Department of Music : Faculty News

Susan Borwick

- Presenter on pilgrimage, the arts, and five world's religions, and session facilitator, at the Parliament of the World's Religions (Dec. 2009, Melbourne, Australia).

- Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service (Sept. 2009) and 2009-2010 Teaching Innovation Award (April 2010) from the Teaching and Learning Center, Wake Forest.

 - During 2009 and 2010, performers of her original compositions include Vox Femina (Los Angeles, CA); Women's Voices (Chapel Hill, NC); the New York Honors All-State Chorus, the California All-State Honors Chorus, the University of Florida Women's Chorale, the 50th-anniversary American Choral Directors Association national convention (Oklahoma City, OK).

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

- Faculty: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2008

- Mini-residency: University of North Florida, including two solo recitals
of music by John Cage and Morton Feldman, February 2009.

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

- presented a paper dealing with the music of 20th century composers Arnold Schoenberg and Luigi Nono at a conference at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, Italy. His co-presenter was Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the daughter of Schoenberg and widow of Nono.

- 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.

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

- The Providence Singers' March 6, 2010 performance of Stirring the Silence reviewed by the Classical Voice of New England.

- Dance the Joy! reviewed in the September/October 2009 issue of Choir & Organ.

- Featured in the article "The Choral Music of AAM Member Dan Locklair: The First of a Series of Articles on His Music" by Marilyn Kaiser, S.M.D., in The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, Vol. 18, No. 9, November 2009.

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)