The Mannes Opera: Hitting the High Notes - The New School

Summer 2007
Volume 11, Number 2
Confrontation at the close of Act II (Saturday cast): Shin Ju Kang (Basilio), Hyo Na Kim (Marcellina), Do Jin Jung (Bartolo), Young Joo An (Count), Rosa Betancourt (Countess), Wei Huang (Susanna),
and Donovan Singletary (Figaro).
The Mannes
Opera:
Hitting the
High Notes
What a year 2006-07 has been for The Mannes Opera! How about its fully-staged
production (with The Mannes Orchestra) of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at The Kaye
Playhouse in May, with an enthusiastic review by Anthony Tommasini in The New York
Times – preceded just a few days earlier by a feature article on the Mannes Opera
Department by New York Times critic Anne Midgette. And then there were the
accomplishments of students and alumni winning major competitions and making debuts
with leading opera companies. (See Alumni News, pp. 15-17 & Student News, p. 19)
Anthony Tommasini’s review of the Figaro production in the May 8 New York Times
offered high praise to Mannes’s “young, eager singers” who made up the “likeable, wellschooled
and endearing cast . . . The tall, hardy baritone Marcelo Guzzo was a robust and
charming Figaro. Sookyung Ahn brought a bright, rich voice, lovely feeling for legato
phrasing and infectious vitality to Susanna. The soprano Vira Slywotzky’s performance as
Countess Almaviva was a living demonstration that singers in their early 20s are still
discovering the dimensions and qualities of their voices. She has a naturally large sound
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Photo: Eugenia Ames

Summer 2007
As another academic year begins, we relish
memories of all the successes of the past
year (described in many articles in this newsletter) and anticipate all
that we have planned for 2007-08.
Looking backward, we recall the moving concerts during 2006-07
by The Mannes Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, The Mannes Opera
(the subject of a wonderful feature article by Anne Midgette in The
New York Times) receiving a most supportive review by Andrew
Tommasini in The New York Times for its production of Le nozze di
Figaro, the 2007 Beethoven festival, and so, so many chamber-music
concerts, master classes, student recitals, and other events. We are
proud of our students and alumni who won major recognition in the
world at large. And we relish memories of all the summer institutes
which received so much good ink in the press.
Looking forward, we are excited about The Mannes Orchestra
performing twice in Carnegie Hall. The November 8th concert will
include Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (with the Riverside Choral
Society) and Bruckner’s 9th Symphony. For the February 19th
concert, Vladimir Feltsman will join the orchestra for a performance
of Bach’s D Minor Keyboard Concerto (which he will conduct from
the keyboard) and Schnittke’s Piano Concerto; after intermission will
be the first Carnegie Hall performance of Concerto for Orchestra by
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In Memoriam
JOEL LESTER
Notes from the Dean
Jennifer Higdon (the Composer in Residence at Mannes for 2007-
08). There will be previews of portions of both concerts in the
dramatic Frank Gehry hall at the Fisher Center of Bard College in
Dutchess County the previous Saturday evenings. Do join us!
We also anticipate The Mannes Opera’s season (culminating in a
fully staged opera at the Kaye Playhouse on May 3rd and 4th), the
resumption of the Beethoven festival (including the complete cycle of
Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas performed by Mannes students), the
Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music series (MannesDowntown at The
New School, and Mannes UpperWest in the Mannes Concert Hall),
another “Mannes at the Morgan” concert on March 27th, and many
other events, including master classes by Misha Amory, Yefim
Bronfman (the Alexis Gregory Master Artist in Residence at
Mannes), Vladimir Feltsman, Pamela Frank, Richard Goode,
Menahem Pressler, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and others (with all master
classes supported by the Peter M. Gross Fund).
And, of course, we know we will be pleasantly surprised by
students and alumni receiving major honors recognizing their
accomplishments – we just don’t yet know which students and
alumni will win which citations (!).
Thank you, friends of Mannes, for making all this possible!
EUGENE BECKER, devoted member of the viola faculty at Mannes since 1998, passed away on June 25, 2006. In addition to his
success as a solo and chamber music performer, he had a long career with the New York Philharmonic, joining in 1957 and serving
as Principal Assistant Violist from 1981 until his retirement in 1989.
NANNETTE LEVI HARRY, who taught violin and chamber music in the Preparatory and Extension Divisions at Mannes for several
decades, passed away on May 25, 2007. During her career, she served as concertmaster for the San Antonio Symphony and was
hailed by Time magazine as the first woman to hold such a prestigious position with a major U.S. orchestra.
JEAN P. MILANI, biochemist and friend of Mannes, died on November 17, 2006. Her love for Mannes and its students will live
on in the N.T. Milani Memorial Conducting Fellowship she established in 1997 in memory of her husband, an engineer and
devoted music lover. The fellowship provides annual support for a worthy conducting student who would not otherwise have the
opportunity to study.
JOY RUANE, devoted friend of Mannes, passed away on October 12, 2006. Her passion for Mannes and her extraordinary generosity
made an enormous impact on the school and its students. Mannes dedicated the February 27, 2007 concert of The Mannes Orchestra in
Alice Tully Hall to her memory. And a permanent plaque in the Mannes Concert Hall remembers her invaluable assistance in its revovation.

Photos: Eugenia Ames
Susanna, Figaro, and the Countess hatch their plot: (below)
Saturday—Wei Huang, Donovan Singletary, and Rosa Betancourt;
(right) Sunday—Sookyung Ahn, Marcelo Guzzo, and Vira Slywotzky.
MANNES OPERA
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with cutting power. Might she even end up
a Wagnerian? It’s too soon to tell. The
mezzo-soprano Yong Kyung Park was a
scene stealer as Cherubino, which goes with
the territory in that role. Young Joo An as
Count Almaviva, Do Jin Jung as Bartolo,
and Keiko Kai as Marcellina were also
appealing.” Maestro Joseph Colaneri drew
“a fleet and bracing performance from the
student orchestra.” Tommasini went on to
commend members of the professional
production team: “Ted Taylor provided
marvelously fanciful recitative
accompaniment at the harpsichord. Roger
Hanna created simple, handsome and
effective sets. Laura Alley’s directing, though
traditional, was stylish and breezy.”
On May 5th, Anne Midgette’s article “The
City’s Smallest Conservatory Finds Its Voice,”
expressed her admiration for Colaneri’s high
pedagogical and artistic standards as Artistic
Director of The Mannes Opera. Here’s how
she described a rehearsal for Figaro:
“Balanced on a stool at the center of the din
was the conductor Joseph Colaneri, bearded
and bright-eyed, exuding a calm focus as he
taught the young instrumentalists how to
approach opera. ‘Don’t be afraid of the
silences,’ Mr. Colaneri said, ‘especially in
Mozart, music of the Enlightenment. Think
of a Greek temple, with the spaces between
the columns.’ The orchestra briefly pondered
this, and immediately began playing with
more light and air.
“Mr. Colaneri is on the staff of the
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The Countess is almost seduced by Cherubino in Act II. (left)
Saturday—Rosa Betancourt and Maya Lahyani; (above) Sunday—
Vira Slywotzky and Yong Kyung Park.
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Photos: Eugenia Ames
Summer 2007
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Metropolitan Opera, where he will conduct
Il Trittico again next Saturday. He is also the
heart and brain of the Mannes opera
program, which he took over, and
reinvented, in 1998.
“Anyone who knows him only through
his Met performances may have missed
what is clearly a natural gift for pedagogy.
As the rehearsal progressed, the singers’
brows gradually unfurrowed, to be replaced,
by the Act II finale, with smiles. Despite
flaws, they were clearly grasping the style.
“‘They are singing Mozart,’ said Regina
Resnik approvingly. A star mezzo of the
1950s and ‘60s, she is now the Mannes
Opera’s master artist in residence. Every year
she comes in for more than a month of
intense work on the spring opera, bringing
invaluable insights into character
development and the mechanics of
portraying a role onstage.
“‘I personally learned a great deal about
the Mozart Figaro through him,’ Ms. Resnik
said of Mr. Colaneri – no small praise from
someone who has sung the opera many
times.
“Mr. Colaneri studied organ and choral
conducting, but from his infectious
enthusiasm and respect for opera, you would
think he had been weaned on it. He went
about establishing firm foundations for the
Mannes program so methodically that he did
not mount a full production – it was La
The double wedding celebration in Act III (Sunday).
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Bridesmaids Sara Sturdivant and Heidi Sauser conducted by Shin Ju Kang as Don Basilio serenade Young Joo An as the Count, Chee
Shen Tan as Don Curzio, and Rosa Betancourt as the Countess on Saturday Evening.
Bohème – until 2003. His primary concern is
to meet students’ needs: to train them in
roles they can sing again later in their
careers, and to place their interests first in
every decision, down to the lack of
supertitles.
“‘That’s an expense that is more geared
toward the audience’s reaction, rather than
what the students need,’ Mr. Colaneri said.
‘I would rather take whatever amount of
money that would be, and put it into more
coaching time. Then I tell the students,
O.K., no titles, so we better be
communicating and telling that story in the
most convincing way, so that somebody
really could get it.’
“His approach could be called oldfashioned.
But it is also helping the program
attract ever better students, and helping make
opera at Mannes so much fun to watch.”
The Mannes Opera opened its successful
2006-07 season with its annual January
Evenings of Opera Scenes with The Mannes
Orchestra at The New School for Drama
Theater on Bank Street. It featured semistaged
performances of scenes from Purcell’s
Dido and Aeneas, Bellini’s I Puritani, Verdi’s
Il Ballo in maschera and La Traviata, and
Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. The
conductors were Joseph Colaneri and opera
department faculty members Susan
Woodruff Versage and Ted Taylor. Director
Laura Alley, set designer Roger Hanna,
costume designer Helen E. Rodgers, lighting
designer Jeff Davis – the same superb
professional team responsible for Figaro’s
great success – created a production that
transcended the theater’s intimate
proportions and inspired the student singers
to deliver performances that proved to the
discerning audiences that The Mannes
Opera has indeed “found its voice.”

Paul Moravec, 2006-07 Composer-in-Residence,
Joins College Faculty
After working with Mannes during 2006-07
as Composer-in-Residence, Paul Moravec
has joined the composition faculty. Mr.
Moravec was the fifth internationally
acclaimed composer to participate in the
residency program, his predecessors being
Bright Sheng, Bruce Adolphe, Chen Yi, and
George Tsontakis. His catalogue includes
over ninety orchestral, chamber, choral,
lyric, film, and electro-acoustic
compositions, including recent world
premieres and commissions by leading
performing artists and ensembles such as the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Mannes was privileged to host Mr.
Moravec on four two-day visits during the
2006-07 academic year. While at Mannes,
he made presentations to the composition
department, taught private lessons to student
composers, coached student new-music
ensembles, and conducted a reading of his
works with The Mannes Orchestra. On May
1, the Mannes Orchestra closed their concert
of new works by Mannes faculty composers
David Loeb and Robert Cuckson and
student composers Rafael Fusco and Gilhad
Cohen with the world premiere of Moravec’s
Northern Lights Electric.
Mr. Moravec also worked closely with
CIRCE (the Composer-in-Residence
Jennifer Higdon has been named as
Mannes’s 2007-08 Composer-in-
Residence. As one of the most
frequently performed composers in
America, her works receive more
than two hundred performances a
year. Her recent composition
Concerto for Orchestra will be
performed by The Mannes
Orchestra at The Fisher Center at
Bard College (Annandale-on-
Hudson, NY) on Saturday, February
16, 2008, and at Carnegie Hall on
Tuesday, February 19.
Chamber Ensemble). CIRCE was
established five years ago for the purpose of
presenting works by the Composer-in-
Residence and selected student composers.
The student group, directed by composition
faculty member Keith Fitch, performed a
concert on May 3, 2007 as part of the
Mannes Contemporary Music Festival. The
program included Moravec’s Scherzo for
piano trio, Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia for
string quartet, and the New York premiere
of Chamber Symphony. The ensemble also
premiered two works by student
competition winners, Ryan Chase (Mused
Rhyme) and Evan Lewis (Downward to
Darkness, on Extended Wings).
Fortunately, the close of the academic year
did not result in a farewell to Mannes’s most
recent Composer-in-Residence. Mannes
College is honored to have Mr. Moravec on
the faculty. Please join us in welcoming him
to the Mannes community. Paul Moravec
Yefim Bronfman’s Residency to Continue
Mannes was honored to host Yefim
Bronfman, one of the world’s leading
pianists, as the 2006-07 Alexis Gregory
Master Artist in Residence. As Master Artist
Yefim Bronfman
Photo: Carol Friedman
in Residence, Mr. Bronfman contributed to
the piano program at Mannes in significant
ways. In addition to presenting master
classes, made possible by the Peter M. Gross
Fund, he worked closely with select piano
students from various teaching studios.
Each of these students had the extraordinary
opportunity to work one-on-one with Mr.
Bronfman on two occasions. Receiving
follow-up instruction from an artist of his
caliber is an invaluable and coveted
experience. As Dean Joel Lester pointed out,
“This is the first time that Mr. Bronfman
has been affiliated with any school in this
capacity.” His unprecedented relationship
with Mannes was made possible by a
generous gift from Alexis Gregory, a long
devoted friend of Mannes acknowledged by
the name of the residency. Mr. Bronfman’s
work at Mannes was so successful that his
residency has been extended to the 2007-08
academic year.
Photo: Anthony Parmelee
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Summer 2007
The Mannes Orchestra Meets the Challenge
Since the primary purpose of The Mannes
Orchestra is to train its student members to
be first-class professionals, every season
necessarily presents them with music chosen
to challenge them on a thoroughly
professional level. The 2006-07 season was
no exception. The Mannes Orchestra
performed a total of nine programs: seven
concerts (four in Alice Tully Hall) plus two
productions of The Mannes Opera.
The first at Alice Tully Hall on October
16, 2007, conducted by Orchestral and
Conducting Studies Department Director
David Hayes, delved into the romantic
repertoire, including Wagner’s “Prelude and
Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde, Strauss’s
Don Juan, and Berlioz’s Exerpts from Roméo
et Juliette. The second concert at Tully Hall
on November 14, also conducted by
Maestro Hayes, featured two demanding
contemporary works: songs by Pulitzer Prize
winning composer Joseph Schwantner
performed by soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle
(one of two prize winners of the 2005-06
Mannes Concerto Competition), and John
Adams’s symphonic Harmonielehre. Dean
Joel Lester commented that “these
performances demonstrate a mastery of the
contemporary idiom that represents a
milestone for our orchestra.”
The third Tully Hall concert on February
27, 2007 marked Otto-Werner Mueller’s
return as guest conductor and featured
Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with
soprano soloist Sookyung Ahn (the other
2005-06 Concerto Competition prize
winner). The final Tully Hall concert on
April 7, led by Edwin Outwater in his
Mannes guest conducting debut, mounted
the world premiere of Seymour Barab’s
Sinfonia Satirica, or Glancing Askance at the
Orchestra, narrated by Robert Sherman. Mr.
Barab composed his new work especially for
Mr. Sherman, an artist member of the
Mannes Board of Governors, and renowned
host of WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase, on
which he subsequently broadcast highlights
of the concert.
Two concerts in 2006-07 marked a
significant innovation: public performances
by The Mannes Orchestra in the Mannes
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Photo: Eugenia Ames
Photo: Julie Brimberg
Concert Hall. Thanks to the resourcefulness
of Mannes’s resident miracle worker,
Coordinator in Instrumental Studies Chris
Gulhaugen, the Concert Hall became
spacious enough to contain both orchestra
and audience. The first of these on
December 11, 2006, conducted by Maestro
Hayes, featured performances by three
divisional winners of the 2005-06 Concerto
Competition: clarinetist Mara Plotkin,
cellist Rachael Tobin, and violinist Dimiter
Tchernookov. The second on May 1 was
part of the Mannes Contemporary Music
Above: Composer Seymour
Barab, narrator Robert
Sherman, guest conductor
Edwin Outwater, and Dean
Joel Lester share postconcert
congratulations in
the Alice Tully Hall Green
Room on April 7, 2007.
Left to right: Soprano
soloist Sookyung Ahn
and guest conductor
Otto-Werner Mueller after
the February 27, 2007
concert in Tully Hall;
Tiffany DuMouchelle,
soprano soloist at the
November 14, 2006 Tully
Hall concert.
Festival (see Paul Moravec, page 2).
A concert at Symphony Space on February 5
included performances by graduating
conducting majors Miguel Campos Neto
and Shoichi Kubota.
In addition, the importance of The
Mannes Orchestra to the unprecedented
success of The Mannes Opera with its
participation in the Evenings of Opera Scenes
in January, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Kaye
Playhouse in May cannot be understated.
Proving without a doubt that The Mannes
Orchestra has indeed met the challenge.
Photo: Marty Heitner

Bravo, Class of 2007!
In 2007, Mannes College awarded degrees
or diplomas to 113 graduates: 23 Bachelor
of Music degrees, 2 Bachelor of Science
degrees, 60 Master of Music degrees, 21
Professional Studies Diplomas, and 9
Extension Division Diplomas.
The Mannes Class of 2007, and the
outgoing classes of all other divisions of The
New School, officially graduated at The New
School ceremonies in Madison Square Garden
on Friday, May 18. Among the recipients of
honorary doctorates was Mannes alumna,
JoAnn Falletta, who had earned her Bachelor
of Science degree in Guitar and Conducting
in 1976. Maestra Falletta, one of America’s
leading conductors, is Music Director of both
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and artistic
advisor to the Honolulu Symphony. She has
received such prestigious honors as the
Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts
Conductors Award, and the Toscanini,
Ditson, and Bruno Walter Awards. In
presenting her citation, President Bob Kerrey
said in closing, “In both preserving the past
for the present and continually renewing our
understanding of classical music, you bridge
A balcony-eye view of the festivities in The Concert Hall following the Recognition Ceremony.
community. Bob Kerrey, President of The
New School, offered opening remarks.
Then, each member of the class of 2007 was
individually recognized: Extension Division
Diploma recipients by Extension Division
Director David Tcimpidis, Bachelor’s
Degree recipients by Associate Dean George
“Your talent is remarkable, your success inspiring, your
performances life-changing . . . You motivate others because you
are motivated to become better, to perfect your art.”
Bob Kerrey, President, The New School
cultures and eras, affirming the centrality of
music to human understanding.”
The Mannes Brass Ensemble, conducted
by Shoichi Kubota (conducting, PSD),
provided music for the ceremony, including
the Fanfare from La Peri by Paul Dukas in
Maestra Falletta’s honor.
One day earlier, the Mannes Class of
2007 celebrated its achievements at the
Recognition Ceremony at the Church of St.
Paul & St. Andrew on 86th Street and West
End Avenue.
John Beerbower (Chair of the Mannes
Board of Governors) welcomed the
Fisher, and Master’s Degree and Professional
Studies Diploma recipients by Associate
Dean Frank Nemhauser.
Those in attendance were then treated to
a superb performance of the Allegro con brio
from Beethoven’s D major Cello and Piano
Sonata, op. 102 no. 2 by cellist Julia Ella
MacLaine (cello, PSD) and Ilya Kazantsev
(piano, MM). Jane Kittredge (violin, BM)
spoke as Student Representative, followed by
the presentation of awards and honors by
Dean Nemhauser:
THE PRESSER SCHOLAR FOR ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE was awarded to Hadas Pe’ery
(theory/composition, BS) for having earned
the highest grade-point average of the
undergraduate class.
THE LOTTE PULVEMACHER-EGERS HUMANITIES
AWARD went to Maya Lahyani (voice, BM)
for her intellectual achievement and class
participation in the areas of world history
and literature.
THE FELIX SALZER MEMORIAL AWARD for
excellence in Techniques of Music was
awarded to Hadas Pe’ery and Stephen Smith
(theory, MM) for superior achievement in
the areas of musicianship and analysis.
THE RICHARD F. GOLD CAREER GRANT,
awarded to an outstanding American singer,
was given to Vira Slywotzky (voice, MM).
THE MICHAEL SISCA OPERA AWARD was
presented to Young Joo An (voice, MM) for
his development and achievement in the
field of opera.
THE JAMES E. HUGHES, SR. MEMORIAL
PERFORMANCE AWARD was given to Michael
Engstrom (trombone, MM) for outstanding
contributions to the school, particularly in
the areas of orchestra and ensemble music.
THE GEORGE AND ELIZABETH GREGORY
AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PERFORMANCE was
given to Ilya Yakushev (piano, PSD) and
Tammy Wapinsky (voice, PSD) for overall
superior achievement in performance.
THE NEWTON SWIFT PIANO AWARD,
graduates, their families, and the Mannes continued on page 8
Photo: Fred Fehleisen
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Photos: Fred Fehleisen
Summer 2007
GRADUATION
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presented for excellence in accompaniment
and chamber music, was given to Ilya
Kazantsev (piano, MM) for his collegial
spirit and musical prominence.
THE MARIAN MARCUS WAHL AWARD,
presented to an outstanding pianist or
singer, was given to Natasha Paremski
(piano, BM) and Ying Feng (piano, PSD).
THE MANNES COLLEGE DEANS’ AWARD,
presented for outstanding citizenship and
distinctive service to the Mannes
community was given to Raphael Fusco
(composition, PSD) and Stephen Solook
(percussion, PSD).
THE ASSOCIATED MUSIC TEACHERS’ LEAGUE
AWARD was given to Vincent Peterson
(choral conducting/compostion, MM) in
recognition of his embodiment of the
artistic and human ideals Mannes strives to
represent.
THE JOSEPH FIDELMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
for the best performance of a piano
composition by Joseph Fidelman was given
to Alexander Beridze (piano, PSD
candidate).
The MARTINU COMPOSITION AWARD was
given to Raphael Fusco for his outstanding
achievements in the field of composition
and for his distinguished contributions to
the Composition Department.
Dean Joel Lester made closing remarks on
the vitality of the world of concert music,
and invited all present to take the short walk
back to Mannes for a festive reception and
luncheon buffet in the Concert Hall.
Jane Kittredge, who received her
Bachelor of Music degree, spoke for
her fellow graduates.
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“As you go forth from Mannes, you will be Mannes’s musical
ambassadors to the world. Far more important than the ambassadors
who represent countries in the world of diplomacy, you are living
proof of how people can live and be creative together, how they can
communicate and express emotions, and how they can create
ineffable beauty.”
Joel Lester, Dean, Mannes College
Dean Joel Lester: T.O.M. faculty/Community Outreach director Elizabeth Aaron, Associate Dean Frank Nemhauser, and Provost of
The New School Benjamin Lee in a celebratory meeting of minds.
“It’s not just our families of origin that nurture and
support us, it is the families we create along the
way that provide us with friendship, love and
encouragement. I believe it is human nature to seek
out these connections, to find and forge the
communities that will help us prosper. I also believe
that Mannes is the perfect place to do that.”
Jane Kittredge, Student Speaker

The 2007 Yearlong Beethoven Festival
Mannes’s 2007 yearlong festival, “Beethoven: Influence and
Immortality,” was launched on January 31 at the Colony Club, an
elegant venue made available to Mannes thanks to the initiative of
Patricia Forelle, a member of the Mannes Board of Governors.
The Colony Club’s President Catia Chapin warmly greeted
members of the club and the Mannes community. Dean Joel Lester
then introduced Festival Artistic Director and Piano Department
Chair Pavlina Dokovska, who delivered her usual lively program
notes for performances by eight of Mannes’s gifted young artists of
works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert – aptly reflecting the
festival’s unifying concept.
The festival’s title signifies that Beethoven’s immortality is due
both to his genius as manifested in his masterworks and also in the
profound influence these works exerted on future generations.
Among the musical giants of the past, Beethoven may well have been
the most powerfully influential of them all. His influence is
especially evident and far-reaching in those basic, conceptual areas of
musical thought such as structure and development – issues that
transcend particulars of personal style and genre.
The 2007 festival, the ninth in a continuing series, is exploring the
music of Beethoven and his followers through a total of 33 events. The
15 concerts performed by Mannes students that are the center of the
series take place at some of New York’s most prestigious institutions
and venues, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; Steinway
Hall; the German, Bulgarian, and Polish consulates; The Union Club;
Goethe-Institut New York, the Ukrainian Institute of America, and
four of the city’s most beautiful churches. If that isn’t enough, Mannes
students will perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in a series of
eight concerts in September and October in the Mannes Concert Hall.
At the 2007 festival opening gala at The Colony Club, left to right: (back) Ryan Koehler, Dimiter
Tchernookov, Dean Joel Lester, Ying Feng, Ilya Kazantsev, Festival Director Pavlina Dokovska, Maya
Lahyani; (front) Julia MacLaine, Loretta Terrigno, Ko-Ni Chen.
On the pedagogical side, the festival also includes seven master
classes presented by renowned virtuosi and teachers Eteri
Andjaparidze, Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Feltsman, Claude Frank,
Pamela Frank, Richard Goode, and Menachem Pressler. In addition,
Beethoven authorities Jacob Lateiner and Vladimir Feltsman will
offer lectures on the music of the master. Although some festival
concerts are limited to Mannes contributors by invitation only, all
master classes, lectures, and piano sonata concerts are free and open
to the public.
The Jean Schneider Goberman Prize in Composition
A competition in honor of Jean Schneider
Goberman, a Mannes alumna who received
her diploma in 1932, and served on the
faculty from 1965 to 1984, has been
established by her former student, Peter Frank.
Ms. Goberman, a gifted teacher and cellist,
was an inspiration to all those fortunate
enough to study and perform with her. In
addition to her teaching at Mannes, she
toured the United States and Australia, and
was a member of the New York Sinfonietta
and New York String Quartet.
The competition is open to students of all
Raphael Fusco, first prize
winner of the inaugural
competition
divisions currently enrolled at Mannes. Composition entries must be
for piano trio, piano quartet, or piano quintet. The first prize winner
receives $1500 and a premiere of the winning composition at Weill
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall by Alaria (Ensemble-in-Residence of the
Extension Division since 1984). Second- and third-prize winners
receive $700 and $300, respectively.
In 2006 (the competition’s inaugural year), Raphael Fusco
(compositon BM ‘05, MM ’07) was awarded First Prize for his piano
quartet, Due Giacattoli. His winning composition received a premiere
performance by Alaria at Weill Recital Hall on December 3, 2006.
Ryan Chase (BM candidate in composition) won Second Prize with
his And They Were With Us Too for piano quintet. Preparatory
Division student, Peter Asimov (high-school freshman and member
of the Honors Program in both piano and composition) received the
Third Prize with his Piano Quintet in C Minor. Both Ryan and Peter
were also finalists in the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young
Composer Award.
The Jean Schneider Goberman competition will be held again this
fall, with prizes being awarded in November, 2007.
Photo: Eugenia Ames
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Edward Aldwell Honored
THE EDWARD ALDWELL PROFESSORSHIP IN
THE TECHNIQUES OF MUSIC
The Mannes community – and the world
of music – suffered a tragic loss on May 28,
2006, when the noted pianist, pedagogue,
and music theorist Edward Aldwell, a
Mannes faculty member since 1969, died of
injuries he had suffered in an accident
earlier that month. (See “In Memoriam” in
Mannes News, winter 2006.)
In an act of extraordinary generosity, his
estate has made a gift of $1.5 million – the
largest single contribution Mannes has ever
received – to establish the Edward Aldwell
Professorship in The Techniques of Music.
Mannes’s very first endowed professorship
will honor the work and art, the intellect and
spirit, and the life and legacy of Edward
Aldwell.
THE EDWARD ALDWELL MEMORIAL CONCERT
On Monday, September 25, 2006, the
Mannes family gathered in The Concert
Hall to mourn the loss and celebrate the life
of Edward Aldwell. Three of his former
students performed music he cherished.
Thomas Sauer, member of the piano faculty
and of The Mannes Trio, performed Ricercar
a 3 and Ricercar a 6 from Bach’s The Musical
Offering. Mei-Ting Sun played Chopin’s
Preludes, op. 28, nos. 9-24. And piano
faculty member Yuri Kim offered
Beethoven’s Sonata in C minor, op. 111.
Carl Schachter, Ed’s teacher, friend,
colleague, and co-author of the groundbreaking
and widely used textbook Harmony
and Voice Leading, offered remarks that with
great eloquence and perception expressed
both his own thoughts and feelings and the
sentiments of those present.
The published program book for the
event includes tributes from many of his
friends, colleagues, students, and admirers.
Four of these by longtime fellow members
of the Techniques of Music faculty are
reprinted below.
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My first teacher of Schenkerian analysis
was Ed Aldwell. It was my first year at
Mannes, and I was a teenager at the time.
Like many a new student, I simply went to
the class to which I was assigned, without
having any idea that I was about to study
with one of the giants of the music world.
The class was like none other I had thus far
experienced. All the analytic concepts that
Ed taught in the class were bound up with
an approach to performance, and vice versa.
A particular highlight of each class session
was when Ed would sit at the piano and
play the piece that was being analyzed.
For instance, one day Ed and Yakov
Kreizberg (who was about 16 years old then)
played a four-hand arrangement of the first
movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in
C minor, op. 18 no. 4 for the class. I confess
that I had never heard the piece before. Not
surprisingly, I was overwhelmed by the
performance.
Ever since then, whenever I hear op. 18
no. 4, I think back to that day when I and a
handful of other lucky students were treated
to a very special performance by a very
special person.
—Poundie Burstein
Quem virum aut heroe lyra vel acri/ tibia
sumis celebrare, Clio? – What man or hero
will you celebrate most on your lyre or
bright-toned flute, Clio? Passages from
Horace keep running in my head now when
I think of Edward. Our conversations about
matters having to do with music, music
theory and departmental matters at Mannes
and Curtis where we both taught would
often veer into discussions of recent reading.
Talking about literature was a side of our
relationship that meant a great deal to both
of us. Friend, philosopher – also guide: it was
Edward who gave me invaluable advice about
theory teaching when I first began teaching
theory at Mannes in 1974. Light and playful
in manner as he often was, he was possessed
of true seriousness and dedication, and if ever
a man deserved to be remembered with
words of Horace, it was he.
—Robert Cuckson
Although I met Ed for the first time when
we were both students, I only came to know
him well when we became “double
colleagues,” teaching at both Mannes and
Curtis, especially since commuting by
Amtrak provided many opportunities for
unexpectedly extended conversations. I also
remember that when my future wife first
arrived in the United States speaking
virtually no English, Ed made real efforts to
communicate with her, something which
both of us appreciated. He was never
loquacious, but always communicated
expressively. This must have been especially
true in his teaching, as all of his students
remained fiercely loyal, even many years
after concluding their studies. Among his
many gifts he had a perfect sense of how to
keep a discussion focused on the main
objective, always found effective and brief
remarks, tinged with his uniquely sardonic
humor, which brought the rest of us back
into line. All of us will miss him for what he
brought us, what he taught us, but most of
all for his sense of the highest standards.
—David Loeb
I first met Edward Aldwell in the 1960s
(I don’t remember the year), when he began
studying theory and Schenkerian analysis
with me; at that time he was still a piano
student at Juilliard. Ed worked with me for
several years, mostly on analysis but also on
invertible counterpoint. We became and
remained very close friends, and in the
1970s we collaborated on the book
Harmony and Voice Leading.
Ed joined the faculty of the Mannes
College in 1969, and in 1971 he began
teaching at the Curtis Institute; he remained
on both faculties until his death. In his early

Edward Aldwell
years at Mannes he taught both theoretical
subjects and piano, but he eventually
became so busy with his various musical
activities that he had to give up the theory
teaching and confine his teaching there to
piano. In the last few years, however, he
taught a marvelous Bach course for pianists
that combined analysis, historical research
and performance practice in a unique way.
At Curtis he “officially” taught only
theoretical subjects – counterpoint,
harmony, form, Schenkerian analysis – but
many Curtis pianists (and also performers
on other instruments) would seek his advice
and play for him.
Ed regarded himself as a performing
musician and teacher of theory rather than a
“theorist,” and his abiding interest in theory
was mainly a practical one: he was not keen
to involve himself in theoretical speculation
for its own sake. Ed used theory as a means
to help young musicians (and himself)
understand better, hear better, and play
better. His only publication in the field of
theory is the harmony book he wrote
together with me. Our joint authorship was
a genuine collaboration; and whatever might
be good in the book is due equally to both
of us. Ed sometimes gave two wonderful
lecture-demonstrations combining analysis
and performance. One dealt with figured
bass as an aid to the performance of Bach’s
keyboard works, and the other treated the
elements of species counterpoint in a similar
way. He never prepared these for
publication, and indeed they would lose a
great deal without his beautiful playing of
the musical illustrations.
In the course of a teaching career
spanning more than three decades, Ed had a
profound influence on some of the most
talented young musicians studying in the
United States. Many of his former theory
and piano students at Mannes and Curtis
have gone on to have important careers as
composers, performers, teachers, and
scholars. In his theory teaching Ed played a
great deal, and his wonderful pianism made
his teaching all the more convincing; his
playing became an object lesson in the value
of theoretical understanding for good
performance. In teaching Bach, for instance,
he made students aware of the frequent
passages governed by parallel motion in
tenths between the outer voices. In contrast
to many pianists, who “bring out” one of
the two voices, possibly in an exaggerated
way, Ed would often keep them more nearly
(though not exactly) equal so that one heard
clearly both the individual lines and the
intervals they form. The balance he sought
was fairly close to what a harpsichord or
organ would produce, but animated by the
subtle dynamic nuances possible on the
piano. The unrivalled clarity of his Bach
playing owed as much to his control of
balances as to his ability to shape and
articulate each voice individually. None of
this would have been possible without his
profound feeling for and understanding of
the voice leading.
I daresay that his colleagues and students
– and indeed everyone who knew him well
– found Ed to be one of the most
remarkable human beings they had ever
encountered. At once exacting and tolerant,
serious and full of humor, brilliantly gifted
and completely unpretentious, he was
kindness and generosity personified. His
untimely passing leaves a painful emptiness
in many lives.
—Carl Schachter
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Summer 2007
THANK YOU!
MANNES COLLEGE
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Mannes is proud to acknowledge
and thank each member of the
Board for their generous leadership
gifts and thoughtful investment
of time and wisdom during the
2006-07 academic year.
John E. Beerbower, Chair
Eugenia A. Ames
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Michael E. Gellert
Alexander Glantz
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William J. Strizever
Donald A. Wagner
ARTIST MEMBERS
Gordon P. Getty
Murray Perahia
Julius Rudel
Robert Sherman
Frederica von Stade
ANNUAL FUND
Each year, a growing number of
loyal Mannes supporters
contributes to the annual fund
campaign and we are grateful for
their role in the many successes
that Mannes students and faculty
accomplish throughout the year.
A strong partnership exists
between Mannes and its donors.
The achievements of one are
linked to the generosity of the
other. Special recognition is
extended to alumni across the
globe who contribute their
remembrances of Mannes with
annual gifts.
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OVER $250,000
Estate of Edward Aldwell
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Studies in Music Theory (Wayne
Alpern)
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& Mark Beale)
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Photo: Barbara Barefield
The Stella Trio: Jannina Barefield, Monica Chung, Laura Metcalf
YVES ABEL (choral conducting, BM ’86)
was recently appointed Principal Guest
Conductor of Deutsche Oper Berlin. In
May ’06 he conducted a fully staged
production by L’Opera Français de New
York of Rameau’s Castor et Pollux at the
French Institute Alliance Française. Abel
returned this season to the Vienna State
Opera, as well as making debuts at Teatro
alla Scala in Milan and at Théâtre du
Capitole in Toulouse.
CHRISTINA ALEXOPOULOS (voice, BM
’05, MM ’07) and MAYA LAHYANI (voice,
BM ’07) participated in the Lincoln
Center Chamber Music Society’s master
class presented Susanne Menzter.
TANYA BANNISTER (piano, PSD ’05) was
profiled in the January-February ’07 issue
of Symphony (the magazine of the
American Symphony Orchestra League) as
one of “Six to Watch: Up-and-coming
artists ready to make their mark.” In ’06,
Ms. Bannister joined the roster of Concert
Artists Guild. The same issue of the ASOL
magazine featured “Symphony’s 2007 Guide
to Emerging Artists” which included
NATASHA PAREMSKI (piano, BM ’07)
and HAIM AVITSUR (trombone, BM ’97,
MM ’99, Career Counselor).
JOHANNA BOURKOVA (violin, PSD ’07-’08)
has been appointed Assistant Concertmaster
of the Richmond Symphony (Virginia),
starting in fall ’07.
MONICA CHUNG (piano, BM ’04, MM ’06),
LAURA METCALF (cello, MM ’06), and
JANNINA BAREFIELD (violin, MM ’06,
PSD candidate) have formed the Stella
Trio which made its Carnegie Hall debut
at Weill Recital Hall in November ’06.
DANIEL COSTELLO (horn, MM ’94) has
been appointed Associate Principal Horn
of the Anhaltinische Philharmonie Dessau.
SARAH CULLINS (voice, PSD ’00-’01) has
been appointed Chair of the newly
established voice department at the
Universidad Central in Bogotá, Columbia,
where she is developing its professional
opera performance program.
Malena Dayen
STEPHEN CZARKOWSKI (cello, BM ’99,
cello and orchestral conducting, MM ’02),
has been named Music Director and
Conductor of the Montgomery College
Symphony Orchestra. He has joined the
Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild,
an international professional organization.
MALENA DAYEN (voice, MM ’04, PDS
’06) made her Carnegie Hall debut on
May 9 as alto soloist in the Oratorio
Society of New York’s performance of
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. In December
’06, she was alto soloist in Mozart’s
Requiem performed by the Columbia
University Bach Society Chorus and
Orchestra, conducted by David
Rosenmeyer. In June ’07, she toured
Hungary with the Oratorio Society of as
alto soloist in Honegger’s Le Roi David.
Photo: Steve J. Sherman
DANIELLE DE NIESE (voice, BM, ’99-’01)
made her Metropolitan Opera debut in a
lead role in spring ’07 as Cleopatra in
Handel’s Giulio Caesare. In the March ’07
issue of BBC Music Magazine, she was
hailed as one of “The 10 Brightest New
Stars for 2007” and is the subject of a
feature in the August issue of Opera News.
RODRICK DIXON (voice, BM ’89 MM
’91) made his Los Angeles Opera debut in
Wagner’s Tannhäuser as Walther von der
Vogelweider in February ’07.
JOANN FALLETTA (conducting, MM ’76)
received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts
from the College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, VA in February ’07, and
received an Honorary Doctorate from The
New School in May ’07. (See p. 7)
ANYA FIDELIA (voice, PSD ’03) returned
to the Caramoor International Music
Festival (where she made her debut in
summer ’05) as a member of the
Caramoor Bel Canto Young Artists,
appearing in Rossini’s Petite Messe
Solennelle, Verdi’s Il Trovatore, and
Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix.
ANGELINA GADELIYA (piano, MM ’03,
PSD ’05) and JULIA MACLAINE (cello,
PSD, ’07) have been selected for The
Academy, a performance and education
fellowship of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard
School, and The Weill Music Institute,
entering its second pilot phase in fall ’07.
In summer ’06 & ’07, Ms. Gadeliya was a
Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in the
collaborative piano program.
Angelina Gadeliya
ALIUMNI NEWS
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ALIUMNI NEWS
Summer 2007
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Shu-Ying Li
LADY JEANNE GALWAY (flute, BM ’77)
performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic,
Solisti Veneti, The London Mozart
Players, and with the Bergen Philharmonic
in the presence of the Queen of Norway.
She toured with the Irish Chamber
Orchestra and played as a soloist with her
husband (Sir James Galway) in recital,
orchestra, and chamber concerts this
season.
ADAM GILBERT (horn, BM ’84) has been
named Director of the Early Music
Performance Program at the USC
Thornton School of Music. He is codirector
of Ensemble Ciaramella which has
released its first CD on the Naxos label.
ANDRE GREMILLET (piano, MM ’92,
PSD ’94), the president of Casavant
Freres, a builder of pipe organs situated
near his native Montreal, was appointed
president and chief executive of the New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra in January ’07.
ANI KALAYJIAN (cello, MM ’03) and
SAM ARMSTRONG (piano, PSD ’07)
made their debut as a duo at Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall in March ’07.
KANAE KOSHI (piano, MM ’04)
presented a solo piano recital at the Trinity
Church Concerts at One series at St. Paul’s
Chapel in November ’06.
Photo: Janette Beckman
Trio Cavatina, founded by PRISCILLA LEE
(cello, MM ’05), IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE
(piano, MM ’02, PSD ’04), and HARUMI
RHODES (daughter of HIROKO YAJIMA,
string department chair), was selected for
the New England Conservatory’s 2006-07
Professional Piano Trio Training Program,
and in spring ’07, presented concerts at
Boston’s Jordan Hall, at The New School,
and at Merkin Concert Hall.
YONGHOON LEE (voice, MM ’06) made
his debut as the title role in Verdi’s Don
Carlo in Santiago de Chile in spring ’07.
SHU-YING LI (voice, PSD ’02) was the
2007 winner of the New York City Opera
Stanley Tausend Award “presented
annually to a deserving young artist the
season following his or her debut.”
Trio Cavatina: Priscilla Lee, Ieva Jokubaviciute, Harumi Rhodes
CHRISTOPHER MORRONGIELLO (lute,
BM ’90) graduated with his Ph.D. in
musicology from Oxford University.
MARI MORIYA (voice, PSD ’05) won the
fifth Veronica Dunne International
Singing Competition at the National
Concert Hall in Dublin in January ’07. In
2006 she won the Charles A. Lynam vocal
competition and the Luetz Riedel Award at
the Liederkranz Foundation Vocal
Competition. Also, she was one of 25
finalists (from a field of 677) in the 2007
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
Competition.
JANE O’HARA (cello, MM ’05) has joined
with pianist Isabelle O’Connell and violinist
Elizabeth Cooney, two fellow Dubliners
based in New York, to form the Syrius Trio.
With soprano Sylvia O’Brien, they presented
a Shostakovich Centenary concert at Weill
Recital Hall in October ’06.
NATASHA PAREMSKI (piano, BM ’07)
appeared as soloist with the West Virginia
Symphony Orchestra and with the Santa Fe
Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra in February
’07. In March, she made her San Francisco
recital debut and also performed with the
Santa Barbara Symphony. On June 21, she
stepped in as a last-minute substitute for an
indisposed Hélène Grimaux as soloist in
Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto
with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the gala
opening night concert of the 2007
Caramoor Music Festival. In summer ’07
she performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley
Music Festival, the Green Music Festival in
California, and at the Santa Fe Chamber
Music Festival. Ms. Paremski was the
subject of a feature article in the summer
’07 issue of MUSO magazine.
PATRICIA RISLEY (voice, PSD ’95)
returned to Santa Fe Opera for Miranda in
the American premiere of The Tempest by
Thomas Adès in summer ’06, sang
Cherubino at the Arizona Opera in Le
nozze di Figaro, and the Composer in
Ariadne auf Naxos for the Utah Opera in
January ’07.
Mari Moriya

JUAN CARLOS RIVAS (opera conducting,
PSD ’02) serves as National Music Director
of Batuta, Colombia’s National System of
Children and Youth Orchestras, and as
Artistic Consultant for the 1st International
Music Festival of Cartagena.
VANESSA ROSE (violin, MM ’01) has been
named special projects manager at the
American Symphony Orchestra League.
JODY SHEINBAUM (voice, MM ’96)
performed the role of Jenny in Ned Rorem’s
Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters in summer
’06 for which she received critical acclaim.
In January ’07 she sang the role of Beth in
the Center City Opera Theater’s concert
performance of Mark Adamo’s Little Women
at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and
in June sang Sybil Vane in Lowell
Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
with the same company.
ARTHUR SHEN (voice, BM ’95-’99)
performed in DiCapo Opera Theatre’s
production of Puccini’s Le Villi and Messa di
Gloria in New York City in January ’07.
VIRA SLYWOTZKY (voice, MM ’07) was
selected as alternate is a master class
presented by Evelyn Lear in the Juilliard
School’s Marilyn Horne Series. In December
’06, Ms. Slywotzky performed selections
from Koliada: Twelve Dishes, a world Music-
Theater piece based on an ancient winter
rituals from the Carpathians, with the Yara
arts group at the Ukranian Museum.
ERICA STRAUSS (voice, BM ’97, MM ’99)
and VLAD IFTINKA (collaborative piano,
MM, ’04) were featured at the Marilyn
Horne Foundation Annual Recital on
January 26, ’07 at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel
Hall, hosted by Ms. Horne. In spring ’07,
“On Wings of Song” on WQXR broadcast a
recital by Ms. Strauss recorded in late March
at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
MEI-TING SUN (piano, BM ’00, MM ’01)
made a recital tour of the People’s Republic
of China in December ’07. He recently
released a live performance CD “The
Madrid Concert” on his own label. In
March ’07 he performed a recital in the
Mei-Ting Sun
Yamaha Piano series “On the Rise; Concert
Artists on the Horizon” at the Puffin
Cultural Forum in New Jersey.
REIKO UCHIDA (piano MM ’96) and violinist
Jennifer Koh presented critically acclaimed
concerts at the 92nd Street ‘Y’ in February
’07, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater in
January ’07, and at Philadelphia’s Kimmel
Center in October ’06. The concerts featured
the premiere of String Poetic by Jennifer
Higdon (Mannes 2007-08 Composer-in-
Residence). Ms. Uchida and Ms. Koh have
recorded two CDs on Cedille Records,
“Violin Fantasies,” and “Schumann: The
Sonatas for Violin and Piano.”
DANIEL VEGA-ALBELA (violin, BM ’91)
plays in the quartet La Catrina, which was
selected to present the Young Performer
Career Advancement Recital on January ’07
at Weill Recital Hall during the Association
of Performing Arts Presenters conference.
ILYA YAKUSHEV (piano, BM ’03, MM ’05,
PSD ’07) made his San Francisco Symphony
debut under Michael Tilson Thomas,
appearing in three concerts of the Prokofiev
Festival, performing the Piano Concertos
Numbers 1 and 4, as well as the Seventh
Piano Sonata. In the review in The San
Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman reported
that “the big news was the astonishing
tripartite debut of pianist Ilya Yakushev, who
single-handedly turned the end of the festival
into something unforgettable.” On April 7,
Mr. Yakushev made his Alice Tully Hall
recital debut as winner of the 2005 World
Piano Competition in Cincinnati, and was
enthusiastically reviewed in The New York
Times by Anne Midgette as a pianist who
“can do just about anything he wants.” In
December ’06, he toured Germany with
recitals at the Anton Rubinstein Akademie in
Düsseldorf, at the Bechstein Centrum in
Berlin, and at the Bösendorfer Stadtsalon at
the Musikverein in Vienna.
DAN ZHU (violin, BM ’03, MM ’05, PSD
’07) continues to develop a successful
international career. He was featured in gala
New Year’s concerts in Beijing with the
China Philharmonic Orchestra broadcast on
Chinese national television. Recently he
toured China appearing a soloist with its
major orchestras, toured Europe and the
U.K. with the Munich Symphony Orchestra
under Philippe Entremont, and was again
invited by Jean-Ives Thibaudet to participate
in Italy’s Spoleto Festival. He was cited in the
March 2007 issue of Gramophone magazine
as one of five Chinese musicians “coming up
fast behind Lang Lang and Yundi Li.”
Ilya Yakushev
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FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
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Summer 2007
HAIM AVITSUR (trombone, BM ’97, MM
’99, Career Counselor) appeared as soloist
with the Western Piedmont Symphony in
Hickory, NC in Ferdinand David’s
Concertino No. 4 in E-flat. The local
paper, Outlook, praised him for his
“command of the instrument, from the
loud and silky to the soft and sweet [and
his] beautiful tone and control.”
PER BREVIG (trombone faculty) was guest
conductor of The Oberlin Orchestra at the
Oberlin Conservatory in spring ’06.
L. POUNDIE BURSTEIN (T.O.M.
faculty) delivered the keynote address,
“Schenkerian Analysis and the Long
Range” at the 24th Annual Music Theory
Forum sponsored by The Music Theory
Society at Florida State University in
Tallahassee in January ’07. The next
month he delivered the keynote address for
the Texas Theory Society’s 2007 conference
at the University of Texas at Arlington.
MICHAEL CHARRY (conducting faculty,
former Mannes Orchestra Director) was
guest conductor of the Vancouver
Academy of Music Symphony at
Vancouver’s Orpheum Theater in April ’07
in a concert that was enthusiastically
reviewed in The Vancouver Sun.
KEITH FITCH (composition and chamber
music faculty) has been appointed to the
composition faculty at Bard College
beginning this fall. He is stepping down as
Associate Director the Preparatory
Division, a position he held for 10 years.
He will continue as a faculty member. Mr.
Fitch has been commissioned by the St.
Luke’s Chamber Orchestra for a new work
to be performed in the 2007-08 season.
RUTH FALCON (voice faculty) was described
in the February ’07 programs of the
Metropolitan Opera as “a legend in the field
and works with such starry students as Andrea
Gruber, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Deborah
Voigt. Falcon is known for being adept at
harnessing huge voices, but she is just at home
working with smaller-voiced singers.”
A two-CD set of Beethoven’s piano works
recorded in the 1970’s by HARRIS
GOLDSMITH (chamber music faculty) has
been reissued on the “Brilliant Label.” A
feature article by Benjamin Ivry in the New
York Observer celebrated Mr. Goldsmith’s
distinguished and remarkable career as
writer, critic, pianist, and pedagogue.
WENDY GRIFFITHS (Prep and Extension
T.O.M. faculty) is a recipient of an ’06-’07
ASCAPLUS Award in the Concert Music
Division.
Violinists HIROKO YAJIMA and CHIN
KIM, and cellist MARCY ROSEN (all string
faculty members), joined by Ms. Yajima’s
daughter and husband, violinist Harumi
Rhodes and violist Samuel Rhodes,
presented two chamber music concerts at
Bargemusic in spring ’07.
YURI KIM (piano faculty) performed with
Chin Kim and Anna Pelehk and taught at
several summer festivals in ’06: the
International Music Academy in Castelnuovo
di Garfagnana, Italy; the Duxbury Music
Festival; the Summit Music Festival; and the
International Musica Classica Festival
Competition in Puigcerdà, Spain.
DAN MAREK (voice faculty) is author of
Singing: The First Art, recently published
by Scarecrow Press, and two articles in
Classical Singer: “Advice from the Scuola
Cantorum” (September ’06) and “Mozart
for the Young Singer” (December ’06).
TATJANA RANKOVICH (Preparatory
Division piano faculty) performed Nicolas
Flagello’s Piano Concerto No.1 with John
McLaughlin Williams and the National
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine on
a Naxos CD.
DAVID ROSENMEYER (theory/conducting,
MM ’05; Mannes Chorus conductor)
made his Carnegie Hall debut on March
13 led the Oratorio Society of New York
(of which he is Associate Conductor) in a
performance reviewed in The New York
Times as “a richly voiced account of
Stravinsky’s Mass, in which a lean
ensemble of wind and brass players offered
deft counterpoint to burnished vocal
harmonies.” In June, Maestro Rosenmeyer
toured Hungary with the Oratorio Society,
conducting Poulenc’s Organ Concerto
with Musical Director Kent Tritle as
soloist. He is also serving as Music Director
of the famed Salzburg Marionettes’ new
production of The Sound of Music.
JULIE ROTH (Assistant to the Dean) ran
and finished the 2006 New York Marathon
with a personal best of 3:49. We are
proud to have someone so accomplished —
percussionist, musicologist, AND athlete as
a member of our staff.
Three Elegies for Soprano and Percussion
composed by RICHARD RUSSELL
(Assistant Director, Extension Division)
were performed by TIFFANY
DUMOUCHELLE (voice, BM ’06, MM
candidate) and STEVEN SOLOOK
(percussion, MM ’05, PSD ’07) at
Symphony Space in a March ’07 New
York Composers Circle concert.
RICHARD SHIRK (piano pedagogy faculty,
Extension piano faculty) performed at
Trinity Parish in Bergen Point as part of the
Arts at Trinity concert series in April ’07.
FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN (music history
faculty, College and Extension) has been
awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA.
During her residency, she will join
approximately 20 other fellows focusing on
their own creative projects at this working
retreat for visual artists, writers, and
composers.
WILHELMINA SMITH (cellist, The Mannes
Trio) announces her first solo CD release
with the trio’s pianist THOMAS SAUER
(piano faculty) on the Arabesque Label.
J.Y. SONG (Artistic Advisor for Chamber
Music, piano, chamber music, and music
history faculty) presented “J.Y. Song and
Friends” with violinist Tanja Becker-
Bender and cellist Darrett Adkins on
January 17 at Weill Recital Hall as part of
the Pro Musicis 2007 Concert Series.
Timothy Gilligan in the New York Concert
Review praised her “supple, expressive,
beautifully modulated piano playing which
takes account of the composer’s
instructions and reproduces them in fine

Photo: Alex Kaplan
RYAN CHASE (composition, BM
candidate) enjoyed premieres in fall ‘06 of
his compositions Irreverent Mirage by The
Chelsea Symphony and Perspectra of the
Trans-Mundane by the Crane Percussion
Ensemble. Mr. Chase was a winner of the
‘07 ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards.
Matei Varga
FACULTY, cont.
and accurate detail, with warm colorful
sound and the least amount of fuss. . . Her
focus is on the music and we are drawn to
it with her.”
DAVID TCIMPIDIS (composition faculty,
Director of Extension Division) had his
one-act opera, The Wee Wee Mannie and
the Big Big Coo, premiered by the
Delaware Valley Opera Company in
October ’06. In the same month, WJFF
(an NPR station) broadcast a recording of
the Mannes Trio playing his work Drift.
VLADIMIR VALJAREVIC (piano, BM ’96,
MM ’97, piano faculty Preparatory and
Extension) spent last year at Geneva
Conservatory studying with Pascal
Devoyon on Fulbright Scholarship and
Swiss Arts Government Grant. Recent
performances include chamber music at
the Great Hall of Geneva Conservatory,
Southwest Virginia Festival for the Arts
(including a performance with Knoxville
Symphony), and a chamber music recital
at Sumida Tryphony Hall in Tokyo.
JIE CHEN (piano, MM candidate) won
2nd Prize in the International Villa-Lobos
Competition in Brazil in August ‘06.
KATE EMERMAN (voice, BM ‘06, MM
candidate) won the Anchorage Festival of
Music’s 2006 Young Alaska Artist Award.
CAMERON HUSTER (harp, MM
candidate) performed works by Britten,
Boieldieu, and de Falla in a series of
concerts at Eastern New Mexico University
in winter ‘06 to great acclaim.
RACHEL (EUN-JI) KIM (piano, BM
candidate) won second prize in the
International Piano Festival Competition
of summer ‘06 in Puigcerdà, Spain.
RICARDO RIVERA (voice, BM candidate)
sang Steven Stucky’s Four Poems of A.R.
Ammons in the St. Joseph’s Singers’ new
music concert in November ’06.
HEIDI SAUSER (voice, BM candidate)
presented a solo recital in October ‘06 at
Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights. In
May ’07 she was the soprano soloist in
Mendelssohn’s Elijah, also at Grace
Church in Brooklyn Heights.
NADINE SIERRA (voice, BM candidate)
was awarded first place in the junior
division of the Palm Beach Opera’s 38th
Annual Vocal Competition in spring ’07,
at which SHARLEEN JOYNT (voice, BM
candidate) won sixth place. Ms. Sierra also
participated in the Juilliard School’s
Marilyn Horne Series in a master class
presented by Evelyn Lear.
MATEI VARGA (piano, MM ’06, PSD
candidate) was second prize winner of the
Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition
Award at the International Keyboard
Institute and Festival at Mannes in July ’07.
He made his debut with the Performers of
Westchester chamber music series in an
enthusiastically received joint concert with
violinist Andy Simionescu in November ’06.
PREPARATORY DIVISION NEWS
GRACIELA ARGUEDAS-HERRERA (piano
student of Richard Shirk) was first prize
winner of the 2007 Leschetizky Competition
and made her New York recital debut in
March at Merkin Concert Hall. Ms.
Arguedas-Herrera also won first prize in
the 2007 Hartford Symphony Competition
and will perform the Schumann Concerto
with that ensemble in fall ’07.
PETER ASIMOV (composition student of
Steve Sacco) was a finalist in the 2007
ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer
Competition.
MAHLON BERV (composition student of
Eleonor Cory) had a very successful year,
winning first prize in the Connecticut
division of the National Federation of
Music Clubs 2007 Junior Composers
Competition and first place in the Eastern
Division National Federation of Music
Clubs Junior Composers Competition.
Mahlon also received the Schubert Club
Young Musicians’ Festival Gold Medal,
and was a finalist in the National
Federation of Music Clubs Junior
Composers Competition and in the
annual ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composers Competition.
MAX GRAFE (graduate, ’07; composition
student of Keith Fitch) was a winner in
the 2007 ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards. Additionally, Max was
the winner of the first New York State
Band Directors Association Composition
Competition, as well as the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music High
School Composition Competition.
NICHOLAS KAPONYAS and ALISON
ROBERTS (piano students of Richard
Shirk) were both winners of the
Leschetizky Gifted Young People’s
Competition and performed at the
Donnell Library in March ’07.
DIOMEDES SARAZA, JR. (violin student
of Chin Kim) was the winner of the 2007
Woodmere Music Club Young Artist
Competition.
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Tuesday, September 25 at 3 PM - Pamela
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NADIA REISENBERG AWARD PIANO RECITAL
Ilya Kazantzev
Thursday, November 29 at 7:30 PM
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