Matthew Mugmon, who served as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence for the 2015–16 season, received his Ph.D. in historical musicology from Harvard University in 2013 and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013) before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 2014. He is also a Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) […]
Aaron Cohen has a varied career centered on music, audio and media. He is an award-winning radio producer and an accomplished musician, and also serves as New York Public Radio’s Director of On-Air Operations. His most recent project, the podcast and radio series Embrace Everything – The World of Gustav Mahler, an independent production currently in its third […]
Jeremy Barham is Professor of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Durham, and his research broadly concerns the meaning and cultural history of music, the nature of interdisciplinarity, and music’s relation to critical theory. These themes are pursued within three primary areas of interest: Gustav Mahler and early modernism; screen music; and […]
Tallā Rouge, meaning ‘the Red-Gold’ in Farsi and French, was established by the fiery Persian-American & Cajun-American violists, Aria Cheregosha & Lauren Spaulding under the mentorship of Roger Tapping at The Juilliard School. Inspired by their unique musical pasts, Tallā Rouge performs music that lives at the palpable intersection between Jazz, Folk, Pop, Middle-Eastern, and […]
Dr. Richard Adams joined the faculty of Texas Woman’s University in 2015. He has performed with the Center Stage Brass, Imperial Brass, Dallas Opera, Dallas Winds, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Lyric Stage, Richardson Symphony Orchestra, as well as other freelance performances in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Minneapolis/St. Paul metro areas. He has performed as guest […]
Dave Biller is a multi-instrumentalist based in central Texas. Known for his high level of versatility, he has written, performed, and recorded music in a huge variety of styles and genres, including; country, jazz, blues, rock, soul, and classical. He is equally adept on guitar, bass, and steel guitar (pedal and traditional non-pedal). A prolific […]
Lauded for her “stirring and singing tone” by Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, Canadian violinist Sophia Szokolay has captivated audiences across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician, Sophia balances a busy schedule as a recitalist and chamber musician while completing her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where […]
Dr. Jesse Orth (he/him) is the assistant professor of tuba and euphonium at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He has recently performed and presented at the International Tuba Euphonium conference, International Women’s Brass conference, Texas Music Educators Association conference, Texas Bandmasters Association conference, and the Army Band Tuba Euphonium workshop. Dr. Orth recently recorded his first album Un Día, and composed Into The Depths, […]
Alan Snow joined the Minnesota Orchestra in September 2022 and won the position of Associate Concertmaster in November 2022. Previously, he was the second associate concertmaster with the Omaha Symphony. Since his performance with the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra at age 13, Alan has performed solo and chamber works internationally, including appearances at Chicago’s Symphony Center, […]
Receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Julliard School of Music, David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stowkowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, and by appearing with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez Almost simultaneously, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band, and recorded with Duke […]
Described by the Chicago Sun Times as “…riveting and insightful, who lights up in passages of violin pyrotechnics,” Caroline Eva Chin has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in concert halls including the John F. Kennedy Center, the White House during their Christmas Festivities, New York’s Carnegie and Weill Halls, and the Concertgebeau […]
Classical violist and North Carolina native, Aria Cheregosha made her debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of 13 and was the semi-finalist in the 2012 Viola Congress Competition. Aria continued her musical studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston underworld-renowned violist and pedagogue Kim Kashkashian and under Roger Tapping at The […]
Joseph Horowitz’s eleven previous books mainly deal with the history of classical music in the United States. Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music (1987) was named one of the year’s best books by the New York Book Critics Circle. Wagner Nights: An American History […]
Nick Pfefferkorn was born in Leipzig in 1976. At the age of 7, he took up playing the trombone and later the bassoon, the instrument that has accompanied him to this day. After his school education and civilian service, he first completed a commercial apprenticeship. Then, in 1996, he founded the Pfefferkorn Musikverlag, an independent […]
It is no coincidence for Michael Baker to end up as a career musician as he was surrounded by all types of music from childhood. Sunday family dinners were always followed by impromptu concerts of Neapolitan Art songs and opera arias. Michael’s dad was an amateur violinist and a semi-professional alto sax man. Michael’s first […]