|S E S S I O N I|

Concerto Competition

Winner

Jenny Yeyeong Jin, violin

Wieniawski Concerto No. 2, Op. 22

III. Allegro con fuoco – Allegro moderato (à la Zingara)

Student Recital Winners

Aubrey Aikens, voice Paul Celebi, piano TJ Graf, tuba

Anna Miller, flute Peter Oldrup, guitar

|Conductors|Charles Schneider, Orchestra Timothy Newton, Chorus

Thomas McCauley, Wind Ensembles Sherrie Maricle, Jazz

Steve Reineke, Pops Orchestra

SESSION I

VISITING ARTISTS

| Ida Kavafian, violin | Internationally acclaimed as a violist as well as violinist, Ida Kavafian is an artist-member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and former violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio. She performs as a soloist; in recital with her sister, Ani; as a guest with distinguished ensembles; and as artistic director of Music from Angel Fire in New Mexico. She is founder of the Bravo! Colorado festival and cofounder of the chamber ensembles Tashi and Opus One. Ms. Kavafian teaches at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Julliard, and joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1998.

| Steven Reineke | Steven Reineke’s boundless enthusiasm and exceptional artistry have made him one of the nation’s most sought-after pops conductors, composers and arrangers. Mr. Reineke is the Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He previously held the posts of Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach and Modesto Symphony Orchestras and Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

| Carter Brey | Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cello, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Chair, of the New York Philharmonic in 1996. He made his official subscription debut with the Orchestra in May 1997 performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations under the direction of then Music Director Kurt Masur, and has since performed as soloist each season. Mr. Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates, and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. His violoncello is a rare J. B. Guadagnini made in Milan in 1754.

(Visiting Artists Continued)

| Scott Bell with Larry Allen | Scott Bell holds the Mr. and Mrs. William E. Rinehart endowed oboe chair with the Pittsburgh Symphony of which he has been a member since 1992. Having starting playing the oboe in the public school band program in Fairfield, Iowa, he attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with celebrated oboist, John Mack. While a student in Cleveland, he appeared with the Cleveland

Orchestra and was principal oboist with the Akron Symphony. He has given master classes in the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, and Chile. As a performer, he has played on every continent except Antarctica. Away from music, Mr. Bell is a big supporter of the Pittsburgh sports teams and likes a good game of bridge.

Larry Allen is Director of Music and Organist at Mt. Lebanon United Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh. He is the past Dean of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the

American Guild of Organists and served as Secretary for the Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Camerata. Prior to his Pittsburgh move he was for 30 years Director of Music and Organist at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut and was on the faculty of The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. He has concertized in the United States and Europe, and has been a touring organist with the Empire Brass Quintet. He is the General Chairperson for the Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists to be held in Pittsburgh in June, 2015.

| Donny McCaslin |“Tenor player Donny McCaslin aims high on Soar and rather gloriously hits all his targets” – All About Jazz Donny McCaslin launched 2004 with a new CD, balancing his career as bandleader with work as one of New York’s most in-demand tenor saxophonists. In 1996, Donny played a principal solo role in composer-trumpeter Ken Schaphorst’s “Uprising,” a big-band work that featured him and was debuted at Lawrence University. The piece was subsequently released on Schaphorst’s recording “Purple” (Naxos) three years later, with Donny ‘s solo work winning rave reviews from the jazz media.

| William Short | Bassoonist William Short was recently appointed Principal Bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra. He previously served in the same capacity with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the Houston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Daniel Matsukawa and Bernard Garfield, and his Master of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Kamins. Additional major teachers have included William Lewis and Kristin Wolfe Jensen.

(Visiting Artists Continued)

| Mark Kellogg | Mark Kellogg is Associate Professor of Trombone, Euphonium, and Brass Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music. A faculty member since 1991, Mr. Kellogg teaches trombone, euphonium, alto trombone, and jazz trombone, and coordinates the brass chamber music program. An active performer, he also holds the position of Principal Trombone of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Throughout his career he has embraced a wide variety of performing roles, from jazz soloist to chamber musician to orchestral performer. Mr. Kellogg has made appearances at numerous low brass symposia including the International Trombone Festival, the Eastman Trombone Workshop, the Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, the Northeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, and the New York Brass Conference. He has enjoyed a long association with his RPO colleague, pianist Joseph Werner, performing recitals and master

classes at music schools and universities across the United States. Mr. Kellogg is a performing artist for Conn-Selmer, Inc.

| Phil Giampetro | Originally from Cheshire, Connecticut, Phil Giampietro received his M.M. in Euphonium Performance from the University of North Texas, where he studied with world renowned soloist and educator Dr. Brian Bowman. He also holds a dual B.M. Degree in Music Education and Euphonium Performance from Ithaca College. Phil received first place in the International Tuba-Euphonium Association’s Euphonium Artist Competition, which culminated in a performance at the 2010 ITEA Conference. Phil has also been named a semifinalist three times in the prestigious Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Competition. Currently he serves as the band director of two elementary schools in Milford, Connecticut while continuing to pursue opportunities as an artist-educator.

| David Saltzman | David Saltzman has been the Principal Tuba player of the

Toledo Symphony since 2007. He has also been the Adjunct Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Bowling Green State University for the same period of time. In 2011 David joined the Glimmerglass Opera Festival based in Cooperstown, NY as their Principal Tuba player for their summer Opera series. Prior to these appointments, David was the Principal tuba player for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Brass Quintet (1997-2007). He was also the Tuba/Euphonium instructor at the University of Hawaii and the founder and director of the University of Hawaii’s Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble.

NYSMF STAFF 2014

|S E S S I O N II|

CONCERTO

COMPETITION

WINNER

Song Yoon Ryoo, fluteFlute Concerto in D Major, K. 314, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Student Recital Winners

Jongmyung (John) Lim, violin Polina Korobkova, piano

Yeo Shin Jang, flute DanLei Yang, piano

|Conductors|

Alan Tinkham, Orchestras Wesley Broadnax, Wind Ensembles

David Crone, Choirs Tony Kadleck, Jazz

SESSION II

VISITING ARTISTS

| Robert Isaacs | Robert Isaacs is the newly appointed director of choral activities

at Cornell University, a position generously supported by Priscilla E. Browning.

Prior to his arrival at Cornell, Robert ran choral programs at Princeton University

and the Manhattan School of Music, and served as interim director of the National

Youth Choir of Great Britain. Robert made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall

with the Argento New Music Project, and has also conducted at the Royal Albert

Hall in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Snape Proms, the Guggenheim

Museum, and other venues ranging from Stockholm to the Cook Islands. Robert

graduated with high honors from Harvard University, where he designed his own

course of study in choral music. In 2002, Robert earned an MFA in creative writing

at Columbia University. His musical arrangements are published by the Royal

School of Church Music.

| Joseph Silverstein | A 1950 Curtis graduate, Joseph Silverstein began his musical studies with his father, Bernard. He continued with Josef Gingold, and, at Curtis, studied with Efrem Zimbalist and Veda Reynolds. He then held positions with the orchestras of Houston, Philadelphia, and Denver before joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1955 as its youngest player. A member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mr. Silverstein performs frequently in New York and has appeared as a soloist and conductor with more than one hundred orchestras in the United States, Japan, Israel, and throughout Europe. He has served on the faculties of Yale and Boston universities, New England Conservatory, and Tanglewood Music Center, and he has recorded for such labels as RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, Delos, CBS, Nonesuch, EMI, and Image. Mr. Silverstein joined the faculty of the Curtis

Institute of Music in 2000.

| Brett Deubner | One of this generation’s most accomplished violists, has inspired worldwide critical acclaim for his powerful intensity and sumptuous tone. Brett Deubner has served on the faculty of Temple University’s Boyer School of Music and Dance in Philadelphia and Kent University’s Conservatory of Music. Constantly in demand as a master class visiting guest and chamber music collaborator, Brett Deubner is on the faculty of the International Festival at Round Top.

(Visiting Artists Continued)

| Sam Coles | Samuel Coles was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Paris Conservatoire winning the Premier Prix in 1987. His many other awards include first prize in both the Scheveningen International Flute Competition in Holland and the National Flute Association Young Artists Competition in San Diego and 2nd Prize in the Jean Pierre Rampal Competition 1987. He has played guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Opera de Paris, Orchestra de Radio France, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

| John Riley | John began playing drums at age eight, after receiving a snare drum as a gift. With the support, encouragement and patience of his parents, John and Mary Ann, he played in the school band and began drum lessons with a good local teacher, Tom Sicola. While under Tom’s guidance, he gained control of the snare drum through work on the rudiments and reading. Eventually, he acquired a complete drumset and lessons expanded to include “beats of the day,” coordination and reading studies for the drumset. At age twelve, John began playing in rock bands and heard his first jazz recordings, the soundtrack to The Gene Krupa Story and Max Roach’s Conversation. John has a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz education from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music in jazz studies from Manhattan School of Music. He is on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music, and SUNY Purchase, and is an Artist in Residence at Amsterdam Conservatory, Holland. John is also the author of The Art of Bop Drumming, Beyond Bop Drumming, The Jazz Drummer’s Workshop, and has taught master classes around the world.

Stage Crew

Appreciation Page

Our Dearest Stage Crew,

It is only appropriate to dedicate a page of this year’s Cadenza to you as a way of thanking

you all. Though it may not be openly expressed by students, staff, or faculty on a daily basis, we all

truly appreciate the hard work and effort that is put out every day. Most people don’t realize the

amount of behind the scenes work (pun heavily intended) that is done here at the festival every day.

We walk around blissfully ignorant of the immense amount of odds and ends that need to be taken

care of. Most students don’t think about how all 200+ chairs get magically set up every morning

before festival choir, who makes sure proper equipment is where it needs to be at the right time and

place, or even who fixes the things we may break. So on behalf of the entire festival, the Cadenza

committee would like to thank the every member of this year’s stage crew. Without you all this

festival would come apart at the seams! Your hard work does not go unnoticed, and you all will

thrive in life with the impressive work ethics you possess. Again, we thank you.

Sincerely,

The NYSMF Cadenza Committee

NYSMF Quotes 2014

“Ohhh…. girl.” -Meaghan Linn

"What's a squirrel music festival? Is that where we watch squirrels play music?" - Alex

Desrivieres

"I don't sleep in my lanyard; I dream in my lanyard." - Anonymous

"My pet hyena eats cow dumpling for lunch." - Lucas Welinder

"Is your mom an eye doctor?" "No. She's a normal person." - Jenny Jin

"Doomalooma" - Tim Newton

"I need Starbucks" - Everyone

"Forbes out" - Dan Forbes

"Ezekiel saw the whale, whale up in the middle of the whale" - Tass Schweiger

"If this pizza were my child, I'd be so disappointed in it that it would be at military school."

- Kyle Monsees

"I LOVE YOU TASS" - Annie Griggs

"What does pesante mean?" "Peasant?" - AJ the bassoonist

"Wait I have to tune all four strings?" - David Beytas

"I need another Oreo" - Tass Schweiger

"Where's porcupine?" - Jenny

Jin

Superlatives

Student Male Student Female Staff Male Staff Female Faculty M Faculty F

Best Sense of Humor Arjan Kochar Delia Robbennolt Hakeem Nabi Meaghan Linn Nathan Warner Priscilla Yuen

Best Hugs David Sneider Olivia Logios Billy Leenheer Tass Schweiger Tim Newton Kat Calvosa

Best Accent Andrea Jermini Polina Karobkova Hakeem Nabi Rossanna Cauti Krassimir Ivanov Solomiya Ivakhiv

Best Eyes Neyen Romano Feliciti McKellar Matt Honan Taylor Burkhardt Nathan Warner Jenelle Reichman

Best Hair Neeve Kadosh Polina Karobkova Kyle Monsees Kristiana McCombs Dan Forbes Kat Calvosa

Best Smile David Sneider Sarah Zuk Markus Ling Amy Selkirk Brent Edmondson Lauren Becker

Best Laugh Ben Benigno Feliciti McKellar Joe Richards Flor Cruz Sam Chen Miho Zaitsu

Best Dressed Andrea Jermini Ivy Xue Michael Warrick Andrea Wozniak Nathan Warner Miho Zaitsu

Best Shoes Gus Carpenter Alea Vernon Michael Warrick Andrea Wozniak Jason Rigby Kat Calvosa

Most Stressed David Sneider Polina Karobkova Andrew Linn Tessa Belkin Wes Broadnax Julie Signitzer

Most Dramatic Najee Hunt Alea Vernon Chance Eakin Tessa Belkin Tim Newton Ivy Austin

Most Creative Dante Zubel Adele Carter Nick Marsella Emily Finlan Peter Miyamoto Miho Zaitsu

Most Organized Byron Pondexter Shoko Nagami Alex Kroger Kristiana McCombs Matt Kitzen-Ableson Priscilla Yuen

Happiest Stefano Malinverno Feliciti McKellar Chance Eakin Rosemary Lawton Peter Miyamoto Miho Zaitsu

Most Optimistic Stefano Malinverno Feliciti McKellar Luke Norris Kristina Ensign Dan Forbes Sorai Balbeisi

Most Serious Henry Crocker Adele Carter Billy Leenheer Emma Peters Allen Tinkham Priscilla Yuen

Most Accident Prone Ricardo Albarran Sydney Atbacker David Beytas Emma Peters - -

Most Versatile Edmond Park Polina Karobkova Ben Zucker Krista Kennedy Chang Hee Lee Priscilla Yuen

Most Helpful Matt Rosen Zoe Grier James Nguyen Charlotte Baik Sam Chen Nurse Jerry

Most Athletic Neeve Kochar Becca Arencibia Michael Warrick Emily Finlan - -

Most Intellectual Neyen Romano Laura Douglas Hakeem Nabi Despina Amanatidis David Crone Emi Kagawa

Most Unique Zach Arencibia Shoko Nagami Hakeem Nabi Audrey Garcia Nuno Artunes Surai Balbeisi

Coolest Whitman Poling Amanda Henderson Ben Weisiger Emily Finlan Bob Sabin Lauren Becker

Mellowest Whitman Poling Olivia Logios Jeff Michaels Tass Schweiger Jesse Lewis Emi Kagawa

Cutest Zander Grier Jenny Jin Matt Allen Audrey Garcia Charles Schneider Lauren Becker

Friendliest Michael Shapira Feliciti McKellar John Nazario Kristiana McCombs David Crone Miho Zaitsu

Funniest Jon Lim Sarah Zuk Hakeem Nabi Despina Amanatidis Jason Arnold Ilze Brink-Button

Hardest-Working Eric Dreggors Polina Karobkova Luke Norris Emily Finlan Peter Miyamoto Ayako Tsuruta

Fave Instrumentalist James Hadad Jenny Jin Ben Allen Samantha Etchegary Aaron Irwin Janelle Reichman

Fave Jazzer David Sneider Notsuki Wantanabe Luke Norris Samantha Etchegary Bob Sabin Kat Calvosa

Fave Vocalist Antony Goon Alea Vernon Tyler Mason-Draffen Andrea Wozniak Tim Brent Elizabeth Weigle

Biggest Flirt Ben Benigno Alea Vernon Hakeem Nabi Tass Schweiger Nathan Warner Ann Fontanella

| Thank You! |

A special thank you to all of

the hard-working, talented,

and dedicated students that

continue to fill this festival

year after year. It’s all about

you, and we commend you!

Bravo!