Senior Strings Screening Committee

First Round Screening Committee Members

Junior Screening Committee: Senior Strings Screening Committee: Senior Winds Screening Committee: Sally Dorer Carol Bullock Russell Andrea Mather Stow Marilee Klemp Patricia Kates James Grondin MarkMazullo Robert Rhein Scott Russell Annalee Wolf

Diane Monroe Rex Martin

Diane Monroe is an internationally Professor of Music at Northwestern University, acclaimed violinist whose performances Rex Martin is one of the world's finest tubists range from classical repertoire to traditional and brass pedagogues. He has performed jazz. Ms. Monroe had the honor of appearing recitals and given master classes in Japan, at the very first Fiddlefest, at Carnegie Hall. Korea, Australia, Latin America, Denmark, Her rich rendering of Stravinsky's Fairy 's Kiss England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and her amazing unaccompanied version Sweden, Switzerland, and throughout the of Amazing Grace won her instant acclaim. United States. His playing can be heard Her initial Fiddlefest success led to appearances in Alan Miller's on more than 75 recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, documentary film , Small Wonders , and the recent Meryl Streep film , St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony II , Music of the Heart . Diane Monroe is frequently heard at such renowned Chicago Pro Musica, and Mannheim Steamroller. As part of his busy venues as the Marlporo , Cara moor, Sitka, Verbier, North Sea Jazz, freelance career, he is a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta, The Ravinia and Mellon Jazz festivals. She has appeared in concert with Yo -Yo Festival Orchestra, Symphony II , The Ars Viva Orchestra, Fulcrum Ma, performing the string quartets of Henry Cowell at BAM , and as Point, Tower Brass and the Chicago Brass Ensemble. Martin has guest soloist in both Wall to Wall presentations of Kurt Weil and performed on more than 3,000 television and radio commercials. He Irving Berlin at Symphony Space in New York City. has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore An advocate of new music, Ms. Monroe is frequently called upon Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina by composers to premiere their works. David Baker, Anthony Davis, Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM Orchestra of Mexico City, Zurich Julia Wolfe, Steven Dembsky, Joseph Nocella, Leslie Burrs, and Tonhalle Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He has per Robert Moran have all had their solo works premiered and repeated formed with Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, by her. Luciano Pavarotti, Sarah Vaughan, Wynton Marsalis and the Ringling Monroe has worked with great chamber music masters such as Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Before joining the faculty at Karen Tuttle, Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, Mischa Schneider, Julius Northwestern University, Martin had been a faculty member at the Levine, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland Quartets. Oberlin Conservatory, Illinois State University, DePaul University, Monroe currently teaches at Temple University and Swarthmore the University of Notre Dame, The Vandercook College of Music and College. Her distinguished awards include the 2002 Distinguished the University of Illinois at Chicago. Martin was host of the 1995 Alumni Award from the University of the Arts, the Pro Musicis International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. A graduate of Illinois Foundation Recitalist Award, The Alan and Wendy Pesky Award, State University and Northwestern University, Martin received Illinois and two Grants from Meet-the-Composer. State's "Outstanding Alumni" award in 1999.