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Matt
Ardizzone, Guitar Ardizzone
has studied with Nicholas Goluses, Edward Flower
and with Eliot Fisk through a fellowship at the
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He is currently
editing a collection of mazurkas, including his own
transcriptions, for Mel Bay Publishing Co.; he
published a related article in Soundboard Magazine
(Spring '98). With Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees from Ithaca College, Ardizzone became the
first guitarist to receive the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in May
of 1997. Carter Pann,
Composer/Piano Emily
Perryman,
flute Jared
Hauser, Oboe Gabriela
Cohen,
clarinet Kyle
Hoyt(horn) Christopher
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o n t a c t U s
Guitarist
Matthew Ardizzone on the faculty of Nazareth
College in Rochester, New York. As a soloist,
Ardizzone won First Prize at the 1995 Rantucci
Guitar Competition and placed in the top five at
the 1997 Stotsenberg International Guitar
Competition. He has performed throughout the
midwest and northeast United States with concerts
and master classes at the Cleveland Institute of
Music, Bowling Green State University, Eastern
Michigan University, and the University of
Iowa.
(b.1972)
began studying piano at an early age with his
grandmother. At fifteen he began lessons with
Emilio Del Rosario at the North Shore School of
Music in Winnetka, Illinois. With these lessons
came an appreciation for performance technique and
advanced musical thought. He was also studying
composition with Howard Sandroff from the
University of Chicago at Hyde Park. In 1994 Carter
received his Bachelor degree from the Eastman
School of Music where he studied composition with
Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson and
David Liptak. He received a Masters degree from the
University of Michigan under William Bolcom,
William Albright and Bright Sheng. Honors in
composition include the K.Serocki Competition for
his Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio
Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw), First prizes
in the Zoltan Kodaly and Francois D'Albert Concours
Internationales de Composition, a concerto
commission for clarinetist Richard Stoltzman for a
premiere in Carnegie Hall, a Charles Ives
Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters
and four ASCAP composer awards. His works have been
performed in the United States and Europe. In 1997
the Czech State Philharmonic, Brno recorded four of
his orchestral works under Maestro JosÈ
Serebrier for release in January of 2000 as the
debut CD on Naxos' "21st Century American Composers
Series." His clarinet concerto is scheduled to be
recorded by the Seattle Symphony with Stoltzman and
Gerard Schwarz in the spring of 2000. He recently
finished a 9-minute scherzo for orchestra entitled
SLALOM which depicts the awesome thrill and beauty
of downhill skiing at Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
The American Composers Orchestra read the work in a
closed session in June of '99. As a complement to
concert music he has written a dozen TV commercial
jingles.
recently received her master's degree in flute
performance from the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor. She also holds a BM in flute performance and
BM in music education from the Ohio State
University, where she graduated summa cum laude and
was awarded the Theodore Presser Foundation
Scholarship. In addition to her studies with Lorna
McGhee, Leone Buyse and Katherine Borst Jones, Ms.
Perryman has appeared in master-classes with
flutists such as Susan Milan, Jim Walker, Robert
Willoughby and Carol Wincenc. A new member of Brave
New Works, Ms. Perryman has also enjoyed performing
as a soloist and chamber musician in a variety of
venues in and around Ann Arbor, Houston, TX and
Columbus, OH. Her orchestral credits include the
Plymouth Symphony, the Symphony of Southeast Texas,
in Beaumont, Orchestra X in Houston, and the Rome
Festival Orchestra in Italy. Ms. Perryman currently
performs as a freelance musician in the Ann Arbor
area and maintains a private studio of over forty
flute students.
performs
with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and is pursuing
doctoral studies at Michigan State University where
he is a recipient of a MSU Distinguished Fellowship
award. He was formerly the principal oboe of the
Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra and oboist with
the American Radio Chamber Orchestra (Houston). He
has also performed with the Houston Symphony , the
New World Symphony, and Windsor
Symphony.
is currently a senior at the University of Michigan
where he studies with Soren Hermansson in pursuit
of his Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance.
Recently his activities have included performances
with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra as a featured
soloist, and as a finalist in the University of
Michigan concerto competition. An active freelance
horn player in the Metro Detroit area, he serves as
principal horn of the Birmingham Bloomfield
Symphony Orchestra, and is a member of the Emerald
Sinfonietta. In recent summers he has been a member
of the American-Russian Young Artists Orchestra,
Sunflower Chamber Music Festival, Rafael Mendez
Brass Institute, and Luzerne Music Festival. Mr.
Hoyt has performed in cities within Western Europe,
Eastern Europe, and Russia. In January and February
of 2000 he will perform with chamber music
ensembles consisting of players from both Russia
and the US. They will tour the United States and
the Carribean. Born in Tucson, AZ, he began his
studies of the horn at age 12. Kyle's Principal
teachers have been Richard Britsch, Bryan Kennedy,
and Jeffery Lang.
Kathryn
Goodson, piano