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SICPP 2009 Faculty Bios
Tanya Blaich
Callithumpian Consort
Chaya Czernowin
Scott Deal
Stephen Drury
Corey Hamm
Mathias Reumert

Steffen Scheiermacher
Yukiko Takagi
Nicholas Vines

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Tanya Blaich
Born in Walla Walla, Washington, Tanya Blaich made her concerto debut with the Washington-Idaho Symphony at age 15. In addition to recent North American performances in Alice Tully Hall, NEC's Jordan Hall, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, Blaich has performed extensively in recital halls in Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, and France. She has performed for the Piatigorsky outreach program in New England, and has been heard on WGBH, Austrian National Radio, and the WCRB Radio Performance Series.

Blaich is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory as a member of the collaborative piano and voice departments, and was director of the Undergraduate Opera Studio from 2006-2009. As a guest artist, she has recently given recitals and masterclasses at Dickinson, Dartmouth, and Atlantic Union Colleges, Columbia University, the Idyllwild Arts Academy, and has also performed with members of the Lydian String Quartet at the Emmanuel Music Schumann Series in Boston, and at Brandeis University. Most recently, Blaich appeared with members of the Miro and Colorado Quartets, as well as soprano Sari Gruber at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival. In Vienna, Blaich coached and accompanied for Kammersaengerin Hilde Roessel Majdan's voice studio at the Goethe Conservatory, and also coached voice students at the Performing Arts Studio Vienna.

Tanya Blaich attended the University Paris-Sorbonne, and graduated from Walla Walla College with high honors, studying humanities, French, and music. After earning her diploma with distinction from the Vienna Conservatory in vocal accompaniment and chamber music, she completed both her M.M. and D.M.A. from New England Conservatory. She was the recipient of the Hannah Adler Scholarship in Vienna, and the Natica Righter Williams Endowed Scholarship at NEC. Blaich has worked with such distinguished artists as Walter Berry, Thomas Quasthoff, Gundula Janowitz, and Norbert Brainin among others. In collaboration with baritone Klemens Geyerhofer, Blaich won the top prize at the 2000 Robert Schumann Competition in Germany.

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The Callithumpian Consort
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.

www.callithumpian.org

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Chaya Czernowin
dealChaya Czernowin was born in 1957 in Israel and studied composition at the Tel Aviv Rubin Academy of Music from 1976 until 1982. Fellowships and studies followed in Berlin (DAAD scholarship 83- 85), the USA (University of California, where she received her Ph.D., 87-93),  Japan (93-95 Asahi Shimbun Fellowship and National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship USA), and a year as a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in 1996. During these years she was able to concentrate on forming her musical language and thought. Her main teachers were: Abel Ehrlich, Izhak Sadai, Dieter Schnebel, Eli Yarden, Joan Tower, Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds.  

Czernowin’s chamber and orchestral music has been played by more than fifty festivals all over the world and include commissions by major ensembles, orchestras, and festivals (Ensemble Modern, Arditti quartet, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain, IRCAM, ELISION, Recherche, San Francisco Contemporary Players, ORF Orchestra, Vienna, SWR Baden-Baden Orchestra, and Munich Philharmonic to mention but a few). Characteristic to her work are attempts to find alternative temporalities, changing perspectives and scale, fragmentation, examination and stretching of identity; all are coupled with a strong physical imprint and high emotional intensity.  

Czernowin wrote the opera “Pnima…ins Innere” for the Munich Biennale 2000. This work hauntingly treats the difficulty of communicating a traumatic experience, in this case the Jewish holocaust. The work was awarded the Bavarian Theater Prize and was named “ Best Premiere of the Year 2000” by the critic's survey of the magazine Opernwelt. In 2005 and in 2006 Czernowin was composer in residence at the Salzburg Festival, where she was commissioned to supplement Mozart's opera “Zaïde”. The resulting work “Zaide/Adama, fragments”, is a first attempt of its kind to answer an unfinished work with an intervening contemporary “counterpoint work”. “Zaide/Adama, fragments” was broadcast on ARD TV and recorded on Deutsche Gramophone.  

Czernowin sees composition teaching as directly connected to her compositional work. She has taught composition at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, JML, Tokyo, Japan and at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music  From 1997- 2006 Chaya Czernowin was professor of music composition at the University of California, San Diego. In 2006-2009 she was chosen to be the first female composition professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Beginning September 2009 she will become the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music (composition) at Harvard University.  Since 2003 Czernowin has directed the Summer Academy for Composers at the "Akedemie Schloss Solitude", Stuttgart. Guest professorships, presentations and master classes include Tokyo University for the Fine Arts, Yonsei University, Korea, Gothenburg Music Academy, Sweden, Helsinki Sibelius Academy, Finland, Oslo Music Academy, Paris Conservatoire, Graz Music University, Basel Academy, Zurich Hochschule, Stanford University, Columbia University, Yale, Florida State University, Gainesville, Leeds and Brunell Universities, England and many others.  

In addition to numerous other prizes, Czernowin was awarded the  Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in Darmstadt Fereinkurse1992. IRCAM reading panel commission in 1998, a few scholarships of the SWR experimental Studio Freiburg, Förderpreis of the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation in 2003, the Rockefeller Foundation in 2004, and the Fromm Foundation Award in 2008. ISCM world music days in 1995 and 2001, and a nomination as a fellow to the Wissenschaftkolleg Berlin in 2008.  Her work is exclusively published by Schott.

www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/38323

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Scott Deal
dealNoted 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
DruryWell-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.

www.stephendrury.com/

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Corey Hamm
DruryDr. Corey Hamm is Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at The University of British Columbia School of Music in Vancouver, Canada. He is also co-director, with Giorgio Magnanensi, of the UBC Contemporary Players. Hamm is pianist and a founding member with the prominent "new music" ensembles Hammerhead Consort (formed 1990) and the Nu:BC Collective (formed 2005).

Hamm is regularly broadcast on CBC Radio as soloist and chamber musician and is actively involved in the promotion and performance of contemporary music. NPR and Polish Radio have also broadcast his performances in Europe, Canada and the USA. In June 2006 Hamm was pianist for an exciting month long project in Bali combining a small western ensemble from Vancouver with a Balinese Gamelan in a new work by composer and ethnomusicologist Michael Tenzer. Red Letter Films made the documentary "Bali by Heart" about this fascinating project.

www.music.ubc.ca/faculty-and-staff/full-time-faculty-biographies/dr-corey-hamm.html

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Mathias Reumert
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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).

About the PACE Percussion Trio:
PACE was the opening act at the 2002 FIFA World Cup of Soccer concert in Seoul and has since toured in Scandinavia, Germany, Israel, and Korea, performing original music by its members: Mathias Friis-Hansen, David Hildebrandt, and Mathias Reumert. The trio has collaborated with several artists, including electronica pioneers Dub Tractor and Opiate, and with improvisers/composers Thomas Agergaard and Marilyn Mazur. A CD featuring Thomas Agergaard and other guest performers will be released in 2008.


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Steffen Scheiermacher
takagiSteffen Schleiermacher, born in Halle in 1960, studied piano (Gerhard Erber), composition (Siegfried Thiele, Friedrich Schenker), and conducting (Günter Blumhagen) at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig during 1980-85. He was an assistant in composition, ear training, and new music in Leipzig until 1988 and a master pupil under Friedrich Goldmann (composition) at the Academy of Arts in Berlin during 1986/87 and at the Cologne Academy of Music under Aloys Kontarsky (piano) during 1989/90. Schleiermacher has been a freelance composer and pianist since 1988. As a pianist he focuses exclusively on music of the twentieth century. He has concertized as a soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras under Vladimir Ashkenazy, Friedrich Goldmann, Ingo Metzmacher, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Wladimir Siwa, Vladimir Fedosejev, and Fabio Luisi. Concert tours have taken him throughout numerous European, South American, and Far Eastern countries.

During 1984-88 he directed the Gruppe Junge Musik at the Leipzig Academy, and in 1989 he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde. He has presented the Musica Nova series at the Leipzig Gewandhaus since 1989 and has led the January Festival at the Museum of the Plastic Arts in Leipzig since 1991.

Schleiermacher's numerous prizes and fellowship awards include the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), Kranichstein Music Prize (1986), Hanns Eisler Prize of the East German Radio for his Concerto for Viola and Chamber Ensemble (1989), Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize, Munich (1991), Mendelssohn Fellowship of the East German Ministry of Culture (1988), German Music Council Fellowship (1989/90), Fellowship of the Kulturfond Foundation (1992-94, 1997), Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1992), Japan Foundation Fellowship (1997) for study for several months in Japan, and Fellowship of the Cité des Arts in Paris.
http://www.schleiermacher-leipzig.de/

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Yukiko Takagi
takagiYukiko 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.


Nicolas Vines
VinesNicholas Vines (b.1976, Sydney) is a young Australian composer based in the US. His works have been performed in Australia, the US, the UK and Europe by such interpreters as Alarm Will Sound, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, ChamberMade Opera, the Callithumpian Consort, Ensemble Offspring, the Schola Cantorum Gedanesis Chamber Choir, White Rabbit, the BT Scottish Ensemble, the Australian Voices, Eliot Gattegno and Liwei Qin. He has received commissions from numerous ensembles and institutions, such as Faber Music, the Callithumpian Consort, Primary Duo, Prana Duo, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Firebird Ensemble, the Tait Memorial Trust, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 2MBS FM Radio (Sydney) and Ars Musica Australis.

Recognition for Vines’ work includes an Honourable Mention in the 2006 Salvatore Martirano Memorial International Composition Competition for Dolmen of New Albion, and a semi-finals position in the 2009 Opera Vista Competition (Houston) with The Sepulchre of Love. This summer, he will be a Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. One work of his, Firestick, is published by Faber Music, London, while several other pieces have been selected for the Australian Composers Online Project. The remainder of his output is available through the Australian Music Centre. A CD of his compositions, featuring The Butcher of Brisbane, Firestick and Torrid Nature Scene, is in development with Callithumpian Consort and Mode Records.

Having received a PhD in Music in 2007 from Harvard University, Vines is now a lecturer in theory and composition there, as well an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been the New Works Program Coördinator for New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice since 2007.

www.nicholasvines.com

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