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June 12 –
27, 2010 Acting
Vincent Dowling
Huntington, Massachusetts
Acting
http://www.vincentdowling.com/
Vincent Dowling is an actor, director, and producer with countless theater, film, television, and radio appearances. Dowling is the lifetime associate director and former artistic director of Ireland's national theatre, The Abbey Theatre, where he was a leading actor and director for 23 years. He was the producing director of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, and he was the founder and the first artistic director of the Miniature Theatre of Chester in Massachusetts, where he is considered "President for Life." He has produced, acted or directed in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Moscow, Florence, Boston, New York, Toronto, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Dowling presented the first-ever production by an American company of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and he won an Emmy for directing and producing The Playboy of the Western World, a play by John Millington Synge. Dowling discovered Tom Hanks, who credits Dowling with "teaching him everything he needed to know about the theater." Dowling has lectured and taught at schools, colleges, universities, and public forums across the globe. He holds honorary doctorates from five American universities, and he has appeared in solo performances on three state occasions at the White House.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Ballet
Giana Jigarhan
Denver, Colorado
Ballet
Giana Jigarhan is a graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and received a master's in ballet instruction, choreography, and stage production from the prestigious Moscow University of Theatre Arts, where she studied with Marina Semyonova. She also trained as a ballet instructor and choreographer at the Bolshoi Theater and is a member of the Russian Professional Art Association. Jigarhan was a soloist ballet dancer for fourteen years with the Novosibirsk Ballet Theater in Russia and the National Ballet Theater in Kyrgyzstan. Her repertoire included Swan Lake, Cinderella, Giselle, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, La Corsaire, as well as ballets by modern Russian choreographers. Jigarhan's choreographic credits include Paquita, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, and Bakhiana Brasiliana by Villa Lobos, among others. Jigarhan has taught ballet at many well known institutions, including the Polish National Ballet School, Moscow Musical Theater, Asami Maki Ballet Company in Japan, Prague National Theater, National Theater of Korea, and the Peabody Institute Dance Department at Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as the principal ballet instructor at the Academy of Colorado Ballet, the official school of the Colorado Ballet Company.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Ballet Assistant Faculty
Andy Monroe
New York, New York
Ballet Accompanist
http://andymonroe.com/home.html
Andy Monroe has been accompanying dance classes in New York City for the past twenty-five years. He currently plays at The Paul Taylor School, The Ailey School, The Juilliard School, Eugene Lang College, and The Limon Institute. He has also released three albums: Joyful Noise: Disc One, Joyful Noise: Disc Two, and Rain. In addition to his work with dancers, Monroe has written the music for two full-length musicals, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun (New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2006) and The Kid (The New Group, 2010). He is the recipient of the 2001 BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Musical Theater Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement and was a 2007- 2008 Dramatist Guild Fellow. A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, he received the 2009 Jerry Bock Award Excellence in Musical Theatre for his work on The Kid.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Chorus
Jerry Blackstone
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Chorus Conductor
http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?u=blacksto
Jerry Blackstone is director of choirs and chair of the conducting department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he conducts the Chamber Choir, teaches conducting at the graduate level, and administers a choral program of eleven choirs. In 2006, he received two Grammy Awards ("Best Choral Performance" and "Best Classical Album") as chorusmaster for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blackstone is considered one of the country's leading conducting teachers, and his students have received first place awards and been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the American Choral Directors Association biennial National Choral Conducting Awards competition. Choirs prepared by Dr. Blackstone have appeared under the batons of Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, John Adams, Helmuth Rilling, Hans Graf, Sir Neville Marriner, James Conlon, Nicholas McGegan, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Peter Oundjian, and Yitzak Perlman.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Chorus Section Faculty
Keith Dixon
Kingwood, Texas
Men's Chorus Section Leader
Keith Dixon has sung with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, with whom he recorded the Telarc releases "Amazing Grace," "Evocation of the Spirit" and "Appear and Inspire." He has also performed with the Houston Symphony Chorus and Concert Chorale of Houston. Dixon served multiple terms as an ACDA repertoire and standards chair and has been the organizer for both divisional and national honor choirs. Since 1995, Dixon has been the musical director of the Bay Area Chorus, a community chorus that appears in the Weston Noble DVD "Perpetual Inspiration." Choirs under his direction have performed at four Texas Music Educators Association conventions and have presented honor choir concerts for American Classic Madrigal Festivals on four occasions. His activities as a workshop and choir clinician include serving as the OSAI choral section leader for five summers.
Patrice Sollenberger
Leawood, Kansas
Women's Chorus Sectional Leader
Patrice Sollenberger received her Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Kansas, and she has been a choral music educator for 27 years. She serves as guest clinician for area honor choirs and adjudicator for music festivals throughout the Midwest. She is currently the director of choral music at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Sollenberger is the artistic assistant and a member of the Kansas City Chorale. From 1996 - 2003, Sollenberger performed annually with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and Carnegie Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall. In the summer of 1998, she was selected to participate in Shaw's forty-voice choral workshop and concert series at Furman University. Sollenberger's husband Jay is a professional trumpet player, and they have one son, Brandon. This is Sollenberger's fifth year at OSAI.
Scott VanOrnum
Dexter, Michigan
Choral Accompanist
Scott VanOrnum is the keyboardist for the University of Michigan choral conducting department and a music and humanities instructor at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. He is director of music at Knox Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, and he is a frequent pianist, organist, and harpsichordist for regional symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, and choral societies. As an organist, VanOrnum has performed in many churches and cathedrals around the United States, including St. Thomas Church and Riverside Church in New York City, and at the Crystal Cathedral in California. In Europe, VanOrnum has performed in St. Peter' Basilica in the Vatican, the Church of St. Ignatius in Rome, the Hofkirche in Dresden, and St. Etienne Cathedral in France. In 2008, he was continuo organist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental St. Matthew Passion. VanOrnum studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Creative Writing
Al Young
Berkeley, California
Creative Writing
http://alyoung.org/
Al Young is the author of more than 22 books, including Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000, and Heaven: Poems 1957-1990. Widely anthologized and translated, his work has carried him throughout the world (Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the whole of the United States), and earned him praise from Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and The New York Times. In addition to NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, Young is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, two American Books Awards, the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. A beloved teacher, Young has taught writing, literature, and creativity at Stanford, the University of California at Santa Cruz, San José State University, and the University of Michigan. In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Young poet laureate of California.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Drawing & Painting
Richard Hull
Chicago, Illinois
Drawing & Painting
Richard Hull's work is in the collections of numerous museums, including The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Smart Museum, Chicago. He has exhibited his work at The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston Illinois; and The Painting Center, New York, New York. He joined the legendary Phyllis Kind Gallery upon graduating from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1979, and he had numerous shows in the gallery's New York City and Chicago locations. Hull lives and works in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Extracurricular Activities
Kathleen Harper
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Pilates (Week Two)
Kathleen Harper received her bachelors degree in kinesiology and sports management with a minor in dance from Texas A&M University. She received her M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix. She has over 25 years of experience in all types of fitness and wellness programs. She is a medical massage therapist, energy healer, yoga instructor, certified master-level Pilates instructor, and a national and international presenter. Harper owns Pilates Plus Colorado, and she is the director of Rocky Mountain Wellness Center in Colorado Springs.
Rebecca Penniman
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Pilates (Week One)
Rebecca Penniman graduated from Necomb College of Tulane University and Tulane University Law School. In 2005, after earning her PhysicalMind Institute Certificate, she began teaching Pilates mat classes. Two years later, she obtained a Body Arts and Science International certificate for mat and apparatus. An avid runner and swimmer, and a former collegiate tennis player, Penniman understands the benefits Pilates can provide to any athlete - increased balance, posture, flexibility, coordination and core strength. Additionally, Pilates provides young athletes with an overall kinesthetic awareness. Penniman currently teaches group Pilates classes and individual training on Pilates apparatus. She also teaches high school psychology and core conditioning to off-season athletes. A BodyPump© certified instructor, Penniman combines strength training with her core conditioning classes.
Regina Saisi
San Francisco, California
Improvisation
http://www.improv.org/Actor.aspx?a=19
Regina Saisi is a San Francisco-based actor and improviser. She is an instructor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Marin School District, and at BATS Improv. She has taught at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and the California Institute of the Arts. She has an international reputation as one of the foremost improvisation teachers and performers in the world, having performed and taught in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Finland and Sweden. A pioneer in the development of long-form improv, she is a founding member of the improvisational theater companies True Fiction Magazine and Pulp Playhouse and is a member of BATS Improv. Saisi is a firm believer that improvisation has value to anyone, regardless of their profession, and has taught improvisation to corporate clients such as Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems, as well as to inner-city youth in Oakland and San Francisco.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Film & Video
Blayne Weaver
Los Angeles, California
Film & Video
In 2002, Blayne Weaver co-wrote and acted in the critically acclaimed feature film Manic, which stars Don Cheadle and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He then formed Secret Identity Productions (SIP) with business partner Brandon Barrera. They produced the popular short film Losing Lois Lane, which Weaver co-wrote, directed and starred in as Superman. He then wrote, directed and starred in SIP's first feature film, Outside Sales, which won awards on the film festival circuit and was recently released nationwide through Echo Bridge Entertainment. Weaver wrote, directed and played a small role in SIPs next feature, Weather Girl, with an ensemble cast that boasted Tricia OKelley, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer, and Jane Lynch. Weather Girl enjoyed an extensive festival run, followed by a ten-city theatrical tour and a worldwide television and DVD release. Weaver wrote, directed and stars in his next feature film, 6 Month Rule.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Film & Video Assistant Faculty
Beau Leland
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Film & Video Editor
Beau J. Leland has worked as a freelance editor, cinematographer, and producer in Oklahoma City since 2004. He has a special love for music video production and documentary films, contributing to videos for the Oklahoma bands The Flaming Lips, Other Lives, and Hinder. His contributions to documentary work include camera for Bradley Beesley's films Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, Okie Noodling II, and Flaming Lips: UFOs at the Zoo. He has done camera and editorial work for the Oklahoma Visual Artist Coalition's Art 365, Stefanie Leland's Food For Thought and Ferrell, and provided ongoing content for the Oklahoma History Center's exhibit "Another Hot Oklahoma Night." In 2008, the first feature film Leland co-directed and edited, Rainbow Around the Sun, premiered at South By Southwest film festival, and was chosen as best Oklahoma Feature at deadCENTER Film Festival the same year. Beau is a Taurus.
Alan Novey
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Film & Video Technician
Alan Novey is an Oklahoma-born cinematographer, producer, and entrepreneur. Novey graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1999 with a B.F.A.. in film, and he is currently a partner at FieldGuide Media Group. Novey worked as the director of photography on the Bradley Beesley film Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (HBO), which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009. Novey has also photographed and produced various other commercial projects and films, including Okie Noodling II (PBS), Rainbow Around the Sun, The Flaming Lips concert film UFOs at the Zoo (Warner Bros.), and most recently Currents of Belize (Costa Del Mar), about fly fishermen. Novey is extremely proud of the fact that he can sing exactly like Neil Diamond.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Modern Dance
Andrew Palermo
New York, New York
Modern Dance
http://www.dre.dance.com
Andrew Palermo is the co-artistic director of dre.dance, a New York City-based contemporary dance company that he helms with childhood friend Taye Diggs. Palermo's stage choreography and direction credits include performances at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, Carnegie Hall, The Public Theater, 37 Arts, New York City Festival of Dance, Hudson Theatre, The Old Globe, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Prince Music Theatre, and more. Teaching credits include dance and/or acting instruction at University of Cincinnati-CCM, University of Michigan, Pepperdine University, Wichita State University, SUNY Potsdam, Music Theater Italy, Rochester School of the Arts, Broadway Dance Center, The Edge P.A.C., Millennium Dance Complex, Dance New Amsterdam and numerous national conventions, studios and performing arts camps. Palermo's performing highlights include the original Broadway casts of Wicked and Annie Get Your Gun, and the Broadway revival of How to Succeed... He has toured nationally and internationally with West Side Story, and performed Off-Broadway in Michael John La Chiusa's Little Fish. Other performing credits include Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Hollywood Bowl, and more. Palermo is thrilled to return to OSAI!
June 12 –
27, 2010 Orchestra
Christian Knapp
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conductor
http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/christian-knapp
One of today's foremost young conductors, Christian Knapp is known for his dynamic presence and ability to inspire audiences and musicians alike. He has conducted with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Mexico City Philharmonic, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony, where he served as associate conductor from 2004-2006. His most recent engagements include the Portland and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Knapp has conducted operas including Turn of the Screw, The Rake's Progress, and Le Nozze di Figaro, among others. As associate conductor of Broomhill Opera in London from 2000-2003, he helped create their sister company in South Africa. He has also worked with the Perspectives New Music Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, with whom he gave the U.S. premiere of Zona by Magnus Lindberg at Lincoln Center in 2006. Knapp studied at Tufts University, New England Conservatory, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Photo courtesy of John Naumann.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Orchestra Section Faculty
Wesley Broadnax
Richmond, California
Trombone & Tuba
Dr. Wesley J. Broadnax joined the music faculty of the California State University East Bay in 2007. As the director of bands, Broadnax conducts the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Chamber Winds, and teaches courses in music education. Broadnax received his bachelor's degree in music education from Stephen F. Austin State University, and he taught in the Texas public schools. He received both the master's and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University in wind conducting. While teaching at Michigan State University, he was a regular performer (bass trombone and euphonium) throughout the state of Michigan, where he was a member of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra. He also performed with the Greater Lansing, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Kalamazoo, and Midland Symphony Orchestras, and with the West Shore Symphony Brass Trio and the Capitol Brass Quartet. He currently performs bass trombone with the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose and the Silicon Valley Symphony Orchestra of Los Gatos.
Karel Butz
Bloomington, Indiana
Violin
Karel Butz has performed in several orchestras, including the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, and Spoleto Festival USA. He has served as associate instructor for string techniques and music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In addition, he taught violin for the Indiana University String Academy and the Bands of America Summer Symposium Orchestra Division. Butz taught orchestra in Houston, Texas, as well as in Carmel, Indiana. He is a frequent guest conductor, lecturer, and clinician around the country, and his music is published by Musica Propria. Butz received both his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in violin with high distinction from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where his principal violin instructors were Nelli Shkolnikova and Mimi Zweig. Currently, Butz serves as adjunct violin faculty at Purdue University while completing his doctorate in music education at Indiana University.
Margaret Cooper
Charleston, West Virginia
Violin
Margaret Cooper is a professional violinist, violist, and teacher. During her four decades as an orchestral and chamber musician, she has played concerts throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Musica Regala, and Ars Nova. Cooper has served as concertmaster of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and as associate concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Her academic appointments were at the State University of New York, Fredonia (1987-1992), Ithaca College (1992-2001), and West Virginia University (2007-2008). She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University and spent a year studying Baroque violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. Currently, Cooper is a member of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Chautauqua Symphony, while teaching a private studio of 30 students. Margie taught at OSAI in the 1990s, and she is thrilled to return to Quartz Mountain this summer!
Anne Eisfeller
Albuequerque, New Mexico
Harp
Anne Eisfeller is the principal harpist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony, and she also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has performed with Opera Southwest, Four Corners Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Festival, and Octubre Internacional in Mexico. In addition to OSAI, her summers take her to Oregon for the Peter Britt, Coast, and Cascade Festivals, and to Italy where she performs with the Assisi Festival and serves as the chamber music coordinator. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees with high distinction from Indiana University, where she studied with and assisted Peter Eagle.
Misha Galaganov
Fort Worth, Texas
Viola
Dr. Misha Galaganov, viola professor at Texas Christian University and director of Chamber Music Roundup, has performed as a soloist and given master classes in Russia, Italy, Israel, Czech Republic, Mexico, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and the USA. His performance at Carnegie Hall was called "warm and expressive" by the New York Music Review He is also a member of Trio Con Brio, a group that inspired leading composers from several countries to write new pieces for them. Dr. Galaganov received his degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from Rice University in Houston, TX. His students now have successful careers in the U.S.and abroad.
Charles Gavin
Nacogdoches, Texas
French Horn
Charles Gavin, professor of music, joined the faculty of the Stephen F. Austin School of Music in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1985. Dr. Gavins students are on the faculties at the University of Michigan, University of Alabama, Ithaca College, Texas A&M University, and East Texas Baptist University. As performers, his students' experiences range from a Grammy-winning studio artist in Hollywood to performers in the concert venues of Europe. Gavin is currently principal horn with the Orchestra of the Pines and performs regularly with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and the Longview Symphony. He is also a member of the Stone Fort Wind Quintet and the Pineywoods Brass Quintet. Prior to moving to Texas, he taught at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was principal horn with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra and associate principal of the Quad Cities Symphony. Gavin has been a soloist at the International Horn Symposium, and he has presented clinics on horn pedagogy and performance at many state and regional conferences.
Catherine Hudgins
Boston, Massachusetts
Clarinet
Clarinetist Catherine Hudgins began her career in Caracas, Venezuela, as a member of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas. She later held positions in the Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas, the Charleston Symphony, and the Boise Philharmonic. Hudgins performs frequently with the Boston Symphony, Portland Symphony (Maine), and as principal clarinetist with the National Lyric Opera. She has appeared with many other orchestras, including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, and the Rantos Collegium of Australia. Hudgins was featured in chamber music concerts at the Spoleto and Scotia Festivals. She recently participated in the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto Japan, Tokyo Opera Nomori, and the Mito Chamber Orchestra,all under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. She also performed for the inaugural performances of Ozawa's Tokyo Opera Nomori. Her chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, West German Radio, RAI (Italian Radio), SCETV and CBC, among others. She studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus.
Michael Murray
Springfield, Missouri
Cello
Dr. Michael Murray is the founding member of the Hawthorne Trio, an artist-faculty ensemble at Missouri State University. The Hawthorne Trio has performed widely across the United States, Japan, Czech Republic, England, and at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. Murray held an artist/scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, where he researched music for cello composed in the 1930s. Murray is the principal cellist of the Springfield Symphony and his wide orchestral experience includes the Minnesota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Kansas City Camerata and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He received a College of Arts and Letters Award in Teaching from Missouri State University and a National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowship for study at Harvard University. Murray recently returned from London, where he served on the faculty of the Missouri London Program for the remainder of the year.
Valerie Naranjo
New York, New York
Percussion
http://www.mandaramusic.com
Valerie Naranjo has studied music in ten African countries. She was the first woman permitted to publicly perform Ghanaian gyil and the only Westerner to receive a first prize at Ghana's Kobine Festival. With her mentor Kakraba Lobi, she toured, recorded, and compiled the 15 transcriptions West African Music for the Marimba Soloist. Naranjo performs solo marimba and gyil with her world music group Mandara, and she has been the percussionist for NBC's Saturday Night Live Band for 12 years. She wrote the percussion arrangements and performed for Broadway's Tony Award-winning The Lion King. She has performed with Megadrums, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tori Amos, The Paul Winter Consort, and many more. She has recorded ten CDs, featuring a variety of musical styles. She has been named "World Percussionist of the Year" by Drum! magazine twice, and she has been featured in Modern Drummer, Rhythm, Percussive Notes, and World Percussion Rhythm magazines. She was a featured artist at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention six times, and she has been featured at festivals and symposia on six continents. Naranjo apprenticed with Leigh Stevens, Gordon Stout, and Dave Samuels. She received a B.M.E. at the University of Oklahoma and an M.M. at Ithaca College.
Gregory Newton
Hollis, New Hampshire
Bassoon
Gregory Newton is one of New Englands most active musicians, having performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. He has performed as principal bassoon with the Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Musica Viva, New Hampshire Symphony, Portland Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Granite State Symphony, Nashua Symphony, the Boston Classical Orchestra, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He has been a featured soloist with the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and many others. Newton has also performed with the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra and the Prague Radio Symphony. Newton can be heard on the A&M, Gasparo, North Eastern, Pickwick Masterworks, BMOPSound, and New World labels. In addition to his orchestral duties, Newton maintains an active chamber music schedule as a member of the Radius Ensemble and a founding member of the Northwinds Quintet. Newton is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Sherman Walt.
Virginia Sircy
Alexandria, Virginia
Piano
Virginia Rice Sircy was professor of music at Cameron University and holds three degrees in piano performance. She has been soloist for two piano premieres and made her fifth solo appearance with the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2006. An active chamber musician, Dr. Sircy is a founding member of Words and Music (2008), a vocal quartet with piano accompaniment. They have performed Ned Rorems "The Evidence of Things Not Seen," a compendium of art songs, throughout the Washington, D.C. area and in New York. Sircy has conducted recent performances of Haydns Mass in Time of War, Mozarts Requiem Mass (K. 626), and the Fauré Requiem. She served as music director and conductor for four performances of Benjamin Brittens opera, Noyes Fludde, a co-production by St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Virginia, and The Washington Revels in D.C. This year marks Dr. Sircys twenty-third year as a member of the OSAI faculty.
Sue Stubbs
St. Louis, Missouri
Double Bass
Sue Stubbs currently teaches double bass at Missouri State University, University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is also principal bass of the Springfield Symphony, the Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis, and the Gateway Festival Orchestra in St. Louis. She is a former faculty member of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She was also a member of the Opera Orchestra of New York, New Jersey Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony. Stubbs received a B.M. from the Juilliard School and an M.M. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her bass teachers include Stuart Sankey, Gary Karr, and Eugene Levinson.
Elizabeth Tomorsky Knott
Charleston, South Carolina
Oboe
Elizabeth Tomorsky Knott is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received her undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Michigan. After graduation, she played in the professional quintet The West Texas Winds, while teaching and performing in west Texas. Tomorsky Knott was then awarded a fellowship at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where she graduated with the highest award given to a performance major. She has performed with such prestigious groups as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. She pursued a D.M.A. at Boston University, and she taught at the New England Conservatory's pre-college division and the prestigious Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Tomorsky Knott served as solo English horn with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and founded the nonprofit chamber music ensemble The Chamber Music Society of Charleston. She is currently a freelance musician and teacher in Charleston, South Carolina.
Wesley Woolard
Cincinnati, Ohio
Trumpet
Trumpeter Wesley Woolard is principal trumpet of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Indiana and second trumpet with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. He also frequently performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he has performed with the St. Louis Symphony, the Belgian Radio Orchestra, the Mexico City Philharmonic, and the Lexington Philharmonic. He spent two seasons in Mexico as the principal trumpet of the Veracruz Symphony Orchestra. Woolard studied trumpet performance at Illinois State University, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky. He received a fellowship from the Alex de Vries Foundation of Antwerp, Belgium for study with the late Theo Mertens. Woolard has studied with master teachers Susan Slaughter, Philip Collins, Vincent DiMartino, Arnold Jacobs and William Adam. Woolard teaches extensively throughout the southwestern Ohio region. In addition to his passion for the trumpet, Woolard is an enthusiastic cyclist, pedaling over 4,000 miles annually. He lives with his flutist wife, Evelien, and drummer son, Peter, in Cincinnati.
Evelien Woolard
Cincinnati, Ohio
Flute
Evelien Woolard is a founding member of the Taft Woodwind Quintet, first-prize winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and twice finalist in the International Munich Competition. A strong advocate for chamber music, Woolard is also a member of LYRICA, a harp, flute, and cello trio and AULT MUSIC, a guitar, flute, and double bass trio, both based in Cincinnati. She serves as principal flutist of the Cincinnati Ballet, Richmond Symphony (Indiana), and Blue Ash/Montgomery Orchestras and has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and the Dayton and Lexington Philharmonics. Woolard spent twelve years as flute instructor for the preparatory department of the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory for Music and nine years in the same position at the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Photography
Paul Taggart
New York, New York
Photography
http://www.paultaggart.com/
Paul Taggart is a photographer whose work focuses on war reportage, the aftermath of conflicts, and refugee populations. Taggart works primarily in the Middle East and Africa, with a short stint on a pirate ship in Antarctica. In 2004, he was one of the few un-embedded western journalists to cover the month-long battle and siege of Najaf, Iraq between the Mahdi Militia and the coalition forces. Other prominent news stories Taggart has photographed were Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan in 2007 and the dual bombing of her convoy, the 2005 tsunami in Banda Aceh, the 2005 famine in Niger, the 2006 war in Lebanon, the three-month siege of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon in the summer of 2007, the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the continued war in Congo, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Taggart's work has been published in Newsweek, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, US News and World Report, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and dozens of other publications. Obsessed with photography, Taggart has been arrested on multiple continents, detained at many border crossings, kidnapped in Iraq, shot at, bombed, and beaten. He will go through just about anything to get that one great picture and hopes to instill a little bit of that insane passion for storytelling in his students. Originally from Tulsa, Taggart was an OSAI photography student in 1997 and 1998.
June 12 –
27, 2010 Photography Assistant Faculty
Konrad Eek
Norman, Oklahoma
Darkroom Technician
Konrad Eek owns and operates Maxwell Eek Design Photography, a commercial photography studio specializing in product and advertising photography. He serves a diverse client base, ranging from Carlisle Food Service Products to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. In addition to his commercial photographic work, Eek is very involved in arts education. He has served as an adjunct professor of photography for Oklahoma City Community College for over a decade. He teaches classes in photo lighting, advanced darkroom techniques, and alternative photographic processes. He also serves on the curriculum development committee for the college. For over 20 years, Eek has served the Oklahoma Arts Institute in a variety of roles.
Ben Long
San Francisco, California
Digital Technician
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, writer, and teacher. The author of over two dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he is also a senior contributing editor to Macworld magazine, and a contributing editor at CreativePro.com. His photography clients have included 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, including workshops at the Santa Reparata International School of the Arts in Florence and a class for imaging engineers at Apple, Inc. He occasionally dabbles in computer programming, and has written image editing utilities that are used by National Geographic, the British Museum, and the White House. Long was an OSAI acting student in 1985.
June 18 –
21, 2010 Film & Video Guest Artist
John Stevenson
Los Angeles, California
Film & Video Guest Artist
John Stevenson co-directed Kung Fu Panda, which starred Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie. Released in the summer of 2008, Kung Fu Panda has grossed over $600 million worldwide. The film was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Prior to the release of Kung Fu Panda, Stevenson held the post of Head of Story at PDI/DreamWorks serving as story artist for the DreamWorks worldwide blockbusters Shrek, Shrek 2 and Madagascar. He worked as a storyboard artist and character designer for DreamWorks/PDI's Antz, Pixar's Toy Story 2, and Nickelodeon's Fathead. During this period, he also acted as an independent creative consultant to CBS, NBC, Walt Disney Productions, Colossal Pictures and Protozoa Pictures. His previous freelance career as an artist, illustrator, character designer and art director exposed him to myriad projects in nearly every medium, working on theme parks, museums, album covers, commercials, and various feature films and television shows. Stevenson's entree into entertainment began with work on The Muppet Show for Jim Henson Productions.
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