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Alumni & Student Newsupdated May 24, 2012 If you are an alumnus/a and have news you wish included in the newsletter PRISM, send news now online. Where are you? We would like to update our records. Please send in your notes about what you’re doing, in work and in life. Complete this form with your news. Student News: click here. ALUMNI NEWSJohn Allegar (MM '09) has been appointed organist and assistant director of music and fine arts at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, IN. (Posted May 24, 2012) Dashon Burton (MM '11) took first place in the prestigious Oratorio Society of New York competition on April 14, 2012. He will also be participating in the Leipzig Bach Competition this summer. (Posted April 16, 2012) An article by Karen L. Mulder (MAR '97), From the Lines of Life: Guy Chase and the Art of the (Extra)Ordinary, appears in the Winter 2011 issue of Image: Art, Faith, Mystery. (Posted April 10, 2012) Rebecca Rosenbaum (M.M. ’99, M.M.A. ’01, D.M.A. ’07), music director of the Elm City Girls’ Choir and the United Girls’ Choir, was profiled in the December issue of INK magazine, together with her partner Thomas Brand, the founder and artistic director. The Elm City Girls’ Choir has performed with Schola and Camerata, and draws its members from the United Girls’ Choir, which has chapters throughout southern Connecticut and is expanding each year. (Posted February 24, 2012) John Boatner (UTS ‘69), in moving from Tennessee to Washington State, reconnected with Abraham Kaplan, former teacher of choral conducting at Union Seminary. Kaplan called Boatner and invited him to lunch (which, as Boatner reported, was to have been his prerogative). The pair’s luncheon lasted for two hours, after which the distinguished conductor picked up the tab. Boatner reports that Kaplan, at about eighty years old now, is slowing down somewhat phsyically, but the two enjoyed their splendid reunion and hoped to share their walk down memory lane. (Posted February 24, 2012) Organist and Institute of Sacred Music graduate Jeffrey Smith received an honorary fellowship diploma from the Guild of Church Musicians on Monday, January 16, 2012. He is one of the first two Americans to receive a top music award from the London-based Guild of Church Musicians, a professional organization based in Great Britain that is similar to the American Guild of Organists. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams presented Smith the diploma during an Evensong at the Queen’s Chapel, Marlborough Road, at St. James Palace. Smith received his MMA in 1988 and his DMA in 1994 from the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music. He has served at Episcopal cathedrals in Indianapolis, San Francisco and Lexington, Ky., as well as at St. Paul’s Episcopal Parish in Washington, D.C. (Posted January 18, 2012) Patrick Dupré Quigley (MM '02), the former student of Marguerite L. Brooks, and founding artistic director of Seraphic Fire, a national “All Star” ensemble of professional singers, has received Grammy Nominations in two categories for two different projects. The awards will be announced in February 2012. For the recording of the Brahms Requiem, nominated in the category “Best Choral Performance,” Seraphic Fire was joined by the Professional Choral Institute and pianists Scott Allen Jarret and Justin Blackwell. Among the vocal soloists was baritone Paul Max Tipton (MM '10). A Seraphic Fire Christmas, a collection of traditional Christmas carols and music heard at King’s College, Cambridge, was nominated in the “Best Small Ensemble Performance” category. More info here.(Dec. 1, 2011)
An anthem by Zachary Wadsworth, an alum of Yale Schola Cantorum (2005-2007), was the winning entry in its category of the King James Bible Composition Awards, organized by the King James Bible Trust. Entitled Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind, the piece was performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, directed by James O'Donnell, during a service of celebration to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, November 16th, which was attended by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. (posted November 21, 2011)
Christian Lane (MM '08), a graduate of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, won the Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) this past weekend. In addition to cash prize, the award includes a three-year management contract with Karen McFarlane Artists, a CD recording with ATMA Classique, and career management and coaching from the CIOC. Lane says of his accomplishment, “The Canadian International Organ Competition has been quickly propelled into the top tier of music-making and artist support in our profession. I am humbled and delighted by the opportunity to represent this organisation in the coming years." Click here for the full story. (posted November 7, 2011) Donna Dixon Ervin (UTS ‘71) has served congregations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland during her career as a church organist/ director. She retired from St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Annapolis, MD on January 1, 2010, where she was Minister of Music. She is currently the (part-time) Senior Organist at Pasadena United Methodist Church in Pasadena, MD. She also teaches privately and at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD and at Prince George’s Community College in Landover. She directs the Singers Madrigale of Annapolis, a community vocal ensemble featuring Renaissance and Colonial music. (posted November 21, 2011)
Daneille Tumminio (MDiv '06, STM '08) appeared on the October 23 episode of the show "Sister Wives." She will also be on the show on November 13th. (posted October 31, 2011) Patrick Dupre Quigley (MM '00) was awarded the Louis Botto Award for Entrepreneurial Zeal by Chorus America this past June for his work with professional choir Seraphic Fire. Seraphic Fire released a new recording in April, "Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem," which debuted at #7 on the Billboard Classical charts. Seraphic Fire, founded by Quigley, celebrates its 10th Anniversary Season this year. (posted October 17, 2011) After 18 years of serving as co-pastor at Tabor Lutheran Church in Branford, Marjo Anderson (MDiv, '80) has accepted a call as pastor to Salem Lutheran Church in Bridgeport. While she will be the only pastor on staff, she will be working with a full-time rostered Associate in Ministry who has been at Salem for over 30 years - and that person just happens to be one of her classmates at the ISM, Liz Frohrip (MM '79, MAR '80)! The two alumnae are looking forward their reunion and to an exciting partnership in ministry. (posted February 17, 2011) Dianne Bilyak (MAR ’06) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and beginning in September 2011, excerpts of her interviews with poets about writing and spirituality will appear as a series on the Poetry Society of America's website. Her poems and interviews have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Memoir, Freshwater, Drunken Boat, and Tampa Review. Her book of poems, Against the Turning, just published by the Amherst Writers and Artists Press, is available at amazon.com. (posted Sept. 18, 2011) Philip Corbett (STM '04) has completed three years as Assistant Curate in the parish of Worksop Priory (Nottinghamshire, England). In September he will take up the post of Priest Librarian and Chaplain at Pusey House in the University of Oxford. "If any ISM-ers from my time at Yale find themselves in Oxford be sure to look me up!" (posted September 12, 2011) Rachael Elliott (YSM'00) has released a recording of Tawnie Olson's "À mon seul désir" on her critically praised new CD, "Polka the Elk." Rachael is performing Olson's work at several US locations on her CD-release tour, including the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center (Oct. 27 at 8 pm). http://www.bassoonproject.org/ On Sept. 28 in Halifax, NS, Stacie Dunlop and Krista Vincent premièred Olson's setting of Baudelaire's "Le Revenant" for soprano and piano. "Le Revenant" was commissioned by Ms. Dunlop for inclusion in "Rêve doux-amer/Bittersweet Dream," a program of staged songs setting poetry from "Les Fleurs du mal." The program will be repeated in Newfoundland and Toronto in January and February 2012. http://www.staciedunlop.com On Oct. 30, the choir of Trinity Wall Street, New York, will sing Olson's "Circuire Possum" at Compline. http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/ Matthew Haugen (MAR '07) recently began a new position as a cataloger for the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University and the rare collections of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary. (posted September 12, 2011) Andrew Henderson (MM ’01) is assistant organist at Congregation Emanu-El, New York, NY. He will assist the Organist & Choirmaster, K. Scott Warren, with Shabbat, Holy Day and festival services, working with the professional Temple Emanu-El choir in what is the largest Jewish house of worship in the world. Andrew is entering his seventh year as Director of Music & Organist at New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, and continues as organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and as an adjunct assistant professor at Westminster Choir College, where he teaches graduate-level courses in organ literature. His first solo CD, “Andrew Henderson at St. John’s, Elora,” was released last year: www.andrewhenderson.net. (posted June 20, 2011) Matthew Kustenbauder (MDiv '06) received a Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements for his article “Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape,” published in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 13, no. 1 (August 2009). He is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in History at Harvard University. (posted February 17, 2011) Colin Lynch (MM '06) has been appointed Assistant Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square in Boston. This past March, he led the St. Paul's School Madrigal Singers and String Ensemble on tour to Cuba where their concerts were televised nationally and were filled to capacity. They also spent time visiting Cuban Schools for musical exchanges. This spring, Colin will complete an Artist Diploma at Oberlin Conservatory, having studied with James David Christie and Olivier Latry. (posted April 29, 2011)
Bass baritone Douglas Williams (MM '06) has recently received critical acclaim for his roles in Handel's Acis and Galatea, Monteverdi's Ballo della Ingrate, and Gretry’s Le Magnifique. The New York Times writes of his performance in Acis and Galatea, "But the most powerful singer here was Douglas Williams, a bass-baritone with a superb sense of drama. His portrayal painted Polyphemus as monstrous, yet also a bit pathetic (at least until he kills Acis).” In the next season he will make his European stage debut in the role of Orcone in Alessandro Scarlatti's IL TIGRANE, with Opèra de Nice. (posted April 29, 2011)
STUDENT NEWSFive of the 21 musicians selected for the American Guild of Organists' National Young Artists Competititon in Organ Performance are graduates or current students of the Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music. Samuel Backman is enrolled currently and expects to graduate this year. Kyle Babin and Jason Roberts are class of 2004, and were also competitors this summer in the St. Albans International Organ Competition. Adam Pajan and HyeHyung Sung graduated in 2009 and are pursuing the DMA at Oklahoma University and the University of Houston, respectively. Yale students represent the largest single successful applicant pool for the NYACOP this year. (posted August 31, 2011) Frank Dodd (MM '12, organ) developed and led a Music Camp for children in grades 2 through 8, which took place at Christ Episcopal Church in Guilford, CT during the week of August 22. From 9 to noon each morning, students developed basic skills in singing, music theory, and teamwork. Beginning with rote singing, the students learned short songs and rounds. By the end of the week the students had acquired enough skills in music theory to enable them to successfully sing from a printed score. Also, daily in-house recitals provided the students with an environment to learn and practice proper concert etiquette. Jessica Petrus (MM '12, soprano in the Voxtet) was one of the featured recitalists during the week. The average attendance each day was 25 children. These children came not only from the congregation of Christ Episcopal Church, but also from the wider Guilford community. (posted September 12, 2011) The Theodicy Jazz Collective, founded by Andrew Barnett (MDiv ’12) and Justin Haaheim (MDiv ‘10), played live on WNPR's Where We Live Thursday 4/21 9-9:30. They additionally led Holy Week services at a number of churches throughout Connecticut and New York. For Easter Sunday they were at St. Paul and St. James church in New Haven. Since becoming the first Connecticut Episcopal church to offer jazz every Sunday, donations to the multicultural and multiracial church have doubled. More information is at theodicyjazz.com. (posted April 29, 2011)
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