Musical Fusion TENG LI (Viola ’05) Is the New Principal in March LAYLA CLAIRE (Opera ’09) Viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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NOTATIONS CELESTE GOLDEN BOYER (Violin ’05) Sessions concert series in Fort Worth. is the new concertmaster of the Last fall he was featured with the Curtis Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. 20/21 Ensemble in Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King. MARK HOLLOWAY (Viola ’05) has This season ABRAHAM FEDER joined the (Cello ’08) began his new position Pacifica Quartet, as assistant principal cello of the in residence Detroit Symphony Orchestra. at Indiana University’s Since graduating, TIM SAWYIER Jacobs School (Oboe ’08) has completed master’s of Music, where degrees at the University of Chicago Mark Holloway he is a faculty in European history and the Institute member in viola for Clinical Social Work in clinical and chamber music. The quartet, counseling and psychotherapy. He which recently played the complete is a clinician at the Lakeview Center Beethoven quartet cycle in Portland for Psychotherapy and is pursuing (Ore.), tours internationally, and advanced studies in psychoanalysis at Steve Hackman PHOTO: CHRIS LEE leads the Center for Advanced the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Quartet Studies at the Aspen He contributes articles and criticism Music Festival and School. to the Chicago Classical Review. Musical Fusion TENG LI (Viola ’05) is the new principal In March LAYLA CLAIRE (Opera ’09) viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. makes her debut at the Bavarian Steven Hackman’s classical-rock State Opera in Munich as Donna Elvira Cellist Jian Wang premiered ZHOU in Don Giovanni. She will sing the role mashups engage new audiences. TIAN’s (Composition ’05) Cello of Catherine Earnshaw in Hermann’s Concerto, Flowing Sleeves, with Wuthering Heights at Opéra National BY WILLIAM SHORT (BASSOON ’10) the Hangzhou Philharmonic in July. de Lorraine in June. STEVEN HACKMAN (Conducting ’04) resists being pigeonholed into Zhou is composing a new piece a single discipline or genre. Active as a composer, conductor, producer, in commemoration of the 150th In May JOSHUA and arranger, he is known for creating works that combine classical and anniversary of the first transcontinental STEWART (Opera popular repertoire—such as Brahms v. Radiohead, an orchestral synthesis railroad, co-commissioned by nine ’09) performed of the album OK Computer with the Brahms First Symphony, and Firebird: American orchestras. as the Narrator Remix/Response, a re-imagination of Stravinsky’s ballet, fusing it with in Schumann’s Steve’s own original songs. He sees such fusions as entirely natural, Das Paradies und die Peri with combining works from different eras that nevertheless are “borne of the Joshua Stewart same musical processes and break down into the same raw materials.” the Los Angeles Steve first encountered the Curtis Institute of Music from a distance, Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. He during summers at the Aspen Music Festival. As an auditor at the American sang the title role in Daniel Schnyder’s Academy of Conducting at Aspen, he found himself drawn to the students Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD with the of Curtis’s longtime head of conducting, OTTO-WERNER MUELLER. “Their Atlanta Opera in September and with musicianship, intellect, and ‘ears’ were undeniable; they were the kind of the Arizona Opera in October. musicians I aspired to be.” He had a new goal: to study with Mr. Mueller. Once at Curtis, Steve describes watching Mr. Mueller “shape and guide” STANFORD THOMPSON (Trumpet ’09) the Curtis Symphony Orchestra through a rehearsal of Brahms’s Second has been appointed dean of the Symphony as “a great gift. The values he taught—respect for the score, Sphinx Organization’s new initiative, Adrian Anantawan commitment to a beautiful sound, and focus on chamber-like music-making— Sphinx LEAD, which provides connect [Curtis alumni] in a beautiful way.” ADRIAN ANANTAWAN (Violin ’06) professional development for But the work Steve credits with shaping him most significantly was was appointed the chair of music at Black and Latinx arts leaders. with FORD LALLERSTEDT of the musical studies faculty, who took it upon Milton Academy in Boston in 2017. himself to individually teach Steve counterpoint, theory, and improvisation He also teaches at Project STEP Last spring WANG JIE (Composition after hearing some of his original compositions and arrangements. in collaboration with the Boston ’09) was the composer in residence “He nurtured and guided my creativity, making sure I was developing Symphony Orchestra, a program for an eleven-day musical tour of my compositional voice in parallel with learning to be a conductor,” recalls focused on narrowing the equity Paris and Normandy for Performance Steve. “His encouragement to find my own individual path continues to gap for young musicians of color. Today listeners, led by host Fred guide me.” Child. She composed a piece during Steve characterizes his current work as a reflection of the musician In July PIPER RUNNION-BAREFORD the trip in an open and interactive he is: someone who refuses to acknowledge artificial barriers, with a goal (Harp ’06) was appointed executive process with the other travelers. “to create access points and exposure to classical music for new audiences.” director of the Manchester Community Artist in residence TIMOTHEOS In so doing, he finds it tremendously validating “to see a packed house Music School in New Hampshire. PETRIN (Cello ’17) gave the world composed mostly of people who are hearing these classical masterworks premiere performance of Jie’s work for the first time. That makes it all worth it.” In January JONATHAN BEYER (Opera at the Impressionist Museum in ’07) performed a sold-out recital Giverny on the final day of the tour. William Short is principal bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. with soprano Ava Pine on the Cliburn 32 OVERTONES SPRING 2019OVERTONES.