Marcantonio Barone, of the Conservatory’s piano faculty, and violinist Barbara Govatos, of the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the Classical Recording Foundation’s 2012 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award for their recording of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for violin and piano.  Released last month on the Bridge label, the four-CD set is available directly from Bridge Records (bridgerecords.com) as well as from various retailers including classical music specialists Norbeck Peters and Ford (norpete.com) and Arkiv Music (arkivmusic.com).
On Sunday afternoon, 7 April, at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Mr. Barone will be presented in recital by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

In September, the Conservatory’s flute teacher, Ellen Fisher-Deerberg, received a standing ovation for her performance of François Borne’s Fantaisie brillante on Themes from Bizet’s Carmen with the Bravura Philharmonic, of which she is principal flutist.  On new year’s eve, her flute quartet, Volanti Flutes, performed two concerts for the First Night Festival in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
On 23 and 24 February, Ms. Fisher-Deerberg will perform at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in Reston, Virginia, as a guest artist with the San Diego ensemble Flûtes de Salon, in a program featuring works by Philadelphia composer Daniel Dorff.

Tim Ribchester, who joined the Conservatory’s Vocal Repertoire faculty in September, will be guest music director for two productions of the Concert Operetta Theater at the Academy of Vocal Arts.  He will lead performances of Common Thread: The music of Rogers and Hammerstein on 9 and 10 February; and of Apple Blossoms by Fritz Kreisler and Victor Jacobi in 16 and 17 March.
Mr. Ribchester’s orchestration of Bill Jolly’s theme music for Jim Cotter’s radio program Creatively Speaking was heard every Saturday morning at 11:00 on WRTI-FM, Philadelphia.  The program’s final episode was broadcast last month.

STUDENT NEWS

In October, Allister Barnes, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed with his parents, violinist Meichen Liao Barnes of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and cellist Derek Barnes of the Philadelphia Orchestra, in a trio concert at Rydal Park.  Allister is also a pianist in the Senior Jazz Band at Bala Cynwyd Middle School.

Allen Cai, a violin student of John Sergovic, has been chosen to participate in the Upper Moreland Spring Music Festival.

This year, John Carino, who studies with Mackenzie Carlson at the Conservatory, has performed in several concerts with the Jazz Band at the Shipley School, where he is a junior.

Iris Chan, a piano pupil of Marcantonio Barone, organized and performed in recitals for senior citizens at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr and at Bryn Mawr Terrace last month.  Other participants included Bryn Mawr Conservatory piano students Stephen Li and Longan Loi.

Rhett Cosgrove, a student of Mackenzie Carlson, played piano for the Christmas-Carol Sing at the Armenian Sisters Academy, where he is in the third grade.

Laura Grajewski, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, performed two listed roles in the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol by Michael Borton, in a run of over a dozen performances in December.

Eli Halpern, a piano student of  Laurie Ticehurst, composed and arranged all the music for Friends Select School’s production of the play The Bomb-ity of Errors and played keyboard and electronic drums in the performances.

In December, David Huang, who studies with Marcantonio Barone, performed as accompanist for the Wissahickon Middle School Chorus.

Nathan D’Ignazio, a piano pupil of Marcantonio Barone at the Conservatory, accompanied the Strath Haven High School Camerata in their December concert.  He also played piano for the Christmas Eve Service at Swarthmore Presbyterian Church.  On 4 June 2013, Nathan will be presented in recital at Swarthmore College’s Lang Concert Hall as this year’s George Slick Arts Fellow at Strath Haven High School.

Dan Kralik, a student of Daina Dodbiba, performed as pianist of the Conestoga High School Jazz Band at their Winter Concert in December.

Last month, Stephen Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed the first and second movements of Dvořák’s Dumky for piano trio in the Winter Concert Series of the Temple Music Preparatory Division’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians at Rock Hall.

Longan Loi, who studies with Marcantonio Barone, performed in December as accompanist for the sixth-grade chorus at Sandy Run Middle School.

Ava Rostami, a student of John Sergovic, plays violin in the Welsh Valley Middle School orchestra and has been invited to participate in the Schuylkill Valley Festival Orchestra this season.

Julia Seeley, a theory student of Benjamin C. S. Boyle and a former voice student of Kathryna Barone was in the cast of The Music Man at the Walnut Street Theatre last year.

Brendan Sweeney, a piano student of Mackenzie Carlson, was the accompanist for a choral sextet in the Christmas Concert at St. Patrick School, where he is an eighth grader.

Last month, Nicholas Wu, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed movements of the Beethoven Piano Trio Opus 1 № 1 and the Shostakovich Piano Quintet at Temple University’s Rock Hall, in the Winter Concert Series of Temple Music Preparatory Division’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians.  He also gave a joint recital with his sister, who is an accomplished violinist, at Exton Senior Living in December.

Michael Zhang, who studies with John Sergovic, was the only freshman chosen to play in the first violin section of the Conestoga High School Orchestra.  Michael also plays in the first violin section of the Delaware Valley Youth Orchestra.

Kelly Brobson, a voice student of Judith Malis, sang with the Archdiocesan Choir of Philadelphia for the installation of Archbishop Charles Chaput last September.  This past spring, she performed the role of Polly Peachum in Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera with the West Chester University Opera, and she also appeared in their production of Massenet’s Cendrillon last November.

John Carino, a piano student of Mackenzie Carlson, performed in assembly at the Shipley School last spring and will play in the string ensemble there beginning this fall.

During the summer, John Carson, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone at the Conservatory, attended both the St. Olaf Summer Piano Academy in Northfield, Minnesota; and the Lutheran Summer Music Academy in Decorah, Iowa, where he performed two movements of Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet.

Iris Chan, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed in the honors recital at the Penn State Summer Music Camp at the Pennsylvania State University in July.  Iris also won Honorable Mention in the 2012 Tri-County Music Festival Senior Piano Competition.

Ravi Culleton, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone and studies theory and composition with Benjamin C. S. Boyle, performed in recital at the Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College as a recipient of the George H. Slick Arts Fellowship at Strath Haven High School in June.  The program included Ravi’s own Piece in E Major for violin and piano.

Phillip Gao, who studies piano with Mackenzie Carlson at the Conservatory, performed in the Talent Show at the Penn Wynne School in May.

Nina Hoog, a piano pupil of Mackenzie Carlson, performed in the “Penn Valley Idol” Talent Show at the Penn Valley Elementary School this past spring.

Nathan d’Ignazio, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone and a theory and composition student of Benjamin C. S. Boyle, attended the summer music program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris this July.  As a recipient of the George H. Slick Arts Fellowship at Strath Haven High School he will be presented in recital at Swarthmore College next spring.

This fall, Kevin Li, who studied piano with Marcantonio Barone at the Conservatory from 2005 to 2012, begins study in the five-year joint program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard College and a Master of Music degree at the New England Conservatory.   Kevin was the pianist of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra for the past three years.

Stephen Li, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory, won the gold prize in the Level 11 Concerto division and the silver prize in the Level 11 Solo division at the 2012 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He played the first movement of Mendelssohn’s G minor Piano Concerto with the World Festival Orchestra at the Winners’ Go for the Gold Performance under the direction of conductor Mark Gibson.   Stephen also won second prize in the age 13-15 division of the 2012 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition.

Nathan Pezzotti, who studied composition with Benjamin C. S. Boyle and piano with Alexander Panku at the Conservatory from 2009 until 2012, matriculates this fall as a composition student of Samuel Adler at the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the E. H. Ludlam Scholarship for Composition.

Nicholas Wu, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, received Honorable Mention in the 2012 Tri-County Music Festival Junior Piano Competition and in the 2012 West Chester University Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition.  Last season, he perfomed as guest pianist in two different chamber ensembles at the Center for Gifted Young Musicians at the Music Preparatory Division of Temple University.  As a participant in the Chamber Music session of the Teen Summer Arts Camp hosted by the Education Department of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Nick performed at the Kimmel Center this summer.  By special invitation, he also performed Chopin’s Scherzo in B minor on Vladimir Horowitz’s personal Steinway concert grand in a concert presented by Jacobs Music in Philadelphia.

Marcantonio Barone’s recording, with James Freeman and Orchestra 2001, of the Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra by Andrew Rudin has been released by Centaur Records.

Elizabeth Keller continues to perform as pianist of the Philadelphia Trio.  Their Sunday concerts at 3:00 P.M. at the Main Line Unitarian Church in Devon commence again on 13 September.  The other concerts in the Trio’s series there will be on 12 February 2012 and 1 April 2012.  Ms. Keller will be performing a solo recital on Sunday, 18 September 2011 at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.  The recital celebrates her fiftieth year of teaching at Baldwin.  The following Sunday, 25 September, she will repeat her recital at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she has been on the music faculty since 1990.

Alexander Panku, of the Conservatory’s piano faculty, performed solo recitals at the Atria Center in February and at the Church of the Brethren in Ambler in June.

STUDENT NEWS

Kelsey De Angelis, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, placed fourth in the second-soprano auditions for the District XII Chorus.  She placed first in the Regional Chorus auditions and performed at Immaculata College in February.

As a member of the professional chorus at Christ Church Ithan last season, Jeannine Barbuscia, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, sang several solos, including Franck’s “Panis angelicus”.

Allister Barnes, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, gave a private recital for the benefit of the Philadelphia Orchestra last season.

James Carino, a student of Laurie Ticehurst, performed as pianist of the Radnor High School Honors Jazz Band last year.

John Carson, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, studied at the Lutheran Summer Music Academy in Minneapolis this summer.

Smriti Chauhan, a violin student of Iwona Fedoseyev, spent the summer performing in Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, and Germany, as a member of the American Music Abroad youth orchestra.

Tanine Daryoush, who studied voice with Perry Brisbon and piano with Laurie Ticehurst at the Conservatory, was awarded the Courtney Adams Music Scholarship at Franklin and Marshall College, where she will be a freshman this fall.  Tanine sang at Baldwin School last year as a member of both the Baldwin B-Flats and the Baldwin School Chorus.

Brody Duncan, a piano student of Alexander Panku at the Conservatory, won the Gold Medal at the 2011 Music-Fest Rising Talents Festival in Princeton, New Jersey, and performed at the Winners’ Concert at the Curtis Institute of Music on 22 May.

Leila Haddad, a voice student of Judith Malis and a piano student of Daina Dodbiba, sang in the Middle School Select Chorus at the Country Day School of the Sacred Heart.  She was a vocal soloist in the School’s spring concert.

Eli Halpern, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, played keyboards in the soundtrack to his own film Gulliver’s Travels: The Voyage to Philacelphonia, which he wrote and produced for Friends Select School, and for which he arranged the music.

Christian Hopkins, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, sang as a member of the Notables at the Haverford School.

Julia Hopkins, a student of Kathryna Barone, sang as a member of the Eliza-B-thans at the Baldwin School last season.  She also sang in the spring musical at the Haverford School.

Nathan d’Ignazio, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone and a theory student of Oliver Hsu and Benjamin C. S. Boyle, was awarded the George H. Slick Arts Fellowship at Strath Haven High School and will be presented in recital there in his junior year.  Nathan was a prize winner in the age 13-15 division of the 2011 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition and studied chamber music with members of the Philadelphia Trio at Music in the Mountains Pennsylvania this summer.

Eliza Jones, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone, made several concert tours with her band Buried Beds.  She also gives private piano lessons in Philadelphia.

Kevin Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, studied with Ann Schein at the Aspen Music Festival and School this summer.  He was the first-place winner of the 2010 piano competition of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and he won second prize in the age 16-18 division of the 2011 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition.  Kevin has been the pianist of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra for the past two years.

Stephen Li, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone and violin with Paul Reiser, was a prize winner in the age 13-15 division of the 2011 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition.  He plays violin in the Main Line Youth Chamber Orchestra.  Last year, he was concertmaster of the Haverford Middle School Orchestra.

Last spring, Donna McLean, who studies voice with Kathryna Barone, sang as a member of the choir and as a soprano soloist in complete performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Clayton White Singers and chamber orchestra.

Randa Melhem, who studies voice with Judith Malis and piano with Laurie Ticehurst, is a member of the select a cappella group the Baldwin B-Flats.  She was a soloist in the performance of the Requiem by Mozart given jointly by the Baldwin School and the Haverford School last season.

Soprano Marian Murphy Powell, who studies with Kathryna Barone at the Conservatory, gave the world premiere of Love Songs, a cycle of twelve cabaret songs composed for her by Matthew Quayle, at the Community Music School in Collegeville in April, with the composer as pianist.  She recently performed a song cycle by Libby Larsen with saxophonist Gail Levinsky at the salon of Andrea Clearfield in Philadelphia.

Nathan Pezzotti, who studies composition with Benjamin C. S. Boyle and piano with Alexander Panku, attended the summer music program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris this July.  His song “Acquainted with the Night” was premiered at West Chester University by soprano Tamara Pezzotti (a former voice student of Kathryna Barone at the Conservatory) and pianist Sarah Gaber.

Mary Punshon, who studies voice with Kathryna Barone, sang the role of Amanda in the Philadelphia premiere of the one-act comic opera The Carp by Quade Winter at the Academy of Vocal Arts with the Concert Operetta Theater.  She also performed the role at the Gettysburg International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.  This summer, she sang the role of Giulietta in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with the Amici Opera Company in Philadelphia, and performed in a concert of operatic excerpts with the Main Line Opera Guild, of which she is a founding member.

Soprano Emily Reich of the Philadelphia Singers, who studies voice with Kathryna Barone at the Conservatory, is assistant musical director and a member of the professional choir at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park.  For High Holy Days, she also sings in the professional chorus at Tiferet Bet Israel in Blue Bell.

Natalia Schafer, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, was a leading singer in The Sound of Music in the fifth-grade spring musical at the Baldwin School.  She is a soloist and a member of the Wesley Choir at the Wayne United Methodist Church.

Nicholas Wu, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone and violin student of Paul Reiser, won Honorable Mention in the Junior Piano Division of the 2011 Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival.  He studied piano and chamber music at the Luzerne Music Center this summer.

Ashley Zhang, a violin student of Paul Reiser, was, at the age of seven, accepted into the Philadelphia Region Youth String Music Young Artists Orchestra in June.

Jerry Zhu, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, performed last year as accompanist for the Tredyffrin/Easttown Middle-School Chorus and for the special ensemble Cantabile.

Beginning this September, Jeremy Gill joins our faculty as accompanist and vocal-repertoire coach.  As a composer, conductor, and pianist, Dr. Gill has established himself as one of the leading musicians in our area.  His works have been performed widely in the United States and Europe and recordings of his music are available on the Albany label.  He is Music Director of the Delaware County Symphony and performs as pianist and harpsichordist of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series.

We are also proud to announce that two distinguished musicians who taught at the Conservatory in years past are returning to our faculty this year:

Alexander Panku, who was a member of our piano faculty from 1983 until 1986 has resumed his teaching here as of this summer.  In the years since he was last here, he completed the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance, with minors in music history and music theory, at Temple University, where his principal teacher was Harvey Wedeen.  He also served on the piano faculty at Temple University and at the Settlement Music School and performed extensively as both soloist and chamber musician in the Philadelphia area and throughout the eastern United States.

Guitarist and composer Emiliano Pardo Tristán, who was a member of our guitar faculty from 1998 until 2008, returns to us this September.  He recently finished a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, at New York University, where his field of research was the “transmutation process and technique of converting intrinsic characteristics of folkloric music into new concert music”.  In the spring of 2010, he was a guest lecturer at Oxford University.  He joins the faculty at New York University this fall.

The cantata To One in Paradise by Benjamin C. S. Boyle of the Conservatory’s theory and composition faculty was performed at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill this past June by The Crossing and the Philadelphia Virtuosi under the direction of Donald Nally.  Dr. Boyle taught in Paris once again this July at the summer music program of the European American Musical Alliance.

Michael Poll, a member of the Conservatory’s guitar faculty for the past two years, performed at the Aspen Music Festival this summer, and will spend the coming year in Poland as a Fulbright Scholar.

STUDENT NEWS

Emerson Ahn, who studies piano with Laurie Ticehurst at the Conservatory, played French horn in the Penn Valley Elementary School Band last year.

In April, Aurimas Balciunas, Jason Feingold, and Carl Grossman, guitar students of Michael Poll and Emiliano Pardo Tristán, all performed on recitals as part of the Philadelphi Classical Guitar Society’s annual festival.

John C. Carpenter, who studied piano with Marcantonio Barone and theory with Benjamin C. S. Boyle at the Conservatory for the past four years, has been accepted as a performance major in the piano class of Enrico Elisi at the Pennsylvania State University, where he matriculates in the Schreyer Honors College this fall.

Iris Chan, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, won Honorable Mention in the 2010 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition.

Philip Cooke, a composition student of Benjamin C. S. Boyle and piano student of Marcantonio Barone, attended the summer music program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris this July.

Ravi Culleton, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, received the varsity letter in Music Theory and Composition from the Varsity Arts Association at Strath Haven High School.  He has been awarded the George H. Slick Arts Fellowship at Strath Haven and will be presented in recital there in his junior year.  He begins lessons in theory and composition with Dr. Benjamin C. S. Boyle at the Conservatory this fall.

Tanine Daryoush, who studies voice with Perry Brisbon and piano with Laurie Ticehurst, sang last season as a member of the “B-Flats”, the select a cappella group at the Baldwin School.

Kidder Erdman, a piano student of Daina Dodbiba, is a pianist in the jazz band at Penn Charter School.  He also sang a solo this June in his eighth-grade graduation.

Eric Haeker, who studies piano with Laurie Ticehurst at the Conservatory, is a composer and is the founder and artistic director of Pieris Music, a non-profit organization presenting high-tech classical fusion concerts.  His Lumia Ensemble features violin, piano, electric bass, MIDI percussion, and 360° video projection.  The ensemble recently performed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington and at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia.  They made their live radio debut in Portland, Maine, this August.

Young Hee Hahn, who studies piano with Laurie Ticehurst at the Conservatory, also plays flute in the Radnor Middle School Band.

June Han, a flute student of Ellen Fisher Deerberg, won first place in the Junior Winds division of the 2010 Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival and performed at the winners’ concert at Montgomery County Community College in May.

Dan Kralik, a piano student of Daina Dodbiba, is a pianist in the Valley Forge Middle School Jazz Band.

David Lee, who studies piano at the Conservatory with Laurie Ticehurst, is also an accomplished trumpet player.  He was chosen to play two trumpet solos in the Radnor Elementary School band last year, and he played in a trumpet duet at the School’s graduation ceremony.  In addition, he was a vocal soloist in the School’s winter concert.

Grace Li, who was a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst at the Conservatory since 2004, leaves us this year to attend Princeton University, where she plans to major in physics.  During her senior year at Strath Haven High School, she held the first saxophone chairs in the lead jazz band, the symphonic band, and the wind ensemble; she was the drum major in the marching band; and she received the Leadership Award and the Varsity Arts Award for her participation in band.

Malana Li, who studies piano with Laurie Ticehurst, also plays viola in the advanced orchestra at Worcester Elementary School.

Kevin Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, received the second prize in Group 5 at the twenty-fifth annual International Young Artists Piano Competition at Catholic University of America in Washington this June.

Stephen Li, who studies piano with Marcantonio Barone and violin with Paul Reiser, was the third-place winner in the Junior Piano division of the 2010 Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival.  He was also a prize-winner at the 2010 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition and performed in the winners’ recital at the Gates Family Recital Hall at the University in April.

Victoria Marks, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, served as accompanist of the Welsh Valley Middle School Chorus last year.  She also sang as a member of the Select Chorus and sang the lead in Welsh Valley’s production of the musical Wizard of OzI.

Nathan Pezzotti, who studies theory and composition with Benjamin C. S. Boyle and piano with Alexander Panku, won first prize in the Mid-Atlantic division of the ACSI soloist competition, playing saxophone in Paul Creston’s sonata for saxophone and piano.

Meredith Pollie, who studies piano with Laurie Ticehurst at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, also sings as a member of “Bel Canto”, the select a cappella group at the Agnes Irwin School

Priya Roychoudhury, a piano student of Daina Dodbiba, is a pianist in the Oak Park Elementary School Jazz Band.  She also accompanied the school choir and sang two solos in their June concert.

David Zhang, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, won first place in the Junior Piano division of  the 2010 Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival and performed at the winners’ concert at Montgomery County Community College in May.

Jerry Zhu, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, served as accompanist of  the Tredyffrin/Easttown sixth-grade chorus last year.

Brian Cai, a student of Marcantonio Barone, was a silver medal winner in Level 11 of the 2009 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati this July.  Brian also won second place in the age 16-18 division of the 2009 West Chester University Pre-Collegiate Competition and performed in the winners’ recital at the University in April.

As a bronze medalist of the 2009 Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey, John Carpenter, a student of Marcantonio Barone, performed in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York this June.

Sophia Chen, who studies violin with Iwona Fedoseyev, was accepted to the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra.

Chang-Hee Han, a violin pupil of John Sergovic, is a member of the first-violin section of the Delaware County Youth Orchestra.

June Han, a student of Ellen Fisher Deerberg, won first prize in the Junior Division of the 2009 Young Artist Competition of the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia.  She is a flutist in the Delaware County Youth Orchestra.

At 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, 6 December, Kevin Li, a student of Marcantonio Barone, will perform the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto № 3 in C minor with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Irving Ludwig at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center.  As a winner of the 2009 Katheryn E. MacPhail Young Artists Competition, he will also play the first movement of Beethoven’s Concerto № 5 in E-flat Major with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra on 6 February 2010.  He was a gold medal winner in Level 11 of the World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati this July, and he performed at Montgomery County Community College in May as a first-place winner in the senior division of the Tri-County Concerts Association Annual Youth Festival.  This summer, he participated in the Austrian International Piano Seminar and Festival in Ebenfurth.

Stephen Li, a twelve-year-old piano student of Marcantonio Barone, was a silver medalist in Level 9 of the World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati.  He also won second place in the age 9-12 division of the West Chester University Pre-Collegiate Competition and performed in the winners’ recital in April.

Violinist Emily Lu, a pupil of Paul Reiser, and pianist Stephen Li received honorable mention in the Junior Ensemble division of the 2009 Tri-County Concerts Association Youth Festival.

Anna Matlack, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, won the senior music prize at Marple Newtown High School.  She was awarded a partial scholarship at Elizabethtown College, where she will study vocal music and music therapy.

Terry Tan, who studies with Ellen Fisher Deerberg, was named first flute of the Lionville Middle School Band last semester.

Sophia Chen, a violin student of Iwona Fedoseyev, was accepted by competitive audition into the PRYSM ensemble of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.

Ashley Chiang, a flute student of Ellen Fisher Deerberg, is Principal Flute of the Chester County Youth Orchestra.  She and Elizabeth Walker, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed together this autumn in Sounds of Aid, a concert for the benefit of «ConKerr Cancer», and in a concert of the music honor society «Modern Music Masters».

Leah Coppage-Gross, a piano student of Elizabeth Keller, is a member of the Jazz Band at Radnor Middle School.  She also plays french horn in the band and sings in the select choir «Distaffs».

Henry Gao, a piano student of Mackenzie Carlson, accompanied the Bala Cynwyd Middle School Band in Mozart Serenade and Dance at its winter concert in December.  He also plays flute in the Band.

Anna Matlack, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, was elected President of the Marple-Newtown High School Choir.  In December, she sang as a soprano in the Interfaith Choir at a performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Broomall.

FACULTY NEWS

Marcantonio Barone is the pianist, with soprano Barbara Ann Martin and Orchestra 2001 under the direction of James Freeman, on the première recording of A Journey beyond Time (American Songbook II) and Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV) by George Crumb, released in November by Bridge Records as Volume 13 of the Complete Crumb Edition.

Benjamin Boyle is now Adjunct Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
In December, he performed (as pianist) his Sonata-Fantasy with violinist Timothy Fain at the Kennedy Center in Washington and at Merkin Hall in New York.
His opera The Holly and the Ivy was given its world première by the Chicago Lyric Opera last month.  A new work of his has been commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam for a joint performance that they will give with the New York Philharmonic at the Riverside Church in New York in April.

Mackenzie Carlson, of the Conservatory’s piano faculty, will perform in recital with guitarist Behdad Moghadassi at the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society on 11 January.

Elizabeth Keller is pianist with the Philadelphia Trio.  Their series of concerts at the Main Line Unitarian Church in Devon continues on Sunday, 15 February, at 3:00 P.M. with the Tchaikovsky Trio and the Elgar Sonata for Violin and Piano.  The final concert of the season will take place on Sunday, 19 April, and will feature the Brahms Horn Trio.
Ms. Keller’s chamber-music class «Firenze» at the Baldwin School spent the spring break of 2008 giving concerts in Scandinavia.  The spring of 2010 will see the group performing in the British Isles.
This is also Ms. Keller’s eighteenth year teaching piano performance at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Her class was again invited to play at the Wolf Museum in Lancaster in April.

Samantha van Adelsburg, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, will matriculate as a voice major at the State University of New York at Binghamton.  She received the Senior Outstanding Achievement Choral Award at Lower Merion High School and produced and performed a solo cabaret recital as her senior project in June.  She also appeared in Haverford School’s production of West Side Story in March.

Brian Cai, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, won the Overall Soloist Award for Jazz Band at the “Music in the Parks” competition in Boston in April.

Anil Chitrapu, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, is to give his graduation performance (Arangetram) in Carnatic Music at Gwynedd Mercy College on 30 August at 4:00 P.M.

Leah Golub, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, received a full scholarship as a voice major at Case Western Reserve University.  She was the assistant director of Harriton High School’s production of The Visit in April.

Kevin Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, was one of the youngest students admitted to study chamber music with members of the Philadelphia Trio at Music in the Mountains in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, this August.

Gus Longer, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, performed in Alice in Wonderland, Jr. at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center in July.

Alex Pack, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, was assistant director of Harriton High School’s production of The Visit.

Elizabeth Reeves, a voice student of Kathryna Barone and Perry Brisbon and a piano student of Mackenzie Carlson, will matriculate as a voice major at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  She studied this summer at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Gloria Sun, a violin student of Iwona Fedoseyev, was accepted by competitive audition into both the Delaware County Youth Orchestra and the Main Line Chamber Youth Orchestra.

Faculty News

Marcantonio Barone gave the world premiere of the Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra by Andrew Rudin at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. in May.  During the summer, he performed at the Delaware Chamber Music Festival, with the Lenape Chamber Ensemble in Pennsylvania, and with the Craftsbury Chamber Players in Vermont.

Ellen Fisher Deerberg will perform as a member of the quartet Volanti Flutes on the concert series Nassau at 4:00 on Sunday, 12 October, at 4:00 P.M., at the Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey.

Volanti Flutes will perform again at 7:30 P.M. the following Saturday, 18 October, in the Wind Department Recital of the Westminster Conservatory, at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel in Princeton.

Bronwyn Fix-Keller will appear as harpsichord soloist in the Brandenburg Concerto № 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach with Camerata Ama Deus Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, 18 October, at 7:30 P.M. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill; and on Sunday, 19 October, at 4:00 P.M. in Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr College.

Andrew Hauze has been named Director of Music at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

STUDENT NEWS

Samantha van Adelsburg, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, was one of twelve performers chosen from a field of fifty-three competitors to sing in the final recital at the Rowan University Young Vocal Scholars Camp.  She was also awarded a position as a member of the professional choir at St. John’s Church in Bala Cynwyd.

Kelly Brobson, a voice student of Judith Malis, sang both alto and soprano solos in the West Chester University Concert Choir’s performances of Handel’s Dixit Dominus under the direction of David P. DeVenney at the West Chester University Performing Arts Center and at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Ardmore in February.

Brian Cai, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, received honorable mention in the thirteen- to fifteen-year-old division of the 2008 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Piano Competition.

James Carino, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, plays keyboard in the Radnor Middle School Jazz band and was a co-composer of the school musical this year.  He also plays alto saxophone in the eighth-grade band and studied bass guitar at the Summer Music Program at Harcum College over the summer.

Anil Chitrapu, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, sang at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia as a member of Wissahickon High School’s Camerata.  As an actor, he performed the rôle of the Old Man in the play Prelude to a Kiss, and in the musical Chess in productions at his school.  He also continues his advanced lessons in Indian classical vocal music and has given concerts at the Bharatiya Temple in Montgomeryville.

Leah Golub, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, sang the rôle of Sally Simpson in Harriton High School’s production of The Who’s Tommy in November.

Nathan D’Ignazio, a twelve-year-old piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed the Schubert Impromptu Opus 90 № 4 at Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College in March at a benefit concert for Strath Haven High School’s ‘A Better Chance’ program.

David Lee, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst and a third-grade student at the Radnor Elementary School, has been asked to play trumpet in the fifth-grade band at his school.

Kevin Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, won first prize in the thirteen- to fifteen-year-old division of the 2008 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Annual Piano Competition and second place in the Junior Piano division of the 2008 Tri-County Concerts Association Youth Festival.

Stephen Li, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, performed a recital at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr in January.

Mitchell Lyon, a composition student of Benjamin C. S. Boyle, has been accepted as a cello major at the Juilliard School.

Rouzbeh Mashayekhi, a guitar student of Emiliano Pardo-Tristán, performed at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia on 9 March in the public semifinal round of the High School Division of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Competition.

Angela Petrone, a piano student of Laurie Ticehurst, was pianist of the 2007 Archdiocesan Jazz Band.  As an oboist, she is a member of the Delaware Valley Young Musicians’ Orchestra, the All-Catholic Band, the All-Catholic Orchestra, and the pit orchestra for the annual musical-theater production of Cardinal O’Hara High School.

Mary Punshon, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, performed in ThespisEtc.’s production of Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan in February.  A review on the website RyanBunch.com declared that “Punshon is in a class by herself—an accomplished classical singer and a wonderful actor, she is the consummate artist in the role of Elsie.”

Elizabeth Reeves, a voice student of Kathryna Barone and Perry Brisbon and a piano student of Mackenzie Carlson, won the Vocal Prize for area Catholic High School students.

Bronwyn Fix-Keller, a member of the Conservatory’s voice faculty, was mezzo-soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in a concert of the Ama Deus Ensemble at the Perelman Theatre of Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on 2 November. Ms. Fix-Keller also performed as continuo harpsichordist in an all-Bach concert with the Ama Deus Ensemble on 21 October.

Mackenzie Carlson, of the Conservatory’s piano faculty, performed Cycles of Remembrance, a piano recital with music by Rameau, Debussy, Dukas, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Couperin, and Ravel, at Christ’s Lutheran Church in Oreland in October and at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in November.

The Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Benjamin Boyle, who teaches composition, theory, and musicianship at the Conservatory, was given its world première by organist Huw Lewis and the Hope College Orchestra at the Dimnent Memorial Chapel, in Holland, Michigan, on 2 November. The Concerto was commissioned by Hope College to celebrate the refurbishing of its Skinner organ. Dr. Boyle’s song cycle Le Passage des Rêves, for baritone and piano will be premièred on 15 January in Washington D.C.

As a member of Volanti Flutes, a flute quartet based in Princeton, Ellen Fisher Deerberg, flute teacher at the Conservatory, performed in a concert of 19th- and 20th-century French music at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel on 25 November. She is a collaborative artist on the compact disc The Colors Fall, featuring flutist Lisamarie McGrath, and will perform in a CD-release recital on 2 December at St. John Lutheran Church in Center Square, Pennsylvania.

Viaje a través de la Guitarra Clásica, a new compact disc by guitarist and composer Emiliano Pardo-Tristán, of the Conservatory’s faculty, including music by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Brouwer, Reis, Barrios, Tárrega, and Calevaro, is soon to be released on the Fermata label. With guest artists Anna Noggle, singer, and Luigi Mazzocchi, violinist, Dr. Pardo-Tristán will perform a CD-release recital at Temple University’s Rock Hall on 1 December.

Rhonda Stull, a member of the piano faculty at the Conservatory, will perform with her husband, clarinettist Norman Stull, at their annual Christmas Concert on 1 December at Pocono Manor in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. On 16 December, Mrs. Stull will direct the cantata One Small Child, arranged by Benjamin Harlan, at the Trinity Great Swamp Church in Spinnerstown, Pennsylvania.

STUDENT NEWS

Stephen Li, 10, a piano student of Marcantonio Barone, won Honorable Mention in Level 8 at the 51st World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association in Cincinnati in June.

Richard Shapp, a voice student of Kathryna Barone, sang to critical acclaim in a production of Iolanthe at the The 14th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, this past August. In November, he sang the rôle of Captain Sir Edward Corcoran, K.C.B. in Utopia, Limited with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Chester County. He appears with the Society in their current production of Trial by Jury.

Kelsey De Angelis, a voice student of Bronwyn Fix-Keller, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the grand opening of the new Radnor Middle School on 13 October.

Samantha Sutliff, a voice student of Perry Brisbon, performed the rôle of Mrs. Walker in Harriton High School’s production of the musical Tommy in November.

Patrick McMillan, a piano student of Rhonda Stull, performed at the Valley Forge Elementary School in November.