Wellesley
College Music Department
Spring
2005
the Music Department
The Music Department is delighted to add new faculty members to its roster of highly accomplished performer/teachers. 2004 National Scottish Fiddle Champion and two-time New England Fiddle Champion fiddler Emerald Forman [left] has joined the faculty as director of Fiddleheads. [more]
Triple Helix highlights
East Asian Festival
April 2 - 11
[more]
Nancy Cirllo,
Gerdès Fleurant, and other faculty retire
[more]
Kudos for the new CD by La Donna Musicale,
with Baroque flutist and historian Claire Fontijn
[more]
Andrea Matthews offers a course
on the Alexander Technique
[more]
Choir Tours
California
January 2005 [more]
Wintersession
Opera Workshop
Meredith Smith ’05
[more]
Highlighting
New Alumna
Morgan Carberry
This fall, as she embarked on the first year of
her two-year Marshall Scholarship—the prestigious fellowship which
funds cultural and intellectual exchange in the UK—Morgan Carberry
was one of just 40 US scholars selected for the award. She is a student
at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she
is pursuing a Master of Performance degree in Musical Theatre—a
degree offered nowhere else. One of a tiny class of 12 students, she
is the first American ever accepted into the academy in its thirty-plus-year
history. “The
most thrilling thing” about this opportunity, Morgan says, “is
that I've gotten funding to pursue my passion.” [more]
Alumnae
Overtones
We’re
very happy to launch the first edition of Alumnae Overtones, providing
news, updates, and photos that offer a glimpse into the personal and
professional lives of the department’s alumnae. Some alums continued
their musical education into graduate school and pursued musical careers,
and others have taken different paths—such as into business, technology,
or medicine—while maintaining the musical connection in their lives.
We hope that this will be the first of many installments of a forum providing
the expanding network of Wellesley women with a musical connection. [more]
Jazz/World Music Expands
This
year there has been a dynamic shift in the Jazz/World Music Program.
With new classes, ensembles, performance opportunities, and a new program
director, its programming, importance, and visibility are expanding in
the department and on campus. Playing a key role in these changes is
the recently-appointed Program Director, saxophonist Cercie Miller, who
works with the faculty as they coordinate their activities more closely
to create a “Jazz Umbrella,” with shared concerts, workshops,
and master classes. [more]
The members of the Music Department faculty play active roles in the local, national, and international musical world. They perform in a tremendous variety of venues and styles, lead master classes, present lectures and papers, make recordings, write books and articles, adjudicate competitions, and earn honors, fellowships, and awards. The following recounts some of their recent and upcoming activities. (Hekun Wu, at left) [more]
Faculty photos by Imbeault, Susan Wilson; other photos by Judith Sandler unless otherwise credited