Fanfare

The Latin American Music Center is pleased to announce the winners of the Ninth Competition in Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, sponsored with the support of the Embassy of Spain. The semifinal and final rounds took place January 28 and 29 in Auer Hall. The jury was comprised of professors Juan Orrego Salas, Arnaldo Cohen, Otis Murphy, Luiz Fernando Lopes, and Carmen Helena Téllez, with guest judge professor Paul Borg from Illinois State University. The winners received cash awards and will record a collective CD with their competition repertoire.

The Open Category winners:
First Prize: Qiao Zhang, flute (student of Kate Lukas).
Second Prize ex aequo: Yuriria Rodriguez, soprano (student of Teresa Kubiak), and the Malena Tango Quintet, led by Mike Mendelson and Jonny Zwi (students of Bruce Bransby and Ernesto Bitetti, respectively).

The Early Music Category winners:
Grand Prize and Performance Practice Prize: won ex aequo by Ensemble L'Aura and Ensemble Lipzodes. Both ensembles were sponsored by professor Michael McCraw.

The LAMC invites all faculty and students to join in the competition next year, and thanks all of those who participated this year.

FACULTY NEWS

Vanessa Ballam won First Prize in the theater/musical scenes of the Bloomington NSAL competition. She studies with Patricia Wise.

Amanda Bean will be singing the role of Marianne in Tartuffe at the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute this summer. She studies with Patricia Wise.

Amanda Biggs is among 20 singers chosen for the advanced level of the Bel Canto Northwest summer opera program. She is a student of Patricia Wise.

Jill Cheatham will be singing the role of Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at the Opera Academy of Michigan this summer. Cheatham is a student of Patricia Wise.

The Frangipani Winds, a woodwind quintet comprised of Lissie Okopny (flute), Jamie Roberts (oboe), Kristin King (clarinet), William May (bassoon), and Timothy Huizenga (horn) has been selected to compete in the semi-final round of the National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, representing Indiana University. The competition will take place May 5-7 in South Bend, IN. The quintet is coached by Eli Eban.

Michael Match, male soprano, recently sang the role of the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Opera Circle of Cleveland. Match was also a winner of the NATSAA competition held at DePauw University on March 18 and will compete at the next level in April. Match will return to Cleveland in the near future to sing in the world premiere of a new opera by Halim El-Dabh. He is a doctoral student in the studio of Patricia Havranek.

Composition student Martin McClellan will study at the Aspen Music Festival this summer. He also received the Ford and Susan Schumann Scholarship.

Violinist Robin Scott and pianist Ayako Toba will perform a free concert at 4 pm on March 26 at North United Methodist Church, 3808 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. The program will include Paganini's Caprice No. 17, the second movement of the Poulenc Violin Sonata, and Eric Tanguy's "Sonata Breve" and be nearly identical to what they will play at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, March 30-April 8. On March 6, Scott won fourth prize in the Hellam Young Artists Competition in Springfield, Mo.

Dan Allcott is debuting as conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Fall 2006.

Elizabeth Bauer, DME’03, and her work in music instruction with disabled students were recently featured in the Chicago Tribune. Click here to read the article.

The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra (CRSO) announced March 16 that Timothy Hankewich, DM’98, instrumental conducting, the fourth candidate to compete for the music director position during the 2005-2006 search season, is the CRSO¹s new music director and conductor. Hankewich is the fifth conductor in the organization¹s history to hold this position.

Bass-baritone Seth Keeton, MM’02, voice, is one of nine finalists to compete in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions this month. The finals will be held this Sunday, March 26, in New York City.