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Alumni: If you would like to let your classmates
know what you have been doing, please send your information to
our online submission form, or submit via
email to fanfare@northwestern.edu.
You can also send the information to Fanfare, Henry and Leigh
Bienen School of Music, 711 Elgin Rd., Evanston, IL 60208. (Note: If
you are submitting digital images to go along with your news
item, you must use the email address and attach those images
to the email.) Your information
may also be included in the next issue of Fanfare, the
school's alumni magazine.
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2000s
Stephanie Michelle Feder (00) served as assistant
director of the San Francisco Bach Choir from 2001-2003 before
moving to Italy. Since returning to the United States and completing
an MFA in Conducting at the University of California Irvine,
she has been teaching as a guest instructor and writing curriculum
with colleagues in UCI's Center for Learning Through the Arts
for a large grant project sponsored by National Geographic.
In addition to teaching, she also serves as artistic director
of the San Clemente Choral Society, director of music at St.
Andrew's By the Sea United Methodist Church in San Clemente,
and director of choirs at Congregation Shir Ha'ma'alot in Irvine,
Stephanie has been a soprano soloist with the Orange County
Women's Chorus since 2006.
Jade Simmons (01) has released a new CD, Revolutionary
Rhythms (Koch International Classics). The CD is a collaboration
between Jade and fellow alumnus Jonathan Sanford (00).
Matthew Coley (G03) has recently accepted
the Professor of Music in Percussion position at Iowa State
University in Ames for the 2009-2010 acedemic year.
Rohan Patel (03) was named director of advance for
the Secretary of Agriculture in the US Department of Agriculture.
Donovan Seidle (G03) made his debut appearance at
Carnegie Hall on April 15 playing violin in the YouTube Symphony
Orchestra project, whereby 90 classical musicians won spots
on the orchestra by posting videos of themselves on YouTube
and then being voted on by viewers.
Jonathon Struve (G05) is a PhD candidate
in vocal literature at the University of Iowa. He serves as
alumni guest lecturer in voice at Luther College in Decorah,
IA. He recently appeared in recital at the Noble Recital Hall
at Luther College, performing an English song recital featuring
works of Britten, Quilter, and Somervell.
Sandra del Cid (G06) won the position
of second flute/piccolo in the Orlando Philharmonic last year.
In 2009 she will be performing Haydn's Concerto no. 2 with
principal flutist Colleen Blagov for
Lire Organizzate in the OPO's Focus Series. In addition to
performing in Orlando, she is performing as guest principal
with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne, FL.
Viacheslav Dincerchtein (G08) was a guest
recitalist at the International Viola Congress in South Africa
in August 2009.
Kevin Hakes (G08) won the bass trombone position
with the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa in Lisbon in September.
Earlier this summer, he was awarded the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD) scholarship for advanced studies for up
to two years with the renowned bass trombonist of the Berlin
Philharmonic, Stefan Schulz.
Josh Moshier (08), Michael
Lebrun (07), Robert Meier (07),
and Max Krucoff (07), performing as Josh
Moshier and Moshier/Lebrun Collective, received a grant
through Chamber Music America's "New Jazz Works: Commissioning
and Ensemble Development" program. They received the honor
for a work inspired by Studs Terkel’s
memoir Touch and Go.
The work will be scored for tenor saxophone, piano, guitar,
bass, and drum set.
Brian Hecht (G09) recently became the bass trombonist with
the US Navy Band.
1990s
Thomas Goetz (G90) has been appointed
director of music and arts at First Presbyterian Church of
Vero Beach, Florida, where he is also the church organist,
and directs a full music program of choirs for all ages. Goetz
continues to present seminars and organ recitals for professional
organizations, including a seminar for the Region V Convention
of the American Guild of Organists in Detroit on June 29. He
is on the Seminary and Denominational Relations Committee of
the American Guild of Organists, based in New York city, and
is active in the Vero Beach chapter of the AGO.
Robert Fallon (91) is assistant professor of
musicology at Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael Stepniak (G95) was appointed dean
of Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. He was previously
the associate dean of performing arts at Adelphi University
in Garden City, NY.
Eun-Joo Kwak (G96) was a guest soloist
with the KBS Symphony Orchestra of Korea in 2008. The concert
took place at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea. Earlier
that year, Kwak traveled to the Czech Republic to judge the
International Smetana Piano Competition in Pilsen. She also
judged the first round of the PianoARts National Competition
and Festival in Milwaukee. Eun-Joo is associate professor of
piano at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, and lives
in Fox Point with her composer husband Dr. James Crowley (G93)
and their daughter Annabelle.
Bernhard
Scully (99) was awarded a McKnight
Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians. The prize, administered
by the MacPhail Center for Music, recognizes and provides support
for mid-career performing musicians. Bernhard is the first
horn player and the first classical brass applicant to win
the award.
1980s
James Caldwell (G81, G84), professor of music composition
and theory at Western Illinois University's School of Music
for 22 years, presented the university's 2009 Distinguished
Faculty Lecture on "space" as it relates to music
in March.
Dennis M. Layendecker (G81) retired this summer after
20 years of service as commander and music director of the
United States Air Force Band.
William Jastrow (G84) was one of seven teachers
nationwide to receive a Teaching Music Award for excellence
in and contributions to music education from the National
Association for Music Education (MENC). He is currently the Assistant Fine
Arts Department Chair at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville,
IL.
Augusta Read Thomas (87) was inducted to the American
Academy of Arts and Letters in May. The Academy is an honor
society of 250 architects, composers, artists, and writers.
The honor of election is considered the highest formal recognition
of artistic merit in the United States. She is currently serving
as the director of contemporary music for the Tanglewood Festival.
Patricia Oeste (G89) Patricia Oeste was named
a Yale Distinguished Music Educator for 2009. She also
received the prestigious Kennedy Center Teacher Fellowship for 2009
and was invited to spend one month in Washington, D.C.,
pursuing artistic and professional development of her choosing.
1960s
C.B. Wilson (60, G61), associate provost for academic
personnel at West Virginia University, was the recipient of
the 2009 Neil S. Bucklew Award for Social Justice.
Vincent Skowronski (66, G68) performed two
of Dvo?ák’s four Romantic Pieces as
arranged for violin and piano in a live performance on Indiana
University’s
radio station, WFIU. The performance was broadcast live on
the Internet. Vincent was accompanied by Saori Chiba on the
piano.
1950s
Wanda Yi Paik (55, G57) presented
a solo piano recital of music by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy,
and Dohnanyi to benefit the Wayside Inn Cultural Fund in
Sudbury, MA, last May. Wanda Paik teaches piano at Regis College
in Weston, MA, and also in her private studio at Lincoln,
MA. She is a past president of the New England Piano
Teachers' Association. She has performed with the Boston
Pops under Arthur Fiedler and Erich Kunzel, and with other
orchestras and venues in the Boston area.
Grace Bumbry (x58) has been named a 2009 Kennedy
Center honoree for her prestigious opera career. For more
information, visit the Kennedy
Center web page on the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors.
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can now submit your alumni news through the form below. If
you would prefer, news can also be submitted via email to fanfare@northwestern.edu or
by postal mail to Fanfare, Henry and Leigh Bienen
School of Music, 711 Elgin Rd., Evanston, IL 60208. (Note: If
you are submitting digital images to go along with your news
item, you must use the email address and attach those images
to the email.) Your information may also be included in the
next issue of Fanfare, the school's alumni magazine.
We reserve the right to edit your item for either online
or print publication.
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