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Core faculty: Kyle Gann (director), James
Bagwell, Thurman Barker, Bob
Bielecki, Leon Botstein, Arthur
Burrows, Melvin Chen, The
Colorado Quartet (Diane Chaplin,
Marka Gustavsson, Deborah
Redding, and Julie Rosenfeld),
German Diez, John
Esposito, Joan Fuerstman, Luis
Garcia-Renart, Christopher Gibbs,
Frederick Hammond, Erica
Lindsay, Bari Mort, Patricia
Spencer, Richard Teitelbaum,
Joan Tower. Elective faculty: Ira Coleman, Gregory Dinger, Peter Einhorn, Larry Guy, John Monegan, Pamela Pentony, John Thomas; members of other divisions, for interdisciplinary projects |
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Kyle Gann
BACK TO TOP My favorite thing about Bard is that no one tells me what time of day to teach my classes. Of course this is a symptom of many other things: no one tells me not to teach unconventional subjects (like experimental tunings), no one tells us a concert has to take place indoors, no one says that student enthusiasms can’t change the direction of a course. Discipline is built-in in the background. But Bard allow us to be creative and develop historical and theoretical frameworks out of student interests. Assistant Professor of Music B.Mus., Oberlin Music Conservatory; M.Mus., D.Mus., Northwestern University. Taught at Bucknell University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, Brooklyn College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Publications include American Music in the 20th Century (1997); The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (1995); "Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic" in The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium; "The Outer Edge of Consonance: The Development of La Monte Young's Tuning Systems" in Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela (1996); “No Escape from Heaven: John Cage as Father Figure” in The Cambridge Companion to John Cage; numerous articles and reviews in Village Voice, Perspectives of New Music, Grove Dictionary of Music, Contemporary Music Review, New York Times, and others. Composer's fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1996-97). Bard College (1997-). 
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James Bagwell Bard College is an exciting place to be for both students and faculty. Soon we will have a wonderful new concert hall that will give our students even more opportunities to see and hear great music, opera, dance, and theatre. In addition our students benefit from the expertise of a wide range of faculty. At Bard our students work closely with world-renowned composers, pianists, singers, string players, and scholars. All of this happens in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, with New York City only a short train ride away. Bard College is the perfect place for the musician/scholar who wants it all. James Bagwell maintains an active schedule throughout the United States as a conductor of choral, operatic, and orchestral literature. He has received critical praise for his work as Music Director of Light Opera Oklahoma, and will return to Tulsa to conduct three new productions and two orchestral concerts with members of the Tulsa Philharmonic for the 2003 summer festival season. He has been Music Director of the May Festival Youth Chorus since 1997, preparing that chorus for performances with the Cincinnati Symphony as well as conducting that group at May Festival, Carolfest, and outreach concerts throughout the Cincinnati area. This past summer was his sixth season as director of choruses for the May Festival Summer Chorus during the Riverbend Music Series. From 1998-2000 he served as artistic director and conductor of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianapolis Chamber Singers, a professional ensemble he formed in 1999. In 2000-2001 he was appointed principal guest conductor for ISC. In August 2001, he was appointed artistic director and conductor of Cappella Festiva Orchestra and Chorus in New York. Active as a guest conductor, he was invited to return to conduct the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra in 2000 after his debut in December 1999. In August 2001 he conducted two concerts with the New York Virtuoso Singers at the Bard Festival in New York. In November 2002 he will appear with the Berkshire Bach Society Orchestra and Chorus, and will be preparing the New York Concert Singers for a performance with the American Symphony Orchestra. He recently formed the New York Repertory Singers who will make their New York debut in November 2002. In October 2002 he will conduct the premiere of Kyle Gann’s opera Cinderella’s Bad Magic in Moscow. James Bagwell has trained choruses for major American orchestras, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Asheville (NC) Symphony working with such notable conductors as Raymond Leppard, James Conlon, Christof Perick, Imre Pallo, Jésus López-Cobos, Erich Kunzel, Leon Fleischer and Robert Shaw. In 1999 he co-founded Voices United, a residential arts camp in Indianapolis for which he continues to serve as artistic director. He holds degrees from Birmingham-Southern College, Florida State University and Indiana University
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Thurman Barker
BACK TO TOP Students are encouraged to discover what they want to say in their work. Once discovered, then the student's work begins to reflect who they are and work becomes meaningful for the student and the professor. I like the idea that most if not all professors are active in their fields on and off campus. The size of our school is small, so everyone gets to know who everyone is. I like all these things about Bard. It’s special to me. " The AACM‚s equivalent of Philly Joe Jones... If his live sound is anything like his new record, it'll help clear the sugar. -- The Village Voice. "...Thurman Barker proved he's become one of the most astonishing, inventive drummers in jazz. He's that rare combination: a drummer of both raw muscle and fierce intelligence." -- The Boston Herald. "What a treat! Not only are drummer Rasheed Bakr and bassist Lisle Ellis in pianist Cecil Taylor's group -- also on stage, front and center is the remarkably brilliant and empathetic percussionist and marimba player Thurman Barker." -- San Francisco Examiner. "Barker's sound on traps is invitingly warm but filled with tension between an early buoyancy and a brooding, dark, blues drenched undercurrent...Barker created emotional nuance with displaced accents, sometimes funky and sexy, sometimes marching and proud." -- CODA Magazine. Thurman Barker began his professional career at the young age of 16 playing for blues singer Mighty Joe Young. Classically trained at the American Conservatory of Music his reputation as a drummer grew quickly. He has played backup for Billy Eckstein, Marvin Gaye, Bette Midler and Vicki Carr. He was the house drummer at the Schubert Theatre in Chicago for 10 years where he played for national touring companies in Hair, The Wiz, The Me Nobody Knows, Promises Promises, 1776, Bubblin Brown Sugar, Raisin in the Sun, Grease, One More Time and Ain't Misbehavin. Thurman Barker is a charter member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an organization with which he continues his association to this day. He has performed and is known worldwide. He has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Meyers, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Sam Rivers, Billy Bang, Joseph Jarman, Henry Threadgill. He has produced two recordings under his own record label, Uptee Productions. "The Way I Hear It" was released in January of '99 and his first album "Voyage" was just recently reissued in CD form in November '99. In 1994, his work "Dialogue," commissioned by the World Music Institute, was premiered at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. He was commissioned to do another piece in 1996 by the World Music Institute and has been commissioned twice by the Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra in Sullivan County, New York. The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra premiered two chamber pieces of his, "Time Factor" in May of '99. In the fall of '99, Mr. Barker was given the honor of lecturing at Smolney Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has taught and developed the jazz program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, since 1993 and is an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies there.
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Bob Bielecki
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Sound designer, specializing in the creative use of technology in the electronic arts; additional expertise as audio engineer, exhibition designer, electrical engineer, software developer, and artist/collaborator. Collaborated since mid 1970s with Laurie Anderson and La Monte Young on work including creation of unique instruments and interfaces used in performance installations. Current work in sound localization and imaging. Grants from Andy Warhol Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Bard College (1997-)
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Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein is the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra, founder and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival, as well as music director of the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra. Dr. Botstein, who is also editor of The Musical Quarterly, has written on music for The New Republic, l9th-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly, and Harper's. Since l975 Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College, where he is also the Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. BACK TO TOP |
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Arthur Burrows
BACK TO TOP One of the best things about Bard is the system of turorials giving students the opportunity of working one on one with professors. This plus our beautiful location on the Hudson River close to NY City makes Bard a great place to teach. Associate Professor of Theater and Music B.S., M.S., Juilliard School of Music. Artist-in-residence, City College of New York; assistant professor, Trenton State University; assistant professor, SUNY at Purchase; instructor, Stanford University; assistant professor of voice, Boston University. Recordings with Decca Gold Label Records; Member, Riverside Chamber Singers, Abbey Singers, New York Pro Musica;guest artist, Waverly Consort; guest performer, New York Philharmonic, Joffrey Ballet, New York Renaissance Band, Robert Shaw Chorale, Chautauqua Opera Company, others. Bard College (1980-).
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Diane Chaplin
A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Chaplin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, where she was a student of Cesare Pascarella, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Harvey Shapiro. She received a Special Prize from the International Cello Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile, and a Certificate from the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and has concertized throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Chaplin teaches a large class of private students in New York City, and is Administrative Director of both the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Quartet Institute, and the Bard College Quartet Institute. She has performed several times with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and has often appeared with the Flying Karamazov Brothers. She has been a member of the Colorado Quartet since 1988.
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Melvin Chen
I am very excited to be a part of the Bard community. Bard is a place where the creative spirit of faculty and students are nurtured to their fullest potential. With the imminent completion of the new Performing Arts Center, Bard will be the most vibrant institution for the arts in the Northeast. I look forward to many possibilities for teaching, performing, and learning that Bard offers. Melvin Chen is recognized as an important young artist, having received acclaim for performances throughout the United States and abroad. As a soloist and chamber musician Mr. Chen has performed at major venues in the United States, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Frick Collection, the Kennedy Center, Boston‚s Jordan Hall, in addition to other appearances throughout the country as well as in Canada and Asia. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Chen has collaborated with such artists as Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, David Shifrin, Robert White, Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley, and members of the St. Lawrence, Mendelssohn, Miami, Orion, Borromeo, and Arditti quartets. Mr. Chen was selected to be a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Chamber Music Society Two, where he appeared with members of the Chamber Music Society in performance and educational programs for two seasons. A performer in myriad music festivals, he has appeared at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Chautauqua, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Bard Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire, among others. Mr. Chen completed a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University, and also holds a double master's degree from the Juilliard School in piano and violin, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin and Glenn Dicterow, respectively. At Juilliard, he was the recipient of the U.S. Department of Education Jacob Javits Fellowship, as well as the William Petschek Piano Scholarship and the Ruth D. Rosenman Memorial Scholarship. Previously, he attended Yale University, receiving a B.S. in chemistry and physics. Upon graduation, he was awarded the New Prize by the fellows of Jonathan Edwards College. During his tenure at Yale, he studied with Boris Berman, Paul Kantor, and Ida Kavafian. He is a performer on Wynton Marsalis‚ series on music education, "Marsalis on Music", and can also be heard on Discover, Nices, and KBS label compact disks with violinist Juliette Kang. He is on the piano faculty of the Yale School of Music and is a visiting assistant professor at Bard College.
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Colorado
Quartet
At the forefront of the international music scene since winning both the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 1983, the COLORADO QUARTET enjoys a reputation for combining musical integrity, impassioned playing and lyrical finesse. Currently based in the New York City area, the Colorado Quartet appears regularly in major halls around the globe, and is the first all-female quartet to perform the complete Quartets of Beethoven in North America, as well as in Europe. Highlights of past years include tours of more than twenty countries, and regular appearances at venues such as Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The Quartet plays often in New York, appearing at the Mostly Mozart Festival, where they performed twenty Haydn Quartets over a two-year period, as well as in concerts on the Great Performers at Lincoln Center series and in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 1995, The Colorado Quartet commemorated the 50th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s death with the first complete performance of the Bartók String Quartets to take place in Philadelphia. The Quartet has been featured on radio and television worldwide, with numerous radio broadcasts in America, England, and Canada, and television programs in The Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico. Broadcast appearances in the United States include National Public Radio’s “St. Paul Sunday,” and “Penn and Teller’s Sin City Spectacular” on the FX television channel. The ensemble’s critically acclaimed CDs include an album of contemporary compositions on Albany Records and, on Parnassus Records, Brahms Quartets and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” with the F minor Mendelssohn Quartet. The Colorado Quartet’s recording “Chamber Music of Henry Cowell” on the Mode label appeared on the 1999 Top Five List in Gramophone Magazine. The Colorado Quartet is equally at home performing standard literature or newer works, and has premiered compositions by leading composers such as Ezra Laderman, Karel Husa, and Richard Wernick, as well as composers of the younger generation. They have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Foundation. The members of the Colorado Quartet are inspiring and well-respected teachers and hold the Quartet-in-Residence position at Bard College in New York State. www.coloradoquartet.com BACK TO TOP |
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German Diez
BACK TO TOP In my years of teaching at several educational institutions, I found Bard College to be an exceptional place. The faculty is very concerned with the development of the individual student, working as a team for this purpose. It is a privilege to be part of Bard in this unwavering commitment to society. Born in La Habana, Cuba. Winner of “The National Music Award Competition” for studies in foreign countries in 1945, German Diez was granted a personal scholarship by world famous Maestro Claudio Arrau and his assistant Rafael De Silva, to study in the United States for a period of 10 years. He also studied with Edward Steuermann, Carl Friedberg, student of Clara Schumann, and Schenker’s musical analysis with Ernst Oster. During this time he played concerts in the West Indies, Cuba, and the United States – appeared on radio, television and premiered several works by American composers in American musical festivals. Having been in the educational world since 1948, he taught many outstanding young pianists that became winners of prestigious piano competitions, like the “Chopin Piano Competition of USA”, Artist International, etc. German Diez participated in juries of many piano competitions, in Washington D.C., in New York, including the first “William Kapell” piano competition, the AMSA of Cincinnati, Ohio, the National Federation of Music 1990 and 1991, “The Governor’s Award”, New York City Public High School Piano Competition in 1993. Appointed to be in the National Screening Committee of the Fulbright Awards 1990-93. Greenwich House Music School established the “German Diez Piano Scholarship” in 1997 in honor of his work. Chairman of the piano department of Greenwich House Music School from 1969-present. Piano instruction at Bard College since 1975. Adjunct piano faculty at Suny Purchase, where he taught “Keyboard Literature” from 1980-1988. Visiting Professor in 1991 and adjunct faculty at Hunter College, and music faculty at Brooklyn College. Article-interview in Piano Today magazine on Music Education, about the musical legacy of Maestro Claudio Arrau (1997).
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John Esposito Pianist/Composer John Esposito has been active in a broad range of
improvisational music, having worked with artists Thurman Barker, Joe
Bowie, Nick Brignola, Ronnie Burrage, Baikida Carrol, Anthony Cox, Dave
Douglas, Dave Holland, Gene Jackson, Carter Jefferson, Joe Lovano, J.R.
Monterose, Eric Person, Arthur Rhames, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders,
and John Stubblefield, David "Fathead" Newman, among others.
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Joan Fuerstman
BACK TO TOP It is interesting to teach in a liberal arts college which brings together such a diverse group of multi-talented students and faculty. I particularly enjoy teaching classical voice to students who also have strong interests in other fields. Such students make great singers as well as great people. Mezzo-soprano Joan Fuerstman has performed extensively as a recitalist, opera singer and oratorio singer throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. Among her solo credits are performances with the New York Philharmonic, 92nd St. Y Chamber Orchestra, New York Choral Symphony, Back Aria Group. Among the conductors she has performed with are Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, Zubin Mehta, George Solti, Pierre Boulez, Robert Shaw, Colin Davis. Opera appearances include roles with the New York City Opera, The National Opera Company, Turnau Opera. As a performer of chamber music, she was soloist for several seasons with the New York Pro Musica and later with the Da Capo Chamber Players. Joan has performed numerous recitals in the New York area, including a Merkin Hall recital. She has performed recitals at many colleges including Bard College, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and several branches of the SUNY campuses. She has performed at many summer festivals, including the Bard Festival, Pepsico Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, Basically Bach Festival, and she was a founding member of the Summit Chamber Music Festival in upstate New York. She has made recordings with SONY, Columbia Records, Decca Gold Label and RCA. Joan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and a Masters' degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Richard Cox, Rose Bampton, Anna Hamlin and Arthur Burrows. Since 1996 she has served on the music faculty of Bard College, teaching voice and coaching opera and teaching courses in vocal repertoire. She is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and resides in New York City.
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Luis Garcia-Renart
BACK TO TOP I know that my ability as a musician, as a teacher and as a person is largely due to the type of growth that Bard has allowed me to enjoy. Teaching at Bard has exposed me to students at many levels of proficiency, from rank beginners to students with a more solid command of their instrumental and compositional abilities. This has kept me in close contact with the source of learning processes. Teaching involves many times undoing; bringing down walls of labeling, cultural prejudices, regional and time-period pre-conceptions and artificially imposed judgements and verdicts. For me music is a hands-on experience. The activity of music making is where it is at. What kind of music is only a matter of acquired taste. Professor of Music. Studied at the Music School of the National University, National Conservatory of Music of Mexico. Studies supervised by Pablo Casals: conservatories of Bern and Basel, Switzerland, and Trossingen, Germany; pupil of Sandor Veress and Sandor Vegh (1951-56). Studied directly under Pablo Casals (1956-60). Scholarship to study at Conservatory of Moscow with Rostropovich and Khachaturian (1960). Prizes include the Casals International Contest, Paris (1956), Xalapa (1959), Israel (1961); Harriet Cohen Cello Prize, London (1959). Toured in North and South America, Europe, the Soviet Union, and Israel. Taught at SUNY at Purchase; former music director and conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Member of International Cello Competition Jury; Renart Trio; music faculty of Vassar College. Taught master classes at Graduate School of Music of Yale University and Piatigorsky Seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Faculty, Yale University summer programs in chamber music. Music director and conductor of Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir and Orchestra (1977-2001); Music Director and Conductor, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. Bard College (1962-).
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Christopher H.
Gibbs
BACK TO TOP Christopher H. Gibbs is James H. Ottaway Jr. Visiting Professor of Music at Bard College for the 2002-03 academic year. He has taught for the past nine years at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he is coordinator of the musicology area. Gibbs received his B.A. from Haverford College and earned his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D at Columbia University. His thesis won the 1992 Dissertation Prize of the Austrian Cultural Institute. Gibbs edited The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (Cambridge University Press, 1997); his Life of Schubert (Cambridge University Press, 2000) has been translated into three languages. He received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1998 and during the 1999-2000 academic year was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. His current project is a book on Beethoven and Schubert and their connections in and around death. Gibbs writes for many scholarly and general interest publications, including 19th-Century Music, Schubert durch die Brille, Current Musicology, The Opera Quarterly, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Culturefront, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has also contributed to various anthologies and reference works, including the revised edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He regularly participates in international conferences in America, Canada, Germany, Austria, and England. As an active critic, program annotator, and lecturer, Gibbs works with many of the country's leading musical institutions. He was the musicological director for the final three years of the acclaimed Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and served as musicological adviser for the Schubert Festival at Carnegie Hall in 1997 and for the Bard Music Festival in 2000 and 2002. For the past three seasons, Gibbs has written the program notes for The Philadelphia Orchestra. He gives frequent pre-concert lectures for that orchestra, as well as for The New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Great Performers" at Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, and for other institutions. He has participated in radio programs broadcast on National Public Radio and Public Radio International and has written program notes for Carnegie Hall, The American Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and various record companies. During the summer, Gibbs serves as a music critic for The Chautauquan Daily.
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Marka Gustavsson
Ms. Gustavsson received her Bachelor's degree with High Distinction from Indiana University as a student of Joseph Gingold, her Master‚s degree from Mannes College under Felix Galimir and is currently a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York. She has appeared on the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society‚s "Meet the Music" series, in Avery Fisher Hall and Boston‚s Symphony Hall with the Brandenburg Ensemble, and as a member of the featured string quartet in the ABC documentary "Passion to Play." Internationally, she has performed in the Festival Presence de Ligeti in Paris, for the Queen of the Netherlands in Holland, and at Toru Takemitsu‚s memorial concert at Oji Hall in Tokyo. Ms. Gustavsson has worked with composers such as Martin Bresnick, Tan Dun, John Halle and Henri Dutilleux, and has served on the faculties of Hofstra University as a member of the Hofstra String Quartet and at the Kinhaven Music Festival. She has been in the Colorado Quartet since 1999.
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Frederick Hammond
BACK TO TOP For someone who combines musical performance, research scholarship, and teaching as I do, Bard is an ideal place. The President of the College is internationally distinguished in all three fields, and the faculty contains world-renowned teachers and practitioners of writing, musical composition and performance, the visual arts, theater and dance, history, and poetry, to name but a few. A new program in vocal music has opened the musical offerings at Bard into voice coaching, opera, and choral music for both student and community groups. New faculty members and new students are bringing new insights-an exciting time to be here. B.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Instructor, University of Chicago; assistant professor, Queens College, City University of New York; professor, University of California, Los Angeles. Fellowships: American Academy; Villa I Tatti; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venetian Studies. Former music director, Clarion Music Society. Author of two books on Girolamo Frescobaldi, Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome, and numerous articles. Coeditor, Ambiente Barocco, exhibition catalogue, Bard Graduate Center. Performances at the Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Center, Nakamichi Festival. Recordings on Nonesuch, ABC Westminster, Decca. Bard College (1989-). Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Music History.
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BACK TO TOP Though I am a new visiting professor at Bard College, it did not take long for me to be impressed by several things. I have found the students to be bright, well prepared, and highly motivated. They are also very friendly as are all the people on campus. There is a community feeling to the college that is invigorating and exciting. I look forward to the challenge and fun of working at Bard. Richard Harper, a multi-instrumentalist, has recorded on piano, trombone, baritone horn, and voice with artists such as Makanda Ken McIntyre, James Jabbo Ware, the Assai String Quartet, Jack Walrath, Miles Griffith, and Bill Laswell. Over the years he has been privileged to work with Frank Foster, Sam Rivers, Bill Barron, Diedre Murray, Carlos Garnet, Lena Horne, Smokey Robinson, the Jivin’ Lindy Hoppers, and many others. A musical director and composer as well, he has musical directed for the Charles Moore Dance Theater, Pepsi Bethel Authentic Jazz Dance and numerous original productions including Udu, You Don't Miss Your Water, and Ain't Misbehavin'. His compositions and arrangements have been featured Off-Broadway (Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz) and on television (Dance In America, City of Acapella). He is co-composer-arranger of Spiritual Journey, a musical that has successfully run at the Apollo Theater and, most recently, completed a reading of his new musical, Worksong. at the Tishman Audtiorium in New York. |
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Erica Lindsay
BACK TO TOP Bard is a great place to teach for one primary reason, the students.
Although students may come from very different cultural environments
most seem to share in common an inquiring and discerning mind, a good
sense of humor, a sharp intelligence and a willingness to see and do
things differently. They are more interested in challenging rather than
conforming, creating their own educational experience rather than having
it dictated to them. Their personalities are distinct, colorful and
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Bari Mort
BACK TO TOP Teaching at Bard has always been satisfying because of the interesting nature of the student body. I find that students at Bard are an ecclectic group with a variety of experiences and often have a unique perspective on things. This creates an atmosphere that is both inspirational and mutually beneficial. Students at Bard are interested in learning for it’s own sake and not simply about “getting an A.” Pianist, Bari Mort, as winner of the Artists International Young Musicians Auditions, made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Of that concert, New York Times critic Bernard Holland described her as a pianist who “uses her excellent musical instincts with taste and technical security.” He went on to comment on her “Big, generous ideas... pure phrasing” and “intense virtuosity.” B. Mort has performed many solo recitals and chamber music concerts in the United States. She is a member of the New York Chamber Ensemble and has appeared with the International String Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, American Symphony, Musica de Camera, and Phoenix Chamber Players among others. She has performed for the Bar Harbor Music Festival, Belleayre Music Festival, and Music at Caramoor. Her broadcast appearances include PBS television’s “Live from Lincoln Center”, Vision Cable Television, National Public Radio’s WNYC and WQXR in New York City and WKYV in San Francisco. She has toured the continental United States for Columbia Artists’ Community Concerts. An avid performer of twentieth-century music, she has recorded as soloist on a contemporary American music CD for ERM Records and as chamber musician on two releases for Albany Records. As a scholarship and fellowship student, she received her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from SUNY at Purchase. B. Mort is on the faculty of Bard College and resides in Manhattan.
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Deborah Redding
BACK TO TOP Born in New York City, Ms. Redding grew up in Colorado, founding the Quartet while a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from that institution, where she studied with Oswald Lehnert, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Szymon Goldberg. Ms. Redding has taught at the Adamant Chamber Music Workshop and lectured at the European Mozart Academy in Poland. A serious marathoner, she now runs ultra-marathons at distances of 50 to 100 miles, and raises scholarship money for the Soundfest Quartet Institute with pledges for her marathon running.
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Julie Rosenfeld
BACK TO TOP A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Rosenfeld received her training at the Curtis Institute, the University of Southern California and Yale University; her teachers have included Szymon Goldberg, Nathan Milstein and Yukiko Kamei. Ms. Rosenfeld has appeared as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe and has recorded two albums of French chamber music with André Previn. A member of the Colorado Quartet since 1982, she performs often with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Santa Fe and La Jolla Music Festivals. In 1992 she was the first female judge at the Banff International String Quartet competition, and in 1996 was artist-in-residence at both the Marlboro Music Festival and the European Mozart Academy in Poland.
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Patricia Spencer Bard students are imaginative, creative, and frequently outrageous.
Their high-spirited involvement in their own education makes it a pleasure
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Richard
L. Teitelbaum
BACK TO TOP Bard provides a very special atmosphere and environment in which to work. With the campus overlooking the majestic Hudson River, the beauty of the landscape is inspirational. The freedom and openness of the academic environment has allowed me to teach only subjects of interest to me, and courses of my own devising. The strong emphasis on the arts and creativity generally has provided support for my own work. The students and faculty are wonderful. All in all, I feel lucky to be here! Professor of Music B.A., Haverford College; M.M., School of Music, Yale University. Composer and performer, known principally for live electronic and interactive computer music composition. Performed his compositions in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Lisbon, Tokyo, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, elsewhere. A founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Curran, of Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome in 1966. Work in a variety of genres, including compositions for the Japanese shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama, pianists Aki Takahashi and Ursula Oppens, choral piece for twenty Japanese Buddhist monks, and multimedia works with Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, others. Recordings include Golem: An Interactive Opera; Live at Merkin Hall: Duets with Anthony Braxton, Music and Arts; Concerto Grosso; Run Some By You; and Cyberband. Recipient of numerous awards, including Prix Ars Electronica from Austrian Radio and Television (1987); commissions from the Venice Biennale, German Radio, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, Meet the Composer/NEA Commissioning Program, Rockefeller Foundation; Fulbright grants to Italy and Japan. Taught at Vassar College, California Institute of the Arts, Antioch College, and York University, Toronto. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Bard College (1988-).
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