Music - Vassar College Home More information about the orchestra can be found at www.thesob.org, and about my other projects atwww.elispindel.com., Although I wasnt a music major, I have gone on to a career in music. She sings regularly in Europe and the U.S. at, among others: De Nederlandse Oper, Komische Oper Berlin, Thtre Royal de la Monnaie, Bregenz Festival, La Fenice, Seattle Opera and Washington National Opera. Upon returning home, I studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston and received my masters degree. Upcoming performances include Vivaldi Gloria (Seattle Symphony under Stephen Layton), the title role in Lincoronazione di Poppea (Boston Early Music Festival), Poppea in Agrippina (Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman), Iris in Semele (Seattle Opera under Gary Thor Wedow), Brahmss German Requiem and Bachs Magnificat (Accadamia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Sir Antonio Pappano), and LAmour in Glucks Orphe (Covent Garden under Sir John Eliot Gardiner). Additionally, we were one of five publications worldwide to be nominated by the Quad for their Best Scenography Publication award. The Vassar College Orchestra is a full symphony orchestra of about 60 students. After graduation, Dee moved to New Haven where she studied violin with Syoko Aki and taught first grade. Among Gardners honors and awards are recognitions from Meet the Composer, ASCAP, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Netherland-America Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. New Students: Saturday, August 26, 2023, starting at 4:30 p.m. or Sunday, August 27, 2023, starting at 12:30 p.m. Martel Recital Hall, Skinner Hall of Music. For approximately 10 years I directed the recorder consort and the alta capella of CCMs Early Music Lab and oversaw the acquisition of approximately 15 fine reproductions of Renaissance recorders, gambas, sackbuts, and shawms. Had to abandon flute, but have re-embarked on piano.. In the 65 years since I graduated from Vassar, music has continued to be a vitally important part of my life. Fredrika was described as vocally plush and dramatically courageous by the New York Times for her performance as the Narrator in Toshio Hosokawas The Raven at the 2014 Inaugural NY Phil Biennial Festival. In 1990, Marjorie started a chamber music series in her house. He continues to compose, using music as an artistic medium to explore a variety of fields including science, nature, the fine arts, history, and sexuality. In 1999 I began volunteering for Cincinnatis early music ensemble Catacoustic Consort, where I currently serve as treasurer. reports. With degrees in music from Vassar College (summa cum laude), UC Berkeley, and a DMA in piano from Boston University, she was adjunct associate professor of piano at the College of William and Mary until 2005. The forms will open Monday, August 21, 2023 She found her passion through courses in the department (history with Edward Reilly and Janet Knapp, modal counterpoint with Richard Wilson, and singing in the Vassar Choir under Jameson Marvin). Richard Wilson Homepage - facultysites.vassar.edu Each year the Music Department holds a competition to provide Vassar students the opportunity to perform as soloists with the Vassar College Orchestra. They give two concerts a year. Singer/soloist in the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble. Dana Astmann is the director of communications at the Yale School of Music in New Haven, CT. She is also a collaborative theater artist and musician with A Broken Umbrella Theater, which creates original works inspired by New Haven history. Ghostlight has premiered several of her original choral works. Tis has proven to be a gold mine for opportunity and I began to create works that were playable by the audience. 1874 saw rather more financial independence with Dvok's appointment as organist of St Vojtch (18747). My students and I are also producing an online catalogue of the German Expressionist prints and publications in the university collections. She is currently based in Brooklyn and writes for podcasts, films, plays, vocal ensembles, and anything else interesting that comes along. Overtures | Vassar College Digital Library He performs in his works for piano and live electronics, which have been featured on the Music with a View Festival (NYC). Vassar College Archives Audio Collection [Selections of orchestral music] Imprint [between 1950 and 1959?] A concert featuring Adjunct Artist in Music Paul Bellino, trombone. Gardners music has been commissioned and performed by acclaimed ensembles and musicians such as SOLI Chamber Ensemble, cellist Joshua Roman, Percussions de Barcelona, NOW Ensemble, violist Nadia Sirota, the Chicago Composers Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony. Moving to New York City after marriage, I studied with Frank Sheridan at the Mannes College of Music. He has guest conducted the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria) as well as a number of Choirs and Orchestras in the Brazilian States of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Parana and Rio de Janeiro. I have published articles on Josquins reception in Journal of Musicology and Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis[TVNM] among others, and have presented at national and international conferences. He presented his degree recital, Monomyth, a musical exploration of Joseph Campbells theory, in May 2015. Jamies most recent projects include the moving independent film Wrong Side of Right, the teen racing action film Born to Race: Fast Track, the romantic made-for-TV film Love Finds You in Charm (UPtv), writing additional music for the TV show Ray Donovan (Showtime), and composing the ringtone branding music for all Samsung Galaxy 6 products. Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Orchestral Activities. Sunday, November 8 at 3pm, Thomas Sauer, piano. She performs regularly with many large and small groups throughout the East Coast, having recently served as artist-in-residence at the Berkeley Repertory Theaters Ground Floor Residency Lab with Brian Carpenters Beat Circus, and is the violist within the newly-formed SORA quartet. In addition, Sarah has recently collaborated with 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe on her With a Blue Dress On, with Pulitzer-Prize-nominated composer Christopher Cerrone, Grammy winner Phil Galdston, and others. Czech composer. As a member of the highly-active freelance community in the San Francisco Bay Area, she performs regularly with the Berkeley Symphony and with orchestras in Sacramento, Marin, Modesto, and the Napa Valley, among others. I had to find a coach for my voice of altogether a different style, which was not straightforward. 197275: worked, took post-baccalaureate pre-med courses, played in three amateur orchestras in the Philadelphia area. VASSAR COLLEGE ORCHESTRA by Molly Izant In Skinner Hall last Friday night, May 20th, the Vassar College Orchestra, under the direction of Borii Koutzen, gave its first performance of the year. She taught piano privately, coached singers, was staff accompanist at CCM, and performed many chamber music concerts and recitals with CCM voice faculty. Blake Howe received his MA and PhD in musicology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2010, writing his dissertation on the intersections between music and disability studies. in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, IN, where I studied with mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart (a former Vassar voice teacher). Her teaching now is mainly focused on coaching ensembles of adults. Teaching and lecturing: I have taught piano, music theory, music appreciation, arts administration, and more recently composition. The group is open to all woodwind, brass, and percussionists by audition. Source:https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/ednavega/. After an extensive national search, he was named in 2011 the 10th music director of the Idaho Falls Symphony, where he continues to broaden the scope of the symphonys programming while generating tremendous enthusiasm and support for the orchestra. Hanover's name is thought to derive from the word 'honovere', which means 'high bank'. In addition to academia, I keep a busy performing schedule, which includes opera productions, concert appearances, and recitals. More . Andrew lives in New York City and works at IMG Artists as a managerial associate in the Opera/Vocal Division. In addition to giving international master classes, she holds a full professorship in piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. After working with Albert Kay Associates she started her own company. I then went to Eastman School of Music for a masters degree in voice performance, also playing Baroque cello. Many of his works can be heard at www.JosephBertolozzi.com. Thea has been invited to sing roles in several contemporary works, including the title role in Seymour Barabs The Betrothal of Becky Brown at the Actors Institute of New York, the Assistant in Richard Wilsons thelred the Unready at New York Citys Merkin Concert Hall, and the role of Jenny in Phil Hagemanns Roman Fever, performed at the Clark Theater at Lincoln Center. Featuring Joseph Genualdi, violin and Richard Wilson, piano. from the Eastman School of Music and her DMA in voice performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Auditions are held during the last week of the fall semester, and students perform the following spring. I enjoy writing for amazing friends and musicians around the world. At this stage, there is a fair quantity of itmusic for double-neck electric guitar, as well as chamber and orchestral stuff. The Vassar Camerata, founded in 2004, is the colleges only student-run Baroque ensemble and performs all types of early music from before 1800. All the while, I have been teaching music theory and astronomy, and have offered an undergraduate seminar on the intersections of music, astronomy, and scientific thought. Emerson is the Librarian for Special Collections at the Oberlin Conservatory Library, having been introduced to music librarianship as a student worker at Vassar. She went on to work as a music journalist, publishing articles in the Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, and Parterre Box, and winning a fellowship to the 2009 N.E.A. The ensemble also commissions works from alums and holds a student composer competition each year to premiere new works of current students. Location: Skinner Hall of Music Eduardo Navega, conductor. He also works as a math tutor in Westchester County, where he lives and can be found playing competitive Ultimate Frisbee. . When my arthritic fingers give up, and eyes grow dim, I plan to investigate computers. Techademia | Academic Computing Services at Vassar College Part 1] In July 2008, he returned to Vassar in a professional capacity and marvels still at the endlessly hard work it takes to realize a Vassar education. Sarah is a singer, songwriter, violinist, and the bandleader of the indie-folk Sarah Goldfeather Band. He continues to perform regularly in New York, and can often be heard playing at venues including 54 Below, the Metropolitan Room, and Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theater. Dee has enjoyed the study at Vassar of Italian and German. In the same year he married his piano pupil Anna ermkov. Sunday, August 27, 2023, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Skinner Hall, Room 400 (Thekla Hall). Dvok, Antonn (Leopold)(bNelahozeves, nr Prague, 8 Sept. 1841;dPrague, 1 May 1904). He is also active as a visual artist. Our goal is to give a voice to unique works from the last 100 years that may otherwise not be heard at Vassar. Her repertoire includes: Carmen, Amneris, Brangne, Herodias, and Mescalina (Le Grand Macabre). nificant appointment came his way until a few months before his death, when he was appointed director of the Belm Conservatory (1895). She created the role of Madge in the world premiere of Libby Larsens opera Picnic (2009) and sang Savannah in the world premiere concert version of Andrew Fowlers The Prince of Tides (2010) with the Carolina Master Chorale. The Womens Chorus has performed in Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia, and has toured in Turkey and Spain. in Musicology (1974) from the University of Maryland, College Park, a PhD in Music History and Literature (1976) from LSU, Baton Rouge; and an MLS in Library Science (1974) from LSU, Baton Rouge. And on Saturday, March 2 at 8 p.m., Miller's aptitude will be showcased ; she will be performing a solo in the Vassar College Orchestra concert, conducted by Eduardo Navega. Soon she was presenting Christoph Eschenbach and the Vienna Symphony in Carnegie Hall and Orchestra Hall in Chicago. Got married and spent four years as junior high/high school choral/classroom music teacher in Ledyard, CT, pre-casino. She served as the president of the Dutchess County Music Educators Association from 2012 to 2014. This year, I had a premiere by local group the Poulenc Trio of my oboe-bassoon-piano piece Trilogue. Im collaborating in 2016 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the sixth time and just guest conducted La Orquesta Sinfnica de Santiago in Chile in a Prokofiev/Tchaikovsky Romeo y Julieta program in Santiago and Antofagasta.. The Bridge Music album (Delos DE 1045) went to #18 on the Billboard Classical Crossover charts in 2009. Programs are subject to change, cancellation, and audience mandate restrictions. In addition, the performance and design magazine I started in 2013, Chance, has continued to expand, achieving over 1,000 subscribers and distribution on Amazon as well as Manhattan, Chicago, and Los Angeles newsstands. The strings have been rehearsing in the VC Villard Room, all players seated eight feet apart, and are ecstatic to be able to play music together during these complicated times. Voice lessons involve the study of the bel canto tradition in singing, with a focus predominantly on classical vocal repertoire and technique. Jesse also works at an early childhood education program, Free to Be Under Three, where he provides musical and artistic support to a curriculum aimed at providing social and linguistic structures for the development of young children. After graduation, Val earned a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student of Lillian Fuchs. Joe has also written many works for orchestra, band, chorus, voice and the stage (conductors and performers take note!). He graduated from Vassar a week ago (with honors in English; he also took a number of music courses and played in several bands)., I earned my advanced degrees in art history at Columbia and have spent my professional career in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Over the years, I have continued to study voice and to perform in a variety of choirs and choral groups. https://dictionary.naxos.com/dvorak-antonin-leopold/;https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199579037.001.0001/acref-9780199579037-e-2154?fromCrossSearch=true. Participation is open to all students by audition and may be taken for credit. Church choir director at three churches (Unitarian and Congregational) totaling 37 years so far. Nathan has been the recipient of several art residencies, such as the CATWALK residency in Catskill, NY, and the Ogilvy Travel Fellowship to Ireland. All communication devices are to be turned off during performances. Regularly scheduled rehearsals take place second semester from 37 p.m. on Fridays (all students must be available during this time), with additional coachings and extra rehearsals scheduled by appointment. After graduating from Vassar, Marshall received her M.Mus. She is the choir director at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Ridgewood, Queens, both the adult choir and the childrens choir; she additionally acts as a cantor for services when the choir is not present. Any questions about the audition process may be directed at any time toThomas Sauer. MUSI 052 - Orchestra - Acalog ACMS - catalogue.vassar.edu Orchestra celebrates 115th anniversary with spring concert I have recorded four solo CDs and two chamber music CDs. I also run the HIV Epidemiology Laboratory, where we investigate special cases involving diagnostic dilemmas and variant strains such as HIV-2.. My studies at the Music Acadamy ended with winning a prestigious award for composition for my work I Clearly Saw and a short time later I was honoured with an artists award for my work using intermedia. His publications include articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, and The Journal of Musicology, and he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies. For any questions, please contactJim Osborn. Vassar College Archives Audio Collection Funeral march of a marionette / Charles Gounod. My most prestigious (and fulfilling) affiliation has been with Glimmerglass Opera (now Glimmerglass Festival). Biomedical Research and Engineering - Startseite Monday, August 28, 2023, 5:007:30 p.m. Skinner Hall, Room 223 As founding mallet-percussionist and composer-in residence of ShoutHouse, a new-music ensemble made up of several Vassar music alums and other NY-based players, and a percussionist for various performance and recording projects, these entrepreneurial skills play into almost every aspect of his music career. Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center at 6:30 PM. He enjoyed music courses under Professors Libin, Mann, Pisani, Reilly, and Wilson, piano lessons with Tom Sauer, cello in the orchestra under Tony Rowe, choir under Bill Appling and Chuck Kamm, and participating in composers concerts. Im publishing now two volumes of the Jon Lipsky Play Collection, an important Boston-area playwright (Smith & Kraus is the publisher), and in 2015 I will be coediting a book called Shakespeare, Music, and Performance for Cambridge University Press with the esteemed Shakespeare music expert David Lindley. During that time, I performed extensively through Amerikahaus. For three seasons, I served as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras director of artistic planning, and Im currently an artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony. That summer, he attended the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute. 1987: picked up the flute (easier on neighbors in city row houses than the horn!). Official Athletics Website - Vassar College Athletics - Official Since then, her operatic performances have included Dalinda in Ariodante (Grand Thtre de Genve under Kenneth Montgomery and Bayerische Staatsoper under Christopher Moulds), Jemmy in Guillaume Tell and Rosalia in Lequivoco stravagante (Rossini Opera Festival under Michele Mariotti), Venus in Venus and Adonis, Edilia in Almira, and the title role in Steffanis Niobe (Boston Early Music Festival), Barbarina (Thtre des Champs-Elyses under Mark Minkowski and Covent Garden under Sir Colin Davis), Manto in Niobe (Covent Garden and Luxembourg under Thomas Hengelbrock), and Nannetta in Falstaff (Covent Garden under Daniele Gatti and Angers-Nantes Opera under Mark Shanahan). While the group performs a wide-ranging repertoire, it is centered in the early music (medieval through Baroque) and contemporary repertoires. Flying to Okinawa in two weeks for my sons wedding where Ill accompany my trumpeter son-in-law Brahms!, I married within a year of graduation and moved to Oxford. Pat has appeared with the Folger Consort, Smithsonian Chamber Players, the New York Collegium, the Washington Bach Consort, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, the Boston Camerata, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Newberry Consort, Rheinischen Kantorei Kln, the New York Consort of Viols, and Early Music New York. Her voice is especially suited to Italian and German repertoire, and after a concert of German Lieder near Munich, Germany, the regional newspaper Mnchner Merkur praised her for her dark, romantic voice. Ms. I just received a grant that allowed me to come to NYC for several weeks to coach my new repertoire with the experts here. I have also served on the Arts Council of Ireland, the National Concert Hall, the Contemporary Music Centre, etc., After Vassar, I earned a masters in musicology (Rutgers, under Robert Moevs) and then a PhD in music/musicology (CUNY Graduate Center, dissertation on Cole Porter, under H. Wiley Hitchcock). The Durham Herald-Sun has described her singing as gloriously refulgent, with a brightly etched sound that enchanted, while the Buffalo News praised her strong, shimmering soprano. Her solo credits include performances with the Washington Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Evansville Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Piedmont Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Greensboro Oratorio Society, Cambridge Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Maine State Music Theatre. She has toured with Carpenters Ghost Train Orchestra, and performed with Operamission, the Handel Festival Orchestra of New York, the New York Repertory Orchestra, the Reona Ito Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Carnegie Hall, and more. Peter is an artist fellow at Staunton Music Festival. At IU, Elizabeth has also taught a variety of courses in music history, Italian, and comparative literature at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. . I look forward to see where it will go next!, I live in Connecticut these days and work in NYC, and while my job is crazy, I try to stay active on trombone. Intro to Audio Recording and Campus Resources Musically and artistically inclined in spite of himself, he indulges the compulsion to compose, write and play, and his sounds have been heard on the Discovery network and in a number of colorful haunts in and around New York. She taught violin classes in Bedford, and Mt. The symphonic repertoire covers a wide spectrum of genres and is selected with focus on the technical and musical development of the students. Learn more about our comprehensive campaign. Certainly, a settlement did grow up here next of the River Leine. New Wind Ensemble students can audition with an etude or solo piece excerpt. The Vassar College herbarium holds over 5,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Cantor and staff baritone at Americas first Catholic Cathedral, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I have written music and designed sound for around 50 plays, including Icarus by Edwin Sanchez with the Yale Dramatic Association at the University Theatre in New Haven, CT; In Fields Where They Lay by Ricardo Prez Gonzlez at the New Ohio Theatre in New York, NY; and Generation Sex with Teatro Luna Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles, CA. Upcoming performances include a recital at St. Marys University, concerts celebrating the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran in Chicago, and a production of Brittens Noyes Fludde, in which I will sing the role of Mrs. Noye.. I am currently in New York City working as a composer and pianist. The following year she moved back to Poughkeepsie and began her 33-year career teaching first and third grades in the Spackenkill School District.
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