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| SICPP 2008 Faculty Bios |
| Callithumpian Consort Scott Deal Stephen Drury Louis Goldstein Jo Kondo Mathias Reumert Yukiko Takagi Aki Takahashi Pamela Wood |
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| The Callithumpian Consort |
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The Callithumpian Consort is based at New
England Conservatory, and was founded by Stephen Drury sometime in the
1990's. Dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience,
the Consort has performed music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, John
Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi, Ivan Tcherepnin, Iannis
Xenakis, Lee Hyla, David Shea, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Paul
Elwood, John Heiss, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown,
Lukas Foss, and others. Recordings on Tzadik and Mode Records.
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| Scott Deal |
Noted
as "a standout inspiration", Scott Deal is an active performer of new
works. His appearances as a soloist or chamber musician include venues
in London, Atlanta, Boston, Washington DC, Moscow, and at the Sub
Tropics New Music Festival, May in Miami, SEAMUS International
Electronic Music Conference, Northwest Percussion Festival and
Percussive Arts Society (PAS) 2001 and 2005 International Conventions.
Composers whose works he has premiered include John Luther Adams,
Matthew Burtner, Robin Cox, Emma Lou Diemer, David Heuser, Dorothy
Hindman, Charles Norman Mason, Greg Mrytle, Nick Ramliak, Carlos
Surinach, John Van der Slice and Henry Wolking.A specialist in melding music with new technology, he is a founding member ART GRID, an Internet2, telematic performing ensemble comprised of a multi-disciplinary group of musicians, artists, dancers and actors. In conjunction with ART GRID, he has formed one of the world’s first student telematic ensembles at UAF. Recently Dr. Deal completed a series of articles and video demonstrations on the topic of percussion technology for the 3rd edition of Teaching Percussion by Gary Cook. In 2005 Dr. Deal launched the Alaska Summer Percussion Institute in the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, a two-week intensive of performance training in classical, world and jazz mediums. As a student, he was past winner or finalist in several prestigious competitions, including the Music Teacher's National Association Collegiate Artist Competition (1st place), the Cincinnati Conservatory Concerto Competition (winner), the Percussive Arts Society International Solo Marimba Competition (2nd place), and the Louise D. McMahon International Artist Competition for Wind and Percussion Instruments (finalist). He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Miami, where as a scholarship student he studied with Fred Wickstrom and Ney Rosauro. He received a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati, studying with the Percussion Group Cincinnati, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cameron University, studying with Dr. James Lambert. He was previously the Timpanist/Principal Percussionist of the Miami Symphony, and on the faculty of the New World School of the Arts, where in 1994 he was voted teacher of the year. In 1995 he moved to Alaska and launched the percussion program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has served as Principal Percussionist of the Fairbanks Symphony, Timpanist of the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and is currently on the artist faculty for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. He has been a contributor to Percussive Notes Magazine, and serves regularly as an adjudicator, lecturer and clinician throughout the United States. Dr. Deal is a Yamaha Artist, and endorses Sabian cymbals and Pro-Mark drum sticks. |
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| Stephen Drury |
Well-known
as a champion of twentieth-century music, Institute director Stephen
Drury has given performances throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and
Latin America, soloing with orchestras from San Diego to Bucharest. A
prizewinner in several competitions, including the Concert Artists
Guild, Affiliate Artists, and Carnegie Hall/Rockefeller competitions,
his repertoire stretches from Bach, Mozart, and Liszt to the music of
today. The U.S. State Department sponsored two concert tours that
enabled him to take the sounds of dissonance to Paris, Hong Kong,
Greenland, Pakistan, Prague, and Japan. He has appeared as conductor
and pianist at the Angelica Festival in Italy, the MusikTriennale
Köln in Germany, Spoleto Festival USA, and with the Britten
Sinfonia in England, as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in
New York. Drury has also performed with Merce Cunningham and Mikhail
Barishnikov in the Lincoln Center Festival, at Alice Tully Hall as part
of the Great Day in New York Festival, with the Boston Symphony Chamber
Players, and with the Seattle Chamber Players in Seattle and Moscow. A
champion of 20th-century music, Drury’s critically acclaimed
performances range from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by
John Cage and György Ligeti. He premiered the solo part of John
Cage’s 1O1 with the Boston Symphony and gave the first
performance of John Zorn’s concerto for piano and orchestra
Aporias with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony. He
has commissioned new works from Cage, Zorn, Terry Riley, Lee Hyla, and
Chinary Ung. Drury has given masterclasses at the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Mannes Beethoven Institute and
throughout the world, and served on juries for the Concert Artist Guild
and Orléans Concours International de Piano XXème
Siècle Competitions. His recordings include music by
Beethoven, Liszt, Stockhausen, Ravel, Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Elliott
Carter, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Colin McPhee, and John Zorn. For more please visit http://www.stephendrury.com/ |
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| Louis Goldstein |
Born
in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1947, Louis Goldstein’s early piano
study was with a wonderful private teacher named Margaret
Schmidt. Further studies occurred at Interlochen Arts Academy,
Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (BM), California Institute of the
Arts (MFA), and Eastman School of Music (DMA and Performer’s
Certificate), including piano study with Joseph Hungate, Rudolf Ganz,
Leonid Hambro, and David Burge. Long fascinated with music of his own time, Dr. Goldstein was co-founder and co-director of the California New Music Ensemble and an associate member of the Los Angeles Group for Contemporary Music and Newband, in New York City. In ensembles and as a soloist, he has championed cutting edge work of current composers. His faculty recitals at Wake Forest present an absorbing blend of past masters such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Debussy, 20th-century giants such as Copland and Stockhausen, and the latest innovations of today. His CD recordings of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, Dream, and One5, and Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories have garnered accolades from print and internet sources as well as fellow musicians. Another special interest of Dr. Goldstein’s is American music. For 15 years he was on the faculty of the American Foundations Program at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He is also an active member of the Society for American Music. Over the years, Dr. Goldstein has been active as a recitalist, accompanist, and ensemble member, and has appeared as a soloist in such venues as New England Conservatory, Yale, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida State, as well as in Canada, The Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Israel. At Wake Forest he teaches Piano, Piano Literature, First Year Seminars, and Introduction to Western Music, and is also Director of the Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance and the Student Showcase Recital. |
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| Jo Kondo |
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| Mathias Reumert |
MATHIAS REUMERT is a Danish multiple percussionist and
marimba/vibraphone performer. A specialist of contemporary music, he
received the First Prize at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters
Competition 2007 in Amsterdam, Holland, the first percussion soloist to
do so since 1979.Reumert has given solo recitals at major festivals in the USA, France, Holland, Poland, and throughout Scandinavia. He has has worked with composers such as Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Chaya Czernowin, Per Nørgård and Bent Sørensen, and has premiered solo works by Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg and Kim Helweg among others. His recording of Poul Ruders' concerto for percussion and orchestra 'Monodrama' will be released on DACAPO Records in late 2008. Trained in classical music, Reumert is also an avid improviser, music theater performer, and composer. As a member of the PACE Percussion Trio, he performed as the opening act at the 2002 FIFA World Cup of Soccer concert in Seoul, Korea, and has since been touring extensively performing original music. Other ensemble activities include the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, a trio project with the Duo Disecheis from Italy, and a duo with Swedish electronics wiz Mattias Sköld. As a student, Mathias Reumert was past winner of several competitions, including the Concours International de Vibraphone 2002 in France and the Percussive Arts Society Solo Vibraphone Contest 2004. He studied with Steven Schick at the University of California, San Diego, and with Gert Mortensen at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He lives in Copenhagen, where he teaches a course for professional musicians at Artlab (www.artlab.dk). www.mathiasreumert.com |
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| Yukiko Takagi |
Yukiko
Takagi received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the
New England Conservatory where she studied with Veronica Jochum and
Stephen Drury. While a student at the Conservatory she was
selected to perform in several Honors programs and appeared regularly
with the NEC Contemporary Ensemble. Ms. Takagi has performed with
the orchestra of the Bologna Teatro Musicale, the John Zorn Ensemble,
the Auros Group for New Music, Santa Cruz New Music Works, the Harvard
Group for New Music and the Chameleon Arts Ensemble. She performs
regularly with the Eliza Miller Dance Company and the Ruth Birnberg
Dance Company and gives frequent duo-piano concerts with Stephen
Drury. Ms. Takagi is a featured performer with the Callithumpian
Consort. Her recording of Colin McPhee’s Balinese Cerimonial Dances
was released by MusicMasters. At New England Conservatory Yukiko
Takagi has appeared on the First Monday series at Jordan Hall, and is a
teacher and guest artist for NEC's Summer Institute for Contemporary
Piano Performance. |
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| Aki Takahashi |
Aki
Takahashi made her public debut shortly after graduating from the Tokyo
University of Arts with a masters degree in 1970. While acknowledged
for her classical musicianship, her enthusiasm and acclaim as a new
music interpreter have attracted the attention of many composers. Cage,
Feldman, Takemitsu, Yun, Oliveros, Ruders, Satoh, Lucier and Garland,
to name a few, have all created works for her.Ms. Takahashi received the first Kenzo Nakajima prize in 1982, and was recipient of the first Kyoto Music Award (1986). She directed the "New Ears" concert series in Yokohama (1983-97), was artist-in-residence at SUNY Buffalo (1980-81) and guest professor at the California Institute of the Arts (1984). Her landmark recording of 20 contemporary piano works, Aki Takahashi Piano Space, received the Merit Prize at the Japan Art Festival (1973). Her series of Erik Satie concerts (1975-77) heralded a Satie boom in Japan, resulting in her editing all of his piano works for Zen-On and recording them on Toshiba-EMI. She created the Hyper-Beatles project with Toshiba, which invited 47 international composers to arrange/recompose their favorite Beatles tunes. |
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| Pamela Wood |
Ms.
Wood has appeared as soprano soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Israel,
London, New York, San Francisco, and American Composers Orchestras
under the direction of John Adams, Dennis Russell Davies, Jacob
Druckman, Zubin Mehta, and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has
concertized throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and North America.
Recognized for her work with twentieth-century composers, she has
premiered and recorded with Steve Reich & Musicians on the Angel,
ECM, Nonesuch, and Revels labels; has been acclaimed for her
performances of monodramatic operas including Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night and Nancy Van de Vate's A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum;
and is in demand as a workshop clinician in the areas of voice,
solfège, and folk song research. She has studied with
Eunice Alberts, Olga Averino, R. Louise Burge, Sylvia Olden Lee, David
Blair McClosky, Donna Roll, Rawn Spearman, and Paul Ulanowsky; and
earned the B. Mus. Ed. at Howard University, M.M. in Performance at
University of Massachusetts, and Advanced Certificates at the
Kodály Musical Training Institute and the Kodály Center
of America. Ms. Wood serves as a member of the Boards of the
Kodály Center of America and the Boston Children's Chorus, on
the Faculty of the Kodály Music Institute at the New England
Conservatory, and as Senior Lecturer in Music at MIT. Her
achievements are cited in Marquis' Who's Who. |
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| The Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice is made possible by a generous grant from the BnG Foundation, The Gaudeamus Foundation, Nomura, and Mode Records. |
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