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alumni news (continued from page 19) 20 fanfare Grammy for Jeff Holmes Upon completion of a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory in May, Amelia Clingman ’06 won a tenure-track position in the viola section of the Louisiana Philharmonic. For the second consecutive summer, she was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow. Matthew Misener ’06, who was invited to judge the National Trumpet Competition (junior division), performed and recorded with the Albany Symphony. alumni mentoring network Ben Smar with alum Juli Sansoucy, and friend of the Deptartment, David Ranen. Julie is currently a PhD candidate who also teaches part time in the Amherst schools. David Ranen teaches music at Amherst Regional Middle School and serves as chair of performing arts for the district. The Department’s Music Education Program continues to support alumni regardless of how long ago they graduated. The Alumni Mentoring Network receives and shares information about job openings and general information about issues related to teaching including “best practices.” Individualized support and support for research is also provided. Between September 2006, when the program began and May, 2008, 803 email exchanges took place. According to its director, Professor Ben Smar, the Network is only in its infancy. He is planning initiatives that will bring alumni back to campus to interact with undergraduates, as well as a series of conversations called “Reality Check” that will allow students to talk candidly with alums about the realities of teaching. Alumni interested in linking with the Network can send an email to bsmar@acad.umass.edu. Matthew Repucci MM’06 and Scott Daugherty ’06 performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Vincent Cee, PhD’08 in Music Education, was one of only two graduate students at UMass Amherst to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s highest honor for excellence in the classroom. Nominations for the award are made by current and former students to a committee of faculty, undergraduates and previous graduate student winners. Cee taught Music 100 and the Lively Arts. Jared Iverson ’08, a student of Eric Berlin, is participating in the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors. Thanks to Deirdre Dam ‘00 for her help with the Alumni News. call for photographs of our department The Department of Music & Dance is collecting photographs to document our history. We are looking for photos of students, faculty, staff, ensembles and classrooms, hoping to use them on our new website, on our walls, in publications, at special programs, etc. If you have a photograph please consider sharing it with us in one of the following ways: 1) Donate the original (and the negative, if you have it) to the UMass Amherst Archives. The Archive will present you with a letter of donation; you will sign a release so the photo may be used in publications by the Department and the campus. To get the process going, contact Michael Milewski, Senior Archives Assistant mmilewski@library. umass.edu. 2) Donate a duplicate of a print (or prints) to the Department of Music & Dance. You will also sign a release for publication. Send the photo to: Marilyn Kushick, Department of Music & Dance, 267 Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01003. If your photos are in digital form, email them to mkushick@ music.umass.edu; high resolution is preferred. Please tell us anything that you know about the photo, e.g. date and names of any people pictured. Thanks!
guest artists: masterclasses & lectures **The Bamidele Dancers and Drummers, Marilyn and Sekou Sylla Composer Robert Bradshaw *Ronald K. Brown/ Evidence Dance Company Arcell Cabuag, dancer with the Ronald K. Brown Dance Company *Dakshina Ensemble/Rudresh Mahanthappa Nicholas Dahlman, Stage Director **The Damon Grant Project: Sondos Nuevos, Afro-Cuban Music **Bernard Greenhouse, internationally-acclaimed cellist Paul Hawkshaw, member of the International Bruckner Society and Yale University Professor *Imani Winds **Masayo Ishigure, koto ****Singer Kayo Iwama **Alumna and clarinetist Jean Johnson ’96 **Ayano Kataoka, percussionist with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Saya Namikawa ’08 The Lark Quartet *José Limón Dance Company *Ron McCurdy, jazz educator ***Drew Minter, Countertenor and Opera Director *Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio Flamenco Elvia Puccinelli, Professor of Collaborative Piano at North Texas State University Jazz saxophonist Tim Ries and classical saxophonist Griffin Campbell: *Jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd and bassist Mark Dresser for The Lively Arts ***American lyric soprano Lisa Saffer Charles Schlueter, former principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra *Warren Smith, percussionist **Wilmer D. Barrett Professor Emeritus Billy Taylor W. Lee Vinson, Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist *Miguel Zenón, jazz saxophonist and composer * Made possible by the Fine Arts Center ** Made possible by The Lively Arts *** Made possible by the Paulina Stark Fund for Vocal Enhancement **** Made possible by the Alviani Masterclass Fund Imani Winds Bernard Greenhouse Elvia Puccinelli fanfare 21
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