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The Sewanee Summer Music Festival is one of the venerable summer music institutes in the country. The immediate predecessor of SSMF

was the remarkable, though short-lived, Cumberland Forest Festival of 1950-51. The Cumberland Festival was directed by the distinguished American composer Roy Harris, and was a joint venture with George Pea-body College in Nashville (absorbed a quarter cen-tury later by Vanderbilt University). The Festival was intimate in size, but was arguably the most exceptional gathering of musical talent the Mountain has ever seen: in addition to Harris, violinist Josef Gingold, violist Walter Trampler, and the old Viennese conductor Richard Lert (who as a child had met Brahms) were on hand, as well as — perhaps most notably — the brilliant young conductor Lorin Maazel. The festival seemed to have a bright future. A radio contract with CBS was in the offing. But Harris abruptly cancelled the festival shortly before the 1952 season was to begin. According to Harris, he was unwilling to work under the auspices of what was then a segregated institution. (Documents in the University’s archives show that University of-ficials at the time believed this was a pretext and that Harris had grown tired of the venture.)

After a six-year stillness on the Mountain, Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady stepped forward to restore the program. Ned McCrady had a Jeffersonian range of interests. He was a scientist, an architect of considerable skill, an administrator; and, like Jef-ferson, an amateur violinist. McCrady had visions of creating a little musical utopia in Sewanee when he resurrected the idea of a summer festival in 1957, the first season of the present Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Known then as the Sewanee Summer Music Center, the institute was first closely allied with the Chattanooga Symphony. Julius Hegyi, then conductor

of the Chattanooga Symphony, was the first director of SSMC.

Present at the creation was a young cellist of extraordinary talent named Martha McCrory. In the early years, McCrory filled many roles: faculty cel-list, business manager, and recruiter, barnstorming her way across back roads in Alabama and Georgia in search of students. McCrory became executive direc-tor of the center in 1963, and remained at this post for a remarkable tenure, retiring in 1998. During the 1960s, the center expanded dramatically under Mc-Crory’s leadership; and by the end of that decade had more or less assumed its present structure: two student orchestras and a festival orchestra composed of faculty and advanced students.

The present festival continues the vision of Mc-Crory in its focus on student development and its unique devotion to chamber music performance. In 2000, McCrory was succeeded by Steven Shrader, professor of music at the University, as artistic director. Pianist, conductor, and musicologist, Shrader dubbed the program the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, emphasizing the great breadth of performances and high musical standards he upheld for the institution. Following Shrader, two notable conductors held terms as artistic directors: Victor Yampolsky, conductor at Northwestern University (2005), and James Paul, of the Oregon Festival of American Music and Or-egon Coast Festival, (2006-09). In 2010 the festival structure changed, with Katherine Lehman, violinist and professor at the University, assuming the director-ship. Emblematic of Sewanee’s distinctive collabora-tive spirit, an artistic advisory committee of dedicated SSMF faculty was formed to provide artistic guidance for the program.

2 For Your Information3 Calendar of Events4 Concerts11 Guest Conductors17 Faculty

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sewaneesuMMer MusiCFestivalContents/historyLet’s Play!

it’s time to go out and play! When musicians say they play, we mostly think of playing notes, but for our SSMF students and artists, playing is also what we all did on the playground as youngsters — we explore, we build things (and tear them down!), we play old games and invent new ones. We play together. The creative energy and pure joy of expression that come together in Sewanee are contagious. For the next month,

our Mountain will be our playground. Won’t you be on our team?!

This summer we give a warm welcome to Octavio Más-Arocas, our new SSMF Resident Conductor, who will lead the Cumberland Orchestra and guest conduct the Sewanee Symphony. We introduce several new faculty artists and a wonderful group of guest conductors and artists. We celebrate the 100th birthday of Stravinsky’s ground breaking Rite of Spring, as we break new ground with works by living composers like Mason Bates and Thomas Sleeper, and cultivate ground for our students to create their own works, now and in the future.

And always at the heart of what we do — and there is a lot of heart here — is the teach-ing and learning that are the true magic of Sewanee. Our stage will be graced with several outstanding SSMF alumni, back to show us where a Sewanee summer can lead.

The days are warm, the music is hot, and we are ready to have fun. Let’s play!— Katherine Lehman, Director

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ticket informationAdvance tickets for all Sewanee Summer Music Festival performances are available through our ticketing part-ner, Inticketing.com, at ssmf.inticketing.com. Tickets will also be available 30 minutes before each show (same day only) at the box office table in the lobby of Guerry Auditorium.

online viewingCan’t make it to a concert? Watch all SSMF concerts on our Ustream and YouTube/Vimeo channels! Youtube — youtube.com/SSMFsewaneeUstream Channel — www.ustream.tv/channel/ sewanee-summer-music-festivalVimeo — vimeo.com/channels/329071

features and amenitiesRestrooms are located off the main lobby (men’s and women’s) and at the top of Guerry Hall east stairway (men’s only). Smoking is not permitted inside Univer-sity of the South facilities.

electronic DevicesIn consideration of the efforts of our performers and your fellow audience members, we request that all electronic devices (pagers, cell phones, PDAs, watch alarms, etc.) that could interrupt the performance be silenced. The performers and other patrons say “thank you.”

late-Comer seating Late-Comer Seating will be allowed at an appropri-ate pause in the performance. Your usher will open the doors for entry at that time. Please take your seat as quickly as possible to minimize any delays in the concert.

recordingRecording is not allowed during SSMF performances. Professional quality recordings are made during student concerts, and will be available online after the festival is completed.

PhotographyTo remember your child’s participation in the festival, photography will be allowed during performances. Photos may be taken respectfully from the balcony, though no flash photography is allowed at any time.

saturday, June 22 Opening Night Gala, 7:30 p.m.

wednesday, June 26 Faculty Chamber Concert, 7:30 p.m.

friday, June 28 Sewanee Angel Park (free), 8 p.m.

MSSA Chamber Concert (free), 8 p.m.

saturday, June 29 Student Chamber Concert — Guerry Garth (free), 4 p.m.

Faculty Chamber Concert, 7:30 p.m.

sunday, June 30 Cumberland Orchestra (Más-Arocas), 2:30 p.m.

Sewanee Symphony (Macelaru), 3:30 p.m.

tuesday, July 2 MSSA Chamber Concert (free), 8:15 p.m.

wednesday, July 3 Hike to a Concert — The Course at Sewanee (free), 6:30 p.m.

thursday, July 4 SSMF Strolling Band — University Ave (free), 2 p.m.

4th of July Patriotic Celebration Concert, 7 p.m.

saturday, July 6 Student Chamber Concert — Guerry Garth (free), 4 p.m.


sunday, July 7 Cumberland Orchestra (Más-Arocas), 2:30 p.m.

Sewanee Symphony (St.Clair), 3:30 p.m.

tuesday, July 9 Cowan Center for the Performing Arts (free), 7 p.m.

wednesday, July 10 Faculty Chamber Concert, 7:30 p.m.

thursday, July 11 MSSA Cumberland Orchestra Concert (free), 8:15 p.m.



sunday, July 14 Cumberland Orchestra (Kilburn), 2:30 p.m.

Sewanee Symphony (Más-Arocas), 3:30 p.m.

tuesday, July 16 MSSA Chamber Concert (free), 8:15 p.m.

wednesday, July 17 Piano Recital & Composition Concert (free), 7:30 p.m.

thursday, July 18 Jacqueline Avent Concerto Competition, 7:30 p.m.

friday, July 19 Student Chamber Concert (free), 7:30 p.m.



Festival Brass Concert — All Saints’ Chapel, 10 p.m.

sunday, July 21 Cumberland Orchestra (Más-Arocas), 2:30 p.m.

Sewanee Symphony (Warren-Green), 3:30 p.m.

Welcome to Guerry Hall, home of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival!

All events held in Guerry Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

June 22–July 21, 2013


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We are delighted to have you with us and hope that you will enjoy the

performance and return often. The information that follows is intend-

ed to answer frequently asked questions. If you need assistance, please

utilize one of our friendly and helpful ushers.

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saturDay, June 22

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.opening night galaoctavio Más-arocas, conductor

Mason Bates, Mothership

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat major, Op. 73 Michael Mizrahi, piano

INTERMISSION

Maurice Ravel, Ma mère l’oye

Maurice Ravel, Boléro

sunday, June 23Carillon ConCert at 4:45 p.m. J. Samuel Hammond

weDnesDay, June 26

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.faculty Chamber Concert

Benjamin Britten, Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2 Robert Stephenson, oboe Lin He, violin Daphne Gerling, viola Anthony Kitai, cello

Jan Bach, Four Two-Bit Contraptions for Flute and Horn Second Lieutenant Calliope Gramophone Pinwheel Patricia George, flute David Brockett, horn

Edward Elgar, Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 Moderato-Allegro Adagio Andante-Allegro Nurit Pacht, violin Brittany MacWilliams, violin Katherine Lewis, viola Paul York, cello

wednesday, June 26Carillon ConCert at 6 p.m. J. Samuel Hammond

friDay, June 28

Sewanee Angel Park, 8 p.m.angel Park Concert — free

To be announced from the stage

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, 8 p.m.Mssa student Chamber Concert — free


Sponsored by Joseph’s Remodeling Solutions

saturDay, June 29

Guerry Garth, 4 p.m.student Chamber Concert — free



Igor Stravinsky, L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) Jonathan Magness, violin Sydney King, double bass Robert Patterson, clarinet Hunter Thomas, bassoon Peter Bond, trumpet Mark Babbitt, trombone

sunDay, June 30

Guerry Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.Cumberland orchestraoctavio Más-arocas, conductor

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Mlada, Act II Procession of the Nobles

W. A. Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Allegro

Georges Bizet, L’arlesienne Suite No. 2

Guerry Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.sewanee symphonyCristian Macelaru, conductor

Thomas Sleeper, Symphony No. 1Andante mosso-agitatoMisteriosoAllegro energico

Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 Moderato Allegretto Largo Allegro non troppo

sunday, June 30Carillon ConCert at 4:45 p.m. Robin Austin

tuesDay, July 2

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, 8:15 p.m.Mssa student Chamber Concert — free


Sponsored by Joseph’s Remodeling Solutions

weDnesDay, July 3

The Course at Sewanee: Hole #5, The Edge, 6:30 p.m.hike to a Concert — free

The Sewanee Summer Music Festival will be hosting a special performance on the newly developed golf course located on the 13,000-

acre mountaintop campus. The concert will be held next to the number five green, better known as The Edge, which is named for its distinct drop-off and dramatic views off the bluff behind the green. The rock ledge to the left of the green was carefully uncovered during the course renovation, further enhancing the dramatic setting of this bluff-top green.

A hike, led by the Sewanee Outing Program, will begin at 4 p.m. and traverse the University of the South hiking trails, ending directly at The Edge for concert time. In addition, a bike ride, led by Woody Deutsch from Woody’s Bicycles, will start at 4 p.m. and will take participants around the Sewanee campus to key highlights including the Cross, Green’s View, the Chapel of the Apostles, and others before ending at the golf course. Please go to this website to register for the hike and bike ride: www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/hike

People attending are encouraged to bring picnic items and blankets to the concert. This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by The Monteagle Inn & Retreat Center

thursDay, July 4

University Ave., 2 p.m.ssMf strolling Band

American Patriotic Medley

Guerry Auditorium, 7 p.m.4th of July Patriotic Celebration Concert — free


thursday, July 4Carillon ConCert at 1 p.m. John Bordley and Charlene Williamson


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saturDay, July 6




W. A. Mozart, Piano Trio No. 5 in C Major, K. 548 Allegro Andante cantabile Allegro Nurit Pacht, violin Anthony Kitai, cello

Alec Wilder, Suite No. 1 for Tuba, Horn, and Piano Maestoso Peasante In A Jazz Manner Berceuse Alla Caccia Eric Bubacz, tuba David Brockett, horn

Darlus Milhaud, La cehminée du roi René, Op. 205 Cortège Aubade Jongleurs La Maousinglade Joutes sur l’Arc Chasse à Valabre Madrigal nocturne Patricia George, flute Robert Stephenson, oboe Robert Patterson, clarinet Hunter Thomas, bassoon David Brockett, horn

Scott Lindroth, Bell Plates John Kilkenny, percussion

sunDay, July 7


Alan Hovhaness, And God Created Great Whales, Op. 229, No. 1

Sidney King, Entre Dos Luces (Soleá por Bulerías)

Howard Hanson, Merry Mount Suite Overture Children’s Dance Love Duet Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dance

Guerry Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.sewanee symphonyCarl st.Clair, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Reveries: Largo — Passions: Allegro agitato e appassionato assai Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo Scene aux Champs: Adagio Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo Songe d’une Nuit du Sabbat: Larghetto-Allegro

sunday, July 7Carillon ConCert at 4:45 p.m. Anton Fleissner

tuesDay, July 9

Cowan Center for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m.student Chamber Concert — free


in loving memory of miss elizabeth hayes

weDnesDay, July 10

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.faculty artist series

Euguene Bozza, Shepherds of Provence Robert Stephenson, oboe Rebecca Van de Ven, English horn

Frank Bridge, Lament Matthew Michelic, viola Katherine Lewis, viola

Zoltán Kodály, Duo, Op. 7 Allegro serioso, non troppo Adagio Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento Lin He, violin Anthony Kitai, cello

thursDay, July 11

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, 8:15 p.m.Mssa Cumberland orchestra Concert — free


Sponsored by Joseph’s Remodeling

saturDay, July 13




Marcel-Lucien Tournier, Suite for Flute, String Trio, and Harp, Op. 34 Soir Danse Lied Fête Patricia George, flute Nurit Pacht, violin Katherine Lewis, viola Paul York, cello Marian Shaffer, harp

Jindřich Feld, Quintet for Brass Allegro Adagio Scherzo Andante Peter Bond, trumpet Donald Creech, trumpet David Brockett, horn Mark Babbitt, trombone Eric Bubacz, tuba

Johannes Brahms, Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36 Allegro non troppo Scherzo: Allegro non troppo Adagio Poco allegro Katherine Lehman, violin Brittany MacWilliams, violin Matthew Michelic, viola Katherine Lewis, viola Anthony Kitai, cello Paul York, cello


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sunDay, July 14

Guerry Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.Cumberland orchestraKatherine Kilburn, conductor

Henri Tomasi, Tumpet Concerto Vif: Allegro Nocturne: Andantino Finale: Allegro Peter Bond, Trumpet

Ottorino Respighi, Belkis, Queen of Sheba Suite, P. 177 Il Sogno di Salomone (The Dream of Solomon) Danza guerresca (War Dance) La Danza di Belkis all’aurora (The Dance of Belkis at Dawn) Danza orgiastica (Orgiastic Dance)

Guerry Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.sewanee symphonyoctavio Más-arocas, conductor

Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 Lacrymosa Dies Irae Requiem Aeternam

T. J. Cole, Conuenienter

Ottorino Respighi, Vetrate di Chiesa La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egpyt) San Michele Arcangelo (St. Michael Archangel) Il Mattutino di Santa Chiara (The Matins of St. Clare) San Gregorio Magno (St. Gregory the Great)

sunday, July 14Carillon ConCert at 4:45 p.m. Ray Gotko and Michael Moore

tuesDay, July 16

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, 8:15 p.m.Mssa student Chamber Concert — free


Sponsored by Joseph’s Remodeling

weDnesDay, July 17

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.Piano recital and Composition Concert


thursDay, July 18

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.Jacqueline avent Concerto Competition

Featuring winners of the 2013 Jacqueline Avent Scholarship Concerto Competition

friDay, July 19

Guerry Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.student Chamber Concert — free


saturDay, July 20




Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano, WoO 37 Allegro Adagio Tema andante con variazioni Patricia George, flute Hunter Thomas, bassoon

Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 Allegro brillante In modo d’una Marcia, Un poco largamente Scherzo: Molto vivace Allegro, ma non troppo Katherine Lehman, violin Jonathan Magness, violin Matthew Michelic, viola Paul York, cello

All Saints’ Chapel, 10 p.m.festival Brass Concert


sunDay, July 21


Zoltán Kodály, Háry János Suite Kezdodik a mese (The Fairy Tale Begins) Becsi harangjatek (Viennese Musical Clock) Dal (Song) Napoleon csataja (The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon) Kozjatek (Intermezzo) A csaszari udvar bevonulasa (Entrance of the Emperor and his Court)

Guerry Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.sewanee symphonyChristopher warren-green, conductor

Arvo Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Igor Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) Part 1: Adoration of the Earth Part 2: The Sacrifice

sunday, July 21Carillon ConCert at 4:45 p.m. Richard Shadinger


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Octavio Más-Aro-cas is a versatile and dynamic

conductor whose achieve-ments demonstrate his talent and musicianship.

Chosen by Kurt Masur, Más-Arocas was awarded the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Scholarship. Conse-quently, in September 2011 he traveled to Europe and worked as Maestro Masur’s assistant with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Helsinki Radio Or-chestra. He also made his German conducting debut conducting the Leipziger Symphonieorchester sharing the podium in a concert with Maestro Masur. The offer came after Más-Arocas’ New York debut concert sharing the podium with Maestro Masur and the Man-hattan School of Music Symphony.

An alumnus of the American Academy of Con-ducting at Aspen, Más-Arocas won the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize in 2008 awarded by David Zinman. He is also the recipient of the 2007 Thelma A. Robin-son Award from the Conductors Guild, a prize winner of the 2005 Third European Conductors Competi-tion, and a winner of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain Conductors Competition. Más-Arocas has recently been invited to conduct the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra during the League of American Orchestras National Conference in Dallas.

Más-Arocas has been assistant conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra, which he conducted in

subscription, family, and pops concerts. With the NRO he worked closely with guest artists and con-ductors such as Leonard Slatkin. Other festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the MidAmerican Center

for Contemporary Music, and the Interlochen Music Festival. This summer he will conduct at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival; at the Brazilian Winter Festival in Campinas, Brazil; and three concerts at the Interlo-chen Music Festival.

Más-Arocas has recently been named director of orchestras and conductor of opera at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Lawrence University. He con-ducts and directs the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra, and opera productions.

Más-Arocas holds degrees from Bard College in New York where he studied with Harold Farberman, the Accademia Musicale Pescarese in Italy with Gilberto Serembe, and has pursued doctoral studies at Bowling Green State University with Emily Freeman Brown.

An enthusiastic advocate of new music, Más-Arocas has commissioned and premiered numerous works and was himself the recipient of the Bowling Green Composition Prize in 2007. He has closely worked with such composers as Steven Stucky, Jennifer Higdon, Joan Tower, Samuel Adler, Chen Yi, Michael Daugherty, and John Harbison among others.

oCtavio más-aroCas

SSMF Conductor-in-Residence


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06/21 — Ben ayers & hillary Bevels06/28 — sewanee summer Music festival07/05 — a Boy named Banjo07/12 — John Michael hurt and Jay faires Band07/26 — slim Chance Band

friDay nights in the ParK

Each Friday night, beginning on June 21 and continuing through July 26, the Angel Park in Sewanee will be the place to enjoy friends, music, food, and dance.

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Music director of the Pacific Symphony for more than two decades, Carl St.Clair

has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished perfor-mances, innovative approaches to programming, and commitment to outstanding educational programs. The largest ensemble formed in the United States during the last 40 years, Pacific’s rapid artistic develop-ment is due largely to Carl St.Clair’s leadership. During the orchestra’s first European tour several years ago, they consistently played to packed houses and received rave reviews.

Also an active guest conductor, St.Clair has led the Boston Symphony (where he served as assistant conductor for several years), Los Angeles Philhar-monic, New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphonies of Atlanta, Detroit, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Nashville, San Francisco, Sarasota, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver, to name a few. Worldwide, he has guest conducted numerous orchestras in Eu-rope, South America, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Japan. Summer festival appearances include Schleswig-Holstein, Pacific (Japan), Round Top, Breckenridge, Wintergreen (N.C.), Texas Music Festival/ Houston, and Tanglewood.

Largely influenced by his close association with Leonard Bernstein, St.Clair’s commitment to the

development and performance of new works by American composers is evident in the wealth of commissions and recordings by Pacific Symphony. Under his guidance, the orchestra has commissioned works such as Philip Glass’s The Passion of Ramakrishna, William Bolcom’s song cycle, Can-ciones de Lorca (premiered by Placido Domingo), and Chen Yi’s cello con-certo Ballad, Dance and Fantasy composed for cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Many have been subsequently recorded, includ-ing Richard Danielpour’s An American Requiem on Reference Recordings and Elliot Goldenthal’s Fire Water Paper: A

Vietnam Oratorio on Sony Classical with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Other recordings include the highly acclaimed CD of later works by Toru Takemitsu for Sony Classical and works by John Corigliano and Frank Ticheli for Koch Classics. Additional commissioned composers include Zhou Long, Tobias Picker, and Christopher Theofan-dis.

St.Clair has been general music director and chief conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle (GNTS) in Weimar, Germany (the first non-European to hold this position), as well as general music director of the Komische Oper in Berlin and principal guest conductor of the SDR/Stuttgart, where he successfully completed a three–year recording proj-ect of the complete Villa–Lobos symphonies.

Carl st.Clair

Cristian Macelaru has established an exciting and highly

regarded presence through his thoughtful interpreta-tions, poise, and energetic conviction on the podium. He began his work with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 2010-11 season and, with the orchestra’s vote in September 2011, was named assistant conductor, effec-tive 2011-12. Macelaru received the 2012 Sir George Solti Emerging Conductor Award, a prestigious honor only awarded once before in the foundation’s history. In February 2012, Macelaru made his Chicago Sym-phony subscription debut as a replacement for Pierre Boulez with overwhelming success and rave reviews. Other 2011-12 season highlights included engagements with the Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, in addition to conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra and assist-ing Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit. Macelaru’s 2012-13 season debuted with Montréal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, the Windsor Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic, as well as returning to the Baltimore Symphony.

During the 2010-11 season, Macelaru made his debut conducting the Houston Grand Opera in performances of Madama Butterfly, after collaborating with Patrick Summers on the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick as assistant conductor for the Dal-las Opera. Previous seasons have also seen him with the Pittsburgh and San Diego Symphony Orchestras, Banatul Philharmonic, DaCamera of Houston, Syzygy ensemble, Oberlin Orchestra, and at the Sarasota Music Festival. With a passion for diverse repertoire, Macelaru led the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Colin Matthews’ Turning Point in 2010, as part of the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival.

As the founder and artistic director of the Crisalis Music Project, Macelaru spearheaded a program in which young musicians perform in a variety of settings, side by side with established, renowned artists. Their groundbreaking first season produced and

presented concerts featuring chamber ensembles, a chamber orchestra, a tango operetta, and collabora-tions with dancer Susana Collins, which resulted in a choreographed performance of Vivaldi/Piazzolla’s Eight Seasons.

An accomplished violinist from an early age, Macelaru was the youngest concertmaster in the his-tory of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and made his Carnegie Hall debut with that orchestra at the age of 19. He also played in the first violin section of the Houston Symphony for two seasons. Formerly, he held the position of resident conductor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he was music director of the Campanile Orchestra, assistant conductor to Larry Rachleff and conductor for the opera department. A proponent of music education, Macelaru has served as a conductor with the Houston Youth Symphony, where he also conceptualized and created a successful chamber music program.

Macelaru has participated in the prestigious conducting programs of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Aspen Music Festival, studying under David Zinman, Murry Sidlin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Robert Spano, Oliver Knussen, and Stefan Asbury. His main studies were with renowned teacher Larry Rachleff at Rice University, where he received his master of music degree in conducting. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Miami.

Macelaru currently resides in Philadelphia with his wife, Cheryl, and their son, Bennie.

Cristian maCelaru


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A t home in all kinds of rep-ertoire, Katherine Kilburn has conducted in concert

halls and distinguished music schools in Europe and in the United States. Recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson Award, she has been assistant conduc-tor of the National Repertory Orches-tra, the El Paso Opera, the Bowling Green State University Philharmonia, and the Hot Springs Music Festival, and has guest conducted at the Law-rence University Symphony Orchestra, the St. Endellion Festival in England, the Seasons Festival, the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society, and Opera by the Bay. Kilburn has served as music director and conductor of the Greater New Haven Youth and Chamber Orchestras, and conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Repertory Orchestra. She was director and con-ductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Symphonic Wind Ensemble and interim director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association’s Philharmonia. This summer, she will conduct at the Philadelphia Interna-tional Music Festival and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Kilburn has also enjoyed engagements as a con-ductor of choral music, opera, jazz and wind ensem-bles, and musical theater. She collaborated with world-renowned clarinetists David Shifrin and Alexander Fiterstein on tour for the 50th anniversary of the Interlochen Arts Academy. She conducted Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with the Bowling Green Philharmonia and the BGSU department of theater and film, and Falla’s opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro with the MadCap Puppet Theater Company and the BGSU Opera Theater. She has conducted jazz ensembles, including recitals with saxophonists David Bixler and Brian Lang. She has shared the stage with Sir Richard Hickox, and

was assistant chorus master for Sir Si-mon Rattle in London and Salzburg for performances of Peter Grimes at the Salzburg Easter Festival. She has also served as assistant conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus and as language coach for the St. Louis Children’s Choir. Kilburn has sung, toured, and recorded as a member of the London Symphony Chorus, the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, and the St. Louis Chamber Chorus.

An enthusiastic advocate of new music, Kilburn has commissioned and premiered numerous works

and has been involved in several premiere recordings including the Voice of the Composer series on the Albany Record Label and the Naxos American Classics/Milken Archive CD Series. She has also conducted in the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Festival and the Cabrillo Music Festival. Kilburn’s performances have been featured on NPR and on American Public Media’s Performance Today.

Kilburn holds the M.M. in Orchestral Conduct-ing from the University of Michigan, the M.M. in Choral Conducting from Indiana University, and a B.A. in music and French from Wellesley College where she was a Durant Scholar and recipient of the Billings Performance Award. Kilburn also studied conducting at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in France, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is currently a candidate for the doctor of musical arts degree at Bowling Green State University. Her teachers include Kenneth Kiesler and Emily Freeman Brown. Kilburn has worked closely with such world-renowned conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, JoAnn Falletta, Larry Rachleff, Gustav Meier, George Hurst, David Effron, Victor Yampolsky, and Otto Werner-Mueller.

Katherine Kilburn

Music director of the Charlotte Symphony and

London Chamber orches-tras, this season Warren-Green returns to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducts the world premiere of Frank Corcoran’s Violin Concerto with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Dublin. He returns to the St. Louis Symphony, fol-lowing his acclaimed debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in December 2011, where he was reinvited for the 2012/13 season. Other highlights include his Italian debut with Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali as well as a number of appearances throughout the season with the Orchestre National de Belgique, including concerts at the Palais des Beaux Arts, and a televised concert at the Royal Palace in honour of Belgium’s Royal Family.

Last season he debuted with the Milwaukee Sym-phony Orchestra and the Zürcher Kammerorchester, and returned to the Sapporo Symphony, Armenia Philharmonic, and London Philharmonic orchestras.

In North America, Warren-Green has also con-ducted Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras, as well as the Houston, Seattle, and Vancouver symphony orchestras, to name a few. Elsewhere, recent seasons have seen performances with Royal Scottish National, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Iceland Symphony orchestras, the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

A regular on the summer festival scene, Warren-Green recently appeared with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the 2012 Three Choirs Festival as well as the Boston Summer Arts Weekend Festival in the same year with trumpeter Alison Balsom. Other festival appearances include the closing concert of the Berlin

International Festival with the London Chamber Orchestra, the International Music Festival “Chopin and his Europe” with Sinfonia Varsovia and Maria João Pires, the Menton Festival and the Enescu Festival, with the Chamber Orchestra of

the Romanian National Radio Society. He frequently collaborates with the Chapelle Musicale Reine Eliza-beth in Brussels.

Warren-Green has been personally invited to conduct on many occasions for the Royal Family in the last 30 years. In April 2011, Warren-Green conducted the London Chamber Orchestra during the marriage ceremony of HRH Prince William Duke of Cambridge and HRH Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Ab-bey, which was televised to millions worldwide. Other notable occasions have included Her Majesty the Queen’s 80th birthday celebrations at Kew Palace and HRH Prince of Wales’ 60th birthday concert. Warren-Green also conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra for the Service of Dedication and Prayer (celebrating the marriage of HRH Prince of Wales and HRH Duchess of Cornwall) in 2005.

Previous orchestral appointments have included principal conductor of the Camerata Resident Or-chestra of the Megaron Athens, taking over from Sir Neville Marriner (2004-2009), Chief Conductor of the Nordiska Kammar Orkestern (1998-2005), and Chief Conductor of the Jönköpings Sinfonietta (1998-2001).

Warren-Green has recorded extensively for Sony, Phillips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, and Deustche Grammophon, and regularly records with the Lon-don Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics. He is a regular on UK television and radio, and has featured as a mentor on the BBC’s high-profile television series ‘Maestro’.

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Patricia george, flutePatricia George, flute professor at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and the American Band College, has taught on the faculties of the Eastman School of Music

Preparatory Department, Idaho State University (Fac-ulty Achievement Award 1995), and Brigham Young University-Idaho. She is editor of Flute Talk Magazine and writes the monthly column “The Teacher’s Studio.” George is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music with the B.M. (with distinction), M.M. and Perform-er’s Certificate in Flute. She is co-author of Flute 101: Mastering the Basics; Flute 102: Mastering the Basics; Flute 102: Solo Repertoire; Flute 103: Mastering the Basics; and The Flute Scale Book, all published by Theodore Presser Company.

As a performer George has toured the U.S., Eu-rope, Russia and the Middle East. Her performances have been heard on National Public Radio affiliates in Tennessee, Idaho, and Utah. With Trio Terra Nova (Flute, Bassoon, Piano), she has appeared at the Inter-national Double Reed Conventions held in Arizona, Wisconsin, and at the Centre for the Arts in Banff, Canada, and with the Amadeus Trio (Flute, Cello, Piano) she presented over 90 concerts a year for several years throughout the Intermountain West.

She has soloed with the Amarillo Symphony, Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Quincy Symphony, Brigham Young University-Idaho Symphony Or-chestra, the Magic Valley Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Elkhorn Music Festival Orchestra, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and Cumberland Orchestras, the Idaho Symphony, the Idaho State Civic Symphony, and Wisconsin Lutheran College Orchestra.

George travels throughout the U.S. and Europe teaching her famous flute spa masterclass. She has presented more than 300 flute spas for conservatories, colleges, universities, and flute clubs. She has been secretary of the National Flute Association’s Board of Directors and is a member of the advisory board. She is married to American composer, Thom Ritter George, and mother of three musical children.

robert stephenson, oboeRobert Stephenson joined the Utah Symphony Orchestra in 1980 and has been the principal oboist under music directors Varujan Kojian, Joseph Silverstein, Keith

Lockhart, and Thierry Fischer. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music, Stephenson is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah, a faculty member at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and has served on the faculty of the Aspen School of Music and the Symphony School of America.

Prior to joining the Utah Symphony, Stephenson spent three years as principal oboe with the Savannah Symphony under conductor Christian Badea. Besides his many summers at Interlochen, Robert performed at the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and Charleston, South Carolina, the Academy of the West, the Teton Music Festival, the Elkhorn Music Festival, Tanglewood, and the Blossom Music Festival.

His teachers included John de Lancie, John Mack, Richard Woodhams, Louis Rosenblatt, Jay Light, Dan Stolper, Richard Foley, William Criss, Rhadames An-gelucci and Evelyn McCarty. His compositions include “Twinkle Variations” for solo oboe, “40 New Melodic and Technical Etudes” for oboe or saxophone, and “Dance Etudes”, which has versions for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon. In 2013, “Rhythm, Time and Meter”, 49 etudes for oboe, clarinet or saxophone, is being published by Jeanne Publishing. Stephenson has written articles for the magazine, Flute Talk and served on the artistic committee, the orchestra committee, multiple audition committees and two mu-sic director search committees for the Utah Symphony. He is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, the father of three, spouse of Lisa Byrnes (associate principal flute with the Utah Symphony) and a member of the wood-wind quartet, “Three Fish and a Scorpion.”

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held the positions of second oboe in the Battle Creek Symphony and assistant principal in the Santa Cruz Symphony. She currently teaches at Sewanee: the Uni-versity of the South. She has had a private studio for many years and formerly taught oboe at Albion College and Spring Arbor University.

She received a master of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory in oboe performance where she was a student of Eugene Izotov, current principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony. At the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, Madison, she earned a bachelor of music degree where she was a student of Professor Marc Fink. Van de Ven attended the Pierre Mon-teux Music Festival in Maine and was awarded a full scholarship to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Since 1994, Ms. Van de Ven has been freelancing and has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony, Madison Symphony, Chat-tanooga Symphony, and Huntsville Symphony. She currently resides in Sewanee with her husband and two children.

hunter thomas, bassoonSince 1996, Hunter Thomas has served as the principal bassoon-ist of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Alabama, an orches-tra with which he has performed

since high school. Following a recent performance, The Huntsville Times refer to his “hauntingly lovely first solo” in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Thomas has made numerous solo appearances with the HSO, including his acclaimed performance in 2005 of Mozart’s Bas-soon Concerto under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto. As an orchestral player, Thomas performs reg-ularly with the Chattanooga Symphony, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, with which he has recorded for the Dorian CD label. From 1980-1985, Thomas was the principal bassoon of the National Orchestra of Colombia, South America.

Since 2007 Thomas has been on the artist faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Sewanee, Tenn. In March 2011, Hunter appeared as guest artist

clinician at the Middle Tennessee State Bassoon Festi-val in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Thomas has inspired and mentored countless North Alabama music students. He maintains an active private studio of bassoonists at all playing abilities and serves on the faculty of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Many of his students have been accepted to prestigious schools and festivals nationwide. His students have appeared on the radio show From the Top, and have been finalists in the Marine Band Concerto Competitions. Thomas is in demand throughout the region as a chamber music coach and festival teacher, and has spent numerous hours in public school band rooms and youth orchestra rehearsals, volunteering his time and expertise in support of music education. Thomas was named the 2003 Harold J. Wilson Music Educator of the Year and served on the board of trust-ees of the Huntsville Youth Orchestra.

robert Patterson, clarinetRecognized for his “rich, luscious tone quality” (The Clarinet), Rob Patterson is quickly establish-ing himself as an exciting young versatile clarinetist. Patterson is the

clarinetist with the Opus 39 and VERGE ensembles, the Lyrique en Mer festival in France, and is on the faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. During the academic year, Patterson serves as lecturer in music at the University of Virginia, and as principal clarinet of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Or-chestra. He has been a featured author in the Interna-tional Clarinet Society’s The Clarinet magazine.

Particularly at home in chamber music, Patterson has performed with some of the great artists of our time around the world. He was invited to perform and present a masterclass at the Taipei Municipal University in Taiwan and the University of Southern California’s Global Leadership Conference. At the invitation of Artistic Director Eugenia Zukerman, he joined the Bravo! Vail Valley Music festival for performances with Inon Barnatan, the Miami String Quartet, and Eu-genia Zukerman herself; and while at the Music from Angel Fire Festival he performed with such notables as Toby Appel, Theodore Arm, Ida Kavafian, Rafael Figueroa, and Bill Purvis. At the Yellow Barn Chamber

Music Festival, Boston Globe critic Jeffrey Johnson observed that in his performance of Edison Denisov’s Ode (1968), Patterson “played the part with command, finding the extremes the work sought to articulate.” A portion of a Brahms Clarinet Quintet performance with Patterson and violinist/violist Ida Kavafian was released on CD as a part of the “Season Selections” series at the Curtis Institute of Music. The concert in its entirety was also broadcast on television on Phila-delphia’s WHYY Y ARTS series and on the radio with WRTI Philadelphia. Patterson has received praise for his “brilliant soloing” (Burlington Hawk Eye).

A Cincinnati native currently residing in Wash-ington, D.C., Patterson holds his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and his master of music degree from the University of South-ern California. Patterson’s principal teachers include Yehuda Gilad, Richard Hawley, and Donald Mon-tanaro. Patterson has coached with Pamela Frank, Ida Kavafian, Meng-Chieh Liu, and Richard Woodhams.

todd waldecker, clarinetTodd Waldecker serves as associate professor of clarinet in the School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University where he was a recipient of the 2006 MTSU Foundation

Outstanding Teacher Award. Waldecker is also a faculty member of the summer Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts where he teaches a selective group of high school clarinetists. His degrees include the doctor of music from Indiana University, master of music from Yale University, and a music education degree from the University of Missouri. His primary teachers include Howard Klug, David Shifrin, Eli Eban, James Campbell, Alfred Prinz, and Paul Garritson. Prior to his appointment at Middle Tennessee State University, Waldecker held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Purdue University, and the University of Northern Iowa.

Waldecker has performed by invitation as a fea-tured soloist at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest 2008 and the 2007 University of Okla-homa Clarinet Symposium. As a member of MTSU’s Stones River Chamber Players, he has performed throughout the southern United States, Germany, Switzerland, and France; and has appeared at conven-tions of the National Flute Association and the Guitar Federation of America. In 2006, Waldecker traveled to South Korea with the MTSU Wind Ensemble where his performance of Artie Shaw’s “Clarinet Concerto”; was broadcast on Korean television. Waldecker is a frequent performer with the Nashville Symphony Or-chestra and has recorded with the ensemble for Decca,

NAXOS, and National Public Television. Since 1999, he has also served as principal clarinetist with Orches-tra Nashville and has recorded and toured nationally with the ensemble.

David Brockett, hornDavid Brockett served as acting third horn of the Utah Symphony for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons. During the two previous seasons he played second horn with

The Cleveland Orchestra; over the past two decades he has spent four full seasons and portions of many others with that orchestra, appearing in subscription concerts at Severance Hall and the Blossom Music Festival, playing on numerous recordings, and tour-ing around the world. Brockett was acting assistant principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and acting principal horn with the Cincinnati Pops for the 1990-91 season, and has also performed frequently with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Key West Symphony, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic, the Akron Symphony, the Blossom Festival Concert Band, the Detroit Concert Band, and as featured alto horn soloist with the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. He has played in the orchestras of the Pittsburgh Opera, the Cleveland Opera and Ballet, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.

Brockett was a founding member of the Burn-ing River Brass, with which he made four CDs and went on more than a dozen national tours. He also performed and toured with the Cleveland Chamber Brass in the 1990s, including a residency at the Od-enwald Festspiele in Germany. He has taught at Penn State University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Kent State University, Cleveland State University, the University of Akron, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He arranges music for brass and has frequently conducted university and festival brass ensembles.

Brockett was born in London, Ontario, and grew up in the Detroit area. He earned a bachelor of music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master of music from the University of Akron. His principal teachers included Roy Waas, Richard Solis, Albert Schmitter, and Dale Clevenger.

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Peter Bond, trumpetPeter Bond has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1992. A native of Illinois, drum and bugle corps and big band jazz were his primary interests

before turning to serious study of orchestral playing in graduate school at Georgia State University with teacher and mentor John Head, principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony. A busy freelance career in Atlanta followed; playing principal for the Atlanta Ballet, extra with the Atlanta Symphony, and playing many visiting shows including Evita, West Side Story, 42nd Street, Guys & Dolls, Sugar Babies; and for entertainers such as Mitzi Gaynor, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Ann Margaret, and Rosemary Clooney.

In 1987 Bond was appointed principal trumpet of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Albuquerque, where he remained until winning his current position. His teachers include Vincent Cichowicz, Adolph Hers-eth, Arnold Jacobs, Dale Clevenger, Robert Nagel, and James Pandolfi.

Bond has also appeared with the New York Phil-harmonic, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, American Ballet Theater, and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Mark Babbitt, tromboneIn constant demand as soloist, orchestral musician, and teacher, Mark Babbitt enjoys a high degree of success in all areas of trombone performance.

Babbitt has performed extensively with the Seattle Symphony and Opera. With the Seattle Symphony he has recorded the music of Bodine, Borodin, Brahms/Sheng, Dvorak, McKinley, Mahler, and Schuman. He has performed as guest principal trombone with the Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra. Additionally, he has worked with numerous orchestras throughout the country, including: Rochester Philharmonic, Chau-tauqua Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, Cincin-nati Ballet Orchestra, and Erie Philharmonic. He is currently principal trombone of the Peoria Symphony

Orchestra.Babbitt has been active in the recording and film

soundtrack industry, projects include: Valkyrie, The Incredible Hulk, Alpha and Omega, the video game The Prince of Persia, and Trey Anastasio’s critically acclaimed album Time Turns Elastic. He can be heard on Naxos, Albany, MCC, Mark, and R.E.D. Distribution record labels.

Highlights of the 2012/2013 concert season include soloist with conductor Keith Brion for a series of Sousa Concerts at ISU in the fall, and then working with composer John Mackey on his Harvest Concerto with the ISU Wind Symphony in February.

Babbitt is associate professor of trombone at Illinois State University. Prior to ISU, he was associ-ate professor of trombone for 10 years at Central Washington University. In the summers he is on the artist faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee. He holds degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and Performer’s Certificate), Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M.), and the University of Washington (D.M.A.).

eric Bubacz, tubaEric Bubacz has had an extensive career as a soloist, chamber musi-cian, and orchestral performer. He studied for three years at the East-man School of Music in Rochester,

N.Y., before transferring to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he completed his bach-elor of music. While in school, Bubacz was a member two different brass quintets, both of which competed and placed second at the New York Brass Conference Quintet Competition. During the summers, he at-tended several noted festivals including: The National Repertory Orchestra, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Sully Music Festival, Centre d’Arts Orford, Harmony Ridge Brass Seminar, Festival of Art and Musical Excel-lence and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where he was the first tubaist to win the Chamber Music Prize. Shortly after graduating from Curtis, he attended the Colonial Euphonium and Tuba Institute where he won second prize at the International Tuba Solo Competi-tion. He also placed first on tuba in the International Women’s Brass Conference Solo Competition.

As an orchestral player, Bubacz has been named

principal tuba of the Haddonfield Symphony (1992-1997), the Canton Symphony (1998-2007), and the Reading Symphony (1996-present). He has also performed as an extra musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cleveland Blossom Festival Band. In 1997, Bubacz began working as an extra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. By 2000, Bubacz was also playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass and can be heard on several of their recordings, including Cantate Hodie-Sing Forth this Day and The Spirit of Christmas. From 2002-2005, Bubacz regu-larly acted as principal tuba of the Pittsburgh Sympho-ny Orchestra. Highlights of his work with them include four European Tours, three performances at Carnegie Hall, and a performance at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. Since moving to Atlanta in the 2006, Bubacz has become an active teacher and performer through-out the Southeast.

John Kilkenny, percussionJohn Kilkenny (B.M., the Juilliard School, M.M., Temple University) is currently director of percus-sion studies and conductor of the percussion ensemble at George

Mason University. The percussion ensemble at Mason regularly tours, commissions, and premieres new music as part of their concert season, which currently includes four annual performances. Recent appear-ances include featured performances at the Western International Band Conference, The College Music Society Mid Atlantic Conference and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Hailed by the Washington Post as a “particularly fine timpanist,” Kilkenny enjoys a multi-faceted career that includes orchestral performances with the Nation-al Symphony, Washington National Opera and Ballet, Washington Concert Opera, Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Chorus, Choral Arts Society, and virtually every other Washington D.C. area performing arts organization. A champion of contemporary music and an active chamber music performer, he collaborates regularly with flautist Karen Johnson, pianist Carlos Rodriguez, the Folger Consort, Washington Bach Consort, The Verge Ensemble, 21st Century Consort, and the National Gallery New Music Ensemble.

In addition, he has appeared with, Talujon Per-cussion, Chris Deviney, John Tafoya, Robert Van Sice, Gregory Zuber, and She e Wu. Michael Daugherty’s UFO Percussion Concerto, and the Washington D.C. area premiere of the Philip Glass Concerto Fantasy for two Timpanists and Wind Symphony are among his recent concerto appearances.

Kilkenny is artist-in-residence at the Sewanee

Summer Music Festival and has served in similar capacities at the University of Maryland (summer 2005-2007) and Indiana University (summer 2008-2010). He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and proudly sponsored by Vic Firth, Sabian, and Remo.

lin he, violinThis season of concerts take violin-ist Lin He in the states of Calif., Fla., Ky., La., N.Y., Ohio, Tenn., and Panama City, and mainland China.

As a soloist and chamber musician, He has pre-sented recitals at universities across the United States as well as at several major conservatories in China. Most recently, he performed solo recitals and gave master classes at Arizona State University, Florida State Uni-versity, Pennsylvania State University, SUNY Fredonia, and Tulane University.

As an orchestral player, He has performed with the Shanghai Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and New World Symphony, and has worked under the direction of Alsop, Conlon, DePreist, Ozawa, Previn, Slatkin, Spano, de Waart, and Zinman. He is a regular addition to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Summer festival appearances have taken He to venues such as the Aspen Music Festival and the Tan-glewood Music Center. He has been a laureate of the Padesta Solo Competition and the ASTA competition. He is now serving as assistant professor of violin at the Louisiana State University School of Music. During the summer, he teaches at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

He received his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music with Zvi Zeitlin. Other major influ-ences include Sylvia Rosenberg and Paul Kantor. His recent CD release from Centaur Records of French Sonatas for Violin and Piano with colleague Gregory Sioles received favorable reviews.

Jonathan Magness, violinAlabama native Jonathan Magness was appointed the Minnesota Or-chestra’s associate principal second violin in Sept. 2008, after per-forming as a regular substitute with

the orchestra’s first violin section for one full season. He has performed chamber works at several orchestra concerts, including Schumann’s Piano Quartet at the 2009 Sommerfest. He was featured as soloist at Inside the Classics and Young People’s Concerts in 2010, performing music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla.

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since his teenage years, when he studied at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, working with Sally O’Reilly. He has also earned a bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School and a master’s, with high distinction, from the University of Graz in Austria.

Magness has won prizes in numerous competi-tions. In 2004 he received the grand prize in the International Sparkasse Musikstipendium competition in Austria. In 2005, in the Luis Sigall Violin Com-petition in Chile, he was awarded the audience prize, prize for best interpretation of a commissioned work, and second prize overall; that same year he was a prize-winner in the Manchester International Competition in the United Kingdom, which brought him the op-portunity to appear as soloist with the BBC Symphony under Vassily Sinaisky. He has also been soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Klagenfurt Musikverein, Regional Orchestra of Chile, and additional orchestras in the U.S. and Austria, and has performed chamber music and solo recitals across the U.S., South America, and Europe. Magness has been on the faculty at Bravo! Music Festival since 2006.

Brittany Macwilliams, violinViolinist Brittany MacWilliams has an active career both as performer and educator. She made her pro-fessional violin debut at age 10 with the Louisville Orchestra and went

on to win numerous competitions including the Music Teachers National Association competition. Since then, MacWilliams has performed extensively as soloist and concertmaster in such diverse locales as Istanbul, Beijing, Salzburg, Munich, Lisbon, and New York. She has had solo engagements with such orchestras as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Munich Hochshule Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony, and Aspen Chamber Symphony. MacWil-liams can be heard as soloist on two critically acclaimed compact discs of Giornovichi Violin Concerti for the Arte Nova Classics/BMG label.

MacWilliams is currently a member of the violin faculty at the University of Louisville School of Music. She is also the founder and director of the Oldham County Chamber Ensemble, where she conducts the chamber orchestra and teaches chamber music. She

taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conser-vatory of Music as a member of the violin faculty from 2001-2008. She was also a member of the violin fac-ulty at Xavier University, where she taught violin, viola, and chamber music for six years. She was the director and a member of the violin faculty of the Starling Pre-paratory String Project at the University of Cincinnati for 12 years. During the summers, she has served on the faculties of the Aspen Music Festival and the Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing.

MacWilliams was the first winner of the presti-gious Dorothy Richard Starling Teaching Fellowship in 2001, and over the years her students have won na-tional competitions, performed with major orchestras, and received music scholarships to many top universi-ties and conservatories. MacWilliams received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy DeLay.

nurit Pacht, violinViolinist Nurit Pacht was a top prize winner in international competitions including the Irving Klein International Music Competition in California and

the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland. She spent several years touring the world as the soloist in stage director Robert Wilson’s “Relative Light” and in projects with Bill T. Jones and his dance company performing works for solo violin by J.S. Bach and John Cage. Pacht performed Philip Glass’ duos for violin and piano with the composer at the piano and premiered Noam Sheriff’s Violin Concerto “Dibrot,” a work dedicated to her, with the Israeli Contemporary Players. She was the soloist on a tour of China with the Young Israel Philharmonic performing Sibelius and Tchaikovsky Concertos. She has toured as a soloist with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and has performed as guest soloist with the Brooklyn Phil-harmonic, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Des Moines Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, most of the major orchestras in Romania, the National Symphony in Columbia, Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, and Filarmonica di Roma. Pacht has performed in recitals

and in small chamber music formations at the festivals of Santa Fe, Monadnock, Sienna, Mecklenberg and, at the invitation of Christoph Eschenbach, at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series. As a baroque violinist, she has a master’s degree from Juilliard’s Historical Performance program and performed with artists such as William Christie, Jordi Savall, and Monica Huggett. One of her live recital recordings with pianist Konstantin Lifschitz from London’s Wigmore Hall was released by Nimbus Records.

Matthew Michelic, violaMatthew Michelic enjoys a diverse musical career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher. Michelic has been praised in the Denver Post as projecting “an

extraordinarily rich viola sound,” and the Milwaukee Sentinel viewed his performance of Hindemith’s Trau-ermusik as a “touching, masterful interpretation.” He has concertized throughout the United States and in-ternationally as a member of the Kenwood, Da Vinci, and Delos Quartets, and he has collaborated with artists such as Robert McDonald, Jeffrey Solow, the Amelia Piano Trio, the Prometheus Trio, the Fine Arts Quartet, and the Capela Quartet of Portugal. Michelic has recorded on the Orion and CRI labels, has been a featured recitalist on WFMT radio in Chicago, and appears regularly on live chamber music broadcasts of Wisconsin Public Radio as a recitalist and as a member of the Lawrence Chamber Players. He has appeared as recitalist for meetings of the International Viola So-ciety, the Chicago Viola Society, and the International Double Reed Society.

Michelic holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Indiana University. He has studied at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, and the Institute for Advanced Musical Stud-ies in Montreux, Switzerland. His principal teachers include Bernard Zaslav and Mimi Zweig, and he has performed in the master classes of Paul Doktor, Bruno Giuranna, and William Primrose. His chamber music coaches include members of the Cleveland, Fine Arts, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Vermeer Quartets.

Currently Michelic serves on the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where his teaching activities include viola, chamber music coach-ing, orchestral literature for strings, and an upper-lev-el course focused on the history of the string quartet. The former students of Michelic now teach in public school, community school, and university settings and perform in professional chamber and orchestral en-sembles in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Katherine lewis, violaViolist Katherine Lewis enjoys a multi-faceted career as a teacher, chamber musician, solo per-former, and orchestral musician. She is assistant professor of viola at

Illinois State University as well as master teacher for the ISU String Project, and currently performs as prin-cipal viola in the Peoria Symphony and Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra. Her previous orchestral experience includes appointments in the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, Texas and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, as well as frequent work with the Houston and New World Symphonies

An avid chamber musician, Lewis regularly performs with the ISU Faculty String Quartet and the Lewis Trio. She recently premiered Libby Larsen’s viola duo “In Such a Night,” written for her and violist James Dunham for a performance at the 38th Interna-tional Viola Congress. She has also recorded chamber music by composers Karim Al-Zand and John Alle-meier for recordings on the Naxos Record Label.

A recipient of several awards and grants for her teaching and research, including the ISU College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teaching Award and the ISU College of Fine Arts Research Initiative Award, Lewis has given recitals, presentations, and master classes at venues throughout the country. She has presented sessions at several conferences including the Interna-tional Double Reed Society Conference, the American String Teacher’s Association National Conference, the College Music Society Great Lakes Conference, and the Chicago Viola Festival. Recent recital and master class highlights include appearances at the University of Tennessee Viola Celebration, Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, Kansas State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Valdosta State University.

Lewis earned the doctor of musical arts degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she was a Brown Foundation Scholar. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University and a master’s degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music.

Daphne gerling, violaViolist Daphne Gerling has been artist teacher of viola and chamber music at the University of North Texas since 2011. She enjoys a multi-faceted career as a teacher,

chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist performing on both modern and baroque viola in leading ven-ues across the U.S., Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Germany. Fol-


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lowing studies at Walnut Hill School, NEC, Oberlin, CIM, and Rice, she has worked in the UK, Georgia, and Virginia. She performs frequently with the Rich-mond Symphony, and has recently been a guest artist at Colorado Mesa University, James Madison University, Rice University, Illinois State University, Florida State University, University of Rhode Island, University of South Carolina, Sewanee, University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University, Texas Tech Univer-sity, University of Virginia, and the Federal Universi-ties of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Uberlândia, Brazil.

Recent collaborative projects have led her to orga-nize the Primeiro Encontro de Violas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2012, and to present at the ASTA conven-tion in 2013. Formerly on the faculty at Valdosta State University, she spends summers teaching at Sewanee Summer Music Festival, the Raphael Trio Cham-ber Music Workshop, and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, with whom she has broadcast twice for National Public Radio.

anthony Kitai, celloAnthony Kitai joined the Houston Symphony in 2001, serving as act-ing associate principal cellist from 2003-2005. Previously, he was a member of the Memphis Sym-

phony and the Iris Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, Kitai has appeared with many orches-

tras including the Galveston Symphony, Symphony North of Houston, Texas Medical Center Orchestra, Jonesboro Symphony, Fort Smith Symphony, and Pine Bluff Symphony. He has participated in numerous music festivals including Grand Teton, Schleswig-Holstein, and Aspen.

As a chamber musician, Kitai has performed with Mercury Baroque, and on Aperio, Col Canto, Foundation for Modern Music, and Woodlands Salon Series Concerts. He frequently collaborates with his wife, pianist Shannon Hesse, and has performed with her on the Galveston Island Arts Academy Concert Series, Greenbriar Consortium Concerts, Houston Community College Chamber Music Series, Imperial Performing Arts, and Westminster Summer Concerts.

Kitai enjoys teaching and maintains an active

private studio where his students regularly play in Texas All-Region and All-State Orchestras. During the summers, he is on the faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Kitai received his B.M. and performer’s certifi-cate from the Eastman School of Music and his M.M. from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. His major teachers have included Desmond Hoebig, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, and Peter Spurbeck.

Paul york, celloAn accomplished soloist, chamber musician and teacher, Paul York has appeared in recitals and with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. York serves on the string faculty at

the University of Louisville, where he maintains an ac-tive teaching and performing schedule. Recent solo ap-pearances include a performance of Karel Husa’s Con-certo for Violoncello and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Colored Field for Cello and Orchestra by Aaron Jay Kerniswith the Louisville Orchestra and Vivaldi’s Double Con-certo in G Minor with internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Of his performance at Carnegie Hall, New York Concert Reviews said “The fiendishly difficult solo part was brilliantly played by cellist Paul York; one had to be in awe of his playing.”

As a champion of contemporary music, York has commissioned works for the cello by such compos-ers as Stefan Freund, Marc Satterwhite, Steve Rouse, Paul Brink, and Fredrick Speck. He also premiered the work Ballad for Solo Cello and Seven Cellos by Grawemeyer and Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Aaron Jay Kernis as well as Alfred Bartle’s new orchestration of Bartok’s First Rhapsody for Cello with the Sewanee Festival Orchestra.

York has participated in numerous summer festivals. He is currently a member of the artist faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, where he performs solo and chamber works, in addition to his teaching schedule. He has also performed at Strings in the Mountains in Colorado, the Abilene Chamber Music Series, and served as principal cello with the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has held princi-pal cello positions with numerous regional orchestras and performed as a member of the cello section of the

St. Louis Symphony under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.

York received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and his master of music degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied with Ronald Leonard. Other teachers include Gabor Rejto, and Louis Potter. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, York was selected to participate in the prestigious Piatigorsky seminar at the University of South California.

sidney King, double bassSidney A. King’s multi-faceted career as a double bassist, com-poser, and arranger spans over three decades. Since 1992, he has performed at the orchestra of the

Grand Teton Music Festival, often serving in titled positions. He has served as principal bassist with the Houston Grand Opera, the Texas Opera Theater, the Sunflower Music Festival, and the Des Moines Metro Opera, and has performed with the symphonies of the Detroit, Cincinnati, Houston, Pittsburgh, Indianapo-lis, and Nashville, as well as the Louisiana Philharmon-ic and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He held the position of assistant principal bassist of the Louisville Orchestra from 1984-2006.

As a composer, King has received commissions from many diverse organizations and his compositions have been performed throughout the country. 2012-2013 season premieres included Duende al Rojo for solo double bass and string orchestra commissioned by the Youth Performing Arts High School of Louisville, Es ist ein ros ensprugen commissioned by the Freudig Singers of Western New York, Hazelhurst Suite for solo double bass, and Tangos de los Angeles for double bass and harp. Com-missioned by the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Entre Dos Luces for solo double bass and orchestra will be premiered in July 2013. As performer, composer, and arranger with the nationally prominent flamenco ensemble Al Sur, King appeared on concert stages, in theaters, and on broadcasts throughout the country. His compositions are published by St. James Music Press and Really Good Music.

King serves as professor of double bass and direc-tor of string education activities at the University of Louisville School of Music. In 2011, he was named Teacher of the Year by the American String Teachers Association of Kentucky.

King is an expert sports fisherman whose fly de-signs have been marketed nationwide.

Marian shaffer, harpMarian Shaffer is principal harpist with the Memphis Symphony Or-chestra and the Iris Orchestra. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Stephens College, graduating

summa cum laude with a concentration in harp and piano. She studied both instruments for one year at the Vienna Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and then received a Fulbright scholarship to Cologne, Germany, for further study. Her principal teachers include Mimi Allen, Marjorie Tyre, Lucile Lawrence, and Hans Joachim Zingel. In 1974 she graduated from Memphis State University with an M.A. in music and German. She has performed with the Memphis Symphony since that time, four seasons as pianist and 35 seasons as principal harpist. As a charter member of the Iris Orchestra, Shaffer has held the princi-pal harp position since the orchestra’s formation in September of 2000. In 1995, Shaffer was awarded a Rockefeller Cultural Exchange Grant to collabo-rate on a harp method book based on the traditional “Sones” of Mexico. In May of 2007 she toured China, giving master classes and performing at the Shanghai Conservatory and Shanghai Middle School. She also performed in the Festival Virtuosi in Recife, Brazil, in 2007 and 2011. In the 2009-2010 Blair Concert Series, Shaffer was soloist with the Vanderbilt String Orchestra and performed on Nashville Public Televi-sion. She is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University, University of Memphis, the Hutchison School, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

frances Cobb, harp assistantFrances Cobb attends the Cin-cinnati College-Conservatory of Music as an artist diploma student under the instruction of Gillian Benet Sella. In June 2012, she

graduated from CCM as a full scholarship master’s stu-dent and graduate assistant in the harp department. In addition to teaching, Cobb has performed as principal harpist of the CCM Philharmonia, Concert Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Chamber Players, Opera produc-tions, and many other volunteer-based school related functions. Since moving to Cincinnati in September 2010, she has also been featured twice as a guest artist on the faculty chamber concerts at the University of Miami of Ohio and recently played with the Columbus, Kentucky, and Cincinnati Symphony.

Cobb has been performing in professional orchestras including the Cincinnati, Columbus, Arkansas, Kentucky, and the Memphis Symphony or-chestras since 2002 and continues to act as substitute


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harpist on top of her rigorous teaching and perform-ing schedule at school. After studying with Marian Shaffer at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival for 10 consecutive summers, she joined the faculty in 2009 where she continues to teach and perform in master-classes, coachings, and ensembles. Cobb began playing the harp at age six with members of her own family at her home in Little Rock, Ark. The love of the harp has been passed down through three generations of the Cobb family beginning with her grandmother, Ruth Moore Cobb, who studied and toured with Carlos Salzedo.

gary hammond, pianoPianist Gary Hammond has been praised in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America as a recital-ist and chamber musician of the first rank. The New York Times has

described his playing as “eloquent — a strong feeling of musical expression and intelligent thought.” Ham-mond’s performances have taken him to Glazunov Hall in the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia; the Musikdagar Festival in Sweden; the Auditorio Nacional in Costa Rica. He has appeared at Weill Hall and Mer-kin Hall in New York; Ordway Hall, St. Paul; Boston’s Gardner Museum; Glenn Memorial Hall, Atlanta; Meany Hall, Seattle; the Hochschule in Munich, and Hong Kong’s City Hall. He has been heard on New York’s WQXR, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and on live broadcasts from WNYC and Radio 4 Hong Kong.

A native of Seattle, Hammond is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Juilliard School. His teachers include Randolph Hokanson, Bela Siki, Josef Raieff, and Herbert Stessin. He is on the facul-ties of Hunter College, City University of New York; the Graduate Center, CUNY; and the Sewanee Music Festival. Hammond has recorded for the Altarus and Partita labels; the American Record Guide commented on his all-Brahms disc with cellist Astrid Schween and clarinetist John Marco, “…this is a fantastic release, with performances at or near the top of the list. Do search out this recording — it is outstanding.” His release on the Naxos label of the Celebre Tarantelle by Gottschalk and other Creole Romantic pieces has also received critical acclaim. Hammond has been a fre-

quent participant in the Friends and Enemies of New Music series in Manhattan, has collaborated with the American Composer’s Orchestra, with singer Marni Nixon and actresses Claire Bloom and Luise Rainer.

rami vamos, education and community engagementCombining his talents as a per-former, educator, writer, and com-poser, Rami Vamos has produced a wide array of creative output,

ranging from children’s musicals to chamber composi-tions. For the past 10 years he has used these creations to share an appreciation of classical music with people of all ages and backgrounds.

As an educator he began his career as a New York City Teaching Fellow. He spent two years as head of the music program at PS 123 in South Ozone Park, Queens, while earning his master’s in music educa-tion at night. Since completing the fellowship he has held multiple positions simultaneously. He creates the curriculum and teaches all of the Pre-K music classes in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He teaches kindergarten and first grade music classes at Siwanoy and Colonial Schools in Pelham, N.Y., and has been on the guitar faculty of the Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville for 10 years. In addition to his guitar instruction at Concordia, he creates curriculum for and runs a guitar camp for stu-dents age 6-14 each summer. He composes music and coaches for the school’s chamber music program, and he writes two to three musicals each year for their Mu-sical Adventures for Children concert series. For the past two years Concordia has received a special grant to make use of his talent as an early childhood educator. Each week he teaches two classes at Fountains Nursing home in Tuckahoe, N.Y. The residents of the nurs-ing home watch and participate as he teaches a class of Pre-K students from a local nursery. This very special program allows him to bring the joy of music to the very young and very old at the same time. For the past three years he has also served as a teaching artist for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This allows him to visit city schools throughout New York and New Jersey to prepare students for various chamber music events that they attend throughout the year. He is cur-rently in the process of writing his first guitar method book, which will include his own compositions and a


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As a classical guitarist Vamos has performed extensively throughout the United States. This last year Music in The Loft in Chicago commissioned a work by Ricardo Lorenz for him to perform with the Pacifica String Quartet. He is a founding member of the Sap Dream Electric Guitar Quartet, which performed at the Norfolk Summer Music Festival, New York Guitar Festival, and at Princeton and Yale Universities. Twice a month Vamos does volunteer bedside performances at hospitals throughout New York City. He does this for the organization Musicians On Call, of which he has been a member since it’s inception in the year 2000. As a student he took the top prize in the ASTA junior guitar competition and was a finalist in several other competitions including the Rantucci Classical Guitar Competition and the Portland Classical Guitar Competition. He received his undergraduate degree in guitar performance at Oberlin Conservatory where he studied with Stephon Aron. He earned his master’s degree in guitar performance under the tutelage of Benjamin Verdery at the Yale School of Music, where he was a Rossoff Scholar and the recipient of the Eliot Fisk Prize. He holds a master’s in music education from Queens College.

Faculty Guest Artists

Kathryn eberle, violin, faculty guest artistViolinist Kathryn Eberle is the newly appointed associate concert-master of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. Previously, Eberle was

a violinist with the St. Louis Symphony and guest con-certmaster with the Omaha and Richmond Sympho-nies. She served extensively as concertmaster for the Juilliard Orchestra, including the ensemble’s tour of China, as well as performances in Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Carnegie Halls.

Eberle’s solo performances include appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Louisville Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, the Bahia Symphony in Brazil, and the Fireworks Ensemble at the Library of Congress. She has collaborated with such artists as Ed-gar Meyer, Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, Ricardo Morales, and members of the New York Philharmonic. Eberle garnered Grand Prize in the YMF National Debut, Pasadena Instrumental, and USC Concerto Competitions, and top prizes in the Klein, Stulberg, and Corpus Christi International Competitions. An avid chamber musician, her festival appearances

include Aspen, Banff, Yellow Barn, Encore School for Strings, Missillac (France), Sewanee, Laguna Beach, Innsbrook, and Festival Mozaic.

Eberle received a master’s degree from the Juil-liard School studying with Sylvia Rosenberg. She previ-ously studied with Robert Lipsett both at the Colburn School and the University of Southern California, where she received the string department and sym-phony awards upon graduation. A native of Nashville, Tenn, she was a pre-college student of Cornelia Heard at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Eberle performs on a J.B. Vuillaume, Paris, 1870.

samantha george, violin, faculty guest artistCurrently associate professor of violin at Lawrence University, Sa-mantha George served as associate concertmaster of the Milwaukee

Symphony Orchestra from 1999-2008 and as acting concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for the 2002-2003 season. Her previous posts have included assistant concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony, core concertmaster of the Hartford Sym-phony, and guest concertmaster appointments with the Charleston Symphony and the Oregon Symphony. She has performed at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Heidelberg Castle Festival, and the Washington Island Music Festival.

George is also a faculty member at the Green Lake Chamber Music Workshop and Wisconsin Lutheran College. She received a high-school diploma from the Interlochen Arts Academy and bachelor of music, master of music, and performer’s certificate degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was a graduate teaching assistant for Charles Castleman. She also holds a doctorate in violin performance and music theory from the University of Connecticut.

Recent appearances include solo performances with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Be-loit/Janesville Symphony, and Waukesha Symphony. In 2002, she performed the Bach Concerto for Two Vio-lins with world-famous violinist Hilary Hahn and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Active as an advocate for greater understanding and appreciation of classical music, George has hosted two weekly radio programs: “MSO BackStagePass” (WFMR 106.9 Milwaukee) and “MSO Weekly Update” (WMSE 91.7 Milwaukee). In addition, she is a host of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s “Classical Connections” series, teaches music appreciation courses at the Washington Island Music Festival, and hosts a number of pre-concert and post-concert lectures wherever she performs.

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Katherine lehman, directorViolinist Katherine Lehman has an extensive and versatile career as a performer and teacher. An accom-plished soloist and chamber musi-cian, she maintains an active per-

formance schedule throughout the U.S. Since 2009 she has been director of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, an internationally renowned summer program for advanced music students. Under her guidance the festival has emerged as one of the leading voices in music education in the U.S. Lehman has served as professor of violin at the University of the South (Sewanee) since 1995. She has been a core member of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, performing and recording with such artists as Edgar Meyer, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Trey Anastasio, Turtle Island String Quartet, and countless others. Recent projects include col-laborations with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and American fiddling legend Mark O’Connor. She chairs the Performing Arts Series at Sewanee, presenting a full concert series of international artists each season. Lehman attended Eastman School of Music, the Uni-versity of Kansas, and Northwestern University, where she earned the prestigious performer’s certificate. Her teachers have included Zvi Zeitlin, Gerardo Ribeiro, and Shmuel Ashkenasi, and she has performed in mas-ter classes by Dorothy Delay, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Guarneri Quartet and many others. Lehman currently plays on an 1874 violin by J.B. Vuillaume.

Kristopher leCorgne, asst. direc-tor for marketing and admissionsKris LeCorgne comes from a diverse business and music back-ground. He has had the advantage of attending schools in Florida,

Georgia, and Washington state. He pursued music vigorously during his secondary education years achiev-ing positions in the Broward County All State Small Schools Honor Band, the All County Orchestra, the Tri-State Music Convention, and earned superiors at the Solo and Ensemble Competition at both county and state levels. He was also the first student in his school’s history to achieve all of the above mentioned honors. He also studied under the tutelage of Dr. Rob-ert Billington for five years.

His cultural background includes strong ties in both Europe and South America as well as a dual citizenship status from the United Kingdom and the United States. He is fluent in English and is proficient in Spanish reading, writing, and speaking. His back-ground and travels have given him a unique under-standing of different cultures and of the global mar-ketplace. LeCorgne currently holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts with a major in flute performance. He was involved with the Rollins College Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and was given the honor to perform with the Winter Park Bach Festival as second chair under the principal flutist. He was also the founding member and company manager of the Rollins College Opera Company where he produced Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. LeCorgne has also successfully earned his MBA at the Crummer School of Business with a double master in management and marketing.

evelyn loehrlein, director of op-erations and administrationEvelyn Loehrlein has enjoyed a diverse career as a performer and arts administrator. From 1990 to 2012, she held a variety of leader-

ship positions on the staff of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra. During her tenure as director of marketing from 2002-2009, the HSO’s earned income in-creased by over 50 percent. As the founding director of the Symphony School of the HSO from 1997-2002, Loehrlein initiated partnerships to provide innovative string education programs in community organizations and the elementary schools of five school districts. As a current trustee and member of the marketing commit-tee of the Louisville Youth Orchestra, she produced a full house audience for the LYO’s education concert for middle school students in March 2013.

As principal flutist of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra since 1988, Loehrlein has made numerous solo appearances, including performances of Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Howard Hanson’s Serenade, Poem by Charles Griffes, and Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp. In 2007, she premiered a flute concerto written for her by Chris-topher Weiss to commemorate the 30th anniversary of her first HSO performance.

A versatile musician, Loehrlein performed with

Orchestra Nashville on tour with Amy Grant and Vince Gill, and at the Bonnaroo Festival with Trey Anastasio of Phish. In September 2010, she appeared as soloist in David Maslanka’s epic “O Earth, O Stars” with the Huntsville Chamber Winds. She has performed with choral groups in several venues of Buffalo, New York.

Loehrlein resides near Louisville, Ky., with her husband, Sidney King, composer, double bassist and faculty member of the Sewanee Summer Music Fes-tival. They travel extensively and enjoy fly-fishing to-gether whenever possible, practicing catch and release, of course. Loehrlein is active as a hospice patient care volunteer with Hosparus of Louisville.

Summer Staff

Manly romero, music librarianAfter receiving a bassoon performance diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), Manly Romero turned his focus to composition. Bach-elor’s studies at SFCM with David Conte and Conrad Susa led to his first serious compositions, including Concertino for Violin and Orchestra, premiered by Artea, and The Legend of Chang’Er, premiered by the San Francisco Symphony.

Under the mentorship of William Albright, Mi-chael Daugherty, Susan Botti, Betsy Jolas, and particu-larly William Bolcom, at the University of Michigan, Romero completed a DMA while composing orchestral works such as Spirals (recorded on the Klavier Gold label and available from Amazon.com); Cortège; Blanco, Azul, Rojo; and his opera, Dreaming of Wonderland. These compositions garnered awards and commissions from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ameri-can Composers’ Orchestra, The Ragdale Foundation, American Music Center, San Francisco Camerata Americana, NYFA, and most recently the Hoeffer Commission from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Romero has been a member of the New York City-based composers’ collective Random Access Music (RAM), since 2006.

Romero’s compositions have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, New York City Op-era, the Memphis Symphony, American Composers’ Orchestra, San Francisco Camerata Americana, Artea, City Winds, the Alban Duo, Quintessence, Ursula’s End, Lost Dog, Round Rock Symphony, and many others.

Romero serves as the performance librarian at the Manhattan School of Music’s Evelyn Sharp Perfor-mance Library.

Production Staff

Jack ray, production managerPeter westin ii, asst. production manager

Interns

hunter woolwine, media internlauren Mcnee, office and front house managerJason spencer, operations assistant/sewanee symphony managerMelora slotnick, asst. librarian/Cumberland orchestra manager


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enDoweD funDsThese endowed funds have been made available to the Sewanee Summer Music Festival through significant gifts by the donors. We are grateful for them each season.

Jacqueline avent ssMf scholarship fund established by Walter E. and Mayna Nance.

Blaffer ssMf endowment funded by the Sarah Camp-bell Blaffer Foundation.

albert Bonholzer endowment for the ssMf estab-lished by Herman and Mary Baggenstoss and friends.

Martha Clark Dugan ssMf artist-in-residence fund established by the family of Martha Clark Dugan to bring world-class artists to the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Dudley fort ssMf scholarship fund established by Dr. Dudley Fort Jr.

Kathlyn B. hays ssMf scholarship fund established through a bequest by Kathlyn Hays.

elmer and Katherine ingram ssMf scholarship fund established through a bequest by Mr. and Mrs. Ingram.

george and Mamie neville ssMf scholarship fund established by Holton C. Rush in memory of George and Mamie Neville.

David and lorraine schlatter ssMf fund established by Mr. and Mrs. Schlatter.

Dortha skelton ssMf violin scholarship fund estab-lished through a bequest by Dortha Skelton.

ssMf tennessee heritage of Music fund established through a matching grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission to help provide music education rich in Tennessee heritage.

george a. tesar fund established through a bequest from George Tesar.

linda wheat ssMf scholarship fund established through a bequest from Marjorie Warner Wheat.

Corporate sponsorsJoseph’s RemodelingThe Monteagle Inn Bed & Breakfast & Retreat CenterMyers PointLocalsThe Blue ChairThe Sewanee Business Alliance

DonorsThe Sewanee Summer Music Festival would like to thank all of its donors for their generous support. A summer in Sewanee is a magical, life-changing experience. Their gift makes that experience possible for our talented young musicians.

Thank you for 57 years of music on the mountain.

Benefactors ($9,999–5,000)William B. GuentherWalter E. Nance, C’54 & Mayna A. Nance

Patron ($2,999–1,000)Louis W. Rice Jr., C’50 & Anne Turlington RiceThe Rev. Julia M. Gatta & John J. Gatta Jr.Dolores T. SnowdenAna Maria Basaraba & Mircea M. BasarabaBetty L. Ikard & Lannie L. IkardBonita Greenwald McCardell & John M. McCardell Jr.David CloughMartha McCroryWilliam Booth Davis, C’69 & Anne Bradbury Davis

supporter ($999–500)Katherine LehmanJoyce Rabinowitz & Daniel RabinowitzHildy Dinkins — In Memory of Bruce DinkinsJane Ebey & Sherwood F. EbeyJoel & Trudy CunninghamJohann R. Manning Jr., C’82 & Leigh Ann ManningJohn L. Bordley Jr. & Carolyn E. FitzLawrence E. Cantrell Jr., C’50Margaret C. Lindberg & William J. LindbergMary Davis & Latham W. DavisPatricia L. Wiser — In Memory of Phil LoneyRobert D. Gooch Jr., C’59 & Katharine H. GoochRobert M. Ayres Jr., C’49, H’74 & Patricia S. Ayres, H’98

Thomas P. Dupree Sr., H’98 & Ann Todd DupreeRotary Club of MonteagleJean A. Yeatman & Harry C. Yeatman

friend ($499–200)Ann Patchett VanDevender, H’08 & Frank Karl VanDevender, C’69 — In Honor of Connie HeardChristin Ausley Carlson, C’83 & Thomas M. Carlson, C’63Jane F. Flynn & John F. FlynnJohn G. Bratton, A’47, C’51Allison FultzEdwina P. Furman & John R. FurmanThe Rev. Dr. William H. Hethcock, T’84 & Phebe C. HethcockVan Eugene Gatewood Ham, C’70 — In Memory of Jacqueline AventJune B. Mays & Joseph B. Mays Jr.Margaret H. Wiley & David W. Wiley Jr.Marion G. BeasleyRobert G. Hynson, C’67 & Lessley O. HynsonSarah M. HubbardStephen R. MillerThomas S. Kandul Jr., C’61 & Debra L. KandulDr. & Mrs. A. Scott BatesMrs. Sarah G. LittleSewanee Women’s Club

Member ($199–50)Anastasia & George W. SwopeMr. & Mrs. E. Dudey BurwellDonna Caplenor Pahmeyer, C’74 & J. Allen Pahmeyer, C’71Polly A. HallidayW. Harold Bigham, C’54 & Carol A. BighamAnn McCulloch OliverBetty Pride Blythe & James Blythe Jr.Cameron Wallace Swallow, C’90 & John Richard Swallow, C’89Connie Gibson & E. Lawrence GibsonG. Patterson Keahey Jr., C’77James A. Bradford, C’77 & Lyn BradfordJoanna Fitts Ware, C’82 & Paul Ware, C’82John C.R. Taylor III, C’68John D. Canale III, C’67June B. Mays & Joseph B. Mays Jr.

Marcia S. Clarkson & William E. ClarksonMargaret Lines, W’35Mary Patton Priestley, C’72 & William M. Priestley, C’62Mr. Edward Heath McCrady, C’93Patricia O. Sipes & Tommy SipesStephen G. SandersSylviane Poe & George W. PoeThe Rev. Dr. H. Hunter Huckabay Jr., T’69, T’84, H’00 & Prestine Crosby HuckabayW. Brown Patterson Jr., C’52, H’12 & Evelyn B. PattersonLeslie & Thomas DiNellaPatricia Louise Keithly & Thomas M. KeithlyMarion B. Kearley & The Rev. David A. KearleyAlan P. Biddle, C’70Anne Elizabeth Giles, C’92Cynthia SaroffIrene Wills & W. Ridley Wills IIJack W. Steinmeyer, C’71 & Susan W. SteinmeyerJanet B. Graham & Timothy H. GrahamJohn CorbettKnowles Bonin Harper, C’79 & Bill Harper, C’78Lucy Powell & Harry H. Powell Jr.Ms. Barbara PayneNeida Witherspoon & Bill ThompsonSummer Louise Martins, C’00The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Hughes III & Barbara B. HughesThe Rev. John Tol Broome, C’54 & Mary Nicholson BroomeTommy G. Watson & Gail H. WatsonVirginia L. Densmore & Gene DensmoreHelen Louise L. IrwinHenry Frank Arnold Jr., C’57 & Ann E. ArnoldClare L. Martin


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list of stuDents:

fluteSarah AbramsAlexandra ClayJustin CookJulianna EidleEboni GoarMichael HooverLinda JenkinsKim LewisSarah MitchenerKatie SchlosserSchuyler ThorntonErin Wallace

oboeNatalie BeckenbaughSarah BishopElizabeth FleissnerCaitlyn GurgelWilson HarmonLana Mayu IsomBrooke KingAmy MitchumAnish PanditBlair Reinlie

BassoonGiuliana CarfagniniIda CawleyJon ElganKathleen HunterLynze PriceAngela SantiagoLisa SmithSarah StrasingerErney Vargas

ClarinetNaomi BannwartMonte Coulter IVNell GodellasKai LaiMichelle LewandowskiAudrey PhippsBen PowersRebecca QuillenConner RayZachary StumpRebecca Williamson

hornCopeland ByarsJose Colon

Jordan DinkinsTracy EcheverriLauren HarrisJeorgia LambTulsa LundbergKyle MorelockLuis RodriguezSamantha SnowMaddy TarantelliStefan Williams

trumpetChristopher CrawfordMichael EdalgoJudy GauntDiana HuertaJustin HumphreyAaron KlausBrian OlsenRebecca OrtizEnrique Roman

tromboneParker BoudreauJonathan ClarkChristiopher GumbanBruce HaidukTravis IngramRiley LeitchJames MahowaldKevin Mierez-GaloDaniel SmithJoshua UnderwoodNicholas Voorhees

tubaMarshall Gagne’Ryan KirkconnellRoss Smith

PercussionAlex AppelMax FahlandMatthew FernandezFelipe FernandezGabriel FernandezThomas Kolakowski IIIAndrew NowakLindsay Vasko

violinKatarzyna AntoszDaniela ArleySamuel BrownColman Butler

Jose CarrilloYunzhi ChenPeyton CookEve D’AgostinoChristian DikRodrigo Flores PiedraLydia GregoryHallerin Hill IISarah IcardiSamuel JacksonEmily KohnBrandon KreuderPhoenix-Grace LackeyNaomi LangerRoger LeonLily LyonsJonathan MartinezSarah MartsSydney MathieuSean NathanFlora NevarezMary PhanDane RichEmilie ShorElizabeth SosnoffMichael SuEvan ThomasJohn UzodinmaPip Van GenabeekSarah WongRaffi Yang

violaNicolas BizubJustin BrookinsTonya BurtonYaniv CohenChelsea CookAdrian DavisMuriel DiNellaAnita DowdenAbigail DreherZefeng FangWilfred FarquharsonDavid GarrettSydney JohnsonSimon MasonLourdes Naomi Negron- SantosRebecca PutnamLillian RomondEmily RzepkaAkilah ScottAlexander Silver

Kyle StalsbergDouglas Temples

CelloRae BakerPeter BarlowAlex BrinkmanJill ChronisterCarmel CoblenceIvey CuffeJessica HarperAna LeiMorgan MitchellAnna PattersonAria PosnerLydia RheaJonathan SeohRyan SnappHannah SorenJozi UebelhoerNicholas VolpertJeremiah WelchRita Young

Double BassAdam AttardNicholas BlackburnThomas DiBaisio-WhiteIan ElmoreLiam FiskJessie GehoSharif IbrahimTheo LineberryJud MitchellKatherine ReardonAnthony Rideout

harpClaire DavisCelisa GutierrezAbigail JacobsAbigail KentCaroline ScismSamantha TurleyBlair WebberCaroline Zhao

PianoJessie BaskaufAntoine BriensClifton CooperCalah McDuffieCyrus PachtJennifer TuckerLindsey TuckerZoe Willis

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How can I help? Want to volunteer? Donate? Are you an alum? Visit our website!

www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/support-ssmf

See you in 2014!

June 21 to July 20

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