Eastman School of Music

1968

Bill Cahn reports that he returned to Japan in December for his sixth residency at the Showa Music Academy near Tokyo. Bill is a founding member of the Nexus percussion quintet and former principal percussionist for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

1970

Geary Larrick (MM) writes that he has all 10 of his scholarly books listed online in Books in Print. This year, he’s recognizing 40 years of scholarly publication. Geary performs regularly in central Wisconsin. . . . Gerry Niewood (see ’84).

1974

Karyl Lueck Louwenaar (DMA) has retired after 35 years at Florida State University’s College of Music, where she taught piano, harpsichord, and related courses and served as coordinator of the keyboard area from 2001 to 2007. She was an assistant professor of piano at Wheaton College in Illinois from 1963 to 1968. Karyl founded the Tallahassee Bach Parley and the Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition.

1975

John Serry ’91 (MM) writes that he performed in Prague and around the Czech Republic as guest pianist-composer with guitarist Adam Tvrdy and his group. The six-week tour included 12 concerts featuring his original compositions, several additional jazz gigs, and two workshops/master classes.

1983

Bradley Ellingboe (MM) was appointed Maestro del Coro of the Tuscia Opera Festival in Viterbo, Italy, last summer and will return to Italy this summer. He was named Faculty of the Year by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association in February. Bradley is scheduled to make his Carnegie Hall debut in May conducting Fauré’s Requiem.

1984

John Cipolla sends a photo of himself with Gerry Niewood ’70 (on left) and Charles Pillow (MM) (on right), woodwind players who performed at Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Show in November and December for Radio City’s 75-year anniversary.

1990

John Hollenbeck ’91 (MM) sends a photo announcing his marriage to Katharine Schroeder on August 5, 2006. Alumni who performed at the wedding include Dan Willis, Gary Versace ’93 (MM), Tom Nazziola ’88 and Kurtis Pivert ’92 (MM). John’s newest recording by his Claudia Quintet is FOR (Cuneiform Records), which has been chosen as one of the “CDs of the Year” by the BBC. The quintet recently returned from a Citi Global Encounters program in Istanbul, Turkey, organized by the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. John was named a Guggenheim fellow for 2007–08, and in the fall of 2006 accepted a professorship at the Jazz Institute Berlin in Germany.

1991

John Hollenbeck (MM) (see ’90). . . . John Serry (MM) (see ’75).

1994

David Ware (MM) writes that his new book titled The Attitudes and Opinions of Band Directors at Select Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Study of Philosophies, Methodologies, and Pedagogy is scheduled for publication this summer. He is an associate professor of music at Jackson State University in Jackson.

2005

Zachary Wadsworth is a winner in the 2008 Young Composers Competition sponsored by Pacific Chorale for his choral meditation, “Fantasy on a Theme of William Billings.”

2007

Analisa Leaming writes that she has been cast in an eight-month Asian tour of The Sound of Music. She will portray Sister Sophia and is understudying the role of Maria. . . . Christina (Ina) Woods writes that she won first place in the Rochester Oratorio Society’s second annual Classical Idol competition.