Words of Note 2013: Celebrating 100 Years of Music -- Welcome Home

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butler school of music

Issue No. 23 // Fall 2013

Celebrating 100 Years of Music – Welcome Home

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centennial celebration

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news

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menuhin Competition

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Alumni Updates

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faculty Updates

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Miro Quartet at

methodist Hospital 26

the year of the

large ensembles 28

Longhorn music new releases

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Studio updates and

student achievements

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In memoriAm

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Development

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The butler Society

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Sarah and Ernest

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interim director

Glenn A. Richter

Associate directors

Jeff HellmerRobert DeSimoneC. Winton ReynoldsMartha Hilly

Director of Graduate Studies

Byron Almen

Director of underGraduate

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Martha Hilly

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Ann Flemings

publicity

Stephen Jansen

Contributors

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The GifT of your Presence

WELCOME HOME

To our Alums: students, faculty and staff

“We want you!” All of us are familiar with this old saying on a poster of Uncle Sam pointing his finger at the on-looker, a bold, challenging military gesture. Now imagine your favorite music conductor, baton in hand, commanding your big entrance into a newly composed work, the 2013-14 performance calendar for the Butler School of Music. Our alumni and faculty have defined a legacy of excellence that continues to rise to new heights as the current faculty and students put their fingerprints on the world of musical arts. We would love for you to once again make Austin, Texas, your destination of choice during the next twelve months as we celebrate 100 years of music at the University of Texasin Austin.

Over the past 100 years, audiences have been thrilled by John Phillip Sousa’s band on the Gregory Gym stage, Percy Grainger conducting the U.T. Symphonic Band on the Hogg Auditorium Stage, Barbara Jordan’s narration with the music of Lincoln Portrait, and Morton Gould’s Centen-nial Symphony on the Bass Concert Hall stage. The current Butler School of Music has a rich history to celebrate, and there are more reasons for you to get back to the 40 acres.

We offer hundreds of opportunities for a listening musi-cal world. Professors like Elliott Antokoletz lecturing on Bartok, Jerry Junkin conducting the U.T. Wind Ensemble in Hong Kong or Helsinki, Marianne Wheeldon in Paris and Montreal sharing her Debussy discoveries, Robin Moore exploring the Caribbean musical cultures, Anne Ep-person’s and Rick Rowley’s dazzling Gershwin performance in Bates, Adam Holzman performing on Segovia’s guitar at the New York Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Anton Nel daz-zling on the piano keyboard in Aspen; these are just a few samples of the international reach of music at The Univer-sity of Texas.

Love Beethoven? The month of September features six per-formances by the Miró Quartet; the entire Beethoven string

quartet series! Love Bach? The Chamber Singers perform a Bach Cantata in the rich environment of the Blanton Museum every semester. Savor new music by a Pulitzer Prize winner? The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra premieres U.T. faculty alumnus Kevin Puts’ new work fea-turing the Miro Quartet. Love the violin? Spend ten days in Austin from February 21 through March 2 and hear forty-two of the world’s best young violin talents compete in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Want more? Save March 1 and 2 for master classes and concerts by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra here at the Butler School.

For the young at heart, you can love your school through Facebook, Twitter, or the Butler School website. Many major events will be available through streaming. If you live far from Austin, you can simply go to the Butler School of Music website, click on “calendar”, and select an event. Events marked with a “click to view video” link will soon appear for you to see and hear.

Why not make plans to join hundreds of alumni and fans of the Butler School who attend the Centennial kick-off on December 4, 2013, in Bass Hall, your chance to hear the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra with the Miró Quartet. Consider a special gift to your alma mater, the gift of your presence, your applause for the faculty and students, your support for the teaching, researching, performing world known as the Butler School of Music.

The world is listening, and we want you to be a part of that world. Let us know you are coming.

Glenn Richter, Interim DirectorButler School of MusicThe University of Texas at Austin

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As we mark our Centennial with special events throughout the 2013-2014 school year, we reflect on our first 100 years.

Come back to campus and celebrate 100 years ofmusic with us. Visit music.utexas.edu for event detailsand updates.

1913On December 10, 1913, the Daily Texan, in the headline “Music Courses Are Announced For New School,” reveals the formation of the Department of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Courses are offered in Music History, Appreciation, Analysis of Form, and Harmony, and are all taught by Frank LeFevre Reed, Associate Professor of the History of Music.

1924Graduate classes in music are added. Besides Professor Reed, four other faculty members share the teaching load. They are identified in the yearbook only as Littlejohn, Gar-rision, Rockwell, and Jackson.

1925The Department of Music, despite its highest enrollment ever, is terminated by Governor “Ma” Ferguson, who appar-ently felt that there was no place for such folderol atthe university.

1938Dr. Ezra William (“Bill”) Doty arrives in Austin to prepare for the founding of a College of Fine Arts at The Univer-sity of Texas. The new arrival held a triple title: Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Chairman of the Music Department, and Professor of Music. By fall, a faculty of nine had been assembled and classes were offered in art, drama, and music, leading to degrees at the bachelor’s, master’s and, later, the doctoral levels.

1941-42The Music Building (now Homer Rainey Hall) on 21st Street next to Littlefield Fountain is constructed. Previous to the early 1940s, music classes had been scattered in a number of locations: the Littlefield Home, Battle Hall, the ground floor of the Main Building, and two old homes on Whitis Avenue that served as annexes. The new building featured “floated” floors for acoustic isolation as well as the acoustically superb Jessen Auditorium, which is still in use for solo and chamber music recitals. In addition, it was the first and only air-conditioned building on campus atthe time.

1950SA dramatic surge in string activity characterized the decade, with graduate string students attracted to UT primarily because of Dean Doty’s 1948 founding of the Junior String

Project, later to become the University of Texas StringProject. The purpose of this innovative program was tohelp relieve the nation’s shortage of string players bytraining skilled, inspiring and imaginative string teachers.It is still very much alive today and continues to behonored nationwide.

1968-69Music Building East, which will house the ensemble rehearsal halls as well as performance faculty studios and additional practice rooms, is constructed. The remainder of the Music Department’s courses and activities take place at the Music Building on 21st Street. Eventually, enroll-ment in the Music Department burgeoned to the point that classes were once again held in a wide variety of locations (such as the University Junior High and Woolridge Hall) throughout campus.

1980Music Recital Hall (MRH) is added to MBE as part of the Fine Arts complex. With this new facility, the entire Music Department is reunited in one building. Both structures are now referred to as Music Recital Hall and house all of the academic and performing activities of the School of Music, with two exceptions: McCullough Theater, a part of the Performing Arts Center just next to the School of Music, is utilized for Butler Opera Center and a few other perfor-mances, and Jessen Auditorium, in the old Music Building across campus, for recitals and chamber performances.

1983Visser-Rowland Associates of Houston build the enormous tracker organ in Bates Recital Hall. The largest such instru-ment in the country at the time of its installation, the organ comprises 5,315 pipes ranging from giant 16-foot princi-pals to pipes smaller than an ordinary pencil -- all linked mechanically to the organ’s massive console. Adapted from an 18th-century Dutch design, this 38-foot tall “King of Instruments” is a link connecting the artisanship of the past with today’s performers, composers, and students whoplay it.

1994The Music Department is designated as the School of Music. This change occurred as the program’s leadership changed hands from Chair Richard Lawn to DirectorRonald A. Crutcher.

2008Sarah and Ernest Butler announce their gift of a $55 mil-lion endowment to the School of Music. As a result, the Board of Regents of The University of Texas Systemapproves naming the School of Music of The Universityof Texas at Austin The Sarah and Ernest Butler Schoolof Music.

2013-2014As we prepare for another 100 more years of excellence,we christen 100 years of wonderful existence with Cen-tennial showcases and the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition.

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Caritas of Austin will present the Harvey Penick Award For Excel-lence in the Game of Life to Sarah and Ernest Butler during its 22nd Annual Award Dinner on October 22, 2013, at Austin’s Four Seasons Hotel. The award is presented each year to a prominent leader whose life emulates that of the golf legend Penick.

In May, Ernest Butler accepted the Texas Medical Association’s 2013 Distinguished Service Award dur-ing TMA’s annual conference in San Antonio. Ten years ago, the Butlers established the Ernest and Sarah Butler Endowment for Excellence in Science Teaching at the TMA Foundation (TMAF), the philan-thropic arm of TMA, to help fund and attract additional philanthropic support for TMA’s Science Teacher Awards program.

The 2012-2013 school year at the Butler School started like a jack-out-of-the-box with Austin Bassfest, a three-day extravaganza that brought together double-bass masters from all over the world. Hosted by Pro-fessor of Bass DaXun Zhang, bass professionals such as Edgar Meyer, Hal Robin, Lawrence Hurst, Paul Ellison, Tim Pitts and Jeff Bradetich presented recitals and master classes on campus.

In December, we christened a one-of-a-kind Aeolian Skinner Opus

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1393 organ, acquired from Houston’s Central Presbyterian Church before a scheduled demolition, that now resides in Jessen Auditorium’s Homer Rainey Hall. Performers during the dedication concert were Scott Davis and Dr. Judith Hancock, who, along with her late husband Dr. Gerre Hancock, transformed the organ mu-sic program at the Butler School.

By the end of March, the Butler School of Music had presented a wide range of exciting large en-semble concerts, including a rare collaboration between the UT Wind Ensemble and the UT Jazz Orches-tra literally accompanying George Gershwin, thanks to the miracle of advanced technology, as well as a col-laboration between the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Joffrey Ballet. For a full rundown, see “The Year of the Large Ensem-bles” on page 29.

In April, we presented three hours of simultaneous and repeating concerts at five campus museums during the Cultural Campus Concert Crawl. Each concert featured music that related to the collections of the mu-seum that hosted, such as late 1960s Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis at the LBJ Library in honor of John-son’s civil rights legacy, Latin Ameri-can chamber music at the Blanton, and Stravinsky’s Five Easy Pieces for Piano Four-hand at the Ransom Cen-ter to celebrate Arnold Newman’s portrait of Stravinsky at the piano.

In July, the first ever Longhorn Summer Mariachi Camp, organized by Ezekiel Castro, Adjunct Profes-sor and Director of the University of Texas at Austin Mariachi Ensemble, was a smashing success. The four-day event for Texas high-school mariachi students, which featured El Paso’s Mariachi Los Arrieros conducting the instruction, received extensive coverage from KVUE TV-ABC, Austin-American Statesman, and KUT-FM 90.5.

This summer also saw Donald Grantham and Jerry Junkintaking victory laps for their excel-lence. In June, Grantham, a composer and BSOM faculty member, was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame during the AustinCritics’ Table Awards ceremony. In July, Junkin, the Vincent R. and Jane D. DiNino Chair for the Director of Bands at UT, accepted Texas Band-masters Association’s 2013 Bandmas-ter of the Year award.

Gerhardt Zimmermann, Director of Orchestral Activities, is getting a building named after him in Canton, Ohio. The Zimmermann Symphony Center will be a 22,000-square foot addition to the Umstattd Performing Arts Hall, and will house the Canton Symphony Orchestra’s administra-tive offices, music library, education program area and multi-purpose re-ception hall. Zimmermann has been the Canton Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director since 1980.

Along with the Menuhin Compe-tition (see page 8) and the Butler School of Music’s Centennial Celebration (see page 4), we’re look-

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Clockwise from top left: Judith Hancockperforming on Jessen’s aeolian skinneropus 1393 organ; a scene from CulturalCampus Concert Crawl; austin arts Hallof fame inductee Donald grantham

ing forward to a recently announced partnership with Pakistan’s Na-tional Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA). For the next three years, BSOM faculty members will men-tor visiting musicians from NAPA. South Asia Institute (SAI) will facilitate the exchange of scholars as well as a series of lectures, training sessions, and performances planned under the program, which gets under way in fall 2013. The partnership, which will occur free of any cost to the Butler School of Music, was made possible by a grant of nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of State/United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.

And from the alumni front, Aeolus Quartet, UT’s first graduate string quartet, continued with its post-40 Acres successes, winning the 2013 Fischoff Educator Award for out-reach education and becoming the graduate resident string quartet at the Juilliard School. The New York City residency for violinists Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violist Gregory Luce, and cellist Alan Rich-ardson takes place during the 2013-2014 school year.

Every two years, a major music competition travels to select cities throughout the world. In 2014, Aus-tin gets its turn.

The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists will take place for the first time in the United States from Friday, February 21, 2014, through Sunday, March 2, 2014. The 10-day festival at the Uni-versity of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, in partnership with the College of Fine Arts and Texas Performing Arts, fea-tures a competition between some of the world’s best violinists under the age of 22 as well as concerts, master classes and community activities with elite-level national and international performers.

The week-and-a-half long celebra-tion concludes with a Closing Gala Concert showcasing the acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra. The concert, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring soloist Arabella Stein-bacher, takes place at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 West River-side Drive. The Cleveland Orches-tra, returning to Austin for the first time since 1976, is one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world.

Glenn Richter, Interim Director of the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music, says the Menuhin Competition will increase Austin’s already rich standing as a classical music destination.

“You may think of Austin as the home of South by Southwest, Austin City Limits or even the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix race. Thanks to Texas Performing Arts, the Long Center for the Performing Arts, the Austin Symphony and our own University of Texas Butler School of Music, Austin is also a hub of inno-vation and excellence in the fine arts and classical music,” says Richter.

“With Austin serving as the first American host of the Menuhin Competition – which is to the violin like the Van Cliburn International Competition is to the piano – Austin will become an even more attractive destination city for classical music fans worldwide,” says Richter.

The Menuhin Competition’s nine-member jury panel, who will each perform a concert and give a public master class, is comprised of some of the top musicians, performers and teachers in the international music community: Pamela Frank, Chair (USA), Joji Hattori, Vice-Chair ( Japan), Olivier Charlier (France), Ilya Gringolts (Russia), David Kim

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(USA), Lü Siqing (China), Stein-bacher (Germany) and the Butler School’s own Anton Nel (South Af-rica/USA) and Brian Lewis (USA).

The Menuhin Competition, which has recently helped launch the careers of Julia Fischer, Nikolaj Znaider and Daishin Kashimoto, kicks off with an Opening Concert by the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday, February 21, at the Long Center. The Butler School of Music’s Director of Orchestral Activities, Gerhardt Zimmermann, conducts the concert that will feature soloists Nel, Charlier and Gringolts.

The Junior Finals at 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 28, at the Butler School of Music’s Bates Recital Hall, 2406 Robert Dedman Drive, features the Zimmermann-conducted UT Symphony Orchestra along with competitors representing the world’s most talented violinists under the age of 22. The Senior Finals event at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at the Long Center features top young violinists accompanied by the Austin Sympho-ny Orchestra and conductor Peter Bay, Music Director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

Along with competitions and concerts, members of the Menuhin Competition jury and Cleveland Orchestra will teach master classes to competitors and University of Texas students at the Butler School of Mu-sic and Bates Recital Hall.

Tickets are now available for pur-chase for the Menuhin Competition’s signature events: the Opening Con-cert by the University of Texas Sym-phony Orchestra; the Junior Finals, featuring some of the world’s best young violinists; the Senior Finals with the Austin Symphony Orches-tra; and the Closing Gala Concert showcasing the Cleveland Orchestra. For more information about tickets as well as the full event schedule, visit menuhin.music.utexas.edu.”


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1950S

Elaine Needham (BM 1956) tells us that she recently purchased a Dimbath cello built in 2010 and a very nice bow. At present, she’s preparing a recital that includes the Beethoven Horn Sonata in F, the Beethoven A Major Sonata, and the Brahms sonata, Opus 38.

1960S

Karin Peterson Tripp

(BS 1964) performed during the Georgetown (Texas) Festival of the Arts 2012 and in Vienna, where she sang sacred duets and soli in a beautiful European church. She also managed the Werner Tripp Memorial Fund, which supports flute students at the Music University Vienna, where her husband, Werner Tripp, taught for 38 years. Karin is a member of the team for Live Music Now, which provides live music that’s performed by music students for those who cannot attend. A member of Soroptimist International Vienna, she cruises with the Vienna Philhar-monic and the MetropolitanOpera Guild.

1970S

James Jeter (MM 1970) has continued to perform principal bas-

Pictured below from left to right: Kevin Connolly, Susan (Zoch) Glover, Philip Hardin, and Hank Hehmsoth

soon for the Westfield (New Jersey) Symphony and the Cecilia Chorus of New York, and he performed the northeast leg of The Three Tenors tour as principal. Jeter’s Virtuosi Quintet performed concerts in New Hamp-shire and Connecticut, and he’ll once again perform and teach at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, his eighth summer in western Michigan.

On August 27, 2012,Thomas Bumgardner

(DMA 1973) presented a recital on the Monday Night Series at the Col-lege of Charleston to honor his wife on the occasion of the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary. Bumgard-ner continues to teach voice at the college and privately in his home studio. In March 2012, he appeared as bass soloist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Bach’s Cantata No. 140 and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. He’s the as-sociate director of the CSO Chorus and a member of the Taylor Festival Choir, which toured Ireland this summer. Thomas and his wife Rena enjoy spending time with their three daughters and five grandchildren, working in the garden and doing craft and woodwork.

Richard Conant (DMA 1973)is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina and an opera/concert singer. Dr. Conant founded Carolina Alive and directed the group until

his retirement in July 2002. In ad-dition to continuing his musical activities – which includes singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at many major athletic events, political events, civic affairs, and such special occasions as the National Medal of Honor Convention, as well as singing Broadway and opera selections and directing a church choir of 50 voices – Conant is a volunteer policeman (state constable) and a Red Cross volunteer. “Many people find it quite notable and unusual that I do everything from work with our police department’s drug suppression team to riding patrol with our sheriff ’s de-partment, sometimes traveling, with my deputy driving, at 131 miles per hour on boulevards for armed rob-bery or [a] ‘shots fired’ call,” Conant tells Words of Note.

William Brent

(BM 1974, MM 1982) stepped down as Director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts (27 years) and Director of Bands (30 years), effec-tive July 1, 2013. Brent’s new duties will include observing student teach-ers and recruiting for Northwestern State on a part-time basis.

Philip Hardin

(MM 1974) recently completed 21 years as Assistant to the President for Administration at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

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Hank Hehmsoth, (MM 1976) a composer and jazz-performing artist at the Texas State University School of Music, was selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Santiago, Chile, at the Pro Jazz Professional Institute for summer 2013. Hehmsoth was scheduled to conduct master classes of contemporary American jazz in performance and theory, teach com-mercial arranging and composition for television and film, and hold seminars on website development, publicity, and promotion with the goal to enrich the foreign student’s skills and productivity with a solid approach to global distribution.

1980S

Mark Holt (MM 1980) tells Words of Note, “I wanted to let you know that I was in [Steven] Spielberg’s film Lincoln, shot here in Richmond (no pun intended) and released the fall of 2012. After going to the casting call for orchestra musi-cians, the call back wasn’t just to play cello in the pit orchestra (for a scene with Tad Lincoln). They also wanted me to conduct the orchestra for a second scene with the President and Mary Todd attending a production of the opera, Faust. Both scenes are near the end of the movie.” And that’s not all, says Holt, who lives in Rich-mond, Virginia. “Tony Kushner, the screenwriter, met me in the lobby of the theater and gave me his father’s baton. William Kushner was conduc-tor of the Lake Charles (Louisiana) Symphony for decades. With Spiel-berg’s permission, Tony wanted to honor his father’s years of service to music by having me use the antique ebony, ivory and silver baton in that scene. It only makes an appearance for a few seconds…unfortunately, Tony’s father died in March 2012 before the movie was released.”

Patrick Gardner (DMA 1981)conducted sold out Bach Christmas Oratorio concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the Riverside Choral Society in December 2012. (RCS will soon mark its 10th year of RCS Concerts at the Lincoln Center,

where Gardner has conducted the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Stravin-sky’s Symphony of Psalms, Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’ requiem Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Bach Mass in B Minor, and the Mozart Requiem with RCS.) He also prepared RCS to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra. Gardner ushered in his 20th year as Director of Choral Activities and director of the Doctoral Choral Conducting program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he’s a full professor. In spring 2013, the Rutgers Univer-sity Glee Club, an 80 member men’s chorus, was chosen to perform for the third time at the ACDA Eastern Division convention. Gardner’s upcoming activities include an RCS concert at Lincoln Center with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s featuring the Mark Morris Dance Group for a performance of Morris’ signature choreography to Handel’s L’Allegro. In December, Gardner will conduct the Brahms’ requiem in Princeton Handel’s Messiah at Lincoln Center with RCS. He’ll close the season conducting performances of Stravin-sky’s Oedipus Rex at Rutgers as well as the Mozart Requiem with RCS, Beethoven Choral Fantasy, and the California State University Orchestra in northern California.

Cindy Sampler Horstman (BM and MM 1981) has beenperforming and recording for the past three decades. Classically trained, Horstman is the first recipi-ent of a Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from UT and she’s also a prizewinner in the Lyon/Healy International Jazz Harp Competition. Horstman has toured nationally and recorded with the jazz group 2tone. She has also published a jazz harpist theory book that encour-ages harpists to incorporate jazz styl-ing into their repertoire. Horstman has recently been commissioned to arrange and compose music for harp ensembles in the jazz style. “These publications are very popular with harpists both nationally and interna-tionally,” she writes.

This year, Paula Patterson

(MM 1981) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Voice at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, where she has worked since 1991 as Study Abroad Advisor and Adjunct Music Professor and since 2007 as full-time faculty. Since 2007, Patterson has performed recitals in China, New York, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Missouri. During the last 20 years, she has performed numerous lead-ing roles with Springfield Regional Opera, Springfield Contemporary Theatre, the Landers Theatre, and in Branson, Missouri. She also served as the Director of Music at Grace United Methodist Church.

Lee Riggins (BM 1981) has retired after serving as Dean of the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University and Vice President for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Wesleyan College. He also served two terms as Editor of College Music Symposium and as department chair at The Conservato-ry of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan.

yau-Sun Wong (MM 1982) isa Professor of Music Director of Community Band and Chorale at New Mexico Junior College.

David Holley (MM 1984) was appointed as the Artistic Director of Greensboro Opera in June 2013. He’s currently serving as President-Elect of the National Opera Association, and will become President at the NOA Annual Convention in New York in January 2014. Holley, who founded the Greensboro Light Op-era and Song (GLOS) Young Artist Program in 2012, begins his 22nd year as the Director of Opera and Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Larry Schnitzer (BM 1984) has been selected to serve the com-munity of Dallas ISD as the Wind Ensemble Director at Booker T.


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Washington HSPVA. Mr. Schnitzer, a proud alumnus of the Arts Magnet High School at Booker T. Wash-ington, recently completed his 23rd year as Director of Bands at Naaman Forest High School in Garland ISD. Bands under Mr. Schnitzer’s direc-tion have received 48 consecutive 1st division ratings at UIL marching and concert competitions while earning 19 UIL Sweepstakes awards and winning 18 contests at both the regional and national levels in Texas, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri. Mr. Schnitzer is an active member of the Texas Music Adju-dicators Association as well as the Texas Music Educators Association. He is married to Laura and has one son, Jacob, who is a music studies major at the Butler School of Music, and one daughter, Jessica.

Judy Palac (DMA 1987) is an Associate Professor of Music Educa-tion at Michigan State University. This past year, Palac finished her certification in Body Mapping, had an article published in the String Re-search Journal, and became Publica-tions Chair for the American String Teachers Association. She presented sessions at the ASTA conference as well as the Symposium of Instru-mental Music Teacher Educators. As co-chair of the Education Commit-tee for the Performing Arts Medicine Association, Palac helped develop curriculum for a new Overview of Performing Arts Medicine module for artists, educators, and healthcare practitioners, which was set to debut at the Medical Problems of Musi-cians and Dancers Symposium in Aspen in summer 2013.

Jonathan Santore

(MM 1987) won The American Prize in Composition 2013 in the category for professional composers of choral music. Santore continues to serve as Chair of the Department of Music,

Theatre, and Dance at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where he’s taught composition and theory since 1994, and as Composer in Residence for the New Hampshire Master Chorale. His composi-tion Front Porch Poems, for mezzo, viola, and piano, is featured on the Chiaroscuro Trio’s recently released CD New People on Albany Records. Two of the three members of the Chiaroscuro trio -- Aurelien and Elizabeth Petillot (viola and mezzo respectively) – are also Butler School of Music alums.

David Viscoli (BM 1987) received a Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he’s cur-rently a Professor of Piano.

Susan (Zoch) Glover

(BM 1988) completed her eighth year as Director of Bands at West Ridge Middle School in Eanes ISD. This past year, the band program was selected to receive the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s International Sudler Silver Cup Award. The West Ridge Band has also been selected to perform at the 2013 Western Inter-national Band Conference in Seattle, Washington, this coming November. This will be the band’s second per-formance for the WIBC Convention. Previously, the West Ridge Band, under Mrs. Glover’s direction, per-formed in Seattle in 2008, and they were also invited to perform for the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, in 2010.

1990S

Keith Clifton (BM 1990) was promoted to full professor of musicology at Central Michigan University in fall 2012. Recent publications include his role as score co-editor and author of a historical essay titled “The Student Ravel” for Maurice Ravel: Fugue in F Minor (c. 1897), published in 2011. In summer 2012, the edition was honored with a Circle of Excellence Award from the

Council for Advancement and Sup-port of Education (CASE). Other recent publications include reviews for Notes, Fontes Artis Musicae, and the Opera Journal. Currently serving as a member of the program com-mittee for the College Music Society national meeting, he will chair that committee in 2013, the same year he assumes the position of President of the Great Lakes Chapter. Dr. Clifton remains an active consultant and adviser to several academic publish-ers, and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, published under the auspices of the American Musicological Society.

Elias Haslanger (BA 1992) released Church on Monday, his fifth CD as a leader that features the former musical director for Ray Charles, Dr. James Polk, on B3 organ as well as guitar virtuoso Jake Langley on guitar. The recording spent 11 weeks on the JazzWeek national radio charts, peaking at the 14th spot during the week of March 4, 2013. The recording’s success led to a feature profile in the June 2013 issue of DownBeat. In December 2012, the Texas Commission on the Arts chose Haslanger as a finalist for the position of State Musician of Texas for excellence in the arts. During the Austin Music Awards for SXSW 2013, he was awarded “Best Jazz Band” in Austin and he placed second for “Best Horns,” seventh for “Best Album of the Year” for Church on Monday, and ninth for “Musician of the Year.” Haslanger currently holds a residency with his award-winning jazz band Church on Monday at 8:30 p.m. every Monday night at the Continental Club Gal-lery. More info can be found atwww.elijazz.com.

Steven Harper (Ph.D 1994)is an Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State University. After six years as the Director of Gradu-ate Studies, he became the Interim Director of the School of Music on July 1, 2013.


Pictured from left to right:Mark Holt, Erin Jepson, and James Jeter

Since 2012,Elda Nelly Trevino

(MM 1994) has been the general coordinator of the first Latin Ameri-can teacher certification program in Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Con-servatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacán, México. Since 2011, Trevino has been the director of the International Conference of Active Music Education at the Facul-tad de Música of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. In 2012, she designed and coordinated the continuing education course “Music and Movement: Health and Well Be-ing,” based on Dalcroze Eurhythmics, NLP, Feldenkrais, and Music Therapy at the Health Sciences Department of the Instituto Tecnolgico y de Es-tudios Superiores de Monterrey. Tre-vino did a four-week residence at the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, this past February. Dur-ing the past two years, she has done workshops in various universities and conferences in Guatemala, Costa Rica and throughout Mexico. Her independent studio, Música Viva in Monterrey, has grown to 90 students in piano, violin, guitar, cello, voice, music theory, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and music and movement for babies. Her two children Elda Nelly, 7, and Guillermo Andrés, 5, have progressed greatly in their cello and piano stud-ies as well as swimming. “These past two years have been very rewarding for my children, husband, and my-self,” says Trevino.

Benjamin Whitcomb

(MM 1994, Ph.D 1999) was pro-moted to full professor at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Whitewater in fall 2012. His newest book, The Advanc-ing Bassist’s Handbook, was released through AuthorHouse in October. During this past year, Whitcomb was invited to be a featured international presenter at the conference of the Australian String Teachers Associa-

tion in Melbourne, where he gave four papers and two master classes.

Michael Benson

(MM 1995, DMA 2008) was invited to present a public master class in November 2012 for the 2nd Piano Pedagogy Symposium hosted by the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Benson served as faculty adviser to Ms. Laurel Weir’s senior research paper on the composer Richard Wagner during the April 2013 Malone University Undergraduate Research Symposium. As a piano adjudicator, he served on the jury for The Ameri-can Prize in Piano Performance for both the High School Solo Piano Division and the High School Piano Concerto Division. Also in April 2013, Benson served on the jury for the Lima Symphony Young Artist Piano Concerto Competi-tion in Lima, Ohio, where he heard high school and collegiate pianists from across the nation. Benson also performed as collaborative pianist for a number of Malone University campus events as well as off-campus chamber music concerts in Ohio. For the eighth summer, Benson taught at the Interlochen Summer Arts Acad-emy, where he worked with advanced junior pianist and co-taught high school piano pedagogy classes.

In the 2012-2013 season,conductor Garrett Keast

(BM 1995) enjoyed successful debuts with the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Philharmoniker Hamburg and the Hamburg Ballet, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Sym-phony Orchestra, Bach Collegium München, and has been re-invited a third time to conduct at the Opera National de Paris. Additionally, he has conducted the Orchestre de

Paris, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, RIAS Jugendorchester, and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Dates ahead include debuts with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Phil-harmonie Koblenz, the Fort Worth Opera Festival, the Virginia Opera, and a return to the Hamburg Ballet.

Stephen Burnaman

(DMA 1997) is currently in his 14th year on the music faculty at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, where he teaches piano and music theory and serves as chair of the Depart-ment of Humanities and Fine Arts. Burnaman is also on the music staff as organist at the Redeemer Presby-terian Church of Austin.

Flutist Christine Beard

(MM 1998, DMA 2003) appeared as a guest artist at the British Flute Convention and the National Flute Association Convention in August 2012, the Festival Flautas del Mundo in Argentina in September 2012, the IV Festival Internacional de Flauta de Costa Rica in April 2013, the Canadian Flute Convention in June 2013, and her 10th appearance at the National Flute Association Convention in August 2013. Upcom-ing engagements include a guest artist appearance at the Convención Asociación De Flautistas (Spanish Flute Convention) in Seville, Spain, in April 2014. In addition to her active national and international performance career, Dr. Beard was promoted to full professor, effective August 2013, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she has served on the faculty since 2002. She will also step into the roleof Graduate Program Chair begin-ning in August 2013. For more infor-mation on Beard’s activities, go towww.christiebeard.com.



Pictured from left to right:Christopher Luther, Paula Patterson,Jonathan Santore, and Elda Nelly Trevino

Mark Spede (DM 1998) was recently elected President of the Southern Division of CBDNA (Col-lege Band Directors National As-sociation) covering 11 southeastern states. Spede is currently Director of Bands at Clemson University.

Dan Poole (BA 1999) tells Words of Note that he’s busier than ever, touring and recording drums for a number of artists ranging in style from country to progressive rock to post-bop. “Be on the lookout for my main endeavor, Nick Verzosa and The Noble Union,” says Poole. “We just tracked a new single with Austin favorite A.J. Vallejo at the helm... Hook ‘em!”

The 2012-13 academic year forEdward White (MM 1999) marked his fifth year as Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, and brought new responsibilities as Advising Coordinator for the UAFS College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In May 2013, White celebrated 10 years of marriage to Katherine Sherwood White (MM at UT, 2001), who is also music faculty at UAFS. The couple is very proud parents to Evelyn, 6, and Thomas, 2.

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William MANN (MM 2000, DMA 2008) was named trombone professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Bill is active as a soloist and has held teaching posi-tions at Morehead State University and the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Alexandre Dossin

(DMA 2001) has been on the faculty at the University of Oregon since 2006 and tenured since 2010. Dossin’s recent recording projects include “Russian Transcriptions” on Naxos’ ongoing international series Complete Piano Works by Franz Liszt; Rachmaninoff ’s Prelude in C minor, Op. 3 No. 2, Preludes Op. 23. as well as Preludes Op. 32 for Schirmer Per-formance Editions; and Lieder with soprano Charlotte Pistor. Dossin performed all-Liszt recitals during Liszt bicentennial celebrations in New York City (Yamaha Salon), Washington D.C. (National Gallery), Connecticut (Hotchkiss School) and Virginia ( James Madison Univer-sity). Dossin was a faculty member and performing artist in international festivals in Brazil (MIMU in Uber-landia, FEMUSC in Santa Catarina) and in the States during the Astoria International Music Festival. He’s on the board of directors of the American Liszt Society and serves as the president of the Oregon Chapter of the American Liszt Society. Ad-ditionally, Dossin is on the advisory board of the Liszt-Garrison Interna-tional Competition (Baltimore) and was the artistic director of the 2012 Festival of the American Liszt Soci-ety, held at the University of Oregon.

In 2013, Bradley Kent

(MM 2001, DMA 2004) was ap-

pointed State Director of Music for the University Interscholastic League. The League administers and facilitates educational music contests throughout Texas for over 700,000 students annually. Dr. Kent’s appointment follows a tenure as Director of Fine Arts in Richardson ISD in Dallas/Fort Worth. Dr. Kent maintains an active schedule as a clinician and lecturer throughout the country, and is a leading advocate of the arts and arts education.

DARIN CASH (MM 2002, DMA 2006) recently won the Lubbock Symphony bass trombone audition.

Brett Mitchell

(MM 2003, DMA 2005), music director of Michigan’s Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra since July 2010, had his contract extended through the 2015-16 season. In September 2012, Mitchell opened his third season at SBSO with the sold-out “A Parisian Soirée” gala and concert that featured the music of French com-posers Ravel, Bizet, Chabrier, and Debussy on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Out of more than 400 ap-plicants and 22 first-round competi-tors, Mitchell was selected as one of the final 10 conductors to participate in the 6th International Conductors’ Competition Sir Georg Solti. The competition took place in September 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany, with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museum-sorchester and The Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Mitchell guest conducted the Houston Symphony in its annual outdoor celebration of Latin Ameri-can music in October, and returned to guest conduct the Rochester Phil-harmonic Orchestra on its 2012-13 holiday family concert in December. In September of last year, Houston’s Moores Opera Center appointed Mitchell as music director. Mitchell


will lead the company in three fully staged works each season throughout his initial three-year contract. During his first season, Mitchell led produc-tions of Daniel Catán’s Salsipuedes, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Verdi’s Rigoletto.

Andrew Davis

(BM 2004, MM 2007) is a member of the Austin-based baroque orches-tra and choir Ensemble Settecento, which recently finished its second season that included five full concerts and special trips to Durango, Mexico, and Cleveland, Ohio. Planned high-lights of its third season include a semi-staged production of Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera seria Monte-zuma and a performance of the rarely heard Matines para Nuestra Señora la Virgen de Guadalupe by Ignacio Jerusalem. Formed in 2011 by musi-cians who met through participation in the UT Early Music Ensemble, the group includes BSOM alumni Sophia Acheson, David Ballam, Sarah Bates, Joan Ely Carlson, Andrew Davis, Laura Miller, Sawyer Sellers, and John Walters as well as current students Phillip Bernard, Liz Culpepper, Judson Deitrich, Max Parsons, and Renata van der Vyver.

Erin Jepson (BA 2004) accepted the position of Director of Event Services for the Oregon Conven-tion Center in Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Convention Center is the largest convention center in the Pacific Northwest with nearly 1,000,000 square feet of space. The Convention Center is home to a large collection of public art, with works from more than two-dozen artists who are chiefly based in the Pacific Northwest. She is making the transition from Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is ex-cited to meet fellow Longhorns who also call Portland home.

Melissa Prince (BA 2004) is a stay-at-home mother to her five sons. She has also performed regularly and directed the choir. She’s also been the music coordinator, organist, and

the children’s singing-time pianist for her church. This year, Prince and her family will be moving to Doha, Qatar, where she plans to be involved in the music program at her church in Qatar.

Peter Kvetko (Ph.D 2005) received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Music at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.

Mark Franke (BA 2007)finished his J.D. degree at the Uni-versity of Michigan Law School in May 2013 and took a position, which Franke will begin in October 2013, at White & Case LLP in New York City. Franke and his wife, whom he met at Barton Springs in Austin, will move to New York from Ann Arbor in September after he takes the New York bar exam.

Miles Maner (BM 2007), who has performed as the Kansas City Symphony’s Associate Principal Bassoonist and Contrabassoonist for the past three years, was appointed Contrabassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Riccardo Muti. Maner stud-ied with Kristin Wolfe Jensen while attending Austin’s McCallum High School, and then continued with Jensen at UT for his undergraduate work. This summer, Maner returned for another season as principal bas-soonist with the BreckenridgeMusic Festival.

In fall 2012, Naomi Seidman

(DMA 2007), accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Flute at The Pennsylvania State University. Under Naomi’s direction, The Penn State Flute Choir was invited to perform at the 2013 National Flute Association Convention, where Naomi co-presented the “Tools for Self-Motivation and Self-Evaluation in the Studio and Classroom” lecture with Melinda Brou (DMA 2008). Naomi was also a winner of the 2013 National Flute Association Convention Performer’s Competi-tion; as a result, she premiered works

by Gergely Ittzés and Eric Ewazen at this summer’s convention.

Zachariah Stoughton

(BM 2007) has continued as Lec-turer in Musicology and Chamber Music at Texas Christian University, where he has been on the faculty since 2011. He is now head of opera-tions and a regular guest artist at the PianoTexas International Academy & Festival, an annual summer event devoted to the piano repertoire. Mr. Stoughton also performs regularly in solo and chamber music recit-als featuring new music as well as American music from the 20th cen-tury. Also passionate about keyboard music from the 18th century, he is currently engaged in a recording of the Well Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach that includes performances on piano, harpsichord and organ. This recording will feature an extensive lecture commentary on principles of keyboard temperament and its influ-ence on harmonic tendencies in the music of the late Baroque.

Kevin Connolly (BA 2008)graduated from the UT Southwest-ern School of Medicine in May 2013. He’s currently in a one-year internship in internal medicine at University Medical Center Bracken-ridge in Austin and will be moving to California in mid-2014 to complete a residency in radiology at the Univer-sity of California, San Francisco.

Kimberley Perlak

(DMA 2008) accepted the position of Assistant Chair of Guitar at Berk-lee College of Music in Boston, MA, effective September 1, 2013.

Amy Casper (MM 2009) won positions with the Breckenridge Music Festival, Abilene Symphony Orchestra, and the Corpus Christi Symphony.

Luke Gullickson (MM 2009)worked on several commissions this year, including a piece based on old-time blues fingerpicking for



Pictured from left to right: David Viscoli,Edward White, and Yau-Sun Wong

pianist Nicholas Phillips and an art song jointly commissioned by Sing-ers on New Ground and the Poetry Foundation. Grant Wallace Band, Gullickson’s composer-performer trio, has received increased media attention via performances around Chicago; the group had a photo and mention in the New York Times in December following its perfor-mance at the Empty Bottle as part of the (Un)familiar Music Series’ benefit concert for New Amster-dam Presents. In the article, critic Steve Smith dubbed the trio’s sound “spidery original bluegrass.” As part of a critic’s pick write-up in Time Out Chicago, Doyle Armbrust wrote, “If Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt had gone on a triple date with John Fahey, Dock Boggs and Bill Monroe to an Anton Webern concert, you’d be somewhere in the neighborhood of Grant Wallace Band. We love the weird, rhythmically complex landscape of proto-bluegrass composers Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Ben Hjertmann and Luke Gullickson have created.”

Lisa Lamb (BM 2009) has published several works over the past year, including a book of “Harp Games” for teachers to use with students to reinforce different musi-cal concepts and music theory; the article “Teaching the Complete Musician” featured in the National Flute Association Pedagogy Anthology volume 2; the composition “Charcoal Landscape” for solo cello and flute ensemble; and the composition “Summer Suite” for flute and harp. Lisa was recently elected as president

of the Austin Chapter of the Ameri-can Harp Society. She performs in the Austin Civic Orchestra, main-tains an active teaching studio, and keeps busy playing music at various weddings and other events in the Austin area.

In January, Scott McNulty

(MM 2009) led piano masterclasses and a concert in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China. Eleven Chinese students and parents traveled back to Los Angeles and Austin with him for another 15 days of cultural and musi-cal experiences.

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Dan K. Kurland (BM 2010) received his master’s of music in collaborative piano from The Juil-liard School in May 2013. This past summer, Kurland was an assistant coach in the Young Artists Program at The Glimmerglass Festival, which included various concerts and performance at historic Hyde Hall. Kurland’s appeared in concert at Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, The DiMenna Center and West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He ex-ecuted complete performances of Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel and also performed with Eric Silberger (violin), Julian Schwarz (cello), and vocalists Anthony Roth Costanzo, Stephen Ng, and Kyle Bielfield. His Juilliard recitals included Liedera-bend of Wolf ’s complete Italienisches Liederbuch with fellow pianists and vocalists coached by Ken Noda (Metropolitan Opera) as well as Liederabend of Grieg songs with Lilla Heinrich Szász, coached by Vlad Iftinca (Metropolitan Opera). Kurland appeared in the U.S. pre-miere of Michael Zev Gordon’s Frag-

ments from a Diary at FOCUS! 2013 Festival, and performed at a recipient luncheon with 2013 Martin E. Segal Award winner and 2013 TONY Award nominee Shalita Grant. In September, Kurland will return to Juilliard, where he continued his studies with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, and Diane Richardson, as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.

Kathryn Metz (DMA 2010) is the Education Instructor at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches K-12 students onsite and through videoconferencing, adults and teachers at the Museum, and co-ordinates public programs with art-ists and music industry professionals. Last year’s American Music Masters celebration of the life and music of Chuck Berry featured Mr. Berry as well as Merle Haggard, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, and Run-DMC’s Darryl DMC McDaniels. Kathryn recently published a chapter in Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre (Duke, 2013) and continues to write and research. She teaches online courses at Kent State University and will be teaching at Oberlin Conservatory in Spring 2014. Kathryn also participated in Lottery League, which places 169 musicians from around Cleveland randomly into 42 new bands that perform 10 minutes of original music at the Big Show, which took place at the historic Cleveland Agora Theatre and Ballroom.

Alicia Mielke (BM 2010) recently received a master’s of music degree from the New England Con-servatory. She was recently appointed as Music Coordinator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.


Dr. Diane Bolden-Taylor

(DMA 2011) recently returned from Sydney, Australia, where Maree Ryan, senior lecturer in Voice and Chair of Vocal and Opera studies at the University of Sydney Con-servatorium of Music, invited her to present a vocal master class. On June 4, 2013, in a master class setting open to the public, a select group of male and female graduate voice majors performed operatic arias from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Così fan tutte, and Le Nozze di Figaro; Rita by Donizetti; and Poulenc’s Les Marmel-les de Tirésias. Says Bolden-Taylor, “The talent was quite impressive! I had a wonderful time and look forward to taking the chair of the department up on her invitation to do more master classes in the future.” Dr. Bolden-Taylor has been a profes-sor of music/voice at the University of Northern Colorado since 1993, where she is the chair of the voice department.

Hermes Camacho (DMA 2011)received premieres of three new works for wind ensemble and orches-tra. He also joined the staff of Austin Soundwaves, where he teaches band, orchestra and theory. Modeled after El-Sistema, the Venezuelan youth orchestra program that produced Los Angeles Philharmonic con-ductor Gustavo Dudamel, Austin Soundwaves works with underserved communities in east Austin, provid-ing free music instruction to kids ages 10 to 18. This fall, Hermes will be an adjunct professor of theory/composition at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

Joanna Martin (DMA 2011) performs as Principal Flute with the Abilene Philharmonic, section flute with Round Rock Symphony, and as substitute with the Austin Symphony Orchestra. A sought after teacher, she teaches at Anthropos Arts, McCal-lum Fine Arts Academy, Lamar Fine Arts Academy, McNeil High School, Cedar Ridge High School, and Rid-geview Middle School. This summer, Dr. Martin joined the faculty for Floot Fire and the West Texas A&M

Canyon Flute Camp. Dr. Martin par-ticipated in the National Flute As-sociation’s Young Artist Competition in New Orleans in August.

Bernadette Dela Cruz

(BA 2012) is starting her second year at Texas Tech Law, where she will serve as a Teaching Fellow for the Legal Practice Program. Ms. Cruz will mentor students regarding legal research, writing, citation exercises and other grammatical matters. She also served as an intern at a local law firm in Austin during the summer. Next year, she hopes to participate in a journal at Tech Law. She also adopted a young border collie this spring and is trying to teach him how to do her homework.

Chris Diaz (MM 2012)spent the last year teaching music at a Title I elementary school located in his California hometown. “The job was challenging and the number of students was overwhelming, but I did learn a lot from the experience,” says Diaz. “I had no idea what being a music teacher in a public school was like…I now have a new respect for those who are in the trenches teaching such young students.” Diaz also received a fellowship to receive his Ph.D in digital composition from The University of California, Riverside. He’s in the process of re-locating to the Inland Empire region of Southern California and looks forward to beginning coursework this fall. Diaz will be working closely with another UT alum, Ian Dicke, who is a professor at UCR. On a personal note, Chris got engaged to his girl-friend on the day he graduated from UT. He asked her to marry him at the party celebrating the completion of his master’s degree.

Christopher Luther

(DMA 2012) explains that after fin-ishing his studies with Roger Myers, he was “extremely fortunate” to win a full-time, Professor of Viola position at the University of Northern Colo-rado. “This is truly a dream come true for me,” says Luther. “Completing my DMA was one of the most challeng-ing experiences. In the fall, I will be

directing my DMA students through the same process! I love the twists and turns of life and am so excited to continue learning and building on the great education I received from the Butler School of Music!”

Caleb Hans Polashek

(MM 2012) secured a position with the Austin Symphony in August 2012. Following many performances, he was granted tenure with the organization, making him the young-est tenured member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra by many years. Caleb was also invited to play with the Austin Lyric Opera, a string of experiences he thoroughly enjoyed. As a teacher, Caleb has enjoyed help-ing his students build solid founda-tions, and one of his students won the String Project Solo Competition in spring 2013. After playing many concerts in alternative styles, he has started to focus on his solo project, which is a mix of composition, improvisation, electronic instruments and acoustic violin. He looks forward to further exploration of musical creativity as he enjoys living, working and collaborating in Austin.

In September 2012,Andrew W. Parker

(DMA 2013) was appointed the Orchestra Manager’s position of the Yale Philharmonia and New Music New Haven Ensemble at the Yale University School of Music. Dr. Parker is also an avid freelancer and teacher in the Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York areas, where he has become the oboist for Le Train Bleu and invited to be a guest artist at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. This sum-mer, Dr. Parker was an oboe fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.


faculty updates

Gregory Allen, Professor of Piano, was a guest art-ist at the 2013 Festival of the American Liszt Society in San Francisco, performing works by Alkan and Wagner/Liszt in commemoration of their bicentennials. Earlier in the spring, he collaborated with the Miró Quartet in the Brahms Piano Quintet. He also appeared with Chamber Music International in Dallas and performed four concerts with violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio as part of the Austin Chamber Music Center series. Prof. Allen is currently preparing a CD with the Chamber Soloists of Austin, to be issued on Pierian Records, of chamber music by American composer Edward Burlingame Hill; several of these works will be world premiere recordings.

Professor of Trombone Nathaniel Brickens served as visiting trombone professor in February at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in San Juan, where he taught lessons, presented master classes, coached chamber ensembles and conducted the conservatory’s trombone choir in concert. During 2012-13, he was a soloist and chamber musician (sackbut) for the Saint Cecilia Baroque Festival (First Presbyterian Church, Austin) and he performed several concerts with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Texas Choral Consort, the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra, the Concordia Chorus, and the Austin Civic Chorus. He also collaborated with other UT faculty soloists in a performance of Frank Martin’s Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments with the UT Symphony Orchestra in Bates Recital Hall in fall 2012. Brickens was trombone clinician at the HBC Band Directors Consortium Convention in Atlanta and an adjudicator for the ETW National Trombone Solo Competi-tion (Arlington, Virginia), the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition (Austin), and the Texas Music Educators Associa-tion All State Ensemble tryouts (San Antonio). He conducted the UT Trombone Choir in several local performances and secured a BSOM grant to complete a recording project with the ensemble. The new CD, entitled American Voices, features compositions by several UT faculty and Texas Exes; the album will be released in spring 2014 on Longhorn Music.

Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Professor in Music and Human Learning, received the Distinguished Alumna award from the School of Music at The Ohio State University in April. She gave a keynote speech at the II Simpósio Brasileiro de Pós-Grad-uandos em Música in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November and presented a paper on infants’ preferential attention to music over speech at the International Symposium of Research in Music Education in Seattle. Prof. Costa-Giomi also published papers in the Journal of Research in Music Education (co-author: Ilari), Early Child Development and Care (co-author: Merkow), Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education (co-author: Frisch), Perspectives, and a chapter on infants’ categorization of music in the book Actualités des Universaux en Musique/Top-ics in Musical Universals. She has continued studying musi-cal development focusing on young children’s play with digital music toys and infants’ discrimination of voices in audio and audiovisual contexts.

Andrew Dell’Antonio, Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Fine Arts, was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teach-ers at UT in October. This year’s publication of The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening, Second Edition, marks the first outcome of his co-authorship of the prominent introductory textbook series from W. W. Norton.

The Music Teachers National Association presentedBob Duke, Marlene and Morton Meyerson CentennialProfessor in Music and Human Learning, with the Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award at the MTNA annual meet-ing in Anaheim, California. The award, which honors the late Frances Clark, an internationally acclaimed author and piano pedagogue who died in 1998, is intended to recognize “a person who has made significant contributions to the field of keyboard pedagogy.” Bob received the award for his widely read collection of essays Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Prin-ciples of Effective Instruction. This year, his articles appeared in

Pictured below from left to right: Greg Allen, Joseph Bolin, John Fremgen performs with drummer Butch Miles, Matthias Maierhofer, Kevin Mooney, Roger Meyers album, Anton Nel, Nikita Storojev, Kingsville ISD audience for Dan Welcher’s The Need to See.


the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, International Journal of Choral Singing, Utah Music Educators Journal, and Voice, and his research was featured in TIME’s Online Ideas. He gave invited lectures at the University of Washington, University of Southern California, University of South Carolina, Trinity College, and the Colburn Conservatory. He served as an editorial reviewer for Cognitive Psychology and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; as the edi-tor of Reviews of Research in Human Learning and Music; and as chair-elect of the Executive Committee of the National Associa-tion for Music Education’s Society for Research.

Delaine Leonard Fedson continues to lead the American Harp Society, Inc. as its national president and she’s actively involved in hosting the 2013 Summer Institute and National Competitions at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Throughout the year, she taught student master classes and Suzuki Teacher Development classes in Chicago, Illinois; the Virginia Harp Centers in Richmond, Virginia and Philadelphia; the American Suzuki Institute at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; and Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute in Denver. She continues to contribute to the evaluation and mentoring of new Suzuki Harp Teacher Trainers and the development of repertoire by her active participation in the USA Suzuki Harp Committee. During the 2012-2013 season, Ms. Leonard Fedson performed with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, San Antonio and Austin Symphonies, and Bernadette Peters Festival Orchestras in central Texas.

John Fremgen, Associate Professor in Jazz Studies, per-formed with the Rick Trevino Band in summer 2012 through-out the southwest, including New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri and Texas, and taught a jazz clinic at the Texas Bass Symposium in September. In October, Prof. Fremgen travelled to Italy, where he gave numerous performances and master classes at the Con-servatorio di Musica di Perugia in Perugia, Umbria. In January, he joined legendary jazz drummer Butch Miles for a weeklong residency at Mariane’s Jazz Club in Bern, Switzerland, and trav-eled to Brazil for a week of festival performances with Miles this past August. He also performed with singer/songwriter Christo-pher Cross with the Austin Symphony in March. A month later, he toured with Cross’s band in Japan, where they performed 11 shows at Billboard Live Tokyo, Billboard Live Osaka and Kame-ari Symphony Hills.

Flute Professor Marianne Gedigian, holder of a Butler Professorship in Music, has enjoyed a varied year of musical performances and teaching. Marianne’s season included her as guest artist with the Chicago Flute Club, Northwestern Uni-versity, Andover Newton Theological School, Boston Flute Academy, Fredericksburg Music Club, Hudson Valley Music Club, Stephen F. Austin State University, Rhode Island Cham-ber Music Concerts, Texas A&M University, Danbury Con-cert Association, Rice University, and Syrinx Flute Festival in Winnipeg, Canada. She returned to the Brevard Music Center to perform and teach, and completed her summer activities as soloist in a Headliner Recital, Concerto Soloist at the Gala Eve-ning Concert performing the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra da camera by Krzysztof Penderecki. She was also master class clinician at the Annual National Flute Association’s Convention in New Orleans.

Numerous performances of Professor of CompositionDonald Grantham’s works were heard around the country as well as Japan, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom. Two commercial recordings of Starry Crown (wind ensemble) appeared on Longhorn Music (UT/Austin Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin) and Naxos Records (Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Stephen L. Gage). Grantham’s Tuba Concerto received several performances in Austin (UT/Austin Wind Symphony, Rob-ert Carnochan, conductor), Chicago (Midwest Convention), and Redlands University with Charles Villarrubia and Eugene Pokorny as soloists. (Prof. Villarrubia and the UT/Austin Wind Symphony, under Robert Carnochan, recorded the concerto for future release on Longhorn Music.) J’ai été au bal (wind ensem-ble) was performed at Tanglewood by the Tanglewood Young Artists Wind Ensemble, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds. Black-Eyed Suzy (unaccompanied violin) was commissioned for the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, and an Illinois consortium of wind ensembles has commissioned an as-yet-titled work for wind ensemble. Grantham served as composer-in-residence at James Madison University in April 2013 and as a panelist for the 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Music Panel. He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in June 2013.

Robert Hatten, Professor of Music Theory, collaborated on a major article with distinguished philosopher/aestheti-cian Jenefer Robinson of the University of Cincinnati. Entitled


“Emotions in Music,” it appeared in the flagship theory journal Music Theory Spectrum. Also in print this year are articles on musical forces and agency (in Music Theory Online), musi-cal gesture (a chapter in Expression et geste musical), analysis and abduction (an invited article for the inaugural issue of the Kraków-based journal, Teoria Muzyki), and musical values (keynote for ICMS XI in Kraków). During the fall, Prof. Hatten presented papers on the troping of topics in Mozart (Society for Music Theory), music analysis (keynote for the Wrokław Acad-emy of Music conference in Poland), and musical narrativity (for a symposium in Paris). During the spring, he gave a keynote address on melody at the International Congress of Musical Signification XII in Belgium, illustrated by a 35-minute piano recital in Brussels at the Académie Royale de Belgique. He also delivered a paper, “Engaging the Spiritual in Beethoven,” during a two-day residency at Penn State University. Two new courses developed last year were “Music and Meaning” (graduate semi-nar) and “Performance, Analysis, and Interpretation” (graduate and undergraduate offerings).

Jeff Hellmer, Professor of Jazz Studies, performed for a week at Marian’s Jazz Room in Bern, Switzerland, with legend-ary drummer Butch Miles. He traveled to the Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia in Italy with members of the UT jazz faculty, giving clinics and performing concerts. He taught at the Idyllwild (California) and UT/Austin jazz camps, and adjudi-cated and performed at the Riverside Community College Jazz Festival and the University of Northern Iowa. In Austin, he per-formed with James Walker, Bill Watrous, and Ray Sasaki as well as with the UT jazz faculty on the Jessen Series. He was guest conductor and soloist with the UT Wind Ensemble in “An Afternoon With George Gershwin,” which featured a Disklavier “re-performance” of Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue with live accompaniment. He coordinated the Longhorn Jazz Festi-val, which featured composer Maria Schneider. He conducted and performed with the Dallas Wind Symphony in its Mardi Gras Madness concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center. He was awarded a grant from the Provost’s Office to develop a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in Jazz Appreciation, which will be featured on the EdX platform in January 2014.He continued to serve as Associate Director of the Butler School of Music.

Adam Holzman’s concerts and master classes took him to the University of Kentucky, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Guilford College, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Florida State University, St. Petersburg College, and Wake Forest University. The Professor of Guitar also performed on the 25th anniversary series of the Miami Classical Guitar Society,

where he had been featured during its debut year. This past sum-mer in Louisville, Kentucky, he adjudicated the Guitar Founda-tion of America International Competition 2013, considered the most important classical guitar competition in the world.

Dr. David Hunter, Music Librarian, traveled to Edin-burgh, Scotland, in July to present a paper, “New Evidence for Taking and Giving Lessons, 1700-1759: Gender, Instruments and Duration,” at the 2nd International Conference on Histori-cal Keyboard Music. He was in London in November 2012 and read a paper to the Handel Institute entitled “In the Court of Public Opinion: Handel, Choice, and the Finite Audience.”

Judith A. Jellison, Mary D. Bold Professor in Music and Human Learning and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, was honored this year by the University of Minnesota on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the music therapy program, which she founded and directed for 10 years. Scholarly activities included the publication of a book chapter on inclusive music classrooms in the Oxford Handbook of Music Education and a research review with co-author and alumna Laura Brown in the Journal of Music Therapy. Oxford Press will publish Jel-lison’s book, Including Everyone, next year. She gave a presenta-tion at the 2013 Arts Education and Special Education Confer-ence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as presentations and clinics at the 20th International Symposium for Research on Music and Behavior and at conferences of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Ameri-can Music Therapy Association (AMTA) and TMEA. She and MHL doctoral student Ellary Draper presented research posters on inclusion practices at NAfME, AMTA and TMEA. Prof. Jellison was featured in an online publication by The Children and Exceptionalities Special Research Interest Group (SRIG)of NAfME.

Professor of Bassoon Kristin Wolfe Jensen recently released the CD “…and Kristin Wolfe Jensen – a Lineage in Collaboration on Longhorn Music that features Ms. Jensen collaborating in duos and trios with various former members of her bassoon studio who are now professional bassoonists. She was a visiting artist at Indiana University, Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, University of Missouri, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and the Univer-sity of Oklahoma, and was joined by her colleagues in the Texas Reed Trio (Professors Rebecca Henderson, oboe, and Nathan Williams, clarinet) on a tour to The University of Washington, Washington State University and the University of Montana. As Executive Director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Symposium, Ms. Jensen will be hosting the 2014 sympo-sium from January 18 to 20, 2014, at the International Festival Institute at Round Top, Texas. The symposium is open to the public, and features inspiring master classes, clinics and concerts by world-class musicians. She co-authored the Royal Conserva-tory of Music’s (Toronto) “Bassoon Syllabus for the Examina-

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tions and National Music Center Certificate Program” and performed a clinic at the Texas Bandmasters Association Con-ference in San Antonio introducing the 2014 bassoon All-State etudes. Ms. Jensen continues to enjoy her position as Principal Bassoonist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston.

Kelly Kuo, Music Director and Conductor of the Butler Opera Center, recently completed his first year as Artistic Direc-tor of the Oregon Mozart Players, a chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. He also returned to Anchorage Opera as a guest conductor for The Pirates of Penzance and made his Cincinnati Opera conducting debut with Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei. In addition, the Butler Opera Center’s 2013 production of Philip Glass’ Les enfants terrible was one of only two nomi-nees for best opera in the Austin Critics’ Table Awards.

For the second time, Professor of Violin Brian Lewis was honored with the Butler School of Music Annual Teaching Award for Excellence in Studio Teaching. Other activities in-cluded serving as guest artist teacher and performer at the 16th Suzuki Method World Convention in Matsumoto, Japan, and at the International Suzuki Music Festival in El Salvador. Among this past season’s concerto performances were appearances with the UT Symphony, Topeka Symphony and Waynesboro (Vir-ginia) Symphony. Chamber music festival engagements included “Les 72 Heures d’Août” du Chateau d’Ainay-le-Vieil, France, and Festival de Musique de Saint-Barthélemy, French West Indies. Professor Lewis continued his work as Artistic Director at the 7th Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at the Juilliard School. Among new projects were two CD recordings.

Professor of Voice William Lewis has finished the Eng-lish lyrics and dialogue for Jacques Offenbach’s theatrical tour de force, La Vie Parisienne. The production was mounted at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston with excellent singers from Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh and throughout Texas, with full orchestra and Brazilian dancers. Prof. Lewis directed the opus with his wife Frédérique Added as an adapta-tion for the entire French to English proficiency. The sensational project follows the Central Texas Opera without Fences, which presented La Vie Parisienne as a major part of the Sausage and Opera Festival in Elgin, Texas. UT graduate Wayne Davis was Prof. Lewis’ genuine assistant. For the remainder of the sum-mer, the Franco American Vocal Academy, under the direction of Prof. Lewis and his wife, concentrated on Perigueux, France and Salzburg, Austria, assuring that the 75 students, 25 teach-ers, orchestras and full productions happened. The Butler School of Music plays a dramatic part in this enterprise with Butler graduates David Brown, conductor, Dr. Alan Hicks, Dr. John McGuire, and Dr. Tzu-Yun Chen.

Dr. John Mills premiered his latest CD project, Invis-ible Designs, in concert at the Jazz Education Network ( JEN) Annual Conference in Atlanta. His original compositions and

lyrics featured renowned vocalist Carmen Bradford. Dr. Mills toured Switzerland and Brazil playing saxophone with drum-mer Butch Miles, gave workshops in Perugia, Italy with the UT Jazz Faculty, and held a weeklong residence at the Ot-tawa (Canada) BluesFest with the Texas Horns. He conducted the UT Jazz Orchestra behind steel drummer Andy Narell at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society International Conference) and served as musical director for the Texas Medal of the Arts Awards ceremony, featuring Ray Benson and Steve Miller. John led his band Times Ten at SXSW and joined such progressive artists as guitarist Eric Johnson, jazz vibraphonist Dave Samu-els, composer Graham Reynolds and The Tone Road Ramblers in concert. He played multiple woodwinds for the Broadway show Billy Elliot and performed with singers Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Cross. He scored brass and string arrangements for a New York studio session of The Young Presidents and featured arrangements for the combined UT Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra’s Gershwin Concert.John also contributed articles to the Saxophone Journal and Texas Monthly.

Professor of Ethnomusicology Robin Moore completed work on his new monograph, Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance, co-authored with Alejandro Madrid, which is to be released through Oxford University Press in November 2013. Influenced by the European contradance tradition, developed by black communities in Cuba, and popu-larized thereafter throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, New Orleans, southern Texas, and beyond, the danzón is a fascinat-ing genre that ties together the entire Gulf of Mexico region. It is fundamentally hybrid, reflecting the fusion of European and African elements, and appears to have influenced North American musical forms such as ragtime and early jazz as well as later Latin dance styles. Dr. Moore presented his research on the subject as an invited speaker at Baylor University, Michigan State University, and as part of a jazz studies workshop of the Latin American Studies Association. He continues to serve as editor of the Latin American Music Review and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Black Music Research and the Revista Brasileira de Música.

Professor of Viola Roger Myers had another produc-tive year of performing and teaching. In April, Delos released his album Fantasy and Farewell, which Fanfare hailed as “a showcase for the talent and skill of violist Roger Myers,” further noting that “the viola is clearly entering a golden age on record with performers like Myers himself.” The disc was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at the iconic Abbey Road Studios. Prof. Myers’s summer saw work at five music festivals, including the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Ver-mont and the prestigious Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.


Anton Nel, Professor of Piano and Chamber Music, spent a busy year performing 70 concerts (concerti, solo recitals and chamber music) in the U.S. and Canada, as well as teaching master classes and serving on competition juries. The music of Beethoven formed a large part of Mr. Nel’s season: He made an acclaimed debut with the Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden in the 2nd Piano Concerto, performed an all-Beethoven solo recital at the Long Center, and made his stage debut at Zach Scott Theater in twenty performances of the Diabelli Variations as the Pianist in Moises Kaufman’s play, 33 Variations. Summer festival appearances included Aspen (where he performed ten times, including a solo recital), San Diego (Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21), Rockport, Massachusetts (a recital with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers), Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Texas State International Piano Festival. Other chamber music highlights include the 10th season of concerts with principal players of the San Francisco Symphony, and recitals with violinist Alexander Kerr and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, among many others. Dallas Morning News critic Scott Cantrell chose Nel’s Dallas performance with Anne Akiko Meyers and cellist Bion Tsang as the top classical music eventof 2012.

Dr. Guido Olivieri, Lecturer in Musicology, directed the second edition of the International Early Music Summer Academy in Fossacesia, Italy, in summer 2012. Approximately 20 students from the U.S., Costa Rica, Italy, and other European countries enthusiastically participated in two weeks of intensive study of the early music repertory, guided by distinguished early music teachers and performers. The Academy culminated in two successful faculty and students concerts. Dr. Olivieri also con-tributed entries to the latest edition of the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (one in collaboration with UT Emeritus Prof. H. B. Dietz) and wrote two CD booklets that includes Enrico Gatti’s recording of Corelli’s Op. 4 that received a Diapason d’Or Award for outstanding classical music recording. For projects related to his research, Dr. Olivieri received the Faculty Travel Grant and the Creative Research Grant. He is currently organizing the International Symposium “Arcomelo 2013,” part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of Arcangelo Corelli’s death; the conference will take place in November in Fusignano (Italy), Corelli’s birthplace.

Oxford University Press accepted Assistant Professor of Eth-nomusicology Sonia Seeman’s manuscript on Turkish Roman music and she won a Summer Research Stipend in 2012 to complete this work. Her article on Macedonian nationalism and music was published by the peer-reviewed journal, Eth-nomusicology Forum. Dr. Seeman also appeared at the Gypsy

Lore Society international conference in Istanbul, presenting on music and symbolic violence jointly with displaced Romani singer and manager, Erdoğan Dalkıran, whose neighborhood was destroyed in 2008. She also presented and chaired a panel at the national Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans. During this meeting, she presided over the first official meeting of the Special Interest Group, Anatolian Ecumene, which she established in 2012. Her Middle Eastern Ensemble hosted and performed with Iraqi oudist and Grammy nominee Rahim Al-Hajj and percussionist Issa Mallouf in a concert sponsored by Texas Performing Arts. She co-organized the tour of Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) artists Reyhan Tuzsuz (traditional Roman dancer) and Husnu Tuzsuz (violinist) with Voice of Roma, a non-profit arts and advocacy organization. With VOR president, Sani Rifati, Dr. Seeman toured with the Tuzsuz, performing and lecturing on Turkish Roman music, dance and politics of representation. She gave talks at International Roma Day Festival in San Francisco, in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Through the BSOM faculty research grant, she hosted Tuzsuz’s UT Residency from April 11 through 20, staging the first ever presentation of traditional Turkish Roman wedding music and dance with the Turkish choir Turquoise as well as with students from her signature class, “Music, Identity and Difference.” Her ensemble also performed for the Turkish Economics Minister, Zafer Cağlayan, in April, and at the 14th annual Tunisian American Day in June; these events were covered in Turkish and Tunisian presses respectively.

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presented papers on two occasions during the 2012-2013 academic year. He traveled to Ann Arbor in October at the in-vitation of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance Musicology Colloquium Series to present a paper on recent fusion experiments in the classical music of India. In May, he presented a paper on devotional song in the popular religious culture of Banaras, India at the Stanford University symposium “Translated Tunes: Negotiations of Space, Genre and Identity in Kirtan.” In addition to meeting his teaching responsibilities and serving as Division Head of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Prof. Slawek continued his service on the editorial boards of the Soci-ety for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music, and continued to serve as Chair of the Ethnomusicology Committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Associate Professor of Voice and Opera Nikita Storojev performed recitals with piano and master classes in Ukraine and a concert with piano in Washington D.C. He also performed the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 in New Orleans with the Loui-siana Symphony Orchestra and the works of Sergei Rachmani-nov during a faculty recital at Bates Recital Hall. Prof. Storojev’s year was rounded out with four performances of Butler Opera Center’s Don Giovanni as the role of Commendatore and two performances of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with the Mexico National Symphony Orchestra, Palace de Bellas Arts, as the role of Boris (concert version).



Professor Dan Welcher had a productive year. Two large new works, Museon Polemos: A Ballet For Two Antiphonal String Quartets and The Need to See: A Musical Fable for Chil-dren, were completed over the summer of 2012 and premiered in the fall. Museon Polemos, commissioned by Texas Perform-ing Arts with a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was premiered by the Miró and Shanghai quartets in a concert held in a packed McCullough Theater on Septem-ber 28. The work, a 26-minute piece in which the two quartets are seated opposite each other on the stage, is modeled loosely on the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballets of the 1930s (Orpheus, in particular) and employs a scenario in which two rival gangs (the two quartets) strut and swagger, challenge and fight, and ultimately find reconciliation. The Need to See, commissioned by Texas A&M University-Kingsville with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a 23-minute work for nar-rator/singer, flute/piccolo, clarinet/saxophone, trumpet, cello, and percussion that’s designed to be given in a classroom. Welcher’s libretto, based on the Santiago Vaquero-Vásquez story, was writ-ten in Spanish and English, making it accessible for children from both cultures. (The piece begins and ends with the children singing with the musicians.) Welcher also conduced six con-certs by the New Music Ensemble, featuring visiting composers Lisa Bielawa and Andrea Clearfield, and continued his role as Producer/Host of the weekly KMFA radio program From The Butler School, which showcases recent concerts by students and faculty at the Butler School of Music. (The program airs dur-ing the school year on Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. on KMFA 89.5 and kmfa.org.) Welcher is currently at work on two new pieces: a quartet for clarinets, commissioned by the University of Louisville School of Music (in memory of James Livingston) and a contest solo for unaccompanied violin that will be required of the finalists in the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition for Young Violinists, which will take place in Aus-tin from February 21 through March 2.

Associate Professor of Clarinet Nathan Williams per-formed with Strata – his trio with violinist/violist James Stern and pianist Audrey Andrist – in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina on series concerts that featured the world premiere of a work written for Strata by Kenneth Frazelle, the latest in a series of commis-sions made possible by the Rauch Foundation. Prof. Williams performed recitals and gave master classes in California and Michigan and was a featured artist for the 2013 Texas Clarinet Colloquium. The Texas Reed Trio (along with oboist Re-becca Henderson and bassoonist Kristin Wolfe Jensen) toured the Northwest, performing concerts in Idaho, Montana and Washington. Williams continues as principal clarinetist in the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, and is on the Art-ist Faculty of the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas, the Montecito International Chamber Music Festival in California, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts Adult Chamber Music Seminar in Michigan.

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Born in the Ukraine, Eugene Gratovich, Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music, was trained in Ger-many and the U.S. He made his successful debut in London’s Wigmore Hall in 1974, followed by a critically acclaimed performance at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall in 1976. He has since performed recitals in many cities throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, and Israel. He has also performed as a soloist with leading orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orches-tra and the St. Louis Symphony. He has been internationally acclaimed for his lecture-recitals on the violin music of Charles Ives. In the fall of 2003, he was honored with presenting a lecture-recital on American Violin Music in the former violin studio of Leopold Auer at the St. PetersburgConservatory in the Russian Federation.

Gratovich, who arrived at UT in l988, was previously on the string faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, DePaul Uni-versity in Chicago, University of California-San Diego and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was the founding member of the Esterhazy String Quartet and the Chicago Soundings New Music Ensemble. He received a Fulbright Grant to Ger-many and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to record 20th Century American Violin Etudes.

A leading scholar of the violin music of Ives, Gratovich dis-covered the “Pre-First Violin Sonata,” which he has recorded and performed in New York City at Merkin Hall with pianist Sylvia Golmon. Leading composers have written music for the Gratovich-Golmon Duo, and the group has recorded for Yevshan, Musical Heritage, and Wildwood.

In recent summers, Dr. Gratovich performed and taught at the St. Petersburg Music Academy and at the International Music Institute in Portugal, Spain and Italy. Additionally, his former violin students are under concert management, members of

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leading symphony orchestras, and professors at leading conser-vatories and universities in the U.S. and Europe.

Dr. Gratovich will continue his research and recording of American Violin Music. He is currently the Associate Concert-master of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra.

Professor Harvey Pittel is retiring after 32 years as Professor of Saxophone at The Butler School of Music. Mr. Pit-tel’s students are professors of saxophone at nationwide schools, including the University of Southern California, UCLA, Los Angeles State College, New School Mannes College of Music, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, University of Kansas, University of Hawaii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Pacific Lutheran University, Texas State University, University ofDelaware, University of Texas at San Antonio and many other educational institutions. He has also matriculated countless stu-dents who teach in middle and high school around the world.

In addition, Mr. Pittel has matriculated Dr. Dan Goble, Deanof The College of Fine Arts at Western Connecticut State Uni-versity and on-call saxophonist for The New York Philharmonic and other Lincoln Center Orchestras; Mark Watters, seven-time Emmy award-winning film composer for organizations such as Disney and Pixar; Charles Richard, Chair Department of Music, Riverside Community College; and Roger Greenberg, Profes-sor of Saxophone Northern Colorado University (retired) and saxophone specialist with Andreas Eastman Music Company. Prof. Pittel has also matriculated several former students who have had successful careers in military bands. Prof. Pittel is the teacher for Branford Marsalis, the classical and jazzsaxophone superstar.

Prof. Pittel will teach part time and supervise the saxophone studio during the 2013-2014 school year. He’ll also continue performing as soloist and on-call saxophonist with orchestras, as recitalist, and as a film recording woodwind artist in Hollywood.

At the time of writing, Prof. Pittel is planning a final recital on January 25, 2014, in Jessen Auditorium with guest artist Eric Bartlett, cellist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The “Songs for Mom” concert will celebrate Pittel’s late mother, Dorothy, and his retirement from the Butler School of Music.

NEW FACULTy APPOINTMENTSJoseph Bolin’s musical range spans opera, oratorio, sacred and secular music as both a singer and a conductor. While still in his teens, Joseph was commissioned to commandeer a 150-voice sacred choir in Chicago, and eventually became the director of the Southern Illinois Children’s Choir. As a tenor, Joseph has performed multiple leading operatic roles, including Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Tybalt in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette, Rodolfo in La Boheme and Count Almaviva in Barber of Seville. His oratorio solo work includes Handel’s Messiah, Bach Magnificat, Haydn’s Missa Celensis, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He’s also performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Santa Fe Opera Com-pany. During his vocal career, Joseph worked with such artists as Jonathan Miller, Joan Dornemann, Nico Castel, Elio Battaglia, Trish McCaffrey, Sherrill Milnes, Regina Soffrety and the late Jerry Hadley. In 2001, before he completed his bachelor’s degree at Southern Illinois University’s Presser Scholar of Music, renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes recommended Joseph to the Sara Tucker Awards in New York City, where he performed as a soloist in Alice Tully Hall. That same year, Joseph was a district winner in The Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, being named “Most Likely to Succeed in Opera.” Upon completion of his bachelors’ degree, Mr. Bolin was offered the Associate Min-ister of Music position at one of the largest churches in the U.S., the 28,000-member First Baptist Church of Jacksonville. From Florida, Mr. Bolin moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, to become the musical director of Sevier Heights Baptist Church’s acclaimed choir and orchestra, where he produced five professional record-ings and one nationally-marketed DVD. He also spent four years as the Artistic Director of Knoxville’s Living Christmas Tree in the University of Tennessee’s Thompson-Boling Arena, a production involving 1,000 cast, choir and crew and attended by 70,000 people annually. In 2008, Joseph took the position of Director of Music and Arts at Bannockburn Church in Austin. He and his wife, former soprano Kelli Bolin, have three children.

Kathleen Kelly recently completed a three-year stint as Head of Music Staff for the Vienna State Opera, the first American and first woman to hold that title. There, Ms. Kelly conducted a new production of Wagner’s Die Feen, scored for chamber ensemble and filmed for Austrian television. She was the recitative accompanist for new productions of Le Nozze

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di Figaro and Don Giovanni as well as solo pianist in a new production of Mahagonny. Previously, she served the Houston Grand Opera as Head of Music Staff and Music Director of the HGO Studio. During Ms. Kelly’s association with the Metro-politan Opera from 1997 to 2006, she assisted primarily on the German repertoire, including all the major works of Berg, Wag-ner, and Strauss. She was the music director and conductor of the Berkshire Opera from 2005 to 2008. She has assisted many of opera’s most prominent conductors, including James Levine, Patrick Summers, Andrew Davis, Donald Runnicles, Valery Gergiev, Charles Mackerras, Franz Welser-Möst, Peter Schnei-der, Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, and Gianandrea Noseda. She has also worked with the San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Australia and Glimmerglass Opera. Ms. Kelly is an active recitalist, with recent debuts at Vienna’s Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. As a master teacher, her longest association has been with Rider University’s Co-Operative program, since 2008. She has been the subject of a Wall Street Journal feature as well as a Metropolitan Opera broadcast intermission feature. Kelly is a graduate of Arizona State University and of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, and was a Fulbright scholar to West Germany in the last year of that country’s existence. She will also be on the faculty of the Domingo-Cafritz Program at Washington National Opera,and she will return to Houston as the cover conductor for HGO’s new Ring cycle as well as to coach in that company’sprestigious studio.

Matthias Maierhofer was born in 1979 in Graz, Austria, and received his initial musical education from Karl Schmelzer-Ziringer. This was followed by the study of organ, ancient music and church music at universities in Graz, Leipzig and Freiburg, and at the Schola Cantorum in Basle. He finished his studies with the soloist diploma with highest distinction at the University of Music in Freiburg, Germany. In 2007, he took first prize in one of the leading international organ competitions, the ION Competition in Nuremberg, Germany. Prior to this, he had won awards at the International M.K. Ciurlionis Compe-tition in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2003, the International Organ Competition in Nijmegen in the Netherlands in 2006, and in 2007 at the Bach Competition in Arnstadt, Germany. In 2008, he won the main award and the Gottfried von Einem Prize at the International Franz Schmidt Competition in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Evidence of his thriving concert activity is provided by his appearances at important festivals, which include the International Bruckner-Organ Festival in St Florian’s Priory, Leipzig Mendelssohn Festival, Leipzig Bach Festival, Stuttgart Music Festival, Summer Organ Festival, Ansbach Bach Festival, and ION in Nuremberg, as well as concerts in the Cathedral of Riga (Latvia), Birmingham Symphony Hall (England), Izumi Hall Osaka and the Nagoya Art Center ( Japan), Kiong-Dong Church (Seoul, Korea), and Millstaett Music Festival (Austria). Maierhofer has performed as a soloist, a continuo player with ensembles, and collaborated on CD productions and publica-tions for the music publishers Edition Helbling. From 2005 to 2009, Maierhofer was the organist and director of music at the Albertus Magnus church in Freiburg, and also taught as an assistant organ teacher at the University of Music in Freiburg. Maierhofer had been a faculty member at the Felix Mendels-sohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig, where he taught

organ performance and improvisation.

Kevin Mooney, Ph.D., holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance (guitar) and a master’s degree in music education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1998, he received a doctor of philosophy degree in musicology/ethnomusicology from The University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on jazz history with particular emphasis on the music and careers of vocalist Louise Tobin and clarinetist Peanuts Hucko. In addition to articles and reviews published in Ameri-Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Notes, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Journal of Texas Music History, Bulletin of the Society for American Music, Great Plains Quarterly, New Mexico Historical Review, and the Handbook of Texas Music, Dr. Mooney authored the Instructor’s Manual for the second, third, and fourth editions of American Music: A Panorama. He also serves on the editorial boards of the South Central Mu-sic Bulletin (College Music Society) and The Journal of Texas Music History (Texas State University). Dr. Mooney has taught a wide range of courses at College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, Texas State University, and the Butler School of Mu-sic, where he was Associate Chair of the Center for American Music as well as founder and director of the Texas Music Oral History Project. As a classical and jazz guitarist, Dr. Mooneyhas performed in concert with Dizzy Gillespie and David Am-ram, and has recorded several jazz tracks on Novak and Haar’s Old Friends.

Ferdinand Vollmar’s duties as Director of Bands and Professor of Music Education at the University of the Incarnate Word, where he started in the fall of 2009, included directing and coordinating all aspects of the UIW Cardinal Marching Band and conducting the Wind Ensemble. Prof. Vollmar also served at the School of Music as Director of Instrumental Stud-ies. Prior to his appointment at Incarnate Word, Mr. Vollmar served as the Director of Music Education for the North East Independent School District in San Antonio from 2001 to 2009. His duties included supervising band, choir, and orchestra programs at seven high schools, 13 middle schools, 44 elemen-tary schools, and the district’s Fine Arts Magnet School. Mr. Vollmar also served successfully in the public schools as Direc-tor of Bands at Winston Churchill High School from 1987 to 2001, and at Santa Fe High School from 1977 to 1987. Under Mr. Vollmar’s direction, the Churchill and Santa Fe Bands were consistent TMEA Honor Band and UIL State Marching Band finalists. Also, the Churchill band has been a Bands of America Regional Champion five times and twice a finalist at the BOA Grand Nationals in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Vollmar holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Sam Houston State University and a Master of Music Degree from the University of Houston. He’s an active adjudicator and a clinician in Texas and throughout the South. He has served UIL and TMEA in many different positions, including Region 12 Band Division Chairman, representative on the UIL Music Advisory Com-mittee, and contest host for UIL State Marching Band Contest since 2003. His professional affiliations include the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.


For the past year, a major school and a premiere hospital have been exploring out-of-the-box ideas to determine how collaboration between music and science can help support new directions in medicine. Since April 2012, the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music’s Miró Quartet has helped develop new medical applications, ranging from hand injury treatment and training models that help performers reach peak capac-ity to novel approaches to performing arts integration to the hospital environment, at the Texas Medical Center’s Houston Methodist Hospital. The relationship between UT (which is scheduled to open the Dell Medical School in 2016) and the Texas Medi-cal Center (the largest medical center in the world) has spawned advances in hand rehabilitation therapies, an ergo-nomic chair for string players and how musicians can create the most therapeutic support to treatment environments through the type of music programmed and the approach to interactions with patients in ICU, Waiting Areas and Public Areas of the hospital. “The physicians learned a lot,” says Todd Frazier, program director at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine, about the Miró’s half-week residency in fall 2012.

The Miró Quartet participated in research projects sur-rounding the topic of human performance and improving performance capacity for string players. Miró also collabo-rated with noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. Evan Collins in presenting the joint lecture “Conquering the Beethoven Quartets,” a discussion of managing the physical andneurological challenges of string quartet performance.

Frazier adds that UT’s partnership with Houston Meth-odist Hospital could invent new career paths -- in-house hospital musicians and music therapists, for example -- for graduates who might not become teachers or professional musicians. “Miro might have student quartets go to hospi-tals as part of a curriculum to learn appropriate things for the hospital audiences,” says Frazier.

Along with this unique residency, the past year was aproductive one for Miró, who released the two-disc Beethoven Opus 59: Miró Quartet on Longhorn Music. The quartet toured the CD’s program in one concert allover the country, playing at Music at Menlo in Palo Alto,

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the University of Oklahoma campus, Harvard Chamber Music Society in Boston, and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City.

It was also a year of rich artistic collaborations for the group. Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who ap-pears on Miró’s just released Schubert Interrupted (Longhorn Music), taught and performed at the Butler School with the quartet in a new program containing original arrange-ments by violist John Largess. Percussion superstar Colin Currie also rejoined Miró for a U.S. tour of a new program of contemporary commissioned works for string quartet and percussion, including pieces by Steve Martland, Micheal Torke, Joe Pereira, Alexander Goehr, and David Maric.

In October, Miró and the Shanghai Quartet premiered the string octet “Museon Polemos,” which was written for the Miró by UT composer Dan Welcher for Texas Performing Arts, where the quartet also performed music of Schulhof and Bodorova on the Holocaust Remembrance Series, collaborating with baritone David Small, violinist Daniel Hope, and violist and cellist Benny and Eric Kim.

Miró was in residence teaching and performing at Lee University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mount Royal Uni-versity Conservatory in Calgary, the Hart Conservatory, and Northwestern University. Of special interest was a residency at Seattle University, created by director and Butler School alum Dr. Quinton Morris, working with the chamber music and entrepreneurship classes.

The American String Teachers Association made Miró the headlining artists of its February 2013 convention in Providence. After days of master classes, lectures, and the featured concert performance, the Miró was awarded with the association’s honorary plaque. In December, the quartet performed in Washington D.C. on the Library of Con-gress’s rare collection of Stradivarius instruments.

Here in Texas, Miró presented Schubertiade, a live concert and pubic television broadcast for Arts in Context on Aus-tin’s KLRU-TV; performed late Beethoven at Austin’s Scot-tish Rite Temple and music at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and appeared in San Antonio for the Brahms Festival as well as Corpus Christi.

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UT Wind Ensemble - The Planets in HD

(October 21, 2012)

The UT Wind Ensemble ( Jerry Junkin, conductor) joined forces with the Women of the UT Chamber Singers and the Women of the UT Concert Chorale ( James Morrow, director) to present an impactful performance of Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Paired with a high-definition film from NASA’s latest exploration of the solar system, the audience at Bass Concert Hall was wowed with beautiful images of the Mars Rovers and past probe missions Magellan, Voyag-er, and Galileo, as the UT Wind Ensemble and Women of the UT Chamber Singers and Concert Chorale performed Holst’s dramatic musical score.

Holiday Choral Concert

(December 3, 2012)

The combined choirs of the university, Butler School instru-mentalists, and baritone and new faculty member Donnie Ray Albert were led by James Morrow, Director of Choral Activities, in presenting a healthy mix of Christmas carols such as “Joy to the World,” “The Christmas Song,” and “I Saw Three Ships.” Texas Performing Arts partnered with BSOM to bring this special free concert, offered for the enjoyment of the entire city, and attracted a full capacity audience to the 2,900-seat Bass Concert Hall.

UT Symphony Orchestra with

Joffrey Ballet - THE Rite of Spring

(March 5 and 6, 2013)

The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra, with music director Gerhardt Zimmermann and guest conductor Scott Speck, teamed with the internationally acclaimed, Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet in presenting Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). The Bass Concert Hall event explored Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary score and Nijinsky’s radical choreography with a remarkable reconstruction of the 1913 world premiere production with original costumes, choreog-raphy and design.

made a large impact during the 2012-2013 school year with stirring performances at bass concert hall, bates recital hall and Mccullough Theatre.

THE BUTLER SCHOOL OF MUSIC’S LARGE ENSEMBLES

UT Wind Ensemble - Zenph Reperformance

of Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

(March 24, 2013)

A week after the conclusion of SXSW 2013, Jeff Hellmer, Director of Jazz Studies, led the UT Wind Ensemble and the UT Jazz Orchestra in a one-of-a-kind collaboration, accompanying a world-renowned soloist, George Gershwin, in his own beloved Rhapsody in Blue. Advanced disklavier technology allowed Gershwin, who passed away in 1937, to virtually sit in with the ensemble. The program was initially performed in February 2012 with the Dallas Wind Sym-phony and received an overwhelmingly positive review in the Dallas Morning News.

Butler Opera Center

(various performances and dates)

Once again, Dr. Robert DeSimone, Director of the Butler Opera Center, and Music Director Kelly Kuo, helped take the Butler Opera Center to new heights during the 2012-2013 season.

The production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, which took place in October and November 2012, focused on the intimate music and storytelling of the work. It had been 27 years since this beloved opera has been performed on the UT campus.

On February 22 and 24, 2013, Kelly Kuo, conductor, and David Toro, director, presented Les Enfants Terrible by Philip Glass, which offered Austin a rare chance to hear the work of the minimalist master in a live context.

In April and May 2013, Don Giovanni closed the 2012-2013 season with a 21st century adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera. Featuring a chilling, modern set design by theater and dance department MFA candidate William Anderson, Desimone and Kuo delivered, along with the talented ensemble, a fresh reimaging of the escapades of the Don Juan-like seducer.

Madama Butterfly


NEWRELEASES

Bassic Bach (March 2013)

DaXun Zhang, double bass

This album includes three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental suites for unaccompanied cello, performed by one of the world’s most cel-ebrated and accomplished double bass virtuosos, DaXun Zhang. The double bassist and UT faculty artist offers a definitive interpretation of these masterworks, with thrilling technique and glowing, warm tone. Having spent a lifetime studying the Bach suits, Zhang performs his own original transcriptions with creative, unconventional tuning schemes. “If the bass is finally to produce a headliner, the instrument can have no better champion than Zhang,” writes the Washington Post of Zhang.

Longhorn MusiCBeethoven Opus 59:

MirO Quartet (May 2013)

Beethoven’s three Op. 59 quartets (the “Razumovsky” quartets) rep-resent the pinnacle of excellence in chamber music of his heroic middle period. The Butler School’s own Miró Quartet performs these masterworks with vigor, virtuosity and lush sound. The production quality is also out-standing with the quartet performing on four exquisite antique instruments that are masterfully recorded by Grammy Award-winning engineer Da-Hong Seeto. Longhorn Music is proud to present a definitive inter-pretation of this monumental music.

Starry Crown

(September 2013)

UT Wind Ensemble, Jerry

Junkin conductor

Starry Crown features the acclaimed University of Texas Wind Ensemble, directed by Jerry Junkin. This record-ing offers exhilarating ensemble virtuosity and spiritual beauty of sound as the UT Wind Ensemble skillfully performs a varied collection of music by five leading contempo-rary composers. Longhorn Music is particularly proud to present the title work Starry Crown, which is inspired by gospel hymns from the 1920s and 1930s and written by University of Texas composer Donald Grantham.

Schubert Interrupted

(September 2013)

MirO Quartet

This album includes Franz Schubert’s most significant compositions for string quartet, the Death and the Maiden quartet, and the Quartettsatz as well as a thoughtful new arrange-ment of the beloved song Death and the Maiden, for mezzo-soprano and string quartet. Sasha Cooke, one of the most ascendant and radiantly voiced young singers working today, joins the Miró Quartet, whose color-

has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging performances of classical music. The label aspires to capture the best musical moments offered by the Butler School and to distribute the music to audiences worldwide, all while providing an innovative hands-on education for students. Longhorn Music releasesare exclusively distributed byNaxos America.

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ful, thoughtful and virtuosic perfor-mance is augmented by the master-ful engineering work of Grammy Award winner Da-hong Seeto.

UPCOMINGRELEASES

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Jensen: UT Bassoons

in Collaboration

Bassoon professor Jensen has men-tored many of today’s leading bas-soonists. UT bassoon alumni hold leading jobs in orchestras, universi-ties and arts organizations around the country. This recording features Prof. Jensen collaborating with her students on an attractive collec-tion of works for multiple bassoons.

The Music of

Dan Welcher:

UT Wind Ensemble

Welcher’s music has been per-formed and recorded by prominent ensembles throughout the world, but our own UT Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Prof. Jerry Junkin, performs Welcher’s work best on this album that features two large-scale works inspired by America’s national parks.

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cert in Bates Recital Hall. The group’s performance included the U.S. premiere of Willi Maerz Huber’s arrangement of “Mack the Knife” for harp octet.

Jazz Studies

The Jazz Orchestra performed with Maria Schneider to culminate the 2013 Longhorn Jazz Festival, which also featured 17 high school jazz ensembles. The Jazz Orchestra also performed at the Percussive Arts Society Interna-tional Convention in Austin with steel drum artist Andy Narell. Additionally, the orchestra was an integral part of the UT Wind Ensemble’s “An Afternoon With George Gershwin” concert, and the group performed with the UT String Project as part of its Alternative Styles Festival.

The UT Faculty Jazz Group performed on the Jessen Series of Distinguished Faculty Artists, and traveled to the Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia in Italy for a week of classes and concerts. Students in the jazz program continued to excel, with Marcus Wilcher named a finalist in the ArtEZ Jazz Competition Contest at the Grolsch Jazz Festival in Enschede, Holland, and Sam Pankey named a finalist in the International Society of Bassists jazz competition. More information on the program can be found at www.music.utexas.edu/jazz.

Music and Human Learning

Four graduates of the Ph.D. program in Music and Human Learning were re-cently promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure at Texas universi-ties: Sarah E. Allen (DMA 2007), As-sociate Professor in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University’ Carla D. Cash (DMA 2007), Associate Professor at Texas Tech Uni-versity; Amy L. Simmons (DMA 2007), Associate Professor at Texas State Uni-versity; and Don Taylor (DMA 2004), Associate Professor at the University of North Texas.

New graduates Laura Brown (DMA 2012) joined the faculty at Western Illinois University; Rebecca Atkins (DMA 2013) will join the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chat-tanooga; and Rebecca Roesler (DMA 2013) will join the faculty of the Univer-

Clarinet

Kai-Ju Ho, a master’s of music clari-net student, was first prizewinner of the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, with second and third prizes awarded to clarinet students at the Paris Conservatory and Juilliard, respectively. Winnie Fan, a DMA student in clarinet, was the first prizewinner of the regional woodwind division of the Wurlitzer Young Art-ist Competition sponsored by MTNA.

Classical Guitar

Adam Holzman’s student, doctoral candidate Joseph Palmer, took home a lot of hardware during guitar competitions throughout the world. He won first prize in the 2012 University of Louisville Solo Artist Competition, the 2012 East Caro-lina University Solo Guitar Competi-tion, the 2012 Texas A&M International Guitar Competition, the 2013 Colorado International Guitar Competition, and the 2013 Columbus International Guitar Symposium; second in the 2013 Montre-al International Guitar Competition; and third in the 2013 World Guitar Compe-tition in Novi Sad, Serbia, and the Ten-nessee Guitar Festival and Competition.

“It has been quite an experience all around,” Palmer tells Words of Note. “I genuinely enjoy the whole traveling experience in all [of ] its various nuances.

Collaborative Piano

Tomoko Kashiwagi, the first DMA in the new program, recently finished her first year on faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she’s Instructor of Piano and Collabora-tive Piano as well as the pianist in The Fulbright Trio, the school’s resident faculty chamber trio. Kashiwagi returned to the renowned Meadowmount School of Music summer string program as a member of the collaborative piano staff and was joined by BSOM Collaborative Staff Pianist Dr. Alex Maynegre, current DMA student Jacob Coleman, and re-cent DMA graduate Suyeon Kim (DMA 2013), who recently joined the full-time collaborative staff at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Recent DMA graduate Allie Yuying Su completed her first year as full-time collaborative staff pianist at the Oberlin

Conservatory of Music Ohio while Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova was appointed to the collaborative staff at Boston Uni-versity. Nyle Matsuoka (MM 2011), who was a coaching fellow at the famed Wolf Trap summer opera program, will start as a resident artist with the Arizona Opera in Phoenix in fall 2013.

Professor Anne Epperson, head of the collaborative piano area, was guest faculty at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival for the summer 2013 season. Current DMA student Victoria Sun-glee Choi, who has been appointed to the collaborative staff at Aspen, joined Prof. Epperson. Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao (MM 2013) was awarded a full fellowship to the Aspen Festival.

Flute

Meera Sandra Gudipati, sophomore at the Butler School of Music with Professor Marianne Gedigian, won first prize at the 2013 Florida Flute Association Young Artist Competi-tion. With strong cultural roots in three countries (USA, Germany, India), Meera enjoyed meeting the guest artist Rhonda Larson who plays on a vari-ety of flutes from all over the world.

Harp

Emily Melendes (BM 2014) won the 2012 American Harp Society Founda-tion’s Anne Adams Awards for full-time study of harp at a college or univer-sity, and received cash and a specially designed award for the John Escosa Memorial Fund as well as Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. Additionally, out of a field of 34 semifinalists, Melendes was a finalist for the June 2013 Advanced Division of the American Harp Society National Competition, held at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. She continues to serve as librarian and harpist for the Brecken-ridge Festival.

On March 7, the BSOM Harp Studio hosted a student master class by eminent harpist Yolanda Kondonassis that in-cluded performers Vincent Pierce (MM 2013), Melendes, Meredith McCay (BM 2013), and Amy Frazier (BM 2013). On April 14, the nine-member University of Texas Harp Ensemble hosted 29 area middle school and high school harp students in an area-wide festival con-

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sity of North Texas in the fall of 2013.

OBOE

Over the course of the 2012-2013 academic year, Melissa Hooper (MM ‘14) was invited to perform for two weeks with the Baltimore Symphony (first week as principal oboist, second week as second oboist, both subscription concert series under the baton of Marin Alsop), for two weeks with the National Symphony Orchestra (playing both oboe and English horn under the batons of Christoph Dohnanyi and Christoph Eschenbach), and in three opera produc-tions with the Metropolitan Opera Or-chestra in NY (Assistant Principal oboist in Berlioz’s “Les Troiens,” 2nd oboist in Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” and English hornist in Wagner’s “Götter-dämmerang.” Melissa spent the summer of 2013 as a Fellowship student at the Aspen Summer Music Festival.

Christine Massey (MM ‘08) performed as substitute oboist/English hornist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on three of their subscription concert series this year. She has also performed with the Santa Barbara Opera and Camarata, a chamber ensemble based in southern California.

Piano

Peter Toth, DMA student of Anton Nel, won first prize in the Paderewski Music Society International Piano Competition in Los Angeles. In ad-dition to the top prize, Toth also won the prize for best European competitor -- as a result, he will be concertizing in Poland, France, the Ukraine, and the United States. The competition took place at the Colburn School, and featured a field of 30 competitors and an international jury. Peter, originally from Bekescsaba, Hungary, has already won numerous international prizes, and performed throughout Europe and the U.S., Australia, China, and Korea.

Trombone

Freshman Dillon MacIntyre was selected as a finalist in the 2013 International Trombone Association’s Gagliardi Solo Competition (trombonists 18 and under), the 2013 ETW National Tenor Trom-bone Solo Competition in Arlington, Virginia, and the 2013 Texas Christian University-hosted Fort Worth Trombone Summit national solo competition.

Northside Quartet (Alex Cruz, Blair Castle, Jeremy Marks, Trey Medrano)

was selected as a finalist in the Interna-tional Trombone Association Trombone Quartet Competition. They were the only American group selected. Last year’s quartet competition winner, in Paris, was SubitoBones (UT students – Alex Glen, Joshua Balleza, Matt Carr, and Daniel Fears).

Senior Joshua Balleza was selected as a finalist in the 2013 International Trombone Association’s Marsteller Solo Competition (trombonists 22 and under). Joshua was also a finalist in ITA solo competitions last summer in Paris, France. Freshman Weston Floyd was listed as Honorable Mention in the 2013 International Trombone Association’s Gagliardi Solo Competition. Junior Trey Medrano was listed as Honorable Men-tion in the 2013 International Trombone Association’s Orchestral Bass Trombone Competition and the ITA Yaxley Bass Trombone Solo Competition (bass trom-bonists 22 and under). Sophomore Jea-nette Velasco was selected as a finalist in the 2013 ETW National Bass Trombone Solo Competition in Arlington, Virginia.

First year master’s student Andrew Nelson was listed as Honorable Mention in the 2013 International Trombone As-sociation’s Marsteller Solo Competition (tenor trombonists 22 and under). Sec-ond year doctoral student Jeriad Wood was one of five trombonists selected for the finale round of the 2013 Zellmer Minnesota Orchestra Trombone Compe-tition in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

As far as Visiting Trombone Artists, Assistant Trombone for the Boston Sym-phony Orchestra Steve Lange presented a recital and masterclass for UT students in September and performed works by Jean Michel Defaye, Croce-Spinelli and Arthur Pryor. Denson Paul Pollard, trombonist for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, presented a masterclass and recital for UT students in November, performing works by Koetsier, Sachse, Lebedev, Bozza, Massenet, and Pro-kofiev. Famed European soloist Abbie Conant, former Principal Trombone for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and current professor at the Musik-hochschule Trossingen (Germany), presented the solo recital Music for the End of Time and a masterclass in April.

Tuba

Tuba students of Associate Professor Charles Villarrubia had an enormously productive year. DMA student Corey

Rom won the position of solo tuba in The King’s Brass and will begin an extensive touring schedule this sum-mer. Master’s student Cameron Warren performed as Principal Tuba in the Hot Springs Music Festival this summer. DMA students Daniel Frost and Matt Hightower have both advanced to the semifinal round in the artist division of the Leonard Falcone International Eu-phonium and Tuba Festival. (BSOM is the only school with two finalists in that division.) Matt Hightower was a finalist in the UTSO concerto competition, becoming the first tuba player chosen by the faculty to advance to the finals. In the artist division solo competition, Daniel Frost was the first-prize winner at the South Central Regional Tuba Eupho-nium Competition held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and second-prize winner at the Great Plain Regional Tuba Eupho-nium Competition in Kearney, Nebraska

UT String Project

Dr. Laurie Scott and the faculty of the UT String Project performed at the Texas Music Educators Conference in San Antonio, hosting UT string project faculty alumni as guest conductors. Dr. Scott and eight graduate and under-graduate string teachers attended the American String Teachers Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, presenting a poster at the National String Project consortium portion of the conference. Additionally, Dr. Scott presented three pedagogy sessions at the conference, and String Project faculty and alumni were participants in the string research ses-sions as well as presenters for individual pedagogy clinics.

String Project teachers continued out-reach activities at UT Elementary School -- presently, nearly half of the students in the school are learning stringed instru-ments. The entire fifth-grade class met weekly with string pedagogy students from UT and presented a concert for the entire school in May.

In addition to seven presentations at state and national conferences, Dr. Scott’s yearly activities included guest conduct-ing for Region Orchestra in San Anto-nio, a guest lecture at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, clinics at 10 area middle and high schools, three Suzuki workshop presentations, and a one-week residency at the VanderCook College of Musicin Chicago.


Dr. Paul Olefsky, a retired music professor at University of Texas at Austin and accomplished cellist, passed away on June 1, 2013. He was 87 years old.

Among his many professional accomplishments was be-coming the youngest principal cellist in the history of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall under Eugene Ormandy.

In a concert review of Olefsky’s appearance at Carnegie Hall, the New York Times wrote, “Unquestionably, one of the finest cellist before the public today.” In an obituary published by the New York Times on June 6, 2013, Margalit Fox called Olefsky “a cellist celebrated for his rich tone, impeccable musicianship and commitment to the work of contemporary composers.”

He released many acclaimed recordings as concert cellist and conductor for the Amatius Classics; Americus Record, Monitor; Musical Heritage Society; Voice of America; and Vox labels.

In 1974, Olefsky landed at UT, where he spent nearly four decades mentoring students such as Louis Lowenstein, John Sant’Ambrogio, Carolyn Hopkins and Stephen Gates. Olefsky spearheaded an innovative chamber music program for UT’s Plan II, one of the first intensive fine-arts courses for the famed UT honors program.

IN MEMORIAMPAUL OLEFSKy (1926 - 2013)

Olefsky’s UT students continue his legacy, teaching at premiere universities and music conservatories through-out the world and holding important positions in major symphony orchestras. Austin Symphony principal cellist, Douglas Harvey, was a protégé of Dr. Olefsky. His widow, Hai Zhang-Olefsky, also a UT alumna, is assistant professor of cello at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.Olefsky also created the first Feuermann International Cello Competition at UT and became an emeritus profes-sor at the Butler School of Music in 2002. During his life-time, Olefsky and his wife were members of the Littlefield Society and the University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council.

To honor his former teacher, Mr. Olefsky’s former student, Gregory L. McCoy, established the Paul Olefsky Cello Scholarship, an endowed scholarship that was approved by the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System in 2012. The scholarship benefits The University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music.

The Butler School of Music provided a memorial service for Paul Olefsky at Bates Recital Hall on June 10, 2013. Contributions may be made to the Paul Olefsky Cello Scholarship fund to the following address: The University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music, 2406 Robert Dedman Drive, Stop E3100, Austin, TX 78712-1555, Attn: Development.

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THE BUTLER SOCIETy

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Butler Society

Permanent Members

Cumulative Gifts of

$1,000,000 and Above

Sarah and Ernest ButlerVincent R. DiNinoMary Winton GreenKent Wheeler KennanJeff and Gail KodoskyJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long

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Members- August 1, 2012

through August 31, 2013

Gifts $100,000 and above

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Gifts from $10,000 - $99,999

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Dorothy Elizabeth DowPatricia and Donald DumtraJudith Ann Johnson DullnigJennifer EasterdayElise and Mark EisenhowerLisa and Kenneth EllisSusan and Robert EpsteinJudith and Thomas FaireyStephen FalkJana R. FallinSusan Dymecki and Jason S. FishermanSteven FleckmanStuart FolseKrystal and Perry FrankMaggie and Rick FreemanFriends of the UniversityBrian K. FrockBarbara and George FrockCheryl FullerMarianne Gedigian and Charles VillarrubiaSuzanne and Charles S. GeigerFred GibsonBonnie S. GilsonKendal and Kenneth L. GladishAngela GoodwinKathryn B. GovierAlaina S. GraiserPage GravesChristopher M. GuzmanCaroline and Alexander W. HamiltonElizabeth and John K. MoonTomoko and Roger W. HardenRobert L. Hardgrave, Jr.Barbara Amen Harper and Laurence HarperHavurah Shalom of Sun CitySally H. HawkinsBonnie HedgesMary and William H. Heggen Jacquelyn HelinLaura L. HickfangPaul C. HickfangDonald A. HodgesJennifer W. HokMark I. HoltFu HouBilly HunterPatricia and Seymour W. ItzkoffJ. P. Morgan Chase Foundation, ThePaul JakinsTracy and Keith T. JohnsonShelagh Johnston and Louis Riley

Don Beth and Fred JunkinElizabeth KaiserJerome KesslerSarah and James M. KleinEdith C. KnauerBecky and Mark KonenAlma M. KubyMichiko and Jose LambeletChristopher L. LanierTracy and John W. LashSharon and David LastrapesNatalie Moore and Jason LawrenceJaime E. LedergerberCharles LeeDelaine LeonardMelanie C. LewisLincoln Financial Group FoundationJohn R. LindleyIsabelle and Jack LipovskiJames R. LittlefieldJennifer LoehlinRobin and Doug MainsBetty and Harry MallardEvelyn McCartyJulie and Jerry McCoyMolly McCoyMitzi J. McGloneYoun Young and Richard MeglinoA. Catherine and Mike McGinnisTerence MilliganMelissa M. MyerNational String Project ConsortiumJean O. NelleCarolyn and Thomas K. NelsonClinton W. NesmithNatoma Nash NobleWendy and Gershon NowitzLinda S. NowlinSteve NuessbaumKaren O’Brien and John BergeronKathryn and W. Scott O’HareJulie and Derrik OlsenAnn and Michael OwenAnn and Charles PalmerToni I. PalterTazuko and Charles ParkerGregory PendletonSuzanne and F. Ellsworth PetersonDiana PhillipsMary Ellen PietruszynskiLinda and Robert Carl PreeceCharles RaceKatherine P. Race

Jane and Frederic RaimiAdriana RedmondKimberly G. ReidLaFalco Robinson, Jr.Alfred Rodriguez, Jr.Barbara RuudAnn H. SaslavBarbara E. ScheidkerStacey and Don SchlitzVergil ScottShell Oil Company FoundationShepherd of the Hills Lutheran ChurchSusan and David SheppardClaire and George ShiaCarol A. SmithBillie and Wilson W. SouthernSt. Stephen’s Episcopal SchoolBobby StalbirdPauline and Herbert StarkRowena and Tom StenisScott A. StewartRichard TackettKiyoshi TamagawaElaine and James TankardTexas Presbyterian FoundationMartha L. ThomasDebbie TottBarbara and Elliot TresterTricorda LLCAnn TurpinSusan Kidwell and Michael TusaBeth UllmanJanis and Mark VanderBergAlina W. WaguespackSandria WardGloria G. WeisenbergerJessica Winslow and Stephen SmahaSusan and Robert WozniakE. Custis WrightRoy WylieYan YangDarlyene and Dean YarianNelly and Wayne YoungLauren Zachry-Reynolds and C. Winton ReynoldsJianguo and Weijun Zhang

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The Butler School of Music greatly appreciates those who have established an endowed gift, and by doing so have for-ever linked their names, or those of family members, friends or organizations, to the excellence in this program. For more information on how to establish a new endowment or how to give to an existing endowment, please contact Ann Flemings at [email protected] or 512-232-3515.

PROGRAM SUPPORT

William D. ArmstrongMusic Leadership Endowment Ann Callaway Brown Endowment Fund for the UT String Project Moton H. Crockett, Jr. and Martha Crockett Endowment for Big Bertha Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Center Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music Endowment College of Fine Arts String Quartet Endowment Vincent R. and Jane D. Dinino Chair Fund for Director of Bands Robert M. Gerdes Music Program Endowment The Eddie Medora King Award for Musical Composition Music Education Endowment Fund Music Leadership Program Endowment David O. Nilsson Solo Pianist Award Kermie F. and David W. Sloan Endowment for the UT String Project

FACULTy SUPPORT

Mary D. Bold Regents Professorship of Music Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Opera Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Music Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Opera Conducting E.W. Doty Professorship Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Professorship in Fine Arts Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Music Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Opera Parker C. Fielder Regents Professorship in Music Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professorship in Organ or Piano Performance David and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy M. K. Hage Centennial Visiting Professorship in Music Florence Thelma Hall Centennial Chair in Music History of Music Chair The Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professorship in Fine Arts The Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship in Music

ENDOWMENTS

Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Piano Joe and Teresa Long Chair in Cello Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professorship in Music Grace Hill Milam Centennial Fellowship in Fine Arts John D. Murchison Fellowship in Fine Arts Jack G. Taylor Regents Professorship in Fine Arts Leslie Waggener Professorship in the College of Fine Arts

STUDENT SUPPORT

Alamo City Endowed Scholarship for Pianists Burdine Clayton Anderson Scholarship in Music Richard S. Barfield Endowed Scholarship Wayne R. Barrington Endowed Scholarship in Horn Steve Barton Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Piano Dr. Morris J. Beachy Choral Fellowship Betty Osborn Biedenharn Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Mary D. Bold Scholarship Fund Brook Boynton Endowed Presidential Scholarship Brittany Brown Endowed Scholarship in Music Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Centennial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Opera Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Opera Butler Opera Center Endowed Presidential Scholarship Butler Opera Center Endowed Presidential Scholarship 2 Sarah and Ernest Butler Family Fund Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Opera Sarah and Ernest Butler Family Fund Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Opera 2 Cheryl and Robert Butler Endowed Fellowship in Music Pauline Camp Operatic Voice Scholarship Eloise Helbig Chalmers Endowed Scholarship in Music Therapy and Special Education Joy B. Chandler Endowed Scholarship in Organ Pearl DuBose Clark Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Barbara Smith Conrad Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine Arts Mary Frances Bowles Couper Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Graduate Students in Piano Performance Mary Frances Bowles Couper Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Undergraduate Students in Piano Performance Ainslee Cox Scholarship in Music Patsy Cater Deaton Endowed Presidential Scholarship William Dente Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Opera E. W. Doty Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music E. William Doty Scholarship Fund Whit Dudley Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Harp


Faculty Endowed Scholarship in Music Marguerite Fairchild Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Priscilla Pond Flawn Endowed Scholarship in Music Fondren Endowed Scholarship in Music Friends of Cello Scholarship Dalies Frantz Endowed Scholarship Fund David Garvey Scholarship Fund Garwood Centennial Scholarship in Art Song Performance Mary Farris Gibson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Mary Farris Gibson Memorial Scholarship in Music Thomas J. Gibson IV Endowed Presidential Scholarship Annie Barnhart Giles Centennial Endowed Presidential Scholarship Annie B. Giles Endowed Scholarship Fund in Music Albert Gillis Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Strings Mary Winton Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Margaret Halm Gregory Centennial Scholarship Verna M. Harder Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Louisa Frances Glasson Hewlett Scholarship in Music Nancy Leona Dry Smith Hopkins Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Piano Virginia McBride Hudson Endowed Scholarship Lee and Joe Jamail Endowed Presidential Scholarships for the Longhorn Band Michael Kapoulas Endowed Scholarship in Composition Jean Welhausen Kaspar 100th Anniversary Endowed Longhorn Band Scholarship Kent Kennan Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Music Composition or Theory Donald and Charlotte Knaub Endowed Scholarship in Trombone Lennart and Daniel Kopra Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Classical Guitar or Music Education Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Piano Scholarship Anna and Fannie Lucas Memorial Scholarship Fund Georgia B. Lucas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Pansy Luedecke Scholarship Fund Danielle J. Martin Memorial Scholarship J. W. “Red” McCullough, Jr. Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Jazz Studies Suzanne and John McFarlane Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Vocal and Choral Arts Suzanne and John McFarlane Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Winds W. K. Milner, Jr. Endowed Scholarship in Music Music Endowment Fund Gino R. Narboni Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Orchestral Conducting

Hettie Nel Endowed Scholarship in Piano Willie Nelson Endowed Presidential Scholarship Jonilu Swearingen Nubel Endowed Scholarship Paul Olefsky Cello Scholarship Nelson G. Patrick Endowed Scholarship in Music Education Leticia Flores Penn Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Piano William C. Race Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Piano Louis W. Rase and Sophie Braun Rase Scholarship Fund A. David Renner Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Piano Lucille Roan-Gray Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Phyllis Benson Roberts Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music E. P. Schoch Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Band The Mary A. Seller-Yantis Endowed Presidential Scholarship Willa Stewart Setseck Scholarship Mary Elizabeth Sherrill Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Mary Elizabeth Sherrill Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Organ John W. and Suzanne B. Shore Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Effie Potts Sibley Endowed Scholarship Fund Lomis and Jonnie Slaughter Scholarship in Music Carl and Agnes Stockard Memorial Endowment Fund Texas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Mollie Fitzhugh Thornton Music Scholarship Fund The Trammell Scholarship Endowment in Music Laura Duncan Trim Scholarship in Music Elizabeth Anne Tucker Centennial Scholarship Ruth Middleton Valentine Endowed Presidential Scholarship Lois Johnson White Endowed Presidential Scholarship Ward and Sarah Widener Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music Robert Jeffry Womack Endowed Presidential Scholarship Lola Wright Foundation Centennial Endowed Scholarship Sidney M. Wright Endowed Presidential Scholarship Shirley Sue and Frank Howell Zachry Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music

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