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 Luciano
Tristaino teaches flute at the Conservatory of Siena and at the
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. He has toured Italy, Switzerland, Spain,
Germany, Holland, Romania, Hungary, Australia and the U.S.A. and was
invited as a soloist as well as a chamber musician to the most important
music festivals. He has performed as a soloist with the Swiss Radio
Orchestra, the Romanian State Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Perugia,
the Philharmonic Orchestra of Debrecen (Hungary), appearing in famous
concert halls such as the Swiss Radio Auditorium, Teatro Massimo of
Palermo, State Theatre of Oradea (Rumania), Bartok Hall of Debrecen,
Auditorium List in Hungary, Teatro della Pergola of Florence, Opera
Theatre of Rome, Iwaki Auditorium of Melbourne (Australia) etc. He has
recorded for RAI (Italian Radio Television), ABC (Australia), Bayerischer
Rundfunk (Germany) as well as for Koch-Schwann, Arts, Ars Publica, Move
(Australia). He released a CD of works by Petrassi and another CD of
music by Sciarrino, a double cd of 11 new premieres performed in the
Tuchfülung Contemporary Music Festival of Nordrhein-Westfalia (Germany),
and has recently published with the trio “Altrove 1.3” a
CD of new compositions by Australian composers. His interest in contemporary
music has inspired composers such as Visser (Holland), Stockmeier and
Reiner (Germany), Saunders (England), Hazeldine (Australia) and the
Italian Anichini (concert for flute and orchestra) Colombo Taccani,
Bellotti, De Rossi Re, Nicoli, Vacca, to write and dedicate new compositions
to him. He plays with the Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto that worked with
musicians such as L. Berio, A. Corghi, I. Fedele, A.Guarnieri, L. Lombardi,
G. Manzoni, M. Stroppa, F. Vacchi. He founded the Trio “ Altrove
1.3” together with the German guitarist Gisbert Watty and the
clarinettist Marcello Bonacchelli performing especially new music and
remakes, touring and recording for important Radios (RAI Italy; ABC
Australia) and making CDs of new compositions. |
 Cellist
Craig Hultgren is a long-time activist
for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. This year
he as performed solo concerts and chamber music in Rome, Boston, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadephia and Atlanta. A recipient of two Artist
Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he is a member
of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta.
A cellist in the Alabama Symphony, he also plays in the Chagall Trio
and Luna Nova New Music Ensemble. Hultgren is featured in three solo
CD recordings including The Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist
Recordings. In 2004, the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival 48-Hour Short
Film Rush cited him for the best soundtrack creation for the film The
Silent Treatment. Every other year, he produces the Hultgren Solo Cello
Works Biennial, an international competition that highlights the best
new compositions for the instrument. |
 Adam
Bowles is becoming increasingly active on the contemporary art-music
scene, performing frequently in the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Artburst,
and similar venues for new music. Dr. Bowles is a native of Los Angeles
who holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree
at the Eastman School of Music, and received his Master of Music at
the New England Conservatory of Music. His main teachers have been Milton
Stern, Barry Snyder, Jacob Maxin, and Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff.
He has also received periodic coaching with Richard Goode, Malcolm Bilson,
and Seymour Lipkin. He is now an instructor on the Birmingham-Southern
College Conservatory faculty where he teaches the two highest levels
of music theory in addition to maintaining a studio of private students.
At the college level he teaches Accompanying and both years of Keyboard
Harmony for music majors. |
 Violinist
Marta Szlubowska made her debut at age seven in the
Warsaw Philharmonic Recital Hall and was soloist with the Symanowski
Liceum Orchestra in Poland and on tour of Great Britain by the age of
thirteen. Ms. Szlubowska studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music
where she received her Bachelor of Music Degree and Artist's Diploma.
She earned a graduate degree in performance from the University of Massachusetts
as a student and teaching assistant of Charles Treger. Ms. Szlubowska
has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Julius Baker, Judith
Glyde, Alex Klein, Gerhardt Zimmerman, Kevin Kenner, Harvey Felder,
and others. She has given numberous performances at the Tanglewooed,
Interlochen, and Meadownmount Music Festivals, and has appeared as recitalist
with Community Concerts and at the Phillips Collection in Washington,
D.C. She has performed under the baton of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji
Ozawa at Tanglewood, and Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall and the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. During the summer of 2001 she
began an association with the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado.
Ms. Szubowska has been the concertmaster of the Mississippi Symphony
Orchestra since 2004. |
 Jennifer
Rhodes is in her second season as principal bassoonist of the
Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master
of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree
and Performer’s Certificate from Eastman School of Music. Her
major teachers are Frank Morelli and John Hunt. Before moving to Memphis,
Dr. Rhodes enjoyed a busy freelance career in New York City where she
performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York City Ballet and Opera
Orchestras, and the American Ballet Theater Orchestra. An active chamber
musician, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center and the North Country Chamber Players. She recently recorded
Jonathan Dawe’s woodwind quintet “Fractal Farm” on
the Furious Artisans label and can also be heard playing principal bassoon
on Itzhak Perlman’s 1998 EMI recording “Concertos From My
Childhood,” accompanied by the Juilliard Orchestra. |
 Nobuko
Igarashi, a native of Memphis, is the Bass Clarinetist with the
Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She received the BM and MM degrees in clarinet
performance from Indiana University at Bloomington. Her principal teachers
at IU were Eli Eban and James Campbell. Ms. Igarashi has also studied
with Howard Klug, Alfred Prinz, Hakan Rosengren and Dennis Smylie. Since
joining Luna Nova she has performed in concerts at the Beethoven Club
of Memphis, the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival and at the University
of Southern Mississippi. |
 Robert
G. Patterson holds a doctorate in composition from the University
of Pennsylvania. His mentors include George Crumb, John Baur, and Don
Freund. His compositions have been performed from South Africa to Norway
and Spain to Seattle. Among the awards he has received are the 2004
National Symphony Orchestra Residency Commission, 1999 University of
Michigan Bands Commission and the 1994 International Composition Prize
from the City of Tarragona in Spain. In addition to his musical activities,
Patterson helps develop PC-based hotel software for Hilton Hotels, and
his interest in computers has led him to become an expert in musical
engraving using a computer. |
 Pianist
Lynn Raley studied at Southern Methodist
University, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnatti,
and Rutgers University, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
He has coached extensively with Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio,
and also with members of the LaSalle and Guarneri string quartets. Recent
chamber music performances include collaborations with the Amabile Quartet
and the Jose White Quartet. Raley has performed extensively across the
United States, and in Holland and Canada, where he appeared with the
Juenesse Musicales International "Music of the Americas" Festival.
In 1999 he performed music for piano and computer-generated sound at
the Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music and the
Florida International Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has taught
at Millsaps College since 2002. Raley can be heard in contemporary solo
and ensemble works on the Leonarda and Capstone compact disc labels. |
 James
Carlson has composed works for dance, chorus, orchestra, voice
and chamber ensembles. Carlson’s works have won numerous awards
and have been performed at the New Music Days Festival in Gothenburg,
Sweden, the North Carolina Dance Festival, the “Old Links to New
Music” Festival at Otterbein College and the Oregon Bach Festival
Composers. He has composed for the Ways-and-Means Dance Company, the
UT Dance Company, and Circle Modern Dance. He is the co-founder of Art
Moves, a site-specific biannual dance production at the Knoxville Museum
of Art and serves on the steering committee of the TVUU Church Performing
Arts Series. Carlson holds degrees from Duke University (Ph.D.), the
New England Conservatory (M.M.), and Central Washington University (B.M.).
Winner of a Frank Huntington Beebe grant, he studied with Arne Mellnäs
for a year in Stockholm, Sweden. He lives in Knoxville, TN and is a
Visiting Assistant Professor at Sewanee. |
 Catherine
Rodland, Artist in Residence in Organ and Music Theory at St.
Olaf College graduated cum laude with departmental distinction in organ
performance from St. Olaf in 1987. She received her MM and DMA from
the Eastman School of Music where she was a student of Russell Saunders.
While at Eastman she received the prestigious Performer's Certificate
and the Ann Anway Award for excellence in organ performance. Catherine
is a prizewinner in the 1994 and 1998 American Guild of Organists Young
Artists Competition, and 1994 Calgary International Organ Competition,
and first prize in the 1989 International Organ Competition at the University
of Michigan. During the summer of 2002 Catherine had a concert tour
of Germany giving performances in Berlin and Brandenburg. She co-authored
the book "Choristers' Training Program" for the Royal School
of Church Music in America, a manual for childrens' choir education.
Her advanced childrens' choir toured England in the summer of 2001,
singing services at Ely Cathedral, Ripon Cathedral, and York Minster. |
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Artist Associate in Voice in the Department of Music at Davidson College,
contralto Diane Thornton has distinguished
herself as a concert artist, opera singer and recitalist across the
country. Concert engagements include appearances with the Bach Aria
Group, the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall; the National
Chorale at Lincoln Center; and the Charlotte, Kansas City, Winston-Salem,
Roanoke, and North Carolina symphony orchestras. Operatic engagements
include roles with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Carolina,
Gold Coast Opera, Piedmont Opera Theater, Minikin Opera and Pennsylvania
Opera Theater. She has premiered American operas through the Billings
Institute of American Music and the Contemporary Opera Company of America;
and has premiered works by American composers in recital through venues
such as the Shakespeare Concerts in Boston, the Davidson College Concert
Series, The Penn Composers Guild, the Reynolda House Museum of American
Art, the College Music Society and the Weymouth Center Artist Series.
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 Mark
Volker's music has been performed and recorded by many prominent
performers including the Contemporary Chamber Players, eighth blackbird,
the Pacifica String Quartet, Musica moderna Poland, the New York New
Musica Ensemble, the Gryphon Trio, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Orchestra
of the Southern Finger Lakes, So Percussion, The Orquestra de Baja California,
and the Boston Brass. His music has been featured in many festival and
conferences, including Music97, 99, 2001, the Gamper Festival, SCI regional
and national conferences, June in Buffalo, the Norfolk Chamber Music
Festival, the chenango summer MusicFest, and ICMC. He as received awards
from ASCAP, SCI, and ERMMedia. Mark now lives with his wife, soprano
Alyssa Volker and their daughter Molly in Hamilton, NY where he continues
to teach at Colgate University. |
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