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Fall 2013 Whole Notes the Magazine for Friends and Alumni of the University of Washington School of Music Fall 2013 Whole Notes The magazine for friends and alumni of the University of Washington School of Music LUDOVIC MORLOT NAMED CHAIR OF ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING TOM COllIER LOOKING AT 60 YEARS BEHIND BARS GIANT STEPS FOR JAZZ WITH NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS IN THIS IssuE FROM THE DIRECTOR 3-11 School News 12 Faculty Profile: Tom Collier he 2012-13 academic year 17 Books and Recordings brought some remarkable 19 Faculty Notes developments to the School 21 Student and Alumni Notes Tof Music in the form of high-profile 21 Passages faculty appointments, honors and 23 Grand Finale achievements by our students and 24 2012-13 Scholarship Recipients faculty, and the continual process of 28 Celebrations research, performance, and publication 32 Contributions that inform and enhance the life of this 35 2013-14 Season Highlights institution. In this issue of Whole Notes, you will read about some of those achievements and enjoy the briefest glimpse of our 2012-13 year in review. You will hear of some of the great news we have to share Whole Notes about projects in the works for 2013-14. Volume 2, Number 1 It also is our great pleasure to note, in Fall 2013 these pages, just a few of the ways that your support makes an important Editor Joanne De Pue difference to our students, faculty, and programs. Your gifts enable us to provide our Design La Neu, Chelsea Broeder students the means to achieve their educational goals and to take advantage of the Photography Steve Korn, Anthony James, Gary Louie, wonderful performance and enrichment opportunities that abound on our campus Joanne De Pue, and others as credited. and throughout the Seattle educational and arts communities. Your generosity provides resources for our faculty to advance their research, both scholarly and in Whole Notes is an annual publication of the University of Washington School of Music. the realm of performance and recording, to forge collaborative connections to the We’d love to hear from you larger academic and arts communities in our region and in our world, to sustain We welcome updates from School of Music alumni and existing programs, and to instigate new ones. We deeply appreciate all that you do faculty. Please drop us a line and share your latest news and to ensure the vitality and excellence of the School of Music. accomplishments. We will include your update, as space allows, in an upcoming issue of Whole Notes. The coming year holds myriad opportunities for our friends and alumni to return Send updates to: to the School of Music—for performances, lectures, and workshops with illustrious Publicity Office School of Music, Box 353450, guest artists as well as our own exceedingly talented faculty and students. It’s an University of Washington exciting time at the School of Music. Seattle, WA 98195-3450, or email [email protected]. Thank you for your continued support. On the cover: Thoroughly Modern: The UW Modern Music Ensemble/Inverted Space features the combined efforts of some of the UW's most talented student musicians, including core group members (left to right) Sonja Mykelbust, Brooks Tran, Daria Binkowski, Anna Richard Karpen, Stachurska, and Luke Fitzpatrick. Cover photos: Steve Korn Director, School of Music 2 2012-13 University of Washington School of Music LudOVIC MORLOT NAMED CHAIR OF ORCHEstRAL SCHOOL NEws CONDUCtiNG StudiES AT UW A longtime partnership between the University of Dresden Staatskapelle, the Berlin Radio Symphony Washington School of Music and Seattle Symphony and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, among gained significant momentum with the appointment others. Morlot has also conducted the Royal of SSO Music Director Ludovic Morlot to oversee the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, UW’s orchestral conducting program. The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic and the Tonhalle As Chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the Orchestra (Zürich). School of Music, Morlot will take the lead role in shaping the training and recruitment of graduate Another newcomer to the School of Music, David conducting students starting in Fall 2013. Morlot’s Rahbee, will work closely with Morlot to develop a new position as a member of the School of Music top-notch program in orchestral studies. Rahbee has faculty comes one year after his March 2012 accepted an initial one-year appointment as Director appointment as Affiliate Professor of Music at the UW. of the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, effective Fall Quarter 2013. “This is a transformational moment for the School of Music and for music in the entire region,” said At the University of Washington, Morlot made his Richard Karpen, director of the School of Music, who first public appearance as an Affiliate Professor added that Morlot’s focus will be to recruit very gifted of Music in February 2013, conducting the UW graduate conducting students to the UW from around Symphony in a performance of Ravel’s Daphnis et the world and to work closely with them during their Chloe, Suite No. 2. Morlot’s work with the students residency at the School of Music. included several inspirational rehearsals with the orchestra, which gave students a first-hand Since assuming the directorship of Seattle experience with the high expectations and expressive Symphony in 2011, Morlot has been credited with leadership style of the French-born conductor. He re-invigorating the organization and introducing returns to the Meany mainstage February 14, 2014, adventurous programming and numerous conducting the UW Symphony in selections from collaborations with regional artists and arts Berlioz‘s Symphonie Fantastique. organizations. “I’m thrilled to be part of this initiative that His local activities, however, have not diminished strengthens the ties between the Seattle Symphony his reach and influence in the international music and the University of Washington,” Morlot said community, as demonstrated in January 2012, of his new appointment at the School of Music. when—in tandem with his leadership of the Seattle “At its best, education is a never-ending journey Symphony—he assumed a post as Chief Conductor of Ludovic Morlot in rehearsal with the of mutual enrichment and discovery. One never La Monnaie in Brussels, one of the most prestigious UW Symphony. stops learning, and the students’ energy, passion, opera houses in Europe. (Photo: Joanne De Pue) and curiosity inspire and engage me, allowing me Morlot’s recent guest-conducting highlights include to grow as I share my knowledge with them. I am a West Coast tour of the United States with the honored that Richard Karpen and UW President Boston Symphony Orchestra, performances with the Michael Young have entrusted me with this New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, responsibility, which I take very seriously. I admire and debuts with Orchestre National de France, the their shared passion for excellence.” PATRICIA CAmpBEll HONORED FOR WORK IN PRESERVING TRAditiONAL musiC Patricia Shehan Campbell, professor of Music Education Zhongshu, a farmer who works to preserve his village’s and chair of the UW’s Ethnomusicology Program, was centuries-old traditions. honored this past year as a finalist for the inaugural Taichi Finalists honored along with Campbell included American Traditional Music Award, given by the China Conservatory Routes, the radio program of traditional “roots” music; Ali and the Taichi Traditional Music Foundation. Jihad Racy and the preservation of Arab Musical Heritage; The prize recognizes individuals or social groups who and a number of groups performing and preserving Asian have made outstanding and original contributions toward musical traditions. the performance, inheritance, theoretical studies, or Campbell is noted for her work in world music pedagogy, dissemination of traditional music. This year the jury and for her work in joining together the efforts of selected 12 finalists, each of whom received a substantial ethnomusicologists, artist-musicians, and educators for monetary prize, and four winners. Winners included the application of cultural diversity in music education to Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar master; Hsien-yung students at all levels. She is co-editor of The Global Music Pai, an internationally known author who revitalized Series (Oxford University Press), author of Teaching Music Ethnomusicology chair Kunqu Opera; Bruno Nettl, professor emeritus of music Globally, Music in Cultural Context, Songs in Their Heads, Patricia Campbell and anthropology at the University of Illinois; and Lin (Photo: Danielle Barnum) and co-author and editor of 12 other books. 2012-13 University of Washington School of Music 3 GIANT STEPS FOR JAZZ witH NEW FACultY AdditiONS The Jazz Studies Program at the University of Washington takes giant steps forward with the appointments of internationally renowned guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Ted Poor to the School of Music faculty. The appointments usher in the next phase of one of the School of Music’s flagship programs, which has embraced an increasingly forward-thinking approach since the 2007 arrival of trumpeter and associate professor Cuong Vu, who was appointed chair of the program in 2012. “The University of Washington School of Music has been a driving force for advancing jazz in the Pacific Northwest for many years,” School of Music Director Richard Karpen said recently. “In 2010 the undergraduate program celebrated its 20th anniversary, and this year the School of Music welcomed its first master’s degree students in Jazz Studies. With Cuong Vu’s vision and dynamic leadership and the addition of Bill Frisell and Ted Poor to the School’s faculty, the UW is now poised to become one of the elite centers of jazz education and innovation nationally.” Frisell’s appointment as affiliate professor of music formalizes a longtime association with the school that has included a number of clinics, workshops and performances with School of Music students and faculty over the past several years.
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