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FACULTY NEWS |
 During the past several months, Ernesto Bitetti, chair of the Guitar Department, performed in France (Aix en Provence), Argel (Palais de Culture), and toured with the Valencia Symphony Orchestra performing Angulo Concerto No. 2 and the Aranjuez Concerto. Bitetti is on the cover of the Summer 2006 issue of the Argentinian magazine “ Solo Lideres (Only Leaders),” featuring an exclusive interview in which he describes his career as a performer and as a professor at the IU Jacobs School of Music.
 Mauricio Fuks has been named a Rudy Professor by the IU Board of Trustees. Fuks joins an elite group of outstanding faculty members who bear the title of Rudy Professor. The professorship is named for James H. Rudy, a 1932 IU graduate who donated the bulk of his estate to Indiana University. The Board of Trustees used the estate to establish funding for the Rudy Professors, to recognize outstanding faculty. The first recipient of a Rudy Professorship was made in 1959 to Edwin Cady of the English Department.
 Congratulations to Marietta Simpson, who contributed to William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Naxos), which won each of the four Grammy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Choral Performance:
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason Harris, Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott & Mary Alice Stollak, choir directors (Christine Brewer, Measha Brueggergosman, Ilana Davidson, Nmon Ford, Linda Hohenfeld, Joan Morris, Carmen Pelton, Marietta Simpson & Thomas Young; Michigan State University Children's Choir, University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, University Of Michigan Orpheus Singers, University Of Michigan University Choir & University Musical Society Choral Union; University Of Michigan School Of Music Symphony Orchestra).
Distinguished Professor Emeritus George Gaber recently celebrated his 90th birthday with a gathering of family, friends, professional musicians, and educators, including many former students, at Le Petit Café in Bloomington. He began his career in 1930s New York City, arriving at IU in 1960. During the following years, Gaber built the IU Percussion Department into what is probably the finest department of its kind in the world. He retired from IU in 1986, but continued to perform and conduct.
Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, Ethnomusicology, and India Studies Lewis Rowell presented a lecture titled "India and the Major Scale" on February 8, as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Sara Flores, PD candidate, was the recipient of the Georgia Wash Holbeck scholarship at the Bain Competition. Flores also recently performed arias at a reception in Indianapolis for Governor Mitch Daniels. She studies voice with Patricia Havranek.
Clint Needham's String Quartet No. 1, "Shades of Green," has been selected as the winner of the 2005-06 Kuttner String Quartet Competition.
Robin Smith worked with the composer and then presented Jake Heggie's songs "Times of Day" at DePauw University's "Music in The 21st Century." Smith teaches voice at DePauw and is working toward a Doctor of Music in Vocal Performance in the Jacobs School of Music. She is a student of Patricia Havranek.
The Indianapolis Matinee Musicale awarded $13,700 in scholarships to IU students on March 4:
Abigail Mitchell, (Patricia Wise)
Qiao Zhang, (Kathryn Lukas)
Daniel Sartoni (Carl Lenthe)
Maryanne Meyer (Susann McDonald)
Emily McFarlin (Kathryn Lukas)
Fernando Cruz (Jean-Louis Haguenauer)
Maxim Bernard (Menahem Pressler)
Hye Young Kim (Edward Auer)
Alexander Tsomania (Edward Auer)
Alana Murphy (Karen Shaw)
Anne Choi (Arnaldo Cohen)
Kathryn Leemhuis (Costanza Cuccaro)
Christia Starnes (Tim Noble)
Elizabeth Baldwin (Tim Noble)
Sara Wolfe (Emilio Colon)
Minah Choe (Janos Starker/Helga Winold)
Yanghee Lee (Janos Starker)
Yeon Ji Yun (Helga Winold)
Veronique Mathieu (Miriam Fried)
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Joe Hickman, DM’81, choral conducting, conducted a performance of the Paul Winter Missa Gaia/Earth Mass on February 18 at the Eastern Division ACDA convention in New York. The performance was held at St. Bartholomew's Church and featured the Paul Winter Consort, University of North Carolina Wilmington Chamber Singers, Ashley High School Choir (Wilmington, NC), and members of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Festival Choir with Chorus Angelicus, a children's choir from Torrington, CT. The concert was a showcase of a newly published edition of Missa Gaia, edited by Joe Hickman and Wayne Abercrombie (also an IU DM, choral conducting, graduate). The work was composed in 1982, but only recently was published by Hal Leonard Music. Hickman is professor of music, director of choral activities, and faculty associate to the Provost at UNC Wilmington.
Last year, Victoria Paterson, MM’98, violin, and Robert Paterson, MM’01, composition, founded the American Modern Ensemble. This 15-member group is based in New York City with the goal of premiering, performing, recording, and commissioning the widest possible repertoire written by American composers. The focus is to celebrate and showcase American music and, especially, works written by living composers. Each season, one American composer is featured on a program devoted to her or his music. AME is also dedicated to education and outreach programs that expose communities to American music and, particularly, to new music written by living composers. Rob recently won the 2005 Louisville Orchestra/ISU Composition Contest, resulting in a premiere by the LO of his Electric Lines at the ISU 39th Annual Contemporary Music Festival, and he will have a residency at the Copland House during the summer of 2006. Rob is also guest professor of composition at Sarah Lawrence College (2004 - ). His Crimson Earth for Symphonic Band will be premiered by the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble under conductor Jeffrey Renshaw on April 20, 2006. He also received a 2005 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program grant from the American Composers Forum for a new wind quintet for Quintet of the Americas, performed at Merkin Concert Hall on April 19, 2005.
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