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FLORIDA’S PREMIER LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL The World’s Largest Underwear Store WELCOME TO THE 29TH ANNUAL Shelton G. Berg FESTIVAL MIAMI!

The Frost School of Music uplifts our community each year with the presentation ‘AH-A’ For The Music of Festival Miami—Florida’s Premier Live Music Festival. Each year we surpass Proud Sponsor of Festival Miami ourselves with the variety of brilliant artists and composers who grace our stages. Now in its 29th season, Festival Miami presents highly creative programming that brings thousands of new music lovers to our beautiful concert halls and continues to delight our long-time supporters. We offer diverse styles and genres of music and feature the extraordinary student musicians and faculty artists of the Frost School. The result is an exciting festival that remains unparalleled by any other music school in the country.

Festival Miami delivers a full month of concerts programmed under four distinct themes—Great Performances, Creative American Music, Jazz and Beyond, and Music of the Americas. I encourage you to sample music from all four categories!

Festival Miami also provides an opportunity for friends and families to bond by Atlantic Hosiery & Apparel Expires: 05/04/2013 sharing the universal human emotions that music can evoke. Whether you are a seasoned concertgoer or this is your first musical concert, Festival Miami has something wonderful for you to experience. FREE Festival Miami truly has it all! We welcome you to a great musical adventure. 6-pack of socks Enjoy!

Shelton G. Berg Dean, Frost School of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music

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2OI2 TABLE OF CONTENTS FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 3 FLORIDA’S PREMIER LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL ¡BIENVENIDOS AL 4 Festival Miami Staff/Ticket Information 5 Letter from UM President Donna E. Shalala a 29 FESTIVAL 6 Letter from Florida Governor, Rick Scott Shelton G. Berg ANUAL MIAMI! 7 Letter from Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Gimenez Todos los años, la Escuela de Música Frost eleva la comunidad con la presentación del 8 Letter from City of Miami Mayor, Tomás Regalado Festival Miami, el festival de música en vivo más importante de Florida. Cada año, nos superamos con la variedad de brillantes artistas y compositores que adornan nuestros 9 Letter from Coral Gables Mayor, Jim Cason escenarios con su presencia. 10 Calendar of Events Hoy, en su 29a temporada, Festival Miami presenta una programación altamente creativa que convocará a nuestras salas de concierto a miles de amantes de la 13 Concert Programs música nuevos y continuará deleitando a quienes ya nos apoyan desde hace tiempo. Ofrecemos música de estilos y géneros variados. Destacamos a los extraordinarios estudiantes de música y artistas docentes de la Escuela de Música Frost. El resultado 36 Artist Biographies es un emocionante festival sin igual entre las demás escuelas de música del país. 64 Community Outreach Festival Miami ofrece un mes entero de conciertos, organizados en cuatro temas bien definidos: Grandes recitales, Música creativa estadounidense, Jazz y más allá y Música 65 Grant Sponsors de las Américas, lo que representa una selección increíble de música para que usted la disfrute en vivo. ¡Los aliento a que se animen a probar la música de todas estas categorías! 66 Contributor Photos

Festival Miami también brinda la oportunidad para que amigos y familiares vivan juntos 67 Contributors/Listing las emociones humanas universales que puede inspirar la música. Ya sea usted un asiduo asistente a conciertos o esta sea su primera experiencia musical, Festival Miami 68 Support Festival Miami tiene algo maravilloso para que usted disfrute.

¡Realmente, Festival Miami lo tiene todo! Le damos la bienvenida a una gran aventura 69 On Scene: Festival Miami 2011 musical.

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Shelton G. Berg LIKE US! FOLLOW US! Decano, Escuela Frost de Música Facebook.com/FestivalMiamiMusic Twitter.com/Festival_Miami Catedrático Patricia L. Frost de Música FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 5 MANAGEMENT STAFF 4 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI

Frost School of Music Dean, Festival Miami Executive Director . Shelton Berg Director of Events ...... Marianne Mijares Events Planner ...... Christine Mounger Director of Operations and Concert Halls ...... William Dillon Director of Recording Services ...... Paul Griffith Director of Keyboard Services ...... Paul Bruno Director of Marketing and Communications ...... Julia Berg Communications Coordinator ...... Kimberly Engelhardt University Communications & Marketing ...... Todd Ellenberg, Meredith Camel, Scott Fricker, Kristian Rodriguez, Angie Villanueva University Media Relations ...... Alexandra Bassil Artistic Committee ...... Shelton Berg, Scott Flavin, Gary Green, Stephen Guerra, Larry Lapin, Dante Luciani, Charles Mason, Rey Sanchez, Santiago Rodriguez, Thomas Sleeper, and Richard Todd

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Online: festivalmiami.com Mail: Phone: 305.284.4940 Festival Miami Phone lines open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., Attn: Box Office Manager Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 1320 South Dixie Highway, Suite 901 Coral Gables, FL 33146-2975 Forms of Payment Accepted: Cash, Debit, and Credit Cards Box Office: UM Gusman Hall (Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express) Tuesday through Thursday 5–7 p.m.

Please indicate special seating requirements when purchasing your tickets. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall one hour prior to each performance. Ticket fees apply to online, mail, and phone orders. Free events require tickets.

NO REFUNDS/ NO EXCHANGES. For more information, please visit our website at festivalmiami.com The taking of photographs and use of audio or video recorders during a performance is strictly prohibited. Please turn off phones and any other electronic devices before entering the hall. Latecomers will be seated at the first break in the performance.

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

CARLOS A. GIMENEZ MAYOR

October 1, 2011

Greetings!

As Mayor of Miami-Dade County and on behalf of our 2.5 million residents, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all those gathered for the University of Miamiʼs Frost School of Music 28th Annual Festival Miami.

I am grateful to the University of Miami for providing this opportunity for musical enjoyment and personal enrichment to South Florida residents and visitors, alike. The University of Miami is a vital part of the Miami-Dade tradition and, as our County continues to grow its involvement in cultural events, we look to institutions such as the Frost School of Music to provide innovative programming that celebrates our communityʼs diversity.

If you are visiting, I encourage you to take advantage of our world-class beaches, hotels, restaurants, shopping, attractions, arts and culture, sports, and recreation.

I wish all of the participants and attendees every success and an enjoyable experience.

Sincerely,

Carlos A. Gimenez Mayor

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GREAT PERFORMANCES 2 | Tuesday 3 | Wednesday 4 | OPENING NIGHT 5 | Friday 6 | Saturday LEON FLEISHER FROST SYMPHONY NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS Stamps Distinguished ORCHESTRA PART 1 PART 2 Maurice Gusman Visitors Series Leon Fleisher Conducts Music of Ástor Piazzolla Jazz Homage to Piazzolla Concert Hall is located Beethoven and JAZZ AND BEYOND 7 p.m. at UM Gusman Rachmaninoff 8 p.m. at UM Gusman 8 p.m. at UM Gusman at 1314 Miller Drive on FREE Lecture 8 p.m. at UM Gusman (7:15 p.m. Q&A) (7:15 p.m. Q&A) the University of Miami $15- $30 $15- $30 CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC $25-$65 Coral Gables campus. | | | | | | | 7 Sunday 8 Monday 9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13 Saturday Victor E. Clarke Recital FROST WIND DAVE LIEBMAN DAVE LIEBMAN EMERGING COMPOSERS SANTIAGO Judy Drucker's Hall in the L. Austin Weeks Great Artists Series Presents ENSEMBLE Tenor Titan Takes Flight Jazz Master Class New Music Concert RODRIGUEZ Center for Recording and 9:30 a.m. at Clarke ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ Powerful Premieres with the Frost featuring Contest Winners Solo Piano Recital Performance is located at 4 p.m. at UM Gusman Concert Jazz Band FREE 8 p.m. at Clarke 8 p.m. at UM Gusman Soprano Recital (3:15 p.m. Q&A) 8 p.m. at UM Gusman FREE $20-$40 8 p.m. at UM Gusman 5501 San Amaro Drive on $15- $20 $20-$50 $30-$50 the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. 14 15 16 17 18 19 | RECOMMENDED 20 FROST CHAMBER TRIO DA PAZ BEST OF BROADWAY UM HOMECOMING The BankUnited Center PLAYERS Brazilian Jazz Featuring 7:30 p.m. Parade is located at 1245 Dauer Luciano and Friends Masters Valerie Perri and 8:30 p.m. Boat Burning Drive on the University 4 p.m. at UM Gusman 8 p.m. at UM Gusman Michael Maguire 10 p.m. Concert at of Miami Coral Gables $15- $20 $20-$40 8 p.m. at UM Gusman BankUnited Center $20-$50 FREE campus. Adrienne Arsht Center 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 is located at 1300 N. CREATIVE SPARK JASON MORAN JASON MORAN & ROSEANNA VITRO CARLOS OLIVA Y LOS Biscayne Boulevard, Youth Orchestra Flashpoint Stamps Distinguished THE BANDWAGON Free-Spirited SOBRINOS DEL JUEZ Miami, Florida. 8 p.m. at UM Gusman Visitors Series Cross-Genre Jazz Spontaneity Latin Fusion Artists $10- $20 3:30 p.m. at Clarke at Its Best Plus JV1 Ensemble Keep on Grooving Programs, artists, and FREE Q&A 8 p.m. at UM Gusman 8 p.m. at UM Gusman 8 p.m. at UM Gusman dates subject to change $20-$50 $20-$40 $20-$50 without notice. 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 All master classes and Sunday Afternoons SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE UNFORGETTABLE JON SECADA of Music Presents 8 p.m. at UM Gusman A Tribute to A Cabaret Night lectures are free and open FLORIDA’S SINGING SONS FREE Nat King Cole to Remember to the public on a first- BOYCHOIR George Benson, Freddy Cole, 8 p.m. at UM Gusman come, first-served basis. Children’s Concert and the Mancini Institute $25-$65 3 p.m. at UM Gusman Orchestra $10-$12 8 p.m. at Arsht Center

4 | CLOSING NIGHT CARMINA BURANA Conducted by Karen Kennedy Master Chorale of South Florida, Frost Chorale, Frost Symphony Orchestra 4 p.m. at Arsht Center 12 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 GREAT PERFORMANCES STAMPS AD THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8 p.m FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 13 OPENING NIGHT BEETHOVEN AND RACHMANINOFF Leon Fleisher Conducts the Frost Symphony Orchestra

LEON FLEISHER, guest conductor THOMAS SLEEPER, music director FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Ludwig van Beethoven

ANASTASIYA NAPLEKOVA, soloist

— INTERMISSION —

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Sergei Rachmaninoff Largo – Allegro moderato (1873-1943) Allegro molto Adagio Allegro vivace

Presented in collaboration with Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Distinguished Visitors Series

UM Citizens Board Night Miami Civic Music Association Night

Sponsored in part by MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS

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NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART I — INTERMISSION — Music of Ástor Piazzolla Music from Henry IV (1984) Oblivion-Ave Maria FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ, pre-concert host DEBORAH SCHWARTZ-KATES, pre-concert host ROBERT WEINER, oboe BERGONZI STRING QUARTET Histoire du Tango Glenn Basham, Scott Flavin, violin; Pamela McConnell, viola; Bordel 1900 Ross Harbaugh, cello Cafe 1930 Nightclub 1960 Four for Tango Concert d’aujourd’hui BERGONZI STRING QUARTET TRUDY KANE, flute RAFAEL PADRON, guitar Glenn Basham, Scott Flavin, violin; Pamela McConnell, viola; Ross Harbaugh, cello Milonga sin Palabras CRAIG MORRIS, trumpet Four Tangos for Quintet PAUL SCHWARTZ, piano Primavera Portena Milonga del Angel Tres Piezas Breves, Op. 4 Invierno Porteno Pastoral Verano Porteno Serenade Siciliana TOMAS COTIK, violin FEDERICO MUSGOVE STETSON, guitar CRAIG MORRIS, electronic wind instrument JP JOFRE, bandonéon PAUL SCHWARTZ, piano JEFF KIPPERMAN, bass NAOKO TAKAO, piano Le Grand Tango ROSS HARBAUGH, cello SHELTON BERG, piano

Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS GREAT PERFORMANCES 16 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 8 p.m. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 4 p.m. FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 17

NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART II POWERFUL PREMIERES Jazz Homage to Ástor Piazzolla Presented by the Frost Wind Ensemble

STEPHEN GUERRA, director FRED STURM, guest conductor GARY GREEN, conductor JP JOFRE, bandonéon FROST WIND ENSEMBLE FROST STUDIO JAZZ BAND Manny Echazabal, Sam Priven, alto sax; A.J. Bihn, Matt Burchard, tenor sax; David Leon, bari sax; Derek Ganong, Paul Equihua, Billy Vallano, Symphony in B-flat Paul Hindemith Aquiles Navarr; trumpet; Eric Bowman, Javier Nero, Andrew Hamilton, (1895-1963) Chris Palowitch; trombone; Jake Shapiro, piano; Matt Flynn, guitar; James Suter, bass; Ben Falle, drums; Maria Chlebus, percussion Point Blank Paul Dooley (b. 1983) Featuring works by Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992) World Premiere

Selections to be chosen from: Percussion Concerto Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) Michelangelo arr. Fred Sturm Milonga del Angel arr. Fred Sturm SVET STOYANOV, soloist Tres Minutos con la Realidad arr. Fred Sturm La Camorra arr. Fred Sturm Resurreción del Angel arr. Fred Sturm Milonga Loca arr. Fred Sturm Mumuki arr. Fred Sturm Libertango arr. Fred Sturm Verano Porteno arr. Jeremy Fox City of Coral Gables Night La Muerte del Angel arr. Gary Lindsay Oblivion arr. Stephen Guerra, Jr. Escualo arr. Stephen Guerra, Jr. Sponsored by Sponsored by LOUIS LEIBOWITZ CHARITABLE TRUST JAZZ AND BEYOND CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC

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TENOR TITAN DAVE LIEBMAN EMERGING COMPOSERS Takes Flight with the Frost Concert Jazz Band New Music Concert featuring Contest Winners

DAVE LIEBMAN, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute Selections will be announced from the stage. DANTE LUCIANO, director FROST CONCERT JAZZ BAND Dan Andrews, Kevin McKeown, Mark Small, Alex Weitz, Derek Smith; saxes Ryan Chapman, Chris Burbank, Gilbert Paz, Jared Hall; trumpets Chris Gagne, Kendall Moore, Stephen Szabadi, Major Bailey; trombones Angelo Versace, piano; Tim Jago, guitar; Geoffrey Saunders, bass; Daniel Susnjar, drums; Mike Barroso, percussion

Featuring compositions by Dave Liebman

New Mambo arr. Bill Warfield

Beyond the Line arr. Vince Mendoza

Negative Space Imaginations arr. Joachim Junghanss

Done with Restraint arr. Jim McNeely

Gazelle arr. George Gruntz

Pablo’s Story arr. Bill Warfield

Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima, arr. Jim McNeely

Sponsored by

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GLENN BASHAM SHELTON G. BERG Glenn Basham (violin) has been a member of the Frost artist faculty since 1992 and the Shelton G. Berg is dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the University of Miami concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra since 1994. He is also the first Frost School of Music. He was previously the McCoy/Sample Professor of Jazz Studies at violinist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the Frost School of USC Thornton School of Music and is a past president of the International Association for Music. Basham has a B.M. degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts and an Jazz Education (IAJE). M.M. degree from Indiana University. In 2000 the Los Angeles Times named Berg one of three “Educators for the Previously, Basham played with the Detroit Symphony under Antal Dorati and was a Millennium.” He is widely acclaimed for his energetic and innovative approaches member of the Chester String Quartet. He has served as concertmaster at music festivals to performance, composition, and pedagogy. He has performed and recorded with nationwide, including the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, the top music industry professionals and has orchestrated music for television, motion Hot Springs Music Festival, and the Pine Mountain Music Festival. He has appeared as a pictures, and major orchestras. Berg has performed and lectured throughout the world soloist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Lansing Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, Oak and has numerous arrangements, compositions, and texts in publication. All Music Park Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts Festival Orchestra, Blue Lake Festival Guide calls Berg “one of the finest pianists around in the early 21st century playing Orchestra, Manchester Symphony, Marion Philharmonic, Palm Beach Symphony, Miami modern mainstream jazz.” Berg’s CD Blackbird (Concord) reached No. 1 in U.S. jazz City Ballet, Pine Mountain Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, and Naples Philharmonic radio (JazzWeek, 2005). Recent recording and arranging projects include a solo CD, The Orchestra. As a jazz musician, Basham has performed with Ira Sullivan, Simon Salz, Nearness of You (Arbors), Arturo Sandoval’s A Time for Love (Concord), and several and John Blake, and he is featured on recordings with the Miami Saxophone Quartet and NPR radio broadcasts for Jim Cullum’s Riverwalk Jazz series. Skitch Henderson.

HUIFANG CHEN GEORGE BENSON Conductor Huifang Chen enjoys a dual career as a performer and an educator. In addition Ten-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master George Benson is heralded as a to serving as the music director of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, she is a frequent jazz guitarist of unparalleled chops and a vocalist with great emotional range and guest conductor for Alhambra Orchestra and Broward Symphony Orchestra. She was sophistication. Benson’s musical passion began early. At age 8 he was singing and interim director of orchestra at Florida International University from 2009 to 2010 and has playing the ukulele in local nightclubs in Pittsburgh. By his teenage years, he had led orchestras in major venues, including Carnegie Hall. switched to guitar, and his musical sensibilities shifted toward jazz and the music of Wes As violinist, Chen was the winner of the 1999 Young Concert Artist of the Year, awarded Montgomery, Charlie Christian, and Charlie Parker. by the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, and a Concerto Competition Winner at the Benson launched his solo career in 1964 with The New Boss Guitar, which got the University of Miami in 2003. She has been concertmaster for Boca Raton Philharmonic

PHOTOKWAKU BY ALSTON attention of Columbia Records. Benson recorded two solo albums for Columbia, playing Symphonia, Orchestra Miami, Miami Bach Society, Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra, and session dates for others, including Miles Davis’s 1968 opus, Miles in the Sky. He left the Florida Grand Opera. She performed with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra from Columbia in the late 1960s, recording on several labels before meeting producer Tommy 1994 until 2003. Sony, EMI, and Warner Brothers issue her recordings. LiPuma, who encouraged Benson to sing. The result was Breezin’, the 1976 blockbuster Chen is on the faculty at Lynn University in Boca Raton, and she has taught violin and album that began a long association with Warner Brothers. Breezin’ was the first jazz chamber music at the Frost School of Music. She also teaches at the Rocky Mountain record to achieve platinum sales, and the hits included the title track, an update of Leon Summer Conservatory in Colorado and at the Philadelphia International Music Festival Russell’s “This Masquerade,” and “Give Me the Night.” Winter Solo Performance Program. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the In the mid-1990s, Benson followed LiPuma to the GRP label, releasing That’s Right Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree from the University of Miami in (1996) and Standing Together (1998). His recent recordings include Absolute Benson violin performance. (2000), Irreplaceable (2004), Givin’ It Up (2006), a duet recording with Al Jarreau that earned two Grammy Awards, and Songs and Stories (2009) on Concord Records/ Monster Music. ARTIST 38 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 39

FREDDY COLE TOMAS COTIK Lionel Frederick Cole plays piano, sings, and performs live with guitar and upright Violinist Tomas Cotik, currently pursuing his doctorate in violin performance at the bass, just like his brother, Nat “King” Cole. But with his raspier, smokier voice, he has Frost School of Music, is an internationally recognized chamber musician, soloist, and distinguished himself from his older sibling. His vocals—suave, elegant, formidable, and orchestra musician. First-prize winner of the National Broadcast Music Competition in his articulate—are among the most respected in jazz. He lives in Atlanta, where he leads native Argentina in 1997, Cotik has concertized in Germany, Holland, Canada, Argentina, a trio that includes guitarist Randy Napoleon, drummer Curtis Boyd, and bassist Elias Japan, and throughout the U.S., participating in more than 15 international festivals. Bailey. He appeared recently in Amarillo, Miami, and Toronto, performing the Tchaikovsky and Bruch Violin Concertos, Schubert’s Rondo for violin and strings, and Vivaldi’s Four Early influences in Cole’s youth include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton,

PHOTO BY COLE BY PHOTO WALKER Seasons. After a New York audition, he was invited to perform as concertmaster of and Billy Eckstine. He began performing in Chicago clubs as a teenager, continuing his Minas Gerais Philarmonic in Brazil under Fabio Mechetti. musical education at the Roosevelt Institute in Chicago. Cole moved to New York in 1951 and studied at the Juilliard School of Music. He found himself profoundly influenced by A former member of the New World Symphony, Cotik has performed with prominent John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, and Teddy Wilson. Cole’s first single, “The Joke’s on Me,” conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Yakov was released in 1952 on an obscure Chicago-based label. Kreizberg, Marin Alsop, Stephan Deneve, Roger Norrington, and Robert Spano. He has worked under the guidance of the Vermeer, Tokyo, and Endellion String Quartets After earning his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, Cole spent and notable solo artists including Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, Ana Chumachenko, Heinz time in an Earl Bostic band that included Johnny Coles and Benny Golson. Performing Holliger, Leon Fleisher, and the leaders of the Vienna, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, in Manhattan bistros, he developed a vast repertoire of songs, supplementing his live Boston, Cleveland, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. performances with television and radio commercial jingle work. During the 1970s, Cole recorded numerous albums for European and English companies that developed a loyal Cotik’s recording projects include Mendelssohn’s Viola Quintets for Dorian Sono Luminus overseas following. With his trio, he continues to regularly tour the U.S., Europe, the Far and the world premiere and recording of Kenneth Fuchs’s String Quartet No. 5 for Naxos. East, and South America. He holds a Bachelor and Master in Music from the Freiburg University of Music in Germany and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, studying with Nicolas Chumachenco and Lorand Fenyves. FRANK COOPER Frank Cooper is a research professor in the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, where he lectures and teaches harpsichord. Truly a Renaissance scholar, he MARGARET DONAGHUE FLAVIN has devoted his life to studying the arts while simultaneously pursuing careers as a Margaret Donaghue Flavin (clarinet) is associate professor of instrumental performance teacher, writer, lecturer, and performer. An expert on keyboard performance practices, and program director of Woodwinds at the Frost School of Music. She has performed in he recently performed the Bach Double Keyboard Concerto with Dean Shelton Berg some of the world’s major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the and a chamber orchestra at St. Martha’s Church in Miami. A highlight of his career Zurich Tonhalle, La Scala, and for the Maggio Musicale in Florence. She has performed was receiving the Liszt Centennial Medal from the Hungarian Ministry of Culture along at international conferences in Oslo, Norway, Manchester, England, Chicago, and New with Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein during the same ceremony. Reviews Orleans, among others. Chamber music recitals include Honolulu, Grand Cayman, of his research have been published simultaneously in The New York Times, The London, and Paris, as well other venues across Europe and Japan. She has appeared as Washington Post, and Time magazine. soloist with the Shanghai Broadcast Symphony and the Shen Zhen Symphony in China, as well as the Russe State Philharmonic in Bulgaria. Cooper has been the subject of international radio broadcasts, is widely commissioned to write program notes and record annotations, and has served as artistic director for 35 Donaghue gives master classes and recitals across the United States and performs with years of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. In 2007 he was presented by the National her trio, Miami Chamber Ensemble, and newly formed ensemble, MiamiClarinet. She Federation of Music Clubs with its centennial citation for his “indelible and remarkable performed the sextet L’Heure du Berger in London and Paris with composer Jean Françaix impact on the artistic life and culture of the United States and the world at large.” The at the piano. She recently served a three-year term as a member of the Fulbright National Miami Herald has referred to him as “South Florida’s cultural maven.” He is a former Screening Committee and appears frequently as clinician and adjudicator. Donaghue can member of the faculties of Butler University in Indianapolis and the New World School of be heard frequently on public radio across the country. She received a Doctor of Musical the Arts in Miami. As part of the Frost School’s community outreach commitment, Cooper Arts degree from the University of Illinois, a Master of Music degree from the University also offers a noncredit music history lecture series. of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to coming to Miami she served on the faculties of Central Michigan University and the University of Connecticut. She can be heard on Centaur, Albany, and Altarus labels. ARTIST 40 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 41

PAUL DOOLEY SCOTT FLAVIN Composer Paul Dooley’s music embraces a cross-cultural range of contemporary music, Scott Flavin (violin and conductor) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental dance, art, technology, and the interactions between the human and natural worlds. Performance and artistic coordinator and resident conductor for the Henry Mancini He has composed for solo instruments, orchestras, bands, electronics, and chamber Institute Orchestra at the Frost School of Music. Flavin also is a member of the Bergonzi ensembles. He has received 2010 BMI composer award, a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould String Quartet and a director of the Frost Chamber Orchestra. He is concertmaster of Young Composer Award, a fellowship to the 2008 Aspen Music Festival Composition the Florida Grand Opera and Miami Bach Society and founder and music director of the Masterclass, and a fellowship from the 2011 Cabrillo New Music Festival Composers Lab. Miami Mozarteum. He regularly performs across the globe, and is a member of the newly formed chamber ensemble Pulse. Dooley’s Point Blank (2012) was commissioned by a consortium organized by Gary Green of the University of Miami Frost Wind Ensemble. In 2010 Dooley was commissioned As a composer and arranger, Flavin’s works have been heard on American Public Media’s by San Francisco Ballet’s Principal Dancers to create a project for Marina Abramovic radio program “Performance Today” and have been recorded by the Bergonzi Quartet. Institute West. Other commissioners include Scordatura Music Society, the Pacific His recordings include chamber music on the Naxos, M&W, and Centaur labels and Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Michigan Music Teachers Association and commercial recordings on Sony, EMI, and Warner Brothers, including appearances on National Music Teachers Association. Dooley’s music has been performed by Alarm over a dozen Grammy Award-winning albums. He has recorded two solo CDs, Great Will Sound, the Charlotte Symphony, the American Philharmonic, the Atlantic Classical Violin Solos of the Opera and Ballet and The Complete Brahms Violin Sonatas. Orchestra, and the Omaha Symphony. He is the 2011-2012 composer-in-residence with Flavin performs on a rare Italian violin made in 1780 by Tomaso Eberle. the Detroit Chamber Winds. Dooley earned his degree at the University of Southern California under Frank Ticheli, Stephen Hartke, and Frederick Lesemann. He is completing doctoral studies at the University of Michigan with composers Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, and LEON FLEISHER Evan Chambers. Additional teachers include Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, At 83 years young, 2012 Stamps Distinguished Visitor Leon Fleisher continues to thrive as Christopher Rouse, Martin Bresnick, Derek Bermel, Louis Andriessen, and others. a conductor and pianist. The youngest-ever student of Artur Schnabel, Fleisher debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1944. In 1952 he became the first American to win the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium competition, establishing him as one of the world’s premier JUDY DRUCKER classical pianists. At age 36, a neurological affliction left two fingers on Fleisher’s right Judith Drucker is internationally beloved for making the Concert Association of Florida hand immobile. He began focusing on repertoire for the left hand only, forging new one of Florida’s most formidable artistic presenting organizations since 1967. Thereafter, ground as a soloist, conductor, and teacher. Experimental treatments finally restored the she formed the Great Artists Series. Drucker has presented world-renowned classical mobility in Fleisher’s hand, and in 2004 he won enormous acclaim for his recording Two PHOTO BY CHRIS BY HARTLOVE PHOTO musicians to South Florida, including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Hands. Among other honors and awards, Fleisher received the Kennedy Center Honors in Mikhail Baryshnikov, Zubin Mehta, Beverly Sills, Cecilia Bartoli, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 2007 for his contribution to U.S. culture. and more. She has also brought in orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, As a pianist, Fleisher returns this season to some of Europe’s most prestigious London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony musical capitals—London, Paris, and Brussels—performing as soloist with the London Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Israel Philharmonic. Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Drucker is a pioneer in bringing world-class dance companies to South Florida, including Radio France at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and in recital at Belgium’s Palais des Beaux-Arts. the American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Dance Theatre Chamber music appearances include New York’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the of Harlem, the Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Covent Garden, the Joffrey Ballet, and historic Town Hall. As a conductor, Fleisher will make his UK debut this season with the many more. She frequently arranges master classes and performances for young people Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He will also tour the U.S. with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in the community. Artists who have worked with her include Twyla Tharp, James Galway, and North America as conductor and soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, André Watts, and many others. A musician herself, Drucker studied piano at the New York College of Music and voice at The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. She performed on Broadway, in Miami at the Palm Island Latin Quarter, and with the Greater Miami-Dade Opera (now the Florida Grand Opera). Among her many honors are a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from International Fine Arts College, and Doctor of Music, honoris causa, from Florida International University. ARTIST 42 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 43

FLORIDA’S SINGING SONS BOYCHOIR FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ (ABOVE) Writer and editor Fernando González regularly contributes to The Miami Herald, Jazz Founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1975, the internationally award-winning Florida’s Singing Times, The International Review of Music, Latingrammy.com, and other publications. Sons Boychoir consists of boys age 8 through 14 who are selected from the South Florida As a music journalist, González has been managing editor of Jazziz, correspondent community by audition. Those selected are rigorously prepared through a multilevel for The Washington Post, and staff music critic for The Miami Herald and The Boston music education program for participation in one of the three choirs: Training Choir, Globe. He was managing editor of El Sitio.com United States and has contributed Residence Choir, and Concert Choir. to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Downbeat, Sí, Variety, Rhythm Music, CD Review, New York Latino, Request, Pulse and eritmo.com. The Boychoir performs a wide variety of choral literature, from Gregorian chant to Broadway favorites. Concerts typically include secular and sacred choral classics as well González won an Emmy and a Gabriel Award as senior editor and writer for the as selections from opera, operetta, folk music, and musical theater. Members of the special “Notes from The Mambo Inn: The Story of Mario Bauzá,” and also received choir have appeared with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the New World Symphony, an Emmy nomination and a Gold Award as associate producer and writer for “En Clave,” the Sinfonia Virtuosi of Florida, the Gold Coast Opera, and the Imperial Symphony, as hosted by singer Rubén Blades. In 2001 González translated and expanded Ástor well as with stage luminaries Liza Minnelli, Judy Collins, Lee Greenwood, and the late Piazzolla: A Memoir, the autobiography of the late Argentine composer. Audrey Hepburn and Bob Hope. From 2005 to 2007 González was curator of jazz programming for the Adrienne Arsht Other choral activities include international and national concert tours, arts in education Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007 he accepted a position with Spain’s Fundación concerts for Broward County public schools through the SEAS Program (Student Autor to develop a cultural network in Latin America and was project manager in Enrichment in the Arts and Sciences), community outreach concerts, performances for collaboration with Berklee College in launching an international music school in Valencia, local and national conventions, commercials for radio and television, radio broadcasts on Spain. In 2011 he co-created and lectured for a course at the Global Jazz Institute WTMI, and television broadcasts on WPBT, South Florida’s Public television station. at Berklee College of Music. González is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and a charter member of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. J.B. FLOYD J.B. Floyd is professor of keyboard performance at the Frost School of Music, where he served as department chair for many years. Floyd’s musical interests are diverse. As a GARY GREEN pianist, composer, and improviser, his music-making includes classical piano recitals and Gary Green, professor of music and director of bands at the Frost School of Music, solo appearances with orchestra, new music performances as a soloist and collaborator, teaches conducting and serves as the conductor of the Frost Wind Ensemble. Formerly and jazz concerts. His compositions include solo piano pieces, works for piano/Disklavier the chair of the Department of Instrumental Performance, Green holds a B.M. degree and computer-assisted electronic instruments, and works for chorus, orchestra, jazz from Boise State University and an M.M. degree from the University of Idaho. He formerly ensembles, and chamber music combinations. conducted the University of Connecticut’s Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band. Floyd received B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of North Texas and a D.M. in Performance from Indiana University. He was awarded a Town Hall (NYC) debut recital Green also was director of bands at University High School in Spokane, Washington, one by the National Guild of Piano Teachers competition and a Fulbright scholarship for of the most widely respected band programs in the nation. Throughout his career, he has study in Vienna. He also received an artist-in-residence appointment to Hawaii by the received numerous honors and awards. His recent conducting activities include events Ford Foundation and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Floyd in Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Georgia, Utah, Virginia, Washington, has collaborated on many occasions with David Rosenboom in concerts of two-piano and others. In addition, he has conducted all state, regional, national, and international improvisations; they have also performed simultaneously on Yamaha Disklaviers from honor bands. “virtual stages” in Santa Monica, California and New York City over Internet Electric Cafe International, a network of sites around the world linked by teleconferencing systems, videophones, and computers. ARTIST 44 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 45

STEPHEN GUERRA, JR. ROSS HARBAUGH Stephen Guerra, Jr., is a jazz composition lecturer in the Department of Studio Music Ross Harbaugh (violincello) is professor of instrumental performance and program and Jazz at the Frost School of Music. He is also the conductor of the Frost Studio Jazz director, Strings, at the Frost School of Music, where, in addition to teaching cello, he is Band, winning DownBeat student awards in both 2010 and 2011, as well as director of the faculty mentor for the undergraduate Stamps String Quartet and works with graduate community outreach for the Frost School and coordinator of the Henry Mancini Institute. string quartets. He is cellist of the well-known Bergonzi String Quartet. His distinguished Guerra earned a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in Saxophone Performance, teachers include Janos Starker, Leonard Rose, and Peter Howard in the United States, an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently pursuing a D.M.A in Jazz Andre Navarra at the Paris Conservatory, and chamber music study with the Juilliard Composition from Frost School of Music. Quartet. In high demand as a composer and arranger, Guerra was commissioned to write music As a founding member of the New World Quartet, Harbaugh won the Naumburg Prize for Dave Koz, Jorge Villamizar, Carmen Bradford, the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra, and a Prix du Disque. He has recorded 14 records and CDs for Vox, MCI Classic and IMP the Greater Manchester Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Henry Mancini Institute Masters, CRI, Centaur, Fleur de Son, and Musical Heritage labels. Performing throughout Orchestra, and the Air Force Band of the West. He served as a composer‐in‐residence Europe and the United States, he has appeared in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Alice throughout the U.S. through the Commission Project and the National Endowment for Tully Hall, and Wigmore Hall in London and has concertized with such artists as Leonard the Arts. He has performed alongside many jazz greats, including Phil Woods, Al Grey, Rose, Bill Preucil, Richard Goode, Jeffrey Kahane, Raphael Hillyer, Joel Krosnick, Jerome Snooky Young, Marshall Royal, John Faddis, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. He was a featured Rose, Gil Kalish, and the Guarneri Quartet. Harbaugh served as a judge for the Fischoff soloist on the Clark Terry and the Young Titans of Jazz 2003 release Live at Marihan’s Chamber Music Competition, the Stulberg Competition, and the Fulbright Competition for and the Louie Bellson Big Band release Louie and Clark Expedition 2. The Stephen Graduate Music Study Abroad. Guerra Big Band released a critically acclaimed first album in 2009, Namesake.

JENNIFER HIGDON MARJORIE HAHN Composer Jennifer Higdon, a major figure in contemporary classical music, is one of Marjorie Gould Hahn is in her 40th year as conductor and teacher for the South Florida America’s most frequently performed composers. Her works represent a range of genres, Youth Symphony. She became the executive director ten years ago and has guided including orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and wind ensemble music. She received the organization to a superb level of programming, teaching, touring, and ensemble the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and has received awards from the development. She also secured and appointed a musical staff dedicated to the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy of Arts development of South Florida’s young talent. Hahn was the private conducting pupil and and Letters, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the stepdaughter of Carmen Nappo, the late founder of the South Florida Youth Symphony. Arts, and ASCAP. She is currently serving a six-year term on the Board of the Youth Orchestra Division of Higdon’s commissioners include The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, the League of American Orchestras. The Atlanta Symphony, The Baltimore Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Hahn is an active teacher and performer, serving as adjunct French horn instructor for Minnesota Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Symphony, The Indianapolis Symphony, The Dallas Miami Dade College, Kendall for 11 years, continuing education trumpet instructor, and Symphony, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has private studio teacher of both instruments. She performs regularly with the quintet been a Featured Composer at festivals including Tanglewood, Vail, Cabrillo, Grand Teton, Miami’s Top Brass and is the French hornist for the Miami Dade College, Kendall Norfolk, and Winnipeg. She has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Pittsburgh Woodwind Quintet. Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Fort Worth Symphony. In 2012-13, she will be creative director for the Cincinnati Symphony’s Boundless Series and Composer-in-Residence with the Arkansas Symphony. Higdon’s works have been recorded extensively, and her Percussion Concerto won a Grammy in January 2010 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Her CDs Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra/City Scape, Strange Imaginary Animals, and Transmigration also received Grammys. She currently holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published by Lawdon Press. ARTIST 46 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 47

DOROTHY HINDMAN DENNIS KAM Dorothy Hindman’s work is performed extensively in the U.S. and throughout Dennis Kam is a professor in the Department of Music Theory and Composition at the Europe. Critics have called her music “intense, gripping, and frenetic,” “sonorous and Frost School of Music, where he served as department chair for several decades. He affirmative,” and “music of terrific romantic gesture.” Awards and recognition include conducts the Other Music Ensemble (for the performance of new music). He is also the 2005 Almquist Choral Composition Award, a 2004 Nancy Van de Vate International composer-in-residence for the South Florida Youth Symphony. Recent recordings of Composition Prize for Opera, a 2004 winner of the International Society of Bassists his music include Miami Mix II, performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony (TNC Solo Composition Competition, an Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual label), as well as two works performed by the Ibis Camerata, Trio and Sonata Ibis Artist Fellowship, and the NACUSA Young Composers Competition. Commissions for (Albany). He is a national board member for Composition for the Southern Chapter of the 2010 include Prothalamia for the Empire City Men’s Chorus (NYC) and The Road to College Music Society and a former president. He has also served as a member of both Damascus for the Caraval Quartet (NYC). Executive and National Councils for the Society of Composers, Inc. Other recent commissions include Sursum Corda for the a cappella choir of the same Kam has received many commissions, grants, and awards, including BMI and the Ford name; The Wall Calls to Me, to accompany a visual installation by artist Sally Johnson; Foundation, enabling him to serve as professional (composer)-in-residence for Honolulu Nine Churches for the Corona Guitar Kvartet and Lithuanian Sinfonia; Tapping the and the State of Hawaii under the auspices of the Ford Foundation/ MENC Contemporary Furnace for Evelyn Glennie, Stuart Gerber, and Scott Deal; and The Pillow Book for Music Project from 1970 to 1972. He was music director/conductor of the Greater Miami the Goliard Ensemble (NYC). Hindman’s residencies include a Seaside Escape to Create Youth Symphony from 1982 to 1987, and his works since the 1980s have represented a Residency in 2009; Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy in Fall 2005; variety of interests, including new tonal or post-atonal possibilities, contextual novelty, resident composer at the Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden in 2005; and varieties of focus and perceptibility, time and continuity, meaning, implication, and composer-in-residence for the Goliard Ensemble in 2009. A native of Miami, she is part representation in music. of the adjunct faculty at Florida International University and the University of Miami, a freelance composer, and a writer for The Miami Herald. TRUDY KANE Trudy Kane, associate professor of flute, joined the faculty of the Frost School of Music in JP JOFRE 2008 after 32 seasons as principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera. She received both Bandoneonist Juan Pablo Jofre has brought his form of contemporary tango to some a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School of Music. Upon graduation she freelanced of the most important venues in Asia, Europe, America, and the Caribbean as soloist, and spent two years as a regular extra with the New York Philharmonic. She is active in composer, and arranger. the commercial recording field and can be heard on the soundtracks of many film scores (trudykane.com). She can be heard and seen on many Met videos including Il Trittico, As a performer, he earned Argentina’s highly competitive National Arts Grant to study Manon Lescaut, Peter Grimes, and three different La Boheme´ s. with legendary Ástor Piazzolla’s Sextet bandoneón player, Julio Pane, in Buenos Aires. Jofre has collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Paquito D’ Rivera Sextet, Kane has given master classes at noted universities, including Manhattan and Mannes Nina Beilina, Dartmouth Wind Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Jazz Orchestra, San Schools of Music, Penn State University, and University of North Texas. Her CD, In PHOTO BY BY SERGIOPHOTO R. REYES Juan National Symphony Orchestra, and i Solisti di Perugia, among many others. the French Style, includes works by Fauré, Frank, and Gieseking. A number of her transcriptions for Flute Quartet have been published, as well as her transcription of the Jofre has also received commissions from festivals and orchestras, including the Fauré Sonata and cadenzas for Mozart’s Concerto in D Major. She has been privileged Heineken Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Festival, American Virtuosi, and Bacchanalia to work with many great conductors, including Carlos Kleiber, Karl B¨ohm, Erich Leinsdorf, Taiwan. Other major performances include the International Tango Festival of Granada James Levine, Pierre Boulez, and Valery Gergiev and great singers such as Leontyne and the International Tango Festival of Alméria, the inauguration ceremony for the Price, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland. Granada School for the Bandoneón, the 2011 Latin Grammy Ceremony, and The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Jofre began studies at the National University of San Juan School of Music in San Juan, Argentina, and has studied with Martin Ferres, Daniel Binelli, and Julio Pane. His debut CD features Grammy winner Paquito D’ Rivera performing Jofre’s “Primavera.” ARTIST 48 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 49

KAREN KENNEDY DAVE LIEBMAN Karen Kennedy is associate professor and director of choral studies at the Frost School David Liebman’s four-decade career as a saxophonist/flautist began in the 1970s with of Music, where she conducts the Frost Chorale and other choral ensembles. She is also the Elvin Jones and Miles Davis Groups. Since then he has led his own groups, including artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida. She previously held the positions Lookout Farm, Quest, and The Dave Liebman Group, featuring John Scofield, Richie of chorus director for the Honolulu Symphony, director of choral activities at the University Beirach, Billy Hart, Adam Nussbaum, Al Foster, John Abercrombie, and Vic Juris. His of Hawai`i at Manoa, and director of choral activities at Towson University. She earned a eclectic repertoire ranges from original adaptations of standards to 20th-century-inspired D.M.A. in choral music from Arizona State University, an M.M. in choral conducting from classical music, from fusion to his own big band and free jazz ensembles. Notable Butler University, and a B.M. in music education from DePauw University. performances with contemporary classical groups include Klangforum of Vienna and the

Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris. VASHLISHAN BY MATT PHOTO Kennedy regularly conducts choral festivals featuring major works, such as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Durufle’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and Liebman has played on nearly 300 recordings, and his numerous awards include the Rutter’s Gloria, and presented concerts in such venues as the Mormon Tabernacle in 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Masters of Jazz Award; the Order of Arts and Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. She has Letters, France; the 2007 Jazz Journalist’s award for Soprano Saxophone; a 1998 Grammy received numerous awards for teaching, including awards from the University of Hawaii, nomination for Best Jazz Solo; and an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, Arizona State University, and Butler University. She is well known as a choral clinician Finland. He consistently places in the top three positions for soprano saxophone in the and adjudicator, regularly working with Gateway Music Festivals, Music in the Parks, and DownBeat Critic’s Poll since 1973, winning first place in both the 2011 DownBeat and Heritage Music Tours, as well as all-state and festival honor choirs. Her workshops have 2011 and 2012 Jazz Times Critic’s Poll. Leibman is a renowned lecturer and author of been a part of recent ACDA and MENC regional and state conventions, and she has served several books, including: Self Portrait of a Jazz Artist and A Chromatic Approach to as the ACDA Eastern Division Collegiate Repertoire and Standards Chair and as a founding Jazz Harmony and Melody. He is Artist in Residence at the Manhattan School of Music member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. and the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz.

JEFFREY KIPPERMAN Jeff Kipperman, from Yorktown Heights, New York, is a doctoral student in jazz bass and DANTE LUCIANI teaching assistant at the University of Miami. He has been playing bass for 25 years and Dante Luciani is a lecturer in jazz trombone in the Department of Studio Music and Jazz at has a great deal of professional experience playing jazz, classical, and world music. In the Frost School of Music, where he is coordinator of the Jazz Brass program and conducts Miami, he has performed with the Miami Ballet, Florida Grand Opera, and New World the award-winning Frost Concert Jazz Band. Formerly the lead trombonist and soloist Symphony and has led his own jazz ensembles. This is his fifth year performing with the with the Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson Orchestras, Luciani has performed with Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. various artists, including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ben Vereen, Burt Bacharach, Natalie Cole, Anthony Newley, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, and Paquito D’Rivera. Under Luciani’s leadership, the Frost Concert Jazz Band won the DownBeat magazine LARRY LAPIN 2010 award for “Large Jazz Ensemble, Graduate College Winner.” As a trombone soloist, Larry Lapin is professor and program director of Jazz Vocal Performance at the Frost he toured Eastern Europe with his Jazz Quintet and also performed in Istanbul, Turkey at School of Music. A pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, Larry Lapin’s career is vast, the Nardis Jazz Club for the Istanbul Jazz Festival. He was twice featured as a soloist for the including performances with jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Bobby Shew, Johnny “Salsa Meets Jazz” series at the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club and in 2005 was featured as an Smith, George Duvivier, and Sarah Vaughn. In addition, he has appeared with such show All-Star on The Jazz Cruise. He holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Miami. business personalities as Rich Little, Phyllis Diller, Cab Calloway, and Tony Bennett. His arrangements and orchestrations are constantly performed by professional and school groups all over the country, most recently by Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Orchestra. Lapin’s students have garnered 26 awards in 22 years in DownBeat magazine’s annual student music award competition. He is a member of the American Federation of Musicians; American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); Music Educators National Conference; International Association of Jazz Educators; American Choral Directors Association; and Florida Vocal Association. A popular conductor and clinician, Lapin is in-demand at all-state festivals and music conferences. ARTIST 50 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 51

LUCIANO MAGNANINI ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ Luciano Magnanini, professor of bassoon at the Frost School of Music, began his musical Grammy-winning soprano Ana María Martínez’s career spans the world’s greatest opera studies in Italy at the Conservatory Nicolo Paganini in Genoa and continued his musical houses and concert halls. Martínez has sung every major lyric role, including: Mimi in training in the city of Milan. His recordings include: Twentieth-Century Music for La Bohéme; Violetta in La Traviata; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni; and the Countess Bassoon and Piano: Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Elliot and A Tour d’Anches, French in Le Nozze di Figaro at such venerable houses as the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Music for Winds on Altarus Records, Inc., and Gordon Jacob, Concerto for Bassoon Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San on Albany Records. He has also recorded for RCA, CBS, and Harmonia Mundi. Francisco Opera, and others. She has sung with today’s top conductors—Alan Gilbert, James Conlon, Massimo Zanetti, and Gustavo Dudamel—and orchestras such as the BBC Magnanini has been principal bassoonist with the Orchestra Comunale della Opera in Symphony at Barbican Hall, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, Filharmonica Genoa, Mexico City Philharmonic, Miami Philharmonic, World Symphony Orchestra, della Scala, New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Festival Casals Orchestra, and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra in North Carolina. He Orchestre de Paris, Boston Symphony, and more. has played under the baton of renowned conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Meta, Carlo Maria Giuliani, Alain Lombard, Eduardo Mata, and James Conlon. He has an Martínez regularly performs on tour nationally and internationally with Placido Domingo active performing career playing solo concerts and chamber music in the United States, and Andrea Bocelli and has appeared at the White House, the Casals Festival, and the South America, China, and Europe. Glyndebourne Festival. Her DVD performances include: Cosi Fan Tutte at the Salzburg Festival; Spanish Night with Placido Domingo conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Amor, Vida de Mi Vida with Domingo and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg; Concerto, One Night in Central Park, with Andrea Bocelli; and Rusalka with the MICHAEL MAGUIRE London Philharmonic Orchestra. Her recordings include Ana María Martínez - Soprano Michael Maguire’s portrayal of Enjolras in the original Broadway company of Les Songs and Arias (Naxos), the Latin Grammy Award-winning Merlin with Plácido Misérables garnered a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Theater World Award and a Domingo, Glass’s La Belle et la Bête (Nonesuch), and Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Naomi & feature on the cover of Newsweek. He was a member of the “Dream Cast” celebrating Ruth with Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Naxos). the tenth anniversary of Les Miz at the Royal Albert Hall, broadcast on PBS and around the world. Maguire starred as Count Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music at the New York City Opera and in Strike Up the Band opposite Charles Nelson Reilly for L.A.’s Reprise series. Other national starring roles include Carousel, Brigadoon, Kismet, Annie Get CHARLES MASON Your Gun, Side by Side, 110 in the Shade, and Showboat. At the Cinegrill in Los Charles Mason is associate professor and chair of the Department of Theory and Angeles, “Michael Maguire in Concert” scored rave reviews, and his collaboration with Composition at the Frost School of Music. He has received many awards for his Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte in Direct from Broadway debuted at the Kennedy compositions, including the American Composers Orchestra “Playing It Unsafe” prize, Center in Washington and has toured the U.S. the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composició Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. He As a concert soloist and big band singer, Maguire has appeared with more than 250 was named the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus by the Frost School of Music. His music has symphony orchestras, including the Cleveland, Minnesota, Kansas City, St. Louis, been performed worldwide, including the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico Buffalo, San Diego, Columbus, Seattle, Utah, and National Symphonies. His solo CD with City, the Quirinale in Rome, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and the Nuova Musica Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops has sold over 300,000 copies, and he recently Consonante in Romani and broadcast over RAI radio throughout Italy and on NPR’s recorded three CDs of Jerome Kern’s music at the Abbey Road Studio. Film credits include “Performance Today.” Go Fish, Where the Day Takes You, Cadillac, and Deep End of the Ocean, and television guest appearances include Quantum Leap, Nowhere Man, Hearts Afire, Mason has received commissions from many top-ranked ensembles, including American and Star Trek-Voyager. Composers Orchestra, DUO 46, Miami String Quartet, Gregg Smith Singers, Dale Warland Singers, Corona Guitar Kvartet, ONIX (Mexico), Luna Nova, bassist Robert Black, violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, New York Golliard Ensemble, and cellists Madeleine Shapiro, Craig Hultgren, and Jeffrey Solow, to name a few. He completed his B.M. with honors at the University of Miami and his M.M. and D.M.A. in composition at the University of Illinois. In 2005 he was a composer-in-residence at the International Centre for Composers in Visby, Sweden and twice sponsored by the Seaside Institute as an “Escape to Create” composer-in-residence. ARTIST 52 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 53

PAMELA MCCONNELL LAWRENCE MOORE Pamela McConnell (viola) is professor of instrumental performance at the Frost School Lawrence W. Moore is a lecturer teaching electronic music courses in the Department of of Music, where she is also coordinator of string chamber music and artistic director of Music Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music. These courses include MIDI the Frost Chamber Players. She is highly regarded as a concert violist, adjudicator, and Control Systems, Multimedia for Musicians, Introduction to the Electronic Music Studio, master teacher. Her recent string quartet arrangements of the beloved orchestral works Digital Synthesis, and more. An art music composer who specializes in the production Saint-Seans’s Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf are highly of electro-acoustic music, he also generates sounds and program software components popular in concert. She has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the for the production of music. He has an eclectic background in music, ranging from world and at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Gardner saxophone performance to studio engineering and production. Museum of Boston. She was previously on the faculties of University of North Carolina at Moore earned a D.M.A. in composition and an M.M. in media writing and production Charlotte, and State University of New York at Buffalo, where, as a member of the Rowe from the University of Miami, an M.M. in composition and theory and an M.M. in Quartet, she shared a Peabody Award. saxophone performance from The Pennsylvania State University, and a B.A. in music McConnell is the founding violist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the quartet in residence from Lebanon Valley College. He produces electronic music through his independent at the Frost School of Music, as well as the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Upper label, Wayfarer Music. His music is performed at electronic music festivals, and he Peninsula Michigan, Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, and composed the soundtrack for Cruel and Usual, which was awarded honorable mention Rocky Mountain Music Conservatory in Colorado. She has also been a resident faculty in several independent art film festivals. His music has also been featured on “First performer at Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee and Bowdoin Music Festival Ladies,” the History Channel’s museum documentary about U.S. presidential first ladies. in Maine. She is founder and director of the University of Miami String Academy, a preparatory program. She received a B.M. degree from Northwestern University and an M.M. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, studying with such luminaries as Walter Trampler, Leonard Shure, George Neikrug, and Andor Toth. JASON MORAN 2010 Macarthur Foundation Recipient Jason Moran has established himself as a risk- taking pianist and innovator of new directions in jazz. His awards include Jazz Artist, Jazz Album and Pianist of the Year in the 59th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll; Rising Star Jazz LANSING MCLOSKEY Artist, Rising Star Pianist, Rising Star Composer in the 2003-04 DownBeat Critics Polls; Lansing McLoskey is associate professor in the Department of Music Theory and and the first Playboy Jazz Artist of the Year award. Composition at the Frost School of Music. Described as “one of the best composers Moran’s Soundtrack to Human Motion on Blue Note earned “Best Debut Recording” of [his] generation,” His music has been performed across the United States and in 11 by the Jazz Journalists Association. Facing Left established The Bandwagon with bassist other countries on five continents. He has received dozens of commissions and grants, Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, and Moran added avant-garde icon Sam including the National Endowment of the Arts, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and Barlow Rivers for Black Stars. Moran followed with the acclaimed recordings Modernistic, Endowment, to name a few. The Bandwagon: Live at the Village Vanguard, Same Mother, Artist in Residence, McLoskey has been awarded “first prize” in numerous composition competitions, and TEN. including Omaha Symphony Orchestra International New Music Competition, Kenneth Inspired by contemporary art, Moran’s music is in the collections of the MoMA and Davenport National Competition for Orchestral Works and a Meet the Composer Whitney Museum of American Art. Commissions include The Walker Art Center in commission for Triton Brass, which was premiered at Tanglewood. He completed his Minneapolis, the Dia Art Foundation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and IN MY MIND: Monk at Ph.D. at Harvard University, and he holds degrees with honors from the University of Town Hall, 1959, a multimedia performance and documentary on Monk at Town Hall. California Santa Barbara and the USC Thornton School of Music, with additional studies He has written for LINES Ballet, scored video works for contemporary artists Glenn Ligon at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. and Kara Walker, and collaborated with neo-soul artist Meshell Ndegeocello. Moran is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music, and he has been a lecturer/instructor at Yale University, Dartmouth University, University of Pennsylvania, Eastman School of Music, The Kennedy Center, The New School, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and numerous others. ARTIST 54 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 55

CRAIG MORRIS ANASTASIYA NAPLEKOVA Craig Morris is associate professor of trumpet at the Frost School of Music, where he Winner of the Rudolf Firkusny International Piano Competition in Prague, Anastasiya devotes himself to his teaching and his career as a soloist and chamber musician. He Naplekova was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. There she received her B.M. and M.M. in piano emerged onto the international orchestra scene by winning the prestigious position of performance from Kharkov State University of Arts studying under Professor Nataliya principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, assuming that post from the Melnikova. Naplekova is currently a doctoral student at the Frost School of Music, legendary Adolph “Bud” Herseth. Morris was previously the associate principal trumpet studying piano performance under distinguished artist Professor Santiago Rodriguez. of the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. He recorded Naplekova has won prizes in numerous international piano competitions, including extensively as principal trumpet with both orchestras, including the Grammy-nominated fourth prize at the Fourth International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition in France, recording of Furtwangler’s Symphony No. 2 with the CSO and Daniel Barenboim. honorary mention at the Sixth International Ignace Paderewski Piano Competition In 2003 Morris left his position in the CSO to pursue a burgeoning solo career. With the in Poland, sixth prize at the International Piano Competition in memory of Vladimir Chicago Symphony he was featured as soloist on Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Horowitz in Ukraine, and Dr. and Mrs. Fred Payne Honorable Mention at the Wideman No. 2 and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with Pinchas Zukerman in Chicago’s Piano Competition in Louisiana. She participated in international music festivals, Orchestra Hall. In 2009, Morris gave the U.S. premiere of Desolation Wilderness, such as the Paris International Summer Sessions organized under the Foundation a trumpet concerto by British composer Joby Talbot, at the Cabrillo Festival for Bell’Arte, Beethoven Master Classes with Menahem Pressler in Boston, and CCM Prague Contemporary Music under the baton of Marin Alsop. His debut solo CD, Permit Me International Piano Institute. Voyage, features the music of Debussy, Schumann, Brahms, and Barber, following the Naplekova has performed in master classes with Ian Hobson, Robert Roux, Phillip acclaimed Naxos release Reflections, where Morris was soloist on Thomas Sleeper’s Entremont, and Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff. She has appeared in solo recitals in Concerto for Trumpet. A Texas native, Morris grew up in a musical family. He attended Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, France, and the United States and has performed the University of Texas and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. concerti with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra, and the Crimea State Symphony Orchestra. She has received special grants from the Kharkiv Fund Supporting Young Talents, Ministry of Culture of FEDERICO MUSGROVE STETSON Ukraine, as well as the president of Ukraine. Guitarist Federico Musgrove Stetson started playing his instrument at the age of 12. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he moved to Miami, Florida in 2001 to pursue a career in music. Although initially trained as an electric guitarist, his focus moved to classical guitar, and he graduated from the University of Miami in 2007 with his bachelor’s degree CARLOS OLIVA in music performance. Cuban-born vocalist and percussionist Carlos Oliva arrived in Miami in 1961, where he formed Los Sobrinos del Juez (The Judge’s Nephews), specializing in a new, intercultural In 2011, Musgrove Stetson became the first person to earn a master’s degree in classical sound. This fusion of Cuban music, salsa, afro beats, samba, jazz and rock became guitar performance from Florida International University, where he studied with Rafael known as “The Miami Sound.” Oliva has produced and directed many other musical Padrón. He has performed for many notable artists, including Denis Azabagic, Manuel groups, including Miami Sound Machine. A prolific commercial composer, Oliva earned Barrueco, Margarita Escarpa, Máximo Diego Pujol, Berta Rojas, and Hopkinson Smith. an Emmy Award for music for a promotional Univision campaign. He has written many He is currently president and executive director of the Florida Guitar Foundation and head television theme songs, including Cristina and Ocurrio Asi, both winners of BMI Latin guitar instructor at Music Instruction Specialists in Miami. He continues to study jazz TV Theme Awards, and La Feria de la Alegria. He has written for other international guitar and regularly performs with the Gold Coast Opera. He holds an additional diploma artists and for more than 100 radio and television commercials. in Audio Technology from the SAE Institute. Los Sobrinos del Juez’s numerous hits have led to successful tours in Latin America, Europe, and especially Brazil, where their album Caribbean Dance won a Gold Record Award for sales over 250,000 copies. They continue to release new recordings, including Crossing Over in 2004, I’m a Believer in 2007 on the Talent Beach Music label, and …Y Seguimos Guarachando in 2011, including a DVD with a collection of video clips produced throughout the years. ARTIST 56 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 57

RAFAEL PADRÓN PAUL POSNAK Rafael Padrón began studying the guitar at the age of 11. He attended the National School Paul Posnak’s international career as a concert pianist, recording artist, transcriber of Art in Havana, Cuba, Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, and teacher began as a child prodigy with a full scholarship to the Juilliard Preparatory and University of Miami Frost School of Music. Padrón has won top prizes in many national School at age 8. He won first prizes in the International J.S. Bach Competition as well as and international competitions. He has been featured in many of the most important the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Now professor and program director international guitar festivals. He has performed both solo and with orchestras in South, in accompanying and chamber music for the Frost School of Music, he has performed Central, and North America, Asia, and Europe. to critical acclaim at such venues as the White House, the Supreme Court, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall in New York, and Padrón has taught classical guitar at the Pedagogical Institute of Pinar del Rio, Cuba; throughout Europe, South America, and Asia. National University of Heredia, Costa Rica; the Costa Rica University of San José, Costa Rica; and The Levine School in Washington, D.C. Currently, he is chairman of the guitar A highly regarded collaborative artist, Posnak has worked with many world-renowned department at the Miami Conservatory of Music, founder of the Guitar Program at the vocalists, including Luciano Pavarotti and Jennie Tourel, and performed and recorded Florida Gulf Coast University, and part of the faculty at the Frost School of Music. with many of the world’s leading chamber ensembles. He has 14 recordings of solo and chamber works for labels such as EMI, Naxos, Vox, Arabesque, Centaur, Yamaha Disklavier Artist Series, and Cambria, including his latest CD recording, The Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth, released in 2006. His reconstructions of the brilliant solo improvisations of George Gershwin and Thomas “Fats” Waller from the old recordings and radio broadcasts have established him as a world authority, and his recent film on Chopin, directed by documentary film maker Anthony Allegro, has attracted international VALERIE PERRI attention. Valerie Perri is best known for her award-winning performance in the role of Eva Peron in the national touring production of the Tony Award-winning musical Evita, directed by the legendary Harold Prince. Her other Broadway shows include starring roles in: West Side Story; Gypsy; Jesus Christ Superstar; I Do, I Do; The World Goes Round; Man of La Mancha; Annie Warbucks; City of Angels; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. Santiago Rodriguez is professor of keyboard performance and chair of the piano department at the Frost School of Music. He made his Carnegie Hall debut under the Perri is a recipient of a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for her performance in Harry baton of Dennis Russell Davis, and his international career was launched in 1981 when Chapin: Lies and Legends and a nominee for the Sarah Siddons Award for her role as he won the Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Rodriguez Eva Peron. Her television and film credits include:E.R. ; Another World; Brooklyn Bridge; also received a special prize for the best performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Touches, a Who’s the Boss; Geppetto with Drew Carey, The Out of Towners with Goldie Hawn and work commissioned for the competition. His unique life and artistry were profiled on CBS Steve Martin; George of the Jungle with Brendan Frasier; Grease with John Travolta; and Sunday Morning with Charles Kurault in 1993. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star with David Spade. She has performed with orchestras at Wolftrap, Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, the Frankfurt Opera House, The London One of today’s foremost interpreters of the music of Sergei Rachmaninov, Rodriguez has Palladium, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. She also sang in the world premiere concert performed all of the composer’s major piano works in concert. He is currently recording of Masada at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles. Perri’s Sweet Conversation CD of The Rachmaninov Edition, which, when completed, will encompass the entire catalog standards and Broadway hits is available through her website. of Rachmaninov’s original solo piano compositions. Rodriguez has recorded numerous world premieres, including Piano Concerto No. 1 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; the Joining Perri onstage is her son, Benny Lipson, a Los Angeles native studying studio music Concertino for piano, strings, and cymbals of Carlos Surinach; and the Piano Sonata and jazz voice at the Frost School. Lipson has shared stages with Herbie Hancock, Ben No. 2 of Alberto Ginastera, which he premiered at Alice Tully Hall in New York. Folds, Barry Manilow, and Wynton Marsalis at such venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center. He has performed in and around Miami as a proud Rodriguez also enjoys a distinguished reputation as a teacher and master-clinician. member of the Frost School’s JV1 Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Larry Lapin and has Since 1980, he was a member of the Piano Division at the University of Maryland, where played at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival as a vocalist and bassist. he held the rank of professor and artist-in-residence. He holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied on full scholarship as a pupil of Adele Marcus, and he completed his undergraduate studies magna cum laude with William Race at the University of Texas. ARTIST 58 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 59

JON SECADA SVET STOYANOV Three-time Grammy winner Jon Secada is an international superstar. With sales of more Svet Stoyanov (percussion) is assistant professor of instrumental performance and than 20 million albums worldwide, Secada is also a veteran of Broadway and television, program director of percussion at the Frost School of Music. Praised by The New York and is an accomplished producer. Times for his “understated but unmistakable virtuosity” and a “winning combination of gentleness and fluidity,” Bulgarian-born Stoyanov is a winner of the 2003 Concert Artists After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in jazz vocal performance at the Guild International Competition. He made his New York City debut at Lincoln Center’s University of Miami, Secada joined Gloria Estefan’s band as a background singer. He Avery Fisher Hall as a co-soloist, premiering the Phillip Glass “Concerto Fantasy” for composed several ballads for Estefan, including the number one hit “Coming Out of the Two Timpanists and Orchestra. Stoyanov has performed as a soloist with the Chicago, Dark.” His debut album, Jon Secada, went triple platinum, and the Spanish-language Seattle, and American Symphony Orchestras and The New York Pops, to name a few, and version was the No. 1 Latin album of 1992, earning him a Grammy for Best Latin Pop at prominent festivals worldwide. Album. Secada’s second album, Heart, Soul & Voice, went platinum, and his third album, Amor, earned a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance. In 2006 Secada shared An active and passionate chamber musician, Stoyanov works with violinist Moni a Grammy for Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers. Secada Simeonov (The SemiDuo project), a 2Piano/2Percussion ensemble (Hammer/Klavier), and has released numerous top-30 hits and albums throughout his career, and in 2010 he a contemporary music collaborative with flutist Claire Chaise. Stoyanov’s CD Percussive released his first concert DVD, Stage Rio, from his 2009 Brazil tour. Counterpoint was released in 2009 to a great acclaim and features a transcription of Steve Reich’s “Electric Counterpoint” for marimba and vibes and a video performance Secada has co-written and co-produced songs for Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, and of Thierry de Mey’s “Musique de Tables” — a theatrical “ballet” for 3 sets of hands. Mandy Moore for their multi-platinum albums. He has starred on Broadway as Danny In addition to his diverse performance career, Svet Stoyanov is actively involved with Zuko in Grease, the emcee in Sam Mendes’s Cabaret, and Joseph in Lloyd Webber’s educational outreach and presents numerous clinics and workshops. and Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He was a longtime celebrity judge on Latin American Idol. Through Jon Secada Charities, Secada supports charitable initiatives worldwide, including the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and Keeping Music in Schools. FRED STURM Jazz composer and conductor Fred Sturm has appeared with professional jazz ensembles and radio orchestras in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, and Norway, THOMAS SLEEPER and his works have been performed by ensembles, orchestras, wind ensembles, and chamber groups worldwide, featuring renowned artists Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Thomas Sleeper is professor of instrumental performance and program director of Marsalis, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Gary Burton, Arild Andersen, and orchestral activities at the Frost School of Music, where he also teaches instrumental John Scofield. conducting. He began his professional career as a member of Fermata, a group of composer-performers who presented an annual series of concerts throughout Texas. At In 2003 Sturm received the ASCAP/IAJE Commission In Honor of Quincy Jones, granted age 22, he was appointed associate conductor of the Dallas Civic Symphony and the annually to a jazz composer of international prominence. He has received grants from Southern Methodist University Chamber Orchestra and Opera Theatre. the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund, among others. Today Sleeper resides in Miami, Florida, where he enjoys a busy dual career as a His works are published by eight international houses, and have been recorded on four composer and conductor. He is the conductor of the Frost Symphony Orchestra and different labels, including Concord Jazz, RCA, and Warner Brothers, and he received a Opera Theater and music director for the Florida Youth Orchestra. A strong advocate for Grammy nomination in 1997. new music, he has conducted the premieres of numerous works by American composers, including Henry Brant, Carlos Surinach, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Roberto As an educator, Sturm’s ensembles have been cited by DownBeat nine times as the Sierra. Sleeper’s original compositions have received excellent reviews in Fanfare, finest in the United States, and in 2010 he received the DownBeat Jazz Education Gramophone, and The American Record Guide. His Concerto for French Horn and Achievement Award. He is currently director of jazz and improvisational music at the Symphony No. 1 were recently premiered. Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin. From 1991 to 2002, he served as professor and chair of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music, directing the Jazz Ensemble, conducting the Studio Orchestra, and coordinating Eastman’s jazz composition and arranging program. ARTIST 60 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 BIOGRAPHIES FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 61

NAOKO TAKAO TRIO DA PAZ (ABOVE) Naoko Takao is assistant professor of keyboard pedagogy at the Frost School of Music With three of Brazil’s most in-demand musicians, Trio da Paz updates and redefines and is on the summer faculty of the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado. Prior to joining Brazilian jazz with its harmonically adventurous interactions, daring improvisations, Frost, she was a long-time faculty member at the Levine School of Music in Washington, and dazzling rhythms. The group was formed in 1990 by guitarist Romero Lubambo, D.C. She enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, ardent educator, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka da Fonseca, all seasoned masters of both master class clinician, adjudicator, and pedagogue. Winner of numerous soloist awards, jazz and Brazilian music. The members of Trio da Paz have recorded and performed with including the gold medal at the 2000 San Antonio International Piano Competition and an extensive list of legendary musicians, including Lubambo’s work with Dianne Reeves, the most recent award from the S&R Foundation, she has performed concerti with the Michael Brecker, Grover Washington, Jr., and Kathleen Battle; Matta’s work with Joe Alexandria Symphony (VA), Laredo Philharmonic (TX), and Ohio Valley Symphony and Henderson, Don Pullen, Yo-Yo Ma, and Paul Winter; and Grammy nominee da Fonseca’s chamber music concerts at the Smithsonian, Strathmore, Library of Congress, and work with Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Scofield, and Tom Harrell. As Trio Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. da Paz, they have recorded and performed with Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, Lee Konitz, Kenny Barron, and Nana Vasconcelos, among others. Highly versatile, Takao is an enthusiastic advocate of newly composed music, often premiering new works and performing for such notable organizations as the Rose The trio’s critically acclaimed debut recording, Brazil from the Inside, received the International Cello Competition. She has coached chamber music extensively with the “Indie” award for best album of the year. They followed that success with an ambitious members of the Guarneri Quartet, is a founding member of the Post Classical Ensemble, concept album exploring themes from Black Orpheus. Their third release, Partido Out, and performs a wide range of works by Copland, Schoenberg, and other modern won the 2002 Jazz Journalists Association award for “The best Brazilian jazz album of luminaries. Her solo piano recitals often feature works by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, and the year.” Their latest release, CAFE, includes special performances by Cesar Camargo Rachmaninoff. Originally from Japan, Takao studied at the Preparatory Program at the Mariano and Grammy Award winners Dianne Reeves and Joe Lovano. San Francisco Conservatory of Music, earned a B.M. from the Hartt School of Music and an M.M. and D.M.A. from University of Maryland, College Park. DALE UNDERWOOD Dale Underwood (saxophone) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental RICHARD TODD Performance at the Frost School of Music. Acclaimed by The Washington Post as “the Richard Todd is associate professor of French horn at the Frost School of Music. From Heifetz of the alto saxophone,” Underwood is internationally recognized as one of the Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl, he has earned international acclaim as one of the today’s foremost classical saxophonists. He has toured extensively throughout the world finest horn soloists today. Gold medal winner of the 1980 Concours Internationale Toulon, as a featured soloist, performing in every state in the continental United States and he is a Pro Musicis International Foundation Award winner and is continually expanding Alaska, as well as in England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Cuba, Brazil, the boundaries of the horn world. Renowned for his performances that “are simply Mexico, and Canada. startling in their dexterity” with “a heart-clutching sound,” he breaks down the barriers A frequent guest soloist with leading orchestras, Underwood has performed with the of music, being equally at home in all areas, including classical and jazz. Now residing in Boston Pops Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Australian Wind Orchestra, Miami, he maintains a rigorous coast-to-coast concert schedule, including performances and the National Conservatory Orchestra in São Paolo, Brazil, among others. In 1993 he as principal horn with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. made his Carnegie Hall debut in a program featuring Claude T. Smith’s Fantasy (written Todd has recorded on more than 1,000 motion picture soundtracks, appeared and especially for Underwood) and A Gershwin Fantasy. recorded with such great performers as Sinatra, Streisand, and Madonna, and performed as a jazz artist with Clark Terry, Ray Brown, and Woody Herman. He recorded two CDs with Andre Previn—one jazz: What Headphones, the other classical: French Chamber Music—and was personally selected by Gunther Schuller to record his Concerto No. 1. He has also recorded solo albums. Previously on the faculty at USC Thornton School of Music and the Henry Mancini Institute, Richard Todd is in constant demand as a lecturer, clinician, and festival artist. He also is a consultant for Hans Hoyer Horns, where he assists in the development of horn and mouthpiece designs. 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ROSEANNA VITRO RICHARD YAKLICH Singer Roseanna Vitro has toured the world as a performer, clinician, recording artist, In addition to conducting the South Florida Youth Symphony, Richard Yaklich has vocal instructor, and official Jazz Ambassador, sponsored in 2009 by Jazz at Lincoln conducted orchestras throughout the United States and Eastern Europe, including the Center and the U.S. State Department, and in 2004 by the Kennedy Center for the Maikop Philharmonic and the Socchie Symphony Orchestra. He attended the Tanglewood Performing Arts and the U.S. State Department. In 2011 she earned a Vocal Jazz Grammy Music Center, where he studied conducting with Gustav Meier, Charles Dutoit, Leon Nomination for The Music of Randy Newman on Motéma Music, featuring pianist Mark Fleisher, Maurice Abravanel, and Seiji Ozawa. A former director of the Jubilate Chamber Soskin, violinist Sara Caswell, bassist Dean Johnson, and drummer Tim Horner. Her Orchestra, Yaklich was a winner of the Walter Charles Conducting Fellowship. In addition signature style can be heard on numerous other recordings, including Passion Dance on to conducting, Yaklich is an active cellist and composer, with works performed by the Telarc with Elvin Jones, Christian McBride, and longtime musical partner Kenny Werner Colorado Symphony and the Filharmonica de Stat Satu Mare in Romania. His Theme and and The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer on Half Note Records with Kenny Variations for Orchestra was performed by the South Florida Youth Orchestra in January Werner, James Carter, Randy Brecker, Ray Anderson, Adam Rogers, John Patitucci, Rocky of 2003, and his In Memorium was given its world premiere at the University of Miami Bryant, and Geoff Countryman. in 2007. In addition to the above, Vitro has performed with such notable musicians as Fred Yaklich is associate professor of music at Florida Memorial University. He has received Hersch, George Coleman, Fathead Newman, Eddie Gomez, Arnett Cobb, Kenny Barron, a Colorado Arts and Humanities Grant and an Allied Arts, Inc. grant, and he is listed in Joe Lovano, Eddie Daniels, Joey Baron, Al Foster, Rufus Reid, Buster Williams, Ben Riley, Who’s Who among American Colleges and Universities. His publications include and Allen Farnham. Her performance in the Jazzaar 2010 in Aarau, Switzerland aired The Struggle for Life in the Middle Ages and the Chaos of the Renaissance and on the Swiss PBS Concert Series in 2011. Her studies of Indian vocal technique are books on orchestra repertoire and musical form and analysis. He received his bachelor’s documented in “From Bebop to Bombay” in the International Association for Jazz degree from the University of Southern Colorado, his master’s degree in music from Education magazine. Colorado State University, and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina.

ROBERT WEINER TIAN YING Robert Weiner (oboe) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental Performance at Tian Ying is associate professor of keyboard performance at the Frost School of Music, the Frost School of Music and principal oboist with the Florida Grand Opera. He has where he has also served as department chair. Winner of many prestigious awards, also served as principal oboist with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City including high honors at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1989, Ying Philharmonic, Miami City Ballet Orchestra, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, and others, enjoys a worldwide reputation as a pianist of taste, dexterity, and artistry. and he has been guest principal oboist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Ying has performed in many prestigious concert halls, including Jordan Hall in Boston, Florida Philharmonic. He was also director and oboist of the Oklahoma City Chamber Mondavi Center in Davis, California, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Woodruff Art Center Players and has performed with New York City area orchestras, including the American in Atlanta, and Shanghai Grand Opera Theater in Shanghai. His 1993 Bank of Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, and Long Island Philharmonic. Celebrity Series concert was chosen as one of the top-ten classical music events by The Weiner has recorded on major labels and is active in the recording studios of Miami. Boston Globe. In addition, Ying has been profiled in such publications asThe New York He previously taught oboe at Conjunto Cultural Ollin Yoliztli in Mexico, Oklahoma City Times, Christian Science Monitor, and People magazine. He has also appeared with University, University of Oklahoma, and Cornell University. Acknowledged for his work numerous renowned orchestras all over the world and records for Centaur Records. on gouging machines and reed making, he is in demand by professionals for advice and work in those areas. He has a B.M. degree from Eastman School of Music and an M.M. degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He studied oboe with Robert Sprenkle, Ronald Roseman, Harold Gomberg, John Mack, and Joseph Robinson. COMMUNITY OUTREACH GRANT SPONSORS 64 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 EDUCATION & CULTURAL MISSION 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 65

ommunity outreach is an important facet of Festival Miami’s Festival Miami 2012 is made possible with the support of the educational and cultural mission. As part of its objective to Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, make the arts and culture accessible to everyone, Festival C the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the Miami- Miami presents select concerts free of charge and offers free Dade County Tourist Development Council, and the City of Coral Gables. admission to several local school music groups, social service organizations, and senior citizen centers. Master classes with Festival Miami is also sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, visiting artists are also free and open to the public. This season, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. conductor Leon Fleisher, pianist Jason Moran, and saxophonist Additional support is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Dave Liebman will hold master classes and speak to audiences. Louis Leibowitz Charitable Trust, Citizens Interested in Arts, Funding Arts Network, Each year, Festival Miami invites local high school music directors to bring their students to William and Tina Rosenberg Foundation, Lady Suzanna P. Tweed and Carlton various concerts and master classes. Community service hours are available to students Tweed Foundation, and United Way, as well as corporate and individual contributors. interested in volunteering as ushers for Festival Miami concerts. Festival Miami also offers free and discounted tickets to University of Miami students for many concerts and permits Frost School of Music students to attend most concerts free of charge. To encourage low-income young adults and senior citizens to attend more cultural events, Festival Miami participates in two highly regarded programs of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Exchange. Through Culture Shock Miami, $5 Festival Miami concert tickets are available to students between 13 and 22 years of age. Through the Golden Ticket program, seniors can attend select Festival Miami concerts free of charge. For more information visit www.cultureshockmiami. com or www.miamidadearts.org/goldenticket.aspx.

Last year, the Miami Jewish Health System and a group of low-income seniors attended concerts at reduced rates. Festival Miami also gave free tickets to City Year Miami, Heroes Unite, Hialeah Gardens Preparatory School, Doral Academy Preparatory School, Miami Arts Charter School, Killian High School, Miami Christian School, South Dade High School, Miami Beach Senior High, and Mays Conservatory of the Arts. Festival Miami hopes to make a dent in each student’s life by presenting this unique opportunity to not only view the concert but also meet and greet the artists behind the music.

In addition, Festival Miami donates tickets to raise money for charitable organizations, including the Greater Miami Chamber of Com- merce’s Leadership Miami, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Order Your Tickets Now! Lowe Art Museum, Citizens Interested in Arts, Save the Children Foundation, Miami Children’s Chorus, and The Beacon Council. 305.284.6486 The combination of a diverse concert lineup and educational opportunities scheduled throughout each season allows Festival Miami to engage community members across age and economic spectrums. Nonprofit groups are invited to become part of Festival Miami’s outreach program. For more information, please call 305-284-4940. CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS 66 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 67

The following listing recognizes individuals, associations, corporations, foundations, and granting institutions that have made gifts to Festival Miami 2012. It is through their generosity that Festival Miami is able to continue presenting South Florida community and visitors with an annual international celebration of music. Gifts to Festival Miami continue to inspire University of Miami students through culturally enriching and inspiring performances. For more information on giving to Festival Miami, please call 305-284-4940. Lina Santiago Daniel S. Whitebook Ellen Jaffe Robert Furniss-Roe Manager, Sales Promotion President Morning Drive Host CEO American Airlines Atlantic Hosiery & 101.5 Lite FM Bacardi U.S.A., Inc. Apparel, Inc. VISIONARY AFICIONADO BRAVO! (Gifts over $25,000) (Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999) (Gifts up to $4,999) American Airlines Citizens Interested In Arts Akerman Senterfitt Atlantic Hosiery and Apparel Classical South Florida Magali Aristondo John S. and James L. Fidelity Investments Dr. Lawrence and Knight Foundation Florida Arts and Culture Suzanne Fishman Miami-Dade County Division of Cultural Affairs Funding Arts Network Department of Dr. Rebecca M. Fox and Grant Miller Oscar Haza Julio Velis Saun Lightbourne Cultural Affairs and the Mayfair Hotel & Stpa Publisher Anchor Executive Director, Dr. William S. Green Vice President Cultural Affairs Council Community Newspapers Univision Radio Sales and Marketing Miami-Dade County Tourist Fidelity Investments, Inc. Gazeta News WQBA 1140 AM Mayfair Hotel & Spa 101.5 Lite FM Development Council Jazz & Blues Florida Univision 23 Tonkinson Financial Tweed Charitable Anne and Provost Foundation, Inc. Thomas LeBlanc IMPRESARIO WDNA Organiste (Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999) WLRN Nora E. Pernas Bacardi, USA Restaurant Services, Inc. Community Newspapers Target Corporation Rick Tonkinson Maggie Palleya John Labonia President General Manager General Manager Classical South Florida UM Citizens Board Tonkinson Financial WDNA 88.9 FM WLRN Louis Leibowitz United Way of Miami-Dade Charitable Trust County, Inc. Mario Andrés Moreno, Alina Mayo Azze, John Morales, Adam Kuperstein, Jackie Nespral, Joe Rose, Trina Robinson Guillermo Benites Anchors The Miami Herald/ Joaquin Vinas Anchors NBC 6 South Florida El Nuevo Herald Univision 23 West Flagler Association NBC 6 Miami Whole Foods Market Univision Radio Grisel Ybarra WDNA 88.9 FM WLRN

Due to printing deadlines, gifts received after September 17, 2012 will be acknowledged online at www.festivalmiami.com. SUPPORT ON SCENE 68 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI FESTIVAL MIAMI 2011 FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 69

When celebrity artists, Festival Miami, the annual music festival of the UM Frost School of generous philanthropists, Music, opens the South Florida arts season, providing superior and and enthusiastic concert- diverse musical programming while expanding academic opportunities goers get together, the and cultural enrichment to visitors and residents alike. Donations are result is Festival Miami! essential to the continued success of Festival Miami. Look who joined us for JOIN OUR FAMILY! some great times last year. Fidelity with Lucie Arnaz When you join the Festival Miami family, you can partake Luisa Sanchez of Imani Winds with Stamps Woodwind Quintet in all that this unique festival has to offer—from increasing brand American Airlines with Dean Shelton Berg awareness and growing your business to attending world-class performances to enjoying private receptions where your guests can meet some of the world’s top musicians. MADE POSSIBLE ONLY WITH YOUR HELP! Festival Miami relies primarily on donations to underwrite its world-class concerts, master classes, and lectures. With your help, we can increase our outreach efforts by bringing music to at-risk youth, low-income seniors, and the South Florida community at large. Take advantage of the opportunity to MCM with Willy Chirino inspire students and music-lovers alike.

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Send checks and money orders to: sponsorship opportunities, UM Frost School of Music please contact: Festival Miami P.O. Box 248165 MARIANNE MIJARES Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2975 Director of Events Please make your check or money order payable to 305. 284. 6824 University of Miami and write Festival Miami [email protected] on the memo section.

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32ND E XHILARATING S EASON MAXIM MOGILEVSKY • VALERY KULESHOV September 23, 2012 at the University of Miami duo-piano NADINE SIERRA, soprano January 13, 2013 – Season WITH MELANIE SIERRA, soprano • GORDON ROBERTS, piano

S N S O S T M F SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT Music by Gounod, Humperdinck, By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ALON GOLDSTEIN, piano • SOOVIN KIM, violin January 26, 2013 Ravel, Stravinsky, and others With the Frost Symphony Orchestra AMIT PELED, cello November and , , : February , : KIM CHEE YUN, violin • ALESSIO BAX, piano February 17, 2013 Clarke Recital Hall March , : ARA T OHN ARTIN ENNEDY March , : , Gusman Hall L S . J , violin • M K , piano March 10. 2013 W T W O F A F SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT Arias on the Hour, Performances, E ALAN GAMPEL, piano March 16, 2013 Film, and more… By Charles Mason SUNDAY EVENING CONCERT November , , – A Frost Opera Theater Premiere ULSE HAMBER USIC • MARGARET FLAVIN, clarinet April and , , : P C M April 21, 2013 SCOTT FLAVIN, violin • MARINA RADIUSHINA, piano April , : The Lowe Art Museum CYPRESS STRING QUARTET • CECILY WARD, TOM STONE, violin May 5, 2013 ETHAN FILNER, viola • JENNIFER KLOETZEL, cello Tickets -- music.miami.edu/concerts Information -- 27th Fun-filled Season Something to Sing About October 28, 2012 FLORIDA’S SINGING SONS BOYCHOIR — in collaboration with Festival Miami Peter & the Wolf November 18, 2012 FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ballad of America December 16, 2012 MATTHEW SABATELLA & THE RAMBLING STRING BAND Strings & Things January 20, 2013 AMERNET STRING QUARTET Where a haven of style, flair, intimacy and class aWaits you Though just minutes from Downtown Miami, the Brickell Avenue Financial District, Miami Keyboard Magic March 17, 2013 International Airport and Miami Beach, the Mayfair Hotel & Spa is worlds apart in ambiance. ALAN GAMPEL We specialize in corporate meetings, incentive trips, and continuing education seminars, up to 300 in capacity. Our sleek, modern meeting facilities offer an array of indoor and outdoor Dancing is Fun May 12, 2013 settings accompanied by our renowned four-diamond service. Our conference space features: • 15,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor meeting space, fully wired and with WiFi available MIAMI CITY BALLET PRINCIPAL DANCERS • Seven elegantly appointed meeting rooms, with versatile floor plans • Outdoor Asian Gardens and the Palm Terrace, for more social gatherings such as weddings, bat/bar mitzvahs and product launches. www.sundaymusicals.org • Rooftop Skypool Lounge 305-271-7150 • • Expert meeting support managers • Creative catering and event planning Call for a season brochure • Subscriptions available • Fully equipped business station adjacent to the conference rooms • By Fall 2012 the hotel will have completed a multi-million dollar décor enhancement with a completely new bedroom package and state-of-art in room amenities. Gusman Concert Hall • UM Campus • 1314 Miller Dr. www.mayfairhotelandspa.com

This program is sponsored in part by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mayor, the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners, Funding Arts Network, The Miami Salon Group, Citizens Interested in Arts, and with the support of the City of Coral Gables, by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Whole Foods Market, Coral Gables, and our many generous underwriters, supporters, advertisers and friends. 72 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012 | 73

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