Recent Orchestral, Academic and Professional Appointments
Tanner Antonetti (MM ’16) – Second Trombone, Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Baker (former Master’s student) – Principal Bassoon, The Florida Orchestra
Andrew Buchanan (MM ’00) – Principal Timpani, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico
Tamer Edlebi (MM ’17) – Associate Principal Oboe, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Ian Hallas (BM ‘13) – Acting Principal Double Bass, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Tomasz Kowalczyk (MM ‘18) – Percussion, Sarasota Orchestra
Anthony Limoncelli (current Mater’s student) – Principal Trumpet, Sarasota Orchestra
Lin Ma (MM ’13) – Principal Clarinet, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C.
Zoë Miller (BM ’16) – Concertmaster, Miss Saigon National Tour Orchestra
Dylan Morrongiello (MM ’18) – Studio Artist, Florida Grand Opera’s 2018-19 season
Ansel Norris (current Master’s student) – Assistant Principal/Second Trumpet, Naples Philharmonic
Dominic Rotella (current Master’s student) – Principal Horn, Richmond Symphony Orchestra
Malorie Blake Shin (MM ’12) – Second Violin section (2018-19 season), National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C.
Jessica Sindell (former Master’s student) – Assistant Principal Flute, The Cleveland Orchestra
Tara Slough (BM ’12) – Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University
Andrew Staupe (DMA ‘16) – Artistic Director, Young Artist World Piano Festival
Alexa Thomson (MM ’18) – Community-Embedded Musician, Houston Symphony Orchestra
Pei-Ju Wu (MM ’07) – Principal Second Violin, Des Moines Metro Opera
Competitions, Awards, Performances and Premieres
Frederick Ballentine (MM ’14) made his U. K. debut singing Sportin’ Life in the English National Opera’s first staging of Porgy and Bess.
Current Master’s percussionist Joe Desotelle won the Keston/MAX London Symphony Fellowship. In January, he will perform with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Simon Rattle.
Dover String Quartet returns as the Kennedy Center’s new Quartet-in-Residence. In the first season of this three-year residency, the Dover’s will showcase a work by Kennedy Center’s Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates.
Singer Zanna Fredland (MM ’02) will perform in Pittsburgh CLO’s “A Musical Christmas Carol”.
Violinist Luke Hsu (BM ’12) won the bronze medal at the 10th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
The Chamber Music Society of Utica presented the Jasper String Quartet MM’08 (J. Freivogel and Sae Chonabayashi, violins; Samuel Quintal, viola; Rachel Henderson, cello), the Professional Quartet-in-Residence at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians.
Pianist Joseph Kingma (BM ’11, MM ’13) opened the 2018-19 St. James Concert season in Alexandria, LA with a recital of works by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Franz Liszt followed by the expressive and impassioned works of the French master, Claude Debussy.
Pianist Timothy Krippner (MM ’17) returned to perform at The Kalmia Garden’s Fall Farmhouse Concert.
Tenor Rafael Moras (MM ’14) will be a featured artist in The Santa Fe Opera’s 2018 Winter Tour.
Organist Daryl Robinson (MM ’14) performed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, co-sponsored by St. Paul’s Music & American Guild of Organists, Indianapolis Chapter.
Pianist Nicholas Ross (DMA ’02) opened for Sweet Briar College’s 2018-19 Janet Lowrey Community Concert Series.
Mezzo-soprano Carolyn Sproule (MM ’12) returned to her hometown to join the Opera de Montreal for the 2018-19 season to perform the role of Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Pianist Andrew Staupe (DMA ’16) launched the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2018-19 new Community Series.
Verona Quartet (Jonathan Ong, violin; Dorothy Ro, (MM ’14) violin; Abigail Rojansky, viola; Warren Hagerty, cello) returned to the Luneburg Academy of Music Performance to teach a one-day chamber music academy and perform two concerts.
Current composition student Nicholas Yamamoto was named Emerging Composer Fellow for Musiqa’s 2018-2019 season. He is commissioned to write a new chamber work for the LOFT Concert series at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston in late spring 2019. “Fixed Objects on a Moving Plane” (2017) for quadraphonic fixed-media was selected for performance at Florida State University’s Biennial Festival for New Music 2019.
Pianist Yangmingtian Zhao (MM ’16) performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall to a sold-out house.