The Juilliard School presents ChamberFest 2020 Monday, January 13, 2019, 7:30pm Peter Jay Sharp Theater PHILLIP HOUGHTON The Light on the Edge Ziggy Johnston Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Ziggy Johnston is in first year of his Master of Music at Juilliard studying classical guitar under Sharon Isbin. He has won major awards in competitions across Australia, including the Melbourne Recital Centre’s (MRC) Great Romantics Competition, MRC’s Bach Competition, and Melbourne Guitar Festival’s International Artist Competition. He studied for his bachelor’s at Monash University and completed his honors year at the University of Melbourne, where he received the highest grade of any guitarist in 2018. He has performed as a soloist with the Monash Sinfonia, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, and Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra. As a duo with his brother Miles, he has won awards in competitions in Australia and the U.S. and are the youngest musicians to perform in MRC’s Local Heroes concert series. He is a McCabe Fellow and Augustine Foundation Fellow. • Michael Kevin Burke Scholarship Miles Johnston From Melbourne, Australia, Miles Johnston is in the first year of his Master of Music degree at Juilliard, majoring in classical guitar under the tutelage of Sharon Isbin. He has received first prizes from Australia's most prestigious music competitions, including Melbourne Recital Centre’s multi-instrument Great Romantics Competition and the Adelaide International Classical Guitar Competition. These awards led to solo concerts at the Peninsula Summer Music Festival and Adelaide Guitar Festival as well as a nomination for the Freedman Classical Fellowship. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 2018 from Monash University, where he won the Monash Australian music award, and was featured as a soloist with the Monash Sinfonia. Along with his brother Ziggy, he has won prizes in competitions in Australia and the U.S. and has toured across Australia and New Zealand. He is a McCabe Fellow and an Augustine Foundation Fellow. • Michael Kevin Burke Scholarship Tiffany Wong Originally from the Bay Area, harpist Tiffany Wong is a first-year bachelor’s student at Juilliard studying with Nancy Allen. She has won prizes at the Korea International Harp Competition, American Harp Society National Competition, and Young Artist’s Harp Competition. Last summer, she toured as a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in Europe, performing at the Berliner Philharmonie and Wiener Musikverein. Wong was accepted at age 14 to the HarpMasters Academy summer intensive in Switzerland, where she studied with Milda Agazarian and Irina Zingg. In her spare time, she enjoys playing Runescape, singing Disney songs, and watching Lucifer on Netflix. 1 Joshua Williams Hailing from Atlanta, multi-instrumentalist Joshua Williams began playing tuba at age 11 and soon picked up the bass. He was a member of the talent development program of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) from 2014 to 2018. Under the direction of ASO principal tubist Michael Moore, Williams became a national young arts finalist, performing Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto with the Georgia Symphony, and was a finalist in the Presidents Own Marine Band Concerto Competition. He was also a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Rialto Jazz Youth Orchestra before taking his talents to Juilliard, where he studies with Alan Baer. • Kovner Fellowship Paris Myers At Juilliard, Paris Myers (BM ’18, double bass) earned his bachelor’s studying with Eugene Levinson and is pursuing his master’s with Timothy Cobb. He began his studies with Dan Swaim at age 7. Having attended prestigious summer festivals such as Pacific Music Festival and National Repertory Orchestra, Myers has a deep passion for orchestral music. He has been a finalist in the Phoenix Symphony principal bass audition and a semi-finalist in National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony auditions. Myers has also appeared as a guest artist with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. Myers is a Music Advancement Program fellow as well as a Gluck fellow. • Kovner Fellowship Mizuki Morimoto Percussionist Mizuki Morimoto is a second-year master’s student at Juilliard. She also plays percussion as a freelancer in orchestras such as Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka. • Ute Krayenbuehl Scholarship, Ruth Katzman Scholarship, Edward Jàbes Scholarship Nicole Cloutier Nicole Cloutier is an American collaborative pianist who specializes in vocal repertoire. Past engagements include music director for Michigan Opera Theater’s operetta workshop, an appearance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra as first prizewinner of its young artist concerto competition, studies with Martin Katz and Kathy Kelly at the Collaborative Piano Institute, and a pianist/coach fellowship at Musica Nelle Marche opera program in Urbino, Italy. Cloutier studies collaborative piano with Lydia Brown and Jonathan Feldman at Juilliard, where she also serves as a staff pianist. She holds a BM in piano performance from Michigan State University’s College of Music, where she was awarded the Spencer and Eleanor Maurer Memorial Scholarship for Piano to study with artist in residence Panayis Lyras. She graduated with highest honors, and received the Trustee Board award for outstanding academic achievement. • Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, Eileen Hayes Ludlam Memorial Scholarship 2 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Pablo O’Connell Pablo O’Connell is an New York-based oboist, composer, and improviser pursuing his bachelor’s at Juilliard. He is a proponent of contemporary music and performs regularly with the SEM Ensemble, AXIOM, and New Juilliard Ensemble. O’Connell specializes in electroacoustic music and worked as a composer and sound designer for the multimedia theater piece Canaries in Juilliard’s 2019 InterArts Festival. He is interested in the development of political art in service of social movements which seek to secure dignity and freedom for all people. He is on the organizing committee of the Sing in Solidarity Chorus, a project of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America. • Mack Harrell Memorial Scholarship, Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Woodwind Scholarship Jonathan Miron A graduate of Juilliard, Jonathan Miron (Pre-College ’10; BM ’14, MM ’18, violin) enjoys connecting with audiences of all cultures has inspired and taken him on an expansive journey to broaden his artistic palate—from collaborating with members of the Silkroad Ensemble to appearing with Tony and Grammy winner Ben Platt at Clive Davis’ famed pre-Grammy party to pop-up performances at the Met Breuer’s first commissioned sound-based installation, Oliver Beer’s Vessel Orchestra. He is the founder and codirector of Global Perspectives, an educational world music program piloted at Juilliard. Passionate about arts management, Miron is the program administrator for the Center for Arts Learning and Leadership at the 92nd Street Y, serving over 16,000 students and educators throughout the tristate area. ARKAI is Miron’s latest endeavor, partnering with cellist Philip Sheegog to create genre-bending compositions and arrangements that explore diverse sound worlds. Yoonsoo Cha Yoonsoo Cha is a sophomore at Juilliard. While she began musical studies on the violin, she had a chance to play the viola in a quartet during high school and found that she loved the deeper sound and its unique role within the quartet. Soon she decided to focus on the viola and since then her love of the instrument has grown even more under the tutelage of Jay Liu and her current teacher Paul Neubauer. Cha has won numerous competitions for both violin and viola, including the Korean-American Music Supporters’ Association, United States International Music Competition (USIMC), Pacific Musical Society Competition, Silicon Valley Youth Music Competition, and Korea Times Music Competition, and for the past two years she has attended the Gonggeng/Tanggong Music Festival in Suichang, China. • C.V. Starr Scholarship, Frederick Raymond Heward Scholarship 3 Philip Sheegog Philip Sheegog (BM ’17, MM ’19, cello) is a dynamic collaborative artist who maneuvers within a diverse array of musical personas with ease. Drawing from roots influenced by a myriad of musical styles, Sheegog has been sought out for projects from all ends of the musical spectrum, from Juilliard’s contemporary ensemble AXIOM to the Met Breuer’s first commissioned sound-based installation, Oliver Beer’s Vessel Orchestra. A passionate advocate for collaboration and commissioning, Sheegog has premiered over 70 new works by living artists and performed with groups from the New York hip-hop/classical collective ShoutHouse to the International Contemporary Ensemble to the Steve Miller Band. At Juilliard, Sheegog was a recipient of the 2017 John Erskine Prize and a Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant. Markus Lang Starting on cello and electric bass, Markus Lang is well-versed in a wide range of music from rock to classical. He was most recently a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy Alumni program where he performed contemporary orchestral works under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. As a student at Juilliard, he has performed with several of the school’s primary orchestras including the New Juilliard Ensemble, AXIOM, and Juilliard 415. As a chamber musician, Lang plays concerts throughout New York City and has worked with such groups as the New York Classical Players. He has performed