Tutti - Fall 2009

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Marin Alsop Convocation 2009

Engaging Artistry...Resounding Impact

The School of Music’s New Community Engagement Initiative

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Dear Alumni, Friends, and Colleagues, After a year as director, I am deeply appreciative of the excellence and dedication of faculty, students, staff, and alumni in this remarkable school. The University and Twin Cities communities, as well as national and international colleagues, have been supportive in thinking together about our shared commitment to music and musicians in the 21st century.

Like all institutions, we have had to make some difficult decisions these past months. Yet we also recognize this as a time to be thoughtful about our programs and how to sustain excellence. I am grateful for an atmosphere of collegiality as we have worked to assure both quality and fiscal prudence. I am pleased to report that the school stands on solid artistic, educational, and financial ground. Loosely paraphrasing Alexander Graham Bell, we will continue to seek the discipline not to stare too long at doors that may be closing, lest we miss the opportunities that lie before us.

Culminating a year of school-wide success in 2008/2009, our combined choirs and orchestra, with faculty soloists, performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for a house of nearly 5,000 at historic Northrop on May 1.

As the capstone of the Alumni Association’s annual meeting, it was splendid testimony to the power of music and the talent of music majors and musically enlivened students from across the University. This event also spurred an important new partnership with the Alumni Association.

This issue of Tutti portrays a rich array of exciting educational and artistic achievements and opportunities. You will read about the school’s competitive selection as one of only seven University units funded to infuse public engagement into its curriculum and research. As a kickoff to a year’s worth of engagement activities, we will honor Maestra Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, as our fall convocation speaker (see details on page 4). Administratively, as part of a pilot program in the College of Liberal Arts, we are realizing greater internal ability to make the best curriculum and resource decisions for our students and programs. And this fall we are rolling out a revised bachelor of arts degree that will provide individualized flexibility for students with a wide variety of musical interests.

The critical place of career musicians in the 21st century requires boundary-breaking thinking. Our

school is uniquely situated for interchange with the real worlds of the arts and their relationship with a diverse urban society. I am pleased that Professor Craig Kirchhoff, director of bands, has been confirmed by the faculty as associate director for curriculum advancement. Craig will provide important leadership as we continue to think about innovative curricula within a tradition of excellence.

We invite your input and support as we move toward the goal of a worldclass music school in a world-class metropolitan center. Your encouragement of prospective students to join us in the vision of musical leaders for a better world is crucial.

And, especially in these times, we ask you to consider participating in scholarship support for our highly competitive students.

Please visit us at any time, take advantage of our hundreds of public events throughout the year, and generously share your concerns and suggestions with us.

With deep gratitude and all best wishes,

David

Tutti is the magazine of the University of Minnesota School of Music and is published yearly.

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.

James Parente Dean, College of Liberal Arts David E. Myers 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 create and perform music and to apply and impart musical knowledge in all its diverse forms. We are committed to excellence in all scholarly, creative and pedagogical endeavors. We seek to provide the highest quality of professional training in music to students pursuing a broad variety of careers and offer artistic, cultural and intellectual enrichment to the community within and beyond the University of Minnesota.

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.

Doing Our part You might notice that the pages of Tutti are not as glossy as in prior years. In an effort to be more environmentally friendly, the School of Music has printed this publication on 100% recycled paper from trees grown in Minnesota.

In This Issue

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Greetings

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Convocation 2009

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Community Engagement

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Student Features

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Catching Up With Alumni

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Great Collaborations

Message from David Myers, director, School of Music Marin Alsop

Bringing Music Beyond the Academy Get Involved Conducting Stravinsky More School News The Sky’s the Limit How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? YouTube.

Honoring Maestro Vänskä Celebrating Beethoven at Northrop

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Meet Our New Faculty School of Music by the Numbers

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Fall Events Calendar Bonus Pull Out! Your Gift Makes a Difference

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Thank You Donors See & Be Seen

A Journey Through 2008/2009

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School News

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Time Capsule

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Marin

Alsop

Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will receive an honorary degree from the University of Minnesota at the School of Music Fall Convocation program on Tuesday, October 6 in Ted Mann Concert Hall. The Doctor of Humane Letters is the highest award conferred by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, recognizing individuals who have achieved acknowledged eminence in their field.

The Fall Convocation program will include a keynote address by Alsop on “Education and the Arts: Musicians as Engaged Leaders” and a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” by the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs. The School of Music will host Alsop in residence from October 5 to 6, where she will dialogue with students and faculty.

On Alsop’s visit, School of Music director David Myers shares, “Maestra Alsop has been invited to the University as the quintessential professional model of integrated artistry, publicly engaged

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musicianship, and civic leadership in the world today. She is an artist-conductor who succeeds creatively across musical styles and genres and is widely respected for her ability to relate to a wide range of audiences and constituencies. She is highly regarded for her mentorship to young musicians, universally recognized as a role model for contributing to the public good, and deeply valued as an articulate spokesperson for American music and the place of classical music in society. Ms. Alsop is the logical musician-leader to inspire faculty and students around public engagement and to energize collaborative potential among the university and Twin Cities communities for nurturing attitudes of public value and service among musicians.”

Alsop is hailed as one of the world’s leading conductors for her artistic vision and commitment to accessibility in classical music. She made history with her appointment as the twelfth music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With her inaugural concerts in September 2007, she became the first woman to head a major American orchestra. She also holds the title of conductor emeritus at the Bournemouth Symphony in the United Kingdom, where she served as the principal conductor from 2002 to 2008. Since becoming the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s music director, she has garnered national and international attention for her innovative programming and artistry. Musical America, who named

Alsop the 2009 Conductor of the Year, recently said, “[Alsop] connects to the public as few conductors today can.”

In addition to her demanding performance schedule, Alsop has demonstrated a passionate commitment to furthering the education of young people through music. Each year, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents a vast array of educational outreach programs

“…a formidable musician and a powerful communicator, a conductor with a vision of what an American Orchestra could be in the 21st century.” the New York Times and at least 30 educational concerts and open rehearsals to more than 60,000 children and youth. Alsop’s most recent endeavor is OrchKids, an after-school program designed to affect social change and nurture promising futures for youth in Baltimore City’s low-income neighborhoods. In collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and various community partners, OrchKids is patterned after Venezuela’s El Sistema, a 30-year-old music program, which has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of impoverished children throughout Venezuela. Likewise, OrchKids provides music education, instruments, and mentorship to

low-income youth in Baltimore. Launched in May 2008, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra works in tandem with the Baltimore City Public School System, The Peabody Institute, Arts Everyday, Baltimore School for the Arts, and The Family League, with each organization contributing their unique expertise and resources to maintain the program.

Commenting on the new OrchKids program, Alsop said, “Since coming to Baltimore, one of my priorities has been to create a school program that combines music and mentorship to have a positive impact on Baltimore City youth. I believe passionately that music has the power to change lives, and the BSO should lead the movement. By providing a strong foundation and developing the whole individual, we can position these students lifelong success-success not limited to music but in all areas of their lives. The community support for this program in the planning stages has been overwhelming. I know OrchKids will be successful because it is part of a larger vision for Baltimore’s future.”

Alsop’s visit to the U of M coincides with the launch of a new initiative to integrate public engagement into the curriculum and research of the School of Music. For more information on the new School of Music Community Engagement Initiative, see “Bringing Music Beyond the Academy” on page 6.

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Keynote by Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor, on “Education and the Arts: Musicians as Engaged Leaders” Featuring a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” by the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:00 am Ted Mann Concert Hall University of Minnesota West Bank Campus 2128 Fourth Street South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Free and open to the public

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Bringing Music

Beyond the Academy This fall, the School of Music is launching a new initiative to integrate public engagement into the curriculum and research of the School of Music.

Supported by a $10,000 grant from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Community Engagement, the school will undertake a career enhancing effort for aspiring professional musicians of the 21st century: preparing them, though projects, internships, and entrepreneurial efforts, to become engaged artist-leaders among the increasingly diverse societies and communities in which they live in work.

The School of Music’s core mission is to prepare and sustain successful career musicians, music leaders, and music aficionados for the 21st century. Part of the mission of the school includes a long history of outreach to the community. Such efforts include presentations for schools, performances for community organizations, and service as consultants, adjudicators, and board members. These outreach activities have proven beneficial to the school in audience development, fund-raising, and recruitment efforts, but many of these services are one-time ventures that do not involve any reciprocal benefit.

Keitha Hamann, professor of music education and integral architect of the Engaged Department grant says, “A performance is not the highest level of community engagement, but it could lead to something deeper.

This new initiative will honor different levels of engagement and encourage a gradual deepening of learning and understanding of music.”

Most higher education outreach programs focus on the Western Art Music tradition.

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Our new Community Engagement Initiative program will cast a wider net and incorporate music that is more inclusive of the various communities it serves.

Due to the strong correlation between income and music activity, it is a Community Engagement Initiative goal to make music learning more accessible to underserved and diverse communities. An important aspect of the initiative is to recognize and honor the artistry of non-formally trained musicians. Community engagement gives different music communities opportunities to learn from one another, expanding the very definition of music making and music education. This type of community engagement will enhance the nature of our students’ musical training.

Traditional career preparation for musicians emphasizes teaching and/or performance. Though performance is at the heart of professional training, only a handful of musicians make their living strictly as performers. In the future, successful career musicians will have expanded portfolio careers—careers that go beyond academic

or conservatory training to include a wider skill set. These musicians might not be performing or teaching music per se, but their career will be rooted in music.

By working with the community and social service agencies, providing leadership to the education/community engagement programs of arts organizations, making high-quality music listening, creating, and performing experiences available to diverse populations, fostering cross-cultural understanding that they play an important role in both honoring and further catalyzing interchange among music learning, music participation, music in daily life, and new opportunities for creatively responding to the issues and challenges of contemporary society.

For students to make a living in music requires them to develop new opportunities within the community. Community engagement allows students the opportunity to engage with new communities to expand career opportunities.

School of Music faculty and students have long been venturing out of the academy and into K-12 schools and diverse communities, but now will do so with an eye toward creating an engagement blueprint that will be followed in years to come by

academic and performance areas of the school alike.

Faculty involved with the Community Engagement Initiative speak enthusiastically about the work they have been doing in the areas of student recruitment and musical enrichment and look forward further deepening the relationship.

Dean Sorenson, professor of jazz studies says, “I’ve been working with faculty and students for years as an outreach effort leader. It’s important for our students to have the opportunity to reach beyond our walls and find out what’s really is going on in K-12 classrooms. Our goal is to get band directors and music teachers excited to invite us back to their schools to not only perform, but to engage with us about what it means to be a musician at the School of Music.

“Our students are excellent ambassadors for the school. They relate well with high school students and encourage kids to ask questions about the college experience overall. Our students truly inspire high school students in bands to consider music as a future career.”

Tom Ashworth, professor of trombone and member of the Engaged Department grant

team, has visited more than a dozen K-12 schools throughout the Twin Cities in the past 10 years, not to mention the schools he has visited throughout the United States.

Ashworth performs and introduces children to wind instruments from around the world. Ashworth says, “It’s rewarding to play excerpts from contemporary work that has all sorts of unusual sounds in it—sounds that kids wouldn’t think would come out of a trombone and then ask them to use their imaginations and share what the instrument makes them think about, it could anything—a story or an animal, it’s limitless. This demonstrates how music demands the audience become involved and connect with a piece. Elementary school children are particularly eager to participate with music.”

Thanks to the seven members of the Engaged Department Grant Program team—David Myers (director/professor), Tom Ashworth, Keitha Hamann, Jerry Luckhardt (professor/associate director of bands), Kathy Saltzman Romey (professor/director of choral activities), Wendy Zaro-Mullins (professor of voice) and Laura Krider (community engagement coordinator)—the School of Music is poised to broaden its ability create, deepen and sustain its engagement efforts within schools and communities.

Get Involved Hello! My name is Laura Krider, and I am the community engagement coordinator for the School of Music.

I am the main point of contact for faculty, students, alumni, and music communities for the School of Music’s Community Engagement Initiative.

For years, our students and faculty have engaged in many meaningful activities from band clinics and jazz festivals to K-12 classroom visits. No matter the scope, these activities are a significant aspect of the School of Music, a public institution that can educate, influence, advocate, and support our surrounding communities.

I am passionate about the Community Engagement Initiative. I believe it is important for artists and teachers

to reach across disciplines and outside of the School of Music. This process creates civically-minded and wellrounded musicians.

The new Community Engagement Initiative will create a blueprint for sustainable relationships between the School of Music and its partners in education. As Coordinator, I look forward to building this program with you.

Contact me! Let’s connect and talk about possible engagement ideas, the exciting work that you are doing, and the School of Music’s Community Engagement Initiative. Contact me at 612/626-7944 or krider@umn.edu.

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Conducting

Stravinsky

This November 19 through 22, the School of Music’s University Opera Theatre will celebrate Igor Stravinsky by presenting three of his operas created during his time in the city of lights: Le Renard, a burlesque, in English; Mavra, a satirical folk tale, in Russian; and Le Rossignol, a fantasy piece, in French in a program titled “Stravinsky in Paris.”

Foster Beyers, Christina Chen-Beyers, and Jeffrey Specht, School of Music D.M.A. conducting students, are preparing to take on the artistic challenge of conducting an opera by the Russian composer.

The ever-enthusiastic artistic director of orchestral studies Mark Russell Smith couldn’t be more encouraging about handing the conductor’s baton over to his students and says, “The unique thing about learning to be a conductor is that there is no substitute for hands-on learning. Unlike others who can practice alone, we learn in front of others and make our mistakes in public. You have to be thick-skinned and

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have chutzpah to get into the art of conducting. You cannot learn this craft without the opportunity to conduct.”

Smith says, “In old Europe, training to become a conductor involved apprenticing with an opera company. My first job was ‘opera assistant’ with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. This experience was important because a large part of being a conductor is opera conducting. It’s a completely different knowledge pool that requires you to work with not only the orchestra but also singers and directors. It’s great that David Walsh, University Opera Theatre director, offered the students this opportunity.”

As a professional conductor who is currently active in the music world, Smith stands by his words and offers his students the opportunity to take on professional challenges.

Even as the conducting students prepare for Stravinsky run this fall, Smith continues to seek out ways for School of Music students to gain experience.

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Foster Beyers “Le Rossignol is unique in Stravinsky’s output. He began the work before writing his famous ballets for the Ballet Russes then set it aside only to complete it after all of his masterpieces. As a result, there’s variety of styles. The first act sounds like the music of Stravinsky’s teacher, Korsakov, but the others are vintage Stravinsky.

The orchestration is rich and colorful and evokes an exotic oriental atmosphere. The vocal writing is virtuosic and thrilling.”

Jeffrey Specht “Mavra is a funny story and I think everyone can enjoy a funny story. This opera was considered by Stravinsky himself to be one of the greatest things that he had written, a position that he had defended throughout his life. I am excited by the fact that I am fortunate enough to be able to make music with some fantastic musicians for people who love music. I will strive to create a performance that Stravinsky would approve.”

Stravinsky in Paris

Tickets: $20/$10 UM students with ID. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu.

Thurs, Nov 19 – Sat, Nov 21 • 7:30 pm Sun, Nov 22 • 1:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall

Despite Frutiger’s busy schedule last fall, he balanced his time in order to perform the weighty role of Male Chorus in the University Opera Theatre’s fall production of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.

Since 1994, violin professor Sally O’Reilly has been running the Bravo! Summer String and Keyboard Institute at the School of Music.

This advanced studies program brings students as young as age 7 to the University each summer.

This summer, students from 18 states and six countries attended the Bravo! Institute.

On Bravo! O’Reilly says, “My favorite part of Bravo! is watching students grow musically because of their chamber music experience. I’ve seen students rise up to a higher level of excellence each summer.”

Many Bravo! alumni have enjoyed successful careers in music.

Chad Hoopes, Bravo! alumni and student of O’Reilly, has launched a successful career at age 14. His 2008/2009 U.S. season included a performance with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, and his Minnesota Orchestra debut as a part of their Sommerfest series.

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“Le Renard is a story that can be related to all ages. The drama and theatre is also incorporated into the music. According to Stravinsky, the orchestra will actually be on stage surrounding the singers, while four dancers representing animals dance around the musicians. It will be a very dramatic entity.”

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Christina Chen-Beyers

Brian Frutiger, University of Minnesota School of Music graduate voice student of John De Haan, signed a contract with The Metropolitan Opera last fall.

Frutiger made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Poisson in Adriana Lecouvreur with Placido Domingo and Maestro Marco Armiliato. This season, Frutiger will return to the Met to sing several roles in Shostakovich’s The Nose. In addition, he will cover roles in four other productions throughout the season including Skuratov in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead and Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos.

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Catching Up with Alumni

The Sky’s the Limit Composer, copyist, and producer Ryan Truesdell (B.M., 2002, Music Education) has a lot on his plate.

For the past six years, Truesdell has worked in various capacities for School of Music alumna Maria Schneider, starting out as a copyist and website assistant in 2003.

In March 2004, he traveled to New York to assist with the recording of Concert in the Garden. Since moving to New York in 2006, his role as Schneider’s personal assistant has evolved and now includes managing band tours and rehearsals and most recently, co-producing Schneider’s recent album, Sky Blue. He was involved in almost every aspect of the project: copying music, producing, mixing, and CD design concept.

Since its release, Sky Blue has received unanimous praise including the honor of Jazz Album of the Year from the Village Voice Critics Poll, a Choc Award in France, and was one of only two albums to receive a five-star review from Downbeat in 2007. It was also nominated for two Grammy Awards, winning one in the category of Best Instrumental Composition (Cerulean Skies).

Truesdell is also an accomplished and indemand copyist. He is the primary copyist for Schneider and Bob Brookmeyer and has

Truesdell reflects on his experiences at the School of Music and shares, “I credit my experiences at the School of Music with my fearless approach to new things.

Professor Dean Sorenson encouraged me to pursue my interest in jazz—not only in playing, but also in jazz arranging class; our final project was to write a chart for big band. When I finished it, I told him I had plans for expanding my chart and would he help me out. Without thinking twice, he told me that he would help me out and that he wanted to have the Jazz Ensemble play my chart on their Minnesota Arrangers and Composers concert in the spring. I finished it, the group played and recorded it, and it turned out to be a good first chart to have for a resume.”

He also recalls, “At the School of Music there was support and nurturing for what I wanted to do and there was a real life aspect to it. You have to have real life experiences away from a practice room to really grow as a writer. The School of Music offered me this nurturing in my music as well as life in a big city.”

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His colleague Schneider says, “Ryan was a major force in the production of my last two recordings. I’ve come to really rely on his great musical instinct and sharp and sophisticated ear. And his own work resonates with great beauty and intelligence, so I can’t wait to see where life takes this wonderful musician.”

also copied music for Jim Hall, Geoffrey Keezer, Luciana Souza, and Miles Evans and the Gil Evans Estate.

His work has been published in Rutgers University’s Annual Review of Jazz Studies and Chamber Music America’s Chamber Music magazine.

Above: Ryan Truesdell (left) working at the soundboard with Maria Schneider (center).

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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? YouTube.

Alumnus David France (M.M., 2003, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) made his Carnegie Hall debut on April 15, 2009, as one of four concert masters under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. How did he get to Carnegie Hall? By submitting an online audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra sponsored by the Google Corporation. France’s sheer passion for the violin and thousands of online votes earned him a spot in the orchestra.

France was one of the 96 winning musicians selected from more than 3,000 players who submitted audition videos.

He traveled from his current home in Bermuda to New York City for a group summit and concert at Carnegie Hall.

France’s journey from Bermuda to New York was filmed as a part of director Steven Higgins’s documentary Harmony: The Road to Carnegie Hall.

Professional and amateur musicians from 30 countries were represented in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.

France called the experience “the Olympics of classical music.” The goal of the YouTube Orchestra was to go beyond professional classical music orchestras to reach new audiences and performers who would not have had the opportunity to inhabit the classical music world. Through technology, the orchestra members and audience were able to “meet” each other before concert rehearsals.

His students at the Bermuda School of Music in Hamilton, where he teaches violin to musicians of all ages, cheered France on during his audition process, some of his students even attended his Carnegie Hall debut.

He was even encouraged by strangers. In Bermuda, France recalls people honking their car horns and saying, “David France, I voted for you!” France’s nomination inspired his students, the Bermuda Islands, and beyond. France shared, “During the final audition by YouTube voters, I received an email message from a teacher in the Czech Republic that said ‘I don’t know you but I’m going to make 200 fliers to get students in my school to vote for you!’ I asked him to send me the flier; I couldn’t read it, but it’s great to have.”

France thinks back on his move to Bermuda five years ago and remembers the words of Professor O’Reilly, “Talent is everywhere.” The YouTube project proved her right.

Frances shares, “Ms. O’Reilly’s class is still a part of my life today. The community of musicians in the Twin Cities is still a part of my life today. My lessons with Ms. O’Reilly and the opportunity to study with members of the Minnesota Orchestra taught me how to prepare for an orchestra audition. They set me up to flourish and took interest in my progress. Very few situations can match that experience. “ When France isn’t teaching and performing with orchestras, he can be found performing with street musicians on the streets of Amsterdam, experimenting with a unique combination of violin and the hang drum. And yes, his street performances can be found on YouTube as well.

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Great Collaborations

On October 18, 2008, the University of Minnesota School of Music conferred an honorary degree on Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vänskä at the School of Music’s Collage Concert at Ted Mann Concert Hall. The concert featured Vänskä conducting the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs.

ported Vänskä’s honorary degree nomination and said, “Through his dedication and impeccable work, Osmo Vänskä embodies the ultimate professional. He is an individual practicing his craft at the highest level, a conductor impacting the profession locally, nationally and internationally, and a person serving society through his art with commitment, passion, humility and integrity.

We are extremely fortunate to count Mr. Vänskä as a member of the Twin Cities arts community and grateful for all that he has contributed his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra. It was a wonderful time for the University of Minnesota to honor Osmo Vänskä for his outstanding artistic accomplishments in the areas of performance, recording, and education, and for his significant contributions and service to the music profession with the award of the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.”

School of Music director David Myers said of the event, “The School of Music Collage Concert is our annual gift to the Twin Cities community, and holding this honorary degree ceremony at the concert was a fitting tribute to Maestro Vänskä, who has dedicated his life to music education and has infused his singular spirit into the cultural life of Minnesota. This exciting event allowed the University and the Twin Cities music community the opportunity to publicly thank maestro Vänskä for his many contributions.”

Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä became the Minnesota Orchestra’s tenth music director in September 2003. Praised for his intense and dynamic performances, Vänskä is recognized for compelling

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Kathy Romey, U of M School of Music associate professor and director of choral activities and artistic director of the Minnesota Chorale enthusiastically sup-

Celebrating Beethoven

University Organist, Dean W. Billmeyer, performed a concert prelude on the Northrop Organ. At the conclusion of the concert, the audience of more than 1,000 rose to its feet for a standing ovation.

Classical music on a grand scale returned to historic Northrop when more than 300 University of Minnesota students took the Northrop stage under the baton of Mark Russell Smith on Friday, May 1, 2009 and presented Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece, Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 “Choral.” The concert was

School of Music Director David Myers said of the concert, “Our conductors and students in the School of Music have internalized the spirit of Beethoven’s Ninth. They labored in rehearsal and the result was transcendent music that exemplified the strength of human resilience in challenging times. This concert is our gift to the community.”

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co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Northrop, and the School of Music.

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Honoring Maestro Vänskä

interpretations of the standard, contemporary and Nordic repertoires, as well as the close rapport he establishes with the musicians he leads. In his initial seasons in Minnesota, Vänskä has drawn acclaim for concerts both at home and abroad, including a 2006 tour of major European festivals, a 2004 tour to European music capitals, and performances in communities around Minnesota.

Vänskä has recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra for the Swedish BIS label, with each album receiving superlative reviews and the recording of the Symphony No. 9 receiving a Grammy nomination.

Steven Rosenstone, University Vice President for Scholarly and Cultural Affairs, says, “No building has played a more enduring and important role in the academic and cultural life of our University and state than Northrop. It was thrilling to mark Northrop’s 80th anniversary with this glorious concert.”

Mark Russell Smith, director of orchestral studies at the School of Music and director of new music projects of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Kathy Saltzman Romey, choral conductor and director of choral activities at the School of Music and artistic director of the Minnesota Chorale, prepared the students for the successful evening.

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Meet Our New Faculty Erkki Huovinen, Theory Erkki Huovinen holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree in musicology as well as a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Turku, Finland. He has held professor posts at the University of Turku and at the Åbo Akademi University, the Swedish-language university of Finland. After completing his doctoral dissertation in 2002 on a topic concerning music perception and cognition, his research has spanned the philosophy of music, ancient Greek music theory, the methodology of music analysis, as well as musical improvisation. Huovinen’s artistic endeavors have concentrated on projects related to free improvisation.

her dissertation uses transformational and tonal approaches to explore the music of Olivier Messiaen. She has presented papers at meetings of the Society for Music Theory, Canadian University Music Society, and Royal Musical Association and has held teaching positions at UBC in music theory and Latin dance. In her spare time, she collaborates as a flutist and vocalist with her husband, composer David Litke.

lanta and Charleston Symphony Orchestras and is published in Music Educators Journal and Teaching Music.

Adriana Zabala, Voice Mezzo soprano Adriana Zabala recently joined the Minnesota Opera in the title role of the American premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. For her role in Glass’ Waiting for the Barbarians, the New York Times hailed her as “a Todd Snead, Music Education vivid, fearless presence,” and the Los Angeles Todd Snead holds a bachelor of music from Times called her “extraordinary—a young, Texas Tech University and a master of muvibrant mezzo.” An avid recitalist, Zabala sic from Arizona State University, and he is has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kencurrently completing his Ph.D. in teaching nedy Center, and the Barns at Wolf Trap. and learning at Georgia State University.

She studied Lieder as a Fulbright Scholar Snead began his career teaching high school at the Mozarteum and served for five years Rebecca Simpson-Litke, Theory band in Texas and later performed with as the artistic director of the Southeastern Rebecca Simpson-Litke holds degrees in 5310515318901360182197140377719961792631001473012056048981053514237147014702310365989819468456065132135043065406540654064719841056073032023174568998 the Broadway musical Blast, served as the Festival of Song. Zabala is an alumna of flute performance and music theory from 03301521995765272040133019299875658704501360192866527787530407912072320341573470118346837134150388713573153472130899995194706712675416071065701531051 821971403777199617926310014730120560489810535142371470147023103659898194684560651321350430654065406540647198410560730320231745689981056262173033015 Education Coordinator for The Phoenix Louisiana State University and of the Unithe University of Manitoba and the Univer040133019299875658704501360192866527787530407912072320341573470118346837134150388713573153472130899995194706712675416071065701531051531890136018219714 792631001473012056048981053514237147014702310037771996179263100147301205604898105351423714701470231036598981946845606513213504306540654065406471984 Symphony, and worked actively with music versity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory sity of British Columbia and will complete 20231745689981056262173033015219957652720401330192998756587045013601928665277875304079120723203415734701183468371341503887135731534721308999951947067 0657015310515318901360182197140377719961792631001473012056048981053514237147014702310365989819468456065132135043065406540654064719841056073032023174 education partnerships in Atlanta, Georgia. of Music. her Ph.D. in music theory at UBC this De262173033015219957652720401330192998756587045013601928665277875304079120723203415734701183468371341503887135731534721308999951947067126754160710657015 013601821971403777199617926310014730120560489810535142371470147023103659898194684560365989819468456065132135043065406540654064719841056073032023174 He has provided professional development cember. Funded by the Social Sciences and 262173033015219957652720401330192998756587045013601928665277875304079120723203415734701183468371341503887135731534721308999951947067126754160710657015 013601821971403777190657015310515318901360182197140377719961792631001473012056048981053514237147014702310365989819468456065132135043065406540654064719 for teachers, as well as musicians in the AtHumanities Research Council of Canada, 03202317456899810562621730330152199576527204013301929987565870450136019286652778753040791207232034157347011834683713415038871357315347213089999519470

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Events at a Glance

FALL 2009

EVENTS

See pages 16 and 17 for complete event ticket information.

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Faculty Recital: David Baldwin, trumpet Guest Master Class: Nina Gordon, cello Guest Recital: Nina Gordon, cello Guest Recital School of Music Fall Convocation University Symphony Orchestra Guest Recital: RenegadeEnsemble Wind Ensemble Symphonic Band Jazz Ensemble I Collage Concert U of M Trombone Ensemble Campus Orchestra Saxophone International Master Class Recital Saxophone Master Class Concert Saxophone International Master Class Concert: Ancia Saxophone Quartet Saxophone International Master Class Concert: Class Recital University Trumpet Ensemble University Band/Campus Band Guest Recital: Bergen Woodwind Quintet University Trumpet Ensemble University Singers University Opera Theatre: Stravinsky in Paris University Opera Theatre: Stravinsky in Paris Marching Band Indoor Concert University Opera Theatre: Stravinsky in Paris University Opera Theatre: Stravinsky in Paris Marching Band Indoor Concert Wind Ensemble Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Concert Symphonic Band University Band/Campus Band U of M Guitar Ensemble Sounds of the Season Guest Recital: Irvine Arditti, violin Guest and Faculty Recital: Irvine Arditti, violin and Noriko Kawai, piano Guest Master Class: Trombonists Dave Graf and Chris Seiter Jazz Ensemble I and II U of M Trombone Ensemble with guests trombonists Dave Graf and Chris Seiter Guest Master Class: Irvine Arditti, violin University Symphony Orchestra Piano Ensembles Guest Master Class: Mario Caroli, flute Conducting Symposium Campus Orchestra

FH - Ferguson Hall NMA - Northrop Memorial Auditorium

LURH - Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall TMCH - Ted Mann Concert Hall music.umn.edu

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All School Events School of Music Convocation

FALL 2009

EVENTS Please Note

With keynote speaker Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor. Featuring the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs performing Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow.” Maestra Alsop will be awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters.

Tuesday, October 6 • 10 a.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Collage Concert

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 or call 612/62-MUSIC.

Featuring more than 300 students and faculty performing in a musical extravaganza on the beautiful Ted Mann Concert Hall stage!

Tickets: $10 U of M students, faculty, staff, alumni, & children/$15 adults. General admission. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu All proceeds will support the School of Music Community Engagement Initiative.

Saturday, October 17 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Band Events

University of Minnesota Alumni Association members receive student/faculty/ staff ticket prices.

The School of Music 2009/2010 season is sponsored by Radio K. www.radiok.org 770 AM 106.5 FM 100.7 FM 104.5 FM

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Metro area Minneapolis St. Paul Minneapolis-St. Paul

Wind Ensemble

An evening of international wind music featuring the music of Arnell, Bach, Casterede, Daugherty, Holst, and Wagner.

Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, October 13 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Symphonic Band: Seasons of Change

An evocative program featuring works by Dmitri Shostakovich and contemporary composer Jonathan Newman. Jerry Luckhardt, conductor Wednesday, October 14 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Saxophone International Master Class Concert featuring the Wind Ensemble

Featuring composer and guest artist Roger Boutry. With guest artists Kenneth Fischer and Anna Marie Wytko. Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Friday, October 23 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Band/Campus Band

Alicia Neal, Eric Allen, and Shanti Nolan, conductors Thursday, October 29 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Marching Band Indoor Concerts Tickets: $12/$9 child 12 & under 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Saturday, November 21 • 7 p.m.

Sunday, November 22 • 3 p.m.

Northrop

Wind Ensemble: An American Wind Band Spectacular

Includes regional premieres of works by Steven Bryant, Carter Pann, and Joseph Turrin and concludes with Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story. Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, November 24 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Concert

An evening of eclectic and stimulating wind and percussion chamber music. Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Tuesday, December 1 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Symphonic Band: Tributes

Program featuring classics from the wind band and chamber wind repertoire. Jerry Luckhardt, conductor Wednesday, December 2 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

University Band/Campus Band

Alicia Neal, Eric Allen, and Shanti Nolan, conductors Thursday, December 3 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Conducting Symposium

Advanced registration required.

Call 612/624-6873 Saturday, December 12 • 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ferguson Hall

Choral Events University Singers

Performing Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.

Friday, November 13 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Sounds of the Season

Friday, December 4 • 7:30 p.m.

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Jazz Events Jazz Ensemble I

Thursday, October 15 • 7:30 p.m.

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Jazz Ensemble I and II

Dean Sorenson and Phil Hey, directors Monday, December 7 • 7:30 p.m.

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Opera Events Stravinsky in Paris

Le Renard (The Fox), Mavra, and Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) Tickets: $20/$10 U of M Students with ID Two for one tickets for U of M students, faculty, alumni, and staff 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Thurs, Nov 19 – Sat, Nov 21 • 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 22 • 1:30 p.m.

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U of M Trombone Ensemble with guest trombonists Dave Graf and Chris Seiter

Saxophone International Master Class Concert: Ancia Saxophone Quartet

Piano Ensembles

Saxophone International Master Class Concert: Class Recital

Monday, December 7 • 7:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Friday, December 11 • 4 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Faculty Recitals Orchestral Events University Symphony Orchestra

Featuring Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture as well as the next installment in the USO’s multi-year Mahler cycle, Symphony No. 1 (Titan). Mark Russell Smith, conductor Wednesday, October 7 • 7:30 p.m.

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Campus Orchestra

Wednesday, October 21 • 7:30 p.m.

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University Symphony Orchestra

World premiere performance of the awardwinning 2009 Craig and Janet Swan Prize composition. Also performing Schwantner’s New Morning for the World and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). Mark Russell Smith, conductor Wednesday, December 9 • 7:30 p.m.

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Campus Orchestra

Wednesday, December 16 • 7:30 p.m.

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David Baldwin, trumpet

With Tim Lovelace, piano and harpsichord; John Snow, oboe; Charles Ullery, bassoon; and Immanuel Davis, flute. Performing works

by Tommaso Albinoni, Almicare Ponchielli, George Enesco, and Eric Ewazen.

Monday, September 21 • 7:30 p.m.

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Guest and Faculty Recital: Irvine Arditti, violin and Noriko Kawai, piano

Performing Iannis Xenakis’ Mikka & Mikka S for solo violin and Dikthas for violin and piano, as well as James Dillon’s Traumwerk Book III for violin and piano and Del Cuarto Elemento for solo violin.

Sunday, December 6 • 7:30 p.m.

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U of M Trombone Ensemble

A varied program performed by U of M Trombone students.

Monday, October 19 • 3:35 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

University Trumpet Ensemble

Reformation Sunday service with Aaron David Miller, organist. David Baldwin, conductor Sunday, October 25 • 10 a.m.

House of Hope Presbyterian Church Summit and Avon, St. Paul

University Trumpet Ensemble

Sunday afternoon mass with James Biery, organist. David Baldwin, conductor Sunday, November 8 • 5 p.m.

Cathedral of St. Paul 239 Selby Ave., St. Paul

Saturday, October 24 • 7:30 p.m.

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Bergen Woodwind Quintet

Part of the Bergen Woodwind Quintet’s residency (featuring a formal concert, master classes, and open rehearsals for the University community and the general public). The quintet members are professors of music at the Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen, Norway.

Thursday, November 5 • 7:30 p.m.

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Irvine Arditti, violin

Distinguished soloist and leader of the Arditti String Quartet will play new compositions for solo violin from U of M students in a Contemporary Music Workshop lab.

Friday, December 4 • Time TBA Ferguson Hall, Room 85

Guest Master Classes Nina Gordon, cello

Guest Performances Nina Gordon, cello

Illinois Wesleyan University Friday, September 25 • 7:30 p.m.

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Guest Recital

Above and Beyond

Saturday, October 24 • 4 p.m.

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Saturday, September 26 • 7:30 p.m.

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RenegadeEnsemble

Saturday, October 10 • 8 p.m.

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Saxophone International Master Class Recital Thursday, October 22 • 7:30 p.m.

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Saxophone International Master Class Concert featuring the Wind Ensemble

Illinois Wesleyan University Thursday, September 24 • 3:30 p.m.

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Trombonists Dave Graf and Chris Seiter Monday, December 7 • 3:35 p.m.

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Irvine Arditti, violin

Monday, December 7 • Time TBA Ferguson Hall, Room 225

Mario Caroli, flute

Strasbourg Conservatory Master class on advanced flute techniques.

Presented by the U of M Contemporary Music Workshop.

Friday, December 11 • Time TBA Ferguson Hall, Room 85

Featuring composer and guest artist Roger Boutry. With guest artists Kenneth Fischer and Anna Marie Wytko. Craig Kirchhoff, conductor Friday, October 23 • 7:30 p.m.

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U of M Guitar Ensemble Friday, December 4 • 4:30 pm Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

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Your Gift Makes a Difference Help the University of Minnesota Bring Music Beyond the Academy Within the pages of this issue of Tutti you’ll find inspiring stories of School of Music students, faculty, alumni, and staff bringing music outside of the classroom and into the community. You can help extend the school’s reach by giving to the School of Music’s Community Engagement Initiative.

You can also help by providing student support—graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships not only allow students to focus on their musical study, but they also provide encouragement and build confidence.

Mary Hicks

Director of External Relations College of Liberal Arts 612/625-5031 hicks002@umn.edu

Join us behind the scenes of a rehearsal, observe in the classroom, meet a faculty member, or attend a concert to experience first-hand the quality of work happening at University of Minnesota School of Music.

Contact me, Mary Hicks, at 612/625-5031 or hicks002@umn.edu, to find out more about the Community Engagement Initiative and other ways you can help develop the next generation of composers, conductors, performers, educators, musicologists, and therapists.

Donor Profile: Janet & Craig Swan Since 2001, emerging composers have had strong allies in School of Music donors Craig and Janet Swan.

Their generosity, vision, and abiding interest in music as a living art have come together in the establishment of an annual competition for music for large ensembles, the Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize. This competition, underwritten by the Swans, is administered by the School of Music and the American Composers Forum at the University of Minnesota, where Dr. Swan served as vice provost for undergraduate education.

The competition is held in a continuing cycle of music for Chorus,

Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra in rotation. This year’s prize-winning orchestral work, Prophecies, by Jonathan Kolm, will receive a monetary award of $2,500 and its world premiere by the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mark Russell Smith on December 9, 2009.

In addition, the School of Music will invite Jonathan Kolm to the Twin Cities campus for rehearsals, composer master classes, and to be present at the premiere performance.

See page 17 for more information on the 2009 Swan Prize winning piece’s world premiere.

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1. Trumpet professor David Baldwin conducts the Trumpet Ensemble at the 2008 Collage Concert. 2. The University’s new TCF Stadium houses the Marching Band and the SOM’s

larger ensembles. 3. Donors mingle with performers and SOM community members after the 2008 Collage Concert.

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Performances Brad Momsen work the grill during the 2009

West Bank Arts Quarter Cooks event. 5. Meg and Wayne Gisslen enjoy the Ode to Spring dinner at the University Campus Club before the SOM’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

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8. School of Music Director David Myers and Dale Warland enjoy the post-concert Collage Concert reception. 9. Stanley Goldberg and Director David Myers chat at the pre-concert reception for the 2008 Collage Concert. 10. Cello faculty Tanya Remenikova and piano faculty Alexander Braginsky

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Club. 11. Guitar faculty James Flegel performs Roland Dyens’

Tango en Skai during the 2008 Collage Concert held in Ted Mann Concert Hall. 12. College of Liberal Arts Dean James Parente speaks before donors and participants of the 2008

Collage Concert. 13. Guest presenter Jayne Standley (Florida State University) presents her music therapy research with

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students Benjamin Schoening and Peter Frenz perform in the spring 2009 opera performance of Leoš Janácěk’s Jenůfa.

15. Bruce Mooty, 2008/2009 president of the University Alumni Association, speaks at the SOM’s performance of

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. 16. University Opera Theatre students perform at the Minnesota State Fair in August 2008.

17. Jiye Kim, Woobin Park, piano faculty member Lydia Artymiw,

and Sophie Christian celebrate a successful Collage Concert.

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School News School of Music news from July 2008 to June 2009

Faculty News

Akosua Obuo Addo (Music Education) gave a keynote address titled “Women, Music and Politics” at the International Women’s Day Celebrations on March 12, 2009 at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She was also in the capital Accra to present the results of the first phase (problem identification and needs assessment) of her sabbatical research “Arts Integration and International Teacher Education” at the University of Ghana.

Lydia Artymiw’s (Piano) very busy year included extremely well-reviewed performances of the Mozart K.467 Concerto with Manila Symphony (Philippine debut), Boca Raton Symphonia, and Minnesota Sinfonia; a Steinway Hall concert; performances for Philadelphia Chamber Society, Yehudi Menuhin Festival, and St Paul’s Music in the Park series; solo recitals for Weber State University, Amherst College, and her first concerts in China; master classes at Settlement Music School, Temple University, University of the Philippines, and College of St. Tomas (Manila); and an article for the noted magazine, Piano. Artymiw served on the juries for the Knigge Canadian and Shanghai International Piano Competitions.

Tom Ashworth (Trombone) played with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Nicholas McGegan on Haydn’s Creation and on Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Upcoming SPCO performances include Argento’s Casanova’s Homecoming (Minnesota Opera) and Pulcinella (SPCO/Minnesota Orchestra 2010 Stravinsky Festival). He presented SPCO CONNECT educational concerts at local elementary schools. Ashworth played with the Minnesota Orchestra on Aho’s Symphony No. 10 and Verdi’s Aida. He was a featured soloist and clinician with the Buena High School Band and Jazz Ensemble in Ventura, California and played lead trombone on the Ordway’s summer production of Singin’ in the Rain.

David Baldwin (Trumpet) performed in the Minnesota Sinfonia’s Trumpets Galore with Chris Volpe and Don Hakala, trumpet on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Lake Phalen Regional Park (St. Paul) and on Friday, June 6, 2009 at Lake Harriet Bandshell (Minneapolis). The program included the overture to The Barber of Seville (Rossini); Concerto in D major (Telemann); Napoli (Bellstedt, arr. Adler); and Symphony No. 36, Linz (Mozart).

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Organist Dean Billmeyer (Organ and Harpsichord) performed the 1945 Sonata fur Orgel by the Viennese composer Anton Heiller. Billmeyer performed in March 2009 at the Church of St. Louis, King of France in St. Paul. He recently served on the closing panel discussion at the 15th National Conference on Organ Pedagogy of the American Guild of Organists at Yale University.

The conference’s focus was on the pedagogy of Church Music in 21st century America. The conference was held March 11-14, 2009.

Alexander Braginsky (Piano) was a featured artist in the 2009 Beijing International Music Festival & Academy (BIMFA), in August 2009 in Beijing and Shanghai in The People’s Republic of China.

Immanuel Davis (Woodwinds) performed Bach’s Trio Sonata in G. BMV 1038 live with the Bach Society of Minnesota Chamber Ensemble, featuring Maria Schultz-Carlson, violin; Julie Elhard, cello; and Paul Boehnke, harpsichord on Saturday, March 21 on Minnesota Public Radio in a celebration of Bach’s birthday.

John De Haan (Voice) performed on Thursday, April 16 in Superior Voices, a benefit concert for student scholarships for the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s opera program.

Jean del Santo (Voice) served as adjudicator of the first and the final rounds of the Classical Singer High School Vocal Competition, the second round of the University vocal competition, and gave a master class for high school singers on the topic of breath management. More than seven hundred high school singers nation-wide participated in the competition.

James Dillon’s (Composition) orchestral piece, la navette, was heard as part of this year’s Ars Musica Festival in Bruges on April 10, 2009, performed by the Brussels Philharmonic (Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium). The work was commissioned for the 2001 Donaueschingen Festival. Dillon also received the Jahrespreise 2008 (German Critics Prize) for his Traumwerk, Book I for Violin Duo. The piece was the subject of an artistic creation by Swedish author/filmmaker Johan Ramström. The film answers the critical question of how instrumental music can be transformed into a consistent vissxdual language. Dillon’s Traumwerk has also received the Royal Philharmonic Prize.

James Flegel (Guitar) played a solo guitar recital at the University of St. Thomas on April

24, 2009, and he also played a recital and gave a master class at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) on May 1, 2009.

Sumanth Gopinath (Music Theory/Composition) co-presented a talk titled Beyond “World Music”: From the Roots of Jazz to Ringtones in June 2009 at the Minneapolis Central Library.

This joint presentation with professor Timothy Brennan (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature) tackled overlapping perspectives on the subject: definition and distribution. Gopinath, currently working on a book on the ringtone industry, examined the new microindustry of musical ringtones and its impact on the world economy, artists, and social practices. The talk was a part of the series Globalization Unearthed, presented by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County.

David Grayson’s (Musicology) article “Finding a Stage for French Opera,” appears in a new book, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914, edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist and published by the University of Chicago Press.

Keitha Hamann (Music Education/Therapy) was appointed to the University Arts and Research Committee, a University of Minnesota team focused on arts-centered, publicly engaged research. The group participated in a regional gathering at Macalester College, as part of the work of Imagining America, a national organization working on advancing public scholarship in the arts. Hamann took a major role in writing, with additional colleagues, the Engaged Department grant proposal. Thanks to her leadership and her team’s efforts, the School of Music has been awarded funds for an 18-month project focused on integrating community engagement into our curriculum.

Phil Hey (Jazz) toured with vocalist Stacy Kent, performing at the world famous Birdland jazz club in New York City. The New York Times’ Stephen Holden critiqued the performance, “Phil Hey, the drummer in an ensemble that included the pianist Art Hirahara and the bassist Gordy Johnson, in addition to Mr. Tomlinson, remained laid-back enough to let [singer Stacey Kent] sparkle.”

Noriko Kawai (Piano) will perform as a soloist for Saed Haddad’s Piano Concerto with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under conductor Szolt Nagy. The performance will be held on October 9, 2009 as part of the Arena

New Music Festival (Latvia). On November 27, 2009 Kawai will give a solo recital at Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival, performing world premieres of works

by James Dillon. On December 17, 2009 Kawai will give a solo recital at Villa Medici (Italy).

In June 2009 Associazione Musica in Divenire presented Noriko Kawai playing Lachenmann, Haddad, Galuppi, and Dillon at Palazzo Albrizzi, Cannaregio, Venezia.

Former faculty member Mirjana Lausevic’s (Ethnomusicology) book BALKAN FASCINATION was posthumously awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Béla Bartók prize for best ethnomusicology work of 2007. Her husband, Tim Eriksen, accepted the prize at a ceremony at Lincoln Center on December 9, 2008.

Scott Lipscomb (Music Education) was featured in the Star Tribune’s “Electric Fetus has an answer to iTunes” article in May 2009. In June 2009, Lipscomb presented at the Music Education Week (Arlington, VA), sponsored by the Music Educators National Conference.

For the Research Symposium, he presented his research revealing significant reading improvement through the use of a “Rhythm & Reading” program. For the Music Technology Education Academy, he discussed the manner in which technology is utilized in School of Music classrooms and the innovative way that technology-related skills were integrated into the Music Education curriculum during its recent revision.

Jerry Luckhardt (Bands) and Eugene Rousseau (Saxophone) performed in the Medalist Concert Band’s 40th Anniversary Celebration Concert on banddirector.com in March 2009.

Luckhardt served as conductor for the Association for Music in International Schools Asian Honor Band in the Philippines, hosted

by International School Manila in February

2009. Students from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe were selected for the festival. He was guest conductor and clinician for the Alberta Band Association, Festival of Bands in May 2009. Luckhardt served as conductor for the International Music Camp, High School International Youth Band and International Wind Ensemble in July 2009.

Timothy Maloney (Music Librarian) received the 2009 National Band Award from the Canadian Band Association. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the promotion, growth, and development of the musical, educational, and cultural values of bands throughout Canada. Maloney is principal editor of Canadian Winds/Vents canadiens, the journal of the Canadian Band Association.

Guerino Mazzola (Theory/Composition, Collaborative Arts) recently published Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz: Toward a Theory of Collaboration with Springer.

Peter Mercer-Taylor (Musicology) was mentioned in Alex Ross’s article “The Youngest Master, Mendelssohn at two hundred” in The New Yorker magazine.

Fernando Meza (Percussion) performed David Bruce’s Piosenki, with soprano Dawn Upshaw and bass-baritone Evan Huges with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Meza performed Oliver Messiaen’s Exotic Birds with the SPCO at the University of Chicago. His performances with the Minnesota Orchestra included Britten’s A Sea Symphony, Chabrier’s España, De Falla’s Three Cornered Hat, and Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso. Meza was invited by the Percussive Arts Society to present a panel at their International Convention held in November 2008.

Meza led the SOM Percussion Ensemble’s Costa Rican tour in May 2009 as part of the 1st International Festival of Percussion Ensembles.

David Myers (Director) delivered the Jane Frazee Artist/Scholar lecture at the University of St. Thomas in July. In early September, he was keynote the national conference of the Society for Music Teacher Education in Greensboro, NC. He is editor of a multi-chapter section on lifelong learning for Oxford University Press’s Handbook of Music Education, and his biography will appear in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Sally O’Reilly (Violin) gave a violin master class at the Paris Conservatoire on May 15, 2009. Her host was Professor Sylvie Gazeau who, like O’Reilly, was a pupil of Josef Gingold at Indiana University.

Kathy Saltzman Romey (Choral) was featured in a New York Times review of her Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. The concert was a performance of Haydn’s oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation) at Carnegie Hall.

In February 2009, Tom Rosenberg (Strings) performed chamber music of Schubert and Beethoven with The Isles Ensemble, a chamber music group comprised of musicians from The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. He also performed recitals with The Schubert Piano Trio on the chamber music series in Rochester and Marshall, MN. Rosenberg was on the Jury of the Chicago National Chamber Music Competition on March 1, 2009 where 36 pre-college chamber ensembles performed for a five-member jury from throughout the U.S. Eugene Rousseau (Saxophone) appeared with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2008. He was featured in Yamaha’s Signature Sounds: The Official Artist Publication of the Yamaha Band and Orchestral Division.

He performed with the Minnesota Sinfonia in March and gave a master class in April at the University of Idaho. He gave master classes and

Honoring Retirees JOHN ANDERSON John Anderson joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music in 1976. During his tenure, Anderson held the director of graduate and undergraduate posts, respectively. He has been a tireless champion of new music, specializing in extended techniques for the clarinet. In Anderson’s farewell recital program, former student Leigh Wakefield said, “…a teacher’s influence extends well beyond the time spent in lessons. Dr. Anderson’s teaching, passion, intellect, and dedication have influenced me greatly...What a world he opened up for me!”

GLENDA MAURICE After recording “Cry Me a River” at the age of sixteen, Glenda Maurice secured a spot on Pat Boone’s television show. She later attended Texas Wesleyan University where she encountered classical vocal music. In 1988, Maurice joined the faculty of University of Minnesota School of Music. Her vocal students have gone on to win the national Metropolitan Opera auditions, sing on the roster of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and win first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Auditions.

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recitals in Italy in May. He performed recitals at the Universitat fur Musik (Austria) in May and at the Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, B.C. in June. He gave master classes and recitals in Vancouver, B.C. and the American Band College in June.

Michael Silverman (Music Therapy) and Todd Schwartzberg (Music Therapy) received an Information Technology Grant from the College of Liberal Arts to be used for the purchase of several technological enhancements for the Music Therapy Clinic.

In spring 2009, Dean Sorenson (Jazz Studies) conducted All-State Jazz Ensembles in Connecticut and Iowa and performed concerts in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He is currently working on commissions from the Tennessee All State Jazz Ensemble and Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, both of which will be premiered in April 2010.

Mark Russell Smith (Orchestra) was featured in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article, “Smith ref lects on decade as Richmond Symphony music director.” The article celebrated Smith’s last concerts as conductor of the Richmond Symphony, a post he held for ten years.

Vern Sutton (former Opera Theatre director) directed Sopranorama VIII at the Southern Theater, featuring Maria Jette, Janis Hardy, Molly Sue McDonald, and Dan Chouinard.

Performances were held from August 28 through September 6, 2009.

David Walsh (Opera Theatre) was on the faculty of the Vancouver International Song Institute in Vancouver, Canada in June 2009. Walsh launched Opera Arriva!—a new summer opera intensive at the School of Music—in July 2009.

The program is designed for advanced, careeroriented opera singers and concluded with a concert in Ted Mann Concert Hall. Walsh also held an intensive ten-day opera workshop from January 8 to 18, 2009 with 24 graduate and undergraduate students at the Istanbul Conservatory in Turkey. Planning has begun with the Conservatory for a fully-staged production of an opera in May 2010.

The Ancia Saxophone Quartet performed a concert in May 2009. The quartet includes SOM adjunct faculty Angela Wyatt and David Milne. The concert featured Jean Rivier’s Grave et Presto and Jeff Myer’s Tidtu, a single movement work based on the Kulintang gong music of the southern Philippines. The program also included Chris Rutkowski’s Dervish—a musical exploration of Sufi Whirling Dervishes, Ray Ricker’s Three Jazz Settings for Saxophone Quartet, and arrangements of jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea’s Children’s Songs. Ancia’s second CD, Short Stories, was released on Naxos in summer 2009.

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Former faculty member Judith Lang Zaimont’s (Composition) Life Cycle was a featured work performed by the University of Rochester Women’s Choir at the Society for New Music concert in March 2009 at Hosmer Auditorium in Syracuse, New York. She was a featured composer and scholar of the Athena Festival at Murray State University in Kentucky in March 2009.

She was the Athena Festival’s keynote speaker and presented master classes on her works. The Athena Festival is a biennial event, sponsored by the Murray State University’s Department of Music, devoted to the study and performance of music composed by women.

Student News

Kathryn Brown (B.M. candidate, Piano, student of Paul Shaw) was awarded the 2009 Mechelke Undergraduate Piano Scholarship in a competition held on April 17, 2009 at the Mechelke home. As winner, Brown received a cash prize of $1,500.

Timothy Budge (B.M. candidate, Guitar, student of James Flegel) won first prize in the Thursday Musical Competition on March 14, 2009 in the College Guitar Division.

Janalyn Bump (M.M. candidate, Voice, student of John De Haan) won the district Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions on Saturday, November 8, 2008. She then went on to win third place in the Metropolitan Opera National Counsel Auditions, Upper Midwest Region which took place in Ted Mann Concert Hall on January 17, 2009.

Mark Calkins (D.M.A. candidate, Voice/Pedagogy, student of Glenda Maurice) was elected 2009 Teacher of the Year by the Thursday Musical organization. Two of eight participants in the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition Advanced Voice Division were his students: Tali Daney, mezzo soprano and Lauren Drasler, soprano, and three of his St. Olaf College undergraduate voice students won three out of four potential collegiate awards at the 2009 competition for Intermediate and Advanced Collegiate Singers, resulting in Calkins’s election.

Sophie Christian (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) served on the jury for the 2009 S.Y. Lemye Tjong Piano Competition held in Medan, Indonesia in July 2009.

John Cummins (B.M. candidate, Saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) won the state level of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Competition, competing in the woodwind division. He then competed at the divisional level in January at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. Following this, he was awarded first prize in the woodwind division of the Music Teachers National Association

competition in Atlanta, GA. He and Cameron Hofmann (D.M.A candidate, Collaborative Piano, student of Tim Lovelace) played the Decruck Sonata at the winners’ concert on March 31, 2009.

Kayli Davis (B.M. candidate, Voice, student of Jean del Santo) was awarded third place in the Undergraduate College Women (through age 18) division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Minnesota Fall Student Auditions.

Kaylah Doctker (B.M. candidate, Voice, student of Jean del Santo) was awarded first place in the Undergraduate College Women (through age 19) division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Minnesota Fall Student Auditions.

A chamber piece by Carolyn Elerding (M.A. candidate, Composition, student of Alex Lubet) was commissioned to be played times in November 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Colorado. The piece was designed to interact with a large installation by visual artist Terry Maker.

Denis Evstuhin (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) won first prize at Iowa Piano Competition hosted by the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra. The program included two complete Piano Quintets and Concerti for Piano and Orchestra in addition to the solo round. Evstuhin performed Haydn’s Sonata and Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody in the first round; in the second round, he performed the third and fifth movements of Shostakovich’s Quintet and the first movement from Dvořák’s Quintet; and for the third round, he performed Grieg’s Concerto.

Betsie Feldkamp (M.M. candidate, Voice, student of Wendy Zaro-Mullins) was awarded the Voices of Vienna Prize for study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria in summer 2009.

Daniel Friberg (D.M.A. candidate, Clarinet, student of Burt Hara) was selected to receive a one-year Belgian American Education Foundation fellowship to study at University College Ghent (Hogeschool Gent) in Ghent, Belgium in 2009/2010. He will be working with clarinet soloist and teacher, Eddy Vanoosthuyse. Friberg moved to Belgium in August.

Brian Frutiger (D.M.A. candidate, Voice, student of John De Haan) signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and was the subject a Minnesota Daily feature article along with other University Opera Theatre students.

Rolf Haas (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) won second prize in Music Teachers National Association’s Young Artist String Competition held in Atlanta, GA on

March 30, 2009. He was one of seven finalists chosen throughout the U.S. through state and divisional competitions.

Anna Hersey (M.A. candidate, Musicology, student of Kelley Harness) presented her paper “L’anima nostra che sa le canzoni: Musical improvisation in theory and practice at Siena’s Palio” at the Society for Ethnomusicology 2008 conference held at Wesleyan University, CT in October 2008.

Jiye Kim, (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed with professor Lydia Artymiw at Steinway Hall in New York on November 12, 2009.

Gloria Kim (D.M.A. candidate, Collaborative Piano, student of Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai) was selected to participate in the 2009 summer Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program in New York. She assisted with mainstage productions of La Cenerentola and Dido and Aeneas and also served as a coach/accompanist within the training program.

On February 21 and 22, 2009, Valerie Little (D.M.A. candidate, Viola, student of Annalee Wolf and Korey Konkol) appeared as guest soloist with the York Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania for performances of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 for Two Violas and Orchestra. She played with the orchestra as guest co-principal for the other five Brandenburg concerti.

Aja Majkrzak (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Mark Bjork) was winner of the Dorothy E. Morris Memorial Award for Strings in July 2009 in Chicago, IL. The prize is awarded triennially in association with Sigma Alpha Iota’s National Convention.

Eric McEnaney (D.M.A. candidate, Collaborative Piano, student of Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai) was selected to be a Resident Artist with the Minnesota Opera for the 2009/2010 season. He will join the music staff as a coach/accompanist for productions of The Pearl Fishers, Casanova’s Homecoming, Roberto Devereux, La Bohème, and Salome.

Eduardo Mendoza-Santiago (D.M.A. candidate, Guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) represented the School of Music and Guitar Department as a distinguished fellowship recipient at the 2008 CLA Scholarship Dinner. Mendoza-Santiago spent summer 2008 in Oxford, England, where he gave a guitar workshop and performed as a soloist for the University of Oxford and for the University of Sussex. He has also been invited to perform as a soloist in Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned his master’s degree; in Winnipeg, Canada; and in Mexico City.

Brandon Miller (M.M. candidate, Voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was given a Teaching

Artist role with the Minnesota Opera Association during the 2008/2009 season.

James Patrick Miller (D.M.A. candidate, Conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff) was appointed assistant professor and director of wind studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. At UMASS, Miller will conduct the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band, teach conducting, and mentor M.M. and Ph.D. graduate teaching assistants.

Natalia Moiseeva (D.M.A. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) performed with the Minnesota Sinfonia on Friday, July 17, 2009, at the Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis.

Moiseeva performed with violinist Julia Persitz and more than 20 local student musicians. The program included Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave, Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in E Flat, Drum Roll.

Kristi Morant (M.M. candidate, Voice, student of Barbara Kierig) sang “The Bell Song” from Lakme of Delibes at Carnegie Hall in April 2009 with the World Projects International Music Festival, performing with the Weber University Concert Ensemble. Morant also sang the Gliere Concerto for Coloratura Soprano at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in spring 2008 with the World Project International Music Festival Orchestra.

Hannah Murray (B.A. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) recently toured across the Midwest performing in the band THEMES in large historic theaters in cities that included Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, and Detroit. Murray also toured Europe in spring 2008 with A Whisper in the Noise to promote their album Dry Land which was rated in the top 20 albums of 2007, while they were rated one of the top ten new bands in the German music publication Visions. They were the headlining band on a tour through Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and France.

To celebrate ten years as organist at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church (Plymouth), Mary Newton (D.M.A. candidate, Organ, student of Dean Billmeyer) presented an anniversary recital on the 19 rank Nordlie organ on May 3, 2009. The program included J.S. Bach’s Concerto in G, O Mensch bewein, Prelude and Fugue in C Major; Marcel Dupre’s Cortege et Litanie; selected movements from Dan Locklair’s Rubrics; and the world premiere of Twin Cities composer Aaron David Miller’s Fantasy on Lobe den Herren which was commissioned for the occasion.

Wade Oden (M.M. 2002/D.M.A. candidate, Guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) performed with the Rose Ensemble in Paris as part of the Fes-

tival D’Ile de France in September 2008. The program, “The Last Queen of Hawai’i,” was recorded for national rebroadcast by Radio France.

The world music website and radio program “Mondo Mix” also recorded live audio and video of the performance.

Joomi Park (Ph.D. candidate, Composition, student of Alex Lubet and James Dillon) was 2008/2009 resident composer for Grace University Lutheran Church. Her piece, Rain, was selected by the 60x60 project organized by Vox Novus in New York. Rain was performed at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival (Lewis University, Chicago) and at several other events.

Park’s piece Take me under your wing for violin, cello, and piano won the International Summer Academy of Music’s J. Dorfman Memorial Competition in Michelstadt, Germany in 2008.

As the winner, Park was invited to the next ISAM with full scholarship.

Joshua Rohde (B.M. candidate, Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) was first prize winner in the Schubert Club Competition’s Collegiate Strings Division on April 18, 2009.

Zachary Saathoff (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to study in Austria during the 2009/2010 school year. At age 20, Saathoff is the youngest music student to receive this honor.

Daniel Segura (B.A. candidate, Voice, Music Minor, student of Barbara Kierig) won first place in the College Intermediate Voice Division of the Thursday Musical Club competition in spring 2008.

JiHye Shin (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Mark Bjork) was awarded the grand prize—as well as first place—in the String Division of the First Jeonju International Music Competition held in Jeonju, Korea in August 2008.

Thomas Snydacker (B.M. candidate, Saxophone, student of Eugene Rousseau) was named the Outstanding Classical Saxophonist in the Yamaha Young Performing Artists competition.

He joined winners from the other categories in a special performance in June 2009.

Yun-Chun Sun (D.M.A. candidate, Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) and I-yi Pan (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) performed Rachmaninoff’s Sonata in G minor as the backdrop to University Dance Theatre’s Joanie Smith and Danny Shapiro’s A Moment Before. The duo also performed the same piece in early February 2009 for the University Dance Theatre Winter Concert.

Several SOM guitar majors were selected to perform in the master classes of visiting international guitarists at the MacPhail Center for Music during this 2008/2009 concert season. Performing for Spanish virtuoso Pablo Sainz Villegas were

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Jason Vanselow (D.M.A. candidate, student of Jeffrey Van), Timothy Budge (B.M. candidate, student of James Flegel), and Eric Raisler (B.M. candidate, student of James Flegel). Performing for the Turkish-NY based guitarist Gem Duruoz were Timothy Budge and Cassius Stein (B.M. candidate, student of James Flegel).

The University of Minnesota Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Fernando Meza, visited Costa Rica in May 2009 as part of the 1st International Festival of Percussion Ensembles. Bojan Hoover (B.M. candidate, Percussion), Adam Rappel (M.M. candidate, Percussion), Hans Fredrickson (B.M. candidate, Percussion), Scotty Horey (M.M. candidate, Percussion), and Joe Millea (B.M. candidate, Percussion) attended the Festival.

The sextet performed live on the television show “Buen Día” and performed in a Festival concert at the National Theater in San José, which was broadcast national television.

The Percussion Ensemble performed Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ and Percussion Orchestra with organ soloist John Walker on October 24, 2008 at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. The concert also included Craig Kirchhoff (Bands) conducting the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble and Dean Billmeyer (Organ), as well as U of M alumnus and music director at St. Andrew’s Bill Chouinard (B.M., 1987, Organ, student of Dean Billmeyer). The concert was part of Minnesota Public Radio’s celebration of Michael Barone’s program Pipedreams and of the International Year of the Organ as promoted by the American Guild of Organists.

The University of Minnesota Marching Band was spotlighted on TPT in Pride of Minnesota: Backstage. The program was a behind-the-scenes look at the Big Ten band as they prepared for a half-time show. The program aired on February 14 and 15.

First place in the SOM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition was awarded to Nick

Donatelle (B.M. candidate, Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova), Natalia Moiseeva (D.M.A. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), and Ivan Konev (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Alex Braginsky) who performed Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano. Second place went to Woobin Park (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) who performed Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto Op. 16. Jiye Kim (D.M.A. candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) received an honorable mention for a performance of W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major.

Members of The Juliet Quartet, Lindsey Bordner (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), Hannah Murray (B.M. candidate, Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly), Tim Brock (B.M. candidate, Viola, student of Korey Konkol and Annalee Wolf), and Geoff Anderson (B.A. candidate, Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova), were featured in the Southern Theatre’s The Juliet Letters, a Theatrical Music Company production. This production was a fully staged version of Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters.

Current guitar students Ian Hodges (D.M.A. candidate, student of Jeffrey Van), Anthony Titus (D.M.A. candidate, student of Jeffrey Van), and Wade Oden (D.M.A. candidate, student of Jeffrey Van) and alumni Evan Everist (M.M., 2009, student of Jeffrey Van), Steve Newbrough (M.M., 2008, student of Jeffrey Van), and Joseph Spoelstra (B.M., 2006, student of Jeffrey Van) performed in the May 23, 2009 Minnesota Guitar Society’s annual Guitarathon—a gala concert showcasing the some of the finest guitarists in the state.

Four University of Minnesota vocal students/ alumni participated in the Classical Singer University Vocal Competition held in Chicago in May. Julia Engel (B.M., 2009, Voice, student of Jean del Santo), Cassie Koob (B.M., 2009, Voice, student of Jane De Haan), and Janalyn Bump (M.M. candidate, Voice, student of John De Haan) made the semi-final round. Allison

Buivid (M.M., 2009, Voice, student of John De Haan and Cynthia Lawrence) was named first place winner in the University division.

Buivid was awarded $2,000 and a full scholarship to the AIMS summer music program in Graz Austria.

Mary Beth Huttlin (D.M.A. candidate, Clarinet, student of John Anderson) earned first prize in the Graduate Student category of the 2009 ArtSounds Contest. In the Undergraduate category, Kyle Frost (B.M. candidate, Trumpet, student of David Baldwin and Gary Bordner) won first prize, Adam Berndt (B.M. candidate, Trumpet, student of David Baldwin) earned second prize, and David Krezenski was awarded third prize. The award ceremony was held in April 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum, where audience members could hear the winning works and view the artworks that inspired them.

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Larry McDonough (B.S., Music Education), attorney and jazz pianist, was selected to receive the Minnesota Justice Foundation Distinguished Service Award. McDonough also released the Larry McDonough Quartet CD, Simple Gifts, for national and international airplay and review.

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Reid Blickenstaff (B.M., 1985, M.M., 1991, Viola, student of Richard Massmann) was appointed music director of the Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestra on Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, Washington in May 2009.

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Steve Heitzeg’s (Ph.D., Composition, student of Dominick Argento) works were featured on February 15, 2009 with the Chamber Music Society. The SOM New Music Ensemble, Young-Nam Kim (Violin), and Tim Lovelace (Piano) were the participating artists. The program included the premiere of While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare for Obama)—a setting of a portion of Barack

Staff News Michael Duffy (Music Technology, Media Lab, and Studios Specialist), Phillip O’Toole (Technical Coordinator and Audio Engineer), Schuyler Tsuda (Information Technology Fellow), Jeremy Wagner (Information Technology Fellow) and School of Music faculty members Doug Geers and Scott Lipscomb received $50,000 from the Office of Vice President of Research to augment and enhance the presentation and research capabilities in rooms 280 and 225 of Ferguson Hall.

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Stanley H. Rothrock, II (Graduate Student Services Assistant) received a D.M.A. in Conducting with a Choral Emphasis from the University of Minnesota School of Music in May 2009. Rothrock was a student of Kathy Saltzman Romey, director of choral activities. He is currently adjunct faculty teaching Rock History and Chorus at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. He will also teach Class Piano in the spring.

Obama’s election night victory speech with actor Lou Bellamy as narrator; Franz Schubert’s Quintet in A major, “Trout,” for piano and strings; Mozart’s Adagio from Divertimento; and Heitzeg’s The Legend of the Bluebonnet, a chamber work for young people.

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Minnesota Public Radio featured composer David Evan Thomas (Ph.D., Composition, student of Dominick Argento) discussing Mark Russell Smith (Orchestra) conducting two Mahler symphonies in one week. Smith led the University Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 on March 12 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. On March 13 and 14, Smith conducted the Minnesota Orchestra as it performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 on a subscription evening at Orchestra Hall. Thomas’s LYRIC PRELUDES, a cycle of 24 pieces, was premiered on September 15, 2008 by School of Music faculty members David Baldwin (Trumpet) and Timothy Lovelace (Collaborative Piano) at the University of Minnesota.

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Alejandro Cremaschi (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) gave a solo recital, lectures, and a master class for the Portland Music Teachers Association in January at Portland State University. He also presented at Texas A&M University, College Station in February, at the Omaha Music Teachers Association, and at the MTNA National Conference in Atlanta in March. His solo CD on the British label, Meridian, of music of Luis Gonzalez was released in Spring 2009. Cremaschi is associate professor of piano and piano pedagogy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Young Kim (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed at Steinway Hall with Lydia Artymiw in November 2009. In October 2009, she presented an all Mendelssohn piano program performing a number of solo piano works and several four hand works with her students at the College of St. Rose (Albany, NY) where she continues as assistant professor of piano and theory. Allen Wu, one of her private students, performed on National Public Radio’s “From the Top” (with Christopher O’Riley) and won a $10,000 scholarship

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The Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Joseph Schlefke (M.M., Conducting) presented a concert in Ted Mann Concert Hall on September 20, 2008. The concert was in conjunction with the University of Minnesota’s Tretter Collection and the World Cultural Conference of the International Gay and Lesbian Cultural Network.

Works by Smetana, Haydn, and Corigliano were presented along with a performance of SaintSaëns’ Egyptian piano concerto featuring Paul Kovacovic (D.M.A., 2001, Piano, student of Alex Braginsky) as the soloist.

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Jeri-Mae Astolfi’s (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) newest CD Chroma New Music for Piano was released in spring 2009. She performed solo recitals and gave master classes at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She also performed with the group Vox Novus at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in New York in March. She continues as assistant professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Gregory Milliren (B.M., Flute, student of Julia Bogorad-Kogan) was awarded the position of associate principal flute with the Minnesota Orchestra.

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Robb Asklof (M.M., Voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was a featured soloist for Scandinavian Christmas Concert with Minnesota Orchestra, was a preview artist with the orchestra, and appeared with the orchestra in the Bernstein Mass. For Skylark Opera he sang the leading tenor role of Naughty Marietta and Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in June 2009. Asklof also sang Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera in fall 2008.

Gabriela Diaz-Alatriste (D.M.A., Conducting, student of Akira Mori) was appointed artistic director of the Instituto Politecnico Symphony Orchestra on March 1, 2009. The OSIPN is a professional orchestra based in Mexico City.

Diaz-Alatriste is the first woman to be appointed principal conductor to a professional symphony orchestra in Mexico. Her inaugural concert took place on March 11, 2009 at the House of Representatives and on the March 12, 2009 at the OSIPN’s auditorium, the Alejo Peralta, in the Cultural Center of the IPN. David France (M.M., Violin, student of Sally O’Reilly) spent three and a half weeks traveling through India, New York, and Washington D.C. as a member of the YouTube Symphony.

As part of the symphony, he was one of four concertmasters at a concert in Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009 under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. He was also featured in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS Evening News, CNN, and Al Jajeera (in English). France was also featured on CBS “Sunday Morning” and in Strings magazine.

Peter Thomas (B.M., Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) won the third chair position in the cello section of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He began the appointment in November 2008.

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Matthew McCright (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) released the CD Second Childhood on Innova Records in May 2009. In summer, 2009 he began recording a disc of Gene Gutchë piano

works for Centaur Records. Concert highlights included appearances at the Royal College of Music and the Ravnsbjergkirken of Denmark, San Francisco, Chicago (Experimental Piano Series), St. Paul (Schubert Club’s Music Now Series) Pittsburgh -Westminster College (Guest Artist Series), Fort Myers Beach (with flutist Jennifer Wilhems), and Laredo and San Antonio, TX. McCright is a member of the piano faculty of Carleton College and is curator of the “Open Doors” music series.

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Mike Engstrom (B.M., Trombone, student of Tom Ashworth) played the Radio City Christmas Spectacular 2008. It was a split-chair position for Section Trombone.

Corey Hamm (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed a solo recital for the Schuessler Piano Recital Series at the American Swedish Institute and for the School of Music in March 2009. Hamm also had several international concert tours with performances of Frederick Rzewski’s The People United in Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, and the U.S. Hamm continues as assistant professor of piano at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Grace Huang (D.M.A, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) finished her third year as assistant professor of piano at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois and has accepted a piano position at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, Ohio which began in August 2009.

Laura Krider (B.M., Voice, student of Jean del Santo) was featured in the April 19, 2009 edition of the MPR series “Art Hounds.” She discussed Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing Night at University Baptist Church in Dinkytown, Minneapolis.

Wonny Song’s (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) 2009 Young Concert Artists performances included solo recitals at the Jewish Community Alliance (FL), Zankel Hall (NY), and the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC). He returned to the Montreal Chamber Music Festival for several concerts and performed chamber concerts in Montreal, Winnipeg, Seoul (Korea), and the Drummondville and Domaine Forget Festivals. His second solo CD was released on the Octave label. Song performed with the Vallejo Symphony and the San Diego Symphony. Song is vice director of the Lambda School (Montreal) where he teaches piano. He was featured in Maclean’s Magazine announcing his position as director of Camp Make-Over.

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Abbie Betinis (M.A., Composition, student of Judith Lang Zaimont) won a McKnight Artist Fellowship, an award for excellence in music composition, which includes $25,000 in unrestricted funds. Earlier in the year, Betinis won an Honorable Men-

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tion in the national ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards for her song cycle Nattsanger (Nightsongs), written for the final doctoral recital of soprano Jennifer Swanson (D.M.A. candidate, Voice, student of Jean del Santo). Of 680 entries from around the country, the judging panel named 39 winners and eight honorable mentions.

In May 2009, Reid Kennedy (B.M., Music Education/Percussion, student of Fernando Meza) toured the Midwest with jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis. Marsalis is a veteran of ensembles led by Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Max Roach in addition to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and his own contemporary jazz group. Grammy award winner Marsalis is considered one of the freshest modern voices on the trombone.

Jeffrey Madison (M.M., Voice, student of John De Haan) sang the role of Bottom in Seattle Opera’s Young Artists presentation of Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Madison is one of nine guest artists joining the ten members of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program for the performances. Madison said his experiences at the U of M School of Music were integral to his development as an opera singer.

K. Christian McGuire (M.A., Musicology, student of Donna Cardamone Jackson) lectured on medieval music manuscripts for the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Medieval Studies and HMML at St. John’s University. He has recently been named treasurer for the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies. Currently he is the resident studio artist of electric bass at Augsburg College where he also directs the improvisation and rock ensembles and instructs music history and theory.

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In February 2009, Noah Rogoff (D.M.A., M.A., 2007-2008, Cello/Music Theory, student of Tanya Remenikova) was appointed assistant

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professor of cello and director of National String Project Consortium Site at the University of Nebraska, Kearney which began in the 2009 academic year.

to bring current research to both scholars and practitioners in music education; the journal is published by the Music Educators National Conference.

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Andrew Staupe (M.M. Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed in the Minnesota Orchestra’s 2009 Sommerfest Series and performed with the Minnesota Orchestra in July 2009. He won second prize at the Corpus Christi National Concerto Competition in February. In March, he recorded a CD entitled Circular Arguments with Relache. He performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in May. He gave solo recitals in November 2009 as part of the “Masters On Tour” Series with concerts at the Phillipszaal (the Hague), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Zwolle (Holland), Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Philharmonic Hall), Riga (Latvia), and Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts).

Elise Bonner (B.M., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) received full scholarships to pursue her Ph.D. in musicology at Yale, Berkeley, Princeton, CUNY, and the University of Chicago. She chose Princeton University, where she started in August 2009.

Julia Higgenbotham Engel (B.M., Voice, student of Jean del Santo) won second place in the Schubert Club competition’s advanced division for singers.

Alison Lund (M.M., Voice, student of Barbara Kierig) was awarded a scholarship from the Vancouver International Song Institute. The Institute, which ran in June 2009 in Vancouver, BC, accepted 14 singers and ten pianists. earWorm, improvisational electroacoustic quartet consisting of alumni Elliott McKinley (Ph.D., 2008, Composition, student of Doug Geers and Alex Lubet) and Marc Jensen (Ph.D., 2008, Composition, student of Alex Lubet and Doug Geers), and current students Zachary Crockett (Ph.D. candidate, Composition, student of Doug Geers) and James Holdman (Ph.D. candidate, Composition, student of Alex Lubet) performed The Earthworm Also Sings: Improvisations for the Ides of March (2009) at the College Music Society’s South Central Chapter Conference at the University of Oklahoma on March 14, 2009.

Donald Running (M. Architectural Engineering, 2008/Ph.D, 2008, Music Education, student of Akosua Addo) was recently appointed as faculty member at Bridgewater State College.

His research paper, “Creativity Research in Music Education: A Review (1980–2005),” was published in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of the peer-reviewed publication Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. Update’s focus is

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Brad Horras (B.M., Guitar, student of Jeffrey Van) was selected through essay and panel interview rounds as the student commencement speaker for the College of Liberal Arts Class of 2009 ceremony at Northrop Auditorium on May 17, 2009.

Woobin Park (D.M.A., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Campus Orchestra under Foster Beyers at Ted Mann Concert Hall in March 2009 (as a result of winning second prize in the University of Minnesota Concerto Competition). She also performed with Lydia Artymiw at Steinway Hall in New York in November 2009.

Tyler Wottrich (B.M., Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) received a full scholarship to SUNYStony Brook, New York to pursue his M.M. degree in piano performance with Gilbert Kalish (beginning August 2009). Wottrich also received scholarships to the Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music in New York.

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L l oy d U lta n This past year marked the 10th anniversary of Dr. Lloyd Ultan’s passing. Ultan, former professor and director of the School of Music, was a pivotal figure in making the school into a world class music facility. His former faculty colleague, Professor Tanya Remenikova, celebrates her colleague and friend: “I remember the warm welcome I received from Dr. Lloyd Ultan when I started teaching at the School of Music in 1976. His demeanor projected calm and confidence, but underneath he was a fighter and a strong leader.

“His dream was to turn our music department into a professional school of music and to build a new hall. We were teaching on the East Bank in Scott Hall at that time, and some faculty, who

were mostly new and young, were teaching at a variety of locations, some of which were quite scary in the evening. Lloyd began working on the University administration and the Minnesota legislature to push for a new facility. The resistance was strong, and he ruffled quite a few feathers. There were many setbacks and times when we thought it would never happen.

“But Lloyd never gave up. He urged our students and faculty to attend legislative sessions and to organize demonstrations and to never to take no for an answer. A talented composer, always interested in new things, he was an inspiration to students and faculty. I will always remember his kind smile and sense of humor. He was truly a wonderful leader, colleague, and mentor.” music.umn.edu

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School of Music Fall Convocation

With keynote speaker Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor. Featuring the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs performing Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow.” Maestra Alsop will be awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters.

Tuesday, October 6 • 10 a.m.

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Collage Concert

Featuring more than 300 students and faculty performing in a musical extravaganza on the beautiful Ted Mann Concert Hall stage!

Tickets: $10 U of M students, faculty, staff, alumni, & children/$15 adults. General admission. 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu All proceeds will support the School of Music Community Engagement Initiative.

Saturday, October 17 • 7:30 p.m.

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Stravinsky in Paris

Le Renard (The Fox), Mavra, and Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) Tickets: $20/$10 U of M Students with ID Two for one tickets for U of M students, faculty, alumni, and staff 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Thurs, Nov 19 – Sat, Nov 21 • 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 22 • 1:30 p.m.

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Spring Opera: The Magic Flute

Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart Tickets: $20/$10 U of M Students with ID Two for one tickets for U of M students, faculty, and staff 612/624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu Thurs, Apr 15 – Sat, Apr 17 • 7:30 pm Sun, Apr 18 • 1:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall