Rebecca Ansel (violin) received an IC summer research grant to travel to London and study baroque violin with Walter Reiter of the English Concert.
Les Black (theory) published "The Aggregate, Ordering, and Expectation in Pre-Serial Works of Anton Webern" in Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario. This spring he presented "Heuristic Symmetries in Carl Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony" for the Music Theory Society of New York State.
Steve Brown (jazz) performs with guitarist John Stowell and pianist Hal Galper as “Thrio;” recent performances have been at IC, Purchase College, Sarah Lawrence University and in California. The Steve Brown Quartet opened for Diva in July, and Brown joined vocalist Stephanie Nakasian and pianist Hod O’Brien in Corning in October. November found Brown soloing with the University of Rochester Jazz Ensemble. He also directed the NYSSMA All State Jazz Ensemble.
Verna Brummett (music education) conducted the first annual Summer Honor Choir for 5th and 6th graders in Lee's Summit, MO.
Kevin Clifton (theory) published two articles: “A Tale of Two Witches: Reflections on an Unlikely Friendship in Wicked” in Phi Kappa Phi's Forum and “Bartók's Ironic Response to his Critics: Reconsidering Quotation in the Allegro Barbaro” in the International Journal of Musicology.
Richard Faria (clarinet) released a CD of music by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra on the Fleur de Son label, including a sonata commissioned by Joan Sears for him and pianist Xak Bjerken. Conference performances included the Sierra sonata at Bard College’s “The Influence of Folk Music: Bartok and Beyond,” and music of Birtwistle and Hillborg at Cornell’s “Performance Practice in the 20th Century: Measure for Measure or As You Like It?” During the summer he was a guest artist with the Garth Newel Music Festival.
Mark Fonder (music education, concert band) guest conducted in Connecticut, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York and presented on “Instrumental Methods Pedagogy from the Podium” at the Eastern College Band Directors National Conference in New Jersey. He gave the keynote address at the Desert Skies Symposium in Tucson, AZ.
Janet Galván (music education, women’s chorale, chorus) has been working with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City as a consultant and guest conductor. In July she was in York, England at the Choral Music Experience Institute, where she conducted in a presentation on the conductor-composer collaboration with Francisco Nunez. She guest conducted the North American Children’s Chorale, the New York ACDA Elementary Honor Choir in Buffalo, 900 elementary singers in Fairfax, VA, the Suffolk County Women’s Chorus, the Texas Women’s All-State Chorus, an area all-state in Connecticut, the Virginia All State Women’s Choir, and a choral festival in Hawaii.
Jairo Geronymo (piano) continues to be active with the New York State Music Teachers Association as president of the Southern Tier District, adjudicator, and newly elected vice-president of conferences. This spring he toured Brazil with violinist Svend Rřnning.
Jennifer Hayghe (piano) soloed with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the Pelican State Chamber Music Series in Louisiana. She was a featured convention artist for the Arkansas Music Teachers Association and a juror for the New Orleans International Piano Competition at Loyola University. Her new CD Paintings from the Piano, featuring works by Mussorgsky, Schumann, and Debussy, was released by Centaur Records.
Jennifer Haywood (music education) had her article "You Can't Be In My Choir If You Can't Stand Up: One Journey Toward Inclusion" published in Music Education Research of Exeter University. She also published four repertoire resource guides in the upcoming book, Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir, Volume 2. Haywood conducted the premieres of eight new compositions as conductor of the 171 Cedar Arts Corning Women's Chorale in the first “NY Sings: A Composer's Symposium for Treble Literature.” She conducted four New York all counties and was on a panel on including individuals with special needs in music at NYSSMA. Served as co-chair (along with Lauren Quigley ‘XX) of the Eastern Division ACDA Childrens Honor Choir that sang at Carnegie Hall.
Brad Hougham (voice) will give a series of vocal master classes and adjudicate a competition at both the Calgary and Vancouver (Canada) Kiwanis Music Festivals.
Dan Isbell (music education) has had articles published in the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and Update, Applications of Research in Music Education.
Rebecca Jemian (theory) in September presented “Pop-Up Storms in Mozart’s Keyboard Concertos” to the national meeting of the College Music Society in San Antonio and presented “The Composer as Prophet: Crumb’s An Idyll for the Misbegotten,” at Music and Nature Symposium in Syracuse.
Mark Kaczmarczyk (opera and musical theatre) in November participated in the American premiere of Sir Paul McCartney's oratorio Ecco Cor Meum with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall. He was also an artistic consultant on board development and strategic planning for the New Triad Foundation.
Keith Kaiser (music education) is the co-recipient of a grant for Sounds of Learning: The Impact of Music Education Research Project. Over the next two years, he will be investigating the uses and functions of music in schools using the taxonomy outlined by Alan Merriam in his book The Anthropology of Music. Kaiser also conducted honor bands in Liberty, Owego, and Maine-Endwell, NY, and Wilmington, DE.
Sally Lamb (composition) served as guest lecturer at the Eastman School of Music and the University of South Carolina and as moderator for Women's Works roundtable discussion with Libby Larsen. Her work Love’s Philosophy, commissioned by the New York State Music Teachers’ Association, was premiered at Skidmore College in October.
Deborah Martin (piano) was elected to serve a two-year term on the National Board of Directors of Music Teachers National Association. Martin will be the Eastern Division Director for thirteen northeastern states.
Steven Mauk (saxophone) and Kim Dunnick (trumpet) performed in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the 14th Triennial World Saxophone Congress. Mauk and piano faculty member Diane Birr were featured guest artists at Schenectady County Community College in October, with a program entitled Women and the Saxophone. His entire studio performed by Sinfonia for Saxophone Ensemble by Erwin Chandler ‘66’s at the Region 8 Conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance in January.
Carol McAmis (voice) had three students sweep the 2006 New York State Music Teacher’s Association Empire competition: Lindsay Rider ’07 was the first place winner, Michele D. Hoffman ’08 placed second, and honorable mention went to Melissa Howe ’07.
Wendy Mehne (flute) performed extensively this past year: in June it was Bach’s fourth Brandenburg Concerto in Rochester and in October a performance of Marc Satterwhite's Concerto a Tre on the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Chamber Series. November brought Telemann's Concerto in A minor for Two Flutes with CCO. During January’s Light in Winter Festival she joined guitarist Pablo Cohen and Steven Taylor for Taylor's seven microworlds and performed The Tiger's Ear with members of Ensemble X.
Jeffery Meyer (orchestra) is active musically in St. Petersburg, Russia: he conducted concerts with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic and, as a pianist, performed concerts with Strike, a piano-percussion duo, as part of the 18th International New Music Festival “Sound Ways.” He also adjudicated the 38th Annual Hong Kong School Music Festival, conducted NYSSMA All-County Orchestras in Ithaca and Syracuse, and was guest clinician for Central Washington University’s Orchestra Festival.
Patrice Pastore (voice) spent a fifth summer as a diction coach for professional singers at Rising Star Singers, and coached a vocal chamber music program at the Grandin Festival at Cincinnati Conservatory in August. In October she sang with the Blueprint Ensemble at San Francisco Conservatory.
Stephen Peterson (wind ensemble) guest conducted the U.S. Coast Guard Band in Ithaca, as well as conducting at the Mid West Clinic, at Calvin College, and in Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.
Alex Shuhan (horn) is now a guest faculty member at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, where he teaches private horn lessons and master classes, coaches chamber music and orchestra sectionals and performs chamber music.
Edward Swenson (music history) was awarded the 2006 Jack Greenfield Award in recognition of outstanding research and writing for a continuing series of articles for the Piano Technician’s Journal. In December at Cornell’s Barnes Hall, Swenson sang a recital accompanied by Italian fortepianist Stefania Neonato. The concert featured the twentieth-century debut of a rare Mozart-period fortepiano restored by Swenson in 2006.
Nicholas Walker (string bass) last May performed his own concerto “Pop Song” with the Cornell Chamber Orchestra.
Susan Waterbury (violin) served on the faculty of Orvieto Musica in Italy last June, and performed at the International Music Festival of Deia in Mallorca, Spain in July. She also toured the Valencia region with an international chamber ensemble, and taught at the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Bonefro, Italy. She was a guest artist with Present Music in Milwaukee.
Baruch Whitehead(music education) taught once again in Ghana. He was a featured clinician at the World Music Village in Helsinki, Finland, presenting on Orff-Schulwerk Process and West African Drumming and Dance. He will also be a featured clinician at the Russian Folk Music Festival in Magnitogorsk, Russia, presenting on Gospel Music and the Orff-Schulwerk Process.
Dana Wilson (composition) had several works premiered this year: his trumpet concerto received its Asian premiere by the Xiamen Symphony and Beijing Symphony in China, his bassoon concerto also received its Asian premiere, in Bangkok. Pianist Alpha Walker premiered Sound Travels. Day Dreams, commissioned by former students of Frank Battisti, was premiered by the IC and New England Conservatory Wind Ensembles. The IC choir premiered Love’s Phases, and When I am gone away… was premiered by the South Shore Conservatory Wind Symphony. Boosey and Hawkes published To set the darkness echoing…Recordings released included “Pu Em Remu” on the Armstrong Duo’s “Creative Mix” (Gasparo); “Mandala” on Mark Hill’s “Alchemist” (Albany) and “Trumpet Concerto (Leader Lieder)” on the Eastman Wind Ensemble’s “Danzante” (Summit)
