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Updates Check out the inside scoop on faculty, students, staff, and more. See the Alumni Spotlight page for news on alumni. Area updates September 2000 Music Cecil Adderley received a citation for his article,"The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning: A Project of the Music Educators National Conference." He was Editor of Visions of Research in Music Education (international refereed journal of music education). William Berz was guest conductor of the New England Music Camp's Symphonic Band in July. NEMC is one of the leading summer programs for high school students in the country. His CD "American Images," released in May 2002, on which he conducts the Rutgers Wind Ensemble, received a highly favorable review in American Record Guide. Antonius Bittmann was invited to provide translations of treatises by Christoph Bernhard and Helmut Lachenmann to be published by Musica Iagellonica (University of Cracow Press), as vols. 6 and 7 of their Pratica Musica series. His article "Max Regerâ?(TM)s Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue in E Minor, Op. 127 and the Problem of Its Final Version" was accepted for publication in The Organ Yearbook 31 (2002) (refereed). In August and September Professor Bittmann performed on the organ at Mansfield University and at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in New York City. He was appointed Sub-Dean of the Middlesex Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Gerald Chenoweth's song cycle Having It Out with Melancholy (1997) was performed in Manhattan in June and was mentioned in The New York Times, whose reviewer called the songs a "searing evocation" of the poetry. Paul Cohen performed with the following groups: Locrain Chamber Ensemble (New York City); Composer's Concordance (NYC); Raritan Valley Winds; Goldman Band (at Lincoln Center and throughout NYC); New Hudson Saxophone Quartet; and Garden State Symphonic Band. Stanley Cowell performed in concert as featured pianist with the historic jazz quartet "Music Inc" (Charles Tolliver, Cecil McBee, Clifford Barbaro), as part of the Lost Shrines Concert Series at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College in June. He performed in concert as featured guest pianist with singer Lenora Zenzalai Helm at Cobi's Place, 158 West 48th Street, NYC for an education purposed Jazz India Fundraiser, NYC, in July. Dennis DeLucia designed and wrote a new book for Yamaha's band and orchestral division Marching Percussion Essentials. He also conducted percussion workshops for Yamaha at Rutgers, Wake Forest, Furman and Midwestern Universities. Susan Guerinni was selected as one of eight General Music teachers nationwide to serve as a Validator for the National Board of Professional Teachers. This work is done under the direction of the Educational Testing Service. An article, authored by Professor Guerrini, detailing her assignment will be appearing in an up-coming issue of Tempo magazine. Maureen Hurd performed as clarinetist on the faculty of the Wyoming Seminary Performing Arts Institute. Taina Kataja performed at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium, in Spoleto, Italy, this summer. She performed Finnish vocal music as part of The Writers' Evening, performed in a faculty recital (Mozart songs, duet), conducted a Masterclass in How to Sing in German, conducted two Masterclasses for Beginning Singers, and taught private voice lessons. Andrew Kirkman's review of Jessie Ann Owens', "Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition, 1450-1600" appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society 55/1. He conducted a concert by The Binchois Consort at the Abbaye de Bonmont, Switzerland, in June. His Hyperion Recording, "Josquin and his Contemporaries" (Hyperion, 2001) has recently been voted runner-up in the category "Early Music Recording of the Year" in Gramophone Recordings of the Year awards (the premier music industry prizes in England, and among the most coveted worldwide). Andrew Lamy's trio, the Halcyon Trio, was recently signed by Artists International Management. He also signed with them for solo management. Douglas Lundeen's performances include playing with the Washington Bach Consort; at the American Symphony Orchestra League convention, Kimmel Center; with the Red Bank Chamber Music Society; with the Riverside Symphonia, summer pops; Westminster Choir College, Bach Festival 2002, Princeton Theological Seminary; and with the Mann Festival Orchestra, The Three Irish Tenors, Mann Center, Philadelphia. He did a recording project of complete trios for natural horns by Jacques-Francois Gallay. Professor Lundeen also gave several horn master classes at Monroe High School and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School. Scott Mendoker was recently appointed Director of the Brass Institute at Drew Summer Music, a week-long chamber music camp for high school musicians. He was also appointed Director of Chamber Music with the InterSchools Orchestras (ISO) based in New York City. The ISO is composed of four orchestras as well as a concert band and has students from ages 8 through 18. He was also newly appointed Principal Tuba with the Goldman Memorial Band and was a featured soloist with the band at Lincoln Center in New York City. Frederick Urrey's concerts include performing with The Bach Choir and Orchestra of Bethlehem; in the Soclair Music Series with the Brewer Baroque Ensemble, Lebanon, PA; and at the American Guild of Organists conference, The Bach Choir and Orchestra of Bethlehem. Visual Arts Emma Amos will receive the Van Der Zee Award from Brandywine Workshop and Center for the Visual Arts at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA. Jason Francisco has work in a group exhibition, Far From Zion: time in Jewish homelands, at Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CT. The exhibition will run until September 30. There was an article in the Rutgers Focus on John Goodyear's permanent sculpture, The Four Arts, at Bettenbender Plaza on the Douglass Campus. John Goodyear was the Chair of the Visual Arts Department. There was an article entitled "Geoffrey Hendricks Fluxus Viking" in the July/August 2002 issue of the NY Arts magazine. Gary Kuehn was included in an exhibition entitled Einfach Kunst, collection Rolf Ricke, at the Museum for Art and Design, Nurnberg, Germany. The exhibition ran through August 25. Thomas Nozkowski recently participated in three exhibitions: Pertaining to Painting, a group show at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston through September 29, Paintings Edge, a group show, at the Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, June to July and Vivid at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary in London July to August. Philip Orenstein has an exhibition of his work at the Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. The title of the exhibition is The Liberation of Paris Murals and will run until November 17. Dance Sherry Alban choreographed South Pacific for WYACT/New Jersey Performing Arts Center in July. All performances were sold out. Robert Benford performed at the Open Center in New York City in July. He served as resident musician at the Bates Dance Festival July - August and had his work performed. Michael Blake performed with Donald Byrd/The Troup in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in May. He also performed in the Arts Alumni Concerts at St. Mark's Church in New York City and in No Short Cuts in Buffalo in June. John Evans designed the lighting for the Star-Ledger Awards at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in June. Aleta Hayes choreographed and performed Ish-scoodah at Princeton University in May as part of the Princeton Atelier Program. She performed in Vision Festival in May and choreographed and performed in For the Love of the Dark One - a Tale of Mirabai in the Souls of our Feet Festival in June in New York City. In July, she danced in L'Amour, a Broadway musical workshop, for choreographer Jane Comfort. Professor Hayes also taught modern dance technique at the Bates Summer Dance Festival where she performed in the urban opera Asphalt. Randy James Dance Works was awarded a two-year general operating support grant for $80,000 from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in June. In July they received the final installment in two three-year grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. One for $15,695 was for general operating funds and one for $14,532 was an arts education special initiative grant. Debra Keller performed with the Wendy Osserman Dance Company at the Mai Theatre, Montreal, Canada in June. Julia Ritter taught and performed at the 5th Annual Dance and Movement Festival in Yaroslavl, Russia in August. Raegan Sanders' work was performed at the Victoria Theater at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in August. Paulette Sears performed her work Dust as part of a juried performance at the Encontro Laban 2002 International Dance Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August. Theater Arts Israel Hicks directed Levee James by Sherry M. Shephard-Massat this summer for the 2002 O'Neill Playwrights Conference. F. Mitchell Dana designed the lights for the Paper Mill production of Miss Saigon. Lee Blessing's play Whores was presented this summer for the 2002 O'Neill Playwrights Conference. Pamela Berlin's production of Endpapers, a new play by Thomas McCormack, which she directed at Variety Arts continues to run through October in New York. Amy Saltz was among a long list of nationally recognized theater artists participating in Brave New World, a gathering of theatrical talent that performed nearly 50 new plays and songs over 4 days in memory of the September 11th attacks. She directed a new play by John Henry Redwood. Louise Grafton painted the Philadelphia Shakespeare's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream this summer. Kevin Kittle directed When Words Fail by David Dannenfeltzer in Ithaca, NY this summer. R. Michael Miller designed the scenery for Quartet at Berkshire Theater Festival in July. Student Activities and Accomplishments Music Christian Biegai, MM candidate in saxophone, gave a lecture on historical saxophone recordings in the USA at the Universitaet der kuenste, Berlin on August 28. Brad Hougham, DMA candidate in voice, accepted a position at the College of New Jersey as an adjunct professor of voice. Steven Holochwost, MM candidate in composition, was recently featured on National Public Radio stations WGDR in central Vermont, and WOMR, in Massachusetts. His "Two Waltzes for Piano" were performed on the program, New Music Bazaar. Paul Doria Oliveira , DMA candidate in voice, was invited to sing Frederico de Freitas "A Igreja do Mar" on September 13th with the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa and the S. Carlos Chorus. Randy Tinnin, DMA candidate in trumpet, conducted a workshop focusing on implementing Saturday Community Schools for HOPE, a worldwide organization that serves 500 to 600 "at risk" children in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the NY Metro area. Visual Arts MFA Thomas Dorchak, first year graduate student, organized and set up a co-op gallery in Flemington, New Jersey, which opened August 8, 2002. The event was covered by an article written in the Newark Star-Ledger. Jasmine Justice, first year graduate student, had works on view at P.S. 122 in New York City throughout the months of June and July. Academic Programs Theater Arts The Theater Department's highly successful conservatory acting program in London has moved to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London where students will train with resident faculty. Public/Community Service; Outreach Efforts Dance The Department of Dance co-sponsored the Annual Summer Teen Dance Summer Arts Program at Rutgers with the New Jersey School of the Arts in July. The Department of Dance sponsored the fifth annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers in July. The Department of Dance co-sponsored the Acrodanse Dance Theater Summer Teen Workshop with New Brunswick Youth Services at Rutgers in July and August. Theater Arts The Rutgers Theater Company announces the Fall 2002 season. Productions are Therese Raquin, adapted from the classic Zola play by Neil Bell and directed by J.V. Mercanti, October 3-12, in Philip J. Levin Theater, Tartuffe, by Moliere translated by Richard Wilbur and directed by Israel Hicks, October 31- November 16, in New Theater and The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and directed by professor emeritus Harold Scott, November 26-December 7, in Philip J. Levin Theater. Conference, Seminars, Other Events Music Music Performances October 4 - Rutgers University Orchestra, Nicholas
Music Center, 8 pm Visual Arts Lauren Ewing conducted a workshop this summer at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in August. Geoffrey Hendricks participated in a conference this summer at the Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine in August. The title of the conference was Ingestation. Thomas Nozkowski lectured at Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA in June at the University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia in July and at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson in August. The title of all the lectures was My Work. Professor Nozkowski's work was purchased by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (two drawings) and by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (10 paintings). Professor Nozkowski had an article, "Richard Rezac", printed in BOMB Magazine, no. 81, fall 2002, New York, NY. There was also an article by Szymon Bojko entitled "Thomas Nozkowski" in Art Warsaw 2002. Hanneline Rogeberg conducted a workshop this summer at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in August. Other (e.g., new appointments; alumni relations; staff activities; new websites) Visual Arts Staff Damon Catera, video technician participated in a Media Arts and Performance Exchange entitled MOOV 2002 in June. Eileen Foti, master printer, had work in two exhibitions this summer. In July, she was in a group exhibition entitled 15 Artists Working in NJ at the Chubb Atrium Gallery, NJ. During August she was in a group exhibition entitled Sahai City Bridge Group at the Florence Lynch Gallery in New York City. This summer Ms. Foti received an assistant professorship at Montclair State University. She also curated an exhibition at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey called Crossing the Continent: works by Contemporary Native Artists. This exhibition opens in September. Part-time Lecturers Thomas McGlynn has work in an exhibition, A Conversation, Paintings and Installation at Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY. The exhibition runs through October 5. Theater Arts New Theater Arts faculty this year include Pamela Berlin in directing, Scott Miller in speech, April Thompson in voice, Robin Christian in Speech, Amy Clites in voice/movement, Marshall Jones, III in theater management, Danielle Liccardo in movement, and James Mountcastle in stage management. The Café Theater, in residence at the George Street Playhouse and sponsored by the Mason Gross Theater Arts department produced a series of 10 minute plays in August. The following alumni and students contributed to the project: directors Hannah Fujiki DeVorkin, Kevin Kittle and Andrea Arden, Playwright Greg Scot Mihalik (The Doubts), actors Marc Bertha, Joshua Ansley, Amy Clites, Joe Fellman, and Kristofer Updike. Tammy Trull (BFA) was featured in the film All Night Bodega that premiered in Los Angeles and opened in New York at the New York Latino Film Festival in August. Scott Whitehurst (MFA) performs in She Stoops to Conquer for the Pearl Theater Company in New York. Bernie DeLeo (MFA) was in Australia this summer filming a new movie that he wrote. Riccardo Bones (BFA) appeared in Like Brothas in the New York Fringe Festival this summer. James Brady (MFA) was a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Saint Louis Reps Humana Festival for his play Mojo Hand. Archives: Spring 2002
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