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NOTATIONS international organ festivals in Berlin, Bordeaux, Bourges, Copenhagen, Dresden, Freiburg, Göteborg, Munich, and Smarano; the national convention of the Organ Historical Society in Philadelphia; and a tour with the choral ensemble Seraphic Fire. STANFORD THOMPSON (Trumpet ’09) has been named a TED Fellow. He will give a Ted Talk in April in Vancouver, B.C. 2010s EVAN BOYER (Opera ’10) made his Kennedy Center debut in March with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Evan Boyer Creation/Creator by Christopher Theofanidis, after first performing the piece in Atlanta at the Woodruff Center. He will perform Commendatore and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra in May. Amalia Hall AMALIA HALL (Violin ’12) has been appointed concertmaster of the Orchestra of Wellington in New Zealand. ALEXANDRA VON DER EMBSE (Oboe ’12, ArtistYear ’16) joined the Richmond Symphony as assistant principal oboe and principal English horn in the fall. Last fall JULIAN ARSENAULT (Opera ’13) debuted at Staatsoper Hamburg with Massimiliano Matesic’s Die Katze Ivanka (Falana). His appearances in Hamburg also included Strauss’s Daphne (Dritte Schäfer) in March and Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten (Wachter der Stadt) under the baton of Kent Nagano in April. He debuts with the National Opera de Paris this fall as Pritschitisch in Franz Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe. Julia Harguindey JULIA HARGUINDEY (Bassoon ’13) won the principal bassoon position in the Santa Fe Opera in August. RICHARD LIN (Violin ’13) placed fifth at the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in October. Timothy Dilenschneider TIMOTHY DILENSCHNEIDER (Double Bass ’14) joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in February. EUNICE KIM (Violin ’14) joined the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as a permanent member in October. DANA E. CULLEN (Horn ’15) joined the San Antonio Symphony in September. ARLEN HLUSKO (Cello ’15, ArtistYear ’16) won a Tarisio Trust grant last May, enabling her to found a new chamber music series, Philadelphia Performances for Autism, that provides free, monthly interactive performances for children with autism and their families. Arlen is also currently completing a teaching artist apprenticeship with the New York Philharmonic. JIYEON KIM (Guitar ’15) won first prize at the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in October. She has changed her name and is now known as Jiji. ROBIN KESSELMAN (Double Bass ’15) performed Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto with the Houston Symphony in Robin Kesselman February under the baton of music director Andres Orozco-Estrada. Robin joined the Houston Symphony as principal bass in April 2015. In February, RAY CHEN (Violin ’10) toured with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph Eschenbach, including a performance at Carnegie Hall. Other tour stops included New Brunswick (N.J.); Daytona, Miami, West Palm Beach, and Vero Beach (Fla.); and Los Angeles, San Diego, and Palm Springs (Calif.). NATALIE HELM (Cello ’11) is the new principal cello of the Sarasota Orchestra. NIKKI CHOOI (Violin ’12) gave a recital tour of Australia as part of Selby and Friends in June 2016, with stops in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. He gave his final performances as a member of TIME FOR THREE with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and at the Grand Teton Festival, Music from Angelfire, and La Jolla Festival before stepping down in September to assume his new position as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Jenny Chen JENNY CHEN (Piano ’13) gave her D.M.A. recital at the Eastman School of Music in November. This recital also served as a preview for her recital at the Morgan Library and Museum in December, where she performed works from the Robert Owen Lehman Collection of music manuscripts. Jenny was a Young Artist in Residence for public radio’s Performance Today in March 2016. Last fall ADAM FRANDSEN (Opera ’13) performed the Architect, the lead role in Alan John’s opera Eighth Wonder, Adam Frandsen with Opera Australia. He will sing Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Göteborg Opera in Sweden this spring. In August, Adam will perform Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème with Opera Hedeland in Denmark. OTHER CURTIS FAMILY NEWS In October 2016 the board of trustees of the Curtis Institute of Music officially disbanded the school’s board of overseers. The move followed an ad hoc committee’s in-depth examination of the role of the overseers and their relationship to Curtis. The committee—led by MARK RUBENSTEIN, chair of the Curtis board of trustees—included overseers, trustees, and staff, and conducted numerous interviews with current and past overseers and trustees. Over its 20-year history, the board of overseers brought valuable outside perspectives to Curtis and opened doors to new supporters both nationally and internationally. The overseers also played an important role in the development of the school’s current strategic direction. In recent years the overseers met twice annually. After careful consideration of the ad hoc committee’s report, the board of trustees decided to rethink how the school should engage with respected industry leaders. As an initial step, new bylaws approved by the board of trustees encourage greater participation on board committees by non-trustees. At its fall meeting the board of trustees also approved a resolution expressing the school’s deep gratitude for the time and energy the overseers have invested in Curtis over two decades. 38 OVERTONES SPRING 2017
NOTATIONS STUDENTS In November, HÉLOÏSE CARLEAN- JONES (Harp) performed in Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN. Angela Chan ANGELA CHAN (Violin) was awarded first prize in the senior division of the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Weimar, Germany. She also won the prize for best interpretation of a concerto. In November, T.J. COLE’s (ArtistYear) Double Play, a commission for the centennial season of the Baltimore Symphony, was premiered by the orchestra under Marin Alsop in Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The Nebula Ensemble commissioned a chamber work that was premiered in January in Denver. EMILY COOLEY (Composition) has been commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony to write a new work to be performed next season. Conner Gray Covington CONNER GRAY COVINGTON (Conducting) has been appointed assistant conductor of the Utah Symphony, beginning in September. This fall BRYAN DUNNEWALD (Organ) had solo performances at Heinz Chapel in Pittsburgh; St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Malachy’s Church, and the Central Synagogue in New York City; Bryan Dunnewald the Church of Saint Louis, King of France in St. Paul (Minn.); Trinity Church in Moorestown (N.J.); and for the Little Rock (Ark.) Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in October. In May, Bryan will conduct the premiere of a piece he wrote for the choirs of Trinity Methodist Church in Denver. Abigail Kent ABIGAIL KENT (Harp) will be a featured performer at the 2017 World Harp Congress in Hong Kong in July. In November WEI LUO (Piano) received the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant Gala Award and performed at the Kosciuszko Institute in New York City and her performance was broadcast on WQXR in early January. Also in November, Wei was asked to perform a recital in Wilton, Conn. when Andre Watts was unable to perform. In February, she performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Kansas City Symphony under the baton of MICHAEL STERN (Conducting ’86). STEPHEN TAVANI (Violin) was appointed concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in October. Dai Wei Kip Zimmerman In May, a new work by DAI WEI (Composition) will be premiered by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and its music director, Dirk Brossé, at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater. In July, KIP ZIMMERMAN (Oboe) won first place in the International Double Reed Society Young Artist Competition for Oboe in Columbus, Ga. FACULTY The second edition of AL BLATTER’s theory text, Revisiting Music Theory: The Basics (Routledge) was published in January. In November he chaired a visiting committee for the Wheaton College Music Department in Newton, Mass. MICHAEL DJUPSTROM (Composition ’11) was commissioned by Philadelphia’s Lyric Fest to compose a song cycle based on poems by JEANNE McGINN, to be performed in March and April. In February, Michael participated in McGill University’s George Enescu Conference, where he performed his Walimai, a duo for viola and piano, with Victor Fournelle-Blain. He also played duo recitals of French repertoire with Carol Jantsch, tuba, at Yale University and Ithaca College in September. In April 2017 TIM FITTS will publish his debut collection of short stories, Hypothermia (MadHat Press). In November Tim Fitts his novel The Soju Club was published in Korean translation (Munhakdongne Press). The commercial recording of JENNIFER HIGDON’s (Composition ’88) Cold Mountain, conducted by MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA (Conducting ’91) with the Santa Fe Opera, received a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording. DAVID LUDWIG (Composition ’01) is writing a new piano concerto for pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, in commemoration of the festival’s 30th anniversary. The piece will be premiered this summer. Alan Morrison ALAN MORRISON (Organ ’91, Accompanying ’93) played anniversary concerts on several notable instruments in the fall, including two centenary events: Trinity Presbyterian in Berwyn, Pa. and Church of the Resurrection in New York City. He also performed at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa. and Spivey Hall in Morrow, Ga. He was featured on the organ series in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center playing solo works by English composers, along with major choral works with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. He also performed on the historic E.M. Skinner organ at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, Ohio. DANIELLE ORLANDO gave a recital in February with bass Andre Courville for the FPC Concert series in Myrtle Beach, S.C. In March she did a week-long residency with the opera department of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In May, Danielle will give master classes in Beijing. She will return to Curtis Summerfest in June and Oberlin in Italy in July. JEANNE McGINN and CARLA PUPPIN co-presented a paper at the biennial conference of the Middle Jeanne McGinn Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies in Portland, Maine, this fall. Their essay, “Ekphrastic Art: Re-visions of the Indelible in Brueghel, Goodwin, and Simpson,” focused on visual art and poetry. ERIC SESSLER’s (Composition ’93) premiere of Shift and Riff took place in March at Curtis. This guitar quartet was commissioned by Curtis and performed by the Curtis guitar studio. This season JASON VIEAUX joined Curtis on Tour for chamber concerts around the world, made his Concertgebouw debut, and performed four Jason Vieaux guitar concertos with the Edmonton Symphony. This spring, Jason performs with symphonies of El Paso, Richmond, Niagara, Santa Fe, West Virginia, and Illinois. OVERTONES SPRING 2017 39
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