and appeared with the FL Keys Concert Association in two concerts of operatic favorites. In 2016, Ms. Shoremount-Obra will make her debut at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center as the Soprano Soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the National Chorale.
Nicholas Simpson (MM '09)In April 2015, Nicolas sang the tenor soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Hershey Symphony and the Altoona Symphony in PA. In May 2015 he performed in Puccini's La bohème with Hub Opera in Hagerstown, Maryland. In July and August 2015, Nicholas sang his first full length Richard Wagner role, the title role in Tannhäuser with Apotheosis Opera. He was the first Tannhäuser seen in New York City in a decade. Nicholas will return to Santa Fe, NM to sing selections from Tannhäuser for Performance Santa Fe in the fall of 2015. He will also sing Don José in Carmen with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in February 2016.
Alissa Stahler (MM '09) Alissa joined the new music app Wurrly as an ambassador in Summer 2015. Starting in October she has been performing a standing gig with her jazz trio: Angelo Di Loreto (BM '11/MM '13) and Sean Richey (BM '12) at Jules Bistro and with the Kengo Yamada Quintet at Tomi Jazz. Alissa has also been involved with recording the demo of a new musical, "Devil and the Deep", written by Graham Russell of the band Air Supply and arranged by MSM graduate Josh Freilich (BM '09). She obtained her Actors Equity card by performing in the smash Off-Broadway hit "My Big Gay Italian Funeral".
Jeanette Stenson (MM '09)After a successful summer tour of the Pacific Northwest, Jeannette, of the Fair Trade Trio, performed selections of the group's tour repertoire at the National Opera Center in New York City in November 2015.
Raquel Suarez (MM '09)Raquel made her debut with Opera Carolina in October 2015 at Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio.
Stephanie Tennill (MM '01)Stephanie was recently hired as an MSM Precollege voice faculty member and will begin in fall 2016.
Pablo Villegas (PD '04, PS '06, AD '07)Pablo was honored with an Outstanding Young Alumni Award at the 2015 MSM Alumni Reunion. He launched the 2015-16 season with the international release of his solo album, Americano, which marks his debut on the Harmonia Mundi label. In 2016, he will be performing with Grand Rapids Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Santa Barbara Symphony, and a tour in Japan with National Symphony of Spain.
Charenée Wade (BM '04/MM '06)Charenée's new jazz album Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson was released in June 2015. She recently performed music in Abraham.In.Motion. at the Joyce Theater in NYC. She is also performing on the European Tour with Terri Lyn Carrington's Mosaic in Istanbul and the U.K.
Carrie Anne Wilson (PS '03)Carrie recently performed the First Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro with Atlanta Opera. She is currently performing as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the touring company Peach State Opera.
Miguel Zenon (MM '01)Miguel was named Alto Saxophonist of the Year at the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
SeungHyeon Scott Baek (MM '13)SeungHyeon Hans is in the Young Artist Program at Sarasota Opera.
Allison Bates (MM '13)Allison was recently appointed Head Librarian at the Aspen Music Festival and Assistant Librarian & Personnel Assistant for the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra.
Alex Bender (MM '13)Alex is lead trumpet for the Broadway show Finding Neverland and former lead trumpet for Side Show.
Jordan Blair Campbell (BM '14)Jordan is in the Young Artist Program at Sarasota Opera.
Raehann Bryce-Davis (MM '12, PS '13)Raehann is the winner of both the 2015 Hilde Zadek International Voice Competition in Vienna and the 2015 Sedat Gürel-Güzin Gürel International Voice Competition in Istanbul. She recently performed in recital at New York's National Opera Center and sang the role of Lily in a European tour of Porgy and Bess this past spring.
Martha Cargo (MM '12)Martha is working as Assistant to the Music Director at Americas Society (Upper East Side), where she produces and promotes concerts for music and artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, and is Social Media Coordinator for the new music blog ICAREIFYOULISTEN. Find her on Twitter at @marthaflutes for updates on her goings-on or visit her website at http://www.marthacargo.com
Silvie Cheng (BM '13, MM '15)Silvie's ensemble, Cheng² Duo, has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Named by CBC Music as one of 2015's "30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30," the duo has been featured on CBC Radio Two several times, as well as on Vermont Public Radio. In 2016, the duo will be giving a two-week professional recital tour in Atlantic Canada as Debut Atlantic artists. She will be recording her debut album in February 2016 in Berlin with the German classical label Audite.
Sarah Childers (MM '15)Sarah recently performed in O Pioneers! for the Museum of Music Project at the National Opera Center in New York City. She recently returned from the tour of Dvořák's Rusalka in British Columbia where she played the Second Wood Sprite.
Hannah Choi (PS '14)Hannah joined the violin section in the New York Philharmonic in November 2014.
Kallie Ciechomski (MM '12)After a successful summer tour of the Pacific Northwest, Kallie, of the Fair Trade Trio, performed selections of the group's tour repertoire at the National Opera Center in New York City in November 2015.
Rebecca Convisor (PS '10)Rebecca won the 2015 St. Andrews International Aria Competition.
Ali Cook (PS '11)Ali performed for Pope Francis in Washington, D.C., this September at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Ashley Dannewitz (MM '10)Ashley is a 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions District and Region Winner.
Christie Dashiell (MM '13)Christie was a semifinalist in the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Vocals Competition.
Madeleine Allaire Davidson (BM '11)Madeleine recently became the Managing Director at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where she is also a Suzuki guitar faculty member.
Kate Davis (BM '13)Kate Davis was the face of Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2015-16 Season brochure; she performed as one of the Ladybugs, a traditional jazz harmony group, in October at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola; and she will perform in April 2016 with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis. She was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing." Kate recently signed with the label Concord Music Group and was lauded by MTV as one of 2014's "15 Fresh Females Who Will Rule Pop."
Matt Decker (MM '13)Matt won the Assistant Timpani/Percussion position with the Seattle Symphony this fall.
Angelo Di Loreto (MM '13)Angelo won first place in the 2015 B-Jazz International Jazz Competition in Leuven, Belgium.
Erika Dohi (MM '12)Erika of RighteousGIRLS released an album gathering blue in July 2015, which was rated 4.5 stars in the November issue of DownBeat magazine. RighteousGIRLS have received awards including a 2015 New Music USA Awards Grant, thirrd place in the 2015 International Songwriting Competition for GIRLS by composer/producer Pascal Le Boeuf, and a 2014 Independent Music Awards nomination for gathering blue (Best Album) and KARakurENAI (Best Instrumental) by composer/steel-pianist Andy Akiho.
Tom Duboski (MM '15)Tom won the first Ruth Widder String Quartet Competition as a member of Luminaria Quartet. The quartet will be presented in a performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2016.
Caroline Dunigan (BM '14) Caroline is a current member of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Highlights of Caroline's 2015/2016 season includes debuts with the Albany Symphony Orchestra as Rey in "Star Wars: The Opera" and the Brevard Music Festival as Helena in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In March 2016 she will be performing as Pamina in a one-act adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute with the Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Sullivan Fortner (MM '10)Sullivan won the prestigious piano competition, the 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz. He was recently featured as an emerging young jazz player in the Vanity Fair article "The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing." His debut solo album Aria was released this fall and reviewed in the New York Times.
Alaysha Fox (BM '13/MM '15)Alaysha is a 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions District and Region Winner. She also performed as part of the Metropolitan Museum's recent live-music installation "Sonic Blossom."
Brent Foster (PS '15)Brent won a fellowship with the New World Symphony.
Ana García Caraballos (MM '13)Spanish saxophonist Ana García Caraballos was featured in the following highlighted performances during 2015: a recital as part of the PAM' Acción Musical Festival and a Rising Stars Gala at Baluarte in Pamplona, Spain; a concert at Le Poisson Rouge for Jeff Scott's CD release party; a performance with the Harlem Chamber Players at Miller Theater; a performance with the Kronos Quartet at Symphony Space; and two recitals at Instituto Cervantes NY. During this past year Ana launched two new ensembles: SOLARTE (http://www.solarte.org) and AnAlex Duo. She also became a member of ÆON Music Ensemble.
Matt Gasiorowski (BM '11, MM '13, PS '14)Matt played trumpet in the Broadway show Doctor Zhivago in spring 2015.
Josh Gawel (BM '14)Josh is the trumpeter of the Lucky Chops brass band, now the house band of MTV's Girl Code: Live.
Izzy Gliksberg (MM '12)Izzy won the 2015 Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist of Choice grant for The Writers Trilogy, a hybrid of music, film, and literature that will be released in the form of a short album and three short films with his band Berg.
Jake Goldbas (BM '11, MM '13)Jake was Musical Director of the National Arts Awards ceremony and performed a tribute to Herbie Hancock ('61), Sophia Loren, and Lady Gaga.
Kate Christopher Goldbas (BM '10)Teacher and musician Kate Christopher Goldbas and her band The Lost Boys were featured in an article at BluegrassToday.com regarding her unique way of involving young students in the rhythmic aspects of music. She recently accepted a position at the Diller-Quaile School of Music in New York City and curates their monthly rug concerts.
Lori Guilbeau (MM '10) and Cooper Nolan (MM '11)Lori and Cooper got married in October 2015.
Miho Hazama (MM '12)Miho's new album, Time River, was released in October 2015 by Sunnyside Records. She celebrated her new recording at the Blue Note Club in Tokyo, Japan and at the Jazz Standard in New York City this fall. She was named the winner of the BMI Foundation's 16th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize at the BMI Jazz Composer Workshop's 27th Annual Showcase Concert in June 2015.
Fangyue He (PS '15)Fangyue He won a section violin position with the Oregon Symphony in fall 2015.
Josh Holcomb (BM '13)Josh is the trombonist of the Lucky Chops brass band, now the house band of MTV's Girl Code: Live. He was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "These Millennials are Shaking Up the Jazz World."
Gina Izzo (BM '09)Gina of RighteousGIRLS released an album gathering blue in July 2015, which was rated 4.5 stars in the November issue of DownBeat magazine. RighteousGIRLS have received awards including a 2015 New Music USA Awards Grant, 3rd place in the 2015 International Songwriting Competition for GIRLS by composer/producer Pascal Le Boeuf, and a 2014 Independent Music Awards nomination for gathering blue (Best Album) and KARakurENAI (Best Instrumental) by composer/steel-pianist Andy Akiho.
Sol Jin (MM '15)Sol was among the "25 Rising Opera Stars" featured in the October 2015 issue of Opera News. He is a Metropolitan Opera's National Council auditions district and region winner for 2015-16.
Cameron Johnson (MM '14)Cameron is playing the lead role of Misha in the off-Broadway production Die Goldene Kale with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in December 2015 and was featured in the New York Times.
Chloé Kiffer (MM '14, PS '15)Chloé won the 2015 Waldo Mayo Memorial Violin Competition and made her Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut with Tchaikovsky concerto under conductor David Gilbert. She is acquiring her DMA at Stony Brook and working as a teaching assistant.
Kho Woon Kim (PS '15)Kho was featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Stay Thirsty magazine and most recently won first prize in the Panama International Piano Competition in 2014.
Jeff Koch (BM '11, MM '13)Jeff won first place in the 2015 B-Jazz International Jazz Competition in Leuven, Belgium.
Adam Larson (BM '12, MM '14)Adam's latest record, Selective Amnesia, was released on Inner Circle Music this November and is being featured in the January 2016 issue of DownBeat magazine.
Pascal Le Boeuf (BM '07/MM '10)Pascal received a 2015 Chamber Music America commissioning grant for Imagined Reality. He also won Best Eclectic Album for The Le Boeuf Brothers–Remixed and Best Jazz Instrumental for Pascal Le Boeuf's Triangle – What Your Teacher… at the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards. He recently produced and composed music for RighteousGIRLS debut album gathering blue.
Earl Lee (MM '13)Earl recently won the position as Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Yeonji Lee (BM '13, MM '16)Yeonji performed as part of the Metropolitan Museum's recent live-music installation "Sonic Blossom."
Philippe Lem (MM '13)Philippe won first place in the 2015 B-Jazz International Jazz Competition in Leuven, Belgium.
Christopher Lilley (MM '15)Christopher performed the role of Cherubino in Hiram Titus's Rosina with New York's Dell'Arte Opera and was reviewed by the New York Times.
Kate McNamara (BM '10, MM '12)Kate is an Apprentice Artist at Sarasota Opera.
Robert Mellon (MM '11)Robert recently spent the summer of 2015 as a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and a young artist with PORTopera, where he performed Sam in Trouble in Tahiti and Angelotti in Tosca.
Sam Nester (MM '12)Sam won the 2015 Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist of Choice grant for The Writers Trilogy, a hybrid of music, film, and literature that will be released in the form of a short album and three short films, with his band Berg.
Margaret Newcomb (MM '14)Margaret performed as part of the Metropolitan Museum's recent live-music installation "Sonic Blossom."
Scott Ninmer (MM '13)Scott joined "The President's Own" United States Marine Band in 2014, where he currently serves as staff arranger. This fall Scott premiered two arrangements for the Marine Chamber Orchestra at the White House for the Arts & Humanities Medals reception honoring awardees Tobias Wolff and Stephen King. The Marine Band performed his arrangements on their annual month-long national tour and on concerts at the U.S. Capitol and the Sylvan Theatre on the grounds of the Washington Monument. This past April, Scott performed at Broadway nightclub 54 Below backing up renowned Broadway star Patti LuPone for her show "Lady with a Torch."
Aaron Patterson (DMA '14)Aaron is teaching instrumental music and music electives at Bay Ridge Preparatory High School in Brooklyn.
Leo Pellegrino (BM '13)Leo is the baritone saxophonist of Lucky Chops brass band, now the house band of MTV's Girl Code: Live.
Joe Peri (BM '13, MM '15)Joe won the 2015 Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist of Choice grant for The Writers Trilogy, a hybrid of music, film, and literature that will be released in the form of a short album and three short films, with his band Berg.
Mike Perdue (MM '11)Mike wrote music for the recently released RighteousGIRLS album gathering blue.
Rachel Policar (MM '12)Rachel made her off-Broadway debut in December 2015 with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene performing the lead role of Goldele in Die Goldene Kale and was featured in the New York Times.
Jonathan Ragonese (BM '11, MM '13)Jonathan wrote music for the recently released RighteousGIRLS album gathering blue.
Colin Ramsey (BM '11)Colin is a Studio Artist at Sarasota Opera.
Noah Reitman (MM '10)Noah recently won the Assistant Principal Bass position with the Vancouver Symphony.
Jordan Rutter (MM '15)Jordan performed as part of the Metropolitan Museum's recent live-music installation "Sonic Blossom."
Megan Samarin (BM '14)Megan was a 2015 Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist performing as Marzia in Cato in Utica.
Christian Sands (BM '11, MM '14)Christian was recently highlighted in the Vanity Fair article "The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing." He was featured on the Christian McBride Trio's album, Live at the Village Vanguard, which was released in September 2015.
Erik Saras (MM '12)Erik is now Rental Librarian at the major classical music publishing house, Boosey & Hawkes.
Maria Serkin (DMA '13) Maria recently accepted a position at University of North Carolina School of the Arts located in Winston-Salem, NC as Assistant Professor of Horn.
Evan Sherman (BM '15)Evan with his Evan Sherman Entourage was featured for an era-appropriate MTA subway A train performance as Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated the centennial of Billy Strayhorn, which was featured in the New York Times.
Kyra Sims (MM '12)Kyra received a 2015 Innovative Theatre Awards nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for her work with the New York Neo-Futurists on the production The Human Symphony.
Julia Suriano (BM '15)Julia recently performed the role of Maria in West Side Story with the Fireside Theater and was reviewed on BroadwayWorld.com.
Yuma Sung (BM '11)In November 2015 Yuma performed at the London Jazz Festival in the European premiere of trumpeter Ron McCurdy's Langston Hughes Project, a setting to music of Hughes's 1961 poem co-narrated by rapper Ice-T.
Hans Tashjian (MM '13)Hans is in the Young Artist Program at Sarasota Opera.
Jonathon Thierer (BM '15)Jonathon is the founder and General Director of Venture Opera, New York City's newest opera company, which celebrated its opening production, Don Giovanni, in November 2015.
Daniel Tosky (MM '13)Daniel won a job in the Atlanta Symphony in November 2015.
Costas Tsourakis (MM '11)Costas is a Studio Artist at Sarasota Opera.
Anna Viemeister (MM '11)Anna's most recent engagements include her first Wagnerian debut as Senta in the Flying Dutchman, displaying her renowned skill as Elvira in Ernani, and being invited as a guest artist to perform in La Rondine as Magda at Portland State University.
Alexander Vvedenskiy (MM '16)Alexander won the principal oboe position with the Louisville Orchestra.
Xiao Wang (BM '13, MM '15, AD '16)Xiao was named a laureate in the 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition and was a semifinalist for the 11th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2015. Stay Thirsty magazine announced Xiao as the Spotlight Artist for Winter 2015.
Xiayin Wang (DMA '13)Xiayin released a new album featuring Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonatas No. 1 and 2 in May 2014 to excellent reviews.
Yunpeng Wang (MM '13)Yunpeng was among the "25 Rising Opera Stars" featured in the October 2015 issue of Opera News.
Kento Iwasaki Watanabe (MM '13)Kento founded the Traveling Opera Company, an organization that envisions bringing opera to a variety of locations, not just limited to the theater. His "portable opera" concept was recently featured on JapanCulture•NYC, New York's No. 1 blog for everything related to Japanese culture. He performed songs from his "portable opera" Beloved Prey at the Ikebana International's AKI NO KOKORO: Autumn Portraits in Ikebana & Koto at NYC's Kitano Hotel in October 2015. Kento participated in the EtM Choreographer + Composer residencies with choreographer Eun Sung Lee and was one of four teams selected to develop a new work at Jamaica Center of Arts and Learning.
Dan Wilkins (BM '13)Dan received a four-star review on All About Jazz for his album Jnana-Vijnana (Awake). Also featured in the band are MSM current students/alumni Pat McGee (BM '19), Kevin Bernstein (BM '14), and Daryl Johns (BM '18).
Ashley Windle (MM '10)After a successful summer tour of the Pacific Northwest, Ashley, of the Fair Trade Trio, performed selections of the group's tour repertoire at the National Opera Center in New York City in November 2015.
Ivy Wong (PS '15)Ivy won a position with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in the double bass section and was a sub with the New York Philharmonic this past year.
Andrea Wood (MM '13)Andrea's new CD Kaleidoscope recently hit number 11 on the CMJ Top 40 Jazz Charts.
Liz Wright (MM '15)Liz won the first Ruth Widder String Quartet Competition as a member of Luminaria Quartet. The quartet will be presented in a performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2016.
Yi Xue (PS '14)Yi won principal oboe at the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2015.
We honor the memory of alumni, former faculty, and staff members who have passed away in 2015:
Laura Ahlbeck (MM '81, oboe) passed away on June 11, 2015 at the age of 57. Laura taught at New England Conservatory from 1993 to 2012 and was active in the College, Preparatory, and Continuing Education programs. She was principal oboist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Bard Festival Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo in Venezuela. She was active as a chamber musician in Boston and a frequent substitute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Christopher Buck (BM '90, violin) passed away on February 16, 2015 at the age of 46. Born in New York, he was a virtuoso violinist graduating from Manhattan School of Music with postgraduate studies at Rice University under Camilla Wicks. After his first battle with cancer he became an expert in antique violins and then moved to Taiwan to continue studies in Mandarin, in which he became fluent. Subsequently he joined his family in New Zealand and taught violin at Nelson School of Music.
Peter James Dimitriades (BM '54, MM '56, violin) passed away on March 14, 2015 at the age of 93. Peter's distinguished and eclectic career began when he won first prize at both the Chicago Young Artists Competition and the Indiana State Violin Contest. After serving as the principal second violinist for the Dallas Symphony, he moved to New York City in 1950 to become the assistant concertmaster at Radio City Musical Hall Orchestra. He also performed as concertmaster for the following orchestras: the Little Orchestra Society, National Orchestra Association, and Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra for its 1956 Europe and Middle East tour. Along with being a member of the Classic String Quartet and the American String Quartet, he performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Musica Aeterna, Master Virtuosi of New York, and Symphony of the Air. Mr. Dimitriades also amassed an impressive discography as a freelance session musician on hundreds of recordings of Broadway musicals, soundtracks, jingles, television commercials, and studio albums, including those by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Backstreet Boys, Frankie Valli, Carly Simon, Stevie Nicks, Wynton Marsalis, Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Shirley Bassey, Herbie Mann, and Chaka Khan, among many others. He also toured with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra and the Frank Sinatra Orchestra, the latter from the 1950s to Mr. Sinatra's "80 Years My Way" final concert in 1995. In his later years, Mr. Dimitriades moved to Salisbury, Connecticut, and taught violin at Simon's Rock College, the Hotchkiss School, the Berkshire School, and the Indian Mountain School.
Judith Paula Manley Dreher (BM '72, MM '74, viola) passed away on October 9, 2015. Judith studied viola with John DiJanni of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and with Rafael Bronstein at Manhattan School of Music. After a season in North Carolina with the Charlotte Symphony, she performed for the next 36 years with Syracuse Symphony Orchestra until its untimely fall in 2011. She continued with the SSO's successor, Symphoria, until her retirement at the end of the 2013-14 season.
Mabel Gerber (BM '51/MM '55, piano) ('96, cello) passed away on November 21, 2015 at the age of 85. In 1952 Mabel gave a recital at the original Circle-in-the-Square Theater in the Greenwich Village. She also appeared in recital at Carl-Fisher Hall and played for the Music Group of Mount Vernon in New York. Most notably Mabel performed at Carnegie Hall in 1961. Over the last six decades she was well-known by the Norwood community in the Bronx as an accomplished piano teacher who was dedicated to her young students.
David Gotay ('96, cello) passed away on April 3, 2015 at the age of 42 after a lengthy battle with kidney cancer. Based in New York City, David performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the White House. His TV appearances included Saturday Night Live, MTV's Unplugged, and The Jimmy Fallon Show with Florence and the Machine as well as Jim James; The Late Show With David Letterman, with Paloma Faith, and The Last Play at Shea with Billy Joel. Throughout his career, David collaborated with a number of prominent artists such as Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Nas, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, K. D. Lang, David Sanborn, Billy Ocean, Sheryl Crow, and Little Jimmy Scott. He was a founding member of Sweet Plantain, a string quartet whose mission is to give voice to a contemporary, urban, Latino sound.
Vlasta Jantzi (BM '70, voice/MM '73, music education) passed away on November 24, 2015 at the age of 90. Born in Glina, Croatia, she immigrated to the United States in 1950, moving to Manhattan. Vlasta was an accomplished soprano who often performed with the St. Cecilia in New York City. She was also a music instructor in Brooklyn and Manhattan for 20 years for the former city Board of Education and taught music at the College of Staten Island, Willowbrook.
Camellia Johnson (1975-77, Special Graduate Studies, voice) passed away on August 26, 2015. Camellia made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1985, as Lily in Porgy and Bess. Her other Met roles included Madelon in Andrea Chénier, Serena in Porgy and Bess, and the Priestess in Aida. Carmellia also performed at Glyndebourne as the Strawberry Woman in Trevor Nunn's production of Porgy. An exceptional recitalist and concert artist, Camellia has performed at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, as well as at the White House for President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama.
Margaret Juntwait (BM '80, voice and 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient) passed away on June 3, 2015 at the age of 58. Margaret was "the voice" of the Metropolitan Opera for the last ten seasons. She was only the third regular host of the Met Broadcasts in its 83 years on the air and the only woman. On the occasion of Margaret being awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from MSM in 2014, , General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb said, "There is something happily ironic in that a soprano graduate named Margaret Juntwait gets more air time around the world talking about sopranos, as the host of the Met's radio broadcast, than any of the sopranos singing on the Met stage. Congratulations, Margaret, for making opera accessible to millions and for this award, a fitting tribute for such a distinguished and accomplished figure in the world of opera – that certainly is you."
Ursula Mamlok (BM '57, MM '58, former College Faculty) passed away on May 4, 2016 at the age of 93. Born in Berlin in 1923, Ursula's life and musical studies were uprooted when she and family fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and found refuge in Ecuador. She came on her own to New York and studied at the Mannes College of Music with George Szell. She then earned bachelor of music and master of music degrees from Manhattan School of Music. Ursula also studied with Roger Sessions, Ralph Shapey, and Stefan Wolpe. For 66 years Ursula Mamlok lived in New York, composing, and teaching primarily at Manhattan School Of Music, and was a leading figure in New York's musical scene. Among her numerous commissions are those from the Koussevitsky and Fromm Music Foundations, Alaria Chamber Ensemble, Eastman School of Music, Earplay and the San Francisco Symphony. She has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, and in 1995, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. Her works are regularly performed by major domestic and foreign ensembles and have been recorded by the CRI, Gasparo, Leonarda, Newport Classics, Music and Arts, Opus One, True Media, and Centaur labels and are published by C.F. Peters Corporation, American Composers Edition, McGuinness and Marx, and Hildegard. In 1987, Ursula Mamlok received a Commendation of Excellence "for her contribution to the world concert music" by BMI. Since her move back to Berlin in 2006, she had been championed by such leading musicians as Heinz Holliger, and performed widely throughout Europe. She is the subject of a biography Time in Flux (in German) by Habakuk Traber. Recordings have appeared on CRI, New World, Naxos, and Music and Arts. The intrepid Bridge Records has recorded five volumes of her music.
Honorable Richard Owen (Special Undergraduate Studies, '61 and MSM Board of Trustees from 1979-2009) passed away on November 20, 2015. He was just shy of 93 years old. His undergraduate studies at Dartmouth were interrupted for several years when he joined the United States Army Air Corps and served as a navigator in the Pacific during the WWII. After returning and completing his A.B., he earned his L.L.B. from Harvard Law School. He entered private practice and was also an assistant professor at New York Law School. Richard became an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, also serving as a special assistant U.S. attorney general. He was a senior trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and worked as associate counsel to the New York State Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Laws. In 1973, President Nixon appointed him to the federal bench, where he served for almost 40 years. While maintaining a full-time legal career, Judge Owen also pursued his other passion: music. He studied composition with Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music where he later received an honorary doctorate and became a member of the Board of Trustees. Judge Owen went on to compose nine operas, including Abigail Adams and Rain, all of which have been performed and acclaimed throughout the U.S. and Europe, including in Lincoln Center, and five of his art songs were published by the General Music Publishing Company. He met his late wife, Metropolitan Opera soprano Lynn Owen (1933-2014), while studying music at Tanglewood. Both his musical and legal legacy live on in his sons. David attended the MSM Precollege Division and Richard Jr. received a Master of Music degree from MSM in 1998.
George Robert (MM '87, jazz saxophone) passed away on March 14, 2016 at the age of 55. While enrolled at Manhattan School of Music, he studied with Bob Mintzer. He played lead alto in the Manhattan School of Music Big Band for two years, which earned in 1985 the 1st Prize in the College Big Band Category in the Down Beat Magazine Jazz Awards. George is internationally recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz today. His discography includes more than 50 albums, among others with Kenny Barron, Clark Terry, Tom Harrell, Phil Woods, Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Ivan Lins, Ray Drummond, Rufus Reid, Billy Hart, the Metropole Orchestra and many others. In 1995 George was hired as Director of the Swiss Jazz School in Berne, the oldest independent jazz school in Europe. In 2006 he founded the Jazz Department at the Lausanne Music University. He was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic in 2008. George had been touring throughout the world since 1984 and is the author of The Music of George Robert.
McNeil Robinson II (Organ Faculty 1984-2015) passed away on May 9, 2015. He was 72. An acclaimed organist, composer, teacher, and gifted improviser, McNeil served as chair of the Manhattan School of Music organ department. He was the organist of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City from 1965 until 2012, and had also long been the organist and Music Director at the Park Avenue Christian Church. He moved to the Holy Trinity Catholic Church on the Upper West Side, where he worked until last fall. McNeil studied in the United States and abroad with some of the most famous organists and composers of the day, including the French virtuoso Marcel Dupré, who praised Mr. Robinson's recording of one of his pieces as "a magnificent performance of my work." Mr. Robinson's own compositions for organ include the Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, first performed with the San Francisco Symphony in 1984, and the Dismas Variations. His works have been published by Theodore Presser, C. F. Peters, and Oxford University Press, and in many hymnals. Mr. Robinson played recitals in both hemispheres and conducted the premieres of works by Jacob Druckman and Jack Gottlieb. He also revived long-neglected works by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, and Cavalli, as well as early pieces by Mozart and Méhul.
Larry Rosen ('61, Percussion, MSM Honorary Doctorate 2012, MSM Jazz Gala Honoree 2013) passed away on October 9, 2015 at the age of 75. Larry Rosen was the Chairman of Larry Rosen Productions, Inc., creator and producer of Jazz Roots – A Larry Rosen Jazz Series, co-founder of GRP Records, co-founder of LRSmedia, and co-founder and past Chairman of N2K, Inc. (NASDAQ). Larry was the creator and producer of the PBS television series Legends of Jazz and the creator and producer of multimedia TV series Recording: The History of Recorded Music, with hosts Quincy Jones and Phil Ramone. He produced/executive produced over 350 albums, which won 33 GRAMMYS and were nominated for 80, as well as numerous award-winning film/video productions and television specials. Larry began his musical career as a drummer with the Newport Youth Band and met future partner Dave Grusin while working with singer Andy Williams and attending Manhattan School of Music. In 1972, the duo produced vocalist Jon Lucien for RCA and Columbia Records and went on to form Grusin/Rosen productions, which discovered and produced new recording artists Earl Klugh, Noel Pointer, Patti Austin, Lee Ritenour, and others. In 1978, Grusin/Rosen Productions signed a long-term contract with Arista Records president Clive Davis to develop new talent for the Arista/GRP label, including Dave Valentin, Angela Bofill, Bernard Wright, and Tom Browne. In 1979, he engineered and co-produced the Dave Grusin album Mountain Dance, the first digitally recorded nonclassical album. Larry received Ernst & Young's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award in New Media & Entertainment; Forbes magazine named Rosen an "Internet Icon" in the cover story entitled "Masters of the New Universe." Mr. Rosen served as a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Chapter of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and served on the GRAMMY Screening Committee. He received the NARAS Governor's Award and was inducted into the A&R/Producers Honor Roll. Larry served on the boards of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), the Music for Youth Foundation (MYF), and the Music Educators National Council (MENC). He also served on the board of the Brubeck Institute, the UM Frost School of Music Deans Visiting Committee, and, along with Mr. Grusin, co-founded the National Foundation for Jazz Education (NFJE), a philanthropic group that helps young jazz musicians.
Henry "Hank" Ross (BM '50, piano) passed away on April 23, 2015 at the age of 88. He continued his piano work for his entire life as a jazz stride player in NYC, in the tradition of Thomas Waller and James P. Johnson. He became a legacy player in Manhattan. His album with Wild Carrot, I've Heard That Song Before, was released in 2008.
Robert Schrade (BM '48/MM '48: piano, College Piano Faculty: 1949 – 1955, Prep Division Piano Faculty: 1969 – 1991) passed away on December 14, 2015 at the age of 91. Robert was an internationally known pianist, educator and patriarch of Schrade Family Pianists and Sevenars Music Festival in Worthington. Mr. Schrade began performing masterworks of the piano repertoire as a child. After serving as corporal in the Army Air Corps from 1942-1945, he continued his musical studies with Harold Bauer at the Manhattan School of Music. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees simultaneously in 1948 and subsequently began a performance career that included solo, chamber music, concerti, and accompanying. His international career was launched with his Town Hall debut in New York in 1949 and included numerous recitals in New York and tours of Europe, Canada, and the U.S. Mr. Schrade also championed work by many contemporaries, including Nicolas Flagello, Paul Creston, Peter Mennin, and Ernest Bloch, among others. He performed Bloch's Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra at Carnegie Hall with the National Orchestral Association in 1965. Among other notable programs in Mr. Schrade's concert career were "Evening of Fantasies" (including Schumann's Op. 17, Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, and works by CPE Bach); his "Op. 53 Program," a recital of works of that opus number by Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, and Arensky, among others); and "Around the World on 88 Keys". Along with Mr. Schrade's performing, he maintained a distinguished teaching career at his alma mater, Manhattan School of Music and also at the Chapin School. It was at the Manhattan School of Music that he met Rolande Young, whom he married in 1949. They were husband-and-wife for 65 years until her death last January.
Gunther Schuller (Precollege alumnus, MSM Honorary Doctorate 1987) passed away on June 21, 2015 at the age of 89. He was a French horn prodigy as well as an influential composer, conductor, and educator. At age 16 he performed Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony under Arturo Toscanini in the work's first American broadcast. He performed with the American Ballet Theatre, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera, where he served as principal until 1959. When the Met was off-season, he played in the pits of Broadway theaters. Gunther was recommended as a hornist to Miles Davis and went on to record with Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie. At Aaron Copland's invitation, Schuller began teaching in 1963 at the Berkshire Music Center, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, now called Tanglewood. He was Tanglewood's Artistic Director from 1969 to 1984. Schuller served as President of the New England Conservatory from 1967 to 1977. Among his more than 180 compositions, Schuller wrote numerous pieces for orchestra, two operas, several concertos, many works for small groups, and a number of pieces for jazz ensembles. In addition to his book on French horn technique, he authored two books on jazz, as well as The Compleat Conductor. In 1994, Schuller won the Pulitzer Prize for his Of Reflections and Reminiscences and was also awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, or "genius grant," in 1991.
Joseph Seiger (Postgraduate Diploma '51, Former Piano Faculty 1967-1990) passed away on March 3, 2015 at the age of 91. Joseph joined the MSM Piano Faculty when the School was still housed on East 105th Street, two years before the move to our current home in 1969, and went on to co-found the Vocal and Instrumental Accompanying Department in 1970. He was also, together with David Wells and violinist Ariana Bronne, a founding member of the Manhattan Trio. Joseph was born in Israel in 1923 and began playing the piano at the age of eight. His prodigious talent earned him first prize in a national competition for young pianists in Tel Aviv just two years later, and he was subsequently accepted as a student at the Shulamit Conservatory, where he studied with Alexander Buch. After World War II, he continued his studies here at MSM, studying under Harold Bauer and Dora Zaslavsky, and winning the Harold Bauer Award for pianistic excellence on his way to earning his Master of Music degree in 1951. In 1952 he was selected by Mischa Elman to become the renowned violinist's exclusive accompanist, and he collaborated with Mr. Elman throughout the world, in recitals, radio, and television appearances, and on a series of recordings, until Mr. Elman's death in 1967. Joseph also performed with, among others, violinists Erick Friedman, Aaron Rosand, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryck Szering, Zvi Zeitlin, and Michael Rabin. In 1988, Joseph was invited to become a Visiting Professor at London's Royal Academy of Music and appeared in concerts and festivals throughout Europe, presenting master classes in piano and chamber music in Germany, Spain, Hungary, Japan, and Australia. Since 1998, Mr. Seiger had been living in Tel Aviv.
Lew Soloff (Former Jazz Faculty 1986-2006)Lew joined MSM faculty at a pivotal time in the School's history, just two years after MSM began offering a Master's degree in Jazz in 1984 and just one year before our Jazz Bachelor's degree program was announced in 1987. Lew, who was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and took up the trumpet at age 10, was a fixture on the New York jazz scene for half a century. In 1968, he began a fertile and extremely influential five-year run with seminal jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, with the high point of that stretch arguably coming at the two-minute mark of the band's Top 40 smash, "Spinning Wheel," when Lew's memorable, upper-register, be-bop-fueled solo blew open the doors of rock and roll, offering up new possibilities and fusions to generations of jazz musicians. As The Late Show with David Letterman's Paul Shaffer is quoted as saying in Lew's New York Times obituary: "There was no jazz-rock before Blood, Sweat & Tears. [Lew] changed the idiom." Lew's long and fruitful career as a musician also saw him contributing regularly to recordings by Gil Evans and Carla Bley and serving as sideman for many other artists, including Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, and Frank Sinatra. Lew was also a featured trumpet soloist on several occasions with innovative multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman, was lead trumpeter of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band under the direction of Jon Faddis, and spent six years as first trumpet in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In addition, he recorded eight albums as a leader.
Phil Woods ('48, clarinet) passed away on September 29, 2015 at the age of 83. A preeminent jazz alto saxophonist, Phil Woods was known for touring and recording with Quincy Jones and performing alongside musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. He was prominently featured on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are." Woods also played the alto sax solo on Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu" from their 1975 album Katy Lied, as well as Paul Simon's "Have a Good Time" from the 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years. Although Woods was primarily a saxophonist, he studied clarinet at Manhattan School of Music in 1948 and then at the Juilliard School, where he graduated in 1952. His education made him a sought-after player for his sight-reading skills. Mr. Woods won four GRAMMY Awards and in 2007 was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and received a Living Jazz Legend Award from the Kennedy Center.
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Dillard's AFSCME Endorsement: Too Little, Too Late?
Republican candidate for governor Kirk Dillard has picked up the endorsement of the the state's largest government-employee union. But with less than two weeks until the election, Brian Mackey asks if it's too little, too late.
Dillard's endorsement from AFSCME comes after front runner Bruce Rauner has been blanketing the state with television ads for months.
Rauner has been pounding a message that he'll fight so-called "government union bosses." He says state employees bargaining for salaries and benefits is "corrupt" and "immoral," and one of Illinois' biggest problems.
Dillard's running mate, State Rep. Jil Tracy, says a lot of those state workers are Republican voters.
"To demonize a whole category of people that work very hard in our state government, and to demonize teachers, is incredible to me," Tracy says.
As you'd expect, AFSCME executive director Henry Bayer is critical of Rauner's message. But Rauner has been ahead in the polls for weeks, so what was AFSCME waiting for?
"Frankly, in part we were waiting to see who had the best chance of beating Bruce Rauner," Bayer says.
The AFSCME endorsement doesn't come with any money to help Dillard finally buy time for crucial TV ads. But an independent group that had previously been exclusively anti-Rauner says it's beginning to air ads in support of Dillard.


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Madagascar: An Almost Jewish Homeland
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I start to think these fables might be true as the Air Madagascar jet--affectionately known as Air Mad--makes its steep descent in the pitch black early morning. The capital city, Antananarivo, lies phantom-like below.
Since Marco Polo, travelers' tales have fueled fantasies about prehistoric beasts and wild men inhabiting this "most noble and beautiful island" off the coast of Africa. European traders thought they had discovered in Madagascar an earthly paradise "better than ... America," where the natives were "the happiest people in the world."
Of course, before I departed New York, my wife Jessica pointed out that Madagascar contains no Jewish shrines to explore. Even South African-based Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, the spiritual leader of the African Jewish Congress, knows of no Jewish community in Madagascar. So I travel not to a place, but back in time, to a lost vision of an alternative future. Like a chameleon, as the Malagasy saying goes, I have one eye on the past and one eye on the future.
Early Zionists debated a host of proposals to settle Jews in remote regions of the world, and one of them was Madagascar. I'm an American-born, naturalized Israeli citizen and sometimes I think it might have been better had Herzl dreamed of a Jewish state in a place less embattled than the Middle East. That's why I am so curious about this would-be promised land that, at least until a recent military coup, was a relatively pacific republic in the Indian Ocean.
But as the plane lands at five in the morning, there's nothing promising about it. It's the dry season, and yet it's raining. And it's cold in July in Antananarivo, where the elevation exceeds 4,000 feet.
The city is built on a series of hills split by a ridge of rocky cliffs from which Christian martyrs were thrown to their deaths by the bloodthirsty Queen Ranavalona I in the mid-19th century. Dust kicked up by our Renault panel van clouds my view of the narrow roads that bend across the hills alongside rutted footpaths and past shambling figures carrying colorful bundles on their heads.
Each time we cross a bridge, my driver, Solofo, honks twice to ward off evil spirits. The smoke from 10,000 wood fires fills the air. Wagons pulled by zebu, muscular oxen with humped backs and long horns, veer to the side to let us pass. Mud-daubed homes with thatched roofs sag at odd, exhausted angles. Built from the same red soil on which they sit, the homes look elemental and comfortless. The tombs that dot the hills, however, are made of solid gray stone and concrete. "Why aren't the houses built with stone, too?" I ask. Homes are for the living so they don't need to last, Solofo explains, but death is forever.
As we make our way through the capital, the city wakes up. Faces appear in the small roadside snack bars, hotely, that serve traditional meals of rice and meat. Steeples spread across the cityscape and church bells ring out on Sunday, but there's no sign of Jews. No synagogue has ever graced this skyline. Even Chabad doesn't have an outpost here. And diplomatic ties with Israel have been sporadic since Madagascar achieved independence in 1960. So I almost can't believe my eyes when we see a truck flash by with a mazal tov sticker on its windshield.
One of the most persistent Malagasy legends is that the people here are descended from the Lost Tribes. While this story may be no more credible than those of man-eating trees, some Malagasy I spoke with believe it. As early as 1658 the island's French governor, Etienne de Flacourt, affirmed the Malagasy's Jewish origins in part because he witnessed tribes practicing circumcision, a custom that remains nearly universal here. Englishman Daniel Defoe, best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe, helped popularize the connection between Jews and Madagascar. As the ghostwriter for the popular 1729 Madagascar: Or, Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years Captivity on that Island, Defoe outdid Flacourt, suspecting that "the Jews derived a great deal from [the Malagasy], instead of they from the Jews. …


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"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
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DOWLING 38 Ankeny 14 (no contest)
When you put Pick Em in the title, the first thing I thought was Ankeny Football on Cybookie. Brilliant idea. Although it would be neat, probably not going to happen.
Ankeny - 35
Dowling - 31
The ranking here is very misleading. Both of these teams could easily be number one in the state. I will give Dowling the edge by three becuase of there Defensive line. Dowling 24 Ankeny 21.
As a former CIML Central foe, I hate both teams with a passion. But Dowling wins, 26-12.
Ankeny is my new adopted team besides Ames. (Played for Ames, live in Ankeny now). Gotta go Hawks.
This game honestly could be the state title game. I think both are better than every other team.
Do either of these teams have any D1 recruits? It seems like they are good every year, but rarely seem to put D1 recuirts.
Ankeny 21 Dowling 17
Looking at 10,000+ fans Friday at Valley stadium
Ankeny has a freshman running back, last name Lanning, who will most likely be a D1 recruit unless he decides to do baseball like his older brother.
As far as the game prediction, my gut tells me Dowlilng is pretty darn good this year, but I'm an Ankeny fan so GO HAWKS! Ankeny - 31 Dowling - 28
King James
Dowlings QB Mr. Hudson, is (or has been) scouted. I'm hoping since his dad was an asst. coach at Iowa State, he'll have some better exposure. I'm going to go with a blow-out game, giving DCHS the easy victory (with their depth)
I'll say 38-7
Last edited by Psyclone Brian; 09-25-2009 at 11:07 PM.
Why is it played at Valley Stadium?
There was one?
Originally Posted by josh777
Why is it played at Valley Stadium?
It's a home game for Dowling and they don't have their own stadium. Sometimes they play at Valley, sometimes Urbandale, sometimes Drake stadium. That would suck I would think......
I thought Dowling was number 1 in the state.
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