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.
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