TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - Key Persons
Aaron Lakota, a Western Massachusetts native, works to promote music and the arts through performance, education, and community involvement. He believes that all people deserve access to high-level arts participation and performance and that exposure to the subtle beauty of music will help our society to thrive. Aaron encourages artists to build a local economy in their areas of passion and encourages the community to show appreciation for the arts by supporting artists, both individually and through arts organizations.
Aaron performs throughout New England as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. He performs with Pioneer Valley Symphony, Valley Winds, Pan Opera, Tundi, Juno Chamber Orchestra, and subs with Springfield Symphony. He has appeared in local concerts presented by the Brick Church series, Mohawk Trail concerts, Tuesdays in Bezanson, Tuesday Morning Music Club, Orchestra In The Orchard as well as many other chamber and solo recitals throughout New England.
Aaron received a bachelor's and master's in oboe performance from the University of Massachusetts. His primary mentors are Fredric T. Cohen and Tamara Field. He also studied with Kirsten Lipkens, Basil Reeve, and Michael Daves. He currently teaches oboe at Dartmouth College and from his home studio in Northampton MA. Aaron acts as a professional reed maker when he is not performing or teaching. A.Lakota Reeds supplies reeds to hundreds of oboists throughout North America.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Director of the Black Sound Lab
Allie Martin is an ethnomusicologist that explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in Washington, DC. Utilizing a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and digital humanities methodologies, she considers how African-American people in the city experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Percussion / Director, Performance Lab in Contemporary
Percussionist Amy Garapic is an energetic soloist, chamber musician, educator and adventurous producer who continually seeks to explore the role of percussion in today's music and culture. With a strong passion for the creation of new work, her performing is split between the Brooklyn-based powerhouse percussion trio, TIGUE, and the "focused and ferocious" new music chamber orchestra Contemporaneous.
She has worked closely generating new sounds with composers Robert Honstein, Jason Treuting, and John Luther Adams; has performed alongside Ensemble Signal, So Percussion, NEXUS, Bang on Can's Asphalt Orchestra and pop icon David Byrne; and has traveled to make music in Jordan, Mexico, Paris, and most recently India alongside Grammy award winner AR Rahman.
Amy also finds great value in exploring the relationship between performer and audience through musical community events. This year she united over 200 musicians from 24 cities and 7 countries in "A Worldwide Day of In C," a 14-hour live-streamed celebration of 50 years of Terry Riley's pioneering minimalist work. This, following her 2012 production of "A Worldwide Day of Vexations" joining over 100 percussionists in an 18-hour, live-streamed marathon of Satie's monumental work. She has also produced multiple performances of John Luther Adams' 100-percussionist Inuksuit, and was featured in both the New York Times and Rolling Stone after leading two successful seasons of hand drum lessons for inmates in Rhythm on Rikers.
Amy serves as lecturer at both Dartmouth College and Keene State College while also teaching through the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music working with elementary school students. Her summers are spent working as Operations Director and facultry at the Chosen Vale International Percussion Seminar. She is a proud endorser of Vic Firth sticks and mallets.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Program Director
- Associate Professor of Sonic Arts
- Professor of Music ( Sonic Arts ) Director, Graduate Program in Digital Musics
Ash Fure's full-bodied sonic experiences work on the senses in startling ways. Called "purely visceral" and "staggeringly original" by The New Yorker, Fure's live performances and built-out worlds mobilize the elemental force of sound, the social muscle of listening and our animal capacity to sense. Winner of two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Stuttgart Composition Prize, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University, Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Sonic Arts at Dartmouth College and was named co-artistic director of The Industry LA in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Lecturer
- Director of Bands at Dartmouth College
- Director of Bands, Senior Liaison for Hopkins Center Ensembles / Lecturer, Department
Dr. Brian Messier is Director of Bands at Dartmouth College, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Pep Band, and Youth Wind Ensemble. He also teaches courses in applied conducting, musical leadership, and entrepreneurship in the arts. After arriving at Dartmouth in 2019, Messier launched a Mexican Composition Competition, which he has since stewarded into MusicMexico; a Mexican music, culture, and diplomatic initiative sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth. MusicMexico is committed to bringing Mexican repertoire to the international stage, providing opportunities for Mexican composers, combating institutionalized racism in educational and professional performing ensembles, and bringing artists together across borders.
In addition to his work at Dartmouth, Messier is founder and Artistic Director of the 2016 American Prize winning Valley Winds based in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. Prior to his position at Dartmouth, Messier served as Artist in Residence and Director of the Wind Ensemble at Williams College and was Director of Bands at Belchertown High School, where his ensembles consistently received highest ratings at state and national levels, including being awarded the American Prize for High School ensembles in 2016. Lauded for his work with youth instrumental groups, Messier is in high demand as a clinician and guest conductor.
Messier received his bachelor's degree in music education from Ithaca College, his master's degree in wind conducting from the University of Massachusetts, and his doctoral degree in conducting from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Craig Kirchhoff.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Dartmouth Course Design: Brahms, Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination ( Fall 2013 ) .
- Professor
- Professor of Music, Emerita / Former Conductor, Handel Society and Chamber Singers
Conductor Melinda O'Neal is professor emerita of music at Dartmouth College where she taught courses and conducted choral ensembles (1979-2018). A specialist in performing major choral-orchestral works from Bach and Handel to Berlioz, Brahms and John Adams, she also concentrates on renaissance vocal music and performing with historical instrument ensembles.
O'Neal led the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, a student-community oratorio ensemble performing two-to-three choral-orchestral works annually with distinguished guest vocal artists and the Hanover Chamber Orchestra. Under O'Neal's 25-year leadership (1979-2004), repertoire included Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette and L'enfance du Christ, John Adams' Harmonium, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem and Hodie, Charles Dodge's The Staff of Aesculapius, Verdi's Requiem, and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, among others. Concertato Singers, an ensemble from within the Handel Society, shared concerts and performed in the region. O'Neal inaugurated and led the select all-undergraduate Dartmouth Chamber Singers (1979-1996). They performed a wide variety of repertoire, undertook seven international concert tours, and presented annual theatrical renaissance dinners entitled "Feast of Song." O'Neal designed and taught courses in conducting, music theory, text and music, and literature. She advised conducting students preparing honors theses, recitals, senior fellowships, and presidential scholar projects, and she initiated and taught in the Music Department's term-long study program in London, leading it four times.
O'Neal is also artistic director & conductor emerita of Handel Choir of Baltimore, a community-professional oratorio ensemble and period instrument orchestra she led from 2004-2013. Collaborations included concerts with Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Bach Sinfonia, American Opera Theatre, Pro Musica Rara, Peabody Early Music and Baroque Band. The Baltimore Sun noted, "Melinda O'Neal has steadily and rapidly honed this ensemble into quite a potent chorus... It was a thoughtfully constructed, entertaining program delivered with an informed sense of historic style."
O'Neal studied score preparation, choral literature, and conducting with Julius Herford, Jan Harrington, Fiora Contino, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Marcel Couraud, John Nelson, and Thomas Dunn. She taught and conducted at Indiana University, University of Georgia, Towson University and Texas Woman's University and was chorusmaster for the Seattle Symphony (WA), New Hampshire Symphony, and Monadnock Music Festival (NH). Her research focuses on the music of Hector Berlioz, historical performance practices, and conducting pedagogy. Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) represents a culmination of these interests. Heartfelt thanks are extended to the many Dartmouth students, community and professional singers and instrumentalists who performed well-known and lesser-known Berlioz works under her leadership.
Job Titles:
- Piano and Keyboard Technician
Crystal Fielding trained and received certification at Boston's North Bennet Street School, and is a Registered Piano Technician through the Piano Technicians' Guild. In addition to her work at the Hopkins Center, Crystal is a seasonal technician for Marlboro Music Festival and Yellow Barn Music Festival. Previously, she has worked as a keyboard technician at Tanglewood and Eastern Music Festivals, and at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. While protecting pianos from entropy is her chosen occupation, Crystal previously studied bio logy and behavioral ecology, and she may often be found in forests and mud puddles.
Her home and personal shop are located in Townshend, Vermont.
CÉSAR ALVAREZ (they/them/theirs) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create large experimental musicals as non-normative possibility spaces for embodiment, inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, 2020-22 Hermitage Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award, The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for lyrics and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. César is currently under commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Denver Theater Center.
César has written five full-length musicals:
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Trumpet
A native of Chicago and graduate of Juilliard, Edward Carroll was appointed lecturer in music in the spring of 2005. He also serves on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as instructor of trumpet and coordinator of brass studies and has enjoyed appointments as the International Chair of Brass Studies at London's Royal Academy of Music, Professor of trumpet at the Rotterdam (NL) Conservatory, as well as having a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He is the Director of the newly formed Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale.
Mr. Carroll served as principal trumpet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (James Conlon, Jeffrey Tate, and Valery Gergiev, Music Directors), the San Diego Symphony (David Atherton), and as associate principal trumpet of the Houston Symphony (Lawrence Foster), touring most of the world's major concert halls and festivals, and recording for Sony, EMI, Virgin, and Erato.
A frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Edward Carroll directed the New York Trumpet Ensemble from 1979 - 1988. He has also performed with the London Sinfonietta, Speculum Musicae, Music Today, I Musici di Montreal, Orpheus, the Bach Aria Group, the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), and as soloist with many North American and European orchestras. Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Larry Polansky, Bruce Adolphe, and Paul Moravec are amongst the many composers that have written new music for him, and his many solo recordings can be found on the Sony, Vox, MHS, and Newport Classic labels.
Edward Carroll has presented master classes at the Juilliard, Eastman, and Manhattan Schools of Music, the Curtis Institute, Rice and Northwestern Universities, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Tanglewood Institute, as well as at the St. Petersburg Conservatory "Rimsky Korsakov", Bremen Trumpet Academy, Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Hochschule fur Musik Cologne, and at the Royal Northern Conservatory (Manchester). He is a frequent adjudicator of international competitions, including the Concert Artist's Guild, Young Concert Artists, and Chamber Music America.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Dartmouth College
- Senior Lecturer, Voice
- Senior Lecturer, Voice / Assistant Director / Vocal Coach, Glee Club
Academic Appointments
Senior Lecturer, Voice
Assistant Director/Vocal Coach, Glee Club
Assistant Director/Vocal Coach, Handel Society
Co-Director, Dartmouth Opera Lab
Mezzo-soprano Erma Gattie Mellinger has been a principal artist with many opera companies across the United States including the Cleveland Opera, the Florida Grand Opera (Miami), the Dallas Opera, the Pittsburgh Opera Theater, the Fresno International Grand Opera, Opera Maine, and the Chautauqua Opera. Her roles, in over thirty operas, include Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI, Dorabella in COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Cherubino in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Ottavia in L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, and Preziosilla in LA FORZA DEL DESTINO. She has performed with Sherrill Milnes, James Morris, Diana Soviero and David Daniels and has sung Master Classes with Frederica Von Stade and Mignon Dunn. Conductors with whom she has worked include Harry Bicket, Stephen Lord, John DeMain and Willie Waters.
Hailed for her, "rich, vibrant, creamy voice," Ms. Mellinger is also at home on the concert stage appearing as soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Monterey Symphony and the Florida Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Mellinger appeared as soloist with the Handel Society of Dartmouth College in tours of England, France, Germany and Italy, performing in venues including Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Ms. Mellinger has been a member of the Dartmouth College faculty since 1996. In addition to her duties as Voice Instructor, she serves as the Assistant Director and Vocal Coach of the Handel Society and the Glee Club and Co-Director of the Dartmouth Opera Lab. Ms. Mellinger presents solo recitals and chamber music concerts on campus through the ChamberWorks Series. Ms. Mellinger is a former Director of Cantabile, a Women's Chorus based in Vermont and New Hampshire. In addition, Ms. Mellinger has directed church choirs and has served as both Stage Director and Music Director for numerous community theater productions. She is a sought after clinician in the field of vocal production, having most recently worked with the University Chorus and the Chamber Singers of Brandeis University.
Ms. Mellinger earned her Bachelor of Music Degree with Highest Distinction (First in Class) from Northwestern University. She received the Performer's Certificate and the Opera Certificate as well as a Teaching Excellence Award while at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester where she earned her Master of Music Degree and began her Doctor of Music Arts Degree before embarking on her singing career.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
- Director, Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
A native of Florence, Italy, Filippo Ciabatti was appointed Music Director of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra in 2016, after an international search. At the Music Department, he teaches chamber music and, in the Spring of 2018, he will teach a course in conducting and artistic direction.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Assistant
- Teaching Assistant
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- Master
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Adjunct Associate Professor
Hafiz Shabazz, master drummer and Director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble, is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer, and lecturer. He teaches courses on improvisation and nonwestern music. He has studied at he University of Ghana and The Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has studied in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, Julius Hemphill and Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. Professor Shabazz toured for many years with Wind and Thunder, a group devoted to improvisational jazz and nonwestern music. He has toured France, the Caribbean, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and lectured in over 500 schools and universities. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, West Africa, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and African Sensibilities.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Music, Emeritus
Larry Polansky (b. 1954) is a composer, theorist, teacher, writer, performer, programmer, editor and publisher. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, teaching at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the Emeritus Strauss Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and co-director and co-founder of Frog Peak Music.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Clarinet
Praised for her "soulful intensity," and renowned for her versatility, clarinetist Jan Halloran appears in an array of concert venues throughout New England. The Boston-based artist is Principal Clarinetist of both Boston Lyric Opera and Odyssey Opera and a member of the Grammy award winning ensemble Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), with whom she has premiered and recorded numerous new works. She has also appeared as a guest artist with many preeminent orchestral ensembles, including the Boston Symphony and Pops, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Ballet and Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
Ms Halloran has been featured in solo recitals at the Boston Conservatory, Dartmouth College and the Claremont Center for the Arts. She made her International Clarinet Association debut with the innovative bass clarinet ensemble Improbable Beasts. As a chamber musician she is a member of the Boston Conservatory faculty woodwind quintet, has performed and toured with the Walden Chamber Players, and has appeared with such notable chamber groups as Collage New Music and the Radius Ensemble.
A devoted educator, Ms Halloran is on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Dartmouth College and maintains a private clarinet studio.
Growing up outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Ms Halloran studied clarinet with Thomas Thompson. She earned her BM at the Eastman School of Music and MM at Boston University, with Michael Webster, and furthered her clarinet studies with Thomas Martin.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Bassoon
Janet Polk earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her master's degree at the University of New Hampshire. Currently, she is principal bassoonist of both the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Portland Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Springfield (Mass.) Symphony, New Hampshire Symphony, New Hampshire Music Festival and Indian Hill Symphonies and traveled to Honduras through the Partners of the Americas.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Lecturer in Jazz Guitar and Popular Styles
John Dunlop has been performing in the Northeast for over twenty years as Principal cellist with the Vermont Symphony, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Opera North, Vermont Mozart Festival and the Green Mountain Opera Festival. He has performed as soloist with both the VSO and BCO, as well as many chamber music performances with notable area musicians. He studied under Richard Kapuscinski at Oberlin Conservatory and Bonnie Hampton at the San Francisco Conservatory, and has played in master classes for Yo Yo Ma, Jerry Grossman, Steve Doane and others. John has also composed and recorded several award-wining film soundtracks for short films, including a documentary on childhood hunger in Vermont, where he called on his skills as a guitarist and bouzouki player in addition to cello. He has worked with Trey Anastasio of Phish on many of his solo albums. Besides his work at Dartmouth, John teaches privately in Richmond, Vermont where he shares a studio with his partner, VSO violinist Laura Markowitz.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Program in Digital Musics
Described by newspapers and magazines such as Washington Post, Gramophone International UK, San Francisco Examiner, Charleston Post and Courier, The Boston Intelligencer as "21st-century sensibilities", "exquisitely… ceaselessly compelling", "exceptional beauty and imagination", " a hybrid sonic labyrinth", and "beautiful and haunting and thought-provoking," Kui Dong's music has been performed and commissioned by numerous ensembles and received honors and prizes from a wide spectrum of prestigious institutions, including Central Ballet Group of China, The National Centre for the Performing Arts of China, Hong Kong's Phoenix Television Broadcasting Company, Japan's Public Interest Incorporated Foundation and Fukuyama Arts Foundation, Spain's Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, UK's Arditti Quartet, Austria's Ars Electronica, The Tanglewood Music Center, USA Commissioning Award, The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation and Library of Congress, the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Opera America IDEA Grant, Meet the Composer, ISCM, and ASCAP etc.
Her music can be found on New World Records, Sono luminous Records, Other Minds Records and Henceforth Records. Her first novel will be published by Knowledge Press and the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House in 2020.
Kui Dong is a professor of Music and was the Music department Chair from 2018-2020 at Dartmouth College.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Voice / Director, Dartmouth College Glee Club, Emeritus
Louis Burkot conductor received Dartmouth College's Distinguished Lecturer award in the spring of 2000 for his work in vocal instruction in the Department of Music. As an operatic conductor, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe has praised Mr. Burkot's work as "first-rate, capable, and stylish" and Opera North News has noted that his conducting "sparkles with verve and sensitivity to the needs of singers." Under Mr. Burkot's tutelage, many Dartmouth students have continued their musical studies at New England Conservatory, Boston University, Indiana University, Cincinnati Conservatory and others. Mr. Burkot's conducting studies included the Yale School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and the Houston Grand Opera. He is also Artistic Director of Opera North, which recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. In addition he is on the faculty of both the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute at Sarah Lawerence College and the Atlanta Academy of Vocal Arts.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Violin, Viola
Marcia Cassidy, viola/violin, is an active chamber music recitalist, teacher, and freelance violist. As a member of the faculty of Dartmouth College, she teaches violin and viola, coaches chamber music, and leads sectionals for the Dartmouth Symphony. Raised near San Antonio, Ms. Cassidy pursued her musical training at the University of Texas (Bachelor of Music), University of New Mexico, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory (Master of Music), and with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Yale School of Music. As the violist of the Franciscan String Quartet, Ms. Cassidy performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan to critical acclaim. The quartet was honored with many awards including first prize in the 1986 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Her principal violin teachers were Doris Norton, Stephen Clapp, and Leonard Felberg. As a violist she studied with Burton Fine and Geraldine Walther. Ms. Cassidy is a member of the Musicians of the Old Post Road (a Boston-area period performance chamber music ensemble) and the Burlington Chamber Orchestra (VT), and is principal violist for Opera North. She was a member of the Bella Rosa String Quartet, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, and has participated in numerous summer music festivals including Aspen, Banff, Blossom, Norfolk, and Tanglewood.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor of Music / Professor of Computer Science
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Lecturer, Jazz & Classical Saxophone / Director, Performance Lab in Jazz Improvisation
Double Bassist Nick Browne regularly performs with The Philadelphia Orchestra, with whom he has recorded, toured China, and performed at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared with the Pittsburgh, Houston, and Grand Rapids Symphonies, and the Rochester Philharmonic. In the summer, Nick serves as Principal Bassist of the Breckenridge Music Festival. A former member of the bass section of the San Antonio Symphony (2014-2020), he also performed as guest Principal Bass with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra in the spring of 2018 and 2019.
A passionate and devoted educator, his students have excelled at the state level in Texas and have gone off to study music in leading programs across the country, and he enjoys coaching youth orchestras.
A native of Pittsburgh PA, Nicholas earned a Bachelor of Music from Duquesne University and a Master of Music at Rice University, studying with Jeffrey Turner and Timothy Pitts respectively. As a student, he enjoyed summers at Brevard Music Center, Chautauqua Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Tanglewood Music Center.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Violin
Brazilian violinist Omar Chen Guey has performed internationally as a soloist with orchestras, in recitals and chamber concerts throughout Brazil as well as the United States, Europe, Qatar, Taiwan, Kenya and the Seychelles. He has been a featured soloist with the Brazilian, Campinas, Goiania, Minas Gerais, Claudio Santoro National Theater, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo Municipal, and the State of Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Amazonas Philharmonic, Petrobras Pro-Musica, Experimental Repertoire, Qatar Philharmonic, Manhattan School of Music, Stony Brook University Symphony, Maidstone Symphony and the Seychelles International Music Festival Orchestras. Following a recital in Oslo, Norway, he had the honor of performing for the King of Norway, Harald V. He is a prizewinner at both Tibor Varga and Lipizer International Violin Competitions in Switzerland and Italy, respectively. In 2019, He performed the Britten Violin Concerto with the Fribourg Youth Orchestra in Switzerland. During the pandemic, he has streamed from home, recitals for solo violin and with his wife at the piano.
Mr. Guey premiered the Violin Concerto by Jean-Charles Gandrille with the Qatar Philharmonic. This performance has been released on the French label Paraty. He released the Bach Concerto for Two Violins on the Paulinas Label with the Brazilian soloist Elisa Fukuda and the Camerata Fukuda, of which he was also concertmaster. He premiered and released a work for solo violin of renowned French Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife on Nagan records. He participated in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop and has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Lynn Harrell, Ani Kavafian, David Finckel, Lawrence Dutton, Kikuei Ikeda and Colin Carr.
He is a member of A Far Cry, a two time Grammy nominated self conducted chamber orchestra. A Far Cry performs multiple different programs in Boston each season and has toured extensively throughout the USA, Canada and Austria. He is the assistant concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and member of the New England Camerata Trio, which performs several chamber concerts in Vermont and New Hampshire each season. He is a regular guest artist with various ensembles around Boston, including the Walden Chamber Players, Radius Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, Boston Lyric Opera, Odyssey Opera and the Monadnock Music Festival, among others.
Mr. Guey holds a Doctorate degree from Stony Brook University, a Masters from Juilliard and a Bachelors degree from Manhattan School of Music. His principal teachers were Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, Philip Setzer, Ani Kavafian, Pamela Frank and Elisa Fukuda. He was awarded a full scholarship from the Brazilian government, the Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival Fellowship. He was assistant concertmaster of the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, in Valencia, Spain, under the direction of Lorin Maazel. He has served as concertmaster of the Jerusalem International Symphony Orchestra in Israel, and guest assistant concertmaster with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.
A native of Texas, Patrick Kennelly has been a hornist with the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, the Symphony of the State of Mexico and the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet. He has served on the faculty of the Ollin Yolizltzli School of Music, the Centro Nacional de las Artes, and Radford University. In his spare time he builds houses and raises his seven children.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Director of Text and Dramatic Studies, Dartmouth Opera Lab
Rachel Braude, flutist and piccoloist, is an active performer and teacher in the Boston area. She currently holds positions in the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Portland Symphony, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Odyssey Opera. Rachel can also be seen performing with the the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She is the former principal piccoloist of the St. Louis Symphony. An active teacher, she teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music (Prepatory Division) and is the newly appointed instructor of flute at Dartmouth College. Rachel is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School and her principal teachers include Trevor Wye, Geralyn Coticone and Lois Schaefer. She can be heard on the Chandos, Naxos, New World and BMOP Sound labels. Her debut solo recording can be heard on the album In Media Res in a piece written especially for her by the composer Lisa Bielawa, long time BMOP collaborator and Prix de Rome winner. In the summers, Rachel performs at the New Hampshire Music Festival and teaches at the Greenwood Music Camp (Junior Division). She is also a long time member of the prestigious Arizona MusicFest. Rachel and her husband, the violinist Charles Dimmick, have a young daughter, Chloe, who plays the violin.
Richard Beaudoin analyzes audio recordings, investigating the expressive rhythm of sounds made by the performer's body, their instrument, and the recording medium itself. His book Sounds as They Are (Oxford University Press, 2024) includes chapters on sounds of breath, sounds of touch, sounds of effort, surface noise, and inclusive track analysis (ITA). His research contributes to the fields of music theory, analytic aesthetics, and sound studies.
He comes to Dartmouth after having taught music theory and composition at Harvard University (2008-16) and having held posts as Valentine Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College (2005-06) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London (2016-17).
He has given invited lectures at the Paris Conservatoire, Vienna's Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Cambridge University's Centre for Music and Science, The Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft at the Hochschule Luzern, London's Royal Academy of Music, The University of York, The United States Consulate Shanghai Division, The Shanghai Conservatory of Music, East China Normal University, The Steinhardt School at New York University, Harvard University, Yale University, Tufts University, Boston University, Berklee College of Music, and The New England Conservatory. Published articles have appeared in Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory, Journal for the Society for American Music, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Perspectives of New Music, Organised Sound, Divergence Press, and the Journal of the CeReNeM.
His microtiming research is also used to create new music: iconic recordings are transcribed in minute detail, then treated as a palimpsest, forming a parchment over which original material is added. His music has been heard at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Brucknerhaus Linz, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, New York's Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall Citywide, The Kitchen, Boston's The Institute for Contemporary Art, The Calderwood Pavilion, Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, and in London at the Royal Festival Hall, Duke's Hall, The Forge, The Arcola Theatre, Wilton's Music Hall, Pushkin House, King's Place, and the Royal Academy of Music. Commissions include the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Staatstheater Kassel, the President of Harvard University, Sound Icon, and Boston Lyric Opera.
His instrumental music has been performed by Claire Chase, Roomful of Teeth, Rohan de Saram, Neil Heyde, Boston Lyric Opera, the Kreutzer Quartet, the Chiara String Quartet, Sound Icon, Transient Canvas, Mark Knoop, Colin Davin, Constantine Finehouse, Wolfram Rieger, Ulrich Naudé, Jan Philip Schulze, Philip Howard, Carl Rosman, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, and Marilyn Nonken. His vocal music has been sung by Annette Dasch, Dashon Burton, Estelí Gomez, Joseph Kaiser, Annika Sophie Ritlewski, Frank Kelley, and Kevin Burdette. His music has been recorded by Claire Chase and Roomful of Teeth (Another Woman of Another Kind), Mark Knoop and the Kreutzer Quartet (Microtimings), and Neil Heyde and Rohan de Saram (Digital Memory and the Archive).
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- Senior Lecturer / Technical Director, Bregman Media Labs
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- Associate Professor of French
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- Director, Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth
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- Chairman, Department of Music / Professor of Music