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2003 American Music Week in Bulgaria: Guest Performers and
Composers
Rosalind Erwin,
conductor
Rosalind Erwin, a native of Great Falls, Montana, began
her musical studies on the clarinet and piano, earning music degrees from the
New School of Music in Philadelphia and Temple University’s Esther Boyer
College of Music, where she studied with Philadelphia Orchestra principal
clarinetist Anthony Gigliotti. At Temple she was named resident conductor of the
composition department, and private conducting studies followed with Joseph
Barone, Sidney Rothstein, and William Smith. As a full participant in American
Symphony Orchestra League Seminars, she has also worked with Riccardo Muti,
Gunter Herbig, David Zinman and Lorin Maazel. A laureate of the Leopold Stokowski Memorial Conducting
Competition, she has guest conducted orchestras throughout the
United States, as well as in Portugal, Czech Republic and Bulgaria,
and is currently Music Director and Conductor of the Pottstown Symphony
Orchestra and Artistic Director and Conductor of Musica 2000 – The Symphony
Orchestra.
Amy Jarman,
soprano
Amy Jarman, a native Californian, has studied in the
United States and in Perugia, Italy, and Leeds, London, and Aldeburgh,
England. A graduate of the Royal
College of Music in London and a former student of David Blackburn and Jean
Allister, she has performed as a soloist with the Nashville Symphony, Louisville
Bach Society, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony, Hancock Chamber
Players, and Blair String Quartet. She has been a featured artist on the Dame
Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Leeds International Concert Series, and St. James' Piccadilly and St.
Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Leading
operatic roles she has sung with the Nashville Opera include Lucia
in Lucia di Lammermoor and Mimi in La
Bohème.
She has worked with award-winning American composers such as
Joseph
Schwantner, John Harbison, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, J. Mark Scearce, and
Leslie Bassett, and has premiered new works by Philip Wilby, Michael Alec Rose,
Michael Kurek, and Stan Link. Since
1986 she
has served on the voice faculty at the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt
University.
Mark Jarman, reader (poet)
Mark
Jarman is the author of seven published books of poetry:
North Sea, The
Rote
Walker,
Far and Away, The Black Riviera, Iris,
Questions for Ecclesiastes, and Unholy
Sonnets. His essays are
collected in The
Secret of Poetry
(2001)
and Body and Sould: Essays on Poetry
(2002).
His poetry and
essays have also
been published
widely in such periodicals and journals as The American Poetry Review, The
Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review,
The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review,
and The Southern Review.
During the 1980's he and Robert McDowell founded, edited, and published
the controversial magazine The Reaper. The Reaper Essays,
published by Story Line Press in 1996, collects the essays they wrote together
for The Reaper.
Jarman
is the winner of the
1998 Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets,
the Poets’ Prize, and
the
Joseph Henry Jackson Award. A
recipient of fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts
(in
1977, 1983, and 1992)
and the Guggenheim Foundation, he
is
currently Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Peter Kairoff was born in Los Angeles of Russian
parents. After graduating from the
University of Southern California, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree, he won Fulbright and Rotary International fellowships for two years of
study in Florence, Italy. His
teachers include Jerome Lowenthal and Brooks Smith in California, and Orazio
Frugoni in Florence. He has
performed worldwide as soloist and chamber musician, and has appeared in recital
in Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Rome, and many other musical centers.
Among his recordings are several compact discs of 19th century
American music by Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Horatio Parker for the Albany
Records label. He serves as
Professor of Music at Wake Forest University and directs the University’s
program in Venice, Italy, where he spends several months each year.
Kevin Lawrence, a graduate of the Juilliard School and
former student of Ivan Galamian, has performed as a soloist at important venues
in New York City, Washington, D. C., and many other American cities. He has also
appeared in many of Europe’s music centers, including London, Frankfurt,
Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam (Concertgebouw).
During the fall of 2003, he is touring central and eastern Europe and
serving as guest first violinist in the Sofia Quartet, resident chamber ensemble
of the Sofia Philharmonic. His
recording of the complete violin music of the American composer Arthur Foote,
for the New World label, was featured on NPR’s Performance Today, and his
second disc of American violin works for New World was released last year.
The chairman of the string department at the North Carolina School of the
Arts, where he has taught since 1990, he is also the Artistic Director of the
Killington Music Festival in Vermont.
Greg Steinke is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and
holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. A former composition
student of Joseph Wood, H. Owen Reed, Richard Hervig, Paul Harder and Lawrence
Moss, he
has served as professor of composition, theory, and oboe at Ball State
University and the University of Arizona, as Chairman
of
the
Music Department at San Diego State University, and as Dean
of the College of Fine Arts at Millikin University. Until
his retirement from academe in 2001 he held the Joseph
Naumes Endowed Chair in Music at Marylhurst University. He
is the recipient of awards from BMI
and ASCAP, numerous university grants, and first prizes in the University
of Louisville First International Composition Contest
(1979),
Bergen
Festival Composers’ Competition (1994), and the Delta
Omicron Composition Competition (2002). As an oboist he has performed in professional
woodwind quintets throughout the United States, as the principal oboist of the
Winnipeg Symphony in Canada, and as a soloist specializing in contemporary music
for his instrument, which is also featured in many of his
own solo and chamber works.
Stan Link holds a
Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music History from the Oberlin
Conservatory, where he studied with Ed Miller and Richard Hoffmann,
Schoenberg’s last student and amanuensis.
He received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University,
where he studied acoustic composition with Steve Mackey and Claudio Spies, and
computer music with Paul Lansky. He has also studied with Roman
Haubenstock-Ramati at the Institute for Experimental and Electro-Acoustic Music
at the Vienna Hochschule fuer Musik, with Mario Davidovsky at the Wellesley
Composers Conference, and with Louis Andriessen at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts. The recipient
of an ASCAP composition prize, his acoustic
and electro-acoustic music has been
programmed in the United States, Europe, and Australia, including Electronic
Music Midwest, Third Practice Festival, and
the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S.
He is currently the Assistant Professor of the Philosophy and
Analysis of Music at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he
teaches composition, theory, interdisciplinary arts courses, and theory of film
soundtracks.
Stan Link has been honored as one of Vanderbilt
University’s top five professors by its Student Government Association Arts
and Science Council and its Mortar Board Honor Society.
Terry Winter Owens, born
and educated in New York, began composing at age 10. A scholarship student of Lisa Szylagi Grad,
her principal
composition teacher was Ralph Shapey.
She has also worked with
Mark Brunswick at the The City College of New York, where
she earned
her undergraduate degree before pursuing graduate
studies in musicology at New York University. As a pianist, she specializes in the music of Gurdjieff
- de Hartmann in performances in the United States and Europe, and
teaches piano and composition in Manhattan as a recipient of grants from the New
York State Council on the Arts. In
1988 she collaborated with the Kurt Weill Foundation in the Carnegie Hall
performance of Gold. Her compositional
output, consisting primarily of solo and chamber works, often with narration,
reflects her lifelong interest in astronomy, which has
led
her to philosophy, mathematics, neurobiology,
and quantum physics.
Kile Smith is a graduate of Temple University, where he
studied with Clifford Taylor and Maurice Wright. Recent commissions include The
Voice of One Who Spoke by Musica 2000, Symphony:
Lumen ad revelationem and Three Dances
by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, Poems
of Stephen Berg for soprano, clarinet, and piano by Network for New Music, Four French Carols by the Susquehanna (Md.) Symphony Orchestra, and An
April Breeze for trumpet and concert band by the Philadelphia High School
for the Creative and Performing Arts. In
1999 the late Jens Nygaard selected him as resident composer of the Jupiter Symphony
in New York City. Among the works
he has composed for this ensemble are The
Three Graces for oboe, horn, cello, and strings, Variations on a Theme of Schubert for piano and orchestra, and Poems
of Gerard Manley Hopkins for high voice and orchestra. Curator of the Fleisher
Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Smith is the co-host
of the radio program Discoveries from the
Fleisher Collection on WRTI 90.1 FM and resident
composer of the orchestra Musica 2000.
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