Listen
and Learn
Pianist
Richard Goode opened the 123rd season of Oberlin's distinguished
Artist Recital Series (ARS) in October 2001 with a program of
works by Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, and Schubert, and an encore
by Bach. (Cleveland) Plain Dealer Music Critic Wilma Salisbury
called his recital "superb . . . Goode held the near-capacity
crowd enraptured."
Goode
also spent four days on campus under the aegis of the Danenberg
Artist Residency Program. In a master class, he observed Artist
Diploma student Giacomo Battarino in a work by Brahms; David Hughes
'02, who offered Beethoven; and Brahms again, presented by violinists
Masha Bessmeltseva '02 and Eftychia Talakoudi '03, violist Keith
Lawrence '03, cellist Jamila Watkins '03, and pianist Youngha
Guk '02.
Other
master classes in 2001 featured pianist Lev Natochenny; violinist
James Buswell; Michael Sachs (Principal Trumpet of The Cleveland
Orchestra); pianist Sergei Schepkin; members of the the American
Brass Quintet; jazz and classical clarinetist Eddie Daniels; bassoonist
Carlos Columbo; members of the New Arts Trio; members of eighth
blackbird; violinist Rachel Barton; and oboist Louis Rosenblack.The
fall ARS season also included performances by the American Brass
Quintet and The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Ivan Fischer.
Cellist Janos Starker, the Tokyo String Quartet, soprano Barbara
Bonney, and Apollo's Fire are on the spring program.
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Marci Janas '91
New
Faculty Members Join the Conservatory
In addition to, Professor of Violin Milan Vitek, Professor of
Horn Roland Pandolfi, and Visiting Teacher of Jazz Piano Dan Wall,
announced in the last issue of Oberlin Conservatory, these distinguished
musicians joined Oberlin's faculty in 2001-2002: