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Baritone
Andrew Hendricks
is
a graduate student at Indiana University, where he studies
voice with Giorgio Tozzi. He has performed a wide number of
20th-century works, including pieces by Crumb, Adams,
Gruber, Sollberger, Stravinsky and Britten. His operatic
roles include Pelleas, Richard Nixon in John Adams' "Nixon
in China", and the Celebrant in Bernstein's
"Mass".
Nicolas
del Grazia
studied
clarinet at The City University in London and at The
Guildhall School of Music. He also hold's a Master's degree
in music theory from King's College London, and is currently
a doctoral student at Indiana University. He has
collaborated with many composers both in Great Britain and
in the U.S. with numerous commissioned and premiered works,
including the motion picture score for clarinet and
electronics by Francois Evans, and the first performance of
the revised version of "Mass" by the MacArthur Genius Award
recipient John Eaton. He has performed throughout the U.K.
and Europe as well as the U.S., and recently appeared at the
Tempus Fugit contemporary music festival in Tel
Aviv.
Andrew
Tucker
is
a candidate for the Master of Music in Percussion
Performance degree from Indiana University. Before coming to
Bloomington, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Music
Education from Roberts Wesleyan Colloege in Rochester, NY.
Mr. Tucker has played with the Owensboro, KY, Columbus, IN,
and Evansville, IN orchestras. He has been seen with
percussionists John McNeill, John Beck, John Kasica, Jon
Wacker, John Hill, and John Astaire, and currently studies
with Craig "John" Hetrick at IU.
Stefan
Wirth
was
born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975. After studying at the
Zurich Conservatory with Hadassa Schwimmer and Irwin Gage he
continued his studies with Stephen Drury at New England
Conservatory in Boston, MA. He is currently pursuing a
Master's Degree at Indiana University, where he studies with
Leonard Hokanson. Recent concert appearances in the Herodion
Theatre in Athens, Greece and in the Teatro Municipao in Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
Sujean
Kim
has
appeared on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," "That's
Incredible!" and at the White House. A native of Southern
California, most of Ms. Kim's early musical studies were
under the auspices of the Colburn School for the Performing
Arts, where her violin teacher was Alice Schoenfeld, and the
Young Musicians Foundation. While pursuing a psychology
degree and premed studies at Princeton University, Ms. Kim
took a hiatus from the violin. A subsequent M.M. in Violin
from Northwestern University, where she studied with Blair
Milton, and her experience as co-concertmaster of the Civic
Orchestra led her to the D.M. program at Indiana University,
under the tutelage of Mauricio Fuks. Ms. Kim gave the world
premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' "Spirit Musings" with the
IU New Music Ensemble and, as a founding member of the
Corigliano Quartet, has collaborated with many other
composers. She also has a new-found love for going to
zoos.
Paolo
Bortolussi
Raised
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Paolo Bortolussi received his
Bachelor of Music in flute performance from the University
of Ottawa (1996) and his Masters degree at Indiana
University, where he is currently pursuing a Doctorate under
the guidance of Professor Thomas Robertello. Paolo has
performed in recitals in Europe and North America, several
of which were broadcast by CBC and SRC. He has been the
principle flutist of the University of Ottawa Orchestra, the
Ensemble de Musique Contemporaine, the New Music Ensemble at
Indiana University, and the Indiana University Symphony
Orchestra. He is also co-founder of the Feliano Trio and the
new music group Kylix, both ensembles formed for the purpose
of promoting contemporary music. In his pursuit to bring
quality contemporary music to a wider audience, Paolo has
premiered over 25 solo and chamber works to date.
Andre
J. Gaskins
is
currently pursuing his Master's degree in violoncello
performance. He studies at Indiana University with world
renowned 'cellist, Janos Starker. He made his solo debut at
the age of fourteen with the Carmel (IN) Symphony orchestra.
Other solo appearances with orchestra have included
performances with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the
Fort Smith (AR) Symphony and the Butler Symphony Orchestra.
In the summer of 2000, he will solo with the Concepcion
National Symphony Orchestra in Concepcion, Chile. In the
spring of 1999, Mr. Gaskins was named the assistant
conductor of the Richmond (IN) Symphony by music director,
Guy Victor Bordo. Most recently, Andre was named the
Associate Conductor and Director of Chamber Music of the New
World Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Gaskins can be heard in
the recent film soundtrack, "Forgive Me Father".
Dorothy
Chang
The
music of Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) reflects her interest in
various types of music including electronic, traditional
Chinese and music in performance art. Dorothy's works have
been performed by ensembles including Collage New Music,
TONK, the Feliano Trio, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the
Chicago Civic Orchestra, Aspen Concert Orchestra and the
University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as in
concerts at the Aspen, Bowdoin and Lancaster Music
Festivals, the Midwest Composer's Symposium and the Ann
Arbor Asian-American Art Festival. As composer/lyricist for
the Riverbed Theater Company, she has composed music for
several performances in Chicago, Santa Barbara and Taipei,
Taiwan.
Honors and awards that she has received include a Charles
Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, a Music Merit Award from the National Society of
Arts and Letters, 1999 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers
Award and the 1997 Jacob Druckman Composition Award from the
Aspen Music Festival. She has also received an Indiana
University Chancellor's Fellowship, University of Michigan
Rackham Merit Fellowship, scholarships from the Aspen and
Bowdoin Music Festivals and awards from the Mu Phi Epsilon,
Bowdoin and Austin Peay Composition Competitions. Recent
projects include a new work for Collage New Music and a
commissioned work for the Queens Symphony Orchestra in New
York. Both compositions will be premiered in 2000.
Ms. Chang received her B.M. and M.A. degrees from the
University of Michigan. Currently, she is a Visiting
Lecturer of Composition at the Indiana University School of
Music, where she is also working towards her D.M. in
composition.
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