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1950
Jerome Carrington has collected and annotated every trill in J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites in a new book Trills in the Bach Cello Suites: A Handbook for Performers (Oklahoma, 2009).
1959
Edward Wolpert ’60 (MA), a financial planner, has published a book offering financial advice to recent high school or college graduates: The Young Adult’s Guide to Financial Success (Oconee Financial Planning Services, 2009).
1960
Edward Wolpert (MA) (see ’59).
1970
As of March 2009, Geary Larrick has 39 scholarly publication citations listed online in the International Repertory of Music Literature (RILM) Abstracts, dated from 1987 to 2008. Geary’s specialties are historical musicology, ethnomusicology, bibliography, and sound sources.
1975
Claude Baker (DMA), the Chancellor’s Professor of Music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, served as the Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence at the American Academy of Rome last fall. While residing in Europe, he attended performances of his Maerchenbilder by the Musik Kollegium Winterthur Orchestra in Winterthur, Switzerland, conducted by Mario Venzago. He adds that his Burlesque for alto saxophone, violin, cello, and piano, will have its premiere at the World Saxophone Congress in Thailand in July.
1984
Pianist William Chapman Nyaho (MM) sends an update. He was a judge for the UNISA International Piano Competition held in Pretoria in January 2008. He was artist-in-residence at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., for the 2008 spring semester. Volumes 4 & 5 of his five-volume anthology Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora was published (Oxford, 2008). A clothbound edition of the combined volumes was released in February 2009. He also released his third CD titled ASA: Piano Music by Composers of African Descent in August 2008. In September 2008 he was judge for the newly launched Seattle International Piano Festival. In February 2009, he and Susanna Garcia (as the Nyaho/Garcia Duo) premiered Two Piano Sonata by Fred Onovwerosuoke as well as Alvin Batiste’s Blues for Two Pianos at the Festival of African and African American Music in St. Louis.
1985
Bill Meckley (PhD), music director of the Empire Jazz Orchestra, conducts the orchestra on its fourth CD, Symphonies in Riffs (EJO Records, 2009). Trumpeter Peter Bellino ’94 (MM) is a member of the ensemble and a featured soloist on several selections.
1990
Kelly Maynard has accepted a tenure-track position in the history department at Grinnell College.
1991
Thomas Lanners (DMA), professor of piano at Oklahoma State University, sends an update of his activities in the last year. He reports that during the winter of 2008, he presented a session at the Music Teachers National Association conference in Atlanta and gave master classes at the universities of Colorado at Boulder and Northern Colorado. In July 2008, Thomas presented a lecture and coaching session at the Eastman Summer Institute, and in September, he presented a master class, two lectures, and taught lessons to students of Eastman professor Barry Snyder, during a one-week residency at Eastman. His latest CD, Ned Rorem: Piano Music Volume 2, was released in April 2009 on the Centaur label. Lanners has recorded nearly the entire piano solo output of Rorem.
1994
Peter Bellino (MM) (see ’85).
1995
Scott Good (see ’07).
1997
Jennifer Barlament (MM), a Michigan native, has become the executive director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Previously she was general manager of the Omaha Symphony.
1998
Shizuo (Z) Kuwahara has been named director of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra.
2004
Su Yin Mak (PhD), head of academic studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, was awarded the 2008 Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award for her article “Schubert’s Sonata Forms and the Poetics of the Lyric,” which appeared in The Journal of Musicology. . . . Soprano Heidi Melton is the winner of the Kirsten Flagstad Award from the George London Foundation for Singers. The award goes to a singer age 35 or younger who demonstrates “Wagnerian potential.”
2006
Ivan Trevino (see ’07).
2007
Cellist Patrick Laird and drummer Ivan Trevino ’06, members of the cello-rock quartet Break of Reality, have recorded a new CD, Spectrum of the Sky. Patrick writes: “Today, Break of Reality is actively pursuing management and is looking to become an international touring act. The group is also looking to establish a nonprofit aimed toward providing educational workshops to schools around the country that don’t normally have funds to bring inspiring music groups in to teach their students.” . . . In March, saxophonist Wallace Halladay (DMA) made his solo debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, performing the concerto Babbitt by composer-in-residence Scott Good ’95.
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