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January 8: What are Music Critics all About?

Pulitzer Prize-winning classical music critic Tim Page has been the chief classical music critic for The Washington Post since 1995. Before that, he was the chief music critic for Newsday and New York Newsday (1987-1995) and a regular contributor to The New York Times (1982-1987). He has authored and edited eight books, including The Glenn Gould Reader, William Kapell, Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, and a collection of criticism, Music From The Road: Views and Reviews 1978-1992. He is presently at work on the first biography of Dawn Powell.

Donald Rosenberg is the classical music critic for The Plain Dealer and vice president of the Music Critics Association of North America. His writing has appeared in SYMPHONY Magazine, Opera News, Opera (London), Musical America, and other publications. An accomplished French horn player, he has performed at the Aspen and Marlboro music festivals. He is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music (Bachelor of Music degree) and the Yale School of Music (Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees). He was born in New York City and lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

January 15: Legendary Oboist John Mack

John Mack retired from The Cleveland Orchestra in 2001, where he had been principal oboe since 1965. He is the administrative chairman of the woodwind division and head of the oboe department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. A student of Bruno Labate and Harold Gomberg at Juilliard and of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Mack performed with the Sadler's Wells Ballet on their United States and Canadian tour in 1951-52. Other former positions include first oboe of the New Orleans Symphony, the National Symphony, the Casals Festivals, Prades and Perpignam. John Mack also serves as chairman of winds at the Blossom Festival School during the summer. In January 1991, Mr. Mack was honored for his twenty-fifth anniversary with The Cleveland Orchestra and performed the world premiere of Ellen Taafe Zwilich's Oboe Concerto which was commissioned for the occasion. John Mack delivered the address and received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree in 1992 at the CIM's sixty-seventh commencement exercises.

January 22: Behind the Scenes - Preparing Pianos for Performance

Jeff Krill is a 1981 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He became CIM's first full-time piano technician in 1986, having apprenticed with Mr. Matthias Barth, former long-time piano technician for the Juilliard School of Music. He and his staff maintain CIM's 178 pianos - of which 164 are Steinways. Jeff has also been the piano technician for The Cleveland Orchestra, tuning for almost every pianist who has performed at Severance Hall in the last 17 years. Jeff lives in Moreland Hills with his wife, Ardis, and their daughter, Natalie.

Acclaimed for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique, pianist Emanuel Ax is one of today's best-known and most highly regarded musicians. He first captured public attention in 1974 when, at age 25, he won the first Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Five years later he took the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in New York. Emauel Ax visits Europe regularly and has performed with the Berlin, Stockholm and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras as well as solo and chamber recitals in London. He has also performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and Pierre Boulez, playing in Brussels, Salzburg, Lucerne and Edinburgh. Other recent European appearances have included the DSO Berlin, Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de France, a European tour with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington under Leonard Slatkin and recitals in Milan, Cologne and Birmingham. Having premiered John Adams' new concerto, Century Rolls with The Cleveland Orchestra in September 1997, Emanuel Ax performed it during the 1998 with the Royal Concertgebouw, Gothenburg and London Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Ax is in demand all over the United States, both in recital and with orchestras, regularly performing in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Saint Louis. In addition, he makes regular festival appearances at Aspen, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Mainly Mozart, Ravinia and Tanglewood. Emanuel Ax is a particular supporter of 20th century composers and has givin three world premieres in the last few seasons; Century Rolls by John Adams, Seeing by Christopher Rouse and Red Silk Dance by Bright Sheng. Devoted to chamber music literature, Emanuel Ax regularly performs duo recitals with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Their recordings together have earned three Grammy Awards. He also received a Grammy Award for his Brahms Trio recording with Ma and Richard Stolzman. Ax regularly plays quartets with Isaac Stern, Jamie Laredo and Yo-Yo Ma. They have recorded works by Brahms, Faure, Beethoven, Schumann and Mozart for Sony. Emanuel Ax was born in Lvov, Poland, and began to study the piano at the age of six in Warsaw. When the family moved to North America in 1961 he continued his studies at the Julliard School under Mieczylas Munz. He lives in New York with his wife, the pianist Yoko Nazaki, and their two children.

January 29: Making a Recording - the Artist's Point of View

Yolanda Kondonassis is head of the Harp Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, appointed to the faculty in 1997. Ms. Kondonassis received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1986 and Master of Music degree in 1989 from CIM, where she studied with Alice Chalifoux. She has performed extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and Far East, including solo engagements with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and Houston Symphony, among numerous others. Other appearances include Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y and Taiwan's National Concert Hall. Honors include first prize, Ima Hogg Competition and Naftzger Competition; top prizes, Maria Korchinska International Harp Competition and Affiliate Artists National Auditions; winner, Darius Milhaud Prize; and recipient of two solo recitalist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ms. Kondonassis has spent four summers at Marlboro Music Festival and has done chamber music collaborations with members of the Alban Berg, Guarneri, Vermeer, and Shanghai String Quartets. Ms. Kondonassis has been featured on CNN and PBS Television, as well as National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and "All Things Considered." She has made ten solo recordings on the Telarc label and done additional recordings for Channel Classics and New World. Exclusive international management: ICM Artists, Ltd., New York. Her arrangements, editions, and compositions are published by Carl Fischer, Theodore Presser and Lyon and Healy (BMI). Ms. Kondonassis is also a member of Oberlin College faculty.

Jason Vieaux is head of the Cleveland Institute of Music Guitar Department, the youngest department head in CIM history. He has also been affiliated with Philadelphia-based Astral Artistic Services since 1996. Mr. Vieaux already has seven recordings to his credit; Vieaux CDs have been given high praise by Gramophone, American Record Guide, and Penguin Guide. His latest Azica Records release, Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz, reached #2 on the Amazon.com Classical Bestseller List last summer, and was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2003 by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Plain Dealer (Cleveland). Since NPR's "Performance Today" program selected him as a 2002 Young Artist-in-Residence, Vieaux has been regularly aired on the top-rated show. He has also been featured on other NPR programs, such as "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Jason Vieaux began guitar studies at age eight in Buffalo, New York. In 1992 he became the youngest First Prize winner in the history of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. He is a Naumburg International Guitar Competition prize winner and a recipient of CIM's Alumni Achievement Award. In 1995 Mr. Vieaux was honored as an Artistic Ambassador of the U.S. to Southeast Asia. He has also toured Spain, France, Mexico, Canada and New Zealand. Mr. Vieaux is regularly featured with orchestras across the U.S., and has performed concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Astral Chamber Orchestra, and the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra, among many others. An active performer of new music, Vieaux has premiered works by José Luis Merlin, Eric Sessler, Arthur Hernandez and Fazil Say.

February 5: The Art of Collaborative Piano

Warren Jones frequently performs with many of today's best-known artists, including Barbara Bonney, Ruth Ann Swenson, James Morris, John Relyea and Joseph Alessi. In the past, he has partnered with great singers such as Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle and Carol Vaness. He has often been a guest artist at Carnegie Hall and in Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series, as well as the festivals of Tanglewood, Ravinia and Caramoor. His international travels have taken him to recitals all over the world, including Milan's Teatro alla Scala, the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence, the Teatro Fenice in Venice, Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Opéra Bastille, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Mr. Jones has been invited three times to the White House by American presidents and to the U.S. Supreme Court to perform at concerts. Recent seasons have included his debut with the New York Philharmonic, performances with the Brentano Quartet and an invitation to teach a master class at The Juilliard School. Mr. Jones' recording of Copland and Ives songs with Mr. Ramey for Decca/Argo was also nominated for a Grammy Award; and he can be seen on the best-selling Deutsche Grammophon video/laser disc of his Metropolitan Museum of Art concert with Kathleen Battle. Mr. Jones is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and also teaches and performs at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California each summer. Mr. Jones is a prominent musical jurist, having been a judge for the Walter Naumberg Foundation Awards, the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Artists Association International Fine Arts Competition and the American Council for the Arts.

Anita Pontremoli is the head of the Accompanying Department at CIM and a member of the conservatory piano faculty. A graduate of the Institute, she also studied piano literature and chamber music at the Yale University School of Music with Ward Davenny and at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, Italy. A frequent soloist and chamber music performer, Ms. Pontremoli has appeared in concert with such distinguished artists as Lynn Harrell, Aaron Rosand, Ransom Wilson, Dylana Jenson, Dale Clevenger, Robert Vernon, John Mack, David Cerone, Arnold Steinhardt, Gary Schocker, the Cavani Quartet, Scott St. John, and her husband, Lawrence Angell. Ms. Pontremoli and her sister, Terri, who comprise the violin-piano ensemble Duo Pontremoli, have recently released their first CD on the Centaur label with worldwide distribution. In addition to her conservatory and performance career, Ms. Pontremoli has participated in many music festivals here and abroad. In 1997 she resumed her position as Director of Students of the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she appeared as guest artist in solo and chamber music performances. Ms. Pontremoli is head of collaborative piano at the ENCORE School for Strings, where she performs and acts as coordinator between student and faculty soloists, chamber musicians and a staff of five pianists. She has just released the first in a series of CDs featuring the complete works of Federico Mompou. "Impresiones Intimas," on the Centaur label, has been hailed by the composer's wife, Carmen Bravo, as "excellent musicality and sound with profound sensitivity." The CD is available through Borders Books, Joseph Beth Booksellers and in the CIM Music Store. She has devoted considerable time to research and performance of music by women composers, and has given world premiere performances of contemporary music in New York's Carnegie Hall and across the United States.

February 12: On the Cutting Edge - Cellist Zuill Bailey

Cellist Zuill Bailey is an active chamber musician and recitalist, performing frequently with many orchestras across the U.S. and abroad. Recent appearances include the opening night of the San Francisco Symphony's summer series, performances with the Utah Symphony, Symphony of the West Valley, Reno Chamber, Arlington, Annapolis, Napa Valley, and National Orchestra de Cuba. Bailey also presents recitals and chamber music at the Ravinia Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts (MI), Australian Festival of Chamber Music, WITF Festival (PA), Musica Saint Nazaire-Festival Consonanses (FRANCE), as well as venues all across the U.S. In addition, Mr. Bailey has been featured on SIRIUS Satellite Radio and BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" program in live broadcasts; XM Radio's "Live from Studio II;" a showcase on A&E's "Breakfast with the Arts;" and appearances as a murderous cellist on the hit HBO Television series "OZ."

Mr. Bailey is a well-known guest at major venues such as the Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, Kravis Center in Palm Beach, the Lied Centers, and Wolf Trap. His debut recital CD was released on the Delos label, followed by an ASV recording of the Korngold Cello Concerto and a disc of Brahms, Debussy and Lasser sonatas from STIL Editions.

A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School, Mr. Bailey's principal teachers include Loran Stephenson, Stephen Kates and Joel Krosnick. He performs on a 1693 Matteo Goffriller, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet. He currently resides in Texas with his artist wife Margarita Cabrera and son Mateo, where he is leading the El Paso Pro Musica Chamber Festival and Series as Artistic Director.

February 19: Acoustics and Architecture

Charles T. Young is principal of Charles T. Young Architects, based in New York and San Francisco. The firm, founded in 1983, specializes in architectural design for performing arts facilities, and has designed several major projects, including a new opera house for Sao Paulo, Brazil. Formerly, Mr. Young was associate partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where he collaborated on the planning, design and construction of such projects as the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and the Performing Arts Center of the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Paul Scarbrough is an acoustics design professional with more than 18 years of experience. During his consulting career with Jaffe Holden Scarbrough Acoustics, Paul was the principal designer and/or project manager for the renovations to Severance Hall for The Cleveland Orchestra, the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center and the New Amsterdam and New Victory Theaters on Broadway. Other project credits include the design of the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall, which opened to rave reviews in September 2001; the Inventure Place Museum in Akron, Ohio; and the Schuster Center for the Performing Arts in Dayton Ohio. He is currently working with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Paul has worked with many leading orchestras in the United States, including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, to name just a few. He has also forged successful working relationships with many prominent architects in North America and around the world, including David M. Schwarz, Polshek Partnership Architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Hodgetts+ Fung and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. Paul has focused attention on several specialized areas within acoustics, including orchestra stages. He has been involved in extensive studies to better understand how musicians hear on stage. His work resulted in advances that were incorporated into the designs for Severance Hall and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. He also consulted on the design of new accommodations for existing pipe organs in both of these venues. In January of last year, Paul was selected by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra to lead the Akustiks team in designing a new 1900-seat concert hall. As a first step in the design process, he joined representatives of the Symphony on a recent tour of notable European concert halls. Since starting Akustiks with his partners, Paul has also completed designs for a new stage for the Indianapolis Symphony. Paul studied architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has served as a faculty member at the 1999 Tanglewood Summer Institute of the Acoustical Society and as a guest critic at Yale's graduate school of architecture. He holds memberships in the Acoustical Society of America and Britain's Institute of Acoustics.

February 26: Playing Injured

Dr. Richard Lederman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1960 and graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966 with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. His subsequent training included two years of internal medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in New York, two years of research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and three years of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Since 1973, he has been a member of the Department of Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His academic appointments include Assistant Clinical professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Lederman has been active in the field of performing arts medicine for more than 25 years. He founded and serves as Director of the Cleveland Clinic Medical Center for Performing Artists, was the co-director of the Annual Symposium on Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers at Aspen, CO from 1984 through 1995, and is a past-president of the Performing Arts Medicine Association. He is also an avid chamber musician, having played violin for more than 55 years (and viola for about 7).

Dr. Anthony Badalamenti is a 1989 graduate of Logan Chiropractic College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology. While at Logan, he received the Presidential Award for Service. He holds certificates from the National Board of Chiropractors, Northwestern in Occupational Health, Logan in Clinical, Acupuncture and Southeast Back Institute. He is a certified consultant for Future Industrial Tech in Occupational Health, and is an Instructor for the Red Cross "Protect Your Back" program. Dr. Badalamenti is very active in his community. He has served with the Aurora Kiwanis for 10 years and is past lieutenant governor. He is a member of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce and an eight-year board member with two terms as past president. His specialty is the treatment of occupational disease. He has also worked closely with the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve School of Dance.

March 5: The String's the Thing: the Bow Makes the Difference

David Cerone has been president of the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1985, where he holds the Mary Elizabeth Callahan President's Chair. He serves as a juror for many prominent national and international violin competitions and presents master classes around the world. An active chamber musician, he toured extensively with the Canterbury Trio from 1984 to 1989, under Columbia Management. He was a Director of the Meadowmount School of Music and member of its faculty for 19 summers. Mr. Cerone is a board member of University Circle, Inc. and the Avery Fisher Artist Program. He is an Auxiliary Director of the International Board of the Suzuki Association. He was Professor of Violin at Oberlin Conservatory (1962 to 1971), Chairman of the String Department and Kulas Professor at CIM (1971 to 1981), and a member of the violin faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music (1975 to 1985; head of violin department 1981 to 1985). Mr. Cerone's extremely popular recordings of the Suzuki Violin Method Books I through IV have been reissued by Warner/Chapell. He recently presented a series of master classes, lectures and a recital for the Talent Education Research Institute's Teachers Convention in Hamamatsu, Japan, the first foreigner to address this illustrious group. Mr. Cerone is a regular performer in the St. Bart's Music Festival each January.

Rodney D. Mohr graduated from the Kenneth Warren & Son School of Violin Making in 1982. After graduation, Rodney worked for John Norwood Lee. In 1985, he and his wife Ann set up their own shop, Mohr & Mohr, where he primarily does bow making along with restoration. Rodney has taught at the Oberlin Restoration Workshop and North Bennet Street School. He has earned two gold medals from the Violin Society of America and many certificates for workmanship. Rodney is a member of the Violin Society of America and the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers. His most resent venture is a new shop in collaboration with Tarry Carlin in Cleveland, Ohio.

March 1: How to Secure that Orchestra Job

Robert Vernon is serving in his 29th season as principal viola of The Cleveland Orchestra. He is also chairman of the viola department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Vernon has performed at most of this country's major chamber music festivals, including Aspen, Blossom, La Jolla, Marlboro, Ravinia, Roundtop, Sarasota, Tanglewood and Yellow Barn. Mr. Vernon has appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in more than 100 concerts throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the teaching faculties of Kent/Blossom, the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland, and the New World Symphony in Miami. As a soloist, Mr. Vernon has recorded the Berlioz "Harold in Italy," Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, and Richard Strauss' Don Quixote. In November 2000, he recorded the Schoenfield Viola Concerto with the Berlin Radio Orchestra, a work commissioned in 1998 by the Musical Arts Association for Mr. Vernon and The Cleveland Orchestra. Former students hold positions as chamber musicians, teachers and as players in major orchestras, including the Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Houston, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto (to date, more than 50 different orchestras). Mr. Vernon's solo and chamber music recordings appear on Telarc, Innova and Decca/London.

March 19: The Recording Industry Today

Bruce Egre is head of the Audio Recording department at CIM, appointed to the faculty in 2003. He received his bachelor's of Music Education from Northwestern University in 1982 and studied classical guitar and audio recording at CIM from 1985-1987. He is President and Chief Recording Engineer of Azica Records, a Cleveland-based record company specializing in classical, jazz and Latin music; and is a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University in audio recording. Mr. Egre is the Recording Engineer for The Cleveland Orchestra broadcast service at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center and the Cleveland Museum of Art Department of Musical Arts. He is an active freelance recording engineer, working on projects for numerous record companies. Mr. Egre is a current member of the Audio Engineering Society and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

March 26: A Tribute to Karl Haas

Robert Conrad is the President and Co-Founder of WCLV-FM, Cleveland's 24-hour-a-day classical music station and WRMR, the area's big band station. . He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1989 and is Adjunct Professor of Broadcasting. Mr. Conrad is a graduate of Northwestern University and it the recipient of honorary doctorates from CIM, Baldwin-Wallace College and Oberlin College. He is the producer and commentator for The Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcasts and host of the national broadcast series, Weekend Radio, heard on 125 outlets. Previously Mr. Conrad was the former program manager for WDTM, Detroit, Operations Manager for WFMT, Chicago and Program Director of WEAW AM/FM, Evanston., Illinois. He is a member of the Board and Past President of the Concert Music Broadcasters Association and Past Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland City Club. Mr. Conrad has appeared as narrator with The Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony, Ashland Symphony and CIM Orchestra, among others. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland School of the Arts and the Rainey Institute. In 1982, Mr. Conrad was named Classical Program Director of the Year by Billboard Magazine. More recently he was named to the City Club Hall of Fame, 2000, received Award of Achievement from the Cleveland Association of Broadcasters, 2001 and received Life Time Achievement Award from March of Dimes AIR Awards, 2001.

In 1950, Karl Haas began his broadcasting career hosting a weekly preview of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts on WWJ, Detroit. In 1959, Adventures in Good Music was born when WJR, Detroit, offered him the prime-time morning hour of 10:00 to create a one-hour program of classical music and commentary. For two decades it was Detroit's number one program in its time period. In 1970, WCLV and Mr. Haas teamed up to produce and distribute his programs to radio stations, world wide. Mr. Haas received many awards including two George Foster Peabody Awards and the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award. In 1997, he was the first classical personality to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Most recently, in 2000, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fine Arts Radio International Awards presented by Missouri Southern State University. His book Inside Music was published by Doubleday in 1984. It is currently in its 10th reprinting. From 1993 to 1995, Haas and WCLV produced and released three best-selling compact discs - The Romantic Piano, Story of the Bells, and Song and Dance.

April 9: Roundtable Discussion with people who seem to be of the demographic to attend all kinds of cultural events, but are not regular attendees or consumers of classical music

2005 Discographies

2005 Photos

From the March 19th show - Bruce Egre from Azica, host Mary Peckham, and Jack Renner from Telarc

From the March 19th show - Jack Renner from Telarc, Bruce Egre from Azica and Alan Bise, Offbeat producer

From the February 19th show - Host Merry Peckham and Paul Scarbrough from Akustiks, who will be working with CIM on its expansion project

2006 Schedule

2006 Discography

Prokofiev: "Montagues and Capulets" from Suite from the Ballet Romeo and Juliet
  CIM Symphony Orchestra, Live Concert (1/31/01)
  Carl Topilow, conductor

Saint-Saens: "The Swan" from The Carnival of the Animals
  Jacqueline du Prι, cello (EMI 7243 5 65955 2 1)

Ravel: String Quartet, Mvmt 2: Assiz Vif – Tres rhythmι
  Cavani String Quartet (Azica ACD-71202)

Bartok: String Quartet #4, Mvmt. 4: Allegro Molto
  Cavani String Quartet (Azica ACD-71202)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47, Mvmt. 3: Allegro, ma non tanto
  Itzhak Perlman, violin
  Boston Symphony Orchestra: Eric Leinsdorf, conductor
  (RCA 09026-68338-2)

Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36, last movement
  Chu-Fang Huang, piano (live performance from 2005 CIPC - 8/3/05)

Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 135   Chu-Fang Huang, piano (live performance from 2005 CIPC – 7/29/05)

Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, slow movement   Chu-Fang Huang, piano (live performance from 2005 CIPC – 8/1/05)

Chopin: Etude in A flat Major   Chu-Fang Huang, piano (live performance from 2005 CIPC – 8/1/05)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #2, last movement   Chu-Fang Huang, piano
  The Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, conductor
  (live performance from 2005 CIPC – 8/6/05)

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005, Largo
  Judith Ingolfsson, violin (Catalpa Classics 30101)

Gregorian Chant: Kyrie from the Mass for Christmas Day
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Leonin: Organum duplum on alleluia
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Dunstable: Quam pulchra es
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Palestrina: Et ascendit from Pope Marcellus Mass
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Le Jeune: Revecy Venir du Printans
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Monteverdi: Orfeo (excerpt)
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Legrenzi: Trio Sonata, "La Rasponsa" (excerpt)
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Corelli: Trio Sonata in D major, Op. 3 No. 2 (excerpt)
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Bach: closing chorale from Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf"
  (Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music A26639 PN10142)

Mozart: Symmphony in D, K. 32, 4th movement (exerpt)
  The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, continuo
  (L’oiseau-Lyre 417 140-2 (Decca))

Mozart: Symphony No. 27 in G Major, K. 199, 1st movement
  Prague Chamber Orchestra: Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor
  (Telarc CD-80186)

Mozart: Variations on "Ah, vous drai-je, Maman", K. 265 (excerpt)
  Ingrid Haebler, piano
  (Phillips 422 726-2)

Mozart: Variations on "Ah, vous drai-je, Maman", K. 265 (g minor excerpt)
  Ingrid Haebler, piano
  (Phillips 422 726-2)

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Mvmt. 1 (5 excerpts)
  The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
  (Norton Recordings/Sony Special Music Products A8A 24931)

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Mvmt. 1 (complete)
  The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conductor
  (Norton Recordings/Sony Special Music Products A8A 24931)

2007 Schedule

2007 Discography

January 6 - The Legendary Menaham Pressler

January 13 - All the World's a Stage with David Bamberger

January 20 - And the Beat Goes On... the world of percussion with Richard Weiner

January 27 - Mitsuko Uchida – Her Music and Philosophy

February 10 - Great Pipes with organist Todd Wilson

February 24 - Life inside a Conservatory

March 3 - On the Road with the Cavani String Quartet

March 10 - Toot Your Own Horn with Michael Sachs

March 17 - A Whole World of Music at our Fingertips

March 24 - Paul O'Dette

March 31 - Kids are Classic

Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Maj. D 898: 2. Andante Pocco Mosso
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 412-520

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces, Book 1 op.12
"The Arietta"
MGM E3106 LP

Felix Mendelsohnn
Piano Trio in d minor, Op 49. Opening Movement
Warner 61492

Antonin Dvorak
Piano Trio in e minor, Op 90, 4. Andante Moderato "Dumky"
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 454-249

Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio in B, Op 8: Scherzo
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 416-838

Gioacchino Rossini
Barber of Seville - Cavatina: Largo Al Factotum
Placido Domingo, Claudio Abbado & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Deutsche Grammophon 437-841

Wolfgang Mozart
Le Nozze de Figaro K 492: Voi Che Sapete
Cecilia Bartoli, Gyorgy Fischer & Vienna Chamber Orchestra
London 430-513

Carl Orff
Carmina Burana : Circa Mea Pectora
Sherrill Milnes, Seiji Ozawa & The Boston Symphony Orchestra
New England Conservatory Chorus & Children's Chorus
RCA/BMG 63590

Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme: Che Gelinda Manina
Pavarotti, Herbert Von Karajan & The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
London 417-011

Wolfgang Mozart
Idomeneo: Overture
Neville Marriner & The Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
EMI 47014

Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Va Pensiero, Chorus of the Hebrew slaves
Robert Shaw & The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Telarc 80333

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: La Donna e Mobile
Roberto Alagna, Richard Armstrong & The London Philharmonic
EMI 55477

Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria Von Weber
2nd Movement –Turandot Scherzo
Cleveland Orchestra/Szell
Sony 53250

Zoltan Kodaly
Hary Janos – Vienesse Clock Music
Cleveland Orchestra/Szell
CBS 38627

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet – Tybalt's Death
Cleveland Orchestra/Lorin Maazel
London 417-510

Richard Strauss (excerpt)
Ein Heldenleben – 4th Mvmt.- Des Helden Walstatt
The Cleveland Orchestra/Von Dohnanyi
London 436-444

Bela Bartok (excerpt)
Music for strings, percussion & celesta – 3rd Mvmt - Adagio
The Cleveland Orchestra/Von Dohnanyi
London 443-173

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 –2nd Mvmt., Allegro
The Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph Von Dohnanyi
London 430844

George Gershwin
Porgy & Bess – Introduction to Act I
Cleveland Orchestra/Lorin Maazel
London 414-559

Mozart – Sonata for Piano & Violin in e minor, K 304: 2. Tempo di Menuetto Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg Philips B0004115

Mozart – Sonata for Piano & Violin in A Maj, K 526 – the Andante Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg Philips B0004115

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major K 488 – Adagio (in f sharp minor) Mitsuko Uchida with the English Chamber Orchestra led by Jeffery Tate Philips 475-7306

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat Major, K 482 – 2. Andante Mitsuko Uchida with the English Chamber Orchestra led by Jeffery Tate Philips 420-187 Performed December 15, 1785 at a concert given by the Lodge Zur Gekronten Hoffnung

Arnold Shoenberg Concerto for Piano, Op. 42 – 2. Molto Allegro Mitsuko Uchida with the Cleveland Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez Philips 468-0033

J.S. Bach (arrangement of Vivaldi)
Concerto in a minor, BWV 593: 1. allegro
George Ritchie –Organ
Raven Oak 470

John Philip Sousa
The Washington Post March
Todd Wilson – Organ
Jav Recordings 149

Marcel Dupre
Variations on an Old Carol, Op 20
Todd Wilson – Organ
Musical Arts Association TCO11009

Edward Elgar
Salut d'Amor, Op 12
Todd Wilson – Organ, Rachel Wilson – Cello

Peter Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Todd Wilson – Organ
Musical Arts Association TCO11009

Leo Sowerby
Come Autumn Time
Todd Wilson – Organ
Musical Arts Association TCO51201

Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 – Scherzo
Cleveland Quartet
Telarc 80178

Peter Tchaikovsky
None But the Lonely Heart
Roberto Diaz, Viola/Robert Koenig, Piano
Naxos 557391

J.S. Bach
Partita in d minor: The Corrente
Uto Ughi Violinist
RCA - ASIN B00000E603

Wolfgang Mozart
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra: 3. Movement
Berlin Philharmonic led by Violinist Itzhak Perlman
EMI 57418

Puccini
O Mio Caro Bambino
Joshua Bell violinist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Michael Stern
Sony 87894

Largo from the sonata in G minor, Opus 65
Jacqueline Du Pre, cello/Daniel Barenboim, Piano
EMI 68132
Du Pre plays a cello by Sergio Peresson – 3:56

J.S. Bach
Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006, the Prelude
Hilary Hahn Violinist
Sony 62793

Claude Debussy – Sacred and Profance Dances
Alice Chalifoux harpist with The Cleveland Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez
CBS 45620

Dmitry Shostakovich – Suite form the The Gadfly, Op 97a: Contredanse
Theodore Kuchar leads the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine
Naxos 553299

Claude Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis
Telarc 80622

Ludwig Von Beethoven – Trio in Eb Major, Op 38: 5. Scherzo – Allegro Molto e Vivace
New Arts Trio
Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd. 57931

Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: 1. Promenade
The Cleveland Orchestra led by Christoph Von Dohnanyi
Teldec 77600

Samuel Scheidt – Galliard Battaglia
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass B0008457-02

Claude Debussy – Sacred and Profance Dances
Alice Chalifoux harpist with The Cleveland Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez
CBS 45620

Dmitry Shostakovich – Suite form the The Gadfly, Op 97a: Contredanse
Theodore Kuchar leads the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine
Naxos 553299

Claude Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis
Telarc 80622

Ludwig Von Beethoven – Trio in Eb Major, Op 38: 5. Scherzo – Allegro Molto e Vivace
New Arts Trio
Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd. 57931

Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: 1. Promenade
The Cleveland Orchestra led by Christoph Von Dohnanyi
Teldec 77600

Samuel Scheidt – Galliard Battaglia
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass B0008457-02

Shostakovich
String Quartet in F# Minor, OP 108, Allegretto
Cavani String Quartet
Azica 71208

Ravel
Quartet in F Major - Vif et Agite
Cavani String Quartet
Azica 71202

Dvorak
Quartet in F Major, Op 96 "American" - Molto Vivace
Cavani String Quartet
Azica 71203

Brahms
Quatet No. 3, Op. 67 - Agitato
Cavani String Quartet
Azica 71216

Schumann Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op 41, No. 1 - Scherzo Cavani String Quartet Azica 71203

Igor Stravinsky
Petruchka – Ballerina's Dance and Waltz
Cleveland Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez
Deutsche Grammaphon 435-769

F.J. Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major 1. Allegro
CIM Orchestra led by Carl Topilow, Michael Sachs – Trumpet
CIM Recording September 18, 1991

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14: 4. March au Supplice
Cleveland Orchestra led by Christoph Von Dohnanyi
London 430-201

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in d minor: Scherzo
Cleveland Orchestra led by Christoph Von Dohnanyi
London 425-405

Igor Stravinsky
Rite of Spring: Ritual Dance
Cleveland Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez
CBS 42395

Giacomo Puccini – Turandot: Nessum Dorma
David Liebman – Virtuoso Saxophone and his Band (which includes JH)
Arkadia Jazz 70144

Daniel Kellogg – Divinum Mysterium: Prelude, III. Light
Eighth Blackbird
Cedille Records 90000076

Foday Musa Suso – Tilliboyo
Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch 79275

Sergio Assad – Andalucia
Nadja Solerno Sonnenberg – Violin, Sergio and Odair Assad – Guitar,
Jamey Haddad – percussion
Nonesuch 79505

Osvaldo Golijov – Ayre: Un Madre Comio Asado "The Lamentations of Jeremia"
Dawn Upshaw – Soprano with The Andalucian Dogs
Deutsche Grammophon B0004782

Jaco do Bandolim (Arranged by J. Calandrelli) – Doce de Coco
Yo Yo Ma – Cello, Romero Lubambo – Guitar, Paquito D'Rivera – Clarinet
Sony 89935

"Early Italian Renaissance Lute Music"
Marco da L'Aquila – La Traditora #3
Dolcissma et Amorosa"
Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi 907043

"Robin Hood: Elizabethian Ballad Settings"
Anonymous – Trenchmore
Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi 907265

"Spanish Dances"
Galeria de Amor & Buelta -16th Century Italian Dance
Andrew Lawrence King and His Harp Consort, Paul O'dette – Lute
DHM 77340

"Complete Lute Works, Volume 1"
John Dowland – My Ladies Riches Galyerd
Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi 907160

J.S. Bach – Violin Concerto BWV 1064: 3. Allegro
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra led by Thomas Hengelbrock
DHM 77289

"Sylvia McNair, The Echoing Air"
Henry Purcell – Lead Me to some Peaceful Gloom
Paul O'Dette and Sylvia McNair
The Academy of Ancient Music Led by Christopher Hogwood
Philips 446-081

Daniel Bacheler – Galliard 27
Paul O'Dette on 8 Course Lute
Harmonia Mundi 907389

Johann Georg Conradi – Ariadne Overture
Paul O'Dette leading the Boston Early Music Festival
CPO 777-073

Henryk Wieniawski
Scherzo Tarentelle
Itzhak Perlman, Violin and Samuel Sanders, Piano
EMI Classics ASIN: B0007OS7YA

Wolfgang Mozart
Requiem in d Minor – Lacrimosa
Franz Welser-Most leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
EMI 74746

Jules Massenet
Thais – The Meditation
James Judd leading the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Weber cellist
London Decca B0002334

Ludwig Von Beethoven
Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 3 in A, Opus 69: The Scherzo
Lynn Harrell on cello, Vladimir Ashkenazy on Piano
London Decca 417-628

George Frederick Handel
Water Music in D: The Hornpipe
Neville Marriner leading the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
London Decca 458-333

J.S. Bach - Double Violin Concerto in d minor - The Vivace
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchus Zuckerman on Violin with the English Chamber Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim.
EMI 62602

Edvard Grieg
Nocturne No. 4, Opus 59 from his Lyric Pieces
Emil Gilels
Deutsche Grammophon 449-721

Johann Sebastian Bach
Minuet No. 2
David Cerone
Warner Brothers 87487-596

Sergei Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf – The Bird
Jeanne Baxtresser
Summit Records 159

2007 Biographies

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Offbeat host Merry Peckham is a founding member of the Cavani Quartet, whose numerous awards and prizes include the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Cleveland Quartet Competition, ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming, and the Governor's Prize from the Governor of Ohio. As a soloist, Ms. Peckham has made many guest artist appearances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. She was a prize winner in numerous competitions including the National Federation of Music Clubs, in which she received the top prize in cello and in overall string categories. Ms. Peckham received her Bachelor of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University, her master's in Music Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, and did additional studies at The Ohio State University and Yale University. Her major teachers and mentors include Janos Starker, Gary Hoffman, Aldo Parisot, Paul Katz and Peter Salaff. She has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including appearances at the Corcoran Gallery and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, Festival L'Epau in France, the Ijsbreker Series in Amsterdam, and several engagements at Carnegie Recital Hall and Lincoln Center in New York. Ms. Peckham has adjudicated and served as panelist for national arts-advocate organizations, such as Chamber Music America, the American Cello Congress and the American String Teachers Association. She is currently on the cello and chamber music faculties at the Cleveland Institute of Music and performs and teaches during the summer at the Perlman Music Program and ENCORE School for Strings.

January 6
Menahem Pressler is founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio. His world renowned career was launched after he was awarded first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946. This was followed by his successful American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Eugene Ormandy. Since then, Pressler has performed with the orchestras of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Helsinki and many others. The 1955 Berkshire Music Festival saw Menahem Pressler's debut as a chamber musician, where he appeared as pianist with the Beaux Arts Trio. His other chamber music collaborations have included multiple performances with the Juilliard, Emerson, Guarneri and Cleveland Quartets as well as the Israel Quartet and the Pasquier String Trio. In that same year, Pressler began his association with the music school at Indiana University where today he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Music. He was awarded the Service Award by Chamber Music America in 1994. Professor Pressler has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Gramaphone Magazine in London, and the German Critics "Ehrenurkunde" award in recognition for 40 years of being the standard by which chamber music is measured. In addition to over fifty recordings with the Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler has compiled over thirty solo recordings, ranging from the works of Bach to Ben Haim.

January 13
David Bamberger, Artistic Director of CIM Opera Theater, has staged more than 150 productions on three continents in styles from grand opera to musicals. A founder of Cleveland Opera, he was the company's General Director from 1976 to 2004, building it into one of America's major regional opera companies. He secured The Three Tenors in Concert to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. At the insistence of Jerome Robbins, Mr. Bamberger staged the dialogue scenes for West Side Story, thus gaining permission for Cleveland Opera to be the only opera company in the Western hemisphere permitted to re-create Robbins' original choreography. Mr. Bamberger's work from coast to coast ranges from The Barber of Seville at Lincoln Center (New York City Opera) to The Ballad of Baby Doe (Los Angeles Music Center), with such stars as Roberta Peters, Beverly Sills and Sherrill Milnes. For Santiago, Chile, he staged Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor and, for the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, La Bohème and La Cenerentola. In 1990, he represented the opera industry before Congress, testifying in a successful effort to garner support for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has served on the Board of Directors of OPERA America and of the National Alliance for Musical Theater, of which he was a founder. His many honors include the Ohio Governor's Award for Arts Administration and doctorates from Swarthmore College (his alma mater), Cleveland State University and CIM. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2004.

January 20
Richard Weiner, Co-Head of Timpani and Percussion Department, Director of CIM Percussion Ensemble, has been principal percussionist of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1968; he has been a member of the Orchestra since 1963. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University, a Master of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University, and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Cleveland State University. He is a student of Charles Owen and George Gaber, and was the first percussionist to receive the Performer's Certificate from Indiana University. Previous faculty appointments include the Settlement Music School of Philadelphia, Combs College of Music, Philadelphia Musical Academy, Philadelphia Board of Education and Oberlin College. A member of the Aspen Festival Orchestra, 1962, and Chautauqua Summer Symphony, 1964, he is also contributing editor to the Symphonic Percussion column of Percussive Notes, the official publication of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a percussion clinician and a faculty member of the National Orchestra Institute. He also served as a seminar participant at the New World Symphony and has been soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and various contemporary music organizations. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1963.

January 27
Mitsuko Uchida, born December 20, 1948 is a classical pianist. Born in a seaside town close to Tokyo, Japan, Uchida moved to Vienna, Austria when she was twelve with her diplomat parents, and she enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Music to study with Wilhelm Kempff and Stefan Askenase. In 1969 she won the first prize in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna and in 1970 the second prize in the Chopin Competition. Then in 1975, she won second prize in the prestigious Leeds Piano Competition. She is an acclaimed interpreter of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy. She has recorded all of Mozart's piano sonatas and concerti with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Tate. She is also distinguished as an interpreter of the works of the Second Viennese School. She is featured with Dame Felicity Lott in the 2005-06 season of the Cleveland Orchestra. She is an Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival, along with fellow pianist Richard Goode. Uchida currently resides in London, with partner Robert Cooper, a respected UK Diplomat.

February 3
Margaret Brouwer, Head of Composition Department, Director of CIM New Music Ensemble, Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition, has received a 2006 Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a 2005 Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship; a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship; the 2003 Ohioana Music Citation; the 1999 Cleveland Arts Prize in composition; and grants from the NEA, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Meet the Composer, Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission. Aurolucent Circles, a CD of Dr. Brouwer's orchestral music featuring Evelyn Glennie, solo percussion, and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Gerard Schwarz conducting, was released by Naxos in January 2006. Light, a CD of her chamber music, was released in November 2003 by New World Records and Crosswinds, another CD of her chamber music, was released in June 1999 by CRI. Premieres in 2005-2006 included Trio for the Verdehr Trio; Quintet for String Quartet and Clarinet, premiered by Dan Silver, clarinet, and the Cavani String Quartet; and Declarations, premiered by Lucy Shelton. She was selected to compose the Ohio Bicentennial commissioned work, premiered by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in February 2003. Other recent premieres include her percussion concerto, Aurolucent Circles, by Evelyn Glennie and Gerard Schwarz with the Seattle Symphony in 2002 and Pulse by the Roanoke Symphony in 2003. Her Light was performed at the Tanglewood Music Festival in August 2005 and Skyriding at the Contemporary Music Forum in Washington, D.C. in February 2005. In 2004-05, the Cavani String Quartet toured the U.S. performing Dr. Brouwer's Demeter Prelude and Crosswinds. Recent residencies have included Indiana University and the University of Missouri/Kansas City. Dr. Brouwer received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College-Conservatory, a Master of Music degree from Michigan State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Donald Erb, Harvey Solberger, Frederick Fox and George Crumb. She has completed residencies at the Wellesley Composers Conference, MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Charles Ives Center for American Music. Her music is published exclusively by Carl Fischer and recorded on the Naxos, New World, CRI, Crystal, Centaur and Opus One labels. Dr. Brouwer's music has also been performed by such musicians and ensembles as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Richard Stoltzman; the Orchestra of St. Luke's Second Helping Series; ISCM at Merkin Hall; and the Seattle, Saint Louis, Roanoke, Long Beach, Canton, Akron, and Wichita Symphonies. Her Web site is brouwermusic.com. Dr. Brouwer was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1996.

Febuary 3
Dan Visconti is a composer of concert music who has been influenced by America's contemporary vernacular as much as its shared classical heritage. Drawing freely from the rough expressive language of rock, the textural and formal experimentation of the electronic underground, and the poignant clarity of Tin Pan Alley songcraft, Visconti's music has been praised for its "youthful, inventive energy" as well as its "exciting and risky effectiveness." His work has been recognized with awards from BMI and ASCAP, the American Music Center, and the Barlow Endowment, and has been championed by such ensembles as the Corigliano Quartet, Antares, Brave New Works, and the Kronos Quartet.

February 10
Todd Wilson, Head of Organ Department, received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He pursued further study with Russell Saunders at Eastman School of Music. Director of music/organist at the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, he was also winner of the French Grand Prix de Chartres and U.S. Fort Wayne competitions. He holds Fellow and Choirmaster certificates from the American Guild of Organists, and was a featured performer at 1996 Centennial Convention of the Guild in New York City. He was formerly the organist and master of the choristers at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York. He has given recitals throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including orchestral appearances with the Atlanta Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic (Florida), the Calgary Philharmonic, the City of London Sinfonia and the Fort Worth Symphony. He has released numerous CDs on the DELOS and JAV labels, and was appointed organ curator for The Cleveland Orchestra in 2001. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1990.

March 3
Cavani String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence, was winner of the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award. The Quartet has been described by The Washington Post as "completely engrossing, powerful and elegant." In addition to receiving the Naumburg Award, the Cavani Quartet has been a top prize winner in numerous competitions including the Coleman, Fischoff, Banff International and Cleveland Quartet Competitions. Since their New York debut in 1987, they have won the hearts of audiences across the country with their soulful and riveting performances. In 2005, the Quartet was the first recipient of the Guarneri String Quartet Residency Award from Chamber Music America. The Quartet concertizes regularly on major series and festivals throughout North America and Europe. Appearances include the Carnegie Hall Centennial Series and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam, and Festival de L'Epau in France. The Austin American-Statesman wrote of their Bartók quartet cycle, "As a group, the quartet played as one, forcefully, confidently, yet passionately. Its full, brightly illuminated sound complemented solo playing as well, without sacrificing each player's individuality." The Cavani Quartet has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today and seen on NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS television. Collaborations with distinguished artists include Itzhak Perlman, Michela Petri, Anton Nel, Benita Valente, Alisa Weilerstein, Charles Neidich and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Ying and Emerson String Quartets. At CIM, the Quartet has developed the Apprentice Quartet Program, Intensive Quartet Seminar and New Quartet Project for students devoted to the serious study of chamber music. Students from these programs have gone on to successful careers as members of the Maia, Biava, Miró, Cypress and Fry Street Quartets and have been top prize winners of the Coleman, Fischoff, Banff, and Naumburg Competitions. Dedicated and dynamic teachers, the Cavani Quartet has been visiting artists at Interlochen Arts Camp, Madeline Island Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, Britt Arts Training Program and Allegheny Summer Music Festival. This year, the Cavani Quartet returns to perform and teach at the Perlman Music Program and the ENCORE School for Strings. Active proponents of new music, the Cavani Quartet has commissioned, performed, and recorded the music of a worldwide array of living composers, including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Dan Welcher, Joan Tower, Donald Erb, James Primosch, and Margaret Brouwer. The Quartet annually programs world premieres and is a recipient of an ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. Nationally recognized as pioneers in arts-in-education, the Cavani Quartet is sought after by universities and communities for their ability to cultivate community partnerships. The quartet has developed creative outreach programs for a wide variety of settings and for audiences of all ages including a series of children's concerts for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Cavani Quartet has also collaborated with artists across disciplines to create programs that unite poetry, painting, theatre and dance with the string quartet medium. As a result of their extensive experience in chamber music education, the Cavani Quartet was invited to participate as a leadership ensemble in the first national Chamber Music Educator/Ensemble Seminar sponsored by Chamber Music America. Formed in 1984, the Cavani Quartet is named after the 19th century violin makers Giovanni and Vincenzo Cavani. Recordings of Bartók, Ravel, Dvořák, Schumann, Brahms, Welcher, Erb, Chausson, Brouwer and Primosch are available on the Azica, Gasparo, New World, Albany, and Pantheon labels. The Cavani Quartet was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1988.

March 10
Michael Sachs, Head of Trumpet Department, Chairman of Brass Division, has been principal trumpet of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1988. His numerous solo performances with The Cleveland Orchestra include the world premiere performances of John Williams' Concerto for Trumpet and the U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Requiem. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from The University of California at Los Angeles; additional studies were undertaken at The Juilliard School of Music. Mr. Sachs' teachers include Mark Gould, Anthony Plog and James Stamp. He was formerly fourth/utility trumpet with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In Houston, he performed with the Houston Grand Opera and taught at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. In New York, Mr. Sachs has performed with many groups, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York Chamber Symphony, and Speculum Musicae. He has served as a faculty member of the Grand Tetons Music Festival, Summit Brass, Aspen Music Festival, Blekinge International Brass Academy (Karlskrona, Sweden), Masterclass Internacional para Instrumentos de Metal (Lisbon, Portugal), and as principal trumpet/instructor in the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall in 1994. Mr. Sachs is the author of Daily Fundamentals for the Trumpet and Mahler: Symphonic Works complete trumpet parts, both published by International Music Co. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1988.

March 17
Jamey Haddad, regarded as one of the foremost world music and jazz percussionists in the U.S., is an associate professor at Boston's Berklee School of Music and New England Conservatory. Having just returned from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music U.S. tour, Mr. Haddad collaborates regularly with Paul Simon, Osvaldo Golijov, Elliot Goldenthal, Brazil's Assad Brothers, Daniel Schnyder, Joe Lovano, Simon Shaheen, The Paul Winter Consort, Nancy Wilson, Dave Liebman, Nguyen Lee, Trichy Sankaran, vocalist Betty Buckley, Steve Shehan, among others. Jamey is the recipient of three NEA Performance Grants and a Fulbright Fellowship. He can also be heard on more than 150 recordings and routinely has articles published internationally relating to the experiences of the contemporary world musician. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2005.