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BOYER FACULTY NEWSSeptember 2008 Read Maurice Wright's review of SWARMIUS: The Philadelphia Project in SEAMUS News Deborah Sheldon will receive the Outstanding Service to Music Award" by the National Council of Tau Beta Sigma sorority. Each year, TBS nominates a woman who has made "significant contributions to music and the band world." Dr. Sheldon was inducted as an honorary member of the Alpha Omega chapter of TBS in 1990. She will receive the award in December in Chicago.
Summer/Fall 2008 Read a comprehensive list of faculty research projects, publications, compositions, awards and performances. April 2008 Helen Kwalwasser has been awarded the 2008 Temple Great Teacher Award. Edward Latham has been awarded the 2008 Lindback Award. The Bulletin published a feature article on Kun-Yang Lin and the Kun-Yang Lin /Dancers, "one of Pennsylvannia's only Asian American contemporary dance companies," as they prepare to open Chi Movement Arts Center in South Philadelphia. "I know that there will be many challenges, but I am committed to being an active participant in the vibrant art scene in Philadelphia. Art is about connecting with people," said Lin, who also serves as Artistic Director. March 2008 Steven Zohn's book, Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works, was recently published by Oxford Press. Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts were featured in a New York Times article about the history of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. February 2008 City Paper featured an article on Kariamu Welsh as she prepares for performances by Kariamu & Company, which highlights Umfundalai technique. Umfundalai translates to "essensce" or "essential" in the Kenyan language of Kiswahili. A feature article by Joyce Lindorff, "Instruments of the Baroque" is included in the February issue of Clavier. Deborah Sheldon conducted an East Tennessee High School all-State band. Alison Reynolds presented the paper, "Professional Development for General Music Teachers: Kindling the Spark, Fanning the Flame, and Keeping an Eye on the Fire"at the International Conferece on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, hosted by Arizona State University. January 2008 Matthew Greenbaum has been awarded a joint commission by the Library of Congress and the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. The commission is for a new work for the German-based Ensemble SurPlus. The January issue of Clavier includes a feature article by Joyce Lindorff, Authentic Baroque. "Baroque-era keyboardists were basically improvisers who had to hunt through scores to find clues to interpretation. . ." Brett Deubner, who recently performed at the Woodmere Art Museum, was featured in Montgomery Newspapers' TICKET To read about Merian Soto's "Performance Practice, One Year Wissahickon Park Project" visit www.Meriansoto.blogspot.com Kun-Yang Lin's performance at Symphony Space in New York received note in The New York Times. "Kun-Yang Lin whose somewhat stylized dances also brim with dark emotions...." December 2007 "There's no good reason to skip an Orkis concert," wrote David Patrick Stearns in the Philadelphia Inquirer (12/30/07). Stearns was referencing the second of two performances of Beethoven's cello/piano works by Lambert Orkis and David Hardy at Rock Hall. He also called Orkis "a marvelously probing musician." November 2007 The October issue of SEAMUS News featured an article by Maurice Wright about his collaboration with Merian Soto and the premiere of What Is Love, an electroacoustic work performed at Lincoln Center Out Of Doors in August. John Douglas conducted Madame Butterly at Opera Delaware, which featured gradutate opera student, Youna Jang. Maria del Pico Taylor led her ensemble, Latin Fiesta, as part of its annual Many Roots, many Faces concert at the Philadelphia Convention Center. "The Latin Fiesta band competnetly and professionally led the procession of traditional music," wrote Jim McCaffrey in The Bulletin. Students of Philip Cho will pay tribute to the 40th anniversary of his American debut and 35th year as professor at Boyer with a concert at the Kimmel Center on Oct. 14. The concert is co-sponsored by the Seoul National University Alumni Association, the Dong publishing company and the Joong-Ang Broadcasting Station. September 2007 William Stone performed works by Robert Ward at the composer's 90th birthday concert on Sept. 13 at the Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, NC. "He's an example for the next generation of how important it is to stay busy and keep working," says Dr. Stone in the News & Observer. Jeffrey Solow was featured on NJN's (NJ Public Radio & Television) television program, Learning Curve, during which he gave a master class to his Boyer students, sponsored by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. State of the Arts producer, Eric Schultz, spoke of his role as a teacher and his former teacher, Gregor Piatigorsky. View Professor Solow's interview. Professor Solow has also been named President of the Violoncello Society, Inc., in New York and is president-elect of ASTA, which will become effective in May 2008. Cheryl Dileo presented a lecture and supervised graduate research at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she has been named Honorary Associate Professor and Principal Fellow within the Faculty of Music. She also presented, “Research Evidence and Innovative Practice in Music Therapy for Managing Pain and Enhancing Quality of Life” at the Yale University School of Medicine symposium, Pain Management through Music Therapy. She is the Local Host for the 2008 conference of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference, April 16-19, 2008 in Philadelphia. She will serve as Co-Chair of the institute, Prevention and Health Enhancement through Music Therapy, at the American Music Therapy Association national conference in Louisville, and will present a lecture, “Music Therapy as a Viable, Evidence-Based Approach to Health Enhancement: Present and Future.” Dr. Maurice Wright's String Quartet from 1983 will receive NY premiere at Carnegie Hall on September 30, performed by Seraphin Quartet. Philadelphia City Paper writes that Merian Soto's States of Gravity and Light #2 at the Fringe Festival "is so calmed down its like being in a yoga class...Best is Soto herself performing Toshi Makihara, a human musical instrument....quite beautiful all at the same time." Read full review August 2007 Merian Soto's premiere of "What is Love?" was reviewed in the New York Times as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival. "Ms. Soto opted for a traditional stage platform in her “What Is Love?,” dedicated to Ms. Summers, her mentor. Maurice Wright’s score suggested a delicate medium through which the five female dancers moved. The long tree boughs they held and the shapes of their bodies made intriguing echoes and counterpoints with the bending trees and plantings to the dancers’ north and the stern verticals of the Metropolitan Opera beyond." Beth Bolton taught a 5-day seminar in early childhood music education at Chung Ang University in Seoul, Korea. Dr.
Bolton presented lectures, teaching demonstrations with Korean children, and musicianship demonstrations and coaching, and observed and evaluated peer- teaching and teaching of children conducted by Korean teachers. Musicianship coaching was team-taught by Dr. Joohee Rho, who received a PhD in Music Education degree from the Boyer College in 2004. Dr. Rho is the founder of the Audie music school network in Seoul, which sponsored the course. Master teachers from the Audie music schools provided peer teaching demonstrations. William Stone taught at the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, this summer. Three Temple voice students participated. In September he will perform for Robert Ward's 90th birthday celebration (Ward is a Pulitzer Prize winner for his opera, "The Crucible.") JULY 2007 Jeffrey Solow completed a 3 week tour in China, including master classes and recitals at the National Library in Taipei, Hong Kong, Fuzhou, Conservatory of Music of GuangXi Arts College and Conservatory in WuHan. View photo of recital in Fuzhou. Cheryl Dileo is pleased to announce 2 grants for Arts & Quality of Life Research Center from the Christopher Reeve Foundation and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Both grants will support the community outreach initiative, Arts at Your Side. Read more about the Research Center. JUNE 2007 Maurice Wright has composed an electroacoustic piece for pre-recorded computer and live-processed sound for Marian Soto's performance in August at Lincoln Center's Out-Of-Doors Festival. A Fish's Tale (electroacoustic music & video) was selcted for performance at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen in August. Dr. Wright's percussion OCTET will be performed in China in July at CISMA. Joellen Meglin has been named co-editor of Dance Chronicle, the only journal dedicated to dance history. Read more. Maria del Pico Taylor will present a session on Argentinian Chamber Music at the Dorothy Taubman Seminar, June 21 at Lincoln Center. Professor del Pico Taylor's ensemble, Latin Fiesta, has been awarded a $30,000 grant from The Philadelphia Music Project for The Second Annual Hispanic Music Festival, Sep. 22, 2008 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. MAY 2007 Cheryl Dileo took part in a panel on model grants at the annual Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference in Nashville. Dr Dileo presented information on her grant, Singing for Survival: A Music Therapy Choral Arts Program for Persons with HIV and Their Caregivers” which was funded by Johnson and Johnson. Dr. Dileo has been named to the Honorary Faculty in Music at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has also been invited to present a lecture on music therapy and pain management at the Yale University Medical School in Fall, 08. Jeffrey Solow has been appointed President of the Violoncello Society, Inc. Beth Bolton traveled to Brazil to work with early childhood music educators in Curitiba and present a 2-day seminar for teachers at the Federal University of Parana. While in Curitiba, she worked with parents, teachers, and children in the university early childhood music center. APRIL 2007 Lambert Orkis wrote a touching and personal tribute to the late Mstislav Rostropovich in The Washington Post (4/28/07). Professor Orkis, who performend and toured with Rostropovich for more than 11 years, writes that playing with "Slava" was a "great privilege," and credits him with being responsible for securing a position as pianist with the National Symphony Orchestra. Bill Cunliffe was featured in JazzTimes for scoring his first feature film, The Northern Kingdom, to premiere at the Syracuse International Film Festival on April 20. Kariamu Welsh received Norfolk State University and the 26th Annual Black College Dance Exchange “Award of Excellence” in April 2007 for her work as a dance artist, scholar, mentor and educator. She also gave a keynote Session at Ohio University’s "Performing Africa Beth Bolton served as the invited keynote speaker and international conference chair for the 5th annual Lithuanian Early Childhood Music and Music Education conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. She presented a research lecture, a practical applications workshop, and demonstrated teaching with Lithuanian infants and their parents. In Lithuania, Dr. Bolton was joined by presenters Dr. Wendy Valerio and Dr. Debbie Wolf , both Boyer PhD graduates in music education, and other distinguished presenters from the United States, Lithuania, Portugal, and Italy. Joellen Meglin was awarded a Newberry Library Fellowship for Individual Research to work in residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago in July. She will also work at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on "Ruth Page and the Quest for the First American Ballet in the Second City," funded by a Temple University Summer Research Award. She presented her choreography of "Tango" composed by Richard Brodhead and "A Floating Island" composed by Matthew Greenbaum at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia as one of the Boyer College Atelier Concerts, funded by the Philadelphia Music Project of the Pew Charitable Trust. The New York Times calls Kun-Yang Lin's choreography a "bold force" and a "distinctive blend of traditional and Western dance." Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers will perform at Queens Theater Asian Cultural Festival on April 20. Professor Lin will conduct master classes this summer in Singapore, Philadelphia, New York and Mexico. He will also serve as Master Teacher and Competition Judge at the International Dance Conference in Malaysia. Jeffrey Solow performed the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with Mark Laycock and the Princeton Symphony on April 15 at in Alexander Hall, Princeton, NJ. Professor Solow also published a feature article on Slava Rostropovich in the March issue of Strad magazine. Janet Yamron participated in a panel discussion for prospective music students and their parents at North Penn High School. She also served as adjudicator for North Penn High School with choirs from Quakertown, Souderton, La Salle, Upper Moreland, and North Penn High Schools. In addition, Professor Yamron served as adjudicator for Pennsbury High School’s choral festival. She also served as adjudicator and clinician for high school choirs from Maryland and Washington. Luke Kahlich has been elected as Chairperson of the Provost's Commission for the Arts. He is currently working with Temple undergraduates and a faculty colleague and students at John Moores University in Liverpool investigating use of the internet in dance pedagogy and creative process/choreography. Dr. Kahlich recently co-authored with Dr. Thomas Hagood of Florida International University "Research in Choreography" which appeared in the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education. Jan Krzywicki participated in Meet the Composer, part of New Music Mondays at Philadelphia Art Alliance. Professors Krzywickie's works have been performed by prestigious ensembles and recorded on the Albany, Capstone, North-South and De Haske labels. A recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Music Composition, Mr. Krzywicki is also the conductor of the critically acclaimed Network for New Music. Matthew Greenbaum premiered his chamber opera, A Floating Island, at the Philadelphia Ethical Society on April 5. Richard Brodhead: Tango, Melissa Pausina: Metairi, Heidi Jacob: Hymn to Aphrodite, James Falconi: Liebe Ist Ein Weibchen, and Alison Conard: Persistence for Voices and Industry. Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev: soprano Megan Dey-Toth: mezzo Cynthia Folio: flute Marshall Taylor: saxophones Jeffrey Solow: cello Charles Abramovic: keyboards, Joellen Meglin: choreographer. Karen Bond presented a workshop on theories and methods of arts-based research for Crossing Boundaries: Investigating the Nexus of the Arts, Education and Community, Univ. of Regina, Saskatchewan in May. She will speak at the 2007 National Dance Education Organization conference in Mobile, AL in June. As part of her study leave, she will spend a month in Finland where she will carry out intergenerational dance research in a community setting and work with graduate students in dance pedagogy at the Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Kun-Yang Lin performed with his dance company at the Asian Cultural Festival in Queens Park Theatre, New York on April 20th. He will conduct Master Classes this Summer in Philadelphia, New York, and Queretaro, Mexico. He will serve as Master Teacher and Competition Judge at an International Dance Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in June. In July, Professor Lin will create a new piece for Dance Ensemble Singapore. MARCH 2007 Deborah Sheldon presented a research paper, "Music in the Lives of Music Academics" at the 17th International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was an initial reporting of data collected from professors of music across the country concerning how music professors engage in music activities outside of responsibilities of the profession. Professor Sheldon also served as guest conductor for the Dauphin County Music Educators Association High School Band Festival held in Harrisburg, PA JANUARY 2007 Beth Bolton presented lectures on the topic of early childhood music education for city officials, university students, parents and teachers in 6 municipalities in the province of Liguria in Italy. A celebratory concert was presented in her honor in Noli. In Rome, Dr. Bolton addressed city officials, school district administrators, and teachers in a speech at the Campidoglio, Rome’s City Hall. This was followed by an intensive weekend of lectures on the topic of early childhood music education, sponsored by the Italian national early childhood music association, Musica in Culla, of which Dr. Bolton is the honorary president. NOVEMBER 2006 Lambert Orkis was presented with the 2006 “Choc de l’année” award from the French magazine Le Monde de la Musique in Paris. The award acknowledges Professor Orkis’s June release of the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin with Anne-Sophie Mutter. OCTOBER 2006 Bridge Records has re-released Lambert Orkis's landmark 1982 recording Gottschalk Music for Piano. Orkis performs on an 1865 Chickering concert grand piano, an instrument similar to the Chickerings that Gottschalk employed on his American concert tours. Read more about this recording.AUGUST 2006 Ken Kase/allaboutjazz.com: "With his debut CD, Excerpt This! (Self-Published, 2006). French hornist Adam Unsworth has shown himself to be unafraid of the conventional boundaries that exist between the jazz and classical worlds." Read the interview with Adam Unsworth at allaboutjazz.com. Read a review of Excerpt This! at allaboutjazz.com. Visit Adam Unsworth's website. JULY 2006 Jennifer Dunning/The New York Times: "Keith A. Thompson danced with Trisha Brown for nine years, and there was something of her whim-of-the-wind loose-bodiedness and spring to the pieces Mr. Thompson’s danceTactics Performance Group presented at Dance Theater Workshop on Friday night. But what made the program so exhilarating was the choreography’s simplicity and directness. This was an evening of dance that lived up to the promise of its title, 'Without Pretense.'" Read the article in The New York Times. MAY 2006 Newsworthy: Centaur Records releases new CD of chamber music composed by Boyer College Faculty Member Cynthia Folio. The new CD, titled Flute Loops, features eight pieces composed by Cynthia Folio and includes performances by several Boyer College faculty members and students. Cynthia Folio’s compositions have been described as “confident and musical in expressing ideas of great substance,” “intriguing and enjoyable,” and “imaginatively scored.” Folio has received commissions from such organizations as Network for New Music, the Relâche Ensemble, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and the National Flute Association. 04/06 Temple Univeristy honors Four Boyer College faculty members with awards. 02/06 Professor Helen Kwalwasser named recipient of the 2006 American String Teacher Association's Artist-Teacher Award. The award, initiated in 1959, recognizes an artist/pedagogue of renowned stature from within North America. Past recipients of the Artist Teacher Award include Karen Tuttle, Jascha Heifetz, Dorothy DeLay, Yehudi Menuhin, William Primrose, Ivan Galamian, and Isaac Stern, among others. Professor Kwalwasser accepted her award in person at the ASTA 2006 Annual National Conference, which was held March 8 through March 11, 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri. Read the Temple University News Release. 02/06 Newsworthy: Boyer College Faculty Members Lambert Orkis and Steven Zohn were featured on recent CD releases. Bridge Records released a compilation for three recordings of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata performed by Lambert Orkis. The CD includes performances of the same piece on piano and two different fortepianos built on models from the early 1800s. Centaur Records recent release includes history associate professor Steven Zohn in an ensemble performing works by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Boismortier. 12/05 Dan DeLuca/Philadelphia Inquirer: "Pianist Bill Cunliffe, an assistant professor of jazz studies at Temple University, is up for 'Do It Again,' in the jazz instrumental-arrangement category [of the 2005 Grammy Nominations], from his album Imaginación." Read the article in the December 9th issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Visit Prof. Cunliffe's website. 12/05 Newsworthy: Two electroacoustic pieces by Maurice Wright, Electronic Composition and ARKANSAS, were performed in Montreal and Beijing this fall. Electronic Composition was presented at the Mid-Autumn Harvest Moon Festival and Symposium of Multi-channel Electroacoustics in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall at Concordia University in Montreal in September. In October, Wright’s 5 movement video work, ARKANAS, was premiered at the annual conference of the Electroacoustic Music Association of China (EMAC) and the China Electronic Music Center (CEMC) based at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Visit Maurice Wright's website. 08/05 Timothy Gilligan/New York Concert Review: “The real star of the afternoon, however, emerged with “Plaints and Airs,” a world premiere performance of this new trio for flute, oboe and piano by Temple University professor of composition Maurice Wright. What a fantastic ear Mr. Wright owns! An absolutely original sound, unmistakable from the first notes, modern and fresh and completely natural but concealing a good deal of compositional craft. Performed by the flutist [Prema Kesselman, B.Mus. ‘03] and her brother, oboist Jeremy Kesselman [B.Mus. ‘04] and pianist Brian Ciach [B.Mus.’02, M.M. ‘04] with fine finish and great commitment, it was that rare thing – a genuinely successful piece of new music. More from Mr. Wright, please. Much more!” 05/05 Tom DiNardo/Philadelphia Daily News: “The Pianist & the Composer: Abramovic & Brodhead discuss collaboration” This article from the Philadelphia Daily News highlights Boyer faculty members Charles Abramovic and Richard Brodhead and their recent collaboration on a piece commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The concert also included a piece by faculty member Maurice Wright and the premiere of a new composition by doctoral composition student Heidi Jacob. “Pianist Charles Abramovic is one of the most respected musicians in a city brimming with famous names. A compelling artist of remarkable versatility, Abramovic has accompanied such luminaries as violinist Sarah Chang and flutist Jeffrey Khaner on disc.” 05/05 Newsworthy: Associate Professor Merian Soto will be presenting La Maquina del Tiempo at Dancespace in Washington, DC in May. She will also be performing in Pepatian's Jump it Up! series in May at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. 04/05 Tom DiNardo/Philadelphia Daily News: “Kudos to Alan Harler, director of the Temple University Concert Choir and recipient of [Temple University's] Creative Achievement Award for 2005. Harler, whose first job at 14 was organist in a funeral home, became choral music chair at the University of Indiana, came to Temple as a visiting professor and never left.” Boyer College Professor Alan Harler was honored with the award at a ceremony in the Great Court of Mitten Hall on Thursday, April 14, 2005. Chair of the Department of Choral Activities and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Harler counts the teaching experience as one of the most important creative elements of his work. Click here to view the Temple University Press Release. 04/05 Newsworthy: Professor Eva Gholson recently published her book, Image of the Singing Air (University Press of America, Inc.), regarding dance and music collaboration. The book offers hands-on approaches for analyzing scores as well as problem-solving questions of form. Gholson analyzes the musical and choreographic structure of her dances within the context of changing political ideals for black artistry in late twentieth century performing arts. 03/05 Joe McAllister/News of Delaware County: “Angela Zator Nelson adds ‘strokes of color’ to the Philadelphia Orchestra.” This cover story from the Life section highlights Boyer faculty member and alumnus Angela Zator Nelson prior to her solo performance with the Philadelphia Classical Symphony. “Nelson combines her love of music and education with the best of both worlds: as a member of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra and an instructor on the music faculty at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. ‘Practice, like anything else, becomes second nature,’ says Nelson, 29, who shares a house filled with instruments in Lansdowne with her musician-husband Michael. ‘I’ve been practicing the marimba for 3 to 4 hours a day. In school, it was eight hours a day.’" 03/05 Harriet Goodheart/Temple Times: Temple Symphony concert to feature tribute: Guest percussionist Angela Zator Nelson will honor her mentor, Professor Alan Abel. The article highlights Angela Zator Nelson, her experiences at Temple University, and her upcoming solo performance with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra. “’I feel so honored to be performing at this concert,’ said Zator Nelson, who has not only followed in her mentor’s footsteps to the Philadelphia Orchestra’s percussion section, but also is an adjunct faculty member at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. ‘On top of his unparalleled playing, Alan Abel has made such an impact on his students’ lives. I continue to learn from him. I will never forget his support, generosity and kindness in the weeks leading up to my first performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He allowed me full reign of the studio in his basement to study and practice, and he’d come down every so often and offer me priceless insight into the great orchestra he was a part of for so many years.’” Click here to read the Temple University Press Release. 03/05 Peter Burwasser/Philadelphia City Paper: “Drum Major: Philadelphia Orchestra’s Don Liuzzi says the trick to percussion is dancing.” Boyer alumnus Don Liuzzi is featured in this article prior to a Distinguished Alumni Concert which he performed at Settlement Music School. The program featured several pieces by Boyer faculty member Maurice Wright. “Don Liuzzi does not confound the stereotype. Like most percussionists, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal timpanist got his start by banging pots and pans in his mother’s kitchen. And, yes, there was the obligatory rock band stint. But Liuzzi is a musical artist who raises his instrument to the level of the other members of the orchestra. His tympani, as well as the snare drums, blocks, triangles and cymbals of his colleagues, are as vital to the famous sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra as are the violins and trumpets.” “…the rest of the program is given to the music of Maurice Wright, a Temple colleague whose work, according to Liuzzi, ‘moves at different levels, shifting traditions. You can’t pin it down. It has drive and humor.’” 03/05 David Patrick Stearns/Philadelphia Inquirer: “Temple University’s Maurice Wright composed half of the concert’s six pieces with a level of wit and invention that makes you wonder why the music isn’t better known. The pieces for percussion and electronic tape from the early and mid-1980s are experimental, but hold up as well as explorations of possibilities, both in gesture and in timbre. His Grand Duo from 2001 may be the piece with staying power. Written for violin and percussion, it’s full of engaging ideas, with percussion interacting with violin much in the spirit of the piano writing in a Beethoven violin sonata, but with a range of expression light-years beyond what Beethoven could have hoped to compose.” These pieces were included on a concert performed by Boyer alumnus Don Liuzzi at Settlement Music School. 03/05 Newsworthy: Boyer College Faculty member and Composition Department interim-chair Matthew Greenbaum will receive the prestigous Academy Award in Music from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. Read the full press release from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 03/05 Newsworthy: Latin Fiesta awarded $30,000 grant. Latin Fiesta, led by Boyer College faculty member Maria del Pico Taylor, has been awarded a $30,000 one-year grant from the Philadelphia Music Project. The group is one of 20 selected for funding from the five-county Greater Philadelphia region. Latin Fiesta aims to enhance the self image of the Hispanic community by giving them pride in their rich and beautiful heritage, as well as to make this rich culture better known to non-Hispanics. 02/05 David Patrick Stearns/Philadelphia Inquirer: Debut of new composition by Boyer faculty member Cynthia Folio. “In effect, Folio created her own viable form – more theatrical than Aaron Copland’s piece for recitation and orchestra, A Lincoln Portrait– with consistently inspired music, coming together in a psychological mosaic of late-in-life Hamilton.” The composition A Matter of Honor: A Portrait of Alexander Hamilton was commissioned by Astral Artistic Services and was performed by several Astral artists including Boyer alumnus Eric Owens, about whom Stearns wrote “The hero of the performance was Eric Owens, known mostly as an operatic bass, who spoke the recitation using musical principles such as color, nuance and timing. Occasionally passages that Owens did sing were more arresting for being unexpected.”
02/05 Peter Burwasser/Philadelphia City Paper (Picks of the Week): Composition by Boyer faculty member Cynthia Folio commissioned and debuted by Astral Artistic Services. “Folio, who was once a uninformed about Hamilton as the rest of us, is now a walking, talking expert, and has shaped a piece of three movements and two interludes around the main events of his life, including a fugal exposition reflecting his establishment of the Constitution as the law of the land, music based on his favorite tavern song, ‘Why, Soldiers, Why?’ and, of course, the duel itself… and concludes quietly with lines from Hamilton’s last letter to his wife, the source of the title.”
Philip Grosser, pianist is Charles Abramovic, and the dancers are Tina Bracciale, Raphael Cooper, Meghan Durham, Tim Early, Mike Eger, Bethany Formica, Hannah Park and Jeannine Shoemaker-Farr.” Dance Magazine has described Boyer College faculty member Philip Grosser’s work as follows: “Every one of his works bears the mark of a discerning but generous and loving eye that complements each dancer and enhances each dance… He excels in the virtues of the old school moderns: attention to clear, strong shape, detail, logical progression of movements, sweeping energy, and a sense of humanism.” 02/05 Tom DiNardo/Philadelphia Daily News: “Our own Philadelphia Trio performs Beethoven’s String Trio (Op. 9/2) and Grieg’s Andante con moto, then hosts violist Evelyn Luise for the glowing Dvorak Piano Quartet, Op. 23.” Deborah Reeder, cellist and Barbara Sonies, violinist – both of the Philadelphia Trio – are adjunct faculty members of the Boyer College of Music and Dance as is violist Evelyn Luise.
01/05 Newsworthy: DanceBoom!, the annual Philadelphia dance festival, offered a wide array of Africanist based dance worked this year, featuring works by Boyer College Professors Kariamu Welsh and Merian Soto, as well as alumni Tania Isaac (MFA ’00), Paule Turner (MFA ’97), and Charles O. Anderson (MFA ’02). 01/05 Newsworthy: Professor Karen Bond and alumna Indira Etwaroo (Ph.D ’04) recently published a chapter titled “If I really see you…: Experiences of Identity and Difference in a Higher Education Setting” in the book The Arts, Education, and Social Change: Little Signs of Hope (M.C. Powell and V.M. Speiser, eds). The chapter focuses on their experiences teaching the Temple University course “Dance, Movement, & Pluralism.” 12/04 Newsworthy: Boyer Faculty Member David Cannata has been awarded a prestigious NEH Fellowship for the period of July 2005 through June 2006. In fulfillment of the grant, Cannata will work on a monograph entitled Intimatio Christi: Liszt's Musical Contemplations. This work will involve a cross-disciplinary analysis of Liszt's music and the 19th century literary and mystical movements that interested him, including Goethe, Lenau, and Dante, as well as contemporaneous Roman Catholic dogma. The Boyer College congratulates David Cannata for this exemplary recognition. 12/04 Chestnut Hill Local: Saturday evening’s concert by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia literally packed every available pew plus additional folding chairs in St. Paul’s Church in Chestnut Hill… a program that featured a perfect blend of old and new, one of the enduring hallmarks of faculty member, Alan Harler’s 16-year tenure as music director of the Mendelssohn Club. 9/04 Philadelphia Inquirer: An estimable gathering of musicians, including saxophonist Marshall Taylor, pianist Charles Abromovic, and flutist Cynthia Folio, plays works that contemporary composer Raoul Pleskow based on his dreams. Concert at the Trinity Center for Urban Life on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 7:30PM. 08/04 Boyer percussion alumni, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, perform under the baton of Luis Biava at Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts in his final concert as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 05/04 Springfield Township " Enterprise " announces The Ambler Symphony concert featuring violin soloist, Millie Bai (BM '89, MM '91). She will play the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto by Ho Zhan Hao/Cheng Gang. Ms. Bai has appeared in concerts with Luciano Pavarotti, Sarah Brightman, Tony Bennett, Vince Gill, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Ray Charles and Rod Stewart. 05/04 Composer and Audio Producer Lou Delise (BM '74, MM '02) arranged and conducted the string orchestra for 2 Steps Away, a song written by his son Jonathan for Patti LaBelle's new album, Private Journey. 04/04 The Anni Baker (BM '93) Celebratory Concert to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation featured a World Premiere cantata by Philadelphia composer, Andrea Clearfield (DMA '01) sung by the Temple University Children's Choir. The performance, presented by Orchestra 2001, took place at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. 04/04 Philadelphia Orchestra: announces an emotional farewell to Luis Biava, who retires from his position as conductor in residence at the end of this season, with two celebratory concerts in the final week of its series at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. Maestro Biava conducts "Tchaikovsky with Fireworks," an annual family favorite, on July 27, and on the following evening welcomes pianist, Lang Lang and Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Cello William Stokking as soloists in a program of Verdi, Bloch, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff. Maestro Biava is a faculty member of the Boyer College, conducting the Temple University Symphony Orchestra and the Music Preparatory Division's Youth Chamber Orchestra. 04/04 Philadelphia Daily News: Boyer faculty member Tom Lawton (jazz piano) "hosts a CD release show for his debut as a leader, "Retrospective/Debut" (DreamboxMedia), at Chris' Jazz Cafe." Boyer faculty member Ben Schachter (saxophone) also performs on the album. 04/04 David Patrick Stearns/Philadelphia Inquirer: reviews the Philadelphia Classical Symphony concert conducted by Karl Middleman (BM '77, MM '92) with guest artist, Nitzan Haroz, trombone. Mr. Haroz is principal trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra and on faculty at the Boyer College . The program included Temple composer, Maurice Wright's Concerto for Trombone, String Orchestra and Harp "has great clarity of intention while still being slightly out of reach (which encourages subsequent hearings)." 03/04 Temple Times: Timing is everything for dance prof's latest project. Dance professor Merian Soto presents the world premiere of her latest work La Maquina del Tiempo at Conwell Dance Theater. Click here to read the compete article. Click here to read the Temple University Press Release. 03/04 Philadelphia Inquirer/Peter Dobrin reviews: the Relache Ensemble performance at the Prince Music Theater. "Cynthia Folio, the Temple Professor who produces consistently high-quality works." "Folio's When the Spirit Catches You comes with plenty of extra-musical associations, and yet it may better succeed presented without them. Folio's daughter has epilepsy, and the work was composed as a response to her seizure disorder. Folio writes music that is appropriately disturbing. The piece is imaginatively scored-using steel drums in a non-carribean context. ends with an eerie touch of a dozen music boxes winding down as the instrumentalists wander off stage." 02/04 Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.Com feature: Boyer faculty member, Cynthia Folio's latest composition, inspired by her daughters diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis which is accompanied by daily seizures. The piece, commissioned by the new music group Relache, is called "When the Spirit Catches You." In the piece, Folio conveys sensations that her daughter has described related to an epileptic attack as well as her daughters experiences with sounds heard during an MRI. 02/04 David Patrick Stearns /Philadelphia Inquirer writes: Faculty member, Lambert Orkis, fortepiano and Lisa Lambert, violin, "The opening recital on Sunday had revelations that may surprise Mozart followers. You could have heard many great musicians play these pieces--even on 18th-century-style fortepiano--and not quite know why the experience is so different." "the duo interprets the pieces partly on the basis of what the composer was going through at the time of composition." "The project began when violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter , Orkis' chamber music partner, proposed they play all the Mozart sonatas in 2005. Orkis, who teaches at Temple and is the National Symphony Orchestra pianist, wanted to learn them on period instruments. Lambert, a Philadelphia Orchestra violinist who has performed with Orkis for years, was game. Hearing the sonatas in concentrated proximity, and on the fortepiano, made the difference." 01/04 Philadelphia Inquirer features: The Annual Regional Choral Festival, a choral camp for teens from Bucks and Montgomery counties. Boyer faculty member, Jeffrey Cornelius guest conducts. 12/03 The Strad/article: "Gregor Piatigorsky used his talent for transcription to turn an obscure Haydn chamber work into a staple of the cello repertory." Jeffrey Solow finds out how. 11/03 Newsworthy: Dr. Cheryl Dileo, Professor of Music Therapy, received the 2003 Research/Publication Award from the American Music Therapy Association at their Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. 10/03 The Strad/article: Faculty member, Orlando Cole, shares his memories with colleague, Jeffrey Solow in a five page cover story. "...Cole has heard many fine artists and observes that performance style has changed a great deal" "...great changes... music educations has gone through during the 20th century." 10/03 Tom DiNardo/Daily News: "The brilliant and underappreciated pianist Charles Abramovic will perform Haydn's "1776" Sonatas on a replica of a Viennese 18th-century fortepiano." 10/03 Tom DiNardo/Daily News prints: "Network for New Music presents... Temple University professor Maurice Wright's visionary "Grand Duo" for marimba and violin, to illustrate pulse and rhythm" ...the Network ensemble is led by Boyer faculty member, Jan Krzywicki. Click here to read more about Network for New Music. 09/03 Temple University Press Release: Temple University presents choreographer Merian Soto's La Maquina del Tiempo (The Time Machine), Sept. 26-27. La Maquina del Tiempo investigates popular dance and music forms as "time machines" that are rich in historical references and continuity. The program also explores the merging of dance and music improvisation. Click here to read the Temple University Press Release. 09/03 Home News (Art Museum Area) prints: "Distinguished American Soprano Benita Valente, internationally celebrated interpreter of Lieder, chamber music, oratoria and opera, will join the Esther Boyer College of Music... as an artist in residence." Click here to read the Temple University Press Release. 09/03 Tom DiNardo/Daily News: describes the Rock Hall Faculty Recital Series opening concert of six works for Baroque violin and harpsichord as a 'packed schedule for Temple University's Boyer College of Music.' Writer DiNardo praised professor Joyce Lindorff and guest violinist Nancy Wilson as two musicians who are 'experts in this repertory, both posessing the technical chops to give this music the emotional freedom it surely received 300 years ago. It's easy to enthusiastically recommend this free prelude to a busy season.' The event was also promoted in Inquirer columnist Michael Harrington's 7 Days column on Sunday. Click here to read the Temple University Press Release. 09/03 David Patrick Stearns/Music Critic--Inquirer: "Two perform seldom-heard baroque violin sonatas" "at Temple University's Rock Hall, Bach was just the climactic postscript in a multinational, six-composer, 100-year cross section of music, mostly new to my ears, assembled and performed by early music specialists Nancy Wilson (violin) and Temple faculty member Joyce Lindorff (harpsichord)."
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