University Singers – Betsy Burleigh, conductor, with Chris Albanese, tenor; Ingrid Matthews and Danqi Zeng, baroque violin; Macarena Sanchez Ruíz, baroque cello; and Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord; Shayla Van Hal, organ; and the Pacifica Quartet with Marta Aznavoorian, piano (guest) Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire Mielczewski: Canzona prima a 3 (c.1630)Moniuszko: Selections from "Sonety krymskie (Crimean Sonnets)" (1867)Sawa: Ecce lignum crucis (1986) Zarębski: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 34 (1885)About the ArtistsChris Albanese is Pam and Jack Burks Associate Professor of Choral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he conducts the Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers. Under his direction, the Singing Hoosiers were invited to perform at national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association in 2025 and 2021. He has led and prepared the ensemble for performances with notable guests, including Sylvia McNair and Sandi Patty. In recognition of his excellence in teaching, he was awarded Indiana University's Trustees Teaching Award in 2022. Before Indiana, Albanese was a member of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer. With Chanticleer, he performed across the United States and abroad, including at Los Angeles's Disney Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Prague's Rudolfinum, and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. With the ensemble, he appeared with the ensemble as a featured guest on The Hallmark Network's Home and Family. Albanese concurrently serves as music director of the Akron Symphony Chorus where he has prepared the chorus to critical acclaim for performances of works including Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Haydn's The Creation, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, and the world premiere of Julia Perry's Frammenti dale lettere di Santa Caterina. An active concert singer and recitalist, Albanese's performance credits include appearances with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Skylark Ensemble, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Dayton Opera, Ars Musica Chicago, the Castleton Festival under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel, and Chamber Fest in a performance of Britten's Canticle III, Op. 55, with Konstyantin Travinsky (piano) and Oto Carrillo (horn). Albanese has presented workshops and led festival choirs across the United States and abroad, most recently for the Indiana State School Music Association, Michigan State Vocal Music Association, and Ohio Valley Choral Festival. He earned a B.M. in Music Education and Vocal Performance from the University of Dayton, an M.M. in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, and a D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A multi-Grammy nominated artist, pianist Marta Aznavoorian performs to critical acclaim on the world stage as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She made her professional debut at age 13 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of Sir George Solti. A champion of new music, she collaborates with several of today's most innovative composers and has been recognized for her outstanding outreach, performance, and mentoring in the United States and abroad. She is a founding member of the celebrated Lincoln Trio and the Aznavoorian Duo with her sister, Ani. A Steinway Artist, Aznavoorian currently serves as lecturer in piano and chamber music at DePaul University and records extensively under the Cedille Records Label. A student of the renowned teacher Menahem Pressler, Aznavoorian earned a bachelor's degree and an Artist Diploma at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a master's degree from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Patricia Zander.Betsy Burleigh is Thomas R. Kasdorf Professor of Choral Conducting and professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was chair of the Choral Conducting Department from 2013 to 2024. Burleigh served as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2015, leading performances of Brahms' Requiem, Bach's B Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, and preparing the choir for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). As a guest conductor, Burleigh has led the PSO, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony, and Handel Society of Dartmouth College. She prepared the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus for performances with the Cincinnati Pops. Burleigh served as assistant director of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for 11 years, during which time she prepared the chorus for all performances at the Blossom Festival and oversaw the chorus for Pierre Boulez's Deutsche Gramophone recording of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette. Other positions have included directing the Providence Singers, Akron Symphony Chorus, Canton Symphony Chorus, and Mastersingers of Lexington. Acclaimed for her oratorio conducting, Burleigh's Chorus pro Musica performance of Haydn's Creation was praised as an "expansive, poetic reading" (The Boston Globe). Her rendition of Orff's Carmina Burana was called both "nuanced" and "hair-raising" (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). She won the 2000 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for best classical/opera performance for Ulmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis and conducted The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an Emmy Award-winning concert for the 9/11 Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Burleigh previously held teaching positions at Tufts, Clark, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Cleveland State universities, Longy School of Music, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree with distinction from Indiana University, a Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from the Jacobs School.Ingrid Matthews teaches baroque violin in the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She served previously as music director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and has appeared as a soloist, guest director, and concertmaster for leading early music ensembles including the New York Collegium, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ars Lyrica, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, The Bach Sinfonia, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and many others. She is also a member of San Francisco-based chamber ensemble Musica Pacifica and has held teaching residencies at the University of Southern California, University of Toronto, Oberlin College, Cornish College of the Arts, New England Conservatory, and others. Herself a competition winner (she received first prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music), Matthews has served as a juror for competitions such as the Maurice and Lillian Barbash International Bach Competition and the Indianapolis Early Music Competition. Matthews has received high critical acclaim for her extensive discography; her recording of the Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin of J. S. Bach was named "top recommendation for this music…on either period or modern instruments" by American Record Guide, and her recording of Biagio Marini is included in the Norton Anthology of Music used by conservatories and universities worldwide.Jonathan Oddie is professor of practice in historical performance (historical keyboards) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Oddie is in demand across the United States as a versatile performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and continuo organ. As a continuo player, he works with leading musicians including violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky and flutist Janet See and with orchestras including Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. He has performed on chamber music series including Gallery Concerts Seattle and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and he has been featured as a soloist with the Northwest Sinfonietta and Saratoga Orchestra. Oddie studied piano and harpsichord at Indiana University, where his teachers included Elisabeth Wright, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Edmund Battersby. He also earned a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford, where he researched the instrumental music of English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). Oddie has published research in the journals Early Music and Historical Performance. His awards include a Performer's Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music and a Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship. Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and daring repertory choices, the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition over the past 30 years as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today, establishing itself as the embodiment of the ideal American quartet sound. Named faculty string quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2012, Pacifica was previously quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and most recently received its second Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for Contemporary Voices (2020), featuring the works of three Pulitzer Prize–winning women. In 2017, the Quartet was appointed to lead the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly won chamber music's top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002, the ensemble was honored with Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center's The Bowers Program, and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Pacifica Quartet has proven itself the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, having given highly acclaimed performances of the complete Carter, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Shostakovich cycles in numerous cities across the United States, in Australia, and in Tokyo and London. An ardent advocate of contemporary music, Pacifica commissions and performs many new works, including compositions by Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran. The Quartet has recorded the Carter cycle (Naxos) and the Shostakovich cycle (Cedille Records) to rave reviews. Other recording projects include Leo Ornstein's piano quintet with Marc-André Hamelin, the Brahms piano quintet with Jacobs Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler, and the Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets with Anthony McGill. Prior to its appointment to the Jacobs School, Pacifica was on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for 9 years and served as resident performing artists at the University of Chicago for 17 years. Visit pacificaquartet.com for more information. Meeting URL:

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Repertoire Schubert: Fantasy in C Major ("Sei mir gegrüßt!"), D.934 (1827) Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D.667 (1819) ("Trout")About the Artists Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought after in the United States and abroad. He is professor of practice (string chamber music, viola) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a member of the Pacifica Quartet. As an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has appeared at such prestigious festivals and series as Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Caramoor, Banff, Taos, Music from Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, Alpenglow, Plush, Whittington, Olympic, Concordia Chamber Players, Kon-Tiki, Bay Chamber Concerts, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society. Performances have taken him to far-flung places, including Chile and Greenland, and he plays regularly at chamber music festivals in France, Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. He has frequently appeared as a guest with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestras. Holloway has been principal violist at Tanglewood and of the New York String Orchestra, and he has played as a guest with the Boston Symphony and guest principal of the American Symphony, Riverside Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Camerata Bern, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Bargemusic, the 92nd Street Y, Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Tertulia, Cartagena International Music Festival, with the Israeli Chamber Project, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, NOVUS NY, Emerald City Music, and on radio and television throughout the Americas and Europe, most recently a Live From Lincoln Center broadcast. Hailed as an "outstanding violist" by American Record Guide, and praised by Zürich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung for his "warmth and intimacy," he has recorded for the Marlboro Recording Society, CMS Live, Music@Menlo LIVE, Naxos, and Albany labels. Holloway earned a B.M. summa cum laude from Boston University, where he studied with Michelle LaCourse, and a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, as a student of Michael Tree. A native of South Korea, Sung-Mi Im has been an active soloist, chamber musician, and educator. After a successful debut with Daegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea at age eight, she pursued undergraduate studies at Seoul National University and her master's degree in piano performance, receiving the Dean's Scholarship at Boston University. Im has given solo and chamber music recitals in London, Montreal, Dallas, Seoul, and New York, and has appeared with orchestras in Korea, including the Sofia Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra, and Busan Symphony Orchestra for the 10th Korean Orchestra Festival at Seoul Arts Center. Her performances with the Bloomington (Indiana) Symphony Orchestra and the Jupiter Symphony in New York City were met with much acclaim as well. Im has appeared in many international festivals, including Kusatsu Music Festival and Moon Beach Festival in Japan, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Sitka Music Festival in Alaska, Bargemusic in New York, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Tucson Chamber Music Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, among others. A devoted educator, Im has been a faculty member at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2011. She is a recipient of the IU Trustee's Teaching Award. At the Jacobs School, Im has created opportunities for students to perform at IU's regional campuses, local hospitals, and retirement communities. As artistic director of the Bloomington Chapter of Music for Food, she has organized concerts linking a larger national network and local community groups to confront local food insecurity.Kurt Muroki is professor of double bass at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An artist member with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he began his musical studies on the violin at the age of six and subsequently performed concerti with the Honolulu Symphony and the Maui Symphony. He went on to study the double bass at 13 and entered The Juilliard School of Music at 17, studying with Homer R. Mensch. At 21, Muroki began performing with the Sejong Soloists under ICM Management. He has performed with the Jupiter Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitur, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Nomori, New York City Ballet, 92nd St. Y, Bargemusic, and in the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Aspen, Marlboro, and Festival L'Autonne at IRCAM, among others. Muroki is active playing on soundtracks for movies and commercials, with titles including the The Departed, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hitch, Julie and Julia, The Manchurian Candidate, and Moonrise Kingdom. He has collaborated on albums and live concerts with such artists as The Who, Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Itzhak Perlman. Muroki has won numerous competitions, including first prize in the Aspen Music Festival double bass competition and the Honolulu Symphony Young Artists competition, and he was the first bassist to win the New World Symphony concerto competition. He has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, and Orion quartets, Ensemble Wein-Berlin, Jaime Laredo, Lynn Harrell, Toru Takemitsu, Peter Schickele, and John Zorn, among others. Muroki is also on the faculties of Stony Brook University, the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He is on the board of directors of the International Society of Bassists and is a D'Addario Strings artist. He plays on a double bass once owned by the famous double bassist Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati (c.1665).Peter Stumpf is professor of music (cello) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to this appointment, he was principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Stumpf's tenure in Los Angeles followed 12 years as associate principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His professional orchestral career began at age 16 when he joined the cello section of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music (CIM) and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Johannes String Quartet and has appeared on chamber music series on several continents. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, as well as such festivals as Marlboro, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, the Casals Hall Ensemble, and pianist Mitsuko Uchida. He has collaborated with pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Emmanuel Ax, Jorge Bolet, Yefim Bronfman, Radu Lupu, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Andras Schiff, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and with the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Boston Philharmonic, among many others. As a recitalist, he has performed at the Universities of Hartford, Syracuse, and Delaware, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he performed J. S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello on series in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. His awards include first prize in the Washington International, Graham-Stahl, and Aspen Concerto Competitions, and second prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition. As a teacher, he has served on the faculties of the University of Southern California, Hartt School of Music, and New England Conservatory, and he was guest artist faculty at CIM, Yellow Barn Music Festival, and Musicorda Summer String Program.Itamar Zorman is associate professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Since his emergence with the top prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Zorman has wowed audiences all over the world with his "youthful intensity" and "achingly beautiful" sound (Bachtrack), earning him the title of the "virtuoso of emotions" (Göttinger Tageblatt). Awarded the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award for 2014, he is the winner of the 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Zorman has performed as a soloist with such orchestras as the Mariinsky Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, KBS Symphony Seoul, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, German Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Kremerata Baltica, RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Dublin), and American Symphony. In 2024, he performed with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in its traditional televised Christmas concert, following the Pope's blessing. He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, David Robertson, Valery Gergiev, James DePreist, Karina Canellakis, Yuri Bashmet, and Nathalie Stuztmann. He has performed around the world in venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Zurich's Tonhalle, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. As a recitalist, Zorman performed at Carnegie Hall's Distinctive Debut series, Wigmore Hall, People's Symphony Concerts, the Louvre Museum, Suntory Hall, and HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt. He was invited to the Verbier, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, MITO SettembreMusica, and Radio France festivals. He has also collaborated with such legendary artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Steven Isserlis, and Jörg Widmann. As a teacher, Zorman has held visiting positions at the Eastman School of Music, IU, and McDuffy Center for Strings. He is a regular faculty member at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, and Keshet Eilon. He has taught master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, and Duke University. Zorman plays on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesù, from the collection of Yehuda Zisapel.

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Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire to be announcedAbout the Artists Pianist Kyunghoon Kim is lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A native of South Korea, Kim made his debut at the age of 12 with the Solideo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist with numerous orchestras in South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States, including two appearances with the IU Symphony Orchestra as a concerto competition winner. His performance of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 with conductor Arthur Fagen was praised as being "not only bombastic, but intensely musical, rich in nuances, introspective, lyrical" (Herald-Times). Kim's solo performing career includes prizes and awards from the Chautauqua Solo Piano Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, Ben L. Gomez Piano Competition, National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competition, Hanoi International Piano Competition, Haneol Music Competition, and Korea Piano Society Competition. He is a sought-after collaborator whose repertoire encompasses all instruments, from strings to percussion, as well as vocal works. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Kathleen McLean, Stephen Lange, and Angel Subero. An active chamber musician and educator, Kim performs regularly with his piano trio and has given master classes at universities. He also serves the IU Piano Academy as a piano duet coach. Kim's early education in music composition led him to his activities as an arranger of classical, jazz, pop songs, and hymns for solo piano, and four-hands piano settings, performed by him and his wife, pianist Elizabeth Yao, and uploaded to his YouTube channel. More than 7,000 copies of his music have been sold on Musicnotes. Kim earned a Doctor of Music in Piano Performance degree with double minors in music theory and early music (harpsichord) at the Jacobs School as a protégé of Arnaldo Cohen, with whom he also completed a Master of Music degree. His early keyboard studies were with Elisabeth Wright. Kim earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degree from Seoul National University, where he studied with Hyoung-Joon Chang. Hailed by critics as a "superior poet" (Vancouver Sun) and praised for his "heart and indomitable will" (Gramophone), Grigory Kalinovsky has performed at some of the world's major venues, from all three stages of Carnegie Hall in New York to Laeiszhalle (Musikhalle) Großer Saal in Hamburg. His recording with pianist Tatiana Goncharova featuring Shostakovich's Violin Sonata and 24 Preludes was released by Centaur Records to great critical acclaim and hailed by the composer's son, conductor Maxim Shostakovich, as "a must-have for any Shostakovich music connoisseur." The duo's recording of the complete set of sonatas for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg was released on Naxos label in 2017. A devoted educator, Kalinovsky has been on the faculty at the IU Jacobs School of Music since 2013. His book ViolinMind, on theory and technique of playing using different tuning systems, written in collaboration with famed cello professor Hans Jørgen Jensen, was published by OvationPress in 2019. Kalinovsky has presented master classes at many major music schools and festivals in the United States and abroad, including the New England Conservatory, Colburn School, University of Maryland, San Francisco Conservatory, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and Jerusalem Music Center in Israel, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Germany, Beijing Central Conservatory in China, and Seoul National University and Korea National University of Arts in South Korea. He has recently recorded several hours of violin technique pedagogy videos for Tonebase Violin. His students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including the Spohr International Violin Competition, Tibor Varga Junior Competition, Menuhin Young Artists Competition in England, and Andrea Postacchini Young Violinists Competition in Italy, among others. Kalinovsky started his music education with Tatiana Liberova in his native St. Petersburg, Russia. After coming to New York, he continued his studies with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music, where he later served as a faculty member for 15 years until his move to Indiana University.Elizabeth Yao is lecturer in music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she coordinates its secondary piano program and directs the Young Pianists program and the Summer Piano Academy. Yao has been praised for her sincerity of expression and the "intelligent, emotional coherence" of her musical interpretations. She has been featured as guest soloist with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony and as a guest artist on Spokane Public Radio's From the Studio. Other distinctions include prizes and awards from the Southern Illinois Young Artists Organization Instrumental Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition, Lima Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Award Tour Competition. As a collaborator, she has played with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra and the modern music ensemble Inverted Space. An educator and a music advocate, Yao has worked with students of all ages and levels, with an emphasis on accessibility, student self-efficacy, and student wellness. She has toured with the San Francisco Symphony Adventures in Music educational outreach program, performing to and teaching thousands of elementary school students. She has presented her research at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Collegiate Chapters Symposium and has been a guest panelist at the Jacobs School's Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music MTNA collegiate chapter. Yao earned a Doctor of Music degree from the Jacobs School of Music, with double minors in music theory and music history and literature, under the tutelage of André Watts. Her dissertation, "Let the Record Show," analyzes historical and recent recordings as an entry point for contextualizing and understanding the evolution of performance practices over the past 100 years. She earned a master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Mack McCray and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with double bachelor's degrees in piano performance (with honors) and Chinese. Yao lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband and dog. Meeting URL:

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the DirectorsKevin Bobo is professor of music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he served as assistant professor of percussion at the University of Kansas (2003-07). He studied percussion with J. C. Combs and Gordon Stout and composition with Greg Woodward and Dana Wilson. Internationally respected as a solo marimba artist, Bobo has performed on five continents. His travels have taken him to Taiwan, Singapore, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and nearly 40 states in the United States. As a composer, Bobo's compositions are performed all over the world, with his solo works frequently appearing on international competition repertoire lists. He has authored two method books and composed numerous pieces for a variety of instruments and ensembles.Joseph Gramley is professor of music in percussion and chair of the Percussion Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A Grammy Award-winning multi-percussionist, Gramley has performed and taught internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in addition to playing with major symphony orchestras. He released eight albums as a founding member of the Silkroad Ensemble and served as the group's first associate artistic director, working directly with Yo-Yo Ma. Gramley's two solo recordings, American Deconstruction and Global Percussion, represent definitive, milestone works in the modern multi-percussion canon. Gramley came to Bloomington after 12 years of leading the percussion program at the University of Michigan, where he successfully placed a generation of percussionists in varied posts worldwide—from symphony orchestras to Broadway, and top-tier universities and conservatories to world stages with pop artists and chamber musicians alike. His versatility as a percussionist has found him performing alongside a broad cross section of artists, including Ma, Elton John, Michael Stern, Renee Fleming, Wu Man, Glen Velez, and Keiko Abe. Gramley's cross-genre collaborations have seen him involved with more than 100 new commissions from the leading composers of our time. His duo, Organized Rhythm, with Clive Driskill-Smith, is the world's premier and most active organ/percussion collaboration. Born in 1970, Gramley grew up in Oregon and was named a presidential scholar in the arts in 1988. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan. Festival experience includes Tanglewood, Salzburg Mozarteum, Spoleto Festival, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and 15 summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. He made his concerto debut with the Houston Symphony and his solo debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Gramley earned his master's degree from Juilliard and directed its Summer Percussion Seminar for 17 years. (Photo by Brandon Ilaw)John Tafoya is professor of music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He served as principal timpanist of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2007. Tafoya has held previous principal timpani positions with the American Wind Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony (Kentucky), Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (Indiana), and Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit. Tafoya has presented numerous master classes and clinics at universities across the United States and Canada. He was a featured clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in 2002, 2007, and 2011. His website, johntafoya.com, is accessed by thousands of percussion students and professional players each month. He has served on the faculties of the University of Evansville, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Florida International University, and University of Maryland. He is the author of two orchestral timpani repertoire books: The Working Timpanist's Survival Guide (2004), published by Carl Fischer, and Beyond the Audition Screen (Hal Leonard, 2011). Tafoya performed on the award-winning recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of James Judd and on orchestral recordings by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. Tafoya can also be heard on the American Wind Symphony Orchestra's CD Concertos All and Sundry performing Kaoru Wada's Concertante for Timpani, Percussion, and Winds under the direction of Robert Austin Boudreau. Tafoya also participated on the Summit Brass CD All American Brass (Pro Arte, 1987) and on the 1992 Arkay CD William Albright: Music for Organ and Harpsichord, featuring organist Douglas Reed. Tafoya has worked under many prestigious conductors, including Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christopher Hogwood, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, John Williams, Hugh Wolff, and David Zinman, among others. He proudly endorses American Drum Manufacturing Co., Avedis Zildjian Company, Grover Pro Percussion, Remo Inc., and Yamaha Corporation. Meeting URL:

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire Mike Schelle: The Case of the Sentimental Psychopath (2025)Christopher Stark: Prehistoric Songs and Dances That Never Existed (2025)H. K. Gruber: Frankenstein!! (1977/79)About the DirectorDavid Dzubay's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change. Meeting URL:

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Cello soloist to be announcedRepertoire Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral (2000)V. Herbert: Cello Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 30 (1894)L. Bernstein: Symphony No. 1. Jeremiah (1942)About the Artists Born in North Carolina, David Charles Abell studied viola, trumpet, piano, organ, and composition, turning his attention to conducting at age 14. He subsequently studied with Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger, earning degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School. He has worked with distinguished artists including Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Stephen Hough, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Lea Salonga, Idina Menzel, Heather Headley, Petula Clark, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison, Michael Ball, and Michael Feinstein. The many international orchestras he has conducted include the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, and Boston Pops. Abell's television and radio appearances encompass a wide repertoire, from Johann Strauss (with the period-instrument Wiener Akademie) to the launch of the Ten Pieces classical music education project with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Three of his five appearances at the BBC Proms were televised: the Richard Rodgers Centenary, Sondheim at 80, and the War Horse Prom in 2014. His particular affinity with the operatic repertoire has attracted repeat engagements with Cincinnati Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City as well as guest appearances with Opera Philadelphia, Michigan Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, and many others. Considered one of the top international conductors of musical theatre, he led the French premieres of four Stephen Sondheim musicals and conducted the Les Misérables tenth and twenty-fifth anniversary concerts. For the centennial of his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Abell conducted Songfest and the Serenade with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, West Side Story at Glimmerglass and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and three concerts of Bernstein's theater music with the Philly POPS. Recordings include excerpts from La Bohème and Madama Butterfly,Something's Gotta Give (with Simon Keenlyside), Jonathan Dove's opera Tobias and the Angel, and complete recordings of Miss Saigon and Man of La Mancha.Forever (with soprano Diana Damrau). Michelle DeYoung is associate professor of music in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. DeYoung has established herself as one of the most exciting artists of her generation. She continues to be in demand throughout the world, appearing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Met Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and the Concertgebouworkest. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. In Australia, she has appeared multiple times with the Sydney Symphony and most recently sang Kundry in concert performances of Parsifal at Opera Australia. Equally at home on the opera stage, DeYoung has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Theater Basel, English National Opera and the Tokyo Opera. Her many roles include the title roles in Samson et Dalilah and The Rape of Lucretia, Fricka, Sieglinde and Waltraute in The Ring Cycle, Kundry in Parsifal, Venus in Tannhäuser, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Eboli in Don Carlos, Amneris in Aida, Santuzza in Cavellaria Rusticana, Marguerite in Le Damnation de Faust, Dido in Les Troyens, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, and Jocaste in Oedipus Rex. She also created the role of the Shaman in Tan Dun's The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera. A multi-Grammy Award-winning recording artist, DeYoung's impressive discography includes Das Rheingold and Die Walküre with the Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos), Kindertotenlieder, Mahler's Symphony No. 3, and Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media), Les Troyens with Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live!), and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink (CSO Resound) and the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck (Challenge Records International). Her first solo disc was released on the EMI label. Meeting URL:

RepertoireLange: Sonata No. 4 in D Major, Op. 28 (1879)Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 65 No. 6 (1845)Reubke: Sonata on the 94th Psalm (1857)About the Artist One of the most renowned organ virtuosos and organ pedagogues, Ludger Lohmann has exerted a lasting influence on organ culture. His career as a recitalist, which has brought him to many important churches, cathedrals, and concert halls all over the world, started with awards at several important international competitions, including the competition of the German Broadcasting Corporations in Munich 1979 and the Grand Prix de Chartres 1982, among others. Born in Herne in 1954, he studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf at Cologne Musikhochschule. While writing his musicology Ph.D. dissertation, "Articulation on Keyboard Instruments of the 16.-18. Centuries," he received important artistic stimuli from Anton Heiller in Vienna and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. The dedication to this artistic legacy motivated him to regard his own pedagogical work as equally important as his recitalist's career. In more than 40 years, first at Cologne Musikhochschule, from 1983 as professor at Stuttgart Musikhochschule, he educated numerous talented young organists from all over the world, many of whom are now doing remarkable artistic and pedagogical work themselves. A central concern was always striving for an interpretation of musical works according the the stylistic conventions of the times of their origin, departing from the insights gathered in his doctoral dissertation, which became standard reading, and later broadened by many publications concerning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Musically, they are documented in numerous CD recordings. His artistic and pedagogical impact has led Lohmann through the world, as guest professor, teacher of countless master classes, and jury member of many international competitions. He was attached to the big organ research project GOArt of Göteborg University as senior researcher. As organ consultant, he accompanied several organ building and restoration projects in several countries. In order to honor his manifold activities, the Bristish Royal College of Organists awarded him their first honors medal. In 2023, he receives the prestigious German Prize of the European Church Music.

About the Artist One of the most renowned organ virtuosos and organ pedagogues, Ludger Lohmann has exerted a lasting influence on organ culture. His career as a recitalist, which has brought him to many important churches, cathedrals, and concert halls all over the world, started with awards at several important international competitions, including the competition of the German Broadcasting Corporations in Munich 1979 and the Grand Prix de Chartres 1982, among others. Born in Herne in 1954, he studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf at Cologne Musikhochschule. While writing his musicology Ph.D. dissertation, "Articulation on Keyboard Instruments of the 16.-18. Centuries," he received important artistic stimuli from Anton Heiller in Vienna and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. The dedication to this artistic legacy motivated him to regard his own pedagogical work as equally important as his recitalist's career. In more than 40 years, first at Cologne Musikhochschule, from 1983 as professor at Stuttgart Musikhochschule, he educated numerous talented young organists from all over the world, many of whom are now doing remarkable artistic and pedagogical work themselves. A central concern was always striving for an interpretation of musical works according the the stylistic conventions of the times of their origin, departing from the insights gathered in his doctoral dissertation, which became standard reading, and later broadened by many publications concerning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Musically, they are documented in numerous CD recordings. His artistic and pedagogical impact has led Lohmann through the world, as guest professor, teacher of countless master classes, and jury member of many international competitions. He was attached to the big organ research project GOArt of Göteborg University as senior researcher. As organ consultant, he accompanied several organ building and restoration projects in several countries. In order to honor his manifold activities, the Bristish Royal College of Organists awarded him their first honors medal. In 2023, he receives the prestigious German Prize of the European Church Music.

About the DirectorsKevin Bobo is professor of music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he served as assistant professor of percussion at the University of Kansas (2003-07). He studied percussion with J. C. Combs and Gordon Stout and composition with Greg Woodward and Dana Wilson. Internationally respected as a solo marimba artist, Bobo has performed on five continents. His travels have taken him to Taiwan, Singapore, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and nearly 40 states in the United States. As a composer, Bobo's compositions are performed all over the world, with his solo works frequently appearing on international competition repertoire lists. He has authored two method books and composed numerous pieces for a variety of instruments and ensembles.Joseph Gramley is professor of music in percussion and chair of the Percussion Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A Grammy Award-winning multi-percussionist, Gramley has performed and taught internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in addition to playing with major symphony orchestras. He released eight albums as a founding member of the Silkroad Ensemble and served as the group's first associate artistic director, working directly with Yo-Yo Ma. Gramley's two solo recordings, American Deconstruction and Global Percussion, represent definitive, milestone works in the modern multi-percussion canon. Gramley came to Bloomington after 12 years of leading the percussion program at the University of Michigan, where he successfully placed a generation of percussionists in varied posts worldwide—from symphony orchestras to Broadway, and top-tier universities and conservatories to world stages with pop artists and chamber musicians alike. His versatility as a percussionist has found him performing alongside a broad cross section of artists, including Ma, Elton John, Michael Stern, Renee Fleming, Wu Man, Glen Velez, and Keiko Abe. Gramley's cross-genre collaborations have seen him involved with more than 100 new commissions from the leading composers of our time. His duo, Organized Rhythm, with Clive Driskill-Smith, is the world's premier and most active organ/percussion collaboration. Born in 1970, Gramley grew up in Oregon and was named a presidential scholar in the arts in 1988. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan. Festival experience includes Tanglewood, Salzburg Mozarteum, Spoleto Festival, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and 15 summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. He made his concerto debut with the Houston Symphony and his solo debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Gramley earned his master's degree from Juilliard and directed its Summer Percussion Seminar for 17 years. (Photo by Brandon Ilaw)John Tafoya is professor of music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He served as principal timpanist of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2007. Tafoya has held previous principal timpani positions with the American Wind Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony (Kentucky), Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (Indiana), and Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit. Tafoya has presented numerous master classes and clinics at universities across the United States and Canada. He was a featured clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in 2002, 2007, and 2011. His website, johntafoya.com, is accessed by thousands of percussion students and professional players each month. He has served on the faculties of the University of Evansville, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Florida International University, and University of Maryland. He is the author of two orchestral timpani repertoire books: The Working Timpanist's Survival Guide (2004), published by Carl Fischer, and Beyond the Audition Screen (Hal Leonard, 2011). Tafoya performed on the award-winning recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of James Judd and on orchestral recordings by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. Tafoya can also be heard on the American Wind Symphony Orchestra's CD Concertos All and Sundry performing Kaoru Wada's Concertante for Timpani, Percussion, and Winds under the direction of Robert Austin Boudreau. Tafoya also participated on the Summit Brass CD All American Brass (Pro Arte, 1987) and on the 1992 Arkay CD William Albright: Music for Organ and Harpsichord, featuring organist Douglas Reed. Tafoya has worked under many prestigious conductors, including Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christopher Hogwood, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, John Williams, Hugh Wolff, and David Zinman, among others. He proudly endorses American Drum Manufacturing Co., Avedis Zildjian Company, Grover Pro Percussion, Remo Inc., and Yamaha Corporation.

Piano soloist to be announcedRepertoire Danny Elfman: Wunderkammer (2022)MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23 (1886)Barber: Symphony No. 1 (in One Movement), Op. 9 (1936/43)About the Artists Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony, principal guest conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and conductor laureate of the Hawaii Symphony. Gramophone Magazine named Falletta as one of the 50 great conductors of all time, and ASCAP has honored her as "a leading force for music of our time." As music director of the BPO, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. She has guest conducted over 100 orchestras in North America and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. She is a leading recording artist for Naxos and has won two individual Grammys, for Richard Danielpour's The Passion of Yeshua with the BPO and for Kenneth Fuchs' Spiritualist with the London Symphony Orchestra. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man with the BPO received two Grammys and her Scriabin recording with the BPO was nominated for a 2024 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance. Falletta is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served by presidential appointment as a member of the National Council on the Arts, and is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards. She has conducted over 1,600 orchestral works by more than 600 composers,including over 135 works by women composers and over 150 premieres. After completing her bachelor's degree at Mannes, Falletta earned master's and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School. When not on the podium, she enjoys playing classical guitar, writing, cycling, and yoga, and is an avid reader.Brent Gault is professor of music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has taught elementary and early childhood music courses in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He specializes in elementary general music education, early childhood music education, and Kodály-inspired methodology. Gault also has training in both the Orff and Dalcroze approaches to music education. He has presented sessions and research at conferences of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Dalcroze Society of America, International Kodály Society, International Society for Music Education, Organization of American Kodály Educators, and MENC: The National Association for Music Education. In addition, he has served as a presenter and guest lecturer for colleges and music education organizations in the United States, Canada, China, and Ireland. Articles by Gault have been published in various music education periodicals, including the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, Kodály Envoy, Orff Echo, and American Dalcroze Journal. He is the co-editor (with Carlos Abril) of Teaching General Music (2016, Oxford University Press) and author of Listen Up! Fostering Musicianship Through Active Listening (2016, Oxford University Press). In addition to his duties with the Jacobs School Music Education Department, Gault serves as the program director for the Indiana University Children's Choir, where he conducts the Allegro Choir. He is a past president of the Organization of American Kodály Educators.

"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Music of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann"

Repertoire to be announcedAbout the ArtistsDuo Cortona is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of works for its unique instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and violin. This ensemble explores new sounds and possibilities for its intimate, expressive, and vital combination. Duo Cortona works to establish a new and thus far unexplored repertoire, pursuing the endless possibilities of this union. We create opportunities for both established and emerging composers through commissions, competitions, educational workshops, university residencies, and major concert performances. Duo Cortona was founded at the Cortona Sessions for New Music by husband and wife team Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway. Recent and upcoming performances include the Southern Exposure Series for New Music, East Carolina New Music Initiative, University of Wisconsin, College of Charleston, New Music New College, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Resonant Bodies Festival, The Stone, the SONiC Festival, New Music on the Point, and Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project (Princeton). Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway brings versatility and compelling insight to stages worldwide. Praised as "a gale-force" (Time Out New York) with a "dark-hued and sizable voice" (New York Times), she is especially recognized as an interpreter of new and contemporary music. Recent and upcoming premieres include music by Augusta Read Thomas, John Zorn, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, David Garner, Gabriela Lena Frank, Christopher Cerrone, and Annika Socolofsky. Calloway has appeared in concert with the Orlando Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Series, Charleston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Ojai Festival, San Francisco Girls' Chorus, BAM Next Wave Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Cal Performances, and Lincoln Center Festival. Calloway made her European operatic debut as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw at Opéra de Reims, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jovet (Paris), and Opéra de Lille. She cofounded the musical collective Shir Ami: Song of our People with her brother, cellist Jason Calloway. A passionate and devoted educator, Calloway serves on the faculty of the University of South Carolina as assistant professor of voice and director of Spark: Music Leadership at Carolina. She joined the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy) in 2014, Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard in 2016, and the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory in 2023. Calloway earned degrees from The Juilliard School (B.M.) and Manhattan School of Music (M.M.). Violinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. Praised for his "dazzling performance" by the New York Times and "scintillating playing" by New York Classical Review, Streisfeld is a founding member of the world renowned JACK Quartet. Recent season highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall (London), La Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Argentina), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Carriage Works (Sydney, Australia), Venice Biennale (Italy), Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, The Morgan Library (New York), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and the Salzburg Festival (Austria). He has collaborated with many of today's most prominent composers including John Luther Adams, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, Steve Reich, and Salvatore Sciarrino. Streisfeld's arrangements of madrigals and motets for string quartet by Machaut and Gesualdo have been performed to acclaim both at home and abroad. A recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Streisfeld most recently premiered his Machaut arrangements for voice and violin at The Stone (New York). A passionate and committed music educator, Streisfeld serves on the faculty of New York's Special Music School, Face the Music, New Music on the Point, and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He is assistant professor of violin pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. Streisfeld attended the Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music), Northwestern University (Master of Music), and Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He has recorded for Mode, Albany, Carrier, Innova, Canteloupe, and New World Records.

Repertoire Milhaud: Le bœuf sur la toit, Op. 58 (1919)Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegía andina (2000)Piazzolla: Sinfonietta (1953)Sibelius: Suite from "Pelleas and Melisande," Op. 46 (1905)About the Conductor Conductor Camilo Téllez is director of orchestras for the Community School at the Colburn School. His artistic development was shaped within the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Dudamel Fellowship (2021-22), where he worked closely with Gustavo Dudamel, collaborating with artists such as Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson Thomas, Elim Chan, Hilary Hahn, Beatrice Rana, Emanuel Ax, and María Dueñas. His work has taken him across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and China, with appearances including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Theater Orchestra, and the Turku Chamber Orchestra. His artistic practice includes a 30-city tour in China, as well as collaborations in diverse performance contexts, including a production of Peter and the Wolf at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring narrator Viola Davis, and a production of Fidelio involving deaf performers, under Gustavo Dudamel. He has also participated in performances of rediscovered repertoire, including a lost violin concerto by African-Cuban composer Joseph White, performed with violinist Rachel Barton Pine. Téllez has developed a deep passion for inspiring and mentoring younger generations of musicians through orchestral training and music education. He believes that orchestras are a reflection of a complex society, where discipline, empathy, collaboration, and mutual respect can shape not only better musicians but also better human beings. This philosophy has guided his extensive experience working with youth orchestras, festivals, universities, and educational programs throughout the United States, China, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, collaborating with youth, university, and community ensembles. As instrumentalist, he maintains an active study of the organ, with a focus on the music of Bach and Buxtehude, which informs his understanding of structure, sound, and orchestral color. He earned a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from Juan N. Corpas in Colombia.

Repertoire to be announcedAbout the ArtistsDuo Cortona is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of works for its unique instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and violin. This ensemble explores new sounds and possibilities for its intimate, expressive, and vital combination. Duo Cortona works to establish a new and thus far unexplored repertoire, pursuing the endless possibilities of this union. We create opportunities for both established and emerging composers through commissions, competitions, educational workshops, university residencies, and major concert performances. Duo Cortona was founded at the Cortona Sessions for New Music by husband and wife team Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway. Recent and upcoming performances include the Southern Exposure Series for New Music, East Carolina New Music Initiative, University of Wisconsin, College of Charleston, New Music New College, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Resonant Bodies Festival, The Stone, the SONiC Festival, New Music on the Point, and Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project (Princeton). Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway brings versatility and compelling insight to stages worldwide. Praised as "a gale-force" (Time Out New York) with a "dark-hued and sizable voice" (New York Times), she is especially recognized as an interpreter of new and contemporary music. Recent and upcoming premieres include music by Augusta Read Thomas, John Zorn, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, David Garner, Gabriela Lena Frank, Christopher Cerrone, and Annika Socolofsky. Calloway has appeared in concert with the Orlando Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Series, Charleston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Ojai Festival, San Francisco Girls' Chorus, BAM Next Wave Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Cal Performances, and Lincoln Center Festival. Calloway made her European operatic debut as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw at Opéra de Reims, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jovet (Paris), and Opéra de Lille. She cofounded the musical collective Shir Ami: Song of our People with her brother, cellist Jason Calloway. A passionate and devoted educator, Calloway serves on the faculty of the University of South Carolina as assistant professor of voice and director of Spark: Music Leadership at Carolina. She joined the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy) in 2014, Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard in 2016, and the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory in 2023. Calloway earned degrees from The Juilliard School (B.M.) and Manhattan School of Music (M.M.). Violinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. Praised for his "dazzling performance" by the New York Times and "scintillating playing" by New York Classical Review, Streisfeld is a founding member of the world renowned JACK Quartet. Recent season highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall (London), La Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Argentina), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Carriage Works (Sydney, Australia), Venice Biennale (Italy), Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, The Morgan Library (New York), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and the Salzburg Festival (Austria). He has collaborated with many of today's most prominent composers including John Luther Adams, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, Steve Reich, and Salvatore Sciarrino. Streisfeld's arrangements of madrigals and motets for string quartet by Machaut and Gesualdo have been performed to acclaim both at home and abroad. A recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Streisfeld most recently premiered his Machaut arrangements for voice and violin at The Stone (New York). A passionate and committed music educator, Streisfeld serves on the faculty of New York's Special Music School, Face the Music, New Music on the Point, and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He is assistant professor of violin pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. Streisfeld attended the Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music), Northwestern University (Master of Music), and Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He has recorded for Mode, Albany, Carrier, Innova, Canteloupe, and New World Records.

PerformersMark Kaplan, violin Jaekeun Song, pianowithPei-San Chiu, fluteJeffrey Curnow, trumpetDavid Dzubay, conductorBrittany Lasch, tromboneAndrea Levine, clarinetKathleen McLean, bassoonDenise Tryon, hornJessica Warren, oboeAdditional performers to be announcedRepertoire Schoenberg: Phantasy, Op. 47 (1949)Webern: Four Pieces, Op. 7 (1910/14)Berg: Kammerkonzert for piano, violin, and 13 winds (1925)About the Artists A soloist of international distinction, violinist Mark Kaplan has performed with nearly every American, European, and Australian orchestra, and with many of the world's great conductors, including Ormandy, Rattle, Maazel, Masur, Dutoit, Salonen, Semkov, Skrowaczewski, and Tennstedt. He has made highly acclaimed concerto and recital appearances in all the musical centers of America and Europe, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Kaplan is also devoted to chamber music, appearing with pianist Yael Weiss and cellist Peter Stumpf as the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio, with recordings and concert tours world-wide. Prior to that he performed and recorded extensively for two decades in the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio with cellist Colin Carr and the late pianist David Golub. Especially known for his interpretations of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works and the great German classics, his extensive discography of over 45 commercial CDs includes concertos, solo, and chamber works from Paganini, Bartók, Berg, Sarasate, and Nono to Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, as well as two complete recordings of Bach's solo violin works. Since 2005, he has been professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, following a decade as professor at UCLA. Kaplan is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay.Pei-San Chiu is adjunct associate professor of music in flute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An internationally acclaimed Taiwanese flutist and educator, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2012 as first-prize winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition and has performed across the United States, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings. From 2013 to 2016, Chiu served as principal flute of the Lexington Philharmonic, praised by the Lexington Herald-Leader for her "character and vitality," and has performed as guest principal with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Guangzhou Symphony, and the Shenzhen Symphony. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered works by Bin Li, Tsung-Jen Hsieh, Mei-Chun Chen, Zhou Tian, and Yu-Chun Hu. Her solo album, Air, featuring works by female composers, was nominated for Best Art Music Album at the 2025 Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan. She also performs with the Formosa Trio, Aureus Duo, and Trio 2:1, releasing albums including First Impression, Anniversary, and The Sound of Flowers. Chiu has also been associate professor of flute at Tunghai University since 2016. She earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from the Jacobs School and received the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award at Tunghai University. She continues to inspire audiences and students alike through her innovative artistry and dedication to advancing the flute repertoire and pedagogy.Jeffrey Curnow is professor of music in trumpet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He began his career as an undergraduate at Temple University, where he quickly won a coveted position as concerto competition soloist at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In 1983, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the New Haven Symphony and soon after, became a member of the New York Trumpet Ensemble, recording on the MMG/Vox and Newport Classics labels. Four years later, he joined the internationally renowned Empire Brass Quintet. Over the course of his tenure with this ensemble, he recorded 15 compact discs for the Angel EMI and Telarc labels, appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, St. Paul Sunday Morning, Taipei Television, Japan Television, and BBC Television and Radio, and performed with such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and major orchestras in Japan and Switzerland. In 1995, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, recording 14 CDs on the Delos label and appearing as soloist on several occasions, notably for Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. In 2001, he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal trumpet, touring worldwide with the ensemble and recording on the Ondine and Deutsche Grammophon labels. Well established as an educator, Curnow has taught at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Temple University.David Dzubay's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change. A winner of the S&R Foundation Washington Award and Astral Artists National Auditions, trombonist Brittany Lasch is associate professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2023. Lasch has appeared as a soloist throughout the world with ensembles ranging from the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" to the Queens Symphony and the Sante Fe (Argentina) Municipal Band. With playing described as "masterful" (Syracuse Post-Standard), American Record Guide recently hailed Lasch as an "excellent soloist" across a diverse range of repertoire. Lasch has been a featured guest artist at numerous festivals, including the International Trombone Festival, the International Women's Brass Conference, and the American Trombone Workshop. For six seasons, Lasch was the principal trombone of the Detroit Opera Orchestra at the Detroit Opera House. She has performed with orchestras nationwide, such as the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony. An active presence in the global trombone community, Lasch has recently performed at Argentina's Trombonanza and Portugal's Grav��ssimo Festival. An advocate for new music, Lasch has commissioned and performed several new pieces for the trombone, including acclaimed composer Reena Esmail's major Sonata for Trombone and Piano, which is featured on her debut album, Dark Horse (available on all streaming platforms). Lasch has previously served as faculty at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has also been a featured teacher and performer at summer festivals, including the Sewanee Music Festival and the DC Trombone Workshop, and she has presented master classes at universities across the country and internationally. A native of Queens, New York, Andrea Levine was appointed principal clarinet of the Louisville Orchestra in 2003. She also served as acting principal clarinet of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the 2017-18 season. She won the position of interim assistant principal of the Colorado Symphony during the 2011-12 season. She also won the position of interim second clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the 2007-08 season and joined them on two European tours. Prior to joining the Louisville Orchestra, she spent a year as a member of the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. Before joining New World, she served as interim principal clarinet of the Akron Symphony while completing a Professional Studies Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She earned an undergraduate degree at the Eastman School of Music. In addition to serving as principal clarinet of the Britt Festival Orchestra, she has held the same position at the Artosphere Festival. She has appeared as guest principal clarinet of the Cincinnati , Baltimore , Detroit , and Saint Louis symphony orchestras. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and Eastman Philharmonia. Levine is also an active teacher, having presented master classes at the Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan, University of Florida, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Tennessee, and University of Louisville. She is currently adjunct associate professor of music in clarinet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her teachers have included Daniel Gilbert, Kenneth Grant, Franklin Cohen, Yehuda Gilad, Mitchell Estrin, and Ricardo Morales. She loves living in Louisville with her husband, Jack Griffin, and their two cockapoos, Gus and Leo.Kathleen McLean is associate professor of music (bassoon) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is one of the most acclaimed orchestral bassoonists in North America. Internationally recognized, McLean was the associate principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 2009 and is a sought-after chamber and orchestral musician, recitalist, and teacher. She was appointed to the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1989, became a faculty member at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Glenn Gould Professional School in 2002, and began as a bassoon instructor with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2009. McLean's former orchestral appointments include principal bassoon of the Canadian Opera Company and guest principal bassoon with the London Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Since 2001, she has toured extensively with the prestigious World Orchestra for Peace under the baton of Valery Gergiev. McLean has participated in many chamber music festivals, including the Evian International Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Scotia Festival, and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. She performs frequently with New Music Concerts, Amici Ensemble, and is a founding member of the Caliban Quartet, Toronto Wind Quintet, and the Canadian Winds.Denise Tryon is professor of music in horn at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2023. She previously served as professor of horn at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She joined the famed American Horn Quartet as fourth horn in 2019. She was previously fourth horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra and held positions with the Detroit, Baltimore, Columbus, and New World Symphonies. She also served as horn professor at the Peabody Institute from 2007 to 2019. Tryon attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC). She received the Presidential Scholarship while in the Artist Diploma Program at NEC with the Taiyo Wind Quintet, which won the Coleman Chamber Competition. An active and accomplished educator, Tryon has taught master classes extensively in the United States, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, and South America. She has been a featured artist at many International Horn Society Symposiums and Regional Workshops and has been a featured artist at the Nordic Hornfest, Blekinge International Brass Academy, Warsaw Horn Workshops, CORNO Brass Music Workshop, and Domaine Forget. Since 2017, she's been a faculty member at Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in Denver. She is frequently on faculty with Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. A champion of new music, Tryon commissioned four new pieces for low horn and piano for her 2015 album SO-LOW. The American Prize awarded her with a special judges' citation for Important Commitment to the Music of Our Time. She commissioned six pieces for low horn for her 2020 album Hope Springs Eternal, for which she won the 2022 American Prize in Instrumental Performance. Her 2017 horn duo album A Pair of Aces, featuring Tryon and Karl Pituch, won a silver medal from the Global Music Awards. In 2009, she and Pituch founded the annual horn seminar Audition Mode, which focuses on the skills horn players need to be successful in orchestral auditions.Jessica Warren is adjunct associate professor of music in oboe at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She performs regularly with leading ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and Berkshire Bach Society. She recently served as guest principal oboe with the United States Air Force Band during its spring 2024 multistate tour. A Jacobs School alumna and two-time fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Warren brings significant teaching experience from positions at George Washington University, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the New England Conservatory. Warren specializes in oboe reedmaking education and oboe gouging machine training. Her dissertation, "Significant Learning as Reedmaking Pedagogy," evaluated and reimagined collegiate reedmaking curricula. She regularly presents lectures and master classes in the area of mindfulness in reedmaking and practicing. Warren earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, studying under John Ferrillo. She earned a Performer Diploma and a Master of Music degree under Linda Strommen at Jacobs and a bachelor's degree under Robert Sorton at The Ohio State University.

Repertoire to be announcedAbout the DirectorDana Marsh is professor of music (early music/voice), chair of Historical Performance, and director of the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He coaches singers in historical performance and teaches courses in early notation, performance practice, and musical rhetoric, and has directed Jacobs ensemble recordings for national broadcast on NPR. Beyond IU, Marsh is artistic director of the Washington Bach Consort, where since 2018, he has shaped the ensemble's artistic vision through multi‑year projects and major choral‑orchestral repertoire. The Washington Post has written that under his leadership, the Consort "could go head‑to‑head with period‑performance ensembles anywhere." Marsh focuses on how text, rhetoric, and musical gesture animate historical repertories in performance. As a guest conductor, Marsh has collaborated with leading ensembles in the United States and abroad, including the Choirs and Baroque Orchestra of Washington National Cathedral, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Cappella Romana, Bach Collegium San Diego, Portland Baroque Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, as well as at the Lamèque International Baroque Festival. Trained as a chorister at St. Thomas Choir School in New York and Salisbury Cathedral, Marsh earned his undergraduate degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music and completed master's and doctoral degrees in historical musicology at the University of Oxford. Before focusing primarily on conducting, he enjoyed an international career as a countertenor and consort singer (1992-2008). He was a core member of the Choir of New College, Oxford, recording extensively and touring internationally; one recording received a Gramophone Early Music Award. As a singer, he appeared with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and the New York Collegium under Gustav Leonhardt.

Repertoire Augusta Read Thomas: Solstice Ritual (2024)Donald Erb: The Towers of Silence (1974)Dai Fujikura: Bassoon Concerto No. 2 (2026)About the DirectorDavid Dzubay's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change.Five Friends Master Class Series – Honoring Robert SamelsThe Five Friends Master Class Series honoring the lives of five talented Jacobs School of Music students—Chris Carducci, Garth Eppley, Georgina Joshi, Zachary Novak, and Robert Samels—was established in 2012 with a gift of $1 million from the Georgina Joshi Foundation, Inc. This annual series of lectures, master classes, and residencies by a number of the world's leading musicians and teachers focuses on areas of interest most relevant to the lives of the five friends—voice performance, choral conducting, early music, music theory, composition, and opera. The Georgina Joshi Foundation was established in 2007 as the vision of Georgina Joshi's mother, Louise Addicott-Joshi, to provide educational and career development opportunities for young musicians and to encourage and support public performance of music. The gift to the school establishes a permanent way for the world to learn about each of the five friends, their musical talents and passions, and to encourage the development of similar talents and passions in current and future music students. The establishment of this endowment by the families is administered by the IU Foundation. Bass-baritone and composer Robert Samels was born on June 2, 1981, and died in a plane crash on April 20, 2006. He was a doctoral student in choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and had studied voice with Giorgio Tozzi and Costanza Cuccaro. He began his vocal studies with Alfred Anderson at the University of Akron and Andreas Poulimenos at Bowling Green State University. Samels had recently appeared as Mr. Gibbs in the world premiere of Our Town by Ned Rorem, as Marco in the collegiate premiere of William Bolcom's A View from the Bridge, and as Joseph and Herod in the collegiate premiere of El Nino by John Adams. In September 2005, he conducted the premiere of his own opera, Pilatvs. As a member of the Wolf Trap Opera Company for 2006, he would have added three roles that summer, including Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Friar Laurence in Roméo et Juliette, and Pluto in Telemann's Orpheus. Other opera credits included the title roles of Don Pasquale and Il Turco in Italia, as well as Leporello in Don Giovanni, Falstaff in TheMerry Wives of Windsor, and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the summer of 2004, he performed Creon in the New York premiere of John Eaton's Antigone. Samels also frequently performed in the oratorio repertoire. In the spring of 2005, he was selected as a semi-finalist in the annual competition of the Oratorio Society of New York. He was an announcer with public radio station WFIU, as well as the host and producer of its Cantabile program. A soloist with Aguavá New Music Studio, he had recently performed a concert at the Library of Congress. Samels was an associate instructor in the Jacobs School's Music Theory Department, where was loved and admired by his students.

Organ Weekend | Guest Recital

Organ Weekend

Organ Weekend

Presented by the Graduate Theory Association & Graduate Musicology Association | University Student Organization

Presented by the Graduate Theory Association & Graduate Musicology Association | University Student Organization

Presented by the American Guild of Organists Bloomington Chapter | University Student Organization