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H. Fair President • Commencement • Around the State 4 Thoughts from the President “Sometimes the fool who rushes in, gets the job done.” Everyone involved with CIM’s expansion project knows that this has been a long and involved process. We have made careful choices, engaged in thoughtful planning and exercised fiscal due diligence. We knew the success of this project would ensure that CIM will maintain its leadership position as one of the top music conservatories in the world. Now that that’s all done, though, the time has come to “rush in.” That is not to say that the people at CIM are fools! On the contrary, now that we’ve gotten the planning out of the way, we are fully committed to accomplishing the task at hand. We’re ready now to really get this project going. This is a lesson about time management – an essential skill for any professional, but perhaps more so for musicians. Students at CIM are learning through experience that preparation and planning are imperative, but so is the idea of putting their planning into practice. We’re aware, as they say, that the best-laid schemes often go awry. But I know that faculty, staff and students are ready to deal with changing locations, construction noise and all the other headaches that will surely come with the construction effort. I’m convinced that we have the full commitment of everyone on our team to rush in and get this job done! – David Cerone Pierre Boulez to Serve as Commencement Speaker This year’s Commencement exercises will take place on Saturday, May 7, 2005, beginning at 10:00 a.m. We are pleased to announce that Pierre Boulez will accept an honorary doctoral degree and serve as Commencement speaker. Mr. Boulez, who will celebrate his 80th birthday shortly before visiting CIM, is a noted composer and conductor who has spent most of his life helping to make music an essential part of the contemporary world. He began an association with The Cleveland Orchestra in 1965, serving as Principal Guest Conductor and Musical Advisor from 1970 until 1972. He has returned to take up the baton often in the years since. Mr. Boulez remains dedicated to his many composition and conducting projects, as well as to the development of sophisticated electronic equipment for the production, generation, and modification of musical sound. Around the State Kabat Boulez Andréa Belding (B.M., 2004, violin), student of David Russell, is in her second year as concertmaster of the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO). She made her professional concerto debut with the Beethoven Concerto for Violin on December 11, 2004, as part of the “Seasonal Music for the Holidays” program. Several recent graduates of CIM have performed with the Cleveland Opera Chorus this season. The chorus of “Don Giovanni” included Andrea Chenoweth (P.S., 2004, voice), James A. Hilton (P.S., Jan. 2005, voice), and Nathaniel Johnson (B.M., 2004, voice), students of George Vassos; and Melissa Arning (B.M., 2004, voice) and Angela Peterson (M.M., 2004, voice), students of Beverley Rinaldi. The chorus of “Sweeney Todd” included Chenoweth, Hilton, Johnson and Peterson. The chorus of “Faust” included Arning, Chenoweth, Hilton, Johnson; Andrew Bolden and Scott Bromagen (B.M., 2000, voice), students of Beverley Rinaldi. Madeleine (Lynne) Kabat, student of Richard Weiss who graduated from the Young Artist Program in 2004, gave her Lo solo debut with The Cleveland Orchestra on February 18. The High School Morning Concert at Severance Hall was conducted by James Gaffigan, assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. Lynne began cello lessons at age 11 with Kent Collier. She studied with Mr. Weiss at CIM for four years and attended ENCORE School for Strings for the past three summers. She is now in her freshman year at Rice University on a full scholarship, studying with Norman Fischer. Theory and piano department faculty member Karl Lo is in the process of performing the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. His next concerts are scheduled for May 18 and 22 at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood.
5 Alumni Achievement Awards • Kennedy Center Alumni Achievement Awards Four graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Music will be honored at Commencement on Saturday, May 7 at 10:00 a.m., recognizing their achievements in the field of music. Radosavljevich Baer Moretti Rose Olga Radosavljevich (B.M., 1959, M.M., 1961, A.D., 1969, piano), student of Arthur Loesser, Victor Babin and Vitya Vronsky, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. Radosavljevich (known affectionately as Miss Olga) began piano lessons with her pianist mother at the age of four. Miss Olga was appointed to CIM’s faculty in 1960 and currently serves as a faculty member of CIM’s Preparatory piano department. She served as chair of the Preparatory piano department, head of the secondary piano department, and faculty member of the Conservatory piano pedagogy until fall 2004, stepping down to focus her energies on teaching. She was honored in 1989 with the Distinguished Teacher Award from The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. She served as executive assistant at ENCORE School for Strings from 1985 until 1988, as staff accompanist of the Meadowmount School of Music, and as director of CIM’s Preparatory piano summer program, Camp Klavier. Married to Vojin Gadojevich in 1962, Miss Olga is the mother of two children. Mickey lives in Cleveland and works for the May Department Stores Company. Katherine received a bachelor’s degree in violin from CIM in 1988. She plays with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and is married to its principal cellist, Brian Manker. She is also the mother of Miss Olga’s two grandchildren, Richard and Sophie. Alan Baer (B.M., 1989, tuba), student of Ronald Bishop, will receive an alumni achievement award. Mr. Baer is principal tuba of the New York Philharmonic, having joined in June 2004. He was formerly principal tuba with the Milwaukee Symphony, Long Beach Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestras. His other performing credits include recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra led by Vladimir Ashkenazy and performances with the Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra (California), Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Amy Schwartz Moretti (B.M., 1998, M.M., 2001, violin), student of Donald Weilerstein, will receive an alumni achievement award. Ms. Moretti is concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1998 and a master’s degree in 2001, both in violin performance under the guidance of Donald Weilerstein. She was valedictorian of her class and received the Alumni Association academic scholarship award every year. At the age of 23, she was appointed concertmaster of The Florida Orchestra, a position she held for five years before joining the Oregon Symphony. Stephen Rose (B.M., 1992, violin), student of William Preucil, David Cerone, David Updegraff, and Sally O'Reilly, will receive an alumni achievement award. Mr. Rose is principal second violin of The Cleveland Orchestra and a member of the CIM violin faculty. He joined the Orchestra in 1997 as a member of the fist violin section and was appointed principal second violin in 2002. In addition to his faculty position at CIM, Mr. Rose serves on the faculties of the ENCORE School for Strings, Kent/Blossom Music, the National Orchestral Institute, and the New World Symphony. CIM congratulates each of these alumni for their singular accomplishments. CIM Students Perform at the Kennedy Center The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a leader in national performing arts education policy and programs, introduced its Conservatory Project in 2004. Designed to present audiences with the best young artists from the nation’s finest music conservatories, the program is broadcast live on the World Wide Web and on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” In February, students from CIM performed for an appreciative capacity crowd at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater as part of this project. Stephen Fang, Grace Fong, Jun Iwasaki, Yu Jin, Alexandra Preucil and Ji-Won (Judy) Song gave performances that highlighted CIM’s outstanding reputation for developing leading artists in the classical music world. Ms. Fong, piano student of Sergei Babayan, performed Kenneth Leighton’s Six Studies for Piano, Op. 56. She also collaborated in presenting Pablo de Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 along with Song, an 11-year-old Preparatory Division violin student of David Cerone and David Russell. Finally, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 was performed by Iwasaki and Preucil, violin students of William Preucil; Jin, viola student of Jeffrey Irvine; and Fang, cello student of Desmond Hoebig. After the performances, CIM held a reception for D.C. area alumni. As CIM President David Cerone stated, “These young people are destined to have significant careers and are being prepared to take their place on the world stage. We are very proud of them and appreciate this opportunity to showcase them at the Kennedy Center as representatives of the exceptional student body found at CIM.” Fang Fong Iwasaki Jin Preucil Song
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