TimeOut
New York calls Assistant Pro-fessor of Harp Yolanda
Kondonassis' newest CD Quietude on the Telarc label,
"lovely ... Kondonassis is one of the best American harpists
today." Fanfare enthuses that the CD's collection
of works by Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Respighi, Satie, Salzedo,
and Sibelius "is in every way a winner," and the (Cleveland)
Plain Dealer writes that "no harpist of our time has
shown more imagination in programming than Yolanda Kondonassis."
Kondonassis appeared in February 2001 on San Diego's Mainly Mozart
Series, and in June she was a featured master class presenter
and competition judge at the American Harp Society's National
Institute at the University of Maryland. Also in 2001, Kondonassis
performed with the Bangor, Las Cruces (New Mexico), Seattle, and
Pueblo (Colorado) symphonies in the spring, and with the Hartford
and Tucson symphonies in the fall. In November she performed Hovhaness'
Harp Concerto with the New York Chamber Symphony, conducted by
Gerard Schwarz, at Alice Tully Hall.
Assistant Professor
of Computer Music and Digital Arts Tom Lopez spent July and
August 2001 teaching electronic music at The Walden School in Dublin,
N.H., where he served as Director of the Computer Music Program.
Commissioned by Teacher of Wind Chamber Music and Flute Kathleen
Chastain, Lopez' Espaces Pointilles for flute and live
electronics premiered in October at the AKI Festival, Cleveland.
Also in October, Lopez traveled to Florida as a guest composer of
the Tampa Bay Composers Forum, where his work, "Hollow Ground
II," was performed, and to the University of Utah in Salt Lake
City as a guest composer. Lopez' work "They Hearken to Echoes"
was performed in November at the University of Florida's Festival
of New Music, hosted by the Society of Composers, Inc.
Michael Lynn, Professor
of Recorder and Baroque Flute and Associate Dean for Facilities
and Technology, has traveled, performed, and recorded extensively
with Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, directed by
Jeanette Sorrell '90. Performances of Orfeo at The Cleveland
Museum of Art in February 2000 that were recorded for National Public
Radio's "World of Opera" and broadcast in September 2000
were released in 2001 by Eclectra. Other Apollo's Fire record- ings
of Monteverdi's Vespers and the complete Brandenburg Concertos were
released in December 2000 by Eclectra; the latter features Lynn
as solo.
Lynn also joined the orchestra for "The Monteverdi Experience,"
a May 2001 festival of concerts, recitals, and lectures presented
throughout Northeast Ohio. Lynn participated in a panel moderated
by Dr. Thomas Forrest Kelly, chair of the Depart-ment of
Music at Harvard University and former director of Oberlin's Historical
Performance Program and one-time acting dean.
Lecturer in Guitar
and Lute and Director of Conservatory Admissions Michael Manderen
'76 (BA/BMus) presented a program of Spanish and Latin American
music for flute, guitars, lutes, and vihuela as part of the
Manderen-McAllister Duo in April 2001 at Walsh University in N.
Canton, Ohio, in a memorial concert for Tony Herrick, a 1992 Walsh
graduate. Music ranged from the vihuelistas and Renaissance
lute music of 16th century Spain to popular contemporary Brazilian
music for flute and guitar.
Professor
of Music Theory Paul Mast taught a short course in May 2001
at the University of Alcala, Spain, on Isaac Albeniz' Iberia.
Located in Alcala de Henares, just northeast of Madrid, the university
was founded in 1499. Its music school sponsored the program, featuring
invited guest lecturers from Europe and the Americas, and attended
by performers, scholars, and teachers from all over Spain.
Professor
of Violin Marilyn McDonald presented the pre-concert lecture
and performed as concertmaster of the Boston Baroque Orchestra in
an all-Beethoven concert in May 2001. In June, McDonald served on
the faculty of the Classical Chamber Music Institute and Baroque
Performance Institute at Oberlin. In July she performed with the
Axelrod String Quartet at the Domaine Forget International Festival
in Quebec and at the Ottawa Festival.
McDonald was concertmaster of the Peninsula Music Festival in Wisconsin
in August, as well as a soloist with the Festival Orchestra. In
Houston in September, she gave master classes at Rice University
and at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She also
performed at Rice with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, an ensemble
which includes Catherina Meints, Associate Professor of Viola
da Gamba and Cello, and Kenneth Slowik, artistic director
of Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute. Charles Ward of the
Houston Chronicle wrote that the ensemble "played with
a technical finesse and inspired musicality to match any performer
anywhere."
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