Charles Geyer
Professor, Trumpet
c-geyer@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Northwestern University
Recent Activity
Co-chair, Department of Music Performance. Soloist with Music of the Baroque,
Chicago Chamber Musicians, and Grand Teton Music Festival. Former member, Eastman
Brass, Eastman Virtuosi, Chicago Brass Quintet, and Chicago Symphony, Grant
Park Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestras. Solo
appearances with major orchestras and festivals. Recordings and international
broadcasts with Chicago and Houston Symphony Orchestras as well as Eastman
Brass, Music of the Baroque, and Chicago Chamber Musicians. Has given recitals
and master classes worldwide. Former faculty member, American Conservatory
of Music, Rice University, and Eastman School of Music. Studied with Herbert
Stoskopf, Adolph Herseth, and Vincent Cichowicz.
James Giles
Assistant Professor, Piano
jgiles@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5733
DMusA, Manhattan School of Music
Recent Activity
First-prize winner, New Orleans International Piano Competition, Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition, Music Teachers National Association Competition. Recipient, American Pianists Association Fellowship Award; Fulbright scholar. Soloist with Jupiter Symphony (New York), London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Kharkiv (Ukraine) Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York. Recitals at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center. Premiered works by Bolcom, Curtis-Smith, Hough, Liebermann, Rorem, Thomas, and Wild. Founder, Las Vegas Piano Institute. Piano division chair, Eastern Music Festival. Former faculty member, University of North Texas, Interlochen Arts Academy. Studied with Byron Janis, Lazar Berman, and Jerome Lowenthal at the Juilliard School, Nelita True at Eastman School of Music, and Robert Shannon at Oberlin College. For more information, visit www.jamesgiles.net.
Robert Gjerdingen
Professor, Music Theory and Cognition
r-gjerdingen@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5721
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Recent Activity
Author of numerous books,
articles, and reviews in the fields of music theory, music perception, and
18th-century musical style. Serves on the editorial boards of Music Theory
Spectrum and
the Journal
of Music Theory. Former editor, Music
Perception. Has served on the executive board of the Society for Music
Theory and the editorial board of the Journal of the American
Musicological Society.
Was Vice President for Music Taxonomy at MoodLogic, Inc., an on-line music
company in Silicon Valley, at the peak of the Internet revolution. For more
information, visit his personal
web site.
Victor Goines
Professor, Jazz Studies
v-goines@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Virginia Commonwealth University
Recent Activity
Director of Jazz Studies. Previously served as first artistic director of
the Juilliard School's jazz program from 2000 until 2007. Specialist in jazz
clarinet and saxophone. Has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. Has collaborated with such artists
as Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley,
Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Green, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard,
B.B. King, Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, James moody, Dianne
Reeves, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder. Performed on more than
20 recordings, including the soundtracks for three Ken Burns documentaries
and the films Undercover Blues, When Night Falls on Manhattan, and Rosewood.
Composed more than 50 original works, including Jazz at Lincoln Center commissions.
Also served on the faculties of Florida A&M University, University of New
Orleans, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana.
Artist for Conn-Selmer and Vandoren.
Virginia Gorlinski
Lecturer, Musicology
v-gorlinski@northwestern.edu
Biographical information coming soon.
Richard Graef
Associate Professor, Flute
r-graef@northwestern.edu - 847-491-4775
MMus, Indiana University
Assistant principal flute, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1968-present). Specialist in baroque flutes and baroque repertoire. Flutist with Chicago Pro Musica, which received a 1985 Grammy Award for best new classical artists. Studies at Oberlin Conservatory and the Mozarteum Academy of Music, Salzburg.
Leslie Grimm
Lecturer, Clarinet
l-grimm@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Northwestern University
Performs regularly with Chicago, Milwaukee, and Grant Park Symphony Orchestras as well as Lyric Opera of Chicago, Symphony II, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, and Chicago Sinfonietta. Active studio musician for radio and television commercials. Recordings on Teldec, Koss, Centaur, and Pro-Arte.
Nancy Gustafson
Artist In Residence, Voice and Opera
847-491-7106
MMus, Northwestern University
Recent Activity
Soprano. Has collaborated with such
artists as Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavorotti, and Joan Sutherland, and conductors
Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Bernard Haitink, Sir Andrew Davis, and Sir Georg
Solti. Has appeared in Europe’s major opera houses, including the Vienna
State Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and the Paris Opera, and in
the US has sung major roles at the Metropolitan, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Houston Grand, and Chicago Lyric Operas. Honors include the title of
Kammersaengerin, bestowed by Austria, and an honorary doctorate from Mount
Holyoke College. Recordings
highlights include Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Christoph von
Dohnányi;
Symphony No. 2 by Mahler, conducted by Zubin Mehta; and La bohème under
Kent Nagano. Native of Evanston, IL.
