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Friday, October 18

3 P.M. Check-in Opens // Lenfest Hall 4 P.M. Welcome Tea // Locks Board Room and Albert Lounge, Lenfest Hall 6 P.M. Curtis Symphony Orchestra Dress Rehearsal // Gould Rehearsal HallYannick Nézet-Séguin invites alumni reunion attendees to the dress rehearsal for theCurtis Symphony Orchestra performance.

7:30 P.M. Informal Dine-Arounds // Philadelphia Restaurants

Saturday, October 19

8 A.M. Check-in Opens // Lenfest Hall Breakfast // Locks Board Room and Gould Dining Hall 9 A.M. Service Projects // O�-campusExperience Curtis’s artist-citizen curriculum by participating in fun projects with the school’s community partners.

Activities // Various on-campus locations 12 P.M. Lunch // Gould Rehearsal Hall Honor the recipients of the Alumni Awards, remember alumni who are no longer with us, and celebrate our newest alumni.

ALUMNI DIALOGUES SCHEDULE:

2 P.M.Oral Histories // Rock Resource Center Video-record your memories of Curtis and become a permanent part of the Curtis Archives.

8.P.M.Lecture/Performance: �e Nightingale’s Sonata // Field Concert Hall

Sunday, October 20

10 A.M. Brunch and Student-Led Tours // Locks Board Room 12 P.M. All-Alumni Meeting and Lunch // Hamilton GardenState of the School address by President Roberto Díaz (’84) 2 P.M. Curtis Symphony OrchestraConcert // Verizon Hall

4 P.M.Post-Concert Reception with Board of Trustees // Tier Two Lounge, Kimmel Center

Small Groups: Choose one of two sessions upon arrival at the reunion.

2–3:30 p.m. or 4–5:30 p.m.

Share and listen in a safe space. Each session will begin in Gould Rehearsal Hall and break o� into classrooms on the third �oor of Lenfest Hall with facilitators from Intersekt Alliance.

5:45 p.m. Dinner and Re�ection // Gould Rehearsal Hall7 p.m. Reception // Bonovitz Concourse, Lenfest Hall

Help Curtis learn from our most treasured resource—our alumni. Facilitators from Intersekt Alliance will capture and provide feedback to Curtis.

SCHEDULEOF EVENTS

For a detailed schedule and to register online please visit Curtis CONNECT at alumni.curtis.edu.

OCTOBER 18–20

2019 CURTIS ALUMNI REUNION

ALUMNI COUNCIL

Marsha Hunter (Opera ’77), chair and alumni trustee

Joslin Romphf Dennis (Voice ’01, Opera ’04) Janellen Farmer (Opera ‘84)Helen Gerhold (Harp ’18)Sheila Harris Jackson (Voice ’83) Beth MacLeod Largent (Opera ’86)David Lofton (Accompanying ’82, ’84)

SAVE THE DATE!

Join Curtis Family in New York City for a special Curtis SymphonyOrchestra performance and alumni dinner.

Saturday, February 8, 2020Invitation / details to follow

If you urgently

need assistance

from a Curtis sta� member, please contact

Jason Ward at (336) 671-3221,

jason.ward@curtis.edu

IN MEMORIAM

We recognize and honor the lives of our colleagues who have died since the last Alumni Reunion (September 13, 2015).Please tell us if you know of a Curtis colleague who has passed away but is not acknowledged here.

ALUMNI

David Arben (Violin ’54)A. Kendall Betts (Horn ’69)Coleman Blum�eld (Piano ’56)Paul C. Boyer (Composition, Flute ’55)Anshel Brusilow (Violin ’43)Blanche Henrietta Burton-Lyles (Piano ’54)Carmine Campione (Clarinet ’60)Jeanne Chalifoux (Harp ’52)Wilber P. Christman (Harp ’62)Ann N. Cobb (Harp, Voice ’41)Robert F. Cole (Flute ’49, ’51)Mary L. Corsaro (Voice ’64)Sarah Cossum Red�eld (Viola ’52)Aline Dansereau (Voice ’50)Lois Dasher Chism (Voice ’47)Jean P. Deis (Voice ’55)James Michael Deitz (Timpani and Percussion ’04)Sally T. Dobson (Viola ’54)Ruth Yorkin Drazen (Piano ’38)Rachel L. Duncan (Trumpet ’08)Doris Hamel Eicher (Organ ’57)Patricia S. Eifert (Clarinet ’52)Leslie M. Eitzen (Voice 45)Reinhardt Elster (Harp ’37)

Jules Eskin (Cello ’52)Herbert W. Fawcett (Bassoon ’59)Hanni Forester (Harp ’39)Bronja S. Foster (Piano ’38)Sherman Frank (Piano ’48)George E. Freiburghaus (Double Bass ’42)Walter J. Freimanis (Double Bass ’60)Barbara P. Garypie (Voice ’58)Shirley A. Gatzert (Voice ’50)Eric Giere (Voice ’51)Otoniel E. Gonzaga (Opera ’72)Lloyd Gowen (Flute ’54)Emilio A. Gravagno (Double Bass ’58)Howard Hagge (Trumpet ’67)Bonnie L. Hall (Voice ’80)Walter Hautzig (Piano ’43)�eodore C. Heger (Oboe ’54)James D. Hough (Bassoon ’70, ’73)Joanne T. Hutchinson (Voice ’49)Kathryne K. Janssen (Voice ’42)Eda M. Kahana (Piano ’38)Peter F. Kern (Flute ’62, ’63)Loren Kitt (Clarinet ’63)Allison Lee (Piano ’65)Sonia Leon Gilbert (Voice ’49)Amnon Levy (Violin ’55)Joyce M. Levy (Voice ’50)Scott M. Ligocki (Viola ’89)Florence C. London (Piano ’41)Joan Mainzer Kishkis (Harp ’53)Nadia Maria Marks (Harp ’57)Grace C. Mitchell (Voice ’50)Norman Mittelmann (Voice ’58)John D. Mohler (Clarinet ’50)Edmund E. Moore (Tuba ’60)Richard K. Muehlmann (Double Bass ’64)

Temple C. Painter (Organ ’56)Richard Parnas (Viola ’51)David Pesin (Violin ’40)Gilbert C. Pirovano (Organ’53)David Edward Prager (Opera ’87)Karen Ranung (Voice ’46)Burt Roens (Trumpet ’44)Ann Heiligman Saslav (Piano ’59)June B. Secon (Harp ’40)George E. Sil�es (Clarinet ’48)Ellis J. Sobol (Trombone ’42)David C. Spicer (Organ ’68)Michael H. Stairs (Organ ’71)Gene E. Standley (Horn ’74)Lee T. Steelman (Flute ’49)Barbara T. Stevenson (Voice ’38)Nathan Stutch (Cello ’41)Bill C. �omas (Trombone ’99)John Laurence �orstenberg (Oboe ’51)Rodney J. Van Sickle (Double Bass ’57)Jane P. Vogel (Voice ’47)Marilyn M. Von Ehrenkrook (Voice ’53)George T. Walker (Composition ’45)Elaine Ho�man Watts (Timpani and Percussion ’54)Helen K. Wedeen (Violin ’40)

FACULTY

Seymour Lipkin (Piano ’47)Donald L. Montanaro (Clarinet ’54)Aaron Rosand (Violin ’48)Joseph H. Silverstein (Violin ’50)Michael Tree (Violin ’55)

ALUMNI AWARD HONOREE

Established in 2000, the Alumni Award is the highest honor the Curtis Institute of Music gives its alumni. �e Alumni Award recognizes outstanding and long-term service to and involvement in Curtis, as well as outstanding achievement in or contribution to the music profession. It is only awarded to living alumni.

Solomiya Ivakhiv (Violin ‘03)

Ukrainian-born violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is associate professor of violin and viola and head of strings at the University of Connecticut and professor of violin at Longy School of Music of Bard College. She has performed with the Bach Festival Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Hunan Symphony Orchestra in China, Istanbul State Symphony, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine; and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, CBC Glenn Gould Studio, the Concertgebouw Mirror Hall, and Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music, among other venues. Her performances have been broadcast on public radio’s Performance Today, China’s Hunan Television, Moldova National Public Radio and Television, Ukrainian National Radio and Television, and Netherlands Public Radio.

Dr. Ivakhiv has been featured at many prestigious chamber music festivals worldwide, including the San Jose Chamber Music Society, Embassy Series, Ottawa Chamberfest, Newport Music Festival, Bach Festival of Philadelphia, Nevada Chamber Fest, Kyiv Fest, Festival of Modern Music “Contrasts” and Prussia Cove. She has premiered new works by Bruce Adolphe, David Dzubay, John B Hedges, Bohdan Kryvopust, David Ludwig, Eli Marshall, Oleksandr Shchetynsky, and Yevhen Stankovych. Her recording Ukraine: Journey to Freedom was released by Labor Records for Naxos.

Dr. Ivakhiv graduated 2003 from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, and Rafael Druian.