Aspen Music Festival and School
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The Aspen Music Festival and School, founded in 1949, is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents music in an intimate, small-town setting. It is a training ground for young adult musicians.
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[edit] History
The Festival and School was founded by Elizabeth and Walter Paepcke of Chicago and is rooted in the lofty idea that it is the combination of art and nature that fosters the growth of the human spirit. This guiding principle still informs every aspect of the organization. Substantial artistic collaboration was provided by Henri Temianka and his Paganini Quartet during the formative years.[1]
[edit] Events
More than 350 classical music events take place in eight weeks every summer, from July to August, including performances by four on-site orchestras, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, children's events, lectures, and discussions. There are up to 8 events a day and more than 100,000 patrons participate.
For music students, the program provides a combination of classroom and performance experiences. A broad curriculum includes playing in an orchestra, individual lessons, master classes, and recitals. Seven hundred and fifty young musicians attend the School from throughout the United States and the world. Almost 40 nations are represented, including Australia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Sweden, and Venezuela. The average age is 23.
The master teacher/apprentice relationship, the foundation of music education, finds full expression at the School. Aspen students have the unusual opportunity to perform as orchestra members with some of the world’s finest musicians, under the leadership of world-renowned conductors. Musicians of all ages learn from their instructors not only in the classroom, but also as they perform side-by-side with them in the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, and in chamber music throughout the summer. Conductors also have an opportunity to lead an orchestra in the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.
[edit] Alumni
Alumni of the AMFS fill important professional music positions around the world, performing in top-tier orchestras, opera houses, and teaching on music school faculties. Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, James Conlon, Lynn Harrell, Renée Fleming, James Levine, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert McDuffie, Susanne Mentzer, Itzhak Perlman, Leonard Slatkin, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Philip Glass, Bright Sheng, Augusta Read Thomas, William Bolcom, Dawn Upshaw, and Kalil Wilson[2] are among those whose careers have roots at the Aspen Music Festival and School. The President and CEO is Alan Fletcher.
[edit] Faculty
Music Director: Robert Spano
President and CEO: Alan Fletcher
Vice President and Dean of Students: Jennifer Johnston
Voice: Vinson Cole Elizabeth Hynes Stephen King W. Stephen Smith
Aspen Opera Theater Center: Edward Berkeley, director Richard Bado Elizabeth Buccheri (Limited length of residence) Brian DeMaris Miah Im Joseph Li Kenneth Merrill Diane Zola (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately)
Piano: Misha Dichter (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Joseph Kalichstein (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Choong Mo Kang (Half Session I only) Yoheved Kaplinsky Anton Nel (Half session I only) John O'Conor(Half session II only) Ann Schein Rita Sloan Virginia Weckstrom Wu Han (Half Session I only)
Collaborative Piano: Rita Sloan, director
Violin: Renata Arado (Does not teach privately) Earl Carlyss (Does not teach privately) Laurie Carney (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Eugene Drucker (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Herbert Greenberg David Halen Cornelia Heard Paul Kantor Masao Kawasaki Alexander Kerr (Half session I only) Espen Lilleslatten Cho-Liang Lin (Leave of absence 2012) Robert Lipsett Robert McDuffie (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Sylvia Rosenberg Philip Setzer (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Naoko Tanaka Bing Wang (Half Session II only) Peter Winograd (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately)
Viola: Daniel Avshalomov (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Catharine Carroll Victoria Chiang James Dunham (Half session I only) Lawrence Dutton (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Jeffrey Irvine (Leave of absence 2012) Masao Kawasaki Lynne Ramsey (Leave of absence 2012) Sabina Thatcher (Half session I only) Stephen Wyrczynski (Half session II only)
Cello: Richard Aaron (Half session II only) Darrett Adkins David Finckel (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Alan Harris Desmond Hoebig (Half session I only) Eric Kim (Half session I only) Wolfram Koessel (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately) Michael Mermagen
Bass: Bruce Bransby Christopher Hanulik (Half session I only) Albert Laszlo Edgar Meyer (Limited length of residence; does not teach privately)
Flute: Martha Aarons (Half session I only) Nadine Asin Bonita Boyd (Half session II only) Mark Sparks
Oboe: Jeannette Bittar Elaine Douvas (Half session II only) Richard Woodhams (Half session I only)
Clarinet: Burt Hara (Half session I only) Bil Jackson (Half session II only) Joaquin Valdepenas
Bassoon: Nancy Goeres Per Hannevold
Horn: Eli Epstein (Leave of absence 2012) David Wakefield John Zirbel
Trumpet: Kevin Cobb Raymond Mase Louis Ranger
Trombone: Per Brevig Christopher Dudley (Leave of absence 2012) Michael Powell John D. Rojak, bass trombone
Tuba: Warren Deck
Percussion: Jonathan Haas David Herbert Douglas Howard (Half session I only) Thomas Stubbs (Half session II only)
Harp: Nancy Allen (Half session II only) Deborah Hoffman (Half session I only)
Classical Guitar (Half session II only): Sharon Isbin, director (Half session II only)
Chamber Music: Darrett Adkins Per Hannevold Cornelia Heard Rita Sloan Additional Members of the artist-faculty
Center for Advanced Quartet Studies: Earl Carlyss, director (Does not teach privately) James Dunham (Half session I only) Sylvia Rosenberg American String Quartet (Limited length of residence) Emerson String Quartet (Limited length of residence) Pro Arte Quartet (Limited length of residence)
The Alexander Technique: Lauren Schiff
Luthier: Joan Balter
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen: Robert Spano, director Asadour Santourian, administrator
Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies: Master Class (Half session I only) Christopher Rouse (Half session I only) Augusta Read Thomas (Half session I only)
Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies: Individual Studies (Half session II only) Sydney Hodkinson George Tsontakis (Half session II only) Jeff Rona (Limited length of residence)
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble: Sydney Hodkinson, conductor
Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute: Thomas Haines, director
Ensembles-in-Residence: American Brass Quintet American String Quartet (Limited length of residence) Emerson String Quartet (Limited length of residence) Pro Arte Quartet (Limited length of residence)
Artist-Faculty Emeritus: Adele Addison, voice Robert Biddlecome, trombone Gabriel Chodos, piano Carole Cowan, violin Michael Czaijkowski, composition John Graham, viola William Grubb, cello Irene Gubrud, voice Gordon Hardy, president, dean Jennifer John, violin Eugene Levinson, bass Jorge Mester, music director Theodore Oien, clarinet Antoinette Perry, piano Sylvia Plyler, AOTC Murry Sidlin, conductor Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet Paul Sperry, voice Herbert Stessin, piano Viviane Thomas, voice Martin Verdrager, theory Dick Waller, clarinet Won Bin Yim, violin
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Archive of Henri Temianka’s personal correspondence and papers, 1926 - 1992, owned by Temianka's son Daniel.
- ^ "Albert Herring". Aspen Times. http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20060822/AE/108220021&parentprofile=search. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
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