Norfolk - Alumni Profiles

		Alumni Profiles 1990-1999


		Molly Barth 1997 (as faculty 2000-2003) New Music Workshop Flute eighth blackbird USA mbarth@uoregon.edu www.mollybarth.com

		eighth blackbird Tim Munro, flute; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinet Matt Albert, violin/ viola; Nicholas Photinos, cello Matthew Duvall, percussion; Lisa Kaplan, piano 1997 (as faculty 2000 - 2003) New Music Workshop USA www.eighthblackbird.com

		Maureen Hurd Hause 1994 Chamber Music Session Clarinet USA maureenhurd@hotmail.com Maureen Hurd is Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Chair of Woodwinds at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has appeared as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Highlights include performances at the 2007 and 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® in Vancouver, Canada and Japan as well as appearances in South Korea, France, England, and Mexico. Performances of contemporary chamber music include appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York’s Alice Tully Hall, at New York’s Merkin Hall, and in a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany. Hurd also frequently performs works composed by her husband Evan Hause. She earned graduate degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music where she also worked with materials in the Benny Goodman Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, resulting in an ongoing and award-winning research/performance project on Benny Goodman’s classical clarinet commissions and career. Her research has taken her to the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center where she gave a 2007 lecture-recital featuring works from the Library’s Benny Goodman Collection. Hurd frequently performs recitals, master classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist, playing Selmer Paris Signature Clarinets, and she is a Rico Artist (D’Addario & Company), playing Rico Reserve Reeds.

		Miró Quartet Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violins John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello 1994, 1996, 1998 Chamber Music Session USA miroquartet@mac.com www.miroquartet.com “World-class musicians” – World News Tonight (ABC News) “Playing of this caliber casts light on the path ahead.” – The New York Times The dynamic Miró Quartet, one of America’s highest-profile chamber groups, has risen to the top of the international chamber music scene, captivating audiences and critics around the world with its youthful intensity and mature interpretations. The Miró Quartet, founded in 1995 at the Oberlin Conservatory, met with immediate success, winning first prize at the 50th annual Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April 1996, and taking both the first and grand prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition two months later. Earning first prize at the 1998 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Miró Quartet also won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2000. In 2005, the Quartet was the first ensemble to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and received the Cleveland Quartet Award that year as well. The Miró Quartet is the Faculty String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Texas at Austin. Its members – violinists Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violist John Largess, and cellist Joshua Gindele – teach and coach chamber music there, while maintaining an active international touring schedule. With the Miró on campus, the University of Texas at Austin is one of only a small group of universities whose faculties include a world-class string quartet. Highlights of the Miró Quartet’s 2008-09 season include extensive tours of the United States and Canada, including a return to Carnegie Hall, where the Quartet will give the New York premiere of composer Kevin Puts’s “Credo”. Further season highlights include concerts in the Quartet’s home base Austin, TX, and recitals in Canada from Vancouver to Toronto and in Italy. The Miró Quartet is named for the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose surrealist works – with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy – are some of the most original of the 20th century.

		Patti Monson 1991 ( as faculty ) Chamber Music Session Flute USA

		Jennifer Parker-Harley 1990 Chamber Music Session Flute Hanson Wind Quintet USA jparkerharley@mozart.sc.edu

		Ying Quartet Frank Huang and Janet Ying, violins Phillip Ying, violia; David Ying, cello 1994 Chamber Music Session www.ying4.com

		Timothy Ying 1994 Chamber Music Session violin Ying Quaret