2010 Summer Workshop Faculty || MYCO

Mallarmé Youth Chamber Orchestra 2010 Summer Workshop Faculty (partial listing)
	Artistic Director: Yoram Youngerman Viola, violin & orchestra Ensembles: Tonu Kalam, orchestra Susan Klebanow, choir Piano: Karen Allred Wonmin Kim Woodwinds: Donald Oehler	Strings: Jonathan Bagg, viola Nancy Green, cello Emanuel Gruber, cello Scott Laird, violin improv Richard Luby, violin Eric Pritchard, violin Fred Raimi, cello Leonid Zilper, cello

			Yoram Youngerman, MYCO Artistic Director Viola, violin and orchestra Mr. Youngerman performed in major venues worldwide including the Lincoln Center, New York; Barbican Center, London; and other venues in Washington, Toronto, Amsterdam, Zurich, San Francisco, and Berlin. He performed extensively around the country as a member of the internationally award winning Amernet String quartet and was invited to collaborate with prominent ensembles, including the Tokyo String Quartet, Ying String Quartet, members of the Cleveland String Quartet, Ciompi String Quartet, and as a guest solo artist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Youngerman served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Northern Kentucky University, and East Carolina University. In the latter, he was also director of the Chamber Music Program. More recently he spent a year teaching at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music in Israel, before returning to Chapel Hill. In 2005, Mr. Youngerman founded the Mallarmé Youth Chamber Orchestra, a project for advanced studies in Chamber music for talented pre-college musicians. He continues to serve as the conductor and Artistic Director of the organization. Mr. Youngerman is a regular participant at the Summit Music Festival in New York, where, in addition to teaching and performing, he conducts the Chamber Orchestra. He is also the Artistic Director of the Mallarmé Youth Chamber Orchestra Summer Workshop, which takes place annually at the UNC facilities. [top]
			Karen Allred, piano Karen Allred received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in May 2007. She holds the Master of Music degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied with Michael Zenge. She joined the faculty of Meredith College in 1989. She gave an all-Chopin recital in Bougival, France, just outside of Paris, in May 2008. She has collaborated with members of the North Carolina Symphony as well as having appeared as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras in Colorado, South Carolina, New York, North Dakota, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina. Critics have described her playing as “stunning,” having a “lovingly produced sound that circled and enveloped the listeners” and presenting a “confident mastery” (CVNC). Allred is an active festival and master class clinician, adjudicator, and recitalist. She maintains a private studio in Chapel Hill where she enjoys teaching adults and pre-college students of all ages. Her students have received awards at state and international levels. Dr. Allred is President of the Mallarmé Youth Chamber Orchestra (MYCO), serves on the Board of Directors of the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, and is the College Faculty Chair on the Board of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association. [top]
			Jonathan Bagg, viola As as solo violist Jonathan Bagg has a continuing interest in bringing new, unfamiliar, and forgotten works to life. Recitals have brought him to places such as the Phillips Gallery in Washington DC, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and Manchester, New Hamphsire’s Currier Gallery. Concerto appearances include the Pioneer Valley Symphony in Massachusetts, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra. Bagg has recorded the solo music for viola and piano by Robert Fuchs (1847-1927), and also contemporary solo works by Malcolm Peyton and Donald Wheelock. His most recent disc is of music for viola and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann with pianist Jane Hawkins, on the Centaur label. He appears on an upcoming Bridge Records CD playing a work written for him by American composer Arthur Levering. In 2007 Mr. Bagg became Music Director of the Monadnock Music festival in New Hampshire. He directs the chamber music program at Duke University, where he served as Director of Undergraduate Studeies for seven years. He graduated with honors from both Yale University (B.A.), and the New England Conservatory (M.M.), where he was a student of Walter Trampler. [top]
			Nancy Green, cello Nancy Green studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Lynn Harrell and performed in the master classes of Mstislav Rostropovich. She made her concerto debut in New York playing Dvorak concerto at Lincoln Center, was spotlighted as a Young Artist of the Year by Musical America and won prizes and awards including the Concert Artists Guild Award which sponsored her first New York recital. After receiving a Rockefeller grant for study in London with Jacqueline du Pre, she worked with Johannes Goritzki in Dusseldorf, Germany where she was winner of the Schmolz-Bickenbach Award. Green has performed extensively on the concert stage and for radio and television in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. She has appeared as soloist in venues such as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Munich's Herkulessaal, Windsor Castle, and London's Wigmore Hall as well as major concert halls in Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul. Ms. Green was the first cellist to record the complete Hungarian Dances of Brahms arranged by Piatti, Donald Francis Tovey's sonata for solo cello, the complete works for cello and piano of Robert Fuchs, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Arensky, among others. Her numerous CDs are broadcast frequently both in the United States and abroad and her performances have earned rave reviews internationally. Ms. Green's Tovey/Kodaly solo disc was chosen by Fanfare Magazine as among the top recordings of the year. [top]
			Emanuel Gruber, cello B.M., M.M., Tel Aviv University. Formerly Principal Cellist of the Israeli Chamber Orchestra. Was awarded the Pablo Casals Prize by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970 and won the Concert Artists' Guild Auditions in 1975. Has participated in Heifetz-Piatigorsky masterclasses at the University of Southern California. Gruber has been on the faculty of the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and served as a visiting professor at Indiana University. He has participated in the "Musical Spring Festival" in St. Petersburg and the Rostropovich Cello Festival in Riga. Mr. Gruber was on the jury of the 2nd Davidoff International Cello Competition. [top]
			Tonu Kalam, orchestra Tonu Kalam serves as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra and has taught instrumental conducting at UNC since 1988. Educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1969), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1971) and the Curtis Institute of Music (Certificate, 1973), he is also Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas, Founder and Music Director of the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra, and has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and in Europe. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen, as well as many years at Marlboro. He has appeared as guest conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, among others, as well as the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Finland's Oulu Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Kalam served as Music Director of the New England Chamber Orchestra in Boston. He was a prizewinner in the first Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor's Competition, and a finalist in the prestigious Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductors Program. Tonu Kalam has conducted over 135 opera performances, for companies such as the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival and the Nevada Opera Company. He was Music Director of the Illinois Opera Theatre at the University of Illinois, and was also Visiting Associate Professor and director of the orchestra programs at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He has guest conducted all-state, all-region and all-county orchestras in New York, North Carolina, Texas and Montana. In 1984 Mr. Kalam became associated with the Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician, and is also Past President of the Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild, an international organization serving the artistic and professional needs of conductors. [top]
			Wonmin Kim, piano Wonmin Kim has performed with the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, as well as in numerous venues including Carnegie Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kimmel Center, Zürich Tonhalle, Kioi Hall (Tokyo), and Kumho Art Hall (Seoul). Ms. Kim has appeared in concert series such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert Series, the Schubert Festival (Seoul), the Orpheus Concert series (Switzerland), Salzburger Schlosskonzerte, and others. She has collaborated with Chee Yun, Sarah Chang, David Chan, Wolfgang Schmidt, Ryu Gotto and Cho Liang Lin. Recent engagements include a US tour with violinist Chuan Yun Li, and a collaboration with Igor Ozim at Kumho Art Hall. Ms. Kim has been broadcast by WQXR, the Swiss Radio International, SRI and the Korean Broadcast System (KBS). Wonmin Kim is the recipient of Juilliard’s prestigious Vladimir Horowitz Award. She holds degrees from the Konservatorium für Musik und Theater Bern (Switzerland) and The Juilliard School. Since 1999, Ms. Kim has been a staff collaborative pianist at The Juilliard School. She also has been a staff member at the Great Mountains International Music Festival (Korea), the Aspen Music Festival and the Starling Foundation. Ms. Kim joined the piano faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill in 2006. [top]
			Susan Klebanow, choir Susan Klebanow holds a BA degree from Brandeis University and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music. She taught at Brandeis University before joining the Music Department faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chair of Choral Activities. Susan Klebanow received UNC's Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1998 and a Chapman Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in 2003. She is currently collaborating with composer Marjorie Merryman on the commission of a choral work for the Carolina Choir, and is the regular guest conductor of Ensemble Courant, the Society for Performance on Original Instruments. Ms. Klebanow leads choral festivals, workshops, and clinics throughout the Southeastern US, Mexico and Hong Kong, and has served as guest conductor of many choral and instrumental ensembles. An accomplished soprano, she has performed extensively with contemporary music and early music groups based in Boston, North Carolina and Mexico City. With the Boston Camerata she has recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Erato and Arista labels, and has recently appeared as soloist with the Greensboro Oratorio Society, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community Chorus, and Mexico’s renowned Baroque ensemble, La Fontegara. She is a native of Danbury, Connecticut. [top]
			Scott Laird, violin improvisation Scott D. Laird, a native of Indiana, PA, earned his B.S. in Music Education and his M.A. in Violin Performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is an Instructor of Music and Fine Arts Coordinator at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics where he directs the orchestra and teaches courses in Recording Technology, Classical Guitar and Piano, and Music History. He is an active string educator, performer, recording artist, and conductor. Prior to his appointment to NCSSM in 2001, Laird was director of orchestras for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD from 1992-2001 and the district-wide string teacher for the Palmyra, PA school district from 1986-1992. While in Palmyra, he founded the Palmyra Bluegrass String Camp, a camp to teach string players with classical backgrounds the fundamentals of bluegrass music. He is a member of Music Educators National Conference, American String Teachers Association, and served as Chair of the North Carolina Music Educators' Association Orchestra Division from 2006-2008. Additionally, he is President-Elect of the NC Chapter of The American String Teachers' Association. Laird is nationally visible as an Education Specialist for D’Addario Strings, NS Design Violins, and Coda Bows where he is a noted as an authority on string education, electric and MIDI string instruments and their applications in the classroom. In addition, Laird is an active electric violinist and recording artist and has appeared on the Motown, REX and Roadrunner record labels. His latest solo CD entitled, "Simple Gifts," features his writing and performing on a variety of string instruments with an emphasis on the electric violin. He is also well known for his electric violin work with the thrash metal band, Believer. The Gospel Music Association nominated their last album, Dimensions, for a Dove Award in 1993. Recently, Scott collaborated with Motown artist and former student, Mya, writing and performing the orchestration on the song "Nothing at All." In his spare time, Laird enjoys a variety of activities including running and camping, as well as road and mountain biking. He, his wife, Barbra, and their sons, Matthew, Joseph, and Cael, reside in Durham, NC. [top]
			Richard Luby, violin Richard Luby holds a D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music, an M.M. from the Juilliard School of Music, and a B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music. His career extends from Baroque and Classical music on historical instruments through to the newest repertoire for modern violin. Formerly on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and a 1991 Visiting Professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, he is currently on faculty at UNC, where he teaches violin, is co-founder and co-director of the original instrument Ensemble Courant, and performs with the resident contemporary music ensemble 27514. Mr. Luby has appeared as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa of Mexico, National Radio Orchestra of Poland, the Rochester Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the National Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony. He has given recitals of the complete works for violin and piano of Ives, Prokofiev, Brahms, and Stravinsky, as well as the Sonatas for violin and harpsichord of J.S. Bach. Mr. Luby has been a featured artist with numerous period instrument ensembles, including Concert Royal, the Folger Consort, and the Mozartean Chamber Players. His recording credits include two sets of Haydn Trios on the Arabesque label, Bach Concerti on Society Records, and Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Baroque Violin, recorded for BBC broadcast by Meridian Records. Mr. Luby has performed throughout the world as a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century of Amsterdam, and as conductor/soloist with orchestras in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. He has been a guest clinician at universities and conservatories throughout the United States and Mexico, Spain and Cuba. In spring semester 2000, Luby was a Chapman Fellow and Guest Professor at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. Mr. Luby plays several historically important violins: a Brothers Amati violin made in Cremonia, Italy in 1623 and restored to Baroque configuration, and a Michelangelo Bergonzi made in Cremona in 1757. [top]
			Donald Oehler, woodwinds Donald L. Oehler performs with the Carolina Wind Quintet, instructs clarinet, and directs the University Chamber Players. Professor Oehler is director of Chapel Hill Chamber Music, the Corso Internazionale di Musica da Camera, and coordinates the UNC Canterbury Christ Church University College exchange program in music. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Professor Oehler joined the UNC faculty in 1971. His performing and teaching activities have taken him throughout the United States, Central America, Canada, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, as well as the Middle East. He began his career as principal clarinet of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Teheran, Iran. Since joining the UNC faculty, he has performed regularly with the St. Stephen's Chamber Orchestra, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, The Carolina Wind Quintet, and Sonsa. Additionally, Mr. Oehler has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony, the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Banchetto Musicale (Boston), the 18th Century Players (New York), and Ensemble Courant. Mr. Oehler was one of the early U.S. clarinetists to become active on classical instruments, including performance on the basset clarinet. He has also steadily sustained activity in the performance of new literature for the clarinet, having recently given the world premiere of Peter Lieuwen's Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in Aberystwyth, Wales and the U.S. premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata for Clarinet and Piano at ClarFest in Tallahassee, Florida. He is founder/director of the University Chamber Players, past director of the UNC New Music Ensemble and founder/member of the Q'Appelle Winds, a Canadian-US wind octet. Mr. Oehler founded and directs Chapel Hill Chamber Music, an annual workshop in chamber music, and is co-director and host of Clarinet Chamberfest, a workshop in clarinet chamber music performance. He is director of the UNC Summer Study Abroad Course in Chamber Music, and serves on the faculty of the Corso Internazionale di Musica da Camera in Tuscania, Italy. He also serves as director of winds for MusicFest in Aberystwyth, Wales, where he is a featured performer, and is on faculty at the Utah State Music Festival. Other chamber performances have included the Bartok Festival in Szombathely, Hungary, and the International Clarinet Festival in Ghent, Belgium. He has been heard on the BRT I and BRT III in Belgium and the CBC in Canada. Mr. Oehler has appeared with numerous string quartets, including the Haydn Quartet, Chester Quartet, Ciompi Quartet, the North Carolina String Quartet, and the North Carolina Symphony String Quartet. Mr. Oehler has studied with Joseph Allard, Bernard Portnoy, and Jack Brymer. [top]
			Eric Pritchard, violin As First Violinist of the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, Eric Pritchard performs regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad, and can be heard on many commercial recordings. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Boston Pops and Indianapolis Philharmonic, and was formerly the First Violinist of the Alexander and Oxford Quartets. Festival appearances include Mostly Mozart, Norfolk, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Monadnock Music, the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, and the Castle Hill Festival. Mr. Pritchard was winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Award in Violin, as well as the first prize winner at the Portsmouth (England) International String Quartet Competition and the Coleman and Fischoff national chamber music competitions. Mr. Pritchard's major teachers were Eric Rosenblith, Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian and Isadore Tinkleman. He holds degrees from Indiana University and the Juilliard School, and has taught at Miami University, San Francisco State University, City University of New York, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. [top]
			Fred Raimi, cello In addition to his work with the Ciompi Quartet, Fred Raimi especially enjoys the opportunity to perform with his wife, Jane Hawkins. Jane has performed often with the Ciompi Quartet and its members, going back to recitals with Giorgio Ciompi in the 1970s. Mr. Raimi began his studies as a youth in Detroit at Cass Technical High School. This season he and Jane Hawkins will join forces with an old Detroit friend, Richard Luby, for a concert of Beethoven and Brahms trios with the Mallarmé Chamber Players. Mr. Raimi joined the Duke faculty and the Ciompi Quartet in 1974, after graduating from the Juilliard School and receiving a Masters degree from State University of New York-Binghamton, where he performed as a member of the Amici Quartet. Among his marks of distinction, Mr. Raimi has won the International Cello Competition in Portugal and was a participant in Pablo Casals' final master class. His instrument was made by Vincenzo Ruggieri in Cremona, Italy, in 1691. [top]
			Leonid Zilper, cello Cellist Leonid Zilper was born in Moscow, Russia and received the Master of Music degree in Performance from Moscow Conservatory, where he graduated with honors and won an all-Soviet String quartet competition. Under the sponsorship of members of the famous Borodin Quartet, his group was chosen to tour internationally with the Stars of the Russian Ballet. Since then, he has performed with a wide variety of chamber music groups, along with the Moscow Symphony and the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. He has played throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, Australia, Africa, South America, and Asia. Mr. Zilper emigrated to the United States in 1976 and shortly thereafter joined the North Carolina Symphony, where he currently holds the Nell Hirschberg Endowed Chair. Mr. Zilper has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of Virginia and the Raleigh Civic Symphony. In addition, he continues to perform extensively throughout the Southeast in recitals and chamber music concerts. [top]