Department of Music : Faculty News

Susan Borwick

- Articles and reviews appearing in Winter 2008/Spring 2009 issues of three professional journals: Society for American Music Bulletin (Jan.-Mar. 2009), on American pianist, guitarist/banjoist, singer, folklorist, scholar Almanac Singer, professor, composer, festival director, founder of fellowships, source name for a National Endowment for the Arts achievement award, National Medal of Arts recipient Bess Lomax Hawes;  Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music (Winter 2008), on contemporary Czech composer Olga Ježková;  Journal of the Society for American Music (Aug. 2009), on German-American ultramodernist composer, pianist, and teacher Johanna Beyer.

- Composition "And Ain't I A Woman!" read at the 50th-anniversary American Choral Directors Association national convention, Oklahoma City, OK, 4-6 March 2009, and performed by the California All-State Honors Choir, under the direction of Dr. Iris Levine, Cal State Poly at Pomona, 28 March 2009.  In December 2009, the composition will be performed by the New York All-State Choir, in Rochester, NY.

- Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service, September 2009.

Jacqui Carrasco

- Appointed a Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow for 2007-2010 by Wake Forest University.

- Classical chamber music performances with the Carolina Piano Trio throughout North Carolina and at Vanderbilt University, the Cassatt String Quartet at Hamilton College, Chamber Music at St. Peter's in Raleigh and Charlotte, NC, and others at Salem College, NCSA, Reynolda House and Old Salem in Winston-Salem.

- Jazz, avant-improv, and Argentine tango performances in Winston-Salem and New York City.

Stewart Carter

- Jon Reinhardt Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Awarded October 2007.

- Brass Scholarship in Review: Proceedings of the Historic Brass Society Conference, Cité de la Musique, Paris 1999. Ed. Stewart Carter. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon, 2006. The book includes an article by me as well: “Trombone Ensembles of the Moravian Brethren in America: New Avenues for Research," pp. 77-109.

- President, American Musical Instrument Society (term from 1 July 2007 through 30 June 2009).

Patricia Dixon

- Adjudicated the guitar competition at Apalachian State University guitar festival on March 11-14, 2008.

- Taught at the Fourth Encounter of Classical Guitar in Northern Patagonia at the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile, where 45 students attended from Chile and Argentina, April 26-30, 2009.

Louis Goldstein

- Solo recital: John Cage's /Sonatas and Interludes/
Other Arts Concert Series, Fort Worth, Texas, December 3, 2007

- Solo recital: Estel, Romig, Mosko, and Yannay
Music From Almost Yesterday Series, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 23, 2008

- Faculty: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
Sunday June 15 – Saturday June 21, 2008, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts

Brian Gorelick

- Producer and Conductor, Concert Choir Vienna Tour, May 2007, Concerts in Vienna, Eisenstadt, and Melk, Austria, First International Concert Tour of a Wake Forest Music Department Ensemble.

- Assistant to Dale Warland at American Masterpieces Choral Festival, June 2007, Seattle, Washington.

- Music Director and Conductor, Wake Forest Chorale, College-Community Choral Ensemble, 2000-2008.

David Hagy

- Guest Conductor, Omaha Area Youth Symphony Weekend Retreat, August 2009

- Will conduct Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and the Piedmont Dance Theatre, December 19 & 20, 2009, at Keppel Auditorium, Catawba College.

- Will conduct a program entitled "Visiting Vienna" including works by Strauss, Schoenberg, and Schubert, with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, January 30, 2010, at Keppel Auditorium, Catawba College.

Richard Heard

- Recital: High Point University, High Point, NC, February 13, 2008

- Semi Finalist: American Traditions Competition, Savannah, GA, March 15, 2008

- Soloist: Houston Choral Society, Houston TX, May 2, 2008

Peter Kairoff

- Piano Trio concert, with NCSA Professors K. Lawrence and B. Whitehouse, Brendle Recital hall, WFU.  Music of Beethoven Arensky and J. K. Pairne.  October 6, 2007.

- Guest Harpsichordist, Winston-Salem Symphony.  Continuo for Handel’s Messiah.  Three performances: December 13, December 14, December 16, 2007.

- Review of lastest CD, “American Character":  Journal for the Society of American Music (2007), vol 1, No. 3, pp 395-397 (“Peter Kairoff has done a real service to the listening public with this recording.  His playing is spirited….his rhythmic drive gives an irresistible sense of propulsion without sounding frenetic.  This recording is a revelation.”)

David Levy

- Chairman, SE Chapter of American Musicological Society (2008-10)

- Endowed Chair in Musicology, University of Alabama (January 19-23, 2009)

- Artistic/musicological advisor for forthcoming independent film, "Following the Ninth"

Kathy Levy

- Principal Flute, Winston-Salem Symphony

- Piccolo, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua, NY; summers

- Director, Christopher Giles and Lucille Harris Competitions in Musical Performance at WFU

Dan Locklair

- Premiere of new choral work, In the Sight of God, in October 2009, by the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City (John Scott, Director). The performance begins at ca. 51'00" in the webcast (second link below). The service also contains the Brief Mass and motet, Pater Noster. All of that, including a Music Note about the music (page 5), is contained in the leaflet.

http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/leaflet.html
http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/stream.html

- Principal Guest Composer for the 2008 Indiana State Contemporary Music Festival (Terra Haute, IN), in November 2008. This is oldest contemporary music festival in the country.

http://www.indstate.edu/music/cmf/CMF/Welcome.html


- Five new commercial CD's, including Dan Locklair : Symphony of Seasons, Slovak Radio Symphony, Lairs of Soundings,  (Kirk Trevor, conductor), In Memory-H.H.L., Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp, Phoenix and Again, Janeanne Houston, soprano, Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Naxos CD

Teresa Radomski

- Publication: L’isola disabitata (1831), a Salon Opera byManuel García (1775-1832) First Critical Edition, by Teresa Radomski and James Radomski
A-R Editions, Middleton, WI, 2006

- Publication: “Manuel García (1805-1906) – A Bicentenary Reflection”, AUSTRALIAN VOICE, December, 2005
www.australianacademicpress.com.au/publications/journals/Australian_Voice

 - Recording: Baroque Masters: Bach, Handel, Monteverdi & Vivaldi                  
with Carolina Baroque www.carolinabaroque.org recording of concert on May 2, 2008 (CB-127)