HONORS

Susan Federman (80-2) was nominated for an Rmmy award this year for outstanding multi-camera picture editing for a series! 1 of 5 nominees only one other sitcom, She's the editor of "How I met your mother".

Tim, Janet, Phil and David Ying (82-3, 86) in Ying 4t, in collaboration with Turtle Island 4t on Telarc CD "Four + 4"-s winners in February 2006 of GRAMMY for Best Crossover Recording

Chang, Choong-Jin (84) appointed Solo Viola Philadelphia Orchestra

Beaver, Greg (92) in Chiara 4t chosen for Guarneri String Quartet Residency. Also, the Chiara and Astral Artistic Services will co-present a residency project in a Philadelphia middle school.

Thompson, Jessica (94) in Daedalus 4t received 2007 Martin E Segal Award for career advancement at Lincoln Center

Jurecka, Drew (96) nominated for violinist of the year 2007 in the Naional Jazz Awards. 

Sciolino Artist Management ("SAM") is pleased to announce that violinist Elena Urioste (01), First Place Winner of the 2007 Sphinx Competition (Senior Division), and the International Sion Valais Competition has joined their roster of distinguished artists. Recent Orchestral solo engagements: Atlanta, Boston Pops, Detroit, National, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Rochester

Gallagher, Gillian (01-2), in the Attacca 4t, won the top prize at the 2006 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, also a prizewinner at the 2007 Plowman Chamber Music Competition

Dyrda, Jeffrey (03) among the first five recipients of $10,000 Developing Artist grants from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Wu, Belinda (04) in her first assignment for Reuters had an article picked up by several national newspapers and on-lone pages, including Boston Globe and San Diego Times.

 
NEW RECORDINGS

Tenenbom, Steven (71-5, 89, 93, 01-2) in Orion 4t Middle Beethoven String 4ts Koch

Dreyfus, Karen (72-3): 4 new American works for viola and orchestra MMC  

Hyman, Judy (73-4) in The Horse Flies’: her song “Sally Ann” appears on Natalie Merchant’s recent release “Retrospective”, now available in stores and on-line.  Judy also is a featured player.

Georgi,Thomas (76)"Attilio Ariosti, The Stockholm Sonatas I" BIS

Bauchwitz-Karl, Monica (79-81, staff 98-99) in Contrasts, all-Rorem, and all-Kernis Arabesque

Brofsky, Natasha (80-2) in Peabody Trio Beethoven Op 70 Trios Artek

Kihlstedt, Carla (86) "Minamo" -- live and freely improvised violin and piano duets-- rave review in 11/15/07 NYTimes Henceforth

Kijanowska, Anna (04) Szymanowski Mazurkas (subsidized by Kosciuszko Foundation)

ENTERTAINMENT

Hyman, Judy (73-4)in The Horse Flies’:has just completed work on a film titled “Disappearances”,which will premiere at the 2006 South by Southwest Film Festival in March.
Director:  Jay Craven; starring:  Kris Kristofferson, Gary Farmer,Genevieve Bujold, Luis Guzman, Charlie McDermott.  “ Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances is a tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy’s rite of passage.  Just before the repeal of Prohibition, a father, desperate to save his Vermont farm near the Canadian border, journeys into the Canadian wilderness with his son,hoping to score big money on a whiskey-running escapade.”

Shyr, Angela (83-4, 86) just finished playing her first Hollywood film "The Legend of Lucy Keyes" (all 8 tracks of her are the orchestra) and is listed in the cast and crew!  It just
debuted at Coolidge Corner Theater and Somerville Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Ryang, Leslie (88-91) wrote a song which won a prize at the annual Hong Kong Film Awards for "best movie theme song". Brad Pitt just bought the rights to remake the film in Hollywood.

Nichols, Charles (89) created the Mountain Computer Music Festival, a one-night concert of new computer music held outside, with the audience encouragd to bring a lawn chair and picnic dinner.

Hall Tompkins, Kelly (91-2)- her project Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul Chamber Music Series for the Homeless has received exposure in Chamber Music America magazine, Spirituality and Health Magazine, a WKCR radio interview, and upcoming mentions in Jazz Times, Downbeat Magazine and she will be interviewed on a cable tv show called "New Morning" on the Hallmark Channel. She also is Concertmaster of a new orchestra called Chamber Orchestra of New York which will debut in Zankel Hall in the Fall of 07

 CHAMBER MUSIC

Tenenbom, Steven (71-5, 89, 93, 01-2) in Orion 4t resident 4t at University of Indiana

Eissenberg, Judith (72-6) and Ray, Mary Ruth (72-6) in the Lydian 4t projects: Around The World in a String Quartet / Music Unites US (outreach integrating quartet performance with a public school connection)

Leventhal, Sharan (78) is a member of the Kepler 4t,formed expressly to record (not perform live) the Ten String Quartets of Ben Johnson fot Present Music.

Jakovcic, Zoran (81) has joined Beth Oakes (88) in the Maia 4t, resident 4t at University of Iowa. The Maia has a CMA residency this season in Elk Horn, IA

Woodside, Mary Ellen (81,84) in the Merel 4t, is under Hochuli Konzert AG  (hochuli-konzert.ch) Management, on a roster with András Schiff among others, next season playing Lucerne and Weimar festivals.

Amory, Misha (84-6), in the Brentano 4t , has a CMA residency with the Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk, VA

O'Brien, Dean (85-6) is violist in the University of Calgary 4t, and Artistic Director Calgary Pro Musica Society

Johnson, Nicole (87, 90, 94, 99) in Cassatt 4t now with Beverly Wright management

Findlay, Jeremy (88-9) in Findlay/Braslavsky Duo is now managed by HAS Artists (Hunstein Artists Services)

Wang, Mary (90) in Avalon 4t  now resident 4t at N Illinois University, serving in the residency filled for many years by the Vermeer 4t. The Avalon gave a Paris debut performance, and with Iris Jortner (90-2) as acting cellist, performed at QP.

Taylor, Brant (90-1, 93): his dual career in Pink Martini and Chicago Symphony was the subject of a profile in the Fort Worth-Dallas Star-Telegram.

Duckles, Jason (91) in Amelia Trio now with Melvin Kaplan management

Hall Tompkins, Kelly (91-2) in Ritz Chamber Players, recently performed at the Amelia Island and Madison Festivals and was a featured performer on Chicago WFMT's live Jewel Box Series

Beaver, Greg (92) in Chiara 4t this season performing Brahms cycle at University of Nebraska, and in NYC at Miller Theater and Merkin Hall

Caspar, Meghan (93) in Azmari 4t, resident 4t at Northern Kentucky University

Thompson, Jessica (94) in Daedalus 4t participates in the Carnegie Hall "Rising Stars" and Lincoln Center "Chamber Music Two" programs. 2007-8 collaborations with Awadagin Pratt and Roger Tapping

Freivogel, Liz (94-5), Freivogel, Megan (94-5), and Lee, Nelson (97) in Jupiter 4t in Lincoln Center "Chamber Music Two" program/ Young Concert Artists winners/Cleveland Quartet 2007-8 Award

Murphy, Jacob (95,97) in Euclid 4t, resident 4t Morningside College and Kucinski Academy in Sioux City, IA. managed by Lisa Sapinkopf Artists, in partnership with Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, will inaugurate a week-long chamber music workshop for adult amateurs in August 2007. Last summer, the 4t, at the Aspen Music Festival, collaborated with the Degas 4t for the world premiere of "Ludi", written for string octet by Armando Bayolo.

O'Neill, Richard (97) has been chosen for a two-year residency with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Yang, David (97) founded the Main Line Chamber Music Seminar with the support of Amateur Chamber Music Players, Inc. The seminar offers day-long workshops twice a year.

SOLO

Meyer, Aaron (88-9) soloed with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in Thailand this past January performing his original music and has been invited back for next year

Hall Tompkins, Kelly (91-2) will be performing a recital on the National Academy of Sciences series in Washington, DC in early 08 and Barber Concerto with Western Piedmont Symphony in the Fall

Bar-Josef, Nurit (92) performed Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with National Symphony under baton of Leonard Slatkin in Kennedy Center in January 2005

Kustanovich, Dmitri (92,94) appeared as co-soloist in Mozart Sinfonia Concertante (along with CCastleman Eastman studio grad Rebecca Stern) with Fort Worth Symphony

Jackson, Patrice (96-8) appeared as soloist with Alabama Symphony in January 2005,Jefferson City Symphony in September 2006

Hill, Jeremy (98-9) September 13 and 15, 2006 performed two recitals in Pörtschach, Austria as part of the international event of  Johannes Brahms Society Pörtschach, arranged by the Chairman and Prof. Harald Herzl, of Mozarteum, Salzburg, and the first violinist of Pro Arte Quartet.