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www.bu.edu/tanglewood encore! The Fall Newsletter of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute 2007 Student Dear Alumni and Friends of BUTI, Enrollment Snapshot It is a pleasure to greet you in this inaugural edition of the BUTI Newsletter. Its purpose is to # of Applicants: 804 keep you informed about BUTI and, most importantly, to deepen the relationship of alumni # Accepted: 488 to the Institute. We encourage you to communicate with us frequently so that we may report alumni news and achievements in future editions. We also extend a warm invitation to visit # Enrolled: 332 BUTI during the summer to rekindle fond memories and to enjoy the current crop of remark- % on Scholarship: 20.8 able young artists who continue the BUTI tradition. % of Students who are Minorities: 10.5 We look forward to hearing from you! States Represented: 39 Phyllis Hoffman, Executive Director Countries Represented: 11 Young Artists Orchestra Young Artists Wind Ensemble Age Range: 13-18 (YAO) July 1—August 11 (YAWE) July 1-July 28 New this year! Music and Consciousness The Kripalu Center and Harvard Medical School invited BUTI to participate in a study that addresses mindfulness and issues of performance-related injuries/ anxiety in the YAO. 35 members of YAO were selected to partici- pate. BUTI looks forward to con- Paul Haas, conductor Photo: Michael Lutch tinuing this program and Photo: Michael Lutch David Martins led the first concert featuring works expanding it to include students Conductor Morihiko Nakahara launched the by McTee, Wilson, and Sparke, as well as patriotic in other BUTI programs. season in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 6th tableaus by W. Schuman and Camphouse. The sec- Symphony, and works by Berlioz and Harbison. ond concert, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds, Paul Haas led the second concert featuring included works by Ticheli, Gryc, Grainger, Adams, Mahler’s 5th Symphony and opening with works Newman (YACP ‘90), and Grantham with David by Corigliano and Monteverdi. For the final con- Martins returning to conduct “Nine Rakes”, a new cert, David Hoose conducted music of Loeffler work written by 2006 TMC Fellow, Katherine with faculty member Melissa Reardon on viola Soper. This work was commissioned as part of an d’amore, and Copland’s 3rd Symphony. Several ongoing collaboration between BUTI and the faculty members and students joined forces with composition program of the TMC, inaugurated in the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) as the off- 2001 by Frank Battisti, conductor and YAWE stage band for Verdi’s “Don Carlo” under the founder. Students also focused on new music in direction of James Levine. In addition, orchestra their chamber music studies and performances by members performed in chamber music concerts working with composers John Heiss, Lansing and master classes. McLoskey, and their YACP peers. In the future, we plan to send out all of our newsletters and correspondence electronically. Please help us to stay in touch with you by updating your information regularly via our website! www.bu.edu/cfa/music/tanglewood/alumni. Also, be sure to join the Official BUTI group on facebook! Photo: Maureen Cotton, courtesy of Kripalu Center Photo: Maureen Master Class Series Young Artists Vocal Program Young Artists Piano Program (YAVP) July 1-August 11 (YAPP) Session I: July 1—21, Session II: July 22—August 11 This year, eighty-three singers participated in YAVP’s intensive cur- riculum of courses and performances. The sopranos began the season as the off-stage chorus for the TMC’s Joshua Bell with students Photo: Michael Lutch performance of Holst’s “The Planets”. Ann Phyllis Hoffman Howard Jones con- Emanuel Ax with students BUTI is deeply grateful to the Photo: Michael Lutch Photo: Emily Culler ducted the chorus in numerous distinguished artists, its August performance of Carl Orff’s “Carmina This summer, for the first time, the piano pro- including BUTI alumni, who gen- Burana” with faculty soloists, the YAO percussion gram had two directors: Maria Clodes Jaguaribe erously provided opportunities section, and pianists Justin Blackwell and Scott (Session I) and Jonathan Bass (Session II). for students to meet and work Allen Jarrett. The program opened with short Students participated in weekly master classes led with them. works by Dello Joio, Kim, and Corigliano. by distinguished pianists Emanuel Ax, Husnu Students also participated in weekly master class- Onaran, Peter Warsaw, Paul Posnak, Frank BUTI Q&A Session Guests es featuring BSO guest artists Christine Brewer, Glazer, Anthony di Bonaventura, and composer Joshua Bell, violin Stephanie Blythe, and Heidi Grant Murphy; and Michael Gandolfi. Each three-week session cul- Christine Brewer, soprano master teachers Penelope Bitzas, Judith Chaffee, minated with a solo piano recital on the Phyllis Curtin, Sharon Daniels, and Jerrold Pope. Tanglewood main grounds. Several students per- BUTI Master Class Guests The program concluded with each student formed in chamber ensembles and with the YAO Emanuel Ax, piano performing in a solo recital and opera scenes. and YAWE throughout the summer. Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano Phyllis Curtin, soprano Young Artists Young Artists Harp Seminar (YAHS) July 1—August 11 Lynn Harrell, cello Composition Program Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano (YACP) July 1—August 11 The YAHS students rotate their assign- Daniel Hope, violin Returning for his sec- ments in the orchestra Mark Morris Dance Group ond year as director, and wind ensemble to Martin Amlin guided Stanley Hasty, clarinet ensure performance and mentored twelve David del Tredici, composer experience for each eager, enthusiastic, harpist. In addition to Daniel Katzen, horn and talented young their ensemble and Ed Barker, double bass composers. Students chamber music assign- had daily classes in Michael Gandolfi, composer ments, students had orchestration, score master classes and Alice Giles, Harp Martin Amlin analysis, composition weekly lessons with Adam Luftman, trumpet (‘96) Photo: Emily Culler techniques, creative Seminar Director Ann Richie Hawley, clarinet (‘87) strategies, and theory, as well as weekly private Hobson Pilot, principal lessons. Students observed and worked with Photo: Emily Culler Norman Fischer, cello harp of the Boston visiting composers William Bolcom, David del James Buswell, violin Symphony Orchestra. Alice Giles, internationally Tredici, Michael Gandolfi, Richard Cornell, recognized Australian harpist, taught a master class Tom Martins, clarinet Lansing McLoskey, and Jonathan Newman and performed for the students. Franziska Huhn, Linda Toote, flute/piccolo (YACP ‘90). The YAO provided a reading Assistant Director, led daily classes and also taught of student works, and the YACP concluded Rick Ranti, bassoon private lessons. The program concluded, as it does with a concert that featured a work by each each year, with a solo and harp ensemble recital. Rob Sheena, oboe/english horn student composer. John Heiss, woodwind ensemble June 17-30 Tim Genis, percussion Two-Week Workshops Matt Strauss, percussion BUTI offers workshops in flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba/euphonium, double bass, percussion, and string quartet. Summer 2006 TMC Master Class Guests marked the addition of new faculty members Don Lucas, director of the William Bolcom, composer trombone workshop, and the Enso String Quartet, coaches for the string quartet workshop and YAO chamber music. BUTI also welcomed Mike Yo-Yo Ma, cello Roylance, principal tuba with the BSO, leading the new tuba/euphonium Bernard Adelstein, trumpet workshop. Students enjoyed a unique master class experience with the Eric Ruske Mark Morris Dance Group, in residence with the TMC for two-weeks at the Photo: Shirley Leiphon beginning of the summer. BUTI Snapshots student faculty alumni alumni Photo: BU Photo Services Photo: UCLA Today Dr. Ann Howard Jones has conducted the YAVP Chorus for Photo: Wilkins Management Steve Olsen, Vice Chancellor of Photo: Michael Lutch the past thirteen years. Finance, Budget, and Capital Recognized for her expertise in International jazz superstar Harry Programs at UCLA, began play- Double bassist Daniel McDowell conducting, choral and vocal Connick, Jr. grew up in New ing the cello at the age of eight. was one of the Surdna scholar- pedagogy, rehearsal procedures, Orleans and attended BUTI’s His teachers included Irene ship recipients this year. Daniel and performance practice, she YAPP in 1983. As a singer, pianist, Sharp, Margaret Rowell, George attended both the Double Bass has appeared nationwide as a arranger and composer, he has Neikrug, and Gabor Rejto. Workshop and Young Artists conductor and guest lecturer at released 22 albums (with sales of Steve performed with the Orchestra. Hailing from conventions and choral festivals. over 25 million) while also California Youth Symphony as Washington, DC, Daniel attends She was Assistant Conductor for working in film, television, and well as the American Youth Suitland High School and will Choruses with the Atlanta theater. In the wake of Hurricane Symphony, and attended BUTI’s graduate in May 2008. Daniel Symphony from 1984-98, where Katrina, he partnered with Young Artists Orchestra program says about BUTI, “The combina- she worked with the late Robert Branford Marsalis and Habitat for for two summers. He remains tion of learning experiences, Shaw. She is Professor of Music Humanity to build a Musician’s an active and enthusiastic per- social bonding, and musical and Director of Choral Activities Village (www.NOLAmusiciansvillage.org) former and chamber musician, exposure the program provided at BU where she oversees in his native New Orleans’ Upper and recently appeared at a showed me a new aspect of the the MM and DMA degrees in 9th Ward. You can visit his web- concert honoring UCLA music broad world of music.” choral conducting. site at www.harryconnickjr.com. professor, Walter Ponce. Meet the Staff… Trinity Recital Series We’d like to express our Shirley Leiphon Since 2003, BUTI has partnered gratitude to Janine Rinke, who Administrative served as Director of Operations Director with Trinity Church in Lenox, and Student Life at BUTI for MA to present a recital series.