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Adelphi High School Jazz Program receives top honors at the North Texas University Jazz Festival
- 8 members of the Adelphi HS Jazz program led by falculty members Dave Lobenstein and Doug Renoud competed at the 8th annual UNT Jazz festival in Addison, Texas April 2-4th. The ensemble submitted an entry tape in November 7 and was selected as one of the 8 finalists to perform for audjudication as well as compete for a featured performance at the festivals final night concert.
7 of the 8 were selected as outstanding soloists , and the ensemble was selected as the top performing group. Eric Miller, trombone, was also selected as the festival's most outstanding soloist. He was awarded a full scholarship to UNT's brass symposium to be held this summer.
The high school program was started in 1996 and has gained a reputation on long island as one of the premier magnet programs for jazz.
In addition to the high school program, Adelphi's college jazz ensemble, under the direction of Dave lobenstein, is completing it's third successful semester. The ensemble is open by audition to all memebers of the student body. Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester. Please contact the Adelphi Music Department at 516.877.4290 for more information.
Faculty & Staff
Music Professor Receives New Honor
- Sidney Marquez Boquiren (Assistant Professor, Department of Music) was recently awarded a three-week residency at the prestigious MacDowell Colony over the 07/08 winter. While at the Colony, Prof. Boquiren will be working on The Rosary Project, an evening-long staged production for amplified voice, amplified flutes, electronics, and percussion ensemble, to be premiered in the Netherlands in the fall of 2008. Prof. Boquiren joins Prof. Christopher Lyndon-Gee in receiving this award. New Faces & Old: Changes to Full Time Faculty and Staff
New Faces & Old: Changes to Full Time Faculty and Staff
The 2007-2008 academic year not only brings new students to our campus but coincides with some particularly significant changes in personnel.
- Joanne Metcalf has joined the Music Department as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, temporarily replaceing University Professor Paul Moravec while he spends the year as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. Professor Metcalf, an award-winning composer with an international profile, joins us on leave from St. Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where she has taught since 2001. More...
- Michael Hume is now Choral Director and Music Program Coordinator. Hume has played a long and distinguished role within the music program at the University, and his new full time responsibilities acknowledge the tremendous support and leadership he continues to provide. In his new capacity as a full time staff member with teaching responsibilities, Hume will not only be working to further develop the choral program at Adelphi, but will also continue to coordinate and produce concerts and events, function as publicity and production liaison, and manage music program ensembles and support recruitment initiatives.
Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Associate Professor, Chair)
- Professor Lyndon-Gee was comissioned to compose a work for the 25th anniversary Presteigne Festival in Wales. The new work, titled Over Litton, is written for flute and harp and had its premiere at the Festival on August 28, 2007.
- He will be appearing with the Warsaw Philharmonic again as conductor during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Warsaw Autumn Festival in September 2007.
Sydney Boquiren (Assistant Professor)
- Professor Boquiren was guest composer at the first soundON Festival of Modern Music, sponsored by NOISE New Music Ensemble, in La Jolla, CA in June 2007. His composition angel music, a new work for mouth organ (khaen), was premiered by Christopher Adler.
- Two of Boquiren's works - Stabat Mater for aomplified female voice and electronics, and Panalangin/Pananampalataya (Prayer/Faith) for violin and piano - were used in performance by Residue Dance Theatre, with choreography by and under the artistic direction of Trebien Pollard at the Joyce Soho in NYC in July 2007.
- A new choral work, I Shall Not, will be premiered at a radio recording by Voces Nordicae (under the direction of Lone Larsen) in Stockholm, Sweden on September 28,2007.
- A piece for guitar and voice, to be performed by Adelphi faculty members William Zito and Jonathon Goodman, will be premiered this spring (date TBA).
- An ensemble work for guest performers, pulsoptional, a composers/performers collective based in Durham, NC will be premiered on March 17,2008.
Joanne Metcalf (Visiting Assistant Professor)
- In May, Metcalf's composition Ego dilecto meo was recorded and released on the Oehms Classics label by her longtime collaborators Ensemble Singer Pur of Germany. Singer Pur are the winners of the 2005 Echo-klassiek Prize (the German equivalent of the Grammy) for Best Vocal Ensemble Performance for their recording of, among other works, Il nome del bel fior, which Metcalf composed for them in 1998.
- In Spetember Singer Pur and England's renowned Hilliard Ensemble will perform Metcalf's Il nome del bel fior at the Beethovenfest in Bonn, Germany. The month-long festival features classical music's brightest stars; Il nome del bel fior will be heard on a special program entitled "Night of Voices".
Marilyn Lehman (Senior Adjunct Professor, Piano)
- Professor Lehman will be performing with The American Chamber Ensemble at the Annual Gala Music Party at Hofstra University, Axinn Library, on Sunday, September 23 at 3:00 PM.
- On Oct. 21, at 3pm, The American Chamber Ensemble will be performing at Hofstra University's Monroe Lecture Center Theatre featuring works by Edward Burlingame Hill, Felix Mendelssohn, Herbert Deutsch, Marga Richter, and Chandler Carter.
- In a continuing journey to record American composers, ACE looked back to the Society for the Publication of American Music, founded in 1919 in New York City, and will be recording Sonatas for clarinet and piano by Daniel Gregory Mason, Edward Burlinghame Hill and Leo Sowerby.
Linda Wetherill (Adjunct Professor, Flute)
- Signum Records, London, released "Scenes of Spirits", a CD premiering Chamber Music of the World, in June 2007. The CD features Professor Wetherill performing on the Bass Flute and on ethnic flutes from Ireland and Japan.
- Professor Wetherill will premiere solos the evenings of Sept. 30 and Nov. 28 in Manhattan at Jan Hus Church. Please see her personal website for more information.
- In January 2008 she will continue her recitals for the U.S. Department of State with a month in India, bringing back more instruments and lots of enthusiasm for the Adelphi "World Music Program" that starts up second semester.
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