University of South Carolina • School of Music Summer 2012

Transforming lives through music in St. Lucia Contents Message from the Dean them. Our goal for dollars raised in this category is excellent junior faculty, as well as attracting the premier 2 Student Awards & Honors $3.5 million. musical senior faculty who bring their leading-edge work Friends, At the heart of our school’s quality is the actual music and reputations with them. As the baby boom generation Many of you have already 5 Special Events made by our faculty and students. is music making of faculty at universities across the nation reach retirement heard and will likely hear a 8 Faculty Honors & Events happens in various component programs: USC Bands, age, the School of Music will face stiff competition from great deal more about the Opera at USC, USC Symphony, USC choral studies, universities with large endowments for the best teachers and historic campaign for the 10 Tribute to Árpád Darázs jazz studies, music education, piano and piano pedagogy, musicians. If your school is to compete, we must increase University of South Carolina, composition, music history, conducting, music theory, the the number of endowed chairs and professorships we can 11 Student Activities Carolina’s Promise. rough creating educational distinctive Music For Your Life initiative of community off er. We intend to raise $500,000 to provide four endowed opportunities, advancing discovery and improving 12 Faculty Activities programs and Carolina Institute for Leadership and professorship salary supplements to attract and retain world- lives in South Carolina and the world, contributions Engagement in Music. Most of the readers of Da Capo class faculty. 14 Faculty & Staff News to this campaign will transform the university. participated in one or more of these programs in very And fi nally, though the school enjoys wonderful musical Your School of Music has engaged fully in the 17 Alumni Activities signifi cant ways in the past and know fi rsthand their impact. facilities for all of its teaching and learning endeavors, it campaign. As of June 1, 2012, we have raised almost Still others have been audience still lacks an auditorium space 22 Development Report $5 million of our goal of $10 million; identifying members and lovers of our school’s adequate for the presentation of funds to augment the school’s undergraduate “Private support plays an 26 Concert Calendar great achievements in these programs all sorts of musical performances scholarships and graduate fellowships and now and for many years. Some of these important role in retaining for audiences of 500 or more. assistantships is our main objective. I write to you component programs attain the funds excellent junior faculty, as In 2014 we will open a 500-seat Cover today to make you aware of this new initiative and they need to function from ticket sales auditorium in the new Moore School of Music students and faculty spent their to thank you in advance as we begin our endeavors well as attracting the premier summer break sharing, teaching and learning in and patronage; others are resourced by School of Business, adjacent to the St. Lucia — page 7. to raise this money in the next three years. dollars appropriated from the School of musical senior faculty who Carolina Coliseum, that will be We are all aware how hard it is for Americans Music; and still others from Gamecock bring their leading-edge work ours in the evenings and weekends to aff ord college in the 21st century. At the same athletics and other fees. However, in to deliver many such presentations time we are also aware how necessary it remains and reputations with them.” every case, infl ation, growth and the — like choral concerts and jazz for citizens to obtain degrees from our universities. ever-present expected evolution of events. But still, the hall will not Providing aid is critical to ensuring that all talented Da Capo greater sophistication put strains on the be suitable for opera, nor will music students who wish to make music the central operating budgets of our music-making enterprises. Each of the stage be of suffi cient size to accommodate many of our Da Capo is the alumni newsletter focus of their life’s work can have the education the programs hopes to raise their endowments through the largest instrumental ensembles. In short, the fi nal phase of they need. e recent bequest of a $1 million of the School of Music. campaign such that the total raised for all these programs the original Koger Center vision, an opera house/concert hall endowment from the estate of James K. Copenhaver, University of South Carolina and other unrestricted programmatic elements of the school of 500-700 seats, remains for the school and university to distinguished director emeritus of bands, is an 813 Assembly Street would be $5 million. build. e last of our Carolina’s Promise campaign objectives example of a key gift that provides assistance for A strong faculty is fundamental to the School of Music’s is to raise a single initial key gift toward the design of such a Columbia, SC 29208 this principal need. Currently we are executing goals of sustaining excellence in teaching, performance, facility adjacent to the Koger Center and our own building. A a challenge to match his generous gift in order scholarship and research. In recent years, the university has $1 million contribution marks such a gift. Tayloe Harding to name the new band hall after him — a fi tting dean, executive editor recruited and retained a strong core of junior faculty from ank you for all you do for your school, for our graduates tribute. very competitive pools globally. ey are making their mark and for our current faculty, staff and students. I remain Ellen Woodo Such talent-based fi nancial aid also ensures managing editor/writer in our academic programs. ey are highly productive as devoted to and in admiration of the great commitment I see your School of Music’s competitiveness with other teachers, performers and scholars with innovative research demonstrated every day by you, our alumni and friends. Contact us at: excellent institutions in attracting the very best 803-777-1983 and will be heavily recruited by other universities willing Here’s health to you and to Carolina, “Forever to ee.…” students we can get. e fi nest music students in ewoodoff @mozart.sc.edu to provide them possibly greater compensation, enhanced the world receive very good scholarship off ers from professional facilities and retention benefi ts. Tayloe Harding many music schools, and we must be able to off er Private support plays an important role in retaining Dean www.music.sc.edu similar amounts to the same students to attract

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Awards Day Highlights Recognizing this year’s outstanding students, the annual Awards Celebration on April 18 acknowledged Magellan Scholars as well as performer certifi cate and academic honors recipients.

Pi Kappa Lambda inductees The John and Lucrecia Herr Award The Robert Van Doren Award is given Linard McCloud for Composition is awarded to an in honor of Van Doren, who served as David (Clay) Mettens outstanding composition student professor of organ and coordinator Rachel Myers for best achievement in writing of music education from 1946 to Greg Priest original music. 1978, and is presented to the most The USC Wind Ensemble poses in front of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, one of the most recognizable concert halls in the world. Chelsea Schwoyer David (Clay) Mettens outstanding graduating senior in the Marcus Smith Bachelor of Music program with an The LeDare Robinson Undergraduate emphasis in music education. From the The Sigma Alpha Iota Scholastic and Graduate Awards for Academic Elizabeth (Betsy) Myers Award is given to the graduating Excellence are awarded to music Recording 2012 USC Concerto-Aria senior SAI member with the highest majors who demonstrate outstanding The Cantey Award for Excellence is Studio to China Competition Winners grade point average. abilities in music history and/or theory presented to a rising senior music Katherine Jernigan and demonstrate great interest in major who best exemplifi es excellence e USC Wind Ensemble had an The USC Symphony Orchestra sponsors the annual competition for and understanding of the personal, in scholarship as measured by grade outstanding year that included a strings, woodwinds and brass. Any sophomore, junior, senior, master’s The political and cultural history in which point average, musicianship as or graduate certifi cate student enrolled at USC studying applied music Sigma Alpha Iota Honor historic concert tour of China, a Award is given to a member who music exists and the languages of measured by signifi cant contributions on the Columbia campus may compete. Winners perform with the USC has made signifi cant contributions music expression. These students to USC music ensembles and featured performance at the South Symphony Orchestra at the Koger Center for the Arts, and their names to her chapter and the School of have the ability to synthesize this performances, and service as Carolina Music Educators Association are engraved on the concerto-aria plaque on permanent display in the Music, demonstrating outstanding knowledge into intelligent, informed measured by participation in school, Conference and a recording for the USC School of Music. musicianship, scholarship and service. class work, research projects and/or university or civic organizations. Naxos label. Naxos, the world’s largest Susanna Gibbons performances. David (Clay) Mettens Blair Francis, fl ute, performed Flute Concerto, movement 3 Diane Oliva — undergraduate award classical music label, is producing the by Jacques Ibert. The Christopher Berg Guitar Award Brian Bemman — graduate award The Presser Scholar Award, given by CD featuring the music of Leonard Oswaldo Zapata, trumpet, performed Trumpet Concerto in was established by former students the Presser Foundation, recognizes an Bernstein, and it will be released E-fl at major, movement 1 by Joseph Haydn. of Berg and is given annually to The William H. Nolte Graduate outstanding music major at the end of in 2013. Ying-Li Pan, violin, performed Violin Concerto, movement I honor the undergraduate guitar Assistant Teaching Award in Music is his or her junior year. The prestigious by Johannes Brahms. student best exhibiting qualities of awarded to two students completing award recognizes student excellence e highlight of the Wind Ensemble’s creativity, humility, perseverance and their second year of enrollment in and the music unit as well since few March trip to the People’s Republic of improvement in their study of the the department’s doctoral program music schools across the nation are China was their sold-out performance at guitar and musical performance. while employed as a full-time teaching authorized to present this award. the National Centre for the Performing James Keretses assistant. Briana Leaman Matthew Fink and Michelle Wachter Arts in Beijing, broadcast nationally on The Cello Fund Award was created The Cantey Outstanding Faculty Chinese television. e ensemble also by former students and friends of The Arthur M. Fraser Award recipient Award is presented to a faculty performed in Shanghai, Hangzhou, the USC cello program to honor is the most outstanding graduating member who has demonstrated Shaoxing, Huzhou and Zhuji. Robert Jesselson’s 25 years of cello senior in the Bachelor of Arts in exemplary dedication to the School instruction and assists students in Music or the Bachelor of Music of Music in the areas of teaching, e ensemble has been invited to furthering their studies. The selection with an emphasis in performance, performance, scholarship or service. perform at the 2013 College Band is based on a student’s creativity, theory or composition programs. Samuel Douglas Directors National Association National progress and initiative and can be The award is given in memory of left to right: Nové Deypalan, conductor; Paula Ulicsni, Conference — the highest honor a used for a special project. Fraser, department of music chair conductor; Ying-Li Pan, violin; Maestro Portnoy; Yi Yang, university wind ensemble can receive. conductor; Robert Brown, conductor; Oswaldo Zapata, trumpet; Ryan Knott from 1963 to 1972, whose numerous not shown: Blair Francis, flute contributions to music in our state ey will perform at the Saturday included the founding of the South evening concert, a time reserved for Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra. the top ensemble at the conference, on Katherine Blair Francis March 23, 2013, in Greensboro, N.C.

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A Standout with Congratulations Internationally Magellan Scholars! Recognized Research Created to enrich the academic experience of USC’s undergraduates through research opportunities in all Junior music major Diane Oliva disciplines, the Magellan Scholar program provides access presented her paper “Madame Louise to faculty mentoring relationships and a professional Gautherot: e Violin Soloist in Haydn’s research experience. The program enables students to creatively explore their interests in depth and provides First London Concert” at the southeast opportunities to build a competitive edge in the job chapter meeting of the American market. These School of Music students applied and were Musicological Society at Wake Forest chosen for the $3,000 grant based on educational and intellectual merit, the potential impact of the project and University. Made possible with a Magellan Scholar award, Clockwise from the left,Marina Lomazov, artistic director, their Wacademic record. Charles Fugo, Phillip Bush, Joseph Rackers and Naomi Oliva researched the little-known world of women virtuoso Causby perform “The Planets” at the Extravaganza. violinists in the late 18th century through archival research Summer/Fall 2011 at the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Briana Leaman — “A Comparison of European and American Pedagogical Techniques as Applied Specifi cally Paris. Her paper showed how integral women were, not Southeastern Piano Festival’s 10th Anniversary to the Oboe” only to the performance of Haydn’s symphonies, but also Mentors: Dr. Rebecca Nagel and Dr. Cli ord Leaman Inspiration and challenge for a new generation of pianists to the development of the early violin school associated Diane Oliva — “Madame Gautherot: A Life in Reviews” e Southeastern Piano Festival pianists from around the nation and Australia went “hand- with Viotti. Oliva will present her work at “ e Franco- Mentors: Dr. Constance Gee, Dr. Julie Hubbert and has never sounded better. e 2012 to-hand,” competing from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. e Belgian Violin School from G.B. Viotti to E. Ysaÿe,” hosted Dr. Peter Hoyt by the International Boccherini Society and the Festival festival was a fi tting celebration of competition is sponsored by the Symphony League of the Spring 2012 its past 10 years, and the opening South Carolina Philharmonic and named in honor of its Paganiniano in La Spezia, Italy. Angela Bedell — “An Evaluation of Music Appreciation Extravaganza concert at the Koger founding music director. “ is international conference focuses exclusively on the Through Cochlear Implants in Adults” evolution of the French violin school of which Madame Mentors: Dr. Allen Montgomery and Dr. Kim Crass, Center was met with a full house First-place winner Dong Yeon Kim of Idyllwild, Calif., Gautherot was a product,” says Oliva. “She was the fi rst to communication sciences and disorders and audience raves. Morihiko received a $3,000 cash award sponsored by Rice Music introduce this new style to British audiences, yet she remains David (Clay) Mettens — “Composing Timbre from Spectral Nakahara and the South Carolina House-Steinway Pianos and earned the opportunity to Harmony: The Pipe Organ and Synthetic Timbres” largely ignored by music history. By presenting my research Philharmonic, 16 consummate perform with the South Carolina Philharmonic. He was also Mentor: Dr. Reginald Bain to an international audience of researchers and scholars, I pianists, fi ve nine-foot Steinway awarded the Young Jury Prize, selected by a panel of USC may be able to bring a better focus to the contributions of Summer/Fall 2012 grand pianos and the spectacular “ e Planets: Suite for Five School of Music graduate and doctoral students. women instrumentalists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Evan Clark — “Contemporary Techniques and Pianos” had the spellbound audience hanging on to every note. Kevin Ahfat of Centennial, Colo., won second place. ird Literature of French Saxophone Music” anks to the mentorships of Drs. Peter Hoyt, Julie From its inception in 2003, the festival’s artistic director, place was won by Evelyn Mo of Herndon, Va. Discretionary Mentor: Dr. Cli ord Leaman Hubbert and Constance Gee, I have decided to pursue a Marina Lomazov, has ensured steady growth with an awards went to Vanessa Meiling Haynes of Shrewsbury, graduate degree in musicology, and this conference grants exceptional quality of world-class guest artists, an ever-stronger Mass., Michael Lenahan of Rossford, Ohio, and Rieko me the recognition necessary pool of participants and a growing audience. is year thrust Tsuchida of Mill Valley, Calif. e second- and third-place to compete for a place in the the festival into greater visibility and record attendance at winners received $1,500 and $1,000, respectively. concerts and was topped off with an announcement of a gift to Guest artists, also serving as competition jury, were most prestigious graduate Music Teachers National Association musicology programs both the festival — a dollar-for-dollar match for up to $20,000 by Boris Slutsky, chair of the Peabody Conservatory piano here and in Europe.” Competition Winners an anonymous donor. Also announced was news that Joseph department; pianist Alessio Bax, winner of the Avery Fisher Oliva will also present her MTNA competitions provide educational experiences and recognize exceptionally Rackers, associate professor and festival faculty member, will Career Grant; Natalya Antonova, professor of piano at the talented young artists and their teachers in pursuit of musical excellence. research at the joint National become co-director of the festival. Eastman School of Music; and Morihiko Nakahara, music 1st place, Collegiate Division (Marina Lomazov) Meeting of the American David Brickle, piano: e Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition, director of the South Carolina Philharmonic. Musicological Society and the Tyler Flowers, saxophone: 1st place Collegiate Division of the SCMTA competition the culmination of the week of master classes, lectures and To see more about the Southeastern Piano Festival and the (Cliff ord Leaman) Society for Music eory in concerts, closed the festival with a packed Recital Hall for 2012 competition winners, concerts, guest artists and photos, alternate Collegiate Division of the SCMTA competition New Orleans. Perry Roth, saxophone: one of the best winners concerts yet. e 20 pre-college visit http://sepf.music.sc.edu. (Cliff ord Leaman)

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Students from Richland School Districts One and Two perform Students Help “Brundibar,” directed by Professor Ellen Douglas Schlaefer. Transform Lives Through Music e smiles of students at the St. Lucia School of Music were contagious. Spotlighted by the Caribbean sun, the happy faces refl ected their achievements during the weeklong collaboration with student teachers and faculty A Week of Remembrance triumphantly performed accompanied only by a legless piano from the School of Music. propped up on boxes. Kristen Harris, M.M. music education, “Their desire for culture was indeed For more than three years, Schächter inspired the Terezin Paula Ulicsni, M.M. conducting, Rebecca a match for their desire for life.” population through music until his deportation to Auschwitz Hunter, Robert Jesselson and Dean Tayloe — Murray Sidlin on October 16, 1944, from which he did not return. Harding spent their summer break working A seven-day tribute in April was a signifi cant and moving e fabled children’s opera “Brundibar,” originally staged on the poverty-stricken island doing outreach, homage to those interred in the World War II concentration in a Nazi ghetto and an emblem of tragedy and tenacity, was giving master classes, visiting schools and camp at Terezin. e USC School of Music, city offi cials and performed at Dreher High School by students from Richland giving lectures to public school music teachers the Opera-tunity Foundation presented concerts, lectures, School Districts One and Two, directed by Professor Ellen and the teachers of the SLSM. e practicum multimedia presentations and visual arts to honor Jews killed Douglas Schlaefer. Ela Weissberger who, at age 11, was a gave our students the opportunity to lead by during World War II. prisoner at the Terezin concentration camp, sang with the sharing their knowledge and inspiring and e USC Symphony Orchestra and USC Choirs, under students and spoke about her experience there and the value of motivating students to learn music. St. Lucian the direction of Donald Portnoy and Larry Wyatt, were joined the arts. Written by Jewish Czech composer Hans Kraasa for a music teachers learned strategies to improve by the York County Choral Society, David Lowry conductor, Jewish orphanage in 1938, “Brundibar” was staged in Terezin the content and eff ectiveness of their musical to present the South Carolina premiere of “Defi ant Requiem: 55 times. e composer and most of Terezin’s thousands of instruction. Our students had the opportunity Verdi at Terezin.” e powerful multimedia production children later perished in death camps. to interact with all the island’s music teachers, tells the story of the courageous prisoners who used their “To be able to experience a piece of history by having Ms. learning and practicing skills of eff ective performances of Verdi’s “Requiem” to show defi ance to their Weissberger present during the performances is the best way communication. Teachers in St. Lucia have captors. to understand the horrors of the Holocaust and the necessity little opportunity for continuing education, Survivor Edgar Krasa, who sang in all 16 performances of of the arts. It was the sustenance for the souls of the prisoners and our students learned as much from them Verdi at Terezin under the baton of Rafi Schächter, gave the in Terezin,” said Janet Hopkins, Opera-tunity Foundation as they did from us, resulting in a win-win preconcert lecture and talked with students about his life in executive director. partnership that will be a long-lasting one. the camp. Other music events included the USC Wind Ensemble’s Established in 1987, the St. Lucia School Famed conductor Murry Sidlin’s passion for telling the story performance of “Degenerates: Composers Banned by Hitler,” of Music is the national center of music of the Terezin prisoners and their leader Raphael Schächter “Holocaust Cantata” by Donald McCullough, performed on the island and provides instruction in is the creative motivation behind the “Defi ant Requiem,” an by e Sandlapper Singers, and “ e Jewish Soul” by Oskar brass, string, piano, percussion and voice. interweaving of Verdi’s “Requiem” with video interviews of Morawetz, sung by Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk and Jami Rhodes Committed to reaching out to their poorest survivors, readings from diaries and Nazi fi lm footage. with Eric Stellrecht, accompanist. communities, SLSM strives to transform lives Upon Schächter’s arrival at Terezin in 1941, he immediately and communities through music. Week of Remembrance was the fi rst project created by the Opera-tunity immersed himself into bringing music to the prisoners. When A public concert performed by SLSM Foundation.  e foundation’s mission is to provide a myriad of musical not engaged in hard labor at the camp, he organized singers students was the culmination of the week’s education and outreach projects and programs that will inspire creativity and and musicians, producing operas and musical productions appreciation of opera and the arts.  e House of Representatives honored the work and proved, through the multitude of and smuggling a makeshift piano into the prison camp. e Foundation with a resolution for the Week of Remembrance on April 19. smiles, that music truly can be a catalyst for 16 performances of the “Verdi Requiem” at Terezin were social change and lifelong rewards.

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Fang Man Granted the Prestigious Guest Artist Helped 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Chart the Course Fang Man (Mandy) was awarded the Sierra. She also holds a computer music certifi cate from of Piano Teaching highly competitive fellowship in the IRCAM-Paris. Marvin Blickenstaff , known among creative arts category for her fi eld of “It is such an honor to be named one of the 2012 piano teachers throughout the study, music composition. Guggenheim Guggenheim Fellows. is fellowship will support me to country for his teaching, lecturing, Fellowships are awarded to midcareer compose an opera based on the life story of a British-Chinese performing and publishing, was professionals who demonstrate exceptional pianist. I’ve wanted to do this project for years and feel very at the School of Music for a two- capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative grateful to the foundation for its generous support,” Fang said. day residency in April. Here under ability in the arts. e foundation receives between 3,500 Established in 1925 by U.S. Senator Simon Guggenheim the auspices of the piano studies area and the Carolina and 4,000 applications per year, but awards only about 220 and his wife, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Institute for Leadership and Engagement in Music, New SEC Award Honors Price fellowships annually. e Guggenheim Fellowship program Foundation has sought from its inception to “add to Blickenstaff ’s visit included a piano pedagogy lecture Scott Price received the Southeastern Conference 2012 helps provide the opportunity to work with as much creative the educational, literary, artistic and scientifi c power of relating musical concepts in “Voiles” by Claude Debussy Faculty Achievement Award, a new SEC honor recognizing freedom as possible. No special conditions are attached to the this country, and also to provide for the cause of better to forces in nature. e students split into groups and university professors for achievement in research, scholarship six- to 12-month grants, which may be spent in any manner international understanding,” as the senator explained in performed movements and chants along with the music and service. Price, professor of piano and piano pedagogy deemed necessary for Fellows’ work. his initial Letter of Gift (March 26, 1925). Fellowships to experience how forces such as gravity could infl uence and area coordinator of piano studies, was one of only 12 A research assistant professor at the School of Music, Fang are awarded through two annual competitions: one open phrasing. Blickenstaff shared with the entire student recipients chosen for the honor. Award winners, one from each has been hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by e New to citizens and permanent residents of the United States body examples of how single individuals have shaped university, receive a $5,000 honorarium and become his or her York Times critic Steven Smith. e Chinese-born composer and Canada and the other open to citizens and permanent music education and infl uenced numerous lives. He university’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award. obtained a doctorate in music composition from Cornell residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. capped off his visit with a masterful recital of works by “ is diverse group of men and women share a passionate University, where she studied with Steven Stucky and Roberto Schubert, Mozart, Ravel and Ginastera and shared his dedication not just for teaching, but for empowering their internationally recognized teaching expertise with piano students with the knowledge and wisdom to make a diff erence students during a master class. in our world,” said Dr. Bernie Machen, president of the Blickenstaff is a frequent presenter at regional and Jesse Jones Awarded Distinguished Rome Prize University of Florida and president of the Southeastern state conventions of music teachers and at the national New instructor of composition Jesse e primary criteria for selection are proven excellence in Conference. “Some of the fi nest minds have studied on our conference of the Music Teachers National Association. Jones was awarded the highly competitive the applicant’s achievements and the potential for future campuses, and we have the SEC university professors to thank For 16 summers he was on the faculty of the International 2012-13 Rome Prize by the American development. for helping to position them for success.” Workshops, where he performed and lectured in Canada, Academy in Rome, Italy. Winners Prize recipients immerse themselves in the academy In addition, Price was an invited guest artist and clinician Austria, Scotland, Norway, France and Switzerland. In are invited to Rome to pursue their community for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand at the National Institute for Pianists and Teachers at Southern 1995 and again in 2004, e Registered Piano Teachers work in an atmosphere conducive to their professional, artistic or scholarly pursuits, drawing on Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; speaker at the National of New Zealand sponsored him in concert and workshop intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange their colleagues’ scholarship and experience and the invaluable Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy; guest artist and clinician tours of that country. He serves as president of the board and innovation. Jones will be in residence at the academy resources that Italy, Europe and the academy off er. at the Tri-Cities Music Teachers Association in Richland, of trustees of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard composing throughout the 2012-13 year and will join us “While in Rome, I plan to compose a large-scale orchestral Wash.; guest resident at the State University of New York Pedagogy and is on the executive planning committee of in August 2013 as an assistant professor. work, with soprano soloist and electronics, titled ‘Of the Soul,’ in Potsdam, N.Y.; and guest lecturer at the Music Teachers the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Formerly know as the Prix de Rome, the Rome Prize is wherein I will set texts of Alphonse de Lamartine,” said Jones. National Association National Convention in New York awarded each year to 30 emerging artists and scholars in the “Also, while in residence, I will be composing an octet for the City. He has served as editor-in-chief of the online journal early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest Scharoun Ensemble, which is a chamber music subset of the Piano Pedagogy Forum for 14 years, publishing 25 issues with standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Fellows are Berlin Philharmonic.” participation from more than 100 writers from more than 92 chosen from 11 disciplines, including musical composition. colleges and universities, 28 states and three countries. Price continues to serve as creator and director of the Carolina LifeSong Initiative, which provides music experiences and instruction for students with special needs.

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Tribute to the Memory of Árpád Darázs Student Activities on his 90th Birthday Sophomore Ashley Cook was named a Leadership Scholar Essena Setaro, D.M.A. candidate violin, was hired by for the 2012-2013 academic year. Her proposal “Tunes Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., as a violin instructor By Henriett Kiss, Jaszbereny, Hungary for Troopers — Enhancing the Lives of Veterans through for the spring 2012 semester. She performs with many Music,” will bring chamber music to the veterans at the orchestras in the region and teaches a number of her Árpád Darázs was born on July 7, 1922, in Jaszbereny, Darázs returned to Hungary in 1976 and 1980 with the Dorn VA Community Living Center next year. own students in Columbia. Hungary, and spent his childhood in this small town. At a very USC Concert Choir and achieved fi rst place both years in the Nové Deypalan, D.M.A. conducting, won the 9th Mitchell Vinkler, engineering major and music minor, early age his talent for music was discovered both by his family Béla Bartók International Choir Competition. During his International Conducting Workshop and Competition won the Columbia Morning Music Clubs’ scholarship and by his music teacher at the local high school. e young 1980 visit he gave a concert in his hometown, Jaszbereny. held in January 2012 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. competition. Darázs devoted all his free time to music, organizing a choir After his death in 1992, the local government of Jaszbereny Beethoven’s 5th, 1st movement was Deypalan’s fi nal from his schoolmates and singing in the town’s oldest choir. placed a plaque on the wall of his birthplace in his memory, winning round, competing against 13 conductors from Michelle Wachter, D.M.A. piano pedagogy, was runner- seven countries and six states. up in the Clavier Companion Magazine student writing Between 1941 and 1945 he studied music at the Franz and in 1993 a plaque was placed in Budapest on his former competition for her article “Chamber Music for the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. After World War II house. Daniel Long, B.M. piano performance, won third place at Elementary and Intermediate Student,” published in the he returned to his hometown to teach music at the local In 1994 Darázs was given a posthumous prize, Honorary the Harold Protsman Classical Period Piano Competition, January/February 2012 digital edition. Wachter joins State Teacher Training College, after which he moved back Member of Jaszbereny, by the local government of his held at Old Dominion University. previous winners Sarah Evans, D.M.A. piano pedagogy, and Scott Dirkse, M.M. piano pedagogy. to Budapest. hometown, “for enhancing the town’s reputation, helping its Aaron Mathews, D.M.A. piano pedagogy, presented “Piano In 1956 he immigrated with his family to the United musical culture and art of singing, as well as for his lifelong Music by African-American Women Composers” at the At the American String Teachers Conference in Atlanta, States, moving to Columbia, S.C., in 1966, where he lived fi delity to his hometown.” Bela Mizsei, a former MP of the annual Graduate Student Day event and was appointed Ga., Gail Barnes and students presented “The Triumphant and worked until his death in 1986. Darázs remained loyal local government of Jaszbereny, also placed a memorial plaque full-time instructor of music at Allen University. Trio” with Gregory Barnes, current master’s student Meredith Miller and alumni Stacy Wiley, Christopher Selby to his home country and remained Hungarian at heart all his on the wall of his high school. Ben and Brad Pouncey were among the 150 members and Margaret Selby. Barnes co-presented “String Project life, seen by the fact that he regularly performed the works For the last few years, music historian Henriett Kiss has of the elite Cadets Drum and Bugle Corp awarded the Best Practices” with graduating master’s student Chelsea of Hungarian composers in his concerts, even in the United been trying to call attention to Darázs by publishing articles international world championship title in Indianapolis this Schwoyer. States. He often conducted the works of his master, Zoltán and studies about his oeuvre. summer. Ben, a senior music major, has been a member of the cadets since 2007. Brad, a freshman majoring in The School of Music was well represented at the national Kodály, and taught his students on the basis of Kodály’s art studio, became a member in 2009. Ben Pouncey was meeting of the Society for American Music in Charlotte, music pedagogy. In his book “Sight and Sound,” he rendered English translation by Agnes Szabo-Szakaly also awarded the 2011 Jim Jones Leadership Award for N.C., by Diane Oliva, Jeremy Polley, Emily Monk, Brian Kodály’s method into American education. Photo courtesy of the University of South Carolina Archives outstanding leadership and conducting performance skills. Bemman, Harrison Welshimer and Taylor Welshimer. As part of the local arrangements committee, they were Third-year music student Desiree Richardson participated an integral part of the conference organization and in USC’s global exchange to the Sookmyung Women’s distinguished themselves throughout the conference. University in Seoul, South Korea, for the 2011-2012 academic year. Richardson was born in Seoul but moved The USC Percussion Ensemble has been selected as The Concert Choir achieved international to the United States when she was two and had never one of three winners of the 2012 Percussive Arts Society returned to Korea. Her main goal while abroad was to International Percussion Ensemble Competition. The group recognition under the direction of Árpád become fl uent in Korean and to connect with her cultural will present a concert at the 2012 Percussive Arts Society heritage. She hopes to continue her musical education International Convention in Austin, Texas, in November. who was professor of music and Darázs, while learning more about Korean linguistics. Each year, three university percussion ensembles are director of choral activities at Carolina selected from a blind CD submission process. It is a Andrew Robinette, D.M.A. candidate, choral conducting, distinctive honor to be selected for this performance. from 1966 until his death in 1986. On three presented “Better Recordings for your Choir” at the American Choral Directors Association 2012 regional occasions during his career, USC students convention. Robinette and Je Francis, School of Music named him an outstanding teacher. The recording engineer, are presenting a session at the Southern Division American Choral Directors Association Concert Choir continues the tradition convention on recording techniques with choral ensembles. of excellence under the direction of Larry Wyatt.

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Charles Fugo and Robert Jesselson celebrated the 30th wrote, “Marina Lomazov was dazzling.” Her CD recording Music Series to Michael Harley, who is Faculty Activities anniversary of their collaboration as the Jesselson/Fugo “Piano Works of Rodion Shchedrin” has been broadcast the new artistic director. The series has James Ackley, associate professor of Duo by commissioning six composers, current and emeritus nearly 100 times on WQXR and WNYC in New York. She changed the contemporary music scene trumpet, recently released his CD “New USC faculty, to write pieces for them. In November and serves as a national panelist for the National Foundation in Columbia since its inception when American Music for Trumpet,” available February they performed all six works by Reginald Bain, for Advancement in the Arts and on the faculty of the Rogers proposed it to Dean Jamal Rossi on the Beauport Classical Label: www. Samuel O. Douglas, John Fitz Rogers, Gordon (Dick) Burgos International Music Festival in Spain. Lomazov is an in 2001. Rogers won the 2007 Chamber beauportclassical.com. Goodwin, Tayloe Harding and Bert Ligon plus the International Steinway Artist. Music America/American Society of Rachmaninoff and Chopin sonatas in two concerts. Composers, Authors and Publishers Gail Barnes, associate professor of The duo is recording all the new works for a CD. Rebecca Phillips, assistant professor Award for Adventurous Programming for the series, which music education, was selected by a and director of athletic bands and the features professional artists and ensembles and USC faculty rigorous panel of her peers to present Scott Herring performed with USC Symphonic Winds, performed the and students who perform recent music and classical “Posture, Pulse and Pitch: Priorities Sympatico Percussion Group at the opening concert of the 2012 College compositions from the past century. in the String Classroom” at the 2011 Percussive Arts Society International Band Directors National Association Midwest Clinic, an international band Convention in Indianapolis and Southern Division Conference in Atlanta Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, associate and orchestra conference. Barnes was performed with Cli ord Leaman in February. USC Symphonic Winds was professor and director of Opera at invited to be one of the Florida All-State (RoseWind Duo) in Stockholm and selected through a blind jury process USC, served as stage director for the Orchestra clinicians in Tampa. “Research Pitea, Sweden; Potsdam, N.Y.; and St. and was one of only seven ensembles invited to perform 2012 Green Mountain Opera Festival’s to Practice: Collaborating for Our Greater Good” has been Andrews, Scotland. He was a guest artist at the conference. It was a magnifi cent performance in production of “La Bohème.” This is published in the String Research Journal and is based on at the University of North Carolina, Furman University and every respect, and they received a much-deserved Schlaefer’s third production at the her lecture at the 2010 ASTA National Conference. She also Lee University. Herring also presented clinics at Alpharetta standing ovation. festival. Her previous productions were presented “Applications of Recent Technology in Teacher High School in Georgia, Troy University, the University “The Marriage of Figaro” in 2009 and Education” at the Society of Music Teacher Education. of North Carolina, Furman University and Lee University. Donald Portnoy traveled to China to the 2011 staging of “Carmen.” The Green Mountain Opera Barnes was guest conductor at the Georgia Middle School His recordings included Clarence Barber’s “Impulsions” guest conduct the orchestra in Beijing Festival is Vermont’s premiere opera event. All-State Orchestra in Savannah; Florida Middle School with Bradley Edwards, the music for Robert Bradshaw’s and Hangzhou. He directed the renowned All-State Honors Orchestra, Tampa; Texas Music Educators ballet “The Girl in White” with the Palmetto Camerata, and Conductors Institute in Columbia, S.C., in Wendy Valerio, associate professor Association Region 2 Middle School Orchestra, Denton; the debut album for the Palmetto Pans Steel Band, to be June. As music director and conductor of music and music education area and North Carolina Eastern Region High School Orchestra, released this fall. of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Orchestra, coordinator, recently published Fayetteville. Barnes is completing a six-year term as he conducted the orchestra in three “Construct Validity of the Children’s member of the editorial board of the Journal of Music Robert Jesselson, professor of cello and executive director performances during the 2012 festival. Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire” Teacher Education. of the National String Project Consortium, oversaw the in the Journal of Research in Music continued expansion of the program, which now has String Associate professor of piano Joseph Education with co-authors Alison Clarinet associate professor Joseph Project sites at 44 universities around the United States, all Rackers’ solo CD, “Debut” for MSR Reynolds, Ph.D. (Temple University), Eller released his solo CD, “Bach in modeled on the USC String Project in Columbia. Jesselson Classics, has been released and Grant Morgan, Ph.D. (Baylor University), and Anne Time on the Clarinet,” available on the gave concerts and master classes in North Carolina, Kansas, received acclaim for his demanding McNair, Ph.D. (USC 2010). The co-authors presented their Centaur Record label. The CD consists Vermont, Georgia, Illinois and St. Lucia this year. program of works by Bach, Schumann, fi ndings at the 3rd Gordon Institute for Music Learning of Bach repertoire ranging from solo Ravel and Bartok. Phil Muse, Audio International Conference, held in August 2011 in Chicago. works and sonatas to soprano arias, Associate professor of music education Jeremy Lane’s Society of Atlanta, says of Rackers, Valerio, Reynolds and Morgan recently received two grants all transcribed for the clarinet by Eller. article “A Descriptive Analysis of Qualitative Research “he gets top points for compelling from Temple University to continue their investigations With the exception of the clarinet, the Published in Two Eminent Music Education Journals” power, rhythmic persuasiveness, style, and a surprising regarding the questionnaire’s validity. Valerio and Olivia works are played on the original period instrumentation of appeared in a special issue of the Bulletin of the Council for amount of lyricism.” In the past two concert seasons, De Jesús, M.M.E., 2012, presented “Music and Movement harpsichord, organ and continuo. Jerry Curry, harpsichord; Research in Music Education. Lane documents the increase Rackers, an International Steinway Artist, has given solo Stories for Music Play” and led the closing ceremonies at Jared Johnson, organ; Tina Stallard, soprano; and Robert in qualitative research and the sources that are frequently or collaborative performances at the Burgos International the 3rd Gordon Institute for Music Learning International Jesselson, violoncello, are all featured on the recording, cited regarding the methodology. Music Festival (Spain), Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Conference. Valerio was also an invited clinician for the 2011 available through Amazon, iTunes and other worldwide Society of Composers National Conference, Universities Music Education Week General Music Academy sponsored music vendors. Marina Lomazov has recently been of Kentucky and Ohio, Bowling Green State University, by the National Association for Music Education. named Ira McKissick Koger Professor Blue Lake Summer Arts Festival (Michigan), Piccolo Research assistant professor Fang of Fine Arts. She has made two recent Spoleto Festival and annual Joseph Pramberger Memorial Larry Wyatt, professor and director Man’s new work, “Dream of a Hundred tours of China with performances in Concert in Savannah, Ga., among others. With his wife, of choral studies, served as guest Flowers,” was performed at Carnegie Shanghai, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Dalian Marina Lomazov, the Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo was conductor of the Gwacheon City Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, conducted by and Yingkou and is returning for a accepted to the roster of Altman Artists for exclusive artist Women’s Choir in Seoul, South Korea, D.M.A. conducting candidate Nové third tour in summer 2012. She has also representation in the United States. in April. Deypalan. recently performed several times on the Keys To The Future concert series in New York City, Series founder and artistic director John Fitz Rogers about which Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times “passed the baton” for the popular Southern Exposure New

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USC’s featured scholars of the month honors collaborations and secondary instruments. Music Hall (West Columbia, S.C.). Stuart’s work can be outstanding scholars from across the university’s Welcome to the Following 11 years at Duquesne University, Cutler is heard on such labels as Edition Wandelweiser, Gravity diverse schools, colleges and campuses. These School School of Music delighted to begin this new chapter of life as the director of Wave, Cathnor, Engraved Glass and Presqu’île. of Music faculty members were featured: James music entrepreneurship at the University of South Carolina. Phillip Bush’s multifaceted career as Ackley, Daniel Jenkins, Rebecca Phillips, Bradley Michael Harley, teacher, performer and music advocate, soloist, chamber musician, ambassador Edwards, Gail Barnes and Cli ord Leaman. Ellen Exner, joining us this fall as assistant professor of joined the School of Music as clinical assistant professor for new music and teacher has taken musicology, received her Ph.D. in historical musicology of bassoon and music literature. He teaches bassoon and him to many corners of the globe. He Sixteen string students and the entire USC Cello Choir from Harvard University in 2010. Her scholarship focuses chamber music, music history and theory and is the new made his New York recital debut in 1984 attended the American String Teachers Association on 18th-century German music, particularly that produced artistic director of the award-winning Southern Exposure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Conference, and many of our faculty presented or by the Bach family and musicians working in Berlin during New Music Series. Past teaching positions include posts has since made recital appearances performed. Gail Barnes presented “The Triumphant the reign of Frederick II (“The Great”) of Prussia. Current at Ohio University, Wright State University and Goshen on several continents and concerto Trio” with Meredith Miller, Greg Barnes, Margaret projects include an edition of C.P.E. Bach’s “Passion College. His performances have been called “spectacular” appearances with the London Sinfonietta at Carnegie Hall, Selby, Chris Selby and Stacy Wiley. “Rehearsing a According to St. Luke” (1779), commissioned by the Packard (Washington Post) and “exquisite” (Columbus Dispatch). the Osaka Century Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Jazz String Ensemble” and “Eclectic Strings Reading Humanities Institute for the C.P.E. Bach “Complete Works A proponent of contemporary music, Harley is a founding and the Cincinnati Symphony, among others. Bush has Session” were presented by Bert Ligon. “Fourth Edition,” and an article on Carl Friedrich member of the acclaimed Alarm Will Sound, called “one of performed and recorded with the Chamber Music Society of Finger First: A Comprehensive Left Hand Technique Zelter and the music of his past. the most vital and original ensembles on Lincoln Center and appears at many chamber music festivals From The Beginning and What To Do If You Didn’t While at Harvard, Exner received the American musical scene” (The New worldwide. Between 1991 and 1999 he performed more than Start This Way” was presented by Connie Gee and prestigious research fellowships York Times). 250 concerts in Japan with the piano quartet “Typhoon” and Sandy Goldie. “Music for Guitar and Double Bass from from the Minda de Gunzberg Center He has degrees from the Eastman recorded fi ve CD’s with the group for Epic/Sony, all of which Baroque to Jazz” was presented by Craig Butterfi eld for European Studies as well as the School of Music (D.M.A.), where he was reached the top of the Japanese classical charts. and Bert Ligon. “The Etude Project —From Kayser Radcliff e Institute for Advanced awarded the Performer’s Certifi cate, For more than 20 years Bush toured internationally to Paganini: An Essential Survey of Intermediate to Study. The quality of her teaching the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of with the ensembles of composers Steve Reich and Philip Advanced Violin Etudes and Caprices and How to Use was also recognized twice with awards for excellence in Music (M.M.) and Goshen College (B.A., Glass, and in 2007 he was named artistic director of the Them for Maximum Pedagogical Eff ectiveness” was undergraduate education from Harvard’s Derek Bok English and music). His teachers include John Hunt, William Bennington Chamber Music Conference in Vermont. Bush is presented by William Terwilliger, and Robert Jesselson Center for Teaching and Learning. Winstead and Gwendolyn Rose. He lives in Columbia, S.C., a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied presented “Kinesthetics and Calisthenics for Cellists An avid oboist, Exner has recently added two new with his wife, fl utist Jennifer Parker-Harley, and daughters with Leon Fleisher. He has previously served on the faculties and Other String Players” and “Building The Cello Choir historical reproductions to her collection: a copy of an Ella and Lucia. of the University of Michigan and the University of North Repertoire: Original Compositions for Cello Ensemble Eichentopf baroque oboe original to J.S. Bach’s Leipzig Carolina. He joins the USC School of Music as research featuring the USC Cello Choir.” and an early classic period Grundmann oboe copied from Birgitta Johnson joins us in August 2012 as assistant associate professor of chamber music, contemporary music, a Dresden maker (both by modern maker Sand Dalton). professor of ethnomusicology. She received her Bachelor piano and music literature. The 2011 National Flute Association Conference These instruments join a Saxon model oboe by Stephen of Arts in Music from Agnes Scott College, where she included a special memorial to honor former professor Hammer and Joel Robinson and a very lonely modern oboe played piano, violin (principal second) and Ghanaian David Cutler joins us this fall as associate of fl ute Constance Grambling Lane (1946-2010). Lane by Laubin. drums. Johnson received her master’s and doctoral degrees professor of music entrepreneurship. taught at USC for more than 35 years, and her former in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Cutler (www.trunkmusic.org) balances students teach and perform across the United States. Gregory Stuart joins us as clinical assistant professor of Los Angeles, where she conducted research in African- a varied career as a jazz and classical Gordon (Dick) Goodwin, distinguished professor music literature and contemporary music. A percussionist American and African music and Afro-Cuban folkloric composer, pianist, educator, arranger, emeritus, performed an arrangement of “Here’s That from St. Paul, Minn., his work explores various alternative drumming and dance. Johnson has served as a lecturer at conductor, collaborator, concert Rainy Day,” Lane‘s favorite song. Charles Fugo, Lane’s percussion techniques, including sustained friction, gravity- UCLA, Pomona College, Pitzer College and Scripps College producer, author, blogger, consultant, former accompanist, and Winifred Goodwin, staœ based sounds via small grains, sympathetic vibration and and a postdoctoral fellow in ethnomusicology at Syracuse speaker, advocate and entrepreneur. In all these pursuits he accompanist, were the pianists; Sta Sergeant Brandie electronic instruments. Since 2006 Stuart has collaborated University, teaching courses in African- works to push boundaries while building upon traditions and Lane, Lane’s daughter, was the vibraphone player. The extensively with composer Michael Pisaro producing a large American sacred music, African music, connecting with audiences. concert was a truly touching homage to a wonderful body of new music for percussion composed of pieces the blues, hip-hop and world music. She His book, “The Savvy Musician: Building a Career, Earning teacher and fl utist. that focus on the magnifi cation of small sounds through has authored articles in the Black Music a Living, & Making a Diff erence” (www.savvymusician.com), recording and layering (“An unrhymed Chord,” “A wave and Research Journal, Ethnomusicology was heralded by Jeff rey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet as School of Music Announces waves,” “Ricefall (2),” “July Mountain” Forum and Ethnomusicology Review “Hands down, the most valuable resource available for Tenure and Promotion and the “Hearing Metal” series). He and contributed entries to the Grove aspiring musicians.” A leading voice on arts careers and Joseph Rackers was awarded has performed at many festivals and Dictionary of American Music, 2nd entrepreneurship, he travels worldwide to deliver interactive tenure and promoted to associate venues, including MaerzMusik (Berlin), Edition (2013). Her research and teaching interests include workshops. professor. He was also named co- the Amplify Festival (N.Y.C.), Gallery music and worship in African-American churches, musical Cutler’s eclectic compositional output ranges from director of the Southeastern Piano Kapleica (Ljubljana), the Elastic Arts change and identity in Black popular music, music in beautiful lyricism to rhythmic sophistication and bizarre Festival. Foundation (Chicago), the New Music African-American megachurches, sacred music in the juxtapositions. He stretches what it means to be a pianist, Co-Op (Austin), the Philadelphia Sound African diaspora and community archiving. regularly incorporating multiple styles, improvisation, Forum, Sushi Performance and Visual Art (San Diego), the humor, choreography, technology, costuming, unique MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis) and Conundrum

14 University of South Carolina School of Music 15 Jesse Jones, joining us in 2013-14 as assistant professor of composition and So long, but not goodbye! Alumni Activities Thirty-nine years — wow! After theory, began his musical education at 1970-1979 performances can be seen Christopher Teves, 1988 Wendy Cohen, 1995 nearly four decades of service to the his mother’s knee. Studying the piano on YouTube. His M.M. thesis, B.M. guitar performance, B.M., is principal fl utist USC School of Music, Sam Douglas Cherisse Miller, 1975 B.A., from an early age, Jones won many “A Composer’s Manual is currently serving on with the South Carolina is retiring. It’s hard to believe. Sam 2005 M.M., 2009 D.M.A. awards and competitions in his youth. for the Classical Guitar,” is the faculty of Charleston Philharmonic in Columbia has always been here. As an applied piano pedagogy, had her After breaking his arm at the age of 17, available through WorldCat Southern University. and the Augusta Symphony bass and composition teacher, book, “Making Music with Jones’ career took a jagged detour that Interlibrary Loan. This past concert season Orchestra in Georgia. and in the theory classroom, he a Hearing Loss: Strategies eventually led him to composition. Jones studied at Eastern he performed Joaquin She holds degrees from has shaped the lives of countless students. When he and Stories,” published by Oregon University (B.M.) and the University of Oregon Jeanette Wood Guinn, 1982 Rodrigo’s “Concierto the University of South wasn’t busy composing, writing canons for special the Association of Adult (M.M.) and will soon be receiving his D.M.A. from Cornell B.M., 1984 Master of Media de Aranjuez” with the Carolina and the University occasions like Dick Goodwin’s last “theory lunch” or Musicians with Hearing University with a dissertation on microtonal theory. Jones has Arts, visiting professor Summerville Symphony of Cincinnati College- researching the more esoteric aspects of Latin, he Loss. received numerous awards and honors, including the Charles in the arts management Orchestra. He also appeared Conservatory of Music. was working with his students. Always willing to take Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and program at the College with Chamber Music another student, take another gig or teach another Letters, a Barlow Commission, the Heckscher Foundation 1980-1989 of Charleston, was named Charleston in Hilton Head, Sandy Goldie, 1994 class, Sam, above all, is generous with his time and Prize in Composition, a publishing contract from Earthsongs Outstanding Faculty of the Edisto and Daniel Island. B.M., currently a Ph.D. talent. One of my favorite things about him is the way McGregor Boyle, 1981 Publishing and fellowships to the Aspen and Tanglewood Year for the School of the Last summer he performed student at the University he replies in the superlative when I ask him how he is B.M. composition, music festivals. Most recently Jones has been awarded the Arts. a solo recital at the of Florida, presented a doing: “Fantastic!” “Unbelievable!” This was even the performance certifi cate Elliott Carter Rome Prize from the American Academy in Tennessee State University session, “Fourth Finger case after knee surgery, when I found him lugging his guitar, is currently teaching Rome, an honor that will take him to Italy for the 2012-13 Brian Harris, 1981 B.A. Classical Guitar Seminar in First: A Comprehensive bass to an evening gig after a full day of teaching. I also computer music at the academic year. music, was ordained a rabbi Nashville, Tenn. Left Hand Technique from appreciate his eternal optimism and sense of humor. I Peabody Conservatory and invested a cantor by the Beginning and What recall when I fi rst arrived in 1991, he took me down to of Music. In November Lisa Smith replaces Sara Beardsley, the Rabbinical Seminary To Do If You Didn’t Start tour the old electronic studio that I was soon to inherit. his composition “Midway who is retiring in August 2012. She has International. He also holds 1990-1999 This Way,” at both the It was located in a small room in the basement of our Inlet” for clarinet and a vocal degree from Columbia College a Master of Sacred Music, James Buckland, 1998 2012 South Carolina Music old music building (McMaster) right next to the String computer was performed and comes to the School of Music from a Master of Divinity and a D.M.A. guitar performance, Educators Association Project. After fi ddling with his keys for a while, Sam at the 3rd Practice Festival the USC School of Medicine. She joins Doctor of Divinity, honoris recently completed a Conference and with opened the door to reveal a room overfl owing with in Richmond, Va. His the staœ as administrative assistant for causa, from Yeshivat tour of Alaska performing Constance Gee at the 2012 wires, empty boxes, and analog equipment that no composition “Windfall Opera at USC and Choral Studies. Nachalei Emunah. He several concerts, lecture- American String Teachers longer worked. He slowly turned to me and said with II: Days of August,” for resides with his wife, Cantor recitals and master Association National a wry smile, “There it is!” We wish Sam, Judy and their fl ute and computer, was Teah Weiss joined us as development Kim Harris, in Chicago. classes on 19th-century Conference. She is also lovely family all the best in Sam’s retirement. performed at the 2012 director in August. She comes to performance practice. currently a teacher at the — Reg Bain SEAMUS Conference in the School of Music after serving as , 1981 B.M.E., Performed works included a University of Florida School Appleton, Wisc., by his wife, Steven Moore development director for the USC has published a book, “Play lost concerto for terz guitar of Music. is not calling it Kelly Boyle, 1982 B.S. music College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to Sara Beardsley It From the Heart: What You and orchestra by Mauro “retirement” but rather “relocation.” education. coming to South Carolina, she was the Learn From Music About Giuliani reconstructed Walter Graham, 1999 B.M. After 10 years at the School of director of development for the School Success in Life.” The book by James Buckland and music education emphasis, Music as administrative assistant Wayne Dooley, 1980 M.M. of Music, the School of the Arts and the uses stories and concepts a double concerto by M.M. choral conducting in for choral and opera, Sara plans to music theory and guitar, Lied Center at the University of Kansas. She holds a B.A. from music education as Luigi Legnani and Joseph progress, has completed spend a lot more time practicing was assistant professor at from Georgia Southern University, where she majored in models for success, relating Leidesdorf for terz guitar, fi ve years as choral director organ than she’s been able to in the Shenandoah Conservatory French and German and minored in theatre. what he and his students piano and orchestra, at Crayton Middle School past 20 years. Sara will continue to from 1982 to 1987 and have learned about performed with Karen in Columbia, S.C., and has play at Lake Murray Presbyterian Church every week, James Madison University Ellen Woodo joined the School of excellence, leadership, Buckland, 1997 D.M.A. piano accepted the position of and she’ll also be making daily visits to Saluda Shoals from 1987 to 1988. He is Music staff in March as content and responsibility, cooperation pedagogy. Buckland has director of choral activities Barking Lot with her two young Labs. Trips to Utah and currently arranging and media writer/editor, a new position. and passion. Moore has also been active as a luthier, at Dreher High School in Scotland are also on her agenda. We wish her many performing guitar in south Her experience includes more than 20 been inducted into the constructing instruments Columbia, S.C., beginning happy adventures during her “relocation!” Florida. Last summer years in marketing communications for American Bandmasters for numerous performers summer 2012. he arranged and played arts and education institutions. She was Association and currently and university collections. guitar continuo on the most recently the director of marketing serves as chair of the He has published several , 1995 Corelli Concerto Grosso, Vivian Hamilton and communications for the Columbia department of music at articles on 19th-century D.M.A., performed at the Op. 9 with the New River Museum of Art and was previously the marketing manager at the University of Central guitar construction in Sanctuary Choir of First Orchestra under conductor Midlands Technical College. She has won numerous awards Missouri. American Lutherie for the Baptist Church in Greenville, Clark McAllister. Some for integrated communications, creativity and graphic design. Guild of American Luthiers. S.C. of his arrangements and She is a USC alumna, graduating with a B.F.A. in art studio with a concentration in visual communications.

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John Mayrose, 1998 B.M. Martha Shaw, 1999 Liana Valente, 1999 D.M.A., Karl Wohlwend, 1991 B.M. Richard E. Yaklich, event commemorated the Hannah Gruber Creviston, Dallas Opera; Mercedes in guitar performance, is D.M.A., performed at the continues her work as an guitar, performed repertoire 1996 D.M.A. orchestral Morrill Act and the founding 2005 M.M., 2008 M.M.E. “Carmen,” Glimmerglass currently an assistant American Choral Directors advocate of modern music, for the 17th-century conducting, is the associate of the National Academy of piano, recently released a Opera; and the world professor of music and Association Southern presenting at conferences 5-course or “baroque” professor of music, faculty Sciences and the leadership CD through Albany Records premiere of Tesori’s “A director of undergraduate Division convention in including those of the guitar and played in a senate president and and vision of President with SUNY Potsdam Blizzard on Marblehead studies in music at Indiana March in Winston-Salem, Society of Composers master class with early- director of assessment at Abraham Lincoln in a time colleague Christopher Neck.” She made her University South Bend, N.C., and with the Shorter Inc., Florida State Music music legend Hopkinson Florida Memorial University, of national crisis. Creviston, saxophone. Carnegie Hall debut where he teaches music Chorale from Shorter Teachers Association, Smith. He released his as well as music director “Snell Sessions” includes singing Spohr’s “Die theory, composition College in Rome, Ga. Florida Federation of third CD, featuring the 24 for the South Florida William Carswell, 2002 music by William Albright, letzten Dinge” and also and electronic music. Music Clubs and College passacaglias from Angelo Youth Symphony. Linus D.M.A. choral conducting, Sigfried Karg-Elert, Gabriel performed as Fanny in His composition “Faux Greg Shirer, 1990 M.M. Music Society and most Michele Bartolotti’s 1640 Publications published was presented with the Faure, Denis Bedard, Robert Mendelssohn’s “Musik Für Patterns” (2009) was guitar performance, is recently in Canada at the guitar book — the fi rst ever Yaklich’s book, “Music 2011 Excellence in Teaching Muczynski and SUNY die Toten der Cholera- released in May 2012 on associate professor of Phenomenon of Singing recording of this landmark Form Analysis & Historical Award by South Carolina Potsdam faculty composer Epidemie,” American pianist Michael Mizrahi’s music for the San Diego International Symposium, work in its entirety. In July Concepts.” He is currently Independent Colleges and David Heinick. Gruber Symphony Orchestra; Page CD “The Bright Motion” Community College district held in St. John’s, 2011 he performed with working on a book about Universities in recognition completed her sixth year in “Salome,” Washington on New Amsterdam and directs a thriving Newfoundland. Valente fl utist Kimberlee Goodman Russian composer Vasily of his accomplishments as assistant professor of National Opera; Meg Page Records. His new music private studio. He has just presented premieres of as the EOS Duo at the Kalinnikov. and commitment to keyboard at Crane School in “Falstaff ,” Utah Opera; group, pulsoptional, held completed proofreading vocal music composed by College Music Society’s excellence in collegiate of Music, Potsdam, N.Y. Maddalena alongside residencies at Indiana Pepe Romero’s new guitar Timothy Brown, Christine international conference teaching. The Coker In fall 2012 she will be Placido Domingo in University South Bend method book to be released Arens, William Vollinger and in Seoul, South Korea. The 2000-2009 Singers, under Carswell’s assistant professor of piano “Rigoletto,” Beijing’s and Aldephi University. He by Tuscany publications. Jason Lovelace throughout EOS Duo also presented a Wendy Hinson Adams, direction, performed pedagogy at Arizona State Reignwood Theatre; completed his composition This past summer he taught the United States. She holds lecture and performed at 2000 B.M., recently went “Gloria” by Francis Poulenc University in Tempe. Mademoiselle Dangeville “Bending Light” (2012), himself and Pepe to play teaching positions at Rollins the University of Cincinnati on tour with the Fayetteville with the South Carolina in “Adriana Lecouvreur,” commissioned by Andrew classical ukulele, continuing College in Winter Park, Fla., College-Conservatory of Symphony Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra Toby Scott Guinn, 2001 Washington Concert Opera; Mast and the Lawrence John King’s pioneering work and the Harrison School for Music’s summer guitar to Jordan, where they in February 2011. He has B.M., is assistant to the and Third Lady in “Die University Wind Ensemble, in the style. He has released the Arts in Lakeland, Fla., workshop, where Wohlwend performed with the Amman also been selected to executive director of the Zauberfl öte,” Baltimore which will premier at the several YouTube videos and has a private studio has been a faculty member Symphony, held children’s perform Beethoven’s Ninth Sarasota Opera and was Symphony Orchestra. 2013 College Band Directors and has arranged several in central Florida, where of the event since 1996. concerts, master classes Symphony in April 2012 program coordinator/ National Association pieces of music by J.S. Bach she lives with her husband, In October, he was the and lessons and worked with the Columbia Choral administrative assistant Ralph Hughes, 2002 D.M.A., National Conference at the and Antonio Vivaldi for the Michael Shook. featured soloist with with the Jordanian Army Society and the South at Chautauqua Opera last performed at the American University of North Carolina classical ukulele. He has also the Columbus Youth Band/Orchestra. She Carolina Philharmonic. He summer. He has performed Choral Directors Association Greensboro. released a classical guitar Scott Watkins, 1990 M.M., Symphony Orchestra, currently teaches orchestra has been appointed music with the New York City Western Division 2012 CD with music by J.S. Bach, recently returned from performing Joaquin in Cumberland County director and conductor of Opera, Sarasota Opera, convention in Reno, Nev. John Reams, 1998 B.M., Leo Brouwer and others. a concert tour of China, Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Schools in Fayetteville, N.C. the Masterworks Choir in El Paso Opera, Knoxville is currently a visiting where he performed Aranjuez,” with Peter Florence, S.C., following Opera, Opera Memphis, Rebecca Krysnski, 2009 professor of woodwinds at Matthew Smith, 1998 B.M. recitals, was soloist with Staff ord Wilson conducting. Rebecca Grausam Baker, William B. Mills, founder of Lyric Opera Cleveland, B.M. vocal performance, Hardin-Simmons University guitar performance, is the Lanzhou Symphony In February and March, 2005 D.M.A. piano the choir and music director Palmetto Opera, Pro Cantus has been awarded the in Abilene, Texas. He on the music faculty of Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s he performed baroque pedagogy, is featured in for the past 32 years. Lyric Opera, South Carolina prestigious Richard F. teaches clarinet, saxophone Newberry College, where fi rst piano concerto and guitar duets with Rodney the professional resources Philharmonic, Memphis Gold Career Grant, given and courses in music theory he instructs all of the guitar taught at Northern National Stucky at Christ Church column of the October/ Eunjung Choi, 2004 Symphony and Knoxville annually by the Shoshana along with the woodwind and bass guitar lessons University in Yinchuan. Cathedral in Cincinnati November American Music D.M.A. piano pedagogy, Symphony. Foundation to young, methods class. He and classes. He recently Prior to his China trip, he and at the University of Teacher magazine. Baker was appointed assistant emerging American opera previously was an adjunct formed a guitar duo with graduated from Florida Cincinnati’s Werner Recital was profi led for her success professor of piano at Clafl in Cynthia Hanna, 2006 singers. teacher at Armstrong fellow USC guitar alumnus State University, where he Hall. Wohlwend teaches in building a private studio University. M.M., was hailed by the Atlantic State University Jason Chance Glass, 2009 earned the doctor of music at Otterbein University in and her work teaching Washington Post as a Mark Laughlin, 2004 D.M.A. and was a member of the M.M., and they are currently degree. Watkins is currently Westerville, Ohio, where recreational music making. Mary Elizabeth Goodson, “bright, luminous mezzo- piano pedagogy and faculty Savannah Philharmonic recording their fi rst full assistant professor of piano he directs the classical 2009 B.M. music education, soprano of vast power member at Southwest and Hilton Head Symphony album. The duo premiered a at Jacksonville University and jazz guitar studies Ashley Briggs, 2009 B.M. graduated from Louisiana and potential.” Her Georgia State University, Orchestra. Reams lives in piece by Gabriel Monticello and was recently named and coaches jazz combos. voice performance, was State University in 2011 upcoming engagements has had an article accepted Abilene with his wife, Lisa, called “Bustelo” in their a Shigeru Kawai Artist by He also teaches at Ohio invited to sing the National with an M.M. in choral include Idamante in for publication in the and daughter Abigail. 2012 spring concerts. Smith Kawai Pianos. State University and is an Anthem on the steps of conducting and has “Idomeneo,” Florentine “American Music Teacher” continues to teach full time associate coach for the the Lincoln Memorial for a accepted a position as Opera; Emilia in “Otello,” and a book contract signed at his guitar studio near award-winning Chamber Library of Congress event associate choral director at Sarasota Opera; Alisa in with Scarecrow Press on the Irmo, S.C. Music Connection. in June. The wreath-laying Wando High School in Mt. “Lucia di Lammermoor,” music of Mario Castelnuovo- Pleasant, S.C. Tedesco.

18 University of South Carolina School of Music 19 Alumni Activities

Christopher Lee, 2001 Woods Mitchell Young Sonja Sepulveda, 2006 Linda Ste ey, 2008 M.M.E., Matthew” published in the Music Academy in Hong Susan Zhang, 2011 B.M. lessons, teaching beginning D.M.A. performance, 1992 Artist Competition. He D.M.A., presented “The 1990 B.M. music education, Choral Journal in August Kong, freelance performing piano performance, was dance classes and running M.M. performance, has teaches fl ute and clarinet, Spiritual as an American teaches music at Conder 2011. in Hong Kong and traveling accepted into the Eastman a photography studio with completed fi ve years as plays in musical theatre Art Form” at the American Elementary, where she has throughout Southeast Asia. School of Music with a her husband. music educator at Logan productions in the Chicago Choral Directors Association been named the 2012-13 Andy Akiho, 2001 B.M. graduate assistantship in Elementary and fi ve years area and has performed Southern Division Teacher of the Year. She performance, and the Brian Locke, 2011 B.M. class piano. Justin Isenhour, 2012 D.M.A. as music educator at Eau with the Illinois Symphony, convention in March in also recently facilitated Foundry Steel Pan piano performance, is performance, has accepted Claire High School. He has Chicago Children’s Choir Winston-Salem, N.C. and is the manager of an Ensemble performed working actively as a Jenny Hursey, B.M. music a position at Ouachita accepted the position of and for the department of arts in the basic curriculum “Alloy,” written by Akiho, pianist, vocal coach and education, currently teaches Baptist in Henderson, Ark. director of bands at Dreher music at Columbia College Ryan F. Smith, 2007 grant, a distinguished arts at Walt Disney Hall, organist in the Atlanta area private violin and viola High School in Columbia, and Judson College. In June M.M., 2011 D.M.A. piano program grant for her home of the Los Angeles and across the Southeast. S.C., beginning in summer 2011 he was accepted into performance, minor music school. Philharmonic. As an accompanist he 2012. the U.S. Air Force Band of history, is performing has premiered new works Mid-America near St. Louis across the Southeast, Cli ord Sutton, 2000 B.M. Craig Coehlo, 2012 B.M. by James Jensen (world Jun Matsuo, 2002 D.M.A. at Scott Air Force Base. most recently playing an percussion performance, music education, has premiere), Kenneth Frazelle Help Shape Our Future piano pedagogy, presented all-Liszt program at the was awarded a Fulbright accepted the position of (N.C. premiere) and Leon at the World Piano Wendy Pace, 2007 B.M. Columbia Museum of Art Scholarship to study the choral director at South Miodrag Lazarov Pashu Become a Friend Conference, Serbia. music education, recently in S.C. Smith’s interest in relationship between Aiken High School in South (U.S. premiere). Since Twenty years ago music lovers in the Columbia returned to the United Southern musicology fueled drumming and identity Aiken, S.C. August 2011, he has played community got together to show their support for the Michael F. Mayo, 2007 States from a two-year his doctoral document, associated with Afro- for the Atlanta Young B.M. music education, 2010 engagement in Karachi, “Buttitta’s Diggin’ the Uruguayan candombe in Percussionist Christopher Singers and members of continued growth and success of the USC School of M.M.E., is the orchestra Pakistan, where she taught Ring: Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Uruguay for his doctoral Davis, 2011 D.M.A., received the Atlanta Opera and Music. ey became the Friends of the School of Music. director at W.G. Sanders general music, pre-k Negro Songs of Protest, thesis from the University the most outstanding is a pianist at Kennesaw Now, for their 20th anniversary, they invite you to join Middle School, where he through grade 5, middle and the American Left.” of Miami’s Frost School of faculty member award at State and Georgia State them in providing music scholarships for our students. has been for the past fi ve school choir and beginning Smith rediscovered the Music. North Greenville University. Universities. He is on years, and is in his fi rst band at Karachi American unpublished opera libretto The university-wide award the music staff at the Friends provide approximately $30,000 for annual year at Columbia High School. “Diggin’ the Ring,” a spoof Stacy Wiley, 2008 B.M. is the school’s highest Cathedral of St. Philip and scholarship support, to encourage community School, where they earned of Wagner’s Ring cycle for music education, recently honor. was requested as a guest participation in musical events and to sponsor special an excellent rating at , 2009 D.M.A. an African-American cast, co-presented “The artist for their upcoming Jana Pop activities. Since the organization’s inception, it has Concert Festival for the piano pedagogy, was written by Tony Buttitta and Triumphant Trio” with Gail Jared Eastridge, 2011 concert series. He begins fi rst time in several years. named chairperson of the Lawrence Gellert. Smith’s Barnes, Greg Barnes, Chris B.M., is fi nishing the his M.M. in collaborative provided more than $450,000 to the School of Music. At W.G. Sanders Middle, music division of God’s research focused on the Selby, Margaret Selby fi rst year of his M.M. at piano with Martin Katz with Friends of the School of Music president Donna Rone he was awarded an arts in Bible College, in Cincinnati, libretto’s parody of Wagner, and Meredith Miller at Florida State in clarinet a graduate assistantship at said, “As the Friends celebrate their 20th anniversary, education grant from the Ohio. its use of Negro songs of the 2012 American String performance, studying with the University of Michigan it is fi tting to pay tribute to the late LeDare Robinson, S.C. Arts Commission for protest as its musical source Teachers Association Frank Kowalsky. Jessica in fall 2012. the purchase of several new Clay Price, 2009 D.M.A., has and the left-wing polemics National Conference. She is (Mazzeo) Eastridge, visionary founder. Since 1992 countless volunteers and instruments. been a visiting teacher at featured throughout this a member of the Carolina 2010 B.M., and Jared got Patrick Preacher, 2011 generous patrons have raised scholarship funds for gifted, Rio Grande College in Ohio unusual work. The Institute Quartet, maintains a private married last summer. She M.M. oboe performance, dedicated music students. ank you, LeDare! Your , 2006 D.M.A. and has accepted a three- of Southern Studies violin studio and teaches is the new band director published a cover article Deanna Moore dream thrives, enriching the musical heritage locally, piano performance, had an year appointment at SUNY awarded Smith the David 120 students at Conder at Hutto Middle School in in Double Reed magazine, article titled “Invention and Oswego. Ellison Fellowship for Elementary Arts Integrated Bainbridge, Ga. “Oboe Obsession: An regionally and beyond.” Illusion: The Piano Music Of Southern Studies for the Magnet School, where she Interview with Allan Vogel Funding for the Friends comes from the fall György Ligeti” published Julie Russell, 2009 B.M. project, the fi rst graduate has co-written grants and Olivia De Jesús, 2012 as He Celebrates His 40th membership drive and an annual winter fundraiser — in the April 2012 MTNA music education, recently music student to receive the spearheaded projects that M.M.E., begins a two-year Season as Solo Oboist of a seated dinner, auction of music off erings and faculty e-Journal. performed with the Music award. brought more than $25,000 elementary music teaching the Los Angeles Chamber City Baroque for Handel’s to the arts programs this engagement in August at Orchestra.” Patrick is music performance. Become a Friend by contacting Leslie Michael H. Morris, 2007 “Messiah” and Bach’s Tom Spackman, 2004 B.M. year. Dubai American Academy studying for his D.M.A. Wrenn at 803-576-5897 or [email protected]. B.M. clarinet performance, Mass in B minor. She is the music education, is enjoying in Dubai, United Arab in oboe at the University received a full fellowship children’s choir coordinator his third year in Amsterdam, Emirates. of Southern California, Friends scholarship to attend the Texas Music at The Covenant School, Netherlands, where he 2010-2012 studying with Larry Timm, recipient, Briana Leaman Festival, studying with where she also teaches teaches early childhood Jennifer Adam, 2010 D.M.A., Monica Johnston, 2010 David Weiss and Allan with Alex Klein, conductor at the Domaine Forget Randal Griffi n and Donald violin lessons and created music education classes at had “William Averitt’s B.M. music education, is Vogel. International Music and Peck in 2009, and was a two-week Summer Music The American School of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus teaching Suzuki violin and Dance Academy. a fi nalist in the Cynthia Enrichment Academy Hague. Christ According to St. viola at KinderU Suzuki beginning this year.

20 University of South Carolina School of Music 21 Development Report

We sincerely thank the following Mr. and Mrs. William J. Keenan II Dr. and Mrs. Jack H. Gottlieb School of Music Development Report 2012 Mr. George M. Knebel Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John Griz donors for contributions made to the Mr. Thomas F. Law Mrs. Virginia M. Grose Dr. Marina Lomazov and Dr. Dr. Jeff rey G. Gross Welcome, alumni and donors, to the University of South Southeastern Piano Festival celebrated 10 years, and two School of Music between July 1, 2011, Joseph P. Rackers Mr. Edward I. Hagen Carolina School of Music. Your dedication helped make permanent endowments support it: the Marian Stanley and June 15, 2012. Mr. Clyde Taft McCants Hamilton McKinney & Moss Morning Music Club Mrs. Alix D. Hay 2012 a very successful fundraising year with more than Tucker fund and the Southeastern Piano Festival fund. A Music Academy Success LLC IBM Corporation Matching Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Nelson Grants Program Dr. Ann E. Ruderman and Dr. $1,364,000 raised from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. donor issued a challenge grant in June and will match any Benefactor Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. John Kososki William Richard Keane $10,000 and above The Palmetto Mastersingers Mr. and Mrs. David T. Krysiek A special thank you goes to the 1,221 patrons who made increased donation or new donor’s contribution to the Ms. Dorothy J. Kirk Mrs. Eleanor C. Pope Mr. David L. Kulbersh Anonymous (3) Ms. Elizabeth L. Knoth a fi nancial gift to the school — your support helps make festival, up to $20,000. Mrs. Lucille M. Putnam Mrs. Janis K. Leaphart Darden Trust Mrs. Shirley M. Knox Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Rone Jr. Ms. Martha M. Lever Mr. and Mrs. Gene Septura Mr. and Mrs. George Q. dreams come true for our students and faculty. Carolina’s e school received two bequests from music alumni for Mr. and Mrs. Hyman S. Rubin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Lightsey III Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Kahn Langstaœ Jr. Mr. J. Banks Scarborough Mr. Kenneth W. May Promise, the university’s capital campaign announced this program enhancements. Catherine Glen Forbes and her Mr. Matthew M. McCord Mrs. Caryn R. Lawler Ms. Ellen Douglas Schlaefer Ms. Katherine O. McCoy Dr. Nicholas K. Moore Mr. David A. Lawson year, set the School of Music’s goal at $10 million. I am husband made a new estate gift, and longtime Friends of the Sigma Alpha Iota Ms. Mary Ann McElmurray Rice Music House Mr. Richard C. Litwin Mrs. Harriett Dickert Smith Mrs. Roberta K. McKeever South Carolina Council Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. McElyea pleased to announce that the school has raised almost $5 School of Music board member Jacquelyn M. McNeill made Mr. and Mrs. Farren H. Smith Mike Arnold Real Estate On The Holocaust The Rev. G. Scott Middleton Dr. Tina M. Stallard and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Vaughn million toward our goal. a new estate gift. Mr. Omer Roland Morin Dr. David Stallard Minchey Dr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Niestat e capital campaign is divided into four areas: Welcome new band donors! e band program has Sponsor Dr. and Mrs. Les Sternberg Mr. Daniel Allen Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Jyotindra M. Parekh $5,000-$9,999 Ms. Annemarie O. Theilen Dr. Sun-Joo Oh Dr. Luise E. Peake-Dickerman received well-earned congratulations and support from Dr. Suzanne R. Thorpe and Dr. Mr. Alex H. Raley Carolina Coquettes Dance Team The Presser Foundation Student Support: Scholarships and Fellowships John W. Baynes Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Rawl Marching Band alumni and Gamecock athletics supporters. Central Carolina Community Dr. David M. Schweiger Mr. Robert L. Van Doren Dr. and Mrs. S. Hunter Rentz Sr. Foundation Ms. Elizabeth H. Simmons e majority of graduate and undergraduate music students Ms. Laury Christie and Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Reyner Ms. Catherine Glen Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Smith Capital Mr. David B. Vaughan Ms. Judy A. Rhodes receive fi nancial assistance to attend the university, and and Mr. Pitsch Karrer South Arts Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Wallace Mrs. Amy H. Robichaud Mr. Irwin H. From Stern & Stern and Associates Ms. Frances M. Webb Dr. Steven J. Rosansky donors supporting the School of Music give to more than e capital fundraising for the School of Music centers on Mr. and Mrs. Mano Solinski Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Whitfi eld Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weymouth Mr. Peter L. Samulski Symphony League Tucker 100 accounts established at USC’s Educational Foundation. the need for a new mid-size performance hall and opera Dr. and Mrs. Leland H. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Schar Mr. Samuel J. Tenenbaum United Way of the Midlands Mr. Mark R. Seeley is year, two new funds were established in addition to hall. e new Moore School building will have a 500-seat Ms. Audrey B. Trujillano Dr. Susie H. VanHuss and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Silver Mr. and Mrs. James A. Weiss Patrick VanHuss Sustainer Dr. and Mrs. Selden K. Smith existing scholarships: the newly named William J. Moody hall that will be used for concerts beginning in 2014. e Mr. and Mrs. Tobin N. Watt $250-$499 Dr. Jack Monroe Smith Ms. A. Robin Williams fund, in honor of the director emeritus, and the new fundraising initiative for an opera hall will continue to Patron Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Abrams Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Colin M. Stewart Mrs. Barbara M. Williams $1,000-$4,999 Mr. William R. Armstrong Sr. Mr. Jack B. Swerling International Travel fund, established by an anonymous receive attention. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Wilson Anonymous (4) Mr. Lloyd B. Thompkins Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Ackerman Dr. Susan C. Wyatt and Dr. Larry Mrs. Laura H. Back Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Thompson donor from Hilton Head, S.C. is fund assists School Adair Piano D. Wyatt Professor John K. Adams Bank of America Dr. and Mrs. James W. Warren Jr. of Music students who travel to festivals and competitions ank you again for your support. Your gifts make a Mr. Daniel M. Birdsong Ms. Nancy H. Washington Anonymous (2) Associate and was established through the Community Foundation diff erence at the School of Music. AT&T Mr. and Mrs. Boyd C. Black Dr. Sharon W. Webb Bank of America Charitable Gift $500-$999 Mr. James P. Buschur Dean and Mrs. Robert M. Wilcox Ms. D. Elaine Camp Mr. and Mrs. E. Jacob Will Jr. of the Lowcountry. Fund Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ackerman Mr. William Carswell Dr. Harriet G. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strauch Dr. Helmut Albrecht is year marks the 20th anniversary of the Friends of the Ms. Julie B. Carter Mr. and Mrs. Eddie M. Williams Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Chase Anonymous Mr. Dyung Byung Suk Causby Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Wrenn School of Music. e organization has provided more than Columbia Jewish Federation Mrs. Charlotte Lunsford Berry Mrs. Christina L. Clark Ms. Diane N. Yelich Community Foundation of the Mr. Edwin H. Betsill Mr. and Mrs. Armond P. $450,000 for student scholarships over the past 20 years. Leslie Wrenn Lowcountry Dr. Ruta K. Bly and Compton Jr. Mr. Kenneth M. Corbett Dr. Robert S. Bly Donor e School of Music also received a new $1 million estate Director of Annual Fund Dr. and Mrs. G. Britt Cooper Ms. Betty-Ann Darby Mr. Christopher J. Buck Mr. and Mrs. James P. Covington Jr. $100-$249 gift in June for graduate fellowships and assistantships to and Donor Relations Mrs. Barbara B. Darden Mr. and Mrs. Alan Conway Dr. Christine W. Curtis Mr. and Mrs. John Eldon Adair Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Day Mr. James K. Copenhaver Dr. and Mrs. Keith E. Davis Dr. Michael D. Amiridis assist in recruiting students from key music schools. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Dickson Jr. Coverage Unlimited LTD Mr. and Mrs. Robin H. Dial Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Anderson Jr. Ms. Harriott H. Faucette Cultural Council of Richland/ Mr. and Mrs. Gene Dinkins Ms. K. Jackson Anderson Mr. Bruce D. Filler Lexington Co. Faculty Support Mr. William H. Duncan Dr. Mary C. Anderson First Presbyterian Church The Cycle Center Mr. and Mrs. Van E. Edwards III Mrs. Ann Arrington Mr. Charles L. Fugo Dr. Emmanuel Farber A key area for the capital campaign is funding to support Many companies have Mrs. Kimberly H. Elliott Dr. Joan P. Assey and Mr. James Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Gimarc Mr. Gerald D. Floyd Ernst & Young Foundation M. Assey matching gift programs Col. and Mrs. Richard F.B. Gimmi The Honorable Robert W. faculty at the school. Several funds are established for Mr. and Mrs. M. Truman Fallaw Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Aull Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Monahan Foster Sr. that increase your personal Ms. Donna C. Fanning Dr. Meira Maxine Warshauer and this purpose. Dr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Gowan Mrs. Karen H. Gentry Ms. Janet O. Ferguson Dr. Samuel L. Baker contribution whether you’re a Mr. and Mrs. James S. Guignard Dr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Fetner III Mr. James P. Barefi eld Dr. and Mrs. C. Tayloe Harding Jr. Dr. Thaddeus Grabowy Program Enhancements Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Foster Dr. Drucilla K. Barker current employee or a retiree. Mr. Charles R. Herald Dr. Donald N. Gray Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gatch Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Barna Jr. Dr. William F. Hogue Mr. Allen S. Guignard Please make the school aware Mrs. Bonnie S. Goldberg Ms. Keller H. Barron More than $200,000 was donated to the many programs Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Hoppmann Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Helman Golden K. Kiwanis Club of Professor Sarah C. Baxter off ered by the school this year. All music ensembles and of potential matching gifts Mrs. Ilse M. Jesselson Ms. Jennifer Jablonski when you make a donation. Columbia Dr. Robert L. Beamer community programs received generous donations. e

22 University of South Carolina School of Music 23 Donors to the School of Music

Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Beazley Mr. James W. Burton Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrell Crawford Mrs. Nancy G. Epting Ms. Robyn Gibson Dr. Morgan D. MacLachlan Dr. and Mrs. Lance E. Paulman Mr. and Mrs. Minot Earl Stanton III Mr. David A. Belinkie Mr. Michael E. Castro Mr. and Mrs. David Cutler Mr. John T. Ervin Mrs. Rebecca L. Gough Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. MacNett Ms. Sharon Phipps Dr. Yi Sun and Mr. Man Fang Dr. Steven N. Blair Mr. and Mrs. David Chiarella Ms. Patricia Spratling Czerny Ms. Marya J. Fancey Mr. Philip G. Grose Jr. Rabbi Marcus and Mrs. Marcus Dr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Platt The Susan and Jack Graybill Ms. Barbara W. Blau Mr. Louis A. Clary Mr. Gilbert G. Darr Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Felix Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hagan Dr. Carolyn Matalene and Dr. Chris P. Plyler Family Fund Mr. David T. Boucher Dr. Sue Ellen Cluxton Mrs. Jean E. Davis Mr. James Francis Flanagan Mr. Stephen Hait Dr. Henry Matalene Mrs. Sandra Altman Poliakoff Dr. and Mrs. Clifton D. Taylor Jr. Mrs. Laura Brouse-Long Mrs. Lynn Collins Dr. and Mrs. John M. Dean Ms. Dorothy E. Foreman Mr. Robert W. Hawkins Mr. Mark J. Mayson Ms. Gloria McK. Prevost Mr. Robert K. Taylor III Ms. Ethel T. Brown Columbia Music Teachers Mrs. Corrine E. Dial Dr. Antonia M. Forsthoefel and Mrs. Alexandra L. Henson Mr. Howard McAdory Mrs. Gloria H. Rahiser Mr. Marion E. Thomas Mrs. Margaret J. Brown Association Mrs. Jean S. Doster Dr. Frank E. Forsthoefel Dr. David Scott Herring Ms. Nancy C. McCormick Ms. Thelma Rast Dr. Nancy S. Thompson Mrs. Leslie G. Brunelli Congaree Holdings and Mr. Steven C. Doudoukjian Ms. Sarah Crawford Fox Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Hevener Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest P. McCutcheon Mrs. Margaret R. Rembert Ms. Christy A. Tinnes Mr. Vincent Van Brunt Development Group LLC Mr. Arthur R. Doughty Jr. Dr. Benjamin Franklin V Mrs. Margaret H. Hoff meyer Ms. DeAnne K. Messias Mr. Gerald D. Richey Ms. Alison L. Tisaranni Dr. Harold Brunton Dr. and Dr. Melvin D. Cooksey Mrs. Frances Dudley Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Frederick Jr. Dr. Marianne Holland Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Miller Mr. Joe Bryan Robertson UBS Foundation Mr. William W. Burge Ms. Jeanne A. Coonan Ms. Marilyn J. Edelhoch Ms. Sara B. Freeman Mrs. Bonnie P. Horn Dr. Thomas E. Moncrief Mr. and Mrs. Stewart H. Rodman Dr. Vincent Van Brunt Ms. Barbara W. Hotchkiss Mr. Paul Moore Ms. Kristin D. Rollin Washington Street United Mr. Thomas W. Howell Dr. John E. Morales Ms. Jean J. Rosenkrans Methodist Church Mr. James Richard Huddelson Mr. Fred D. Morillo Sr. Dr. Ralph E. Rynes Dr. James H. Weston Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Jablonski Mr. Clyde P. Morin Mrs. Carol C. Saunders Mr. Wallace E. Whitworth Jr. Ms. Sonia Jacobsen Dr. Gail L. Morrison and Mr. Stephen T. Savitz Mrs. Gertrude J. Williams Dr. Alice Bee Kasakoff Mr. Stephen G. Morrison Mr. Leslie J. Shayne Dr. Robert W. Williams Mrs. Jeanette L. Kimbrough Mrs. Anita K. Murphy Mrs. Lucinda E. Shields Dr. and Mrs. Gene O. Wilson Jr. Mr. Peter D. Korn Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Musgrave Dr. Susan and Mr. John Shimp Ms. Ellen Y. Woodoff Mr. Ronald C. Kuebler, CCC-SLP Musical Innovations Mrs. Betty A. Shofner Dr. Sherry M. Woods and Dr. ABDA Ms. Sara Najjar-Wilson Ms. M. Alicia Sikes Benjamin Woods Keeping the music Mr. Zachary LaVoy Mrs. Katherine W. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. John A. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wrenn Mrs. Fredna T. Lee Mrs. Leigh G. Norton Ms. Jenifer A. Slater Ms. Marjorie S. Wright Dr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Lewis Mr. Dennis G. O’Connor Dr. Randolph D. Smoak Jr. York Comprehensive High School playing for many Mr. James G. Lindley Mrs. Anne Olving Dr. Ruth D. Snow Activity Fund The Honorable Joel B. Lourie Mr. and Mrs. James K. Owens Mr. Rusty Sox Mr. Roland C. Young Mr. Neal M. Lourie Ms. Cornelia S. Pasky Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott Sparks Mr. Zlatko Zografski years … Mrs. Carolyn Flesher MacDonald Ms. Paula S. Pattison Ms. Nancy J. Spencer

im Copenhaver directed the USC Marching Band for much of his long Jcareer at USC, inspiring thousands of students and entertaining hundreds of thousands of Carolina fans. As if that were not enough of a high note for a career that spanned 34 years, Copenhaver has made a $1 million bequest School of Music receives largest gift in its history to endow scholarships for USC band students. School of Music Dean Tayloe Harding calls the gift “transformative.” Copenhaver gift endows scholarships for band students Copenhaver thinks of it as paying a debt of gratitude. e man who dedicated his life to the Mighty Sound of Copenhaver estimates that he has taught in excess of 5,000 “I owe thanks to the many talented and dedicated band students through the Southeast pledged $1 million to fund scholarships for USC students, not counting those high school students who the years who enabled a university band program to be established and band students. James K. Copenhaver’s transformative gift have come through clinics and other outreach programs maintained at USC,” Copenhaver said. “Additional scholarship funding is will generate about $50,000 for four scholarships each year sponsored by the university. He is also credited with starting needed to assure that students will continue to give service to the university awarded based on need, musicianship and academic success. the February USC Band Clinic, which attracts 400 to 500 through band participation.” e gift will go into a fund named for him, which he students a year and which Copenhaver himself describes as a Explore the many types of deferred giving options that allow you to estimated already contains about $75,000 in donations from “lifeline feeder for the School of Music.” designate the purpose of your gift. Go to www.sc.planyourlegacy.org. other music school alumni. Dean Tayloe Harding said it is the music community of Directing USC’s bands for more than 30 years from 1976 South Carolina that now owes Copenhaver a debt. e dean to 2010, Copenhaver said the music program at USC was estimated that close to half of the band directors in the state central to his life, and he hopes the scholarship endowment were taught by Copenhaver. Many thousands more have rich will pave the way for the future of the band and the music memories of honing their musical craft and marching with school. His pledge will cover 10 percent of the School of their band mates onto the fi eld at Williams-Brice Stadium to Music’s target fundraising goal of $10 million and take USC perform at halftime of football games. one step closer to its goal of raising $1 billion by 2015.

Eleanor Foster Swarat, Esq. Mark R. Seeley Lindsay Carter-Tidwell, Esq. Become a member of the Carolina Guardian Executive Director of Gift Director of Gift Planning Director of Gift Planning Society. Visit www.sc.planyourlegacy.org, or Planning and Legal Liaison write: Gift Planning, University Development to University Foundations 803-777-2569 803-777-4092 Office, University of South Carolina, [email protected] [email protected] Columbia, S.C. 29208. 803-777-3300 Phone: 803-777-4196, Fax: 803-777-9708 [email protected] School of Music 25 Concert Calendar

2012-2013 USC Symphony Orchestra Jazz Ensembles www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra Concerts are FREE. School of Music Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Maestro Donald Portnoy directs the USC Symphony Orchestra. Bert Ligon is the director of jazz studies. Concert Season Koger Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. The Left Bank Big Band and Carolina Alive are directed by Kevin Jones. Season tickets available; 803-251-2222 or capitoltickets.com Jazz Combos are directed by Craig Butterfi eld. Events are subject to Sept. 20, 2012 — David Kim, guest artist, violin; Brahms and Bruch change. Please check Oct. 10, 2012 — Jazz Combos Recital Oct. 16, 2012 — Alexander Fiterstein, guest artist, clarinet; Nielsen, www.music.sc.edu for Nov. 1, 2012 — Left Bank Big Band Copland, Chabrier up-to-date information. Nov. 14, 2012 — Carolina Alive Nov. 13, 2012 — Marina Lomazov, piano; Beethoven, Strauss, Grieg Nov. 29, 2012 — Jazz Combos Recital Jan. 27, 2012 — USC Concerto-Aria Competition winners; Wagner April 17, 2013 — Carolina Alive Feb. 12, 2012 — Tina Milhorn Stallard, Janet Hopkins, Walter Cuttino, Jacob Will and chorus; An Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein Classics; original Broadway April 18, 2013 — Left Bank Big Band orchestrations of Robert Russell Bennett and Don Walker April 23, 2013 — Jazz Combos Recital March 26, 2013 — Ze Yu Li, guest artist, violin; Hanson and Tchaikovsky April 25, 2013 — Brasil Guitar Duo; Smetana, Bellinati, Respighi Percussion Ensembles Concerts are FREE. USC Bands Scott Herring directs the percussion ensembles. www.carolinaband.org Oct. 28, 2012, 3 p.m. — USC Percussion Ensemble

Scott Weiss, director of bands, leads the USC Wind Ensemble. Nov. 7, 2012, 7:30 p.m. — Percussion Players Rebecca Phillips, associate director of bands, leads the Symphonic Winds. Nov. 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m. — Palmetto Pans Steel Drums James Taylor, assistant director of bands, leads the University Band. April 8, 2013 — USC Percussion Ensemble Koger Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted 803-251-2222 or capitoltickets.com April 14, 2013, 3 p.m. — Percussion Players

Concert Bands Concerts are FREE except Nov. 27. Opera at USC Sept. 24, 2012 — USC Wind Ensemble www.music.sc.edu/ea/Opera Oct. 8, 2012 — Symphonic Winds Directed by Ellen Douglas Schlaefer Oct. 29, 2012 — USC Wind Ensemble 7:30 p.m./Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. Nov. 18, 2012 — Palmetto Concert Band, 4 p.m. Season tickets available; 803-777-5369

Nov. 19, 2012 — Symphonic Winds and University Band Nov. 2, 3, 4, 2012 — “Don Giovanni” by W.A. Mozart Nov. 27, 2012 — Carolina Band in Concert (Drayton Hall, USC campus)

Dec. 4, 2012 — USC Wind Ensemble Feb. 1, 2, 3, 2013 — “Das Barbecü,” a musical comedy by Warrender and Luigs (Drayton Hall, USC campus) Feb. 14-17, 2013 — USC Band Clinic We want to keep April 5, 6, 7, 2013 — “The Tender Land” by Copland Feb. 15, 2013 — University Band, 4:30 p.m. you informed about (Longstreet Theatre, USC campus) Feb. 15, 2013 — USC Wind Ensemble concerts and events, May 10, 11, 12, 2013 — “Bambino,” a new baseball opera in one act by Feb. 16, 2013 — Symphonic Winds so be sure we have Maltz (Longstreet Theatre, USC campus [USC Aiken and USC Columbia collaboration; not part of regular season]) Feb. 16, 2013 — Palmetto Concert Band, 8:45 p.m. your current contact information. Send Feb. 23, 2013 — USC Wind Ensemble your name, address, — Wind Ensemble at CBDNA National Conference (Greensboro, N.C.) March 23, 2013 email address and April 4, 2013 — USC Symphonic Winds and University Band phone numbers April 15, 2013 — USC Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir and University Chorus to musicalumni@ May 26, 2013 — Palmetto Concert Band, 4 p.m. mozart.sc.edu.

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Cornelia Freeman Concert Series Southern Exposure New Music Series www.music.sc.edu/chamberseries/Septemberseries.html www.music.sc.edu/ea/comp/southernexposure

Season tickets available; 803-576-5763 or frontoffi [email protected] Michael Harley, artistic director School of Music Recital Hall on Sundays at 3 p.m. Concerts are FREE. School of Music Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Seats fi ll, arrive early; 803-777-4280 Sept. 9, 2012 — Tina Stallard, soprano; Jacob Will, bass; Rebecca Nagel, oboe; Jerry Curry, harpsichord; Joseph Rackers, piano; William Terwilliger, violin; Sept. 27, 2012, 6 p.m. — Stuart Gerber and the Feeney/Hennies/Stuart Trio play Rebecca Hunter, violin; Constance Gee, viola; Robert Jesselson, violoncello; works for solo percussion by modernist masters; Tim Feeney, Nick Hennies and Charles Fugo, piano; Handel, Ravel, Schumann Greg Stuart perform a mind-blowing 30-minute improvisation for three players.

Sept. 16, 2012 — Craig Butterfi eld, double bass; Constance Gee, viola; Charles Sept. 27, 2012, 8 p.m. — One of the world’s premiere percussion duos, the Fugo, piano; James Ackley, trumpet; Bradley Edwards, trombone; Cliff ord Meehan/Perkins Duo’s solo show includes a work for dueling marimbas by Leaman, saxophone; Bradley Edwards, trombone; Cliff ord Leaman, saxophone; USC composition professor John Fitz Rogers. Scott Herring, marimba; J.S. Bach, Weber, Spohr, Goodwin, McComas Sept. 28, 2012 — Percussion All-Star Concert featuring the Meehan/Perkins Duo, Sept. 23, 2012 — William Bates, organ; Jennifer Parker-Harley, fl ute; Rebecca Stuart Gerber, Greg Stuart, Tim Feeny, Nick Dennies, Scott Herring, and the USC Schalk Nagel, oboe; Joseph Eller, clarinet; Robert Pruzin, horn; Michael Harley, Percussion Studio bassoon; William Terwilliger, violin; Constance Gee, viola; Robert Jesselson, Oct. 26, 2012 — Arnold Schoenberg’s melodrama “Pierrot Lunaire” featuring violoncello; Craig Butterfi eld, bass; Charles Fugo, piano; Tina Stallard, Janet Hopkins, sprechstimme, and conducted by Morihiko Nakahara, SC soprano; Joseph Eller, clarinet; Lynn Kompass, piano; Bradley Edwards, Philharmonic; the concert begins with a lecture by professor of theory Danny trombone; Ronald Davis, tuba; William Terwilliger, violin; Rebecca Hunter, Jenkins, Schoenberg scholar; a joint Southern Exposure and Chamber Innovista violin; Constance Gee, viola; Robert Jesselson, violoncello; Craig Butterfi eld, production bass; Bert Ligon, piano; Frescobaldi, Langlais, Martinů, Schumann, Meador, Ligon Feb. 22 — Polygraph Lounge with Melissa Fathman with Mark Stewart, guitar; Rob Schwimmer, piano and theremin; Melissa Fathman, soprano Sept. 30, 2012 — John Williams, piano; Jennifer Parker-Harley, fl ute; Charles Fugo, piano; Cliff ord Leaman, saxophone; Joseph Rackers, piano; Robert April 12 and 13 — Phillip Bush leads USC students in Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Jesselson, cello; Bert Ligon, piano; Craig Butterfi eld, bass; Schubert, Chopin, Musicians”; pre-concert discussion of the work Debussy, Rogers, Ligon Oct. 7, 2012 — Richard Conant, baritone; Charles Fugo, piano; John Williams, USC Choral Events piano; James Ackley, trumpet; Joseph Rackers, piano, perform McKee; www.music.sc.edu/ea/Choral Rebecca Hunter, violin; Lynn Kompass, piano; Robert Jesselson, cello; Charles Fugo; Marina Lomazov, piano; Joseph Rackers, piano; Verdi, Mozart, Schubert, Larry Wyatt, director of choral studies, leads USC Concert Choir. Chopin, Rogers, Harding, Warshauer Alicia Walker leads the University Chorus.

Oct. 14, 2012 — Concert Choir, 5 p.m., Trinity Cathedral

Chamber Innovista Nov. 11, 2012 — Gospel Choir, 4 p.m., Second Calvary Baptist Church www.music.sc.edu/chamberseries/ChamberInnovista Nov. 15, 2012 — University Chorus, 7:30 p.m., Shandon United Methodist Church

Season tickets available; 803-576-5763 or frontoffi [email protected] Nov. 30, 2012 — Concert Choir, 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church School of Music Recital Hall unless otherwise noted Dec. 2, 2012 — Concert Choir, 6 p.m., Shandon United Methodist Church

Oct. 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m. — Arnold Schoenberg’s melodrama “Pierrot Lunaire” Feb. 21 — University Chorus, TBD featuring Janet Hopkins, sprechstimme, and conducted by Morihiko Nakahara; March 3 — Concert Choir, Trinity Cathedral pre-concert lecture by professor of theory Daniel Jenkins, Schoenberg scholar; a joint Southern Exposure and Chamber Innovista production April 14 — USC Gospel Choir, 4 p.m., Second Calvary Baptist Church

Jan. 29, 2013, 7:30 p.m. — The New German School and Its Opponent(s); April 15 — Concert Choir, University Chorus, USC Wind Ensemble, Koger Center Wagner Contra Brahms School of Music

April 1, 2013, 4 p.m. — Wine tasting, gourmet buff et and concert at E-newsletter 300 Senate St.; wine tasting, buff et, Mozart, Piston, Chabrier Sign up for the School of Music’s e-newsletter to get the latest event news. Send your name and email address to ewoodoœ @mozart. sc.edu.

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