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Carlos Abril (music education) co-edited the book Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings We Make (Rowman & Littlefield). He also had articles published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, and the Mountain Lake Reader. This year, Professor Abril presented findings of his latest research at the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy, and at the International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior in St. Augustine, Florida. He continues to serve as an educational consultant and strand leader for the Ravinia Education and Community Partnerships and regularly presents education workshops around the country.

Stephen Alltop (conducting) was guest instructor in the graduate choral program at Indiana University last October, teaching seminars on Beethoven, Dvo?ák, and Verdi. In November he conducted and performed as chamber organ soloist for a broadcast on WFMT-FM in Chicago with mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and an instrumental ensemble in a program that included the music of Bach, Handle, Hindemith and Turnage. Last March, he led the Elmhurst (IL) Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Orff’s Carmina Burana. He also conducted “Siamsa na n’Gael” (A Celebration of Celtic Music) at Chicago’s Symphony Center. In April, Professor Alltop made his Symphony Center concerto debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pinchas Zukerman with Bach’s concerto in a minor for harpsichord, flute and violin. Also in April, he served as team captain for the victorious “Stars of Chicago Univerties” team on WFMT’s first-ever live classical music game show “La Triviata.” In May, he traveled to Italy to conduct Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari in the cities of Bari, Molfetta, and Trigiano with a program that included the music of Rossini, Rolla and Beethoven.

William Barnewitz (horn) spent his summer in Santa Fe performing opera and chamber music. He was part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Milwaukee Symphony, which included performances of Mozart Horn concerti 1 and 3 and spectacular performances of Mahler Symphony number 8 with NU alumni Matt Oliphant, Valerie Whitney and Paul Tervelt in the horn section. Mr. Barnewitz was also a featured artist on the Pabst Artist Series in an evening of chamber music works by Tony Plog, Carl Nielsen and Franz Schubert.

Janet R. Barrett (music education) is the editor of a book to be released by Rowman and Littlefield Education this summer, Music Education at a Crossroads: Realizing the Goal of Music Education for All. She has recently published articles on curriculum development in music education in Research Studies in Music Education as well as an essay on conceptual change in teaching in the Mountain Lake Reader. Barrett was appointed to a special task force on music teacher education by the National Association of Schools of Music and is serving as chair-elect of the Society for Music Teacher Education. This year she has presented research studies at the Arizona Music Educators Research Forum as well as the American Educational Research Association conference in San Diego, and was an invited guest lecturer at the University of Iowa.

J. Lawrie Bloom (clarinet) presented three concerts at Northwestern University over the last year, each exploring the work of a single composer: St. Saens, Schumann, and Spohr. He also performed with the Lincoln String Quartet and toured with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to New York City, Japan, and China. Last May, Professor Bloom received the Certificate of Honor at Temple University’s Founders Day celebration in Philadelphia. The honor recognized his distinguished contributions to the profession and expressed appreciation for his service to the university. In June he returned to the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, where he is founder and artistic co-director. Also in June, he performed and taught at Domaine Forget in Quebec, Canada.

Robert Boyd (music education) currently serves as secretary for the Illinois Chapter of the American Choral Directors. This past year he has served as guest clinician at the Men’s Glee Club of Wheaton College, the Waubonsee Valley High School Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, the Downers Grove South High School Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, the Illinois Grade School Music Association contest, the Mokena Junior High School Chorus, the Mahomet-Seymour High School Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, and the choral program at Glenbard West High School. He also served as judge at many of the above competitions. Colla Voce Music published his “Sing to Me, Guiding Stars,” a work commissioned by Plainfield North High School and which was later presented at the new music session of the Illinois Music Education Association convention; and his edition of Saint-Saens’ "Ave Maria" for soprano and alto voices and piano. Composition premieres this year include “Sleep, My Baby,” performed by Lincoln Way East High School, and "Let All the World in Ev'ry Corner Sing,” by the St. Charles Singers, a work commissioned in honor of their 25th Anniversary. Guest artist/conductor appearances this year include Lincoln Way East High School, the North Central Illinois Choral Festival, the Stevenson High School Treble Choir, and St. Cletus Catholic Church (La Grange, IL). He was a session prsenter at the Illinois ACDA Fall Convention, and he led sectionals for the Illinois Honors All-State Chorus.

Theresa Brancaccio (voice and opera) served as presenter and panelist for the Chicago National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) workshop for seniors preparing for college auditions. Last March she performed with Cathedral Brass Chicago on a program that included spirituals and works by Aaron Copland. In April, Professor Brancaccio was the also soloist with the Chicago Master Singers in a perfrormance of Schubert’s Mass in A-flat and Magnificat.

Karen Brunssen (voice and opera) performed the one-act, one-woman opera Bon Appétit! by Lee Hoiby with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Stephen Alltop last January.  In February She was a guest master teacher in residence at Cambridge University in England, where she taught voice lessons, master classes, voice clinics and choral workshops for Choral and Master Scholars from Claire College, Kings College, Pembroke College, Roberston College, Selwin College, Magdaline College, Cambridge University Music Society, Innsbruk University Chorale, and Hills Road Sixth Form College Chamber Choir.  In April, she was a guest master teacher at University of Illinois-Chicago Campus.  In May, she adjudicated for the Classical Singer Magazine National Convention 2009.

Elizabeth Buccheri (piano and collaborative arts) performed this past year in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Beyond the Score series at Orchestra Hall. Other performances include a collaborative recital sponsored by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Art Institute of Chicago, and an appearance on Chicago’s local PBS affiliate (WTTW) with baritones Thomas Hampson and Mark Delavan. She prepared soloists for Maestro Pierre Boulez’s performances of the music of Stravinsky in Orchestra Hall and Carnegie Hall. She attended the inaugural season of the Vann Vocal Institute in Montgomery, AL, where she gave master classes and coachings. Professor Buccheri also gave a lecture for the Evanston Chapter of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. During this last year, she also served artistic and awards chair of the Solti Foundation.

Barbara Butler (trumpet) See Charles Geyer.

Alan Chow (piano) performed as soloist and convention artist for the Wyoming Music Teachers Association, and as guest artist with the Chicago Chamber Musicians and Rembrandt Chamber Players. He gave duo concerts with percussionist Michael Burritt in New York and New Jersey, as well as duo-piano concerts with Alvin Chow and Angela Cheng in Illinois and Connecticut. He also taught, gave master classes, or adjudicated this past year at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival and Competition, the Chautauqua (NY) Music Festival, the New Orleans International Piano Festival and Competition, and at Indiana University.

Steve Cohen (clarinet) performed several times with the Chicago Symphony over the last year, including a tour with the CSO to New York. He performed as guest artist and soloist this past year at Ball State University and Northern Illinois University. Other performances this year include appearances with Chicago Lyric Opera, Music of the Baroque Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Lincoln Quartet, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and at the International Clarinet Assocation’s August convention in Porto, Portugal. He also taught and performed at the International Music Master Classes in Guimares, Portugal in August. He performed (with Trio Cayenne) and conducted a workshop at Indiana University. Professor Cohen served as a guest artist and teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.

Drew Edward Davies (musicology) presented his paper “Indexing Africa in Christmas Season Villancicos” at the American Musicological Society conference in Philadelphia in November 2009. In the same month, he collaborated with Early Music New York by preparing musical editions, translations, and a pre-concert lecture for its “El nuevo mundo” program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A month prior, he presented his paper “Mexican Baroque? Toward a More Precise Model for Viceregal New Spanish Music” at the international conference La cultura del barroco español e iberoamericano  in Warsaw, Poland, as well as in Catholic University of America’s musicology colloquium series in Washington. His article “St. Peter and the Triumph of the Church in Music from New Spain” appears in the 2009 issue of Sanctorum, an interdisciplinary journal about saints.As academic advisor and regional coordinator of the Seminario Nacional de Música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente, he spent three weeks of the summer cataloging the “Estrada Collection” at the archive of Mexico City Cathedral, and he continues to lead monthly academic meetings on viceregal musical culture in Mexico City. The seminar’s work on New Spanish choirbooks and music manuscripts can be consulted at www.musicat.unam.mx. At Northwestern, he has been named a Searle Teaching Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year and has recently taught a course on baroque music in the Continuing Education program.

Bernard Dobroski (music education) is an active member on the boards or principal advisory committees of the Lyric Opera of the Ryan Opera Center, the Loyola University Museum of Art, Voicexperience, the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, the Bel Canto Foundation, the Goldovsky Foundation, the Rembrandt Chamber Players, the Lira Singers and Dance Ensemble, and several other local and national cultural arts organizations. Professor Dobroski was invited to deliver the keynote address at the College Music Society’s Great Lakes chapter conference.

Melissa Foster (voice and opera) was elected to the faculty honor roll by Northwestern’s Associated Student Government. She became a member of the National Assocaition of Teachers of Singing (NATS) this year.

Charles Geyer (trumpet) and Barbara Butler (trumpet) will continue as soloists and co-principal trumpets in the Chicago-area ensembles  Music of the Baroque,  Ars Viva, Chicago Chamber Musicians and Chicago Philharmonic.

James Giles (piano) was a guest artist last October at the Shanghal International Piano Festival, where he performed and taught several master classes over a one-week period. Elsewhere during the year, he performed concertos by Chopin and Brahms and premiered a new concerto by Timothy Dunne with the Ithaca College Orchestra.

Robert Gjerdingen (music theory and cognition) was awarded the Wallace Berry Award for his book Music in the Galant Style (Oxford University Press) atthe Society for Music Theory conference in Montreal. The Berry Award is the Society's annual award for the
outstanding book published in the preceding year and is the Society's most prestigious prize. Professor Gjerdingen gave invited lectures at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. He was the keynote speaker at the annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Days for the British Society for Music Analysis, hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Durham, England, where he collaborated with the famous Swiss organist and music director Rudolph Lutz. Professor Gjerdingen served on the faculty of the Mannes Institute in New York this past summer, giving a three-day seminar for professional music theorists.

Victor Goines (jazz studies) toured all over the United States this year with the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. Over the last year, Professor Goines and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed with such guests as Paquito D’Rivera, Wycliffe Gordon, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Yacub Addy and Odadaa African Drum Ensemble, and the Herlin Riley Quartet. Other performances this year include David Torkanowsky at the Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro (New Orleans), the Victor Goines Quintet at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola (New York), the Victor Goines Quartet at the Music Hall (Detroit, MI), and the Victor Goines Duo at Jazz City Java (New Orleans). In April, he was guest performer with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Nancy Gustafson (voice and opera) has had a busy year. Among the many roles she has sung around the world are Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with both the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra; Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow at Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Lady Billows in Albert Herring with the Opera Comique, Paris, and Salome in Salome with Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon. She also was soprano soloist in Britten’s The War Requiem and in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, both with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel. Other activities include service as artist in residence with Maestro Maazel’s Castleton Festival and a master class for the Chicago Opera Theatre’s young artists training program.

Robert G. Hasty (conducting) was invited by the community of New Berlin, Wisconsin, to conduct their annual performance of Handel's Messiah last December. The concert, featuring the combined high schools and choirs from the community, served as a benefit to a family whose young son was severely injured in a bike/car accident earlier in the year. In a fund-raising effort for Evanston’s magnet school for performing arts, Dr. Hasty helped raise several thousand dollars by performing on violin for Finehearts in February 2009. This included collaboration with NU Geology department chair (and guitarist) Brad Sageman.

Lee Hyla (composition) has seen the release of a new recording that includes two of his works. Released by BMOP Sound, Lives of the Saints includes the title track and At Suma Beach. Mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger performs on both pieces with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose conducting. During the last year, he has completed his term as Meet the Composer Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Last October he was the Maurice Abravenal Distinguished Visiting Composer at the University of Utah. The Brentano String Quartet performed his Howl for string quartet and narrator in Kansas City, Philadelphia, Houston, Dresden, and at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. There were thirty performances of his music worldwide, including performances of Polish Folk Songs in Boston, London, Chicago, and San Francisco. Locally his music was performed by MusicNow, Eigth Balckbird, dal Ninete, and Sonic Inertia. Professor Hyla composed Warble for flute and piano (premiered by Fenwick Smith and Judith Gordon in Boston in September, 2008), Mother Popcorn Revisited for piano trio (to be premiered by the Grammercy Trio the in fall, 2009) and a piece called Odd Appetite for cello and percussion (to be premiered in the fall, 2009).

Philip Kraus (opera) performed the role of the Doctor in the Chicago premiere of Barber's Vanessa with Chamber Opera last October. That same month he performed the baritone solos in Carmina Burana with the Chicago Sinfonietta. In December he sang the bass solos in annual Messiah at Augustana College. Last March, he performed the same solos during the Handel Week tenth anniversary performance of Messiah.

Walfrid Kujala (flute) saw the release of his latest book, The Articulate Flutist: Rhythms, Groupings, Turns and Trills (Progress Press, 2008). He performed a recital and gave lectures and a master class at the University of Redlands (CA) and the Texas Woman’s University (Denton, TX).  He completed his second season as principal flute with the Lake Forest Symphony under Alan Heatherington. In June, The Chicago Flute Club held its inaugural Walfrid Kujala Piccolo Artist Competition at Roosevelt University.

Jay Lesenger (opera) celebrates his 15th summer as general/artistic director of Chautauqua Opera, where he directed Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, and Menotti’s The Consul, which was a co-production between Northwestern University Opera Theatre and Chautauqua Opera. He continues as a member of the board of directors of Opera America. Professor Lesenger hosted and took part in Opera America’ss Singers Panels at Northwestern. He conducted a master class on “The Acting Singer” for Opera America in New York. Last January, he staged Puccini’s Manon Lescaut for Hawaii Opera Theater.  This fall he will direct a new production of Bizet’s Carmen for Opera Nordfjord — the first opera production in the new opera house in Nordfjordeid, Norway.

Rex Martin (tuba and euphonium) released a solo CD, Rex Martin Live in Japan (Windsong Press, available at windsongpress.com). It is the only live CD to be produced from a single live recital by any tuba player.  In December, he was invited to present master classes and conduct concerts in Venice and Castagneto Carducci, Italy. Last spring, he travelled to Stavanger, Norway, to coach the brass section of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and to give master classes at the Stavanger Conservatory of Music. He then traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to give master classes at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. In March, he performed a concert in Osaka, Japan with the Soka Gakkai Kansai Wind Orchestra. He traveled to Karlskrona, Sweden, this summer to perform and teach at the Blekinge International Brass Academy along with Bienen School colleague Michael Mulcahy. After presenting a week of master classes at Northwestern with Gene Pokorny, he gave classes and performed concerts in Lugano, Switzerland; Bergen, Norway; Pontevedra, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Toni-Marie Montgomery (dean) is one of five honorees of the 90th-anniversary celebration of the National Association of Negro Musicians, one of the nation's oldest musical organizations.

Michael Mulcahy (trombone) had a busy performing and teaching schedule conducting the Brass of the Aarhus Symphony. He presented his NU Summer Masterclass Week in July as well as the Domaine Forget Festival in Quebec, the International Trombone Festival in Aarhus and the BIBA Brass Seminar in Sweden.

Inna Naroditskaya (musicology) was invited for a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Belaggio Center to work on her book project, Russian Empresses in History and Opera. This is a major work situating Russian operas in the context of imperial Russian lore and gender dichotomy in the transition from eighteenth century Russia as female kingdom to the nineteenth century restoration of patriarchal rule. This spring, she was invited and presented a paper at the World Mugham/Maqam Symposium, which was organized and sponsored by the president of Azerbaijan. The Bellagio Center offers one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and scientists in any discipline and from any part of the world at any given time.

Ryan Nelson (conducting) conducted the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in concert of works by Northwestern's composition faculty. Other guest conducting engagements last year included the Manitoba Senior Honor Band, Trinity High School Wind Ensemble (PA), Southern California Honor Band, Alameda County Honor Band (CA), Beaver County Honors Chorus (PA), and the PMEA Region 5 State Band (PA). Professor Nelson was also a clinician for the Broken Arrow School District (OK), OBA Toronto Festival, and the Northshore Concert Band Festival. Music theatre activities included the music direction of All Shook Up and The Light in the Piazza at the Marriott theatre, supervision of Sweeney Todd and Waa-Mu: One for the Books at Northwestern, and the Johnny Mercer Foundation Gala Concert with Liz Calloway and Capathia Jenkins. In March, he traveled to the Middle East to perform at the opening ceremony for the Northwestern campus in Doha, Qatar.

Susan Piagentini (music theory and cognition) was honored with the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer, a university-wide award for teaching excellence. She served as program chair for the College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Chapter Conference at Central Michigan University in March. She just finished a three-year term as treasurer for the regional chapter and is now the newly elected vice-president.

Hans Thomalla (composition) saw the release of a CD of recordings of his work performed by Ensemble Recherche on the Wergo label this past summer. He gave a lecture and premiered a new work at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. Last November, the Zurich (Switzerland) New Music Days presented his music in four concerts and two lectures. Swiss radio broadcast three of the concerts in addition to a feature documentary portrait on Professor Thomalla and his work.

Mallory Thompson (conducting) appeared as guest conductor with the Vandercook College of Music Symphonic Band, the United States Army Field Band, and the Northwestern University Brass Ensemble at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic last December. In March, she conducted the California All-State Band. This past year, she guest conducted with the Coast Guard Academy as the Captain Lewis J. Buckley Guest Artist. She served as a guest clinician for conducting workshops at the University of Puget Sound and for the Music Educators of Bergen County.

Almita Vamos (violin) received the Presidential Distinguished Teacher Recognition Award in June. She and her husband Roland Vamos  spent part of their summer in Norway at the Sommersymphonie Festival in Valdres,  where they played several concerts and taught. This summer, she also taught at the Chautauqua Institute and the Astona Festival in Switzerland (again with Roland). She adjudicated at the Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy this past summer.

Peter Webster (John W. Beattie Professor of Music Education and Technology) received a research grant for over $100,000 from the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation (NAMM) Sounds of Learning initiative.  His study will investigate the formal and informal musical experiences during elementary, secondary, and undergraduate college years for three cohorts of professions (architects, chemical engineers, and music educators) to see if these experiences might be associated with creative achievement in their respective fields.  This was one of the largest awards in the scientific research category from NAMM. The Center for the Study of Education and the Music Experience (CSEME), which is comprised of doctoral students in residence in music education and members of the music education faculty, will assist Webster in the execution of this grant over the 2009/10 academic year.

She-e Wu (percussion) performed two works by Edgar Varèse, Ionization and Amerique, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (under Pierre Boulez) in winter concerts at Orchestra Hall and Carnegie Hall. Other solo appearances this year include performances with the John Battie High School Percussion Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion Group, the Bethlehem Bach Choir, the University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensembles, Colorado State University’s percussion ensemble, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and a performance with Ricardo Morales as part of the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series. She gave lectures or presentations this past year at the Manhattan School of Music, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion in South Carolina, the Alan Abel Summer Percussion Seminar at Temple University, and the Symphonic Wind Band Conducting Seminar at Northwestern. She presented master classes and clinics at Manhattan School of Music, the Percussive Arst Society Illinois Day of Percussion at Northern Illinois University, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion in Arkansas at the University of Arkansas, the Illinois chapter of Midwest Young Artists, and the University of North Texas Marimba Workshop.

Victor Yampolsky (conducting) is celebrating his 25th year as a professor of  conducting and director of the orchestra program at the Bienen School of Music.  In the past year, he has guest conducted at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (Cape Town, South Africa), and the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic (Durban, South Africa). Also while in South Africa, he was a jury member at the First Len van Zyl Conducting Competition in Cape Town. He served as guest faculty at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Stellenbosch (South Africa) International Chamber Music Festival. In February, Professor Yampolsky was a guest lecturer for the department of Russian Studies at Emory University. In August, he served his 23rd year as music director of the Peninsula Music Festival in Fish Creek, WI.

Jay Alan Yim (composition) participated in a number of international presentations of new media work with his longtime collaborator and faculty colleague Marlena Novak. Fluid Mechanics Remix was shown at Digital Media Valencia 1.0 (Spain) (curated by the Digital Art Museum-Berlin), in London through the Ottica Contemporary TV Channel at the Better Bankside Centre, at CCNOA as part of the Biennale de Bruxelles (Belgium), and at INDUSTRIA at Flatfile Galleries as part of the opening of the fall cultural season in Chicago. Additional works by Novak & Yim exhibited in the Brussels Biennial included Dancing Cranes and bOnk! Other Chicago presentations this past season included the Chicago Cultural Center premiere of their newest video EDGE Detection during the Site Unseen 08 Festival in November, and an interactive video environment pr!ck—based on the unusual mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms—at Flatfile Galleries. Yim also completed a new 24-minute ensemble work for the Tel Aviv-based ensemble Musica Nova, for violin, two cellos, doublebass, soprano saxophone, two laptops, and a VJ, based on a recent trip to Iceland. They are now at work on a new intermedia work called scale, which is funded by grants from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (at Northwestern) and the National Science Foundation. Scale is a collaboration between Novak, Yim, and Malcolm Maciver, who is a member of Northwestern's faculty in biomedical engineering and neurobiology. The new work will be an installation that allows the audience to interactively listen to the tones generated by a 'chorus' of electric fish from the Amazon river basin.

Susan Young (music education) conducted a choir in Burlington, VT, for the Delta Kappa Gamma International Northeast Regional Conference. She has been named the Illionis State Music Chairman of Delta Kappa Gamma for 2009-2011. Her community choir from Northbrook, IL, sang at Carnegie Hall in June at the invitation of Dr. John Leavitt in the premiere of his latest composition, Symphony of Songs.

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