It looks like there may be a new arms race amongst conservatories – there are some quite high profile artists included in this latest round at the Juilliard School.<\/p>\n
Here are the bios of these new faculty members, from a Juilliard press release:<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tNew York, New York — Jul 25, 2007 — <\/strong>\tThe Juilliard School has announced the appointment of several prominent artists to its faculty, effective with the 2007-08 academic year. Joining the Music Division will be:<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Richard Aaron, cello: Mr. Aaron has traveled extensively, giving master classes in Madrid, Spain; Manheim, Germany; Seoul, Korea; Matsumoto, Japan; and Paris, France. He has presented master classes in the U.S. at many leading schools, including Rice, Eastman, Michigan and Oberlin. During summers, he has taught at the Aspen Music Festival, Indiana University String Academy, Calgary Music Bridge, Aria, Innsbruck, the Chautauqua Festival and Idyllwild. Mr. Aaron’s students have won numerous national and international competitions and have performed as soloists with prestigious orchestras, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle Symphonies. Award-winning quartets, including the Biava, Fry Street and American, include his students. He is a member of the Elysian Trio, in residence at Baldwin-Wallace College. Mr. Aaron served on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and ENCORE School for Strings faculties for fourteen years and at the University of Michigan.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
David Chan, violin: Mr. Chan is the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Mr. Chan made his Carnegie Hall debut during the 2002\u00e2\u20ac\u201c03 season performing the Brahms Double Concerto with cellist Rafael Figueroa and the Met Orchestra under the baton of James Levine. In addition, he was a featured soloist in the Met Chamber Ensemble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance of Alban Berg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and 13 Winds at Carnegie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Weill Recital Hall, also with Levine. A top prize winner at the Tchaikovsky and Indianapolis international violin competitions, Mr. Chan made his New York debut at Lincoln Center\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Avery Fisher Hall in 1995 performing Paganini\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Concerto No. 2 under the direction of Hugh Wolff. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East, appearing as soloist with such orchestras as the Moscow State Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Taiwan National Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, and the San Diego, Indianapolis, Richmond, Springfield, and Northbrook symphonies. A native of San Diego, Mr. Chan began his musical education at the age of four. When he was fourteen, he won the San Diego Symphony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Young Artists Concerto Competition and subsequently appeared with the orchestra in two series of concerts. Mr. Chan, whose principal teachers were Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang and Michael Tseitlin, received his bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree from Harvard University and his master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree from the Juilliard School.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin: Ms. Chung began to play the violin from the age of seven. She was known as a child prodigy, and by the age of nine she was already playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. As time progressed she steadily won most of the famous music competitions in Korea. Chung, with her siblings, toured around the country, performing music both as soloist and as a part of an ensemble. She has worked with most of the major orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic,[1] Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra,[1] Philadelphia Orchestra,[1] Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.[1] She has worked with many famous conductors such as Georg Solti, Andre Previn,[1] Simon Rattle,[1] Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit and Riccardo Muti. She has also worked with many celebrated pianists such as Radu Lupu, Krystian Zimerman, Peter Frankl, Stephen Kovacevich and her younger brother Myung-Whun Chung. She plays also in the Chung Trio, with her brother and her older sister, Myung-Wha Chung. Her repertoire includes most of the famous concertos ranging from Beethoven to Tchaikovsky to Berg, and she has recorded several important sonatas such as the Brahms violin sonatas, Frank & Debussy sonatas, and Respighi & Strauss sonatas (with Krystian Zimerman, a recording which earned her Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Recording).<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Pedro Diaz, oboe: Mr. D\u00c3\u00adaz grew up in Madrid Spain and San Juan Puerto Rico. He attended the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Escuela Libre de Musica\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, a public school for the performing arts. He studied with James Gorton of the Pittsburgh Symphony, and John Mack of the Cleveland Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Elaine Douvas. Mr. D\u00c3\u00adaz studied English horn with Louis Rosenblatt, Harold Smoliar and Felix Kraus. Pedro D\u00c3\u00adaz teaches and performs at the Aspen Music Festival, Le Domaine Forget in Quebec and at the FOSJA festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is on the faculty at the Juilliard School, where he teaches oboe. D\u00c3\u00adaz was appointed Solo English horn of the Metropolitan Opera in 2005. prior to that he was principal oboe of the Filarmonica Jalisco in Guadalajara Mexico. Mr. D\u00c3\u00adaz also played English horn in the Orchestra of Galicia Spain, the Pittsburgh Opera and the Natal Philharmonic in South Africa.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
David Enlow, keyboard: Mr. Enlow is Organist & Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection, New York, where he directs a programme that includes a professional choir and orchestra-in-residence. Mr Enlow also directs Cappella, a chamber chorus which presents several concerts each season, and is Organist of the Welsh Congregational Church of New York. Previously, Mr Enlow was Sub Organist of St Clement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Church, Philadelphia, and an Assistant at the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, Lord and Taylor, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest playing musical instrument. Mr Enlow was recently appointed to the organ faculty of The Juilliard School, to teach service playing. Mr Enlow has been awarded several first prizes, including those of the Arthur Poister Competition, Syracuse, New York, (2004) and the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival (USA) in Wethersfield, Connecticut (2003).<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Nathan Hughes, oboe: Mr. Hughes is principal oboe of the Seattle Symphony. He previously served as principal oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and as acting associate principal oboe of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Hughes has performed as guest principal oboe of the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, as well as the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Baltimore. Hughes has been a featured soloist with the Met Chamber Ensemble, Seattle Symphony, Savannah Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and the Sinfonietta Polonia in Poland. Active at many festivals worldwide, he has performed chamber music at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, and Seattle chamber music festivals; served as principal oboe of the Aspen Chamber Symphony and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; and appeared at the Lucerne, Sarasota, Salzburg, Spoleto, and Tanglewood festivals. Hughes has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School and has given master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory, as well as the Pozna? Academy in Poland. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. His teachers have included John Mack, Elaine Douvas, and John de Lancie.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Shafer Mahoney, orchestration: Mr. Mahoney, who will teach orchestration, graduated from Princeton University and earned graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music, where he was a Sproull Fellow. He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, David Liptak, Steven Mackey, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. His compositions have been performed around the world, including at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, and Miller Theater. Commissions include works for the Albany, Seattle, and New York Youth Symphonies; Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Absolute Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Rel\u00c3\u00a2che, Cassatt Quartet, Corigliano Quartet, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and Greenwich Choral Society. Mr. Mahoney’s music has garnered many awards, including two from BMI, a Morton Gould Award from ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize from Columbia University. The Absolute Ensemble’s recording of his music was nominated for a Grammy Award. Mr. Mahoney is an associate professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where he teaches composition and orchestration. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, and is recorded by Enja, Mark, and Summit Records.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Jon Manasse, clarinet; Mr. Manasse has had numerous solo, concerto, and chamber music appearances in the U.S. and around the world. Principal clarinet, American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra; former principal clarinet, New York Chamber Symphony; served as guest principal clarinetist of the New York Pops, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New Jersey, St. Louis, and Seattle Symphony Orchestras. Has appeared as a guest clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic in concerts conducted by Valery Gergiev and Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Previn, and, during the 2003-04 season, served as the principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Co-artistic director, with his duo-partner, pianist Jon Nakamatsu, of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, since 2006.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
James Markey, bass trombone: Mr. Markey joined New York Philharmonic as associate principal trombone in 1997; appointed to bass trombone position in 2007; principal trombone of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony since 2001; former principal trombone, Pittsburgh Symphony. Solo performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Sun Valley Summer Symphony, U.S. Army Band, Hora Decima Brass Ensemble, N.Y. Staff Band of the Salvation Army, and Hanover Wind Symphony. Featured artist at the International Trombone Festival, Eastern Trombone Workshop, and the conferences of the N.J. Music Educators Association and the N.Y.S. School Music Association. Guest recitalist and clinician at major educational institutions, including the U. of Toronto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Glenn Gould School, Manhattan School of Music, James Madison U., U. of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Rutgers U., and the Boston Conservatory. Appears on several Pittsburgh Symphony and New York Philharmonic recordings; first solo CD, Offroad, released in 2003; soloist on the Hora Decima Brass Ensemble’s recording of Janko Nilovic’s Double Concerto for Two Trombones alongside Joseph Alessi (Summit Records). Faculty, SUNY-Purchase, since 2006; Juilliard Pre-College faculty, 1998-2007.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Jennifer Montone, French horn: Ms. Montone is the principal hornist, Philadelphia Orchestra. Previously, principal hornist, St. Louis Symphony (where she began her tenure in 2003); associate principal hornist, Dallas Symphony, 2000-03; third hornist of the New Jersey Symphony. Performed regularly with the Metropolitan Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, as well as serving as a substitute musician on several Broadway shows. Has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Sante Fe Chamber Music Festival, Bellingham Music Festival, Spoleto (Italy) Chamber Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival. Awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006. Formerly adjunct professor at Southern Methodist U.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Matti Raekallio, piano: Mr. Raekallio has his American debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, 1981. Regular juror in major international piano competitions. Has performed complete cycles of Beethoven, Scriabin, and Prokofiev sonatas. Has recorded 20 CDs. Faculty, Hochschule f\u00c3\u00bcr Musik, Hannover, Germany, and the Sibelius Academy.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Sylvia Rosenberg, violin: Ms. Rosenberg has performed with major orchestras and at the most prestigious summer festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. Artist-faculty member, Aspen Music Festival and School, since 1980. Numerous master classes at conservatories, music schools, and universities around the world, including annual classes at London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Royal Academy of Music, from which she recently received an honorary degree. Frequently serves as jurist for international competitions. Formerly professor of violin at Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Indiana U., and SUNY-Stony Brook. Faculty, Manhattan School of Music, since 1989.<\/font><\/small><\/p>\n
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, chamber music: Ms. Weilerstein is a member of the Weilerstein Trio, a resident ensemble at the New England Conservatory. Performs with her husband, violinist Donald Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Duo, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in N.Y.C. and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Their discography includes the complete violin-piano works of Bloch and sonatas of Jan\u00c3\u00a1cek, Dohnanyi, and Enescu (Arabesque) and complete Schumann sonatas (Azica Records); also recorded for the EMI Debut Series. Has performed at major American music festivals, including the Marlboro, Aspen, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, Sarasota, Roundtop, and La Jolla. She returns each summer to the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program, and has been a guest artist at Kneisel Hall (Maine), the Young Musicians Festival (Israel), the Daniel Days (Holland), and Verbier Festival (Switzerland). Former faculty member, Cleveland Institute of Music. Director of Professional Piano Trio Training Program at New England Conservatory; also serves on the piano and chamber music faculties.<\/font><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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