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ALIUMNI NEWS Summer 2007 16 Shu-Ying Li LADY JEANNE GALWAY (flute, BM ’77) performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic, Solisti Veneti, The London Mozart Players, and with the Bergen Philharmonic in the presence of the Queen of Norway. She toured with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and played as a soloist with her husband (Sir James Galway) in recital, orchestra, and chamber concerts this season. ADAM GILBERT (horn, BM ’84) has been named Director of the Early Music Performance Program at the USC Thornton School of Music. He is codirector of Ensemble Ciaramella which has released its first CD on the Naxos label. ANDRE GREMILLET (piano, MM ’92, PSD ’94), the president of Casavant Freres, a builder of pipe organs situated near his native Montreal, was appointed president and chief executive of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in January ’07. ANI KALAYJIAN (cello, MM ’03) and SAM ARMSTRONG (piano, PSD ’07) made their debut as a duo at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in March ’07. KANAE KOSHI (piano, MM ’04) presented a solo piano recital at the Trinity Church Concerts at One series at St. Paul’s Chapel in November ’06. Photo: Janette Beckman Trio Cavatina, founded by PRISCILLA LEE (cello, MM ’05), IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE (piano, MM ’02, PSD ’04), and HARUMI RHODES (daughter of HIROKO YAJIMA, string department chair), was selected for the New England Conservatory’s 2006-07 Professional Piano Trio Training Program, and in spring ’07, presented concerts at Boston’s Jordan Hall, at The New School, and at Merkin Concert Hall. YONGHOON LEE (voice, MM ’06) made his debut as the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Santiago de Chile in spring ’07. SHU-YING LI (voice, PSD ’02) was the 2007 winner of the New York City Opera Stanley Tausend Award “presented annually to a deserving young artist the season following his or her debut.” Trio Cavatina: Priscilla Lee, Ieva Jokubaviciute, Harumi Rhodes CHRISTOPHER MORRONGIELLO (lute, BM ’90) graduated with his Ph.D. in musicology from Oxford University. MARI MORIYA (voice, PSD ’05) won the fifth Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in January ’07. In 2006 she won the Charles A. Lynam vocal competition and the Luetz Riedel Award at the Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Competition. Also, she was one of 25 finalists (from a field of 677) in the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. JANE O’HARA (cello, MM ’05) has joined with pianist Isabelle O’Connell and violinist Elizabeth Cooney, two fellow Dubliners based in New York, to form the Syrius Trio. With soprano Sylvia O’Brien, they presented a Shostakovich Centenary concert at Weill Recital Hall in October ’06. NATASHA PAREMSKI (piano, BM ’07) appeared as soloist with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra in February ’07. In March, she made her San Francisco recital debut and also performed with the Santa Barbara Symphony. On June 21, she stepped in as a last-minute substitute for an indisposed Hélène Grimaux as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the gala opening night concert of the 2007 Caramoor Music Festival. In summer ’07 she performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Green Music Festival in California, and at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Paremski was the subject of a feature article in the summer ’07 issue of MUSO magazine. PATRICIA RISLEY (voice, PSD ’95) returned to Santa Fe Opera for Miranda in the American premiere of The Tempest by Thomas Adès in summer ’06, sang Cherubino at the Arizona Opera in Le nozze di Figaro, and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos for the Utah Opera in January ’07. Mari Moriya
JUAN CARLOS RIVAS (opera conducting, PSD ’02) serves as National Music Director of Batuta, Colombia’s National System of Children and Youth Orchestras, and as Artistic Consultant for the 1st International Music Festival of Cartagena. VANESSA ROSE (violin, MM ’01) has been named special projects manager at the American Symphony Orchestra League. JODY SHEINBAUM (voice, MM ’96) performed the role of Jenny in Ned Rorem’s Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters in summer ’06 for which she received critical acclaim. In January ’07 she sang the role of Beth in the Center City Opera Theater’s concert performance of Mark Adamo’s Little Women at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and in June sang Sybil Vane in Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray with the same company. ARTHUR SHEN (voice, BM ’95-’99) performed in DiCapo Opera Theatre’s production of Puccini’s Le Villi and Messa di Gloria in New York City in January ’07. VIRA SLYWOTZKY (voice, MM ’07) was selected as alternate is a master class presented by Evelyn Lear in the Juilliard School’s Marilyn Horne Series. In December ’06, Ms. Slywotzky performed selections from Koliada: Twelve Dishes, a world Music- Theater piece based on an ancient winter rituals from the Carpathians, with the Yara arts group at the Ukranian Museum. ERICA STRAUSS (voice, BM ’97, MM ’99) and VLAD IFTINKA (collaborative piano, MM, ’04) were featured at the Marilyn Horne Foundation Annual Recital on January 26, ’07 at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, hosted by Ms. Horne. In spring ’07, “On Wings of Song” on WQXR broadcast a recital by Ms. Strauss recorded in late March at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. MEI-TING SUN (piano, BM ’00, MM ’01) made a recital tour of the People’s Republic of China in December ’07. He recently released a live performance CD “The Madrid Concert” on his own label. In March ’07 he performed a recital in the Mei-Ting Sun Yamaha Piano series “On the Rise; Concert Artists on the Horizon” at the Puffin Cultural Forum in New Jersey. REIKO UCHIDA (piano MM ’96) and violinist Jennifer Koh presented critically acclaimed concerts at the 92nd Street ‘Y’ in February ’07, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater in January ’07, and at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center in October ’06. The concerts featured the premiere of String Poetic by Jennifer Higdon (Mannes 2007-08 Composer-in- Residence). Ms. Uchida and Ms. Koh have recorded two CDs on Cedille Records, “Violin Fantasies,” and “Schumann: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano.” DANIEL VEGA-ALBELA (violin, BM ’91) plays in the quartet La Catrina, which was selected to present the Young Performer Career Advancement Recital on January ’07 at Weill Recital Hall during the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference. ILYA YAKUSHEV (piano, BM ’03, MM ’05, PSD ’07) made his San Francisco Symphony debut under Michael Tilson Thomas, appearing in three concerts of the Prokofiev Festival, performing the Piano Concertos Numbers 1 and 4, as well as the Seventh Piano Sonata. In the review in The San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman reported that “the big news was the astonishing tripartite debut of pianist Ilya Yakushev, who single-handedly turned the end of the festival into something unforgettable.” On April 7, Mr. Yakushev made his Alice Tully Hall recital debut as winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, and was enthusiastically reviewed in The New York Times by Anne Midgette as a pianist who “can do just about anything he wants.” In December ’06, he toured Germany with recitals at the Anton Rubinstein Akademie in Düsseldorf, at the Bechstein Centrum in Berlin, and at the Bösendorfer Stadtsalon at the Musikverein in Vienna. DAN ZHU (violin, BM ’03, MM ’05, PSD ’07) continues to develop a successful international career. He was featured in gala New Year’s concerts in Beijing with the China Philharmonic Orchestra broadcast on Chinese national television. Recently he toured China appearing a soloist with its major orchestras, toured Europe and the U.K. with the Munich Symphony Orchestra under Philippe Entremont, and was again invited by Jean-Ives Thibaudet to participate in Italy’s Spoleto Festival. He was cited in the March 2007 issue of Gramophone magazine as one of five Chinese musicians “coming up fast behind Lang Lang and Yundi Li.” Ilya Yakushev 17
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