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Oxf Musician 2012 [F]__Layout 1 30/07/2012 12:00 Page 25 Oxford ISSUE 2 | 2012 THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE FACULTY OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Inside this issue: Anacréon at the Sheldonian Alfred Brendel in Oxford The Music Faculty 40 years on Interview with BBC Radio 3’s Suzy Klein Oxf Musician 2012 [F]__Layout 1 30/07/2012 11:58 Page 2 CONTENTS Oxford Ertegun Scholarships . .3 Two Music Graduates are first among scholars Anacréon at the Sheldonian . .4 The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment perform the modern premiere of Rameau’s THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE FACULTY OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Anacréon Hummingbirds and film music in FROM THE HEATHER PROFESSOR Berkeley . .6 Peter Franklin recounts his time as Bloch Visiting Welcome to this, the second Faculty of Music alumni newsletter. A year passes Professor of Music at the University of California incredibly quickly here, and it seems scarcely credible that we’re once again The Music Faculty 40 years on . .7 putting together our collection of snapshots of what members of the Faculty Susan Wollenberg reflects on her time at the past and present have been doing, and a taste of the amazing variety of Faculty events and accomplishments that continue to pour forth from this hotbed of New Radcliffe Chamber Music music and scholarship. Residency . .8 The Cavaleri String quartet talk about their Nothing ever stays still around here, and alongside continuing developments in first visit to Oxford the buildings wonderful new lighting in the Denis Arnold Hall, a ceremonial Alfred Brendel in Oxford . .10 opening for the new ensemble room and practice rooms, new flooring in The legendary pianist visits Oxford University various places, and most importantly new pianos in the practice rooms thanks for a Masterclass and Lecture/Recital to Dame Mitsuko Uchida there have been various changes in the Faculty’s staff. Masterclass: ‘The stuff of dreams’ . .11 Michelle Anthony, who put the last newsletter together, got married and Faculty Pianist plays for Brendel and Lang Lang moved to the US with her husband her place now happily filled by Rebecca Alumna Profile . .12 Tay, a theology alumna from Oriel, who comes to us from time spent working at We catch up with Radio 3’s Suzy Klein the Oxford Playhouse. And Oxford’s rather too successful track record of Oxford University Music Society News . .13 supplying other universities with their professors sadly for us continues with The new president of OUMS talks about the Martin Stokes’s appointment to the distinguished position of King Edward VII year ahead Professor of Music at the Kings College London. We wish Martin who was Building for the Future . .14 featured in the last newsletter every success in his new role, just as we We celebrate the completion of the Practice welcome his successor as ethnomusicologist in the Faculty: Dr Jason Stanyek, Block and Denis Arnold Hall refurbishment who joins us from New York University in the autumn. Alumni Profiles . .16 Oxford Musician catches up with six Faculty Fortunately it’s not only in their appointments to other universities that the Alumni Faculty’s outstanding scholars and musicians get their due recognition, and last summer no fewer than four members of the Faculty were recognised with the Current Student Profiles . .18 title of professor: Susan Wollenberg whose profile appears on page 7, Michael We meet Julia Sitkovetsky and Adam Harper Burden, Elizabeth Eva Leach, and Martin Stokes before his appointment to Bate Collection News . .19 Kings. No less significantly, the outstanding role of the Faculty’s library staff, and Andy Lamb looks at the year ahead, and the facilities of the Faculty library itself, were quite rightly recognised this year announces the Bate Recording Prize winners by an International Association of Music Libraries IAML Excellence Award. News and Releases from Members of the Looking forward, there’s great excitement in the Faculty about the forthcoming Faculty . .20 Anacréon event with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the News, recordings, books and broadcasts. Sheldonian see page 4; the next visit of our newly appointed Quartet in Stay in touch . .24 Residence, the Cavaleri String Quartet, who reflect on their first encounter with Alumni Events, benefits, and how to be involved the Faculty on page 8; and much, much more. Edited by Professor Eric Clarke, Ms Aloïse Fiala As we said last year: this newsletter is just one of the ways in which we hope to Murphy, and Ms Rebecca Tay stay in touch with you, our alumni: we hope you enjoy reading in the following Magazine designed by Baseline Arts Ltd pages about what members of the Faculty, and a selection of alumni and current students have been doing. We would love to hear from you, or see you Photography by Anna Söderblom, Ralph at one of our events, so please do keep in touch, send us your news and Williamson, Rob Judges, Jaani Riordan, Graham Fellows, and Michelle Cresswell. suggestions, and help us to continue to grow from strength to strength! The editors would like to thank all the students, Best wishes, staff, and alumni who have contributed to the magazine; Lang Lang and Columbia Artists Management Inc; Alfred Brendel and Ingpen and Williams Ltd; The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; and the University of Oxford Eric Clarke Humanities Division and Development Office. Heather Professor of Music 2 . OXFORD MUSICIAN . 2012 Oxf Musician 2012 [F]__Layout 1 30/07/2012 11:58 Page 3 FACULTY ErtegunScholarships Earlier this year a major new graduate Oxford University arising out of the Led FIND OUT MORE! scholarship programme at Oxford was Zeppelin reunion concert at London’s O2 announced: the Mica and Ahmet Arena in 2007. Ertegun awards: www.ox.ac.uk/ertegun Ertegun Graduate Scholarship For information about how you can help Programme. These exciting new It is therefore particularly exciting that support students and the Music Faculty scholarships have been made possible two Music graduates feature in the first visit The Oxford Thinking Campaign: by the most generous gift for group of scholars, selected from the www.campaign.ox.ac.uk Humanities students in the University’s extraordinarily competitive first round of 900-year history – £26 million pledged applications. Christabel Stirling, one of by Mica Ertegun to the Humanities only four DPhil students in the MICA ERTEGUN Division. We are pleased to announce Humanities Division to obtain Ertegun VISITS that two graduate students from the funding, is a graduate of Camberwell THE MUSIC Faculty of Music are amongst the first School of Art, Kings College, London and FACULTY award holders. Oxford Brookes University. Christabel’s The Rolling Stones, interdisciplinary project, supervised by Aretha Franklin, Ray The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Professor Georgina Born, will be an Charles, The Yarns... Scholarships Programme will initially ethnographic exploration of music’s role It is fair to say that the support at least 15 graduate scholarships in the urban landscape, and the ways in Ertegun name has borne witness to some per year, rising in due course to 35 which it engages with public and private of the most genre defining music of the scholarships or more at a later stage. The spaces in the contemporary city. past 60 years. OK, perhaps The Yarns aren’t fifteen Ertegun Graduate Scholars will quite there, yet. Nevertheless, it was our have the use of Ertegun House (37a The Faculty of Music’s other Ertegun good fortune and pleasure to be rehearsing St. Giles) which will be fully equipped with Scholar, Johannes Snape, is a composer in the Faculty of Music when Mica Ertegun, state-of-the-art IT facilities. A Senior who is currently studying at the Institute of wife of Ahmet, late founder of Atlantic Scholar from among the academic staff at Sonology in The Hague, and participating Records, was being shown around. the University will curate a programme of in Sociology seminars at Leiden University. events for the Ertegun Scholars, as they Johannes was the composer of “Bonesong”, After running through a couple of songs, will be known, and the wider Humanities an electroacoustic installation created at we chatted about the band, how we met graduate community. Cambridge University’s Department of and the live music scene in Oxford. The Zoology and at the Edinburgh Festival. He Faculty of Music has played an integral role Mica Ertegun is an interior designer of also co-curated the Rite of Spring Project, a in the development of The Yarns, through world renown, and is the widow of Ahmet performance of Stravinsky’s masterwork in providing both superb, newly refurbished, Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, a multi-story car park in Peckham. practice spaces and a professional the record company that shaped the recording studio, in which we recorded our careers of artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Dr Martyn Harry EP. This year, we will be playing at several Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones. The Director of Graduate Studies festivals and have been picked up by BBC 6 benefaction builds on a donation given to St Hilda’s College and St Anne’s College Music’s Tom Robinson. K Mica Ertegun with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones The story of our (albeit fledgling) development is probably a story that’s all too familiar to Mica Ertegun, but it was clear that the facilities, diversity of music and support given by the Faculty of Music made a lasting impression. We’ll keep our fingers crossed for that recording contract arriving in the post… Thomas Hodgson, DPhil candidate in Music St John’s College OXFORD MUSICIAN .

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