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HYEJIN KWON was Metropolitan opera conductor Steven White’s assistant and pianist for the Lyric Opera Baltimore’s production of La Traviata, accompanying a cast that included Metropolitan Opera singers Elizabeth Futral and Jason Stearns. Hyejin was also recently commended in the Washington Post for her work with the Repertory Theatre of Washington as performance pianist for Don Giovanni. The review stated, “Pianist Hyejin Kwon was a fine stand-in for the orchestra and doubled as recitative accompanist on harpsichord.”
JEROME TAN will join Marilyn Horne on a Mediterranean Music Cruise: A Musical Voyage from Venice to Athens as accompanist to singers Nicole Cabell, Sasha Cooke, Kelly Markgraf, and Joshua Stewart. As the recipient of the Marilyn Horne award for Vocal Collaboration, he has played "The Song Continues" and "On Wings of Song" programs in
MATTHEW ODELL spent the summer as a vocal coach at the Conservatoire in Nice, with several performances in Nice and in
MIAOMIAO WANG joined San Fransisco's Merola Opera Program as one of five apprentice coaches. She is also the recipient of the Charlotte Cohen Milman Endowed Scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music.
DANA SCOTT has recently been hired by Washington National Opera to coach for its Opera Institute for Young Singers. She has been working steadily since January for FBN Opera in
After MIYEON HAN joined VOCES INTIMAE for a complete performance of Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch in
YOOHEE SHIN joined FBN Opera Productions in January 2009 as pianist for its tour of John Davies opera for children, Pinocchio.
MING-CHING WU was the recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz scholarship for the study of collaborative piano at the Juilliard School of Music in the fall of 2008. She will begin doctoral studies in Collaborative Piano at Eastman School of Music in the fall of 2009.
WILLIAM WALDROP has recently been named Musical Director/Conductor for the National Tour of CATS.
Dana Scott
Dana Nichole Scott is an established collaborative pianist and conductor in the Washington, DC and Baltimore area. She recently conducted the premier of Momia in el Closet at the Gala Theatre in DC and was host and accompanist for Washington National Opera’s High School Institute at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Ms. Scott has worked as an accompanist for many theatrical productions. She performed Suor Angelica with Little Patuxent Opera Institute (Columbia, MD), Magic Flute with Opera AACC (Severna Park), Gallentry with Harbor Opera at the Walters Art Museum, and was rehearsal pianist for The Boys from Syracuse with Center Stage (Baltimore, MD). At the Kennedy Center, Ms. Scott worked as a rehearsal pianist with Jerry Herman, Christine Baranski, and Jeff McCarthy in Mame. She served two seasons as the Music Director for FBN Production’s The Three Little Pigs, an opera outreach program (Columbia, SC). Ms. Scott also performs with All Children’s Chorus of Annapolis, Arundel Vocal Arts Society, Bach in Baltimore, and Opera AAACC. She can also be heard at Germano’s Trattoria with Ms. Branda Lock, and Emmanuel United Methodist Church where she works as pianist and organist.
Ms. Scott received high collaborative marks in the Vocal Arts Society Competition (D.C.), and was a semi-finalist in the 2007 William Garrison Piano Competition. As a soloist Ms. Scott is a winner of the Sidney DeKnight Piano Competition (PA), a national competition committed to promoting aspiring ethnic musicians. She frequently appeared as a soloist with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra in Lakeland, Florida and was a recitalist on the Mary Baker Eddy Library Millenium Series, and the James George Charitable Trust Series in Boston, MA.
Ms. Scott serves as piano instructor, jazz ensemble director, and staff accompanist for the Saint James School in Hagerstown, MD. She also maintains a small private studio in the Laurel area.
Ms. Scott received her Master of Music degree in Ensemble Arts: Vocal Accompanying from Peabody with Eileen Cornett. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory of Music.
Daniel Davis
Originally from the rural American South, composer Daniel Thomas Davis (b. 1981) spends most of his time in London as a Marshall Fellow of the British Government. Hailed by USA Today as "versatile...driven by an endless curiosity and the equally expansive energy to pursue it," Daniel maintains a busy schedule of commissions and performances that reflects his deep love of a wide range of music, literature, and history.
His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe and has been praised by The Baltimore Sun as "immediate and personal" yet still possessing "subtle orchestral coloring." His recent and upcoming commissions include works for Lontano at the South Bank Centre, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, violinist Caroline Balding, and the Fireborne Piano Trio. Daniel's commissioned opera If I Were a Voice was premiered in 2004 by Peabody Opera and excerpted on National Public Radio. Other recent projects include a work for the BBC Symphony Chamber Players, a series of pieces for the New York Miniature Ensemble, several vocal settings for the Wigmore Hall in London, a joint commission for violin and piano duo, and an ongoing cycle of songs for soprano Christine Kavanagh. Those who have performed and championed his work include conductors Odaline de la Martinez, Alan Yamamoto, Gene Young, Harlan Parker and Christopher Austin, as well as soloists such as Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Nancy Roldan, Hayley Wolfe, Eileen Cornett, Jason McFeaters, Erik Carlson, and Daniel Spiegel.
In addition to winning numerous grants and prizes - most recently the 2006 BMI Award - Daniel has served as composer-in-residence at Brightstar Music Festival and the Latvia International Music Festival and as artistic director/founder of Carolina New Music, a free summer music series now entering its sixth year. He has served as an adjudicator for the National Music Teachers Association and has worked as researcher for an intensive oral history of elderly jazz musicians of the late segregation period and authored several musicological papers on American popular music.
His composition teachers have included Christopher Theofanidis, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Patterson, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and Morris Cotel. Mr. Davis has studied at Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and Johns Hopkins University. As a collaborative pianist for a number of ensembles and soloists, he has performed at such venues as the Kennedy Center and is especially active in the performance of contemporary and early American music, as several recordings testify.
Jerome Tan
Jerome Tan was born in Singapore. He came to the United States on a music scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In his studies at Peabody, he received a bachelors degree in music, a masters degree in solo piano performance, and a masters degree in ensemble arts; also while there he was awarded a number of scholarships and merit awards.
In 2002 Mr. Tan was invited to attend the prestigious Music Academy of the West (MAW) in Santa Barbara, California. At the MAW, he won The Marilyn Horne Foundation Award as collaborative pianist. In October and November of 2002 he was engaged by the Foundation as the collaborative pianist for two vocal recitals in New York. In January 2004 he performed in a duo-recital, accompanying bass Jason Hardy, as part of the Foundations annual festival, The Song Continues. The recital featured the world premiere of a song cycle commissioned by the Foundation and written by John Musto.
In November 2005 he will accompany soprano Erica Strauss in recital for the Foundation's series On Wings of Song and for the Foundation's artist residency in May 2006 with the Art Song Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Mr. Tan has participated in vocal master classes led by Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Warren Jones, Elly Ameling, and Thomas Hampson at Carnegie Hall in New York. Last summer he was invited to play for private master classes given by Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy at Villecroze, France.
Jonathan Moyer
Jonathan William Moyer has been described by the Baltimore Sun as a "superb organist". He has performed organ recitals in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. region as well as other venues such as the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium in New Jersey, the English cathedrals of Southwark, Gloucester, Blackburn and Norwich. Under the auspices of the La Gesse foundation, he has performed piano and chamber recitals in Toulouse, France, and Verona, Italy as well as Weill Recital Hall in New York City. This fall, he will assume the music position at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Timonium.
Mr. Moyer is pursuing a Doctorate in organ at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University as a student of Donald Sutherland. While at Peabody he has completed both a graduate performance diploma in organ and a Master's degree in piano as a student of Ann Achein. He has served as a coach/assistant to the Peabody Opera and currently serves as assistant conductor in the Choral Department. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Bob Jones University, where he studied with Laurence Morton. He has attended the organ festivals of Oundle and Cambridge, England, Romainia, Switzerland, and the Summer Organ Academy at the Hochschuler Musik in Leipzig. He has studied organ in Paris with Susan Landale and has appeared in master classes under such masters as Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, Michael Radelescu, David Craighead, Rudolph Lutz, David Sanger, and Robert Glasgow. He has served on the accompanying staff of the Interlochen School for the Arts and has attended the Middlebury College German Course for singers and vocal coaches program in Connecticut. In 2002, he was one of six finalists in the Arthur Poister organ competition in Syracuse, New York. Fromt he Peabody Conservatory he has been awarded scholarships in the areas of accompanying and organ performance. Academically gifted, he was invited to become a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. Sought after as a pianist, organist and conductor, his schedule is filled with collaborations with singers and instrumentalists. He especially enjoys accompanying the Washington D.C. Wagner Society, run by the great Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart.
Jonathan is the second-to-youngest in a family of six boys and one girl, all of who grew up on a farm in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. He still loves corn-on-the-cob, bluegrass music and the smell of fresh cut grass. He is a complete Richard Wagner nut case, which seeps into the very pores of his body and even into his email address.
Matthew Odell
The New Hampshire-born pianist Matthew Odell began his studies at the age of 10 and has since won acclaim for performances of a wide range of repertoire as a solo recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber musician. He has been hailed as “excellent” by the New York Times and “brilliant ... playing with total commitment and real abandon” by Gramophone. Recent concerts have including such diverse projects as Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles... with Maestro David Robertson and the Juilliard Orchestra for the reopening of Alice Tully Hall, a performance in the New York Philharmonic’s Stravinsky Festival, and solo recitals of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus. He also performed works for piano and orchestra by Berio and Messiaen with the AXIOM Ensemble and completed a six-concert tour of Taiwan with the Hampton Trio.
In addition to performances in Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the 92nd Street Y in New York, Mr. Odell has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in Boston, Chicago, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Taipei, Taiwan, and Helsinki, Finland. He has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival, New York’s Focus! Festival, the La Gesse Festival in Toulouse, France, Nuits musicales and Concerts du cloître in Nice, France, and the Rohm International Music Festival in Kyoto, Japan.
A passionate advocate of the music of our time, Mr. Odell frequently premieres works written for him. He has performed contemporary repertoire with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the AXIOM Ensemble, and the American Art Song Festival, a group he founded in 2004. In addition, he has also worked with many prominent composers, including Pierre Boulez, John Corigliano, Mark Adamo, and Robert Aldridge. Mr. Odell’s affinity for the music of Olivier Messiaen has been seen in performances of his Couleurs de la cité céleste with the Peabody Camerata, Des canyons aux étoiles... and Sept Haïkaï with the AXIOM ensemble, the Quartet for the End of Time in Alice Tully Hall, numerous songs and other chamber works, and an ongoing project of Messiaen’s complete works for solo piano. Upcoming recitals include a program of the music of Messiaen and his students and a recital of music premiered and championed by Messiaen’s wife, Yvonne Loriod.
Mr. Odell is a founding member of the Hampton Trio, a group actively involved in presenting outstanding pieces from the established repertoire alongside newly-commissioned works. Mr. Odell’s special love of the art song repertoire has resulted in countless recitals with singers from around the world. Recent performances include the complete songs of Samuel Barber and Henri Duparc at Lincoln Center, Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, and Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen. He serves on the coaching faculty of the Académie internationale d’été de Nice in France and has performed in the Marilyn Horne Foundations’s festival The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Odell recently graduated with a doctoral degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, and Brian Zeger. He studied further with Marian Hahn at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, graduating Pi Kappa Lambda with both a master of music degree and a graduate performance diploma in piano performance. He also worked with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, with Ann Schein at the Aspen Music School, and in master classes with Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Ian Hobson, Martin Isepp, Peter Hill, and the Tokyo String Quartet.
Mr. Odell’s many awards include the Presser Award, the Sarah Stuhlman Zierler Award, two Peabody Career Development Grants, the Lucrezia Bori Grant, the Virginia Allison Accompanying Award, and a Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit matthewodell.com.
Kathryn Ananda Owens
Winner of first prize in the 1993 Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition, Kathryn Ananda-Owens enjoys an active career as performer and teacher. A laureate of the American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Competition, she made her Asian debut in 1997 under the auspices of the government of Macao. She has performed as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, toured internationally as piano soloist with the St. Olaf Orchestra and has appeared at Lincoln Center. A founding member of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Ananda-Owens also performs with the Melius Trio and recently collaborated with members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the inaugural concerts of the North American Bridge Festival. She received degrees from Oberlin College, Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Julian Martin and accompanying with Eileen Cornett. Her concerts have been broadcast on radio and television on three continents and recorded on the Westmark label.
Mi Yeon Han
MiYeon Han, a native of South Korea, recently beagan her doctoral studies in accompanying at Boston University. As a graduate assistant for the Peabody Opera Theatre, she has served as assistant coach and pianist for productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, and The Turn of the Screw.
Ms. Han received her Bachelor of Arts degree in piano performance from Ewha Women’s University and a Master of Arts degree in accompanying at Hanyang University. Her teachers include Yeon Hee Choi, Eun Ah Ha, and Hea Eun Suk. In Korea, she worked with the Elshadai Choir and was an assistant teacher at Hanguk Christian Music Conservatory. In addition, she has accompanied numerous choral recitals and has served as a vocal coach at summer music camps in Dusseldorf, Germany and Vienna, Austria.
Miaomiao Wang
Miaomiao Wang is now in the GPD accompanying program at New England Conservatory of Music. She will join San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program as an apprentice coach in June of 2009.
As a graduate assistant for the Peabody Opera Theatre, she served as assistant coach and pianist for productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, and The Yellow Wallpaper.
Christine Pulliam
Christine Pulliam is currently accompanying and teaching at the Kings College in New York City. She completed her masters in vocal accompanying at Peabody in 2010 studying with Eileen Cornett. A native of Indianapolis, she graduated from Butler University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music where she studied with Panayis Lyras. She completed her Masters degree in piano performance at the University of Maryland where she studied with Santiago Rodriguez and André Watts. She recently performed at the Vancouver International Song Institute. Other performances include the Kennedy Center, Washington Sinfonietta, Masterworks Festival, and Brevard Music Festival. She was previously on the faculty of the Levine School of Music. A fan of new music, she has premiered works by Benjamin Boyle, Frank Felice and Joshua Bornfield.
Ming-Ching Wu
Ming-Ching Wu, a solo and collaborative pianist from Taiwan, began her music study in both piano and violin in early childhood. In 2006, Ms. Wu received a merit-based scholarship to attend the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Ms. Wu received two Master of Music degrees from Peabody; one in piano performance, studying with Boris Slutsky, and another degree in vocal accompanying with Eileen Cornett.
As a soloist, Ms. Wu was the winner of the National Taiwan Piano Competition, the Taipei City Competition, and the Baltimore Music Club Piano Competition. As a collaborative pianist, Ming-Ching Wu has served as coach and rehearsal pianist for Peabody Opera Theatre and Lorin Maazel’s Chateauville Chamber Opera Project, The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten. She will appear in recital with trombonist Haim Avitsur and cellist Amit Peled this summer.
As the recipient of Vladimir Horowitz scholarship, Ms. Wu will continue her study of collaborative piano at the Juilliard School of Music in the fall of 2008.
