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Toneworks Music Therapy Alumna Maria Schneider Wins Grammy Awards
Mendelssohn’s Lost Lied Matthew Rahaim Researches Virtue of Voice in India
tutti Robert Brau Guitar Student and Marching Band Member Mark Bilyeu’s Source Song Festival
Percussion Ensemble Tours Costa Rica and Panama
music.umn.edu Fall 2014 | Volume 16 | Number 1
2014/2015 Events
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A Letter from the Interim Director
It is a privilege to have the opportunity to serve as Interim Director during the 2014-15 academic year. The School of Music continues to mount first-class musical performances, to provide the highest quality educational opportunities for our students, to engage with our many partners throughout the Twin Cities, and to expand our impact beyond Minnesota into the global community. On behalf of the School of Music faculty, students, and staff, I would like to thank David Myers for his leadership and for his many contributions to our school during the past six years. The positive changes that occurred during his tenure as Director provide a lasting legacy of his significant impact on the school. During the coming year, we will carry out the mission of the School of Music, coming together – as a community of faculty, students, and staff – around the four core values identified in our strategic planning process: a shared passion for music, a commitment to what is best for students, pride of craft, and artistic and intellectual curiosity. I am also pleased to inform you that our community engagement activities will continue to be supported by the College of Liberal Arts for two more years, allowing us time to ensure that these endeavors become a lasting and sustainable aspect of our collective efforts. In this issue of Tutti, you will read about several innovative examples of engaged creative and scholarly work, initiated by School of Music faculty and students. In addition, following the very successful inaugural semester of a new course entitled “Entrepreneurship and Musical Careers” (taught by a professor in the Carlson School of Management), I have confirmed that the course will be offered again in Spring 2015. Having attended two class sessions myself and having listened to numerous glowing reports from students who were enrolled last spring, the value of such a course to our undergraduate and graduate students is readily apparent.
The feature stories presented in this issue represent a wide array of the many activities and events conceived, organized, and carried out by members of our School of Music community. Our students have performed and been engaged in innovative learning experiences in many impressive venues, including a jazz performance with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, percussion students touring in Costa Rica and Panama, and voice students benefiting from the continuation of our Educational Collaboration and Coaching of Opera (ECCO) partnership with the Minnesota Opera. Lyndie Walker and Andrea YunSpringer, graduates of our music therapy program, have established Toneworks Music Therapy, and Mark Bilyeu, a graduate of our collaborative piano program, conceived and initiated the Source Song Festival in downtown Minneapolis, involving more than 25 events over a one-week period with performances by a number of School of Music faculty and alumni. Finally, among our many faculty accolades and awards, Matthew Rahaim (assistant professor of ethnomusicology) received a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence award for his study of vocal cultures in India, and Laura Sindberg (assistant professor of music education) continues to facilitate the creation of professional learning communities for music teachers in the Twin Cities region. These represent but a few of the many, valuable activities in which our students, faculty, and alumni are engaged currently. I hope you will enjoy reading about these and our numerous other accomplishments. I invite you to join us on campus for as many performances, colloquia, symposia, and academic presentations as your schedule will allow. Please consider my door always open to you. Thank you for your support. Sincerely,
Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb, Interim Director
The University of Minnesota School of Music gratefully acknowledges program support from Schmitt Music. The School of Music is an All Steinway School.
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5 2014/2015 Season Highlights
8 2014 Brass Symposium Matthew Rahaim Researches Virtue of Voice in India
Life as a Music Major at the U of M
Jazz Ensemble I Performs with Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Mendelssohn’s Lost Lied
9 Laura Sindberg’s Professional Learning Community
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16 Percussion Ensemble Tours Costa Rica and Panama
Rebecca Shockley Retires
10 Faculty Publications
Parables Released on DVD
11 Adriana Zabala/ Minnesota Opera Collaboration
David Myers Chairs National Task Force
12 Toneworks Music Therapy 13 Maria Schneider Wins Grammy Awards
Alumni Q & A: Jessica Narum
18 Thank You Donors 20 Jeanne Arland Peterson Scholarship in Jazz Studies 22 Honoring School of Music History: Donald N. Ferguson 23 Faculty News 25 Engagement in 2013/2014 27 Student News 29 Competition Winners 31 Alumni News 32 Robert Peterson Receives Choral Award 35 See and Be Seen
14 Mark Bilyeu’s Source Song Festival
ON THE COVER: The University Symphony Orchestra, University Singers, Women’s and Men’s Choruses, and members of the Minnesota Chorale perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 under the baton of Professor Mark Russell Smith, with soloists Professor Adriana Zabala (mezzo soprano) and alumna Linh Kauffman (soprano). The concert celebrated the reopening of Northrop. Photo: Tim Rummelhoff
Tutti. (Italian) all. every musician to take part. Tutti is the annual magazine of the University of Minnesota School of Music. It supports the school’s community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends by providing information that highlights events, developments, and trends within the school, connects the school’s many constituencies, and celebrates the achievements of the school’s community. John Coleman Dean, College of Liberal Arts Scott D. Lipscomb Interim Director, School of Music Lisa Marshall Editor and Writer Jennifer Schmitt Graphic Designer Modern Press Printing The School of Music The mission of the School of Music is to understand, share, and disseminate music through creation, performance, research, and education: • We embody and encourage creative and intellectual curiosity at the highest level of artistry and scholarship. • Our distinguished faculty inspires students to be global citizens and agents of transformation through music, realizing this educational work in an integrated and collaborative environment. • Our students develop the knowledge, attitudes, and professional skills to be successful while engaging with the richly diverse, urban, artistic communities in the Twin Cities and beyond. The University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, founded in the belief that all people are enriched by understanding, is dedicated to the advancement of learning and the search for truth; to the sharing of this knowledge through education for a diverse community; and to the application of this knowledge to benefit the people of the state, the nation and the world. The University’s threefold mission of research and discovery, teaching and learning, and outreach and public service is carried out on multiple campuses and throughout the state.
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In Memoriam: Robert Brau School of Music student Robert Brau, a leader in the U of M Marching Band and guitar major, passed away this summer as a result of a motorcycle accident. The U of M Marching Band dedicated the 2014/2015 season to Brau’s memory. School of Music students organized a memorial for Brau in September that featured music and remembrances. Timothy Diem, University of Minnesota Marching Band director, remembers Brau, “He was a giving and caring student. A young man of great character, he was a strong influence on those around him. I always knew looking down from far above that when I saw Robert in an area of the band that those students were well taken care of and I had no worries about them being prepared. He was wonderful to have in class each day – one of those students that while lecturing always had his eyes on you, always engaged. For his colleagues, he was always upbeat and knew when to share his humor to help others progress and always willing to give extra time with a smile to help others out.”
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Brau’s guitar instructor Maja Radovanlija reflects, “Robert was a great guitar student and colleague. He participated in all activities in our program – including the guitar ensemble, guest master classes/workshops, and concerts outside of the School of Music. He even took a class on guitar literature, a semester before his studies began, in order to meet other guitar students and become part of our guitar family. We will all miss Robert’s enthusiasm, light, and loving character.”
M EMOR I A L GI F T S The Robert Brau Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o U of M Foundation, PO Box 860266, Minneapolis, MN 55486-0266 or on the U of M School of Music website: music.umn.edu/give
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2014/2015 Season Highlights
Photos (clockwise): Guest composer and soloist Susan Botti, Convocation speaker Michael Christie, U of M Choir, and U of M University Opera Theatre
University Singers Spring Tour The University Singers will tour Northern Minnesota from April 23-25, 2015 to give master classes at high schools and in local Northern venues. This tour is funded by a multi-year gift from an anonymous donor with the goals to inspire high school choruses, to provide collaborative concerts, to sing and hear excellent quality choral music, and to encourage college-bound students to consider the U of M School of Music. University Opera Theatre Season Don’t miss University Opera Theatre’s productions of Georges Bizet’s La Tragédie de Carmen (November 20-23) and W.A. Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (April 16-19).
Wind Ensemble and University Singers Women: Susan Botti’s Cosmosis Guest composer and soloist Susan Botti will join the Wind Ensemble (Craig Kirchhoff, conductor) and University Singers Women (Matthew Mehaffey, conductor) for a performance of Cosmosis, for wind ensemble, solo soprano, and women’s voices. Cosmosis combines images, poetry, and a sciencebased composition. “Music is built from scientific components – physics, acoustics… they dialogue naturally,” says Botti. “As a composer, I direct my attention to certain aspects of the world and add imagination and emotion, reflecting back some of what I perceive in the human experience.”
School of Music Spring Convocation: Michael Christie Music director and conductor Michael Christie will give the Spring 2015 Convocation address on entrepreneurship and being a career musician. Christie continues his role as the first music director of the Minnesota Opera. His 16-year symphonic conducting career has included serving as music director of the Phoenix Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic, and as chief conductor of the Queensland Orchestra in Australia, as well as guest appearances leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and the Symphonies of Dallas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston, Minnesota, Oregon, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati. Check music.umn.edu for event information as it becomes available.
Live-Streaming of School of Music Concerts Visit music.umn.edu/about for a complete list of streaming events and to find out how you can listen to School of Music ensembles from the comfort of your home. The Bob Dylan Big Band Project Tue., Oct. 7 • 7:30 pm
University Symphony Orchestra Mon., Oct. 20 • 7:30 pm
Wind Ensemble and University Singers Women: Susan Botti’s Cosmosis Tue., Nov. 25 • 7:30 pm
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All-School 14th Annual Collage Concert Sat., Oct. 18 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring more than 300 students and faculty in a non-stop concert showcase!
Band Wind Ensemble Thu., Oct. 9 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Internationally acclaimed guest and founder of the New Sousa Band, Keith Brion conducts the Wind Ensemble. Brion has published band music by Charles Ives, Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa, and more. He is currently recording the complete music of Sousa for Naxos Records with London’s Royal Artillery Band.
Wind Ensemble Mon., Oct. 13 • 7 pm Buffalo High School 877 Bison Blvd, Buffalo, MN
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Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Events may be added during the course of the semester. This calendar does not list the numerous free student recitals presented each week. For directions and an updated and complete events calendar, visit music.umn.edu. *This event will be live-streamed
Featuring works from its October 9 concert, the Wind Ensemble performs in a concert also featuring the Buffalo High School Wind Ensemble.
North Star and Maroon Campus Bands Wed., Oct. 15 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall University Band and Gold Campus Band Thu., Oct. 16 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Symphonic Band: American Masters Wed., Oct. 22 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall This program is highlighted by composers Alan Hovhaness, Ronald Lo Presti, Charles Rochester Young, and John Philip Sousa.
53rd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert Tue., Nov. 18 • 7 pm Mayo Civic Center (Rochester, MN) Sat., Nov. 22 • 2 pm and 7 pm Northrop Performing half-time favorites and more. Rochester tickets: Free, available at the door. Northrop tickets: 612-624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu
Wind Ensemble and University Singers Women: Susan Botti’s Cosmosis* Tue., Nov. 25 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Guest composer and soloist Susan Botti will join the Wind Ensemble (Craig Kirchhoff, conductor) and University Singers Women (Matthew Mehaffey, conductor) for a performance of Cosmosis, for wind ensemble, solo soprano, and women’s voices.
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North Star and Maroon Campus Bands Mon., Dec. 1 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Symphonic Band: Tears and Dreams Wed., Dec. 3 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring a new setting of Manuel Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas for winds and percussion by Twin Cities composer Shelley Hanson.
University Band and Gold Campus Band Thu., Dec. 4 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall 21st Annual High School Honor Band Concert Sun., Jan. 25 • 1:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall The upper Midwest’s finest young wind and percussion instrumentalists perform challenging wind music.
Wind Ensemble Thu., Feb. 19 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Symphonic Band Wed., Mar. 4 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall North Star and Maroon Campus Bands Wed., Mar. 11 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall University Band and Gold Campus Band Thu., Mar. 12 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Wind Ensemble with VocalEssence: P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele Birthday Bash Fri., Apr. 10 • 8 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Everybody loves a birthday, and we’ll be celebrating two: P.D.Q. Bach turning 50 and Peter Schickele turning 80. Tickets: vocalessence.org
Wind Ensemble Sun., Apr. 26 • 2 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Symphonic Band Wed., Apr. 29 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall North Star and Maroon Campus Bands Wed., May 6 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall University Band and Gold Campus Band Thu., May 7 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall
Choral Global Voices Sat., Nov. 1 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Choral music captures cultural diversity through text, rhythm, and movement. Join Campus Singers ensembles along with the University Women’s Chorus and Men’s Chorus on a choral adventure, which will take you around the world.
Mendelssohn: Saint Paul Sat., Nov. 15 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Come hear the story of the namesake of one of our Twin Cities as told by University Singers, the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, a professional orchestra, and baritone Philip Zawisza. Conducted by Matthew Mehaffey. Tickets: oratorio.org
Laud and Glory! Sun., Nov. 23 • 4 pm Hamline United Methodist Church 1514 Englewood Ave, St. Paul, MN The men of the University Singers explore sounds both monastic and bombastic in this program themed for Christ the King Sunday. Joined by the University Brass Ensemble and organist Kim Kasling. Featuring the rarely performed Messe cum jubilo by Maurice Duruflé. Conducted by David Baldwin and Matthew Mehaffey.
Wind Ensemble and University Singers Women: Susan Botti’s Cosmosis* Tue., Nov. 25 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall See Band section for description.
Sounds of the Season! Sat., Dec. 6 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Campus Singers, Women’s Chorus and Men’s Chorus ring in the holiday season with an eclectic mix of seasonal choral music.
Music for a Grand Space! Sun., Mar. 8 • 2:30 pm Cathedral of St. Paul 239 Selby Avenue, St. Paul, MN Join the University of Minnesota choral ensembles for their annual pilgrimage to the Cathedral of St. Paul in a celebration of song spanning the ages of time and history. Conducted by Kathy Saltzman Romey and graduate student conductors. Free will offering: suggested donation $10
Spring Fling! Sat., May 2 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall May is a time for the choirs on campus to have some fun. The Campus Singers ensembles along with the University Women’s Chorus and Men’s Chorus present their annual year-end concert where anything could happen!
University Singers Homecoming Concert Sun., May 3 • 4 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Join the University Singers for a feast of a cappella and accompanied choral music presented on their spring tour of Northern Minnesota and also featuring Brahms’s Song of Destiny in a new orchestral reduction by doctoral student Russell Adrian. Kathy Saltzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Russell Adrian, conductors.
Jazz The Bob Dylan Big Band Project* Tue., Oct. 7 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall A Jazz Ensemble I concert featuring Janet Planet, vocals and Tom Washatka, guest arranger and saxophones.
Millennium Jazz – New Music for Big Band and Small Group Mon., Oct. 27 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall A concert featuring Jazz Ensemble II and Jazz Combos.
Compositional Improvisation Mon., Nov. 10 • 7 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Featuring the U of M Jazz Combos.
ASBDA-MN Honors Jazz Ensemble Sat., Nov. 15 • 4 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
University Symphony Orchestra Wed., Feb. 25 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Program to include a performance by the School of Music Concerto Competition Winner and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4.
Campus Orchestra Mon., Mar. 9 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Campus Orchestra Fri., May 8 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall
Faculty and Guests Guest Master Class: Timothy Deighton, viola Sat., Sep. 27 • 1 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall A guest master class with Timothy Deighton, professor of viola, Penn State.
New Trumpet Classics with David Baldwin and Timothy Lovelace Mon., Sep. 29 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Featuring Lyric Preludes by David Evan Thomas (2007) and Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Daniel Kallman.
Lydia Artymiw & Friends Sun., Oct. 5 • 2 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
A culmination performance of the ASBDAMN Grade 9-10 Honors Jazz Ensemble. Clinics and master classes during the morning and afternoon.
Pianist Lydia Artymiw performs with James Hodges, clarinet and Rosalind Leavell, cello. Program includes the Beethoven and Brahms Clarinet Trios and a selection of solo piano works of Antonín Dvořák.
Music of Brent Edstrom, pianist and composer Mon., Dec. 8 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall
Guest Recital: Sofia Zumbado, saxophone Wed., Oct. 8 • 3:45 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
Featuring Jazz Ensembles I and II.
Jazz Festival Concert Sat., Feb. 28 • 7 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall With special guest saxophonist Pat Mallinger.
Salute to the Big Bands Mon., May 4 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Featuring Jazz Ensembles I and II.
Orchestra University Symphony Orchestra* Mon., Oct. 20 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Program featuring Ives’ Unanswered Question, Mahler’s Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). Philip Zawisza, baritone and Mark Russell Smith, conductor.
Campus Orchestra Wed., Nov. 5 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Campus Orchestra Wed., Dec. 10 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall
Guest Recital: Jacob Tews, viola Thu., Oct. 9 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Jacob Tews received his DMA in viola performance under the tutelage of School of Music Professor Korey Konkol. Tews is lecturer of viola and music theory and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Guest Recital: Dan Cavanaugh, piano Mon., Oct. 13 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Guest Recital: Duo Gelland Thu., Oct. 23 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall This event is part of the Duo Gelland’s U of M SOM residency (October 20-24).
Guest Recital: The St. Thomas Trio Sun., Nov. 2 • 2 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Featuring alumna and pianist Woobin Park in her new trio with Daniel Sheridan, clarinet (chair of the Music Department at Winona State University) and Chun Chim David Leung, viola.
Guest Recital: Bergen Woodwind Quintet Tue., Feb. 10 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Guest Workshop/Master Class: Miroslav Tadic, guitar Sun., Feb. 22 • 2 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall World-renowned guitar improviser of the Balkan music tradition presents a guest workshop/master class.
Opera Theatre University Opera Theatre presents Georges Bizet’s La Tragédie de Carmen Thu., Nov. 20 – Sat., Nov. 22 • 7:30 pm Fri., Nov. 21 – Sun., Nov. 23 • 1:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Text and musical adaption by Peter Brook, Marius Constant, and Jean-Claude Carriere. David Walsh, director. Mark Russell Smith, conductor Tickets: $20/$5 U of M students and children. General admission. Two for one tickets for U of M faculty, alumni, retirees, and staff. 612-624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent in the US, Canada and Mexico for Editions Salabert, a Universal Music Publishing Group company, publisher and copyright owner.
University Opera Theatre presents W.A. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro Thu., Apr. 16 – Sat., Apr. 18 • 7:30 pm Sun., Apr. 19 • 1:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist. David Walsh, director. Mark Russell Smith, conductor Tickets: $20/$5 U of M students and children. General admission. Two for one tickets for U of M faculty, alumni, retirees, and staff. 612-624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu
Above and Beyond University Trumpet Ensemble Sun., Oct. 26 • 9:45 am House of Hope Presbyterian Church Summit and Avon, St. Paul, MN David Baldwin, conductor
Chamber Music Recital Fri., Dec. 5 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall The University Wind Quintet Sun., Dec. 7 • 3 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall Norbert Nielubowski, ensemble coach
Cellotone 2015 Sun., Apr. 26 • 2 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall A cello extravaganza featuring students of Tanya Remenikova.
Chamber Music Recital Fri., May 8 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
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Thomas Ashworth Hosts
In April 2014, Professor of Trombone Thomas Ashworth organized the 2014 University of Minnesota Brass Symposium: Building Musical Bridges. Ashworth created and hosted this Symposium, which featured thirteen brass ensembles, concerts, recitals, panel discussions, and industry sponsors. Outreach concerts at Twin Cities venues by the U of M and guest brass ensembles were part of the Symposium’s programming. With outreach and public engagement as its central themes, the Symposium was envisioned as a unique gathering place for professional performers and music educators, devoted avocational musicians, students of all ages, and brass aficionados. This event is made possible by a School of Music Community Engagement Grant and a College of Liberal Arts Imagine Grant for Special Events.
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2014 University of Minnesota Brass Symposium: Building Musical Bridges
Matthew Rahaim Researches
The Virtue of Voice in India Beginning in August 2014, Matthew Rahaim, professor of ethnomusicology, will travel to India for four months on a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Award.
U of M School of Music Professors Take on Mendelssohn's Lost Lied
Des Menschen Herz ist ein Schacht (One’s Heart is a Mine) Watch U of M School of Music Professors Adriana Zabala (voice) and Timothy Lovelace (collaborative piano) perform Felix Mendelssohn’s recently discovered lied “Des Menschen Herz ist ein Schacht” (“One’s Heart is a Mine”) at music.umn.edu/tutti. Professor of Musicology and Mendelssohn scholar Peter Mercer-Taylor provides an introduction and explains why it is extremely unusual for a totally unknown mature work from a major 19th century composer to appear out of thin air today. MercerTaylor offers, “Mendelssohn never intended this song to be heard by the public, but we hope he can forgive the many of us who rejoice that it has at last seen the light of day.” You can find more videos, performances, and events at music.umn.edu.
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Rahaim’s previous research, which culminated in his book Musiking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music, explored the bodily disciplines of Indian classical music. Rahaim’s new research, titled Voice Cultures: Indian Traditions of Resounding Virtue, will explore the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of diverse traditions of North Indian song: from open-throated village bhajan singing to ecstatic qawwali at Sufi shrines to the gentle crooning of sentimental film songs. In India, Rahaim will travel to observe festivals, voice lessons, recording sessions, and rituals, as well as continuing his long study under traditional masters. As Rahaim puts it, “Though I’m a teacher in the US, I’m very much a student in India. It is a great privilege to become a part of the texture of your guru’s everyday life. After all, a vocal tradition is more than just learning to emit a sequence of sounds from your throat. It’s learning a musical way of being. That’s what this project is about, and that’s what being a student of music is about, too.”
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Laura Sindberg’s Professional Learning Community For more than two years, Laura Sindberg, professor of instrumental music education, has been leading a professional learning group of music teachers in Minnesota’s Forest Lake School District. The group explores how to utilize Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) in their classrooms. CMP encourages teachers to engage students in creative and critical thinking about music beyond performance. The professional learning group provides an opportunity for the music teachers to expand their teaching repertoire. Sindberg travels to the Forest Lake Area District to meet with a group of more than five teachers who gather monthly to discuss their progress and technique. School of Music alumnus Barry Zumwalde (BM, 2000, music education/ trombone performance, student of Thomas Ashworth) teaches instrumental music at Forest Lake Area High School and Century Junior High School and finds inspiration in their monthly meetings. Zumwalde says, “Music educators are so busy that we don’t have the time to sit down with each other. You never get to see your colleagues teach. We create a CMP lesson plan and then video record ourselves teaching and then share the video with our colleagues. Just to watch others teach and realize how wonderful they are is fantastic. Getting ideas from each other on how to do this is incredible. My 15th year of teaching is coming up and adding this new set of skills is exciting. Working with my colleagues has helped to make CMP in my classroom possible.”
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Not only will Sindberg continue to lead the professional learning group, her current School of Music undergraduate students will be working in the classrooms of Zumwalde and other Forest Lake District music teachers.
Are you interested in forming a similar CMP professional learning group? Contact Laura Sindberg at lsindber@umn.edu or 612-624-0093.
Piano Professor
Rebecca Shockley Retires School of Music Professor Rebecca Shockley joined the U of M School of Music faculty in Fall 1986. During her 28-year tenure at the School of Music, she maintained the curricula in piano pedagogy, as well as for the entire network of piano classes at the school. As the supervisor for piano teaching assistants, she served as an additional mentor for many graduate students. The time and energy she spent developing the specialized equipment for class piano instruction left the School of Music with an excellent laboratory. Dean Billmeyer, School of Music professor of organ, harpsichord, and music theory shares, “In her teaching, Professor Shockley invariably demonstrated a sense of flexibility combined with a keen awareness of what was going on with individual students, as well as an entire class. She demonstrated a sense of deep respect and unalloyed joy for the art of making and understanding music. Her simple, intuitive technique for learning and memorizing music, ‘Mapping,’ has had a profound and lasting influence on our field. A true artist and pedagogue, Professor Shockley made a deep and significant influence in the lives of students and colleagues in her years on the University of Minnesota faculty.” Shockley has given presentations on Mapping Music for music teacher organizations and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and in England, Canada, Greece, China, Taiwan, and South Korea. Her book, Mapping Music: For Faster Learning and Secure Memory - A Guide for Piano Teachers and Students, was published by A-R Editions in 1997. In 2002, a Korean translation of the book was published by Hanyang University Press. In May 2014, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Colorado, where she completed her DMA in 1980. She received a BM and MM in piano performance from Indiana University, a Performer’s Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a DMA in piano pedagogy from UC-Boulder. Prior to joining the School of Music faculty, she was a member of the piano faculty of Eastern Kentucky University.
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FACULTY PU BLICATIONS
Akosua Addo • music education Author, “Amango: Movement in the Context of the Ghanaian Singing Game,” The Orff Echo (Winter 2014) Michael Cherlin • music theory Editor, Music Theory Spectrum, Society for Music Theory Alexander Fiterstein • clarinet Performer, Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concertos with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (Martin West, conductor), Bridge Records Performer (with the St. Petersburg State Symphony), Sean Hickey: Cello and Clarinet Concertos, Delos Productions, Inc. Sumanth Gopinath • music theory Co-author/co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Oxford University Press
Kelley Harness • musicology Author, “Pageantry,” The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, Routledge (2014) Editor, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Scott D. Lipscomb • interim director and music education Co-author/co-editor, The Psychology of Music in Multimedia, Oxford University Press, UK (June 27) Editor, Journal of Technology in Music Learning, Association for Technology in Music Instruction
Peter Mercer-Taylor • musicology Author, “‘The Calliope Crashed to the Ground’: Linear and Cyclic Time in Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s ‘Blinded by the Light,’” Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Fall 2013) Eugene Rousseau • saxophone Author, Saxophone Artistry in Performance and Pedagogy, Jeanne Inc. Laura Sindberg • music education Author, “Perceptions and perspectives of music teachers in urban settings: Isolation, conversation, and collaboration,” Music Education Research, UK
Timothy Lovelace • collaborative piano Performer (with Maggie Snyder), Modern American Viola Music, Arabesque Records
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Parables Released on DVD Parables, composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein’s interfaith oratorio, was recently released on DVD by Naxos of America. This Emmy nominated production of Parables was presented by the U of M School of Music’s University Opera Theatre and was directed by Professor David Walsh in Ted Mann Concert Hall. The production features Monica Yunus (soprano), School of Music Professor Adriana Zabala (mezzo-soprano), School of Music student Joseph Okell (tenor), School of Music Professor Philip Zawisza (baritone), the U of M Chorus and University Singers (Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor), University Opera Theatre, U of M Opera Theatre Orchestra, and dancers of the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. The attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001 haunts the writing of Parables, but the use of passages from the Torah, New Testament, and Koran seeks to bind the major faiths’ commonality, hopeful of healing and reconciliation. In this staged performance young dancers, costumes, and projected images emphasize the music’s powerfully theatrical impact.
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Adriana Zabala Creates Collaboration with the Minnesota Opera for Students School of Music Voice Professor Adriana Zabala has been leading the Educational Collaboration and Coaching of Opera (ECCO) program between the U of M School of Music and the Minnesota Opera for three years. Zabala, a regular lead performer with the Minnesota Opera, created this program to build a bridge between students and professional performing artists. The Minnesota Opera’s Artistic Director Dale Johnson and Artistic Relations and Planning Director Floyd Anderson are enthusiastic about this partnership and see great value in fostering the talent of young performers. Last year, School of Music graduate voice students Beth Bayley and Stephen Cunningham and undergraduate Patrick Terry were selected to participate in the program. At the close of the spring semester, these students performed an evening of opera scenes and arias at the Minnesota Opera Center. The ECCO program will continue this year with new students. Countertenor Patrick Terry found this program to be immensely rewarding, “Eric McEnaney (DMA, collaborative piano and voice coaching, student of Timothy Lovelace) was the main coach, he is such a pro and can get so much out of you. Not only were we coached on singing, we talked about creating resumes, headshots, how to navigate the audition process and obtain letters of recommendation.”
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Terry’s next step will be studying voice at the Royal Academy of London this fall. Terry reflects on his time in the ECCO program and at the School of Music, “I couldn’t have found a better mentor than Adriana Zabala. She really works to find opportunities for her students. I trust her and appreciate everything she has done for me.”
TOP PHOTO: Student Patrick Terry and faculty member Adriana Zabala pose after a concert. BOTTOM PHOTO: Alumnus Eric McEnaney coaching at the Minnesota Opera.
David Myers Chairs Undergraduate Music Curriculum National Task Force In his capacity as nationally elected, at-large board member for the College Music Society (CMS), David Myers (music education, former School of Music director) is chairing a national task force that is recommending transformational change in the undergraduate music curriculum. Emphasizing creativity, integration, and diversity, the Task Force report will be released in conjunction with CMS’s annual conference in St. Louis in late October. The Task Force has met in person and via teleconferences for 15 months and comprises music faculty from the Universities of Michigan, Washington, and Miami; Fredonia State University; Colorado College; Boston University; and UCLA.
Today’s professional musicians – whether teaching, composing, performing, researching, recording, or doing other music-based work – are increasingly engaged with crosscultural and diverse stylistic influences, ready access to music of every kind at the push of a button, collaborative composition and improvisation, electronica and evolving acoustic expressions, and significant advances in employment opportunities. Not only are these influences affecting performers and composers, but they are an increasingly prevalent part of theoretical and scholarly work.
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PHOTO: Walker and Yun-Springer at a Sensory Friendly Concert™.
Toneworks Music Therapy
Founded by Alumni Lyndie Walker and Andrea Yun-Springer In 2013, U of M School of Music graduates Lyndie Walker (BM, 2012, viola performance and BM, 2012, music therapy) and Andrea Yun-Springer (BM, 2012, music therapy) founded Toneworks Music Therapy Services, a private practice music therapy clinic in Northeast Minneapolis. As co-owners and board-certified music therapists, they share a passion for working with individuals with special needs in a variety of settings. At Toneworks, Walker is the director of clinical services and YunSpringer is the managing director. Walker works as both a music therapist and adaptive lesson teacher with groups and individuals of all ages with developmental disorders, behavior disorders, cognitive delays, sensory processing disorder, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and reactive attachment disorder. She collaborates with the Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Autism Society of Minnesota to provide accommodated access to fine arts experiences and performance opportunities for individuals on the autism spectrum.
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Yun-Springer’s clinical focus is on relational music therapy services, working with families, siblings, peer groups, and inter-generational groups. Yun-Springer has worked with children and adults with autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, sensory processing disorder, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and psychiatric disorders. Both Walker and Yun-Springer work in early childhood special education and in transition classrooms as teaching artists with Minneapolis Arts and Very Special Arts. As teaching artists, they also provide professional development workshops in several school districts, as well as presenting at national conferences on the use of music therapy in special education settings. Walker shares, “Every day that I get to go to work is so rewarding. I see students in classrooms who are homeless and have behavior disorders. Seeing these students come out of a place of complete anger to sitting in a group with their peers playing
instruments together is amazing. Being able to provide people with a personal way to express themselves is the greatest feeling in the world.” MORE ONLINE Watch a video of Walker discussing her work: music.umn.edu/tutti Follow the Toneworks blog for information on workshops, classes, and more: toneworksmusictherapy.com
Maria Schneider’s Record
Wins Three Grammy Awards U of M School of Music alumna Maria Schneider's latest record Winter Morning Walks won three Grammy Awards, including the prizes for classical composition and classical vocal solo album. The recording features soprano Dawn Upshaw with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. A portion of Winter Morning Walks was recorded at the U of M School of Music's Ted Mann Concert Hall and featured School of Music faculty members, including Julia Bogorad (flute), Chris Brown (bass), Michael Gast (horn), Timothy Lovelace (piano), and Charles Ullery (bassoon).
Schneider was in residence in September 2012 at the U of M School of Music. During her residency, she offered School of Music students the opportunity to witness the recording of Winter Morning Walks at Ted Mann Concert Hall, conducted composition master classes, and engaged in open side-by-side rehearsals with School of Music jazz ensembles. Schneider, a Windom, Minnesota native, received the Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Minnesota School of Music in 1983.
Alumni Q & A: Ask a Music Theorist
Jessica Narum
PhD, 2013, music theory, student of Michael Cherlin and Sumanth Gopinath
What was your dissertation topic? My dissertation dealt with musical “topics,” conventionalized musical patterns and signs with fairly stable cultural meanings, in the music of the Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Much of the existing research on musical topics focuses on tonal music, with some writers arguing against the presence of topics in early tweniethcentury music entirely. I argue that Schoenberg not only used topics in his music but that he helped create new topics that are still operative today. Did you come across any interesting information that wasn’t included in your dissertation? Absolutely! I ended up with dozens of sticky notes in books and on my desk listing further questions or ideas for future projects. In addition to potential avenues for other research, I learned a lot about Schoenberg’s life that helped to humanize him. Sabine Feisst’s book, Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years, does an excellent job dispel-
ling the myth about Schoenberg’s financial struggles, but also includes great tidbits about Schoenberg’s life; for example, he loved ice cream and whiskey and would tell his children stories at the dinner table to get them to eat their vegetables! You are currently teaching at Concordia College, how is this going? I just finished my second year at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, where I’m an assistant professor of music theory and aural skills, and it’s going really well. I primarily teach the required music theory and aural skills courses for first- and second-year music majors. How do you get students excited about incorporating aural skills/music theory skills in their day-to-day music-making? The required music theory and aural skills courses for music majors sometimes get a bad reputation for being too hard or abstract, but I feel very strongly that these courses enable our students to be better, more thoughtful musicians. To illustrate this, I started a series in my aural skills courses called “Why Aural Skills Matter;” I solicited responses from friends and colleagues about how they use aural skills in their professions. I received responses from many different kinds of music professionals - a music therapist who needs to play songs by ear, or the middle school band teacher who needs to arrange and transpose parts for a small ensemble - and these real-world examples (from someone other than me!) illustrate to my students the importance of these concepts and skills.
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School of Music Alumnus Mark Bilyeu
Brings the Source Song Festival to the Twin Cities Mark Bilyeu (MM, 2013, vocal coaching and accompanying, student of Timothy Lovelace) fell in love with art song in a School of Music class led by Professor Adriana Zabala. He reflects, “Professor Zabala taught in a way that connected art song to history and the world around us. I was inspired to seek opportunities to perform and learn more about art song, which is what led me to l’Académie Francis Poulenc, the Vancouver International Song Institute, the Aria International Music Festival, and Musique sur mer en Acadie where I studied with pianist Susan Manoff of the Paris Conservatory.” Pursuing his passion, Bilyeu turned the Twin Cities into an international hub of art song with the creation of the Source Song Festival, a seven-day festival in August 2014.
LEFT PHOTO: Mark Bilyeu and Clara Osowski with François Le Roux, director of the Poulenc Academie. RIGHT PHOTO: Mark Bilyeu and Clara Osowski in rehearsal.
The Source Song Festival began over the Atlantic Ocean as an idea between Bilyeu and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski on their return home to Minneapolis after participating in international art song festivals. Bilyeu says, “We thought to ourselves, why are we traveling across the globe to perform and attend art song workshops when we have such a rich pool of talent in the Twin Cities? Let’s celebrate art song in Minnesota.” An annual art song festival that empowers and inspires a new generation of musicians, composers, performers, and audience members was born. The festival’s programming boasted something for everyone, including MNSong, a three-day intensive for songwriters and song composers led by composer and School of Music alumna Libby Larsen. Programming also included MNDuo for pianist and singer duos and a five-day institute with master classes and recitals by international and local artists. Bilyeu called upon Professors Adriana Zabala and Timothy Lovelace, his School of Music mentors, to perform in the festival as well as François Le Roux and Olivier Godin, and School of Music alumni Abbie Betinis, Carolyn Campfield, Tracey Engleman, Mary Jo Gothmann, Edie Hill, Linh Kauffman, Laura Loewen, Gail Olszewski, David Evan Thomas, Julian Ward, and KrisAnne Weiss. Bilyeu aspires to make Source Song Festival a gathering with an international reach. In the meantime, Bilyeu is working on his first album of works by Nicholas Vines on the Navona Records label. For more information on Mark Bilyeu’s Source Song Festival, visit www.sourcesongfestival.org.
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U of M Percussion Ensemble Tours
Costa Rica and Panama The University of Minnesota Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Fernando Meza, toured Costa Rica and Panama for two weeks in May and early June of 2014. Eleven undergraduate and graduate percussion students participated in the tour. During the first leg of the tour, the Percussion Ensemble traveled to Costa Rica and performed at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and the National Center of Music (NCM). Meza offered a master class at the UCR, while doctoral candidate Dallas Tucker performed a solo marimba recital at the NCM, and DMA candidates Jeremy Johnston and Marilyn Clark Silva offered master classes on marimba and steel drum.
The Percussion Ensemble joined forces with the NCM’s percussion ensemble in a rousing performance of Dave Samuels’s Rendezvous. In Costa Rica, the ensemble toured the Biolley marimba factory, where they saw the craftsmanship involved in building the percussion studio’s new five-octave marimba. The students also attended a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra in the National Theatre at the invitation of Guillermo Madriz, executive director of the NCM. In Panama the Percussion Ensemble participated in the Alfredo de Saint Malo International Music Festival, where they presented a concert at the Ateneo Audi-
torium and gave a performance of Carlos Chávez’s Toccata as part of the festival at the National Theatre in Panama City. The Percussion Ensemble and Meza also offered a master class and a marimba clinic at the School of Fine Arts, University of Panama, to inaugurate the Percussive Arts Society’s recently established chapter in the country, and visited the Panama Canal before returning to Minneapolis. The Percussion Ensemble tour was made possible with support from the Office of U of M President Kaler and former School of Music Director David Myers, as well as grants from the University Research Opportunity Program.
The percussion ensemble tour was an amazing experience. Not only did we get to share music with music students and communities very different from our own, but we also had the opportunity to visit with incredible people from around the Americas. One of the highlights was visiting the marimba building factory of Oscar Biolley. JEREMY JOHNSTON, GRADUATE PERCUSSION STUDENT
ABOVE PHOTO: At Biolley Instrumentos Musicales with builders. BOTTOM LEFT: Students en route to the beach in Costa Rica. BOTTOM RIGHT: In front of National Theatre of Costa Rica.
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Brian Messier’s Murder Mystery a Success for Wind Ensemble The Electric Conductor: A Musical Murder Mystery was produced by School of Music student Brian Messier (conducting) and his non-profit organization Elastic Bands on November 26, 2014 in collaboration with the U of M School of Music, the U of M Wind Ensemble, members of the U of M Jazz Ensemble, and an alumnus of the U of M/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program. The purpose of the event was to test the theories of Messier’s doctoral research on audience attraction, engagement, and retention for classical music ensembles. An analysis of the data collected shows the event to have been a huge success: the event drew three to five times the standard audience for a Wind Ensemble concert; ten percent of the audience self-identified as first time attendees of classical music; 65% of the audience cited the collaborative nature of the event as their reason for attending; and over 80% of the audience stated that the event made them more likely to attend a Wind Ensemble concert in the future. There is significant data to support the success of the “attract, engage, retain” approach within The Electric Conductor and to suggest the legitimacy of the overall approach of Elastic Bands, which is dedicated to creating educational methods designed to encourage creativity and imagination in student musicians. This line of research has led to Messier’s participation in the New Audiences and Innovative Practices program in Iceland, an invited presentation at Prince Claus Conservatory in the Netherlands, and a presentation of The Electric Conductor will be featured at the 2014 College Music Society National Conference in St. Louis, MO.
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This event was funded in part by a School of Music Community Engagement Grant.
LI FE A S A M USIC M A JOR AT T H E U OF M Experience life as a music major at the University of Minnesota School of Music with saxophone/music education major Kendra Wheeler (student of Eugene Rousseau) in the new School of Music video. Follow Wheeler throughout her dynamic day from Music Theory class to Wind Ensemble rehearsal to her saxophone studio lesson with Professor Rousseau. Discover Wheeler’s career goals and why she chose the U of M School of Music as her musical home. Watch the video at music.umn.edu/tutti.
U of M Jazz Ensemble I Performs with Rochester Symphony Orchestra On March 28, 2014 the U of M Jazz Ensemble I, led by Professor Dean Sorenson, joined the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale with acclaimed trumpeter and composer Charles Lazarus for an extraordinary evening of jazz at the Mayo Civic Center Auditorium in Rochester, Minnesota. Classics of the 1920s and original works by Sorenson and Lazarus were performed in a casual, cabaret atmosphere. This community engagement project was organized and led by Sorenson. When Sorenson was approached by RSO conductor Jere Lantz, he enthusiastically seized the opportunity. This successful collaboration allowed School of Music students to perform and rehearse off campus and inspired students to be inventive with space and logistics, learning real world touring skills. The project left an impression on School of Music graduate saxophone student Benjamin Cold, “It was a unique and rewarding experience to perform one arrangement with the Jazz Ensemble and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra.
Playing with an orchestra is not something a lot of jazz bands have the opportunity to do often. As a saxophonist, it’s important to play all types of styles of music and break out of my comfort zone. Also, it’s always nice to put what we’re learning at the University into practice in the community.” The experience afforded the students the chance to work with Charles Lazarus. Sorenson says, “Charles Lazarus is great with the students. It’s cool for the students to see how Lazarus conducts himself, his level of preparation for a rehearsal, and how he thinks things through ahead of time. He’s detail oriented and has great ears. His suggestions are positive and uplifting. Lazarus is easy to work with and a great role model for the students.” School of Music student Drew Morrisette (BM, percussion, student of Fernando Meza and Phil Hey) shared, “It was really fun to perform in a jazz combo in the midst of a classical orchestra. It made me hear the music in a different way.”
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Jeanne Arland Peterson Scholarship in Jazz Studies
Jeanne Arland Peterson is widely referred to as “Minnesota’s Matriarch of Jazz.” A pianist and singer, Peterson’s career included performances with the likes of musical legends George Benson, Bob Hope, and Perry Como. Her family members marked her birthday by announcing a new memorial scholarship fund, the Jeanne Arland Peterson Scholarship in Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Music. Recipients of the Jeanne Arland Peterson Scholarship in Jazz Studies will be full or part-time U of M students, majoring in music and focusing their studies in jazz. They will need to complete an audition, be accepted to the College of Liberal Arts, and maintain strong academic progress. In addition to showing excellent artistic promise as a jazz musician, Peterson Scholarship applicants must also have a demonstrated financial need. All of the criteria above represent the values that characterized Jeanne’s life. The family cannot think of a better living legacy.
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HONORING SCHOOL OF MUSIC HISTORY
Donald N. Ferguson
Beloved musical pioneer Donald N. Ferguson taught at the University of Minnesota for 37 years. He was a nationally respected author, professor, and composer, whose philosophy about music is still taught today. Ferguson was honored on October 14, 1983 when the University of Minnesota Board of Regents voted to name the new music building Donald N. Ferguson Hall. Ferguson was the author of the much-used textbook Music as Metaphor as well as eight other books including History of Musical Thought, Piano Music of Six Great Composers, and Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire (his collected program notes). A tenth book, on which he was working at the time of his death at age 103, was to have been called The Forgotten Purpose of Music Making. Ferguson was also a composer whose works include numerous songs for voice and organ, chamber music, and even several orchestral pieces. Ferguson’s dedication to music has placed him among the University’s most revered faculty. Music critic John K. Sherman wrote that Ferguson was “The most brilliant musicologist and most inspiring music teacher the University of Minnesota ever nurtured.” Ferguson – “Fergy” to his friends and students – founded the Minnesota Bach Society, was the program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and taught thousands of students. Thanks to his family’s generosity in endowing music scholarships in their father’s name, Ferguson’s influence is still being felt at the University today. The scholarship that the Ferguson family established in April 1991 assures that students will benefit, and that Donald Ferguson’s dedication to music, students, and the University of Minnesota will continue to live on. ABOVE: Ferguson Hall groundbreaking. Donald Ferguson, Laures Krenik, Ken Keller, and Darrell Lewis. BELOW: Portrait by Barbara Brewster Peet, who studied piano with Donald Ferguson when she was a student at the University of Minnesota.
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news Akosua Addo (music education) presented a professional development session on child development and musical arts education to more than 30 teachers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Child Development in October 2013. She shared how to integrate intercultural arts in early childhood education. She presented “Playing with Music and Math” at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Midwinter Clinic. Lydia Artymiw’s (piano) 2013-14 season included solo recitals and master classes at the Gulangyu Piano Academy in Xiamen, China, the Hong Kong Performing Arts Academy, two performances with the Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski at Ted Mann Concert Hall, two faculty recitals (with the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet and with Osmo Vänskä, Erin Keefe, and Wilhelmina Smith at Ted Mann), solo recitals at Carleton College in Northfield, MN and for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series; Great Barrington, MA with Alexander Fiterstein, Erin Keefe, and Yehuda Hanani, PCMS series with Yajima/Kashkashian/ Rosen, and master classes at Carleton College, Winona State University, and the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. Summer 2014 included judging the PianoArts International Competition in Milwaukee, teaching and performing at PianoTexas in Fort Worth and the Foulger Festival in Ogden, UT, as well as performances at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA and the Salt Bay Chamber Festival in Maine. Thomas Ashworth (trombone) performed with Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter Charles Lazarus and his big band on December Holiday concerts in Milwaukee and Wayzata. Ashworth also joined The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for six CONNECT educational outreach concerts in Ted Mann Concert Hall in February, which included the world premieres of Bruce Adolphe’s Concertino for Brass and his Concertino for Chamber Orchestra. Ashworth and John Tranter (euphonium) performed on six Minnesota Orchestra family concerts with Alex Wolff (BM, trombone, student of Thomas Ashworth). Wolff, a member of the Copper Street Brass Quintet, performed with the Minnesota Orchestra. Ashworth conducted the U of M Trombone Choir when they joined the Min-
neapolis Trombone Choir (MTC) for their 41st annual performance at Judson Memorial Baptist Church (Minneapolis). The MTC is led by Jim ten Bensel (BM; MM, music education) and features local music educators, students, and community members. The MTC also performed on the 2014 U of M Brass Symposium. Dean Billmeyer (organ) gave his second European concert tour of 2013 in Germany and Austria in September and October, performing at the Basilika St. Mang in Füssen, Germany, at the New Cathedral in Linz, and at the Pfarrkirche in Hofkirchen, Upper Austria. He was also featured as a guest lecturer at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, where he presented a class on American organ literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In May 2014, David Baldwin (trumpet) received the International Trumpet Guild’s Award of Merit at the annual ITG Banquet at the Valley Forge Casino in King of Prussia, PA. Baldwin has had two or his etude CDs released by the ITG: The Etudes of Charlier and Bitsch and The Lost Etude of Theo Charlier. Baldwin was the first ITG Secretary and has been on the Board of Directors for 12 years. He presented the Festival of Trumpets Concert at Wesley Methodist Church in Minneapolis in 2011. Mark Bjork (violin and pedagogy) was the subject of an interview for the column “Ask the Teacher” in the September issue of The Strad, the premier international journal for the string world. He presented a master class for violinists of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies Symphony in November 2013. Alexander Braginsky (piano) served as a judge of the Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant and the Kaufman Center International Youth Piano Competition in June 2013. He held a three-day master class at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In July 2013, he chaired the international jury of the 3rd International e-Piano Junior Competition at Ted Mann Concert Hall. He participated as a faculty member at the 15th International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City, where he performed a faculty recital. He was a jury member at 60th Maria Canals
International Competition in Barcelona, Spain (March 26-April 4, 2014). In Summer 2014, he was the jury chair for the Alaska International Piano e-Competition and a faculty member of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College (New York City). He also gave a special event presentation Russian Composers of XX Century at the Summit Music Festival (New York) and was the artistic director of the International MusikFest at Shattuck-St Mary. Scott Currie (musicology/ethnomusicology) and Maja Radovanlija (guitar) collaborated with Diane Willow (experimental and media arts, Department of Art) and Matt Tucker (Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Design) on a research/creative collaborative project. The project, titled “Improvised Ecosystems,” has been selected for funding by the Institute for Advanced Study for the 2014/15 academic year. Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) performed in the Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Music Mountain Festival (Connecticut), the Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival (New Orleans), the Moab Music Festival (Utah), and the Montana Chamber Music Festival. He taught at the Zodiac Music Academy (France) and the Aria International Masterclasses (Massachusetts). In November, Fiterstein was the soloist for Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the Iris Orchestra (Michael Stern, conductor) in Memphis, TN. He performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in The Voice of the Clarinet in Jewish Classical Music: Alexander Fiterstein and Friends. He received a 2014 Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from Thursday Musical. In April 2014, he premiered a new work by George Tsontakis with the Chamber Music Society of Boston. Fiterstein was a substitute in concerts for San Francisco Performances and Boston’s Celebrity Series. Sumanth Gopinath (music theory) moderated the Reflections on Mobile Music Studies Roundtable on April 25 at the 2014 EMP Pop Conference in Seattle. The Roundtable included the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies editors and four additional contributors. Five brief presentations offered representative samples of individual chapters and reflections upon them
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in light of recent musico-sonic and scholarly developments. David Grayson (musicology) contributed a chapter to the book Regards sur Debussy, edited by Myriam Chimènes and Alexandra Laederich (Paris: Fayard, 2013). The book was awarded the 2013 Paul Marmottan Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France at its annual public meeting on November 20, 2013. The School of Music hosted the bi-annual conference of the American Musicological SocietyMidwest Chapter. Professors David Grayson and Gabriela Currie (musicology) served as local arrangement co-chairs. Kelley Harness (musicology) is a recipient of the 2012-2013 College of Liberal Arts’ Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, recognizing faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students. She received the award in April as part of the U of M College of Liberal Arts Celebrate Faculty Excellence event at the Best Buy Theater, Northrop. In July, Harness delivered a paper entitled “Fighting for Relevance: Guerra d’amore and Florentine Colonial Aspirations in the First Decades of the Seventeenth Century” at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, in Salzburg, Austria. Korey Konkol (viola) was given the Minnesota Strings and Orchestra Teachers Association (MNSOTA) Master Teacher: Studio Award. Konkol received his award at the MNSOTA October Clinic and Luncheon. As a member of the Bakken Trio, Konkol performed in April at MacPhail Center for Music. The program, the French Connection, was curated by pianist Judy Lin, and featured music from France in the preWorld War I era. Guest cellist Wilhelmina Smith performed Debussy’s Cello Sonata and joined Bakken’s violinist Stephanie Arado and Konkol to perform the Faure Piano Quartet in c minor. Scott D. Lipscomb (interim director and music education/music therapy) presented the keynote address for the 2014 College Music Society’s Great Lakes Regional Conference at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. The title of his keynote presentation was “A classroom of ‘digital natives’: Their musics, their cultures, and their communities.” After the 7th edition of his co-authored textbook (Rock and roll: Its history and stylistic development, 2013; Pearson Education) was published in early 2013, Oxford University Press published his co-edited volume entitled The psychology of music in multimedia
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mid-year. Within the School of Music, Lipscomb has stepped into the role of interim director for the 2014-15 academic year. Alex Lubet (theory/composition) gave talks on the music of Irving Berlin and Bob Dylan at Jewish University for a Day in June 2013, sponsored by New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary. Lubet spoke and performed music of John Coltrane at Conversation-E, an event sponsored by the U of M Institute of the Environment, in Cloquet, MN. His solo album, Spectral Blues: New Music for Acoustic Guitar, was reviewed on the Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog, the Italian webzine Kathodik, and Wordgathering. In his list of 100 Best Albums of 2013, critic Ted Gioia listed Lubet’s Spectral Blues as number 52. An exhibit of Lubet’s scholarship was exhibited in the U of M Office of Equity and Diversity’s Gallery of Excellence. Lubet appeared on Pushing Limits on Berkeley’s Radio Pacifica, speaking on disability, jazz, and “social confluence theory.” Jerry Luckhardt (bands) was guest conductor and clinician at the Music Conference Alberta Honor Band (November 2013) in Red Deer, Alberta (Canada) and at Manhattan Concert Productions (April 2014) at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY. He presented “E-Frontier: Music, Multimedia, Education, and Audiences in the Digital Age” at the Midwest Clinic: An International Band and Orchestra Conference (December 2013) in Chicago, IL. He conducted the premiere of Ohlos, espelho e luz (eyes, mirror, light) by Andreia Pinto-Correia (December 2013). Luckhart was guest conductor for the National Association for Music Education (January 2014) at the Western Region Music Festival in Trumbull, CT; the APAC Honor Band (February 2014) in Taejon, South Korea; and the Association for Music in International Schools Honor Band (March 2014) in London, England. He conducted the Encore Wind Ensemble and U of M Choruses at the Minnesota Music Educators Mid-Winter Clinic (February 2014). Guerino Mazzola (creative studies and media) received a doctorate, honoris causa, from the Universidad de Guadalajara (Jalisco, México) in December 2014. In July 2014, he gave seven jazz concerts in Japan (Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo; Last Waltz, Shibuya, Tokyo; Nanahari, Tokyo; Airegin, Yokohama; and Knuttel House, Tokyo) with Heinz Geisser and Shrio Onuma. These concerts were recorded for live CD production. Mazzola was invited to be a part of ART2, an International Platform on Contemporary Art, where he presented “Melting Glass Beads—The
Multiverse Game of Strings and Gestures” at the e-flux project space in New York City. He also gave a discussion in the form of a radiophonic workshop at the Museum of Modern Art recording studio in New York City in 2014. Brian McCullough (Alexander Technique) was approved by the American Society for the Alexander Technique to direct a Teacher Certification Training Program. The three-year, 1600-hour course prepares individuals to become skilled at helping musicians and others achieve optimal skill and reduce discomfort problems. The program is excellent for musicians and educators to enhance teaching, performing, and finding a life in music. Matthew Mehaffey (choral) spent Summer 2014 working in Europe. The highlight of the summer was conducting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in a concert of the Fauré Requiem, Dvorak Te Deum, and Rutter Gloria in Smetana Hall in Prague. He also served as as the chorus master for productions with Orchester und Solisten der Dommusik Salzburg at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the Virtuosi Pragenses at Smetana Hall in Prague. He also spent a month in Omis Croatia, where he participated in the Festival Dalmatinskih Klapa Omiš, the national choral festival of Croatia. Fernando Meza (percussion) performed with the Minnesota Orchestra for a variety of concerts, including twelve performances of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in April; the re-dedication of Northrop (Osmo Vänskä, conductor) in May; Pixar in Concert (Courtney Lewis, conductor) in June; and an all-Gershwin/Bernstein program for Sommerfest (Andrew Litton, conductor) in July. In May, Meza performed as one of five percussion soloists for Karel Husa’s Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble at the National Theatre of Costa Rica with the Youth Symphonic Band of the National Institute of Music (Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor). In June/July, Meza traveled to Dominican Republic for his 10th season as faculty member for the YOA-Orchestra of the Americas, sharing co-coaching responsibilities with Wieland Welzel, principal timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Meza will return to the Dominican Republic next year as principal timpanist for the Santo Domingo International Music Festival. David Myers (music education, former School of Music director) was a featured speaker for the Society for Music Teacher Education, the College Music Society, and the National Association of
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Engagement in 2013/2014
Conducting Seminar Outreach Program
Russell Adrian (photo left), choral conducting graduate student, produced an outreach program offering professional development opportunities for School of Music students to work with an established civic ensemble in the Twin Cities Metro Area. Students from the Choral Conducting Seminar led sectionals and rehearsals with the South Metro Chorale in preparation of a masterworks concert of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation in May 2014. This project provided seminar students an environment to implement skills and knowledge obtained in class as well as the opportunity to work as guest clinicians. The seminar offered the South Metro Chorale individualized attention in learning difficult passages. While emphasis was given to teaching new music, equal importance was placed upon the development of healthy vocal production and the exploration of vocal pedagogy specific to community choruses.
Bach’s Coffee Cantata at Carlson School of Management
The University of Minnesota School of Music Graduate Conducting Seminar performed Bach’s Coffee Cantata or Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Be still, stop chattering), BWV 211 at the University of
Minnesota Carlson School of Management’s Atrium in November 2013. This miniature comic opera about caffeine addiction was composed between 1732 and 1735 and is as relevant today as it was then. The Graduate Conducting Seminar performers struck a chord with the atrium audience as they enjoyed free coffee provided by University Dining Services.
R-Word Campaign Concert
Band conducting student, Caroline Hand (photo right), worked with Blaine High School Choir in April and May of 2014 to produce an End the R-Word Concert. R-Word Campaigns are grassroots efforts of Spread the Word to End the Word, a movement seeking to eliminate the derogatory and hurtful use of the word “retard” or “retarded.” Blaine High School Choir performed Nathan Jones’s Gamble Everything for Love, written in honor of this event, which includes woodwind octet accompaniment, performed by Music Education and Music Therapy students from the University of Minnesota. Audience members were encouraged during the concert to take the pledge to stop using the r-word at r-word.org. Feedback from the event was highly positive. The concert was performed in May 2014.
Get Engaged with the University of Minnesota School of Music! The School of Music’s Community Engagement Leadership Team awarded a total of $5,250 in funding through Community Engagement Grants for eight projects developed by faculty and graduate students. Cumulatively, these projects brought high quality music experiences to hundreds of participants of all ages across the metro area. Thousands of audience members attended funded performances. Visit our website to learn about engagement opportunities for teachers, students, arts or education professionals, and community members as well as information on existing programs and volunteer opportunities. To find out how you can get involved with the School of Music Community Engagement program, contact Anabel Njoes at 612-624-2847 or anabel@umn.edu. music.umn.edu/engagement
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Schools of Music during 2013-14. He was also a program/administrative consultant in residence for Florida International and Western (Ontario) Universities, in addition to NASM accreditation visits for several schools. He was invited to join the boards of the SPCO and VocalEssence, and continues his board service at the MacPhail Center for Music and the American Composers Forum. In 2014-15, he will be speaking and/or keynoting conferences for CMS, NASM, the Suncoast REsearch Forum, and the Reflective Conservatoire Conference at the Guildhall School in London. Sally O’Reilly (violin) taught at Italy Summer Music Festival in Pienza. School of Music students who performed at the festival included Sila Gundiler, Hillary Kingsley, Kari Mattson, Angelika Strub, former student Huldah Minthorn Niles, and PSEO student Julian Maddox. Karen Painter (musicology) will be visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, 2014-15. Maja Radovanlija (guitar) is a member of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet (MGQ). The MGQ was named one of Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s Artists-in-Residence. Tanya Remenikova (cello) performed with Susan Billmeyer (DMA, 1997, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) at a benefit concert for the Schubert Club Museum in May 2013 as a member of the Hill House Chamber Players. Remenikova performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Kenwood Symphony in Spring 2013. She performed with pianist Ivan Konev (DMA, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) at Cello: An American Experience as a part of their Cello Recital Series. She also taught and gave two master classes during her two-week residency with this organization. Remenikova, with Natalia Moiseeva (violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) and Konev, gave two chamber music recitals of Rachmaninov’s and Arensky’s Trios in February 2014 at the University Club (St. Paul) and the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. She performed An Evening with Schubert with the Hill House Chamber Players in June 2014 (Hill House, St. Paul, MN). Rebecca Shockley (piano) gave a guest presentation on “Mapping Music: A Fresh Approach to Practicing and Memorizing” for the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association state convention in Appleton in November. Shockley was nominated to receive a Distinguished Alumnus Award
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from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she received her DMA. She received the award during the commencement ceremonies at CU-Boulder. She also gave a presentation on Mapping Music at the Texas Music Educators Association State Convention in San Antonio in February. Shockley spent two weeks in China in April. She visited China Conservatory in Beijing, Jianxi University in Nanchang, and Yanshan University in Qinhuangdao, giving master classes and presentations on Mapping Music and two late Schubert sonatas. Laura Sindberg (music education) taught a three-week course, Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance: Matters of Theory and Practice, and shared her research as part of the Summer Master of Music Education graduate program at Northwestern University. She was also invited to present “Performing with Understanding, Teaching with Intention: Just Good Teaching” at the National Association for Music Education National In-Service Conference in October 2013 in Nashville, TN. She presented “Who? Me? Towards Becoming a Change Agent and an Excellent Teacher” at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Midwinter Clinic in February 2014. Sindberg presented two papers at the Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference of the National Association for Music Education in St. Louis: “Exploring Comprehensive Musicianship in the Context of a Professional Learning Community” and “‘It’s Just Different’– Supports for and Constraints on CMP-Infused Student Teaching.” Mark Russell Smith (orchestra) conducted the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in April. Adriana Zabala (voice) was the soloist. This was the first time this piece was performed by the orchestra in its 100 year history. Dean Sorenson (jazz/creative studies & media) and School of Music students Zach Miller and Tyler Tracy are featured in the Minnesota Daily article “U of M Jazz students look to the future,” focusing on jazz in the Twin Cities and musician entrepreneurship. Sorenson performed in a three-day run with the Nevada All State Jazz Ensemble in Reno, NV. Earlier in the year he also had the opportunity to direct the Alabama All State Jazz Ensemble. David Walsh (University Opera Theatre) directed Bizet’s Carmen for the Johanna Meier International Opera Institute in Spearfish, South Dakota.
He also directed Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah for the Vancouver Academy of Music Opera Studio. Ancia Saxophone Quartet, featuring Angela Wyatt (saxophone), performed a program of contemporary music with percussionist David Schmalenberger at Studio Z and the Weisman Art Museum in May. The program included Arvo Pärt’s Summa, Revolutionary Etudes by David Lang, Perry Goldstein’s Fault Lines, John Mackey’s Strange Humors, and a cover of Radiohead’s Paranoid Android. This activity was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Adriana Zabala (voice) was a guest artist at Sing for Hope’s annual gala fundraiser for Bering Omega in Houston. Zabala and Philip Zawisza (voice) performed Mozart’s Requiem with the Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Chorale (Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor) in January 2014. Zabala performed the role of Sesto Pompeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with the Florentine Opera Company at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee, WI. In February 2014, she performed the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Jacksonville Symphony. On Sunday, January 26 the Musical Offering presented an afternoon and evening of Schubert’s chamber pieces paired with food, desserts and beverages in a Schubertiade. Faculty members Philip Zawisza (voice) and Timothy Lovelace (collaborative piano) joined regular members Norbert Nielubowski (bassoon) and Caroline Lemen (horn). The program included the Quintet in A major “The Trout,” Die Schone Mullerin, and the Octet in F major.
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news Percussionist Joel Alexander (MM, 2012, percussion, student of Fernando Meza), cellist Charles Asch (DMA candidate, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova), violinist Melissa Deal (PSEO student, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), violist Sean Dostal (MM, 2014, viola, student of Korey Konkol), flautist Kärsten Jensen (BM, 2012, flute, student of Immanuel Davis), and flautist Lexi Zunker (MM, 2013, flute, student of Immanuel Davis) played in the Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, MN. The festival included many conservatory and music school graduates, as well as members of the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra was conducted by Andrew Altenbach and Marlene Pauley and played repertoire by Rossini, Beethoven, and Ravel.
Ryan Christianson (BM candidate, trombone/ music education, student of Thomas Ashworth) was a finalist in the International Trombone Association’s Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Scholarship competition. Christianson competed with trombonists aged 22 and under from around the world and performed on the finalists’ recital at the International Trombone Festival at the Eastman School of Music in June 2014.
Colleen Bertsch (PhD candidate, ethnomusicology/musicology, student of Matthew Rahaim) and her band Szászka offered a glimpse into the world of Transylvanian string band music through a multi-media informational performance and workshop in February. Bertsch is a fiscal year 2013 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Bertsch and alumni Scott Keever and Matt Miller were interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio’s Dan Olson as members of the Balkan party band Orkestar Bez Ime. The interview, which aired in March on Morning Edition, highlighted the band’s original compositions that were commissioned by the American Composers Forum.
Stephen Cunningham (DMA candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) performed the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro in Orvieto, Italy in June. He worked with conductor Nyela Basney and stage director Todd Queen in an intensive three-week summer program.
Mijin Choi (DMA candidate, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) completed work as coach and accompanist for a gala concert at the Johanna Meier International Opera Institute in Spearfish, South Dakota. At the institute, David Morgan (voice, student of Jean Del Santo) performed the role of Don Jose in Bizet’s Carmen; Sidney Walker (MM candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) performed the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia; and Jason J. Hernandez (MM candidate, voice, student John De Haan) was Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Joey Crane (PhD candidate, composition, student of James Dillon) attended the highSCORE New Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, where he worked with composers Louis Andriessen, Christopher Theofanidis, and Martin Bresnick. At the festival, he had a string quartet premiered by a professional ensemble.
Melissa Deal (PSEO student, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) completed a ten-day concert tour in Cuba, which was sponsored by the Nachito Herrera Foundation. She performed with Nachito Herrera at the Cubadisco Festival. She also appeared as soloist with the Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional de Cuba in Havana playing Saint-Saens’s Rondo Capriccioso in the Teatro Nacional. Herrera joined Deal in a recital in June in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall. Deal won the Glenn Miller Competition in the legendary bandleader’s birthplace (Clarinda, IA) in June. She received the $4,000 first prize and performed in the Festival held in Miller’s honor. Preston Duncan (DMA candidate, saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) was a featured festival guest at the XII Encuentro Universitario Internacional de Saxofón México, held at the Escuela Nacional de Música, Mexico City, in December 2013. In addition to serving as president of a panel of international judges for the annual saxophone competition, Duncan presented master classes, clinics, and a gala concert with pianist Ann DuHamel. The duo Kairos, Duncan and DuHamel, performed as a part of the College
Music Society conference and the Schubert Club Courtroom series in St. Paul. Duncan performed the premiere of Broken Obelisk by Joseph Dangerfield at the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference in Urbana, Il in March. Duncan performed and presented at the College Music Society Great Lakes Conference in March. He performed at a Schubert Club Courtroom Concert in March and was selected as finalist for this year’s McKnight Fellowship. Aaron Goler (BM candidate, bassoon, student of Charles Ullery) was published by Trevco Music (Ann Arbor). He wrote a piano reduction and edited a score, solo part, and orchestra parts for a previously unpublished bassoon concerto of Francois Devienne. Goler intends to continue his work with Devienne’s music, focusing on parts for the bassoon. Jenna Gullickson (PSEO student, flute, student of Immanuel Davis) was a featured round artist in Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Varsity Showcase. Jeffery Kyle Hutchins (DMA candidate, saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) was a 2013 DownBeat Student Music Award recipient in the graduate college classical soloist division. Alumnus Ryan Truesdell (BM, 2002, music education, student of Dean Sorenson) was one of the judges for the competition. The HutchinsChoi Duo, Jeffery Kyle Hutchins and alumna Grace Eunhye Choi (DMA, 2013, piano, student of Timothy Lovelace), released Images: American Sonatas, a new CD on Emeritus Records featuring works by Albright, Biedenbender, Brandon, and Higdon. Peter John’s (DMA candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky and James Dillon) work From the Zodiac was performed by cellist Cicely Parnas at the Kennedy Center on April 7. This performance received a review in the Washington Post. Julie Yoonjeong Kim (DMA candidate, organ, student of Dean Billmeyer) performed J.S. Bach’s Trio Sonata No. 1, BWV 526 at the Before Bach’s Birthday Bash recital on Saturday, March 15 at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in St. Paul.
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Soyoun Kim (DMA candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw), Woobin Park (DMA, 2009, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw), and ChunHan (Sophia) Lin (DMA candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) performed in the 2014 Before Bach’s Birthday Bash concerts in St. Paul. Soyoun Kim’s performance in the first concert at the St. Paul Seminary was broadcast live on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. Seulgee Lee (DMA candidate, collaborative piano and coaching, student of Timothy Lovelace) worked as a collaborative pianist at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Traverse City, MI from June 21 to August 3, 2013. Julian Maddox (PSEO, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Concerto with the Dakota Valley Symphony on April 27 as winner of their Young Artist Competition. Ingrid Martin (MM candidate, conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff ) presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago in December. Her clinic was titled “Secrets from Down Under - the best Australian band repertoire you’ve never heard.”
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Joe Matson (PhD candidate, musicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) is an adjunct instructor of music history at Illinois State University, Millikin University, and Illinois Wesleyan University, teaching courses from music appreciation to graduate research methods. At Millikin, he also directs the Big Bluegrass Band. In the past year, his work has appeared in Music Reference Services Quarterly, Notes, and the American Music Research Center Journal. Kristina Meanley (DMA candidate, clarinet, student of Alexander Fiterstein) won the audition for utility clarinet in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra. Jennifer Olson (DMA, voice, student of Adriana Zabala) and Eric Olson (DMA, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed a concert tour of Alexandria, MN for the Minnesota Music Teacher’s Association as winners of the Artistic Ambassador competition. They performed at local schools and in a recital venue. Additionally, both were hired as adjunct faculty at Bemidji State University. In Fall 2014, Jennifer began teaching voice, and Eric began teaching violin/ viola and music theory. Osip Nikiforov (BM candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) was selected to compete in the 14th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel-Aviv in May 2014. He was one of 36 pianists chosen from a pool of more than 300 applicants. Nikiforov won the Music Teachers National Association’s West Central Division Competition in Des Moines, Iowa and competed in the finals in Chicago in March 2014. Nikiforov won second place in the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition in Chicago (March 2014). Nikiforov was featured in “5,618 miles for music” on the U of M’s website homepage. In the article, he shared his thoughts on pursuing a career as a pianist, moving to Minnesota from Eastern Siberia, Russia, and studying with Alexander Braginsky. Gabriel Quennville-Belair (DMA candidate, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in June with the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Isle under the direction of Cristian Gort at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall in Montreal, Canada. Zachary Saathoff (DMA candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) won the position of concertmaster of the Lubbock (TX) Symphony Orchestra on July 24. Saathoff, who studied on a
Fulbright Scholarship in Austria (2009-2011) and at the University of Minnesota, where he served as concertmaster of the University Symphony Orchestra and as a theory teaching assistant. Reyna Sawtell (BA candidate, former student of Jean del Santo) was interviewed by Lorin Maazel for the I’m Living a Dream series. Eric Schultz (MM candidate, clarinet, student of Alexander Fiterstein) was named a 2014 recipient of a Rislov Foundation Grant for excellence in classical music. Schultz was accepted to attend the Austrian chamber music festival AlpenKammerMusik as the only clarinetist. He received a grant from the International Festival Society in Santa Monica, CA, fully covering tuition and housing. Schultz was named a 2014 recipient of a grant from the Sigurd I. & Jarmila H. Rislov Foundation in Ann Arbor, MI for excellence in classical music, based on his recording of the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto which he performed from memory in a collaborative faculty/student recital at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis in February. Regina Stroncek (BM candidate, voice, student of Wendy Zaro-Mullins) was awarded a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for her project “Brazilian Art Song: Beyond Villa-Lobos.” Angelika Strub (BM candidate, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) was this year’s winner of the Schubert Club’s College String Competition and performed at the Italy Summer Music Festival in Pienza. Strub performed the Bruch Concerto as soloist on tour in Germany with the Junge Waldorf Philharmonie in 2013. She also performed the Bruch Concerto in Berlin, Hamburg, Kasse, and in the Liederhalle Beethovensaal in Stuttgart. Ryan Thompson (PhD candidate, musicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) was interviewed for the article “Spira Unplugged: Behind Final Fantasy 10 HD’s remastered soundtrack” on Polygon.com. Tyler Tracy (BA candidate - applied emphasis, guitar, student of Maja Radovanlija) was a Talle Family Scholarship recipient. This college-wide scholarship program is intended to inspire, reward, and support academic excellence in the College of Liberal Arts. The college hosted a reception in April to recognize the outstanding work and achievement of Talle Family Scholars.
COMPETITION WINNERS MNSOTA’s Mary West Solo Competition
Schubert Club Scholarship Finalists
Schubert Club Scholarship Winners
Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition Winners
GRAND PRIZE Emily McIntyre Saathoff, violin
COLLEGE PIANO Osip Nikiforov
student of Sally O’Reilly
student of Alexander Braginsky
SENIOR HIGH VIOLIN Julian Maddox, honorable mention
COLLEGE STRINGS Emily Saathoff, violin, second place
PSEO student of Sally O’Reilly
student of Sally O’Reilly
GIVENS PRIZE JUNIOR DIVISION Julian Maddox, violin PSEO student of Sally O’Reilly
PERFORMANCE AWARD SENIOR DIVISION Volkan Can Canbolat, violin student of Mark Bjork
2013 Minnesota NATS Student Audition Winners 6 DIVISION Robert Riordan, Jr., second place
Samuel Rosenstone student of Alexander Braginsky
COLLEGE/GRADUATE BRASS & WOODWIND David Franzel student of Eugene Rousseau
Kendra Wheeler Eric Schultz
Charles Asch, second place
student of Alexander Fiterstein
student of Tanya Remenikova
Parker Tweeten
Luke Darville, honorable mention
student of Alexander Fiterstein
student of Tanya Remenikova
COLLEGE STRINGS Melissa Deal
GRADUATE VIOLIN Sila Gundiler, honorable mention
7 DIVISION JoAnna Griffith, second place
student of Sally O’Reilly
Laura Modglin, third place student of Adriana Zabala
Emily Saathoff Mary Alice Hutton student of Mark Bjork
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STRINGS Julian Maddox PSEO student of Sally O’Reilly
9 DIVISION Shelley Mihm, second place student of Philip Zawisza
11 DIVISION Jennifer Olson, first place student of Adriana Zabala
Sophie Amelkin, third place student of Jean del Santo
GRADUATE VOICE Joseph Okell student of John De Haan
Sidney Walker student of John De Haan
Deaven Swainey student of Jean del Santo
ADVANCED VOICE Sophie Amelkin student of Adriana Zabala
University of Minnesota Concerto Competition WINNER Rosalind Leavell student of Tanya Remenikova
GRADUATE CELLO Rosalind Leavell, first place student of Tanya Remenikova
PSEO student of Sally O’Reilly
Student Sally O’Reilly
Shelley Mihm student of Philip Zawisza
student of Sally O’Reilly
COLLEGE WINDS Eric Schultz, clarinet, first place student of Alexander Fiterstein
Cole Hanson, clarinet, second place student of Alexander Fiterstein
Anastasiya Nyzkodub, clarinet, honorable mention student of Alexander Fiterstein
COLLEGE PIANO Gabriel Quenneville-Belair, first place student of Lydia Artymiw
COLLEGE PIANO Osip Nikiforov, first place student of Alexander Braginsky
GRADUATE PIANO Rie Tanaka, first place
Pei-Lei Lin, second place student of Lydia Artymiw
COLLEGE INTERMEDIATE VOICE Laura Modglin, second place
student of Alexander Braginsky
student of Adriana Zabala
Gabriel Quenneville-Belair, second place
Robert Riordan, honorable mention
student of Lydia Artymiw
Samantha Cho, honorable mention student of Alexander Braginsky
student of Philip Zawisza
COLLEGE ADVANCED VOICE Lauren Feider, second place student of Wendy Zaro-Mullins
ADVANCED VOICE Brennan Blankenship, first place student Adriana Zabala
GRADUATE VOICE Joseph Okell, first place student of John De Haan
Brennan Blankenship student of Adriana Zabala
Sila Gundiler, violin, honorable mention
PSEO student of Sally O’Reilly
student of Eugene Rousseau
student of Philip Zawisza
student of Wendy Zaro-Mullins
COLLEGE VIOLIN Melissa Deal, honorable mention
COLLEGE/GRADUATE BRASS & WOODWIND Kendra Wheeler, saxophone, first place
Benjamin Dutcher, honorable mention student of John De Haan
University of Minnesota Mechelke Piano Award Winner Rie Tanaka
student of Alexander Braginsky
student of Eugene Rousseau
Eric Schultz, clarinet, second place student of Alexander Fiterstein
HONORABLE MENTION Bethel Balge student of Lydia Artymiw
Rie Tanaka student of Alexander Braginsky
David Franzel, saxophone, honorable mention student of Eugene Rousseau
HUNTER/SCHUBERT CLUB PRIZE Joesph Okell, voice, first place student of John De Haan
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CIRCA 1963 Sue Smisek and Dick Johnson with Goldy Gopher
FALL 2013 Annika Stromme with Goldy Gopher
The University of Minnesota Marching Band
and Goldy Gopher have had a special connection throughout the years.
music.umn.edu/marchingband
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1975 _______________
Robert McAllister (BS, music education) is currently dean of the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA. He served as president/CEO for the Peak Arts Association in Boulder, CO, the executive director of the Cleveland Music School Settlement, and associate dean and registrar at the Cleveland Institute of Music. McAllister was the co-founder and resident guest conductor of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony and the substitute/extra clarinetist with the Cleveland Orchestra for eleven years. Currently, he is the chair of the West Coast Chapter of the National Guild for Community Arts Education and is an international presenter on the topic of Music Re-Instruction and Functional Recovery in Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury. _______________
1976 _______________
Carol Barnett’s (BA, 1972, composition and theory; MA, 1976, composition) The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass was performed twice at Carnegie Hall on June 9 under the auspices of Distinguished Concerts International New York, and June 10 sponsored by Manhattan Concert Productions. _______________
1980 _______________
Sandy Waterman (BS, music education - piano, student of Martha Ivory) continues working as an early childhood music specialist at MacPhail Center for Music and the St. Paul Conservatory of Music. Her 25th musical score for Unity ChurchUnitarian is being written on commission for the church’s children’s musical program, which she helped found in 1989. Waterman serves as music director of Living Spirit UMC in south Minneapolis. She served in Fall 2013 as music director and keyboardist for Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake during its production of Big River. Past projects in musical theatre were for the Children’s Theatre Company, Steppingstone Theatre, and improvisational piano for three years at Brave New Workshop. _______________
1988 _______________
Sondra Wieland Howe (MA, 1985, musicology, student of Donna Cardamone Jackson;
PhD, 1988, music education, student of Charles Furman) was invited to Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, in December to present a paper on “American Music in Meiji Era Japan” for a conference on Stephen Foster Songs in Japan. Her book, Women Music Educators in The United States: A History, was published by Scarecrow Press, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield (2014). _______________
1990 _______________
Mark Zanter (BM, guitar, student of Jeffrey Van/composition, student of Alex Lubet) was presented with the Nissim Award by ASCAP for his piece Lament and dream for string orchestra, piano, and percussion. His score for Lament and dream was chosen along with three other works out of nearly 300 submissions. Zanter is a PARMA recording artist. _______________
1998 _______________
Angela Fuller Heyde (BM, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), principal second violin of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), was featured in the Dallas Morning News for her performance with the DSO at the Allen Performing Arts Center on September 5. The performance was part of their DSO on the Go tour. Young Kim’s (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) Winter 2014 included solo recitals at the College of St. Rose, Union College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Albany, NY and at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her program included the world premiere of Fantasie No. 1 and Tango by Juilliard faculty composer, Michael White. In March 2014, she also appeared as soloist with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. She continues as tenured associate professor of piano at the College of St. Rose.
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Margaret McDonald (MM, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) continues as assistant professor of collaborative piano at the University of ColoradoBoulder. She performed a duo recital with violist Erika Eckert at the Estes Park Music Festival and with the Takacs Quartet at UC-Boulder.
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2001 _______________
Karin Wolverton (MM, voice, student of Jean del Santo) was featured as Anna Sorenson in the PBS broadcast of the Minnesota Opera’s Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Silent Night. _______________
2002 _______________
Christine Gangelhoff (DMA, flute) released the CD Deep Blue with her ensemble, C Force. Deep Blue is a reflection of C Force’s commitment to the preservation and promotion of art music from the Bahamas and its neighboring Caribbean region. It is a compilation of original compositions, transcriptions, and arrangements of pieces written in a classical vein while manifesting elements of Bahamian folk culture in the use of theme, rhythm, and melody. Gangelhoff published the second volume of the “Bibliography of Art Music by Caribbean Composers” in The International Journal of Bahamian Studies (IJBS). It includes entries for the following countries: Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bonaire, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The first volume (Volume 17, No. 1), published in 2011, includes The Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, and the US Virgin Islands. Gangelhoff and co-author Cathleen LeGrand were recognized for their compelling research in this area by being awarded the College of The Bahamas Stanley Wilson Award for Excellence in Research. They will devote the third volume of the bibliography to the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Ryan Truesdell’s (BM, music education, student of Dean Sorenson) record Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare) received the 17th Annual Jazz Journalists Association Record of the Year Award. His Gil Evans Project also won the Large Ensemble of the Year Award. Kirsten Volness (BA, theory/composition) was awarded the 2014 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Music Composition and further support for Meridian Project—a multimedia performance and lecture series inspired by astrophysics and cosmology at the Roger Williams Park Planetarium. Her electroacoustic song cycle Precious Nothing, commissioned by music.umn.edu
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Hotel Elefant, premiered on the Ear Heart Music series at Roulette in Brooklyn. Volness and Hotel Elefant participated in a week-long New Voices, New Music workshop at Carnegie Hall, coached by David Lang and ICE, culminating in a performance in Zankel Hall. Volness teaches privately and at University of Rhode Island. _______________
2003 _______________
David Ramael (DMA, conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) accepted the position of director of orchestral activities at Western Washington University. For the past nine years he served in a similar capacity at Hofstra University (Long Island, NY) where he also was artistic director of Gemini Youth Orchestras. Together with his new responsibilities at WWU, he will continue to serve as chairman of the World Federation of Amateur Orchestras.
2004 _______________
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Matthew McCright (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Brahms Horn Trio with Herbert Winslow (MO) and Francesca Anderegg (St. Olaf ) at the Bridge Chamber Music Festival. He served as visiting professor of piano at the University of St. Thomas for 2013-14 and continues as piano faculty at Carleton College. He was featured as a guest artist/lecturer at the first LGBT conference at U of M-Duluth, performed at the University of Nebraska with Clark Potter, violist, at Westminster College (PA), and continues as resident pianist for Ensemble 61. His solo CD, Blender, featuring the piano works of Justin Merritt will be released on Innova
Recordings in October 2014. He received his second Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to record a CD of works by Olivier Messiaen for release in 2015. _______________
2005 _______________
In 2014, Corey Hamm (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) commissioned forty new works for piano and erhu with Nicole Li (with performances in China and Canada). His CD of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never be Defeated was released in March 2014 for Redshift Records in Canada, and he performed a solo recital and gave master classes at the University of Washington, Fremont in March 2014. He continues as tenured associate professor of piano at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Wonny Song (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) continued his duo recital collaborations with violinist Alexandre da Costa in Montreal, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Hudson, Canada and joined the Boreal Trio (viola, clarinet, and piano) with performances in Santa Rosa, CA and Richland, WA in January 2014. He performed the Bartok Third Piano Concerto with the Valencia Philharmonic Orchestra (Spain) in February 2014 and released a CD of solo Liszt piano works (Christmas Tree, Lullaby, and Berceuse) for the Acacia Classics Records in 2014. Song continues teaching at the Lambda School, Montreal. Sarah Wigley Johnson (BM, voice, student of Barbara Kierig) joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August as clinical assistant professor of voice for the
Lyric Theatre department under the direction of Nathan Gunn. She received a MM in voice performance from Colorado State University in 2009. _______________
2006 _______________
Phoebe Dalton (DMA, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) and Min Jung Kim (DMA, 2013, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) were featured artists in the Schubert Club’s February 20 Courtroom Concert. They performed Brahms’ F Major Sonata and Bartok’s Romanian Dances. Matthew Dockendorf (BM, music education, student of Fernando Meza) was named assistant director of bands at the University of Colorado Boulder. His responsibilities include assisting the Golden Buffalo Marching Band, directing the Concert Band, directing men’s and women’s Basketball Band, teaching marching band techniques, and supervising student teachers. He is currently finishing his DMA in wind conducting from Michigan State University. _______________
2007 _______________
Megan (Ivers) Palmer (BM, music education, student of Thomas Ashworth and John Tranter) is teaching at Clearwater Middle School in Waconia, where the Waconia District Jazz Festival took place on April 15. Professor Dean Sorenson (jazz) performed with her ensemble as part of the festival. Andrew Staupe (BM, 2005; MM, 2007, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) made his solo recital debut in Paris (France) in January
Alumnus Robert Peterson Receives F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award in Choral Music School of Music alumnus Robert Peterson received the 2013 F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award in Choral Music from the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota (ACDA). This award is presented to ACDA members who have lifelong conducting experience providing outstanding contributions and distinguished service to choral music in Minnesota, noteworthy accomplishments that embody the distinction and significance of the name F. Melius Christiansen, founder and director of the St. Olaf Choir. Peterson’s celebrated career in music started in 1961 at the University of Minnesota where he received a BS (1966), MA (1969), and PhD (1994). Peterson held the title of director of choral activities at Edina Senior High School for 22 years. In 1991, Peterson joined the U of M School of Music faculty as director of the University of Minnesota Men’s Chorus. He was appointed associate conductor of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale in 2000. In 2002, Peterson was named musical director of the Chorale and currently remains in that position. Peterson has conducted over 400 major works for orchestra, soloist, and mixed chorus.
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2014 at the Salle Cortot (in a recital sponsored by Pro Musicis), followed by a solo recital for the Hempy Keyboard Series at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck (MI) in February 2014. Chamber music for the Houston Da Camera series followed in February 2014, then performances of the Grieg Concerto with the Knoxville (TN) Symphony in April 2014 with Lucas Richman, conductor. In July, he made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony (Beethoven’s Third Concerto) at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and at the Strathmore Festival and performed at La Jolla Summerfest with the Pegasus Trio (August 2014). Staupe has been re-engaged for two performances with the Minnesota Orchestra (performing Strauss’ Burleske, conducted by Osmo Vänskä) in October 2014 at Orchestra Hall.
2008 _______________
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Dawn Sonntag (DMA, composition, student of Alex Lubet) has been accepted to the Composerin-Residence program of the Visby International Centre for Composers in Sweden. _______________
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Anna Hersey (pedagogy certificate, 2006, student of Clifton Ware; MM, 2007, voice, student of Lawrence Weller; MA, 2009, musicology, student of Kelley Harness) was accepted into the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program, a ten-day forum at Vanderbilt University that pairs experienced and recognized master teachers of voice with talented, young professionals in the profession. She presented research on Swedish diction at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Brisbane, Australia. She spent the rest of the summer as an American Scandinavian Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where she researched Danish diction. Her book Scandinavian Song: Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Diction, co-authored with Donald Simonson, will be published next year by Scarecrow Press. Hersey was a recent guest lecturer at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use. She presented her research on the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet for transcription of Danish art song texts. She was appointed assistant professor of voice at Eastern New Mexico University. Eric McEnaney (DMA, collaborative piano and coaching, student of Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai) was appointed associate director and principal coach of the newly inaugurated
Gate City Bank Young Artist Program at FargoMoorhead Opera. He also served as pianist and vocal coach for Fargo-Moorhead Opera’s world premiere, The Poe Project. McEnaney’s work as a full-time freelance pianist and vocal coach took him to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Southwest, Florentine Opera, and Central City Opera during the 2013-14 season. He continues to maintain a private vocal coaching studio in Minneapolis. Woobin Park (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) completed a one-year position as visiting assistant professor of piano at Winona State University, Winona, MN (September 2013-May 2014). Performances included a solo recital at the Montpelier Arts Center in Riverdale, MD in April 2014; the premiere of Cordoba, a piano concerto by Julie Giroux with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble at Winona State University in February 2014; and a chamber music recital and master class at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO in March 2014. Tyler Wottrich (BM, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was appointed assistant professor of piano (tenure-track) at North Dakota State University, Fargo beginning August 2014. He performed the Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall with members of Ensemble ACJW in February 2014, and his performance of the Poulenc Sextet with members of ACJW was featured on the Carnegie Hall website in Winter 2014. In May, he also performed the complete Chopin Etudes in a solo recital at Dartmouth College and held a collaborative piano internship at the Banff Music Festival in Canada in July. Wottrich completed his DMA in piano performance at Stony Brook University. _______________
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Ian Hodges (DMA, guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) taught guitar at the International Music Camp in North Dakota in July, working with students from Canada and the United States. Hodges currently teaches in Winnipeg at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Arts and for the preparatory division of the faculty of music (University of Manitoba) and performs throughout Manitoba on classical, jazz, and commercial guitar. Conor O’Brien (MM, 2006, violin; DMA, 2010, violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) was featured in the Star Tribune article “Adam Levy cues the strings” for his work with the Professors,
a local pop/rock group with ties to the classical music world. O’Brien is also a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. _______________
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Nelson Devereaux (BM, music education and saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau and Angela Wyatt) and Joe Strachan’s (BA, 2013)Courageous Endeavors jazz quartet was featured in the Minnesota Daily article “The shape of jazz to come: Courageous Endeavors are poster boys for a jazz scene overcoming significant challenges.” Loren Fishman (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Minnesota Sinfonia in March 2014 under the direction of his father, Jay Fishman at Johnson High School (St. Paul) and the Basilica of St. Mary (Minneapolis). Fishman continues as piano faculty at Carleton College. Soojung Hong (DMA, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) won first place in the college students and professional category of Carnegie Hall’s American Protege International Competition of Romantic Music 2013. Sharri Van Alstine (PhD, music education, student of Akosua Addo) presented a research poster at the Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference of the National Association for Music Education in St. Louis. The title of her poster was “The Effect of Course Content and Pedagogy on Undergraduate Students International Mindedness and Preferences for World Music.” _______________
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Jaclyn Gavin (MM, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) is a member of the 7th House Theatre Collective, a group of young professional theatre artists based in Minneapolis. The 7th House Theatre Collective presented a production of Hair the Musical in June. Kevin Hobbs (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was adjunct assistant professor of piano at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN for Spring 2014. Scotty Horey (MM, 2009, percussion; DMA, 2012, percussion, student of Fernando Meza) was a featured solo artist and clinician in two engagements in Brazil (April 2014). At Sao Paulo State University, he performed a solo concert of
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will also be music director for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Opera Outreach program.
Minjeong Shin’s (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) teaching contract at Myongji University in Seoul was extended for another year (2014-15), and she also received a part-time piano teaching position at Sunchon University in Seoul. She performed her first solo recital at the Seoul Arts Center Recital Hall in February, followed by her debut recital in London in July, featuring Steps I, solo piano music by British composer Peter Seabourne which she also recorded.
David Berberick (PhD, music education, student of Keitha Hamann) accepted a position at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, SD as assistant professor of music (Fall 2014). His teaching duties will include concert band, instrumental music methods, music appreciation, conducting, applied percussion, and pep band.
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Carrie Beisler (MM, violin and Suzuki pedagogy, student of Mark Bjork) was appointed to the faculty of the Suzuki program at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Mark Bilyeu (MM, collaborative piano and vocal coaching, student of Timothy Lovelace) and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski presented a recital at the Weisman Art Museum in September. Sponsored by the Minneapolis-Tours Sister City Association, they were the only Americans selected to participate in l’Academie Francis Poulenc and presented a recital featuring music of composers from Tours, France and Minnesota, including Poulenc, Noel Lee, School of Music Professor Emeritus Paul Fetler, and alumnus Stephen Paulus. Min Jung Kim (DMA, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) won the bronze medal and third prize in the finals of the 2013 Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Competition. She performed the Mozart d minor Concerto, K. 466 with the Houston Symphony. She and the other three finalists were featured in the CultureMap article, “A classical music feud: Competing for $25,000 pushes young artists to their limits.” Christa Saeger (DMA, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) was named director of orchestra and instructor of applied strings on faculty at Morton College in Cicero, Illinois in the Fall 2013 school year. Joseph Welch (MM, 2011; DMA, 2013, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) accepted a position at McKendree University, Lebanon, IL, where he will teach applied piano as well as coach and accompany vocalists. He
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Sergey Bogza (DMA, conducting, student of Mark Russell Smith) was named the Heartland Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor. The Morrison County Record wrote an article introducing him: “HSO welcomes Sergey Bogza as its new conductor.” Bogza conducted the Mesabi Symphony Orchestra in February 2014. Emma Childs (BM, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova; BA, French studies) presented a research paper (written through the U of M Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, under the guidance of Professor Michael Cherlin) at a conference in Melbourne, Australia. The symposium, “Listening Between the Lines: Exploring the Relationship(s) Between Music and Literature,” was organized by Monash University. Her participation in the symposium was made possible in part by support from the School of Music. Grace Eunhye Choi (DMA, collaborative piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) served as a piano faculty member at the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop at the University of North Carolina. She was a collaborative pianist in the Eastern Music Festival, held June 23-July 27 (Greensboro, NC). She taught piano lessons and played for master classes and a concerto competition at the festival. Choi was a full-time lecturer at Tennessee Tech University (TTU) in Cookeville, TN in Fall 2013. Choi started working at TTU in Spring 2013 as a part-time faculty member. She teaches music appreciation and aural technique classes and accompanies recitals for guest artists, faculty, and students. Casey Clementson (PhD, music education, student of Laura Sindberg) presented a research poster at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Midwinter Clinic. Her poster featured the quantitative data from her dissertation (in progress): “A Mixed Method Investigation of Flow Experience in the Middle Level Instrumental Music Classroom.”
Zachary Colby (DMA, voice, student of Adriana Zabala) has become a member of Cantus for its 2014-2015 season. Fanfare Magazine calls Cantus the “premier men’s ensemble in the United States.” Michael Hoffman (BM, voice, student of Jean del Santo and John De Hann) was one of 18 singers participating in a five-week summer session at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. He was paired with a pianist from Canada and together they performed 24 German lieder for coaches and master teachers from around the world, including Elly Ameling. Benjamin Klemme (DMA candidate, conducting, student of Mark Russell Smith) was featured in Reach, the College of Liberal Arts magazine, in the article “The Making of a Conductor.” Klemme was appointed assistant conductor of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (IA/IL) in July. His duties include assisting music director Mark Russell Smith, serving as music director of the Quad City Symphony Youth Ensembles, and bringing classical music to young audiences as director of educational engagement. He conducts pops and family concerts and serves as cover conductor for all subscription programs. His position at the Quad City Symphony Orchestra allows him to continue his work with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, where he has served as concert orchestra conductor since 2013. Danielle Kuntz (PhD, musicology, student of Kelley Harness) received a University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2013-14 in support of her dissertation on the oratorios and sacred operas sponsored by Portugal’s royal family in the eighteenth century. This research was also funded in part through a Fulbright fellowship for academic year 2012-2013. Phillip Radtke (BM candidate, organ, student of Dean Billmeyer) placed second in the Twin Cities American Guild of Organists Young Artist Student Competition on March 22. Radtke gave a prizewinner’s recital on March 23 at Augustana Lutheran Church. Emily Rolka (DMA candidate, violin and Suzuki pedagogy, student of Mark Bjork) presented at the Suzuki Association of the Americas International Conference in May. The title of her presentation was “Metamorphosis From Student Into Artist Teacher.” Rolka presented along with Carrie Beisler (MM, 2013, violin and Suzuki pedagogy, student of Mark Bjork), Lucy Lewis, Colleen Ferguson, and Samantha Hiller.
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1. Professors Adriana Zabala and Mark Russell Smith participate in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. 2. Audience members respond enthusiastically to the Mahler performance in the recently renovated Northrop. 3. Guest speaker Claire Chase (artistic director and CEO of the International Contemporary Ensemble) performs during the 2013 Convocation. 4. The Percussion Ensemble performs at National Theatre of Panama. 5. Students gather for lunch on the Ted Mann Concert Hall Terrace after the 2013 Convocation. 6. Professor Korey Konkol and friends perform Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody at the 2013 Collage Concert. 7. Members of the Ethnic Dance Theatre perform in the University Opera Theatre’s production of Bedrich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. 8. G. Phillip Shoultz, III gives the student welcome at the 2013 Convocation. 9. University Singers perform on their Fall Tour. 10. Student Jason Cress poses with fellow composition student Tiffany Skidmore’s Brian Ferneyhough cake. 11. Student Noah Ophoven-Baldwin performs a trumpet solo during the 2013 Collage Concert. 12. Members of student group Vocal U at the 2014 Convocation student fair/lunch. 13. Composer and guest presenter Pierre La Plante with Professor Laura Sindberg during the 2013 Art of Wind Band Teaching Symposium.
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