Focus on Piano Literature: Paris in the 1920s
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K. Porter Aichele
K. Porter
Aichele, Coordinator of Museum Studies at UNCG; Professor of Art History.
BA, MA, Vanderbilt University; PhD, Bryn Mawr. Recipient, UNCG 2005 Alumni
Teaching Excellence Award, 2004 Southeastern College Art Conference Teaching
Award. Active member, International Association of Word & Image Studies
(IAWIS), researching the reciprocity of verbal and visual languages in
the arts of early 20th-century Europe, particularly in Paul Klee; author,
Paul
Klee’s Pictorial Writing. Scholarly interest in private collections
within public institutions, notably the Cone Collection in UNCG’s
Weatherspoon Art Museum.
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Juan Pablo Andrade
Juan Pablo
Andrade, native of Costa Rica; top prizewinner in Costa Rican National Piano
Competition and Artlivre International Piano Competition,
Sao Paulo, Brazil; winner, National Prize of Music, Costa Rican Ministry
of Culture. Soloist and recitalist in US, Central and South America, and
Europe;
broadcasts in the US and Costa Rica. BM, University of Costa Rica; MM, Arizona
State University; Artist Diploma, Indiana University South Bend; pending
DMA, UNCG.
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Mary Ashley Barret
Mary
Ashley Barret, oboist, UNCG faculty since 1998. BM, Eastman School of Music;
MM,
Baylor University; DM with a certificate in the Pedagogy
of Theory, Florida State University. Member, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra,
principal oboe in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. Active soloist, recitalist,
chamber musician, and master class teacher throughout the US, Caribbean, New
Zealand and Australia. Hosted 2003 International Double Reed Society Conference.
Member, EastWind Trio d’Anches and Cascade Wind Quintet; recordings on
Centaur.
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Kelly Burke
Kelly
Burke, clarinet, UNCG faculty since 1989. Principal clarinetist, Greensboro
Symphony
Orchestra; bass clarinetist, Eastern Music Festival Orchestra.
Active
recitalist and soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, New
Zealand, Australia, and Russia. Chamber musician with Mallarmé Chamber
Players, East Wind Trio d’Anches, Middle Voices (clarinet, viola and
piano), and Cascade Wind Quintet. Wide-ranging discography on Centaur, Telarc,
Albany and
Arabesque. Recipient, UNCG’s Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the
School of Music Outstanding Teacher Award, Who’s Who Among America’s
Teachers, 2004 UNC Board of Governor’s Teaching Excellence Award. BM
and MM, Eastman School of Music; DMA, University of Michigan.
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Michael Burns
Michael
Burns, bassoon, UNCG faculty. BM, Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand; MM, New England Conservatory; DMA, University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Performances with Cincinnati
and New Zealand Symphonies; Principal in Midland/Odessa, Richmond and Abilene
Symphonies
and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Active solo and chamber performer throughout
North America and the South Pacific; member, EastWind Ensemble and the
Cascade Quintet. Recordings on Centaur, CAP, Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark.
Faculty,
Eastern Music Festival; Bands of America Summer Symposium. Active composer,
published by BOCAL Music. Co-host, IDRS 2003 Conference.
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Dalyn Cook
Dalyn Cook,
MM Early Keyboard Performance, UNCG; BM Piano, University of Kansas. Performance
studies with Andrew Willis, Jack Winerock. Assistant
to the Director, Focus on Piano Literature since 2004. Active collaborative
artist and presenter at several conferences. Faculty, Music Academy of
North Carolina.
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Anthony Cuda
Anthony Cuda,
Assistant Professor, UNCG English Department; courses in twentieth-century
transatlantic poetry and poetics; published articles on
T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney; poetry reviews in Washington Post
Book World, FIELD Magazine of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Author, The
Passions of Modernism, nearing completion; assistant editor, T. S. Eliot’s
Complete Prose, to be published in 7 volumes over the next 9 years.
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Ann Dils
Ann Dils, Associate
Professor, UNCG Department of Dance; courses in dance history, dance appreciation,
dance research and writing. Editor, Dance
Research Journal (2006-2008); co-editor of the collections Intersections:
Dance, Place, and Identity (2006) and Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A
Dance History
Reader (2001). Recent publications in the International Handbook of Arts
Education and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Current member, Women’s
and Gender Studies Coordinating Council at UNCG.
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James Douglass
James
Douglass, Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano, UNCG. DMA in Keyboard
Collaborative Arts, University of Southern California; BM, MM in piano
performance, University of Alabama. Former faculty member, Mississippi College,
Occidental
College, University of Southern California, Middle Tennessee State University.
Faculty, American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria. Active performer
of chamber music and vocal repertoire throughout the US and Europe.
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Deborah Egekvist
Deborah
Egekvist, flute, UNCG faculty. BM, Lawrence University; MM, Eastman School
of Music; DM, Florida State University. Active soloist and chamber musician
throughout the US, Germany, Canada, and the Asian South Pacific. Solo appearances
with Minnesota Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony, West Virginia Symphonette,
Aurora
Symphony, and Huntington Chamber Orchestra. Has performed as principal flute,
Huntington Chamber Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony, and EastWind Quintet.
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John Fadial
John
Fadial, Professor of Violin, UNCG. Concertmaster, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra;
active soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher throughout
the US, Europe, Central and South America; violinist of Chesapeake Piano
Trio
since 1997; premieres of works by Bolcom, Arthur Gottschalk; recordings on
Centaur. BM, North Carolina School of the Arts; MM, Eastman School of Music;
DMA, University of Maryland.
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William Goode
William Goode, graduate
of Washington and Lee University; studies at the Université de
Poitiers; PhD in French Literature, Duke University. Faculty, University
of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania; UNCG Department of Romance Languages
since 1974, teaching courses on the history of Paris in UNCG’s French,
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and Emeritus programs; emeritus since
2005.
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Kelly Carolyn Gordon
Kelly Carolyn Gordon, theatre
history and dramatic criticism, UNCG Theatre Department. PhD in theatre
history, with certificate in women’s studies,
University of Georgia; Master’s in directing, Emerson College; Undergraduate
studies, Ohio Wesleyan University and the City of London Polytechnic. Further
studies, La Mama’s International Symposium for Directors, Umbria, Italy;
Piven Theatre Workshop, Chicago; trained mediator. Writing published in Lighting
Dimensions, Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Dallas Morning News; granddaughter
of actor Eddie Bracken.
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Yong Im Lee
Yong Im Lee, DMA student
of Andrew Willis, UNCG. BM, Indiana University South Bend; MM, Longy School
of Music. Studied with Alexander Toradze, Alexander
Korsantia, Eileen Hutchins, and Sally Pinkas. Born in Seoul, Korea, now from
Chile. Recitals in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and the US; soloist
with orchestras in Chile and at IUSB; participant in international competitions
and Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclass in Israel.
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Elizabeth Loparits
Elizabeth
Loparits, native of Hungary, prizewinner, 1995 National Bartók
Piano Competition. Pending DMA, piano performance, UNCG as student of George
Kiorpes. Soloist and chamber musician in Hungary, Costa Rica, Austria, the
US. Faculty, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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John Salmon
John
Salmon, Professor of Piano, UNCG. DMA, University of Texas at Austin. Recordings
of Dave Brubeck
piano compositions (Phoenix, Naxos). Author, The
Piano Sonatas of Carl Loewe (Peter Lang). Jazz and classical concerts, festival
appearances, and radio broadcasts throughout the United States and Europe.
Articles in Piano Today, Piano & Keyboard, American Music Teacher.
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Paul Stewart
Paul
Stewart, Chair of the Keyboard Division, UNCG. DM, Florida State, MM, Illinois,
BM and BME, Indiana. Immediate Past President, Music Teachers National
Association. Frequent piano pedagogy workshops and recitals featuring Ragtime
piano music and related repertoire. Conference presentations at CMS, MTNA,
the Joplin Festival the European Piano Teachers Association, and the International
Society of Music Education. Piano soloist, North Carolina Symphony.
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Beth Vanderborgh
Beth Vanderborgh, principal
cellist of Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Winston-Salem Symphony, co-principal
of Carolina Chamber Symphony. Founding member, Stanislas
Sextet; prizewinner, Baltimore Chamber Awards, National Society of Arts and
Letters Cello Competition, Ulrich Solo Competition. Active soloist and chamber
musician in the US, Europe, Central and South America. Faculty, Guilford
College. BM, Manhattan School of Music; MM, Eastman School of Music; DMA,
University
of Maryland.
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Vincent van Gelder
Vincent van Gelder, piano studies at Latvian Academy of Music, Riga; BM, MM,
Conservatory of Hogeschool Enschede, Netherlands; MM, Southern Illinois University;
DMA, University of Missouri at Kansas City. Recitals in the Netherlands, Germany,
Latvia, and throughout the US; winner, 1999 St. Louis Artist Presentation Society
Auditions; 2007 winner, Artist International competition, including Carnegie
Hall debut, May 2008. Founder of Moore Music Recital Series, Greensboro. Recordings
on VINAR label.
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Andrew Willis
Andrew
Willis, Professor of Piano, UNCG. DMA, Cornell University; MM Temple University;
BM, Curtis
Institute of Music. Period-instrument recordings of
Beethoven piano sonatas and lieder programs with sopranos Julianne Baird
and Georgine Resick. Premiere recording of Martin Amlin Sonata No. 7, commissioned
for the 2000 Focus. Recital and concerto performances in the US and Europe.
Articles and reviews in Piano & Keyboard, MLA Notes, Early Keyboard Journal.
Past President, Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society.
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Inara Zandmane
Inara
Zandmane, Staff Accompanist, UNCG. DMA, University of Missouri at Kansas
City. Recitals throughout the United States, many Republics of former Soviet
Union. Soloist with the Latvian National Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony, others.
Participant in chamber music festivals in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Helsinki
(Finland), and Norrtelje (Sweden). Recordings for Conifer Classics, including
works of Latvian composer Peteris Vasks.
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