Music Faculty

BA, MA, MM, University of Wisconsin. MMA, DMA, Yale University. Composer; recipient: Rome Prize from American Academy in Rome, Academy Award in Music and Charles Ives Scholarship from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Aaron Copland Award, fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio), as well as grants from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others; music published by C. F. Peters, Merion Music, Inc. of Theodore Presser Company, and Biscardi Music Press; recordings appear on the Albany, Bridge, CRI (New World Records), Intim Musik (Sweden), Naxos, New Albion, New Ariel, North/South Recordings, and Sept Jardins (Canada) labels. Yamaha Artist. SLC, 1977–

BA, Cornell University. MM, University of Illinois. DMA, Yale University. Fulbright scholar in Paris; pianist and conductor, with special interests in 17th- through 20th-century music; performed extensively and recorded as pianist soloist, chamber musician, and conductor; performed with most of the major new music ensembles such as the New Music Consort and Speculum Musicae; worked with composers such as Babbitt, Carter, and numerous younger composers and premiered new works, including many written for him; toured internationally as a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble from 1983-1996; conducted the premieres of several Glass operas and appears on many recordings of Glass’s music; has conducted film soundtracks and worked as producer in recording studios; formerly on the faculty of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College. SLC, 1998–

BA, North Carolina Central University. Singer and actress; performer in opera, oratorio, and orchestral concerts in the United States and Europe; solo artist with Metropolitan Opera Affiliate Artist Program; freelance recording artist, vocal division of the Chautauqua Institution. SLC, 1992–

BA, Amherst College. MS, University of Montana. MA, MPhil, PhD candidate, Columbia University. Special interests include American vernacular music, African musical traditions, Western art music, 20th-century popular music, improvisation, music and language. SLC, 2007–

BFA, State University of New York-Purchase. MM, The Juilliard School. Pianist, winner of Artists International Young Musicians Auditions; New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Member of New York Chamber Ensemble; performed with International String Quartet, Musica de Camera, Da Capo Chamber Players, Colorado String Quartet, American Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Artists’ Community Concerts. Broadcasts include PBS Live from Lincoln Center and NPR in New York and San Francisco. Recorded for ERM Records and Albany Records; faculty member, Bard College, 1997-2006. SLC, 2008–

BM, University of Oklahoma. Composer/performer with performances throughout the United States; founding member of New York’s Anti-Social Music; theory and composition instructor at City College of New York. SLC, 2004–

BM, MM, University of Colorado. Additional study, Graz, Austria. Concert artist (soprano): national, European, and Asian stages; national finalist in both the San Francisco Opera and Metropolitan Opera competitions; recipient of awards and grants in the fields of vocal performance and music education. SLC, 1989–

BM, MM, West Chester University. Currently choral director at the Riverdale Country School, Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division. Member of the faculty of the Perlman Summer Music Program. An established tenor soloist specializing in the baroque and classical repertoire; performed with the Waverly Consort, the American Bach Soloists, the Bethlehem Bach Choir, and the Rifkin Bach Ensemble; guest soloist, Marlboro Music Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival, and the University of Maryland Handel Festival; recorded the Bach B minor Mass with the American Bach Soloists, the Mozart Requiem with the Amor Artis Choir and Orchestra, and the Bach St. John Passion with the Smithsonian Chamber Players. SLC, 1999–

BM, Roosevelt University. Voice teacher, coach, and pianist; collaborated and performed with Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, Florence Quivar, and the late William Warfield; consultant to the Houston Grand Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finland), and Munich’s Münchener Biennale; provided musical direction for presentations ranging from an all-star tribute to Marian Anderson, Aaron Davis Hall (New York) to Porgy and Bess in Helsinki and Savonlinna, Moscow, and Tallinn (Estonia); participated in touring performances of Opera Ebony’s acclaimed Black Heritage concert series and served as its conductor over the course of its international run in Canada, Iceland, and Switzerland; co-founder of Opera Ebony, a historic African American opera company based in New York. SLC, 1996–

Künstlerische Abschlussprüfung “mit Auszeichnung,” Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Germany. MM, Artist Diploma, Indiana University. MMA, DMA, Yale University. Extensive performance and broadcast activities as soloist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, North America, and Japan; numerous master classes, lectures, and workshops at educational and research institutions; special interests include keyboard literature and performance practices, early keyboard instruments, the music of Ernst Krenek, relationship of performance, analysis, hermeneutics, and recent gender studies, interaction of poetry and music in song repertoire; member, artistic board, Volte Foundation for Chamber Music, the Netherlands; artistic director, International Schubert Festival 1997; research fellow, Newberry Library; fellow, German National Scholarship Foundation. SLC, 1998–

Diploma, Juilliard School of Music. As part of the one-piano, four-hand team of Jean and Kenneth Wentworth, has performed widely in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and India and recorded a wide variety of four-hand repertoire; contributor to The Music Quarterly, The Piano Quarterly, and Key Note magazine; past recipient of Walter W. Naumburg Award; faculty member, Calcutta School of Music; recipient of Andrew W. Mellon grant for faculty development and Hewlett-Mellon grant, 1988. SLC, 1972–

BA, Bard College. MM, University of Michigan. Composer. Recipient of ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers award, New York Youth Symphony Competition, Definiens C3 Composers Competition, ASCAP/Bang on a Can fellowship, among others; grants from Meet the Composer and Brooklyn Arts Council. Music performed by ensembles such as the American Symphony Orchestra, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Lunaire Quartet, and the University of Michigan Philharmonia. Artistic director/composer-in-residence: Transit Ensemble. Freelance film composer. SLC, 2008–

BPh, Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Composer, innovator in the fields of electronic music and music for theatre and dance, composer of traditional and experimental works for all media, specialist in improvisational techniques, and director of the Sarah Lawrence Improvisational Ensemble. Toured nationally with the United Stage theatre company and conceived of and introduced the use of electronic music for the productions. Freelance record producer and engineer; music published by Soundspell Productions. SLC, 1984–

Cleveland Music School Settlement. Cleveland Institute of Music. Singer, actor, and conductor; founder and conductor, Los Angeles Vocal Ensemble; principal with San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra La Monnaie, Netherlands Opera, Opéra de Lyon, New York City Opera, and Houston Grand Opera; festivals in Vienna, Salzburg, Holland, Maggio, and Munich; two Grammy nominations; two Cleo nominations; national tours, Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theatre, and television. SLC, 1989–