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June 14 –
29, 2008 Acting
Marilyn McIntyre
Toluca Lake, California
Acting Instructor
Marilyn McIntyre has been a professional actress for over thirty years. She has played leading roles on and off-Broadway and with several major regional theater companies, as well as on television and film. She has garnered several awards for her theater work in Los Angeles. McIntyre received her bachelor's from the North Carolina School of the Arts and her master's from Penn State. She has studied Suzuki physical training and the theatrical technique Viewpoints in Los Angeles with the SITI Company and renowned director Anne Bogart. She also studied with Uta Hagen and is proud to be featured in the documentary/teaching video, Uta Hagen's Acting Class. Currently, McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood and with the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory at the American Film Institute. Her other teaching credits include the University of Southern California, The Old Globe/University of San Diego M.F.A. Actor Training Program, the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts, and the University of Texas-Austin, among others.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Acting - Voice & Movement
Melina Bielefelt
Los Angeles, California
Acting - Voice & Movement
Melina Bielefelt has trained for twelve years with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York. She has studied Commedia dell'arte, de Creux mime, Butoh dance, and mask work, in addition to more traditional dance forms. As an actress, Bielefelt has toured both nationally and internationally. She performed in Kiev for the inaugural year of the International Bulgakhov Festival, and completed a six-city U.S. residency with the L.A. Poverty Department's production Agents and Assets, directed by John Malpede and produced by Peter Sellars. Bielefelt appeared in the Los Angeles premiere of WOYZECK, directed by Robert Wilson. Her film credits include two installations by Bill Viola that have been presented in Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Italy and New York. Bielefelt was a faculty member at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles, and she has led workshops at numerous institutions, including the Art Institute of California, UC Santa Barbara, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Creative Writing
George Bilgere
University Heights, Ohio
Creative Writing
George Bilgere's recent books are The Good Kiss (University of Akron Press, 2002), and Haywire (Utah State University Press), which won the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2006. He is the author of two other books of poetry, The Going (University of Missouri, 1995) and Big Bang (Copper Beech Press, 1999). The Going received both the Devins Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems appear regularly in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Field, and New England Review. He has been featured in Best American Poetry in 1999 and 2002. Radio host Garrison Keillor has read Bilgere's poems on a number of occasions on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac." Bilgere has given readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and at colleges and public institutions around the country. He directs the creative writing program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Drawing & Painting
Isak Applin
Chicago, Illinois
Drawing & Painting
Isak Applin received his B.F.A. in1998 from the Maine College of Art and his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Giftshop Project Space and Contemporary Art Workshop, both in Chicago. Applin has participated in group exhibitions at Roots and Culture in Chicago, University of Saint Francis in Joliet, Illinois, The Helm in Tacoma, Washington, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His work is part of the public collections of the New York Public Library Special Collections and the Boston Public Library Print Collection. Applin has received the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the Lawrence Sisson Traveling Fellowship and the Roger Brown House Residency. Applin is currently an instructor in the painting and drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Photography
Huntington Witherill
Monterey, California
Photography
Huntington Witherill was born in Syracuse, New York in 1949. Initially trained as a classical pianist, he began a career in fine art photography in 1970. During the mid-1970s he studied photography under such notables as Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch and Al Weber. Over the past thirty-seven years, Witherill has participated in more than ninety solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world, and his photographs are maintained in numerous public art collections. Since 1975, he has taught photography for a variety of institutions and workshop programs around the country. His work has been the subject of two hardcover monographs, Orchestrating Icons (2000) and Botanical Dances (2001), both published by LensWork Publishing. Witherill was the 1999 recipient of the "Artist of the Year" award presented by the Center for Photographic Art.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Photography Assistants
Derek Jennings
Madison, Wisconsin
Darkroom Technician
Derek Jennings is owner and manager of Derek Rendel Jennings Photography, a freelance photography and graphic design business primarily serving the photography and promotion needs of non-profit, educational and government entities. His freelance experience includes a national campaign for the American Diabetes Association. Jennings is currently a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research is focused on how imagery creates and defines community, and the role of imagery in various cultures, including popular culture. In his research, Jennings is concentrating on the use of photography as a primary research method and tool, incorporating images and text equally into a final thesis. Additionally, Jennings is the art coordinator for the PEOPLE Program, an initiative designed to give underserved high school students greater access to college educations. Jennings earned a bachelor's degree in film and sociology from Dartmouth College and holds a master's degree in education from the University of Oklahoma.
Ben Long
San Francisco, California
Digital Technician
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer and writer. The author of over a dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he has been a longtime contributor or contributing editor to many magazines including MacWeek, MacUser, Macworld UK, and others. He currently writes for Macworld magazine, and is a senior editor at CreativePro.com. His photography clients include 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, and currently leads a "photo university" inside Apple, Inc., where he teaches photography to Apple's imaging engineers. In 1985 he was a student at the Oklahoma Arts Institute, where he studied acting with Ed Sherin.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Film & Video
Sterlin Harjo
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Film
Sterlin Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Creek Nations and is a native of Holdenville, Oklahoma. In 2004, Sundance Institute selected Harjo to receive an Annenberg Fellowship, which provided support to create his feature project Four Sheets to the Wind. Through the Sundance Institute's Filmmaker Labs, Harjo worked under the guidance of industry veterans such as Robert Redford, Stanley Tucci, Joan Tewkesbury, and many more. Four Sheets to the Wind premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2007, where it received a Special Jury Prize for outstanding performance by lead actress Tamara Podemski. The film went on to garner awards at other film festivals, including "Best Director" for Harjo at the AIFI Film Festival in San Francisco and "Best Film" at the Imaginative Film Festival in Toronto. Harjos short film Goodnight Irene premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and has played at festivals around the world. The work has garnered awards including Special Jury Recognition at the Aspen Shorts Festival and "Best Oklahoma Film" at the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City. Harjo is currently editing his new film, Barking Water.
Nathan Young
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Film
Nathan Young is a multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of film, documentary, animation, multi-media installation, and experimental and improvised music. Young recently produced and directed the documentary film Creating Space: Culture and History in Indian Healthcare, a case study of American Indian healthcare. Young's films have screened in international film festivals and were featured in the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Film + Video Festival. Young is a recipient of the 2006 National Video Resource Media Arts Fellowship. His feature-length screenplay Heavy Metal Indians was selected as a project for the 2007 Sundance Institute's Native Initiative and received the Honorable Mention prize in the 2008 Tribeca All Access Screenwriting Competition. Young received his bachelor's in art history from the University of Oklahoma. Young is of Pawnee, Kiowa and Delaware decent.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Film & Video Assistants
Jeff Rich
Savannah, Georgia
Film & Video Editor
Jeff Rich received his bachelor's degree in film and is pursuing an MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His current photography project, "Watershed," has been shown at numerous galleries along the east coast. Rich currently runs the facility of the photography department at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Paul Taggart
Beirut, Lebanon
Film & Video Technician
Paul Taggart is a photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon focusing primarily on the Middle East and Africa. He works on a range of stories including war coverage in Iraq and Lebanon, the famine in Niger, the 2005 tsunami in Banda Aceh Indonesia, oil militias in Nigeria, Congolese refugees in Tanzania, and eco-pirates off the coasts of Antarctica. Taggart's clients include Newsweek, TIME Magazine, US News and World Report, The New York Times, Harper's and Queen, People Magazine, Figaro, Der Spiegel, The International Herald Tribune, Maxim, and National Geographic Adventure. This will be Taggart's sixth year working with the OSAI film program. Originally from Tulsa, he was an OSAI photography student for two summers. Taggart is currently working on a long term documentary project examining the definition of terrorism and human rights issues.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Ballet
Flavio Salazar
New York, New York
Ballet
Flavio Salazar, a native of Colombia, began his dance studies at the Colombian Institute of Classical Ballet (Incolballet). He joined Ballet de Cali in 1985, before joining the faculty of Incolballet upon his certification by the National Ballet of Cuba to teach methodology and pedagogy of ballet technique. In 1990, he studied at the Houston Ballet Academy as a full scholarship student, and later joined Ballet Arizona in 1992. In 1993, Salazar was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). During his thirteen-year career with ABT, Salazar danced nearly every ballet in ABT's repertoire, before retiring from the company in July of 2006. Salazar's teaching experience extends from his early years of professional dancing in Colombia. He has taught classes at ABT II, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the ABT Summer Intensive, the Alvin Ailey School, and Ballet Tech, among others.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Ballet Accompanist
Rich Klessig
New York, New York
Ballet Accompanist
Rich Klessig has been a ballet accompanist for over 15 years, getting his start at Ballet Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. As a composer of ballet music, his full length Don Juan was premiered by Ballet Oklahoma in 1996. Klessig graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992 and released the CD Quiet Jazz for Solo Piano in 1997. He now lives in New York City where he plays regularly at Alvin Ailey, the Joffrey School, Steps on Broadway, and numerous other studios.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Modern Dance
Muriel Cohan
Lawrence, Kansas
Modern Dance
The COHAN/SUZEAU Dance Company has performed nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Formerly New York-based and currently at the University of Kansas, COHAN/SUZEAU tours the region with the support of the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Programs. Their recent international appearances include India, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Cohan and Suzeau recently returned from a residency at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. COHAN/SUZEAU's New York City teaching credits include the Alvin Ailey School, Dennis Wayne's Dancerschool, Barry-Klein studio, Mary Anthony studio, Brooklyn Theatre Company, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the COHAN/SUZEAU studio. They are recipients of several grants and fellowships from state and private arts funds. Both have been guest artists at countless universities across the United States. Suzeau spent the spring '07 season in Lithuania on a Fulbright Fellowship where "Dia de los Muertos," choreographed by the pair, was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The work featured principals and soloists from the National Opera Ballet Company. Before forming COHAN/SUZEAU, Cohan performed with the Philadelphia Dance Theatre. Juilliard-trained Suzeau's early performing career includes Les Ballets Modernes du Canada and the Theatre de Danse Contemporaine in Montreal, as well as various groups and television work in Mexico.
Patrick Suzeau
Lawrence, Kansas
Modern Dance
Please see bio above.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Modern Dance Accompanist
Andy Monroe
New York, New York
Modern Dance Accompanist
Andy Monroe is currently an accompanist for the Paul Taylor School, the Ailey School, the Juilliard School and the Limon Institute in New York City. He is also a composer, lyricist and librettist and is a member of the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He was the recipient of the BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in 2002 and his musical The Life and Times of Joe Jefferson Benjamin Blow is currently being performed in regional theaters. He is the owner of Compact Risks, an independent recording label, and his three recordings are used in dance institutions around the globe.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Chorus Conductors
David Brunner
Orlando, Florida
Chorus Conductor -- Week One
Dr. David L. Brunner is one of today's most active and versatile composers and conductors. He is director of choral activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is known for his compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and regional honor choirs throughout the United States. He is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and workshops throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. As a composer, he has received numerous ASCAP awards and in 2000 was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American Choral Directors Association. The New York Times has called him a "prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on national repertory lists," his work is being performed and recorded worldwide. Brunner is the author of articles in both The Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal and is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Pearl Shangkuan
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Chorus Conductor -- Week Two
A sought after guest conductor and clinician across the United States and Asia, Dr. Pearl Shangkuan is a professor of music at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is also the chorusmaster of the Grand Rapids Symphony as well as the music editor of the Calvin Choral series, published by GIA. She is currently the president of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Central Division. Her choirs have performed at ACDA national, regional, and state conventions and for other professional music organizations. She has conducted all-state and honor choirs in numerous states and overseas, and has served as a clinician at various national conferences. A student of preeminent American choral conductor and New York Philharmonic chorusmaster Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, she holds degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Chorus Faculty
Keith Dixon
Kingwood, Texas
Men's Chorus Section Leader
Keith Dixon has sung with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, with whom he recorded the Telarc releases "Amazing Grace," "Evocation of the Spirit" and "Appear and Inspire." He has also performed with the Houston Symphony Chorus and Concert Chorale of Houston. Dixon served multiple terms as an ACDA repertoire and standards chair and has been the organizer for both divisional and national honor choirs. Since 1995, Dixon has been the musical director of the Bay Area Chorus, a community chorus that appears in the Weston Noble DVD "Perpetual Inspiration." Choirs under his direction have performed at four Texas Music Educators Association conventions and have presented honor choir concerts for American Classic Madrigal Festivals on four occasions. His activities as a workshop and choir clinician include serving as the OSAI choral section leader for three summers.
Patrice Sollenberger
Leawood, Kansas
Women's Chorus Section Leader
Patrice Sollenberger received her Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Kansas, and she has been a choral music educator for 27 years. She serves as guest clinician for area honor choirs and adjudicator for music festivals throughout the Midwest. She is currently the director of choral music at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Sollenberger is the artistic assistant and a member of the Kansas City Chorale. From 1996 - 2003, Sollenberger performed annually with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and Carnegie Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall. In the summer of 1998, she was selected to participate in Shaw's forty-voice choral workshop and concert series at Furman University. Sollenberger's husband Jay is a professional trumpet player, and they have one son, Brandon. This is Sollenberger's third year at OSAI.
Mark Stamper
Fort Worth, Texas
Choral Accompanist
Mark L. Stamper, a native of South Carolina, began his piano study at the age of three. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Winthrop University in 1986. In 1989, Stamper was awarded a Master of Music degree with a concentration in choral conducting from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Stamper held appointments with the Texas Boys Choir, the Womens Chorus of Dallas, and Texas Wesleyan University. Stamper made his operatic conducting debut with Cavalleria Rusticana. He has also conducted Cosi fan Tutte and The Gondoliers. His diverse conducting experience encompasses the genres of ballet, choral, opera, orchestral and musicals. Stamper is currently the artistic director of the Singing Girls of Texas and interim artistic director of the Texas Boys Choir at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Orchestra Conductors
Kazem Abdullah
Indianapolis, Indiana
Orchestra Conductor -- Week Two
Kazem Abdullah is currently an assistant and cover conductor for the Metropolitan Opera's 2007-08 season, serving under Kirill Petrenko for Die Zauberflöte, Louis Langree for Iphigenie en Tauride, and Lorin Maazel for Die Walküre. In addition to his work this season with the MET Orchestra in Carnegie Hall under conductors James Levine and Valery Gergiev, Abdullah also served under Maestro Levine in the Met's last-season production of Idomeneo. Abullah's recent career has spanned an exciting mix of operatic, orchestral, and chamber music performances, notably including his short-notice substitution into performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2007. Abdullah had a successful tenure as a conducting fellow during Tanglewood 2006 and 2007 and worked successfully with several U.S. opera companies, including the Florida Grand Opera, Baltimore Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Los Angeles Opera.
Liza Grossman
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Orchestra Conductor -- Week One
Liza Grossman is the founding music director of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. CYO is the only youth orchestra in the country dedicated exclusively to the study and performance of new orchestral literature. She is on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is the co-founder of the Interlochen Arts Camp Junior Advanced String Institute. She is a private violin and viola instructor and as a freelance musician, has performed, recorded and toured with artists including Bernadette Peters, Kansas, Gerald LeVert, The Three Tenors and Yes. Grossman has conducted 14 world premiere concertos with Cleveland Orchestra members, as well as conducted 40 orchestral world premieres, all with the composers present. She has collaborated with composers including Bernard Rands, Mike Garson, Robert Ward and Joan Tower. She has conducted world premiere orchestral rock performances with rock artists Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Jon Anderson (Yes), Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Pat Benatar, and STYX.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Orchestra Section Faculty
Rodney Ackmann
Columbia, Missouri
Bassoon
Rodney Ackmann joined the music faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia in August 2005, following 22 seasons as principal bassoonist of the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed as principal bassoonist with the Tulsa Opera Orchestra, North Arkansas Symphony, Sarasota Music Festival and the Musica nel Chiostro and Spoleto Festivals in Italy. Other performance affiliations include Solisti New York, Missouri Quintet, and the Assisi Italy Music Festival. As a soloist, Ackmann has appeared with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Musica Regala and the Tulsa Philharmonic. He has recorded for Chandos and Enharmonic and has been heard on NPR's Performance Today. He served for seven summers as visiting assistant professor of music at the Indiana University School of Music. Ackmann holds the BME, MM, and Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, where he was a student of Leonard Sharrow and Sidney Rosenberg.
John Allen
Argyle, Texas
Trombone & Tuba
John Allen is a freelance trombonist in his eleventh season as principal trombone with the Abilene Philharmonic. He is also the principal trombone with the Plano Symphony Orchestra and he often appears with the Dallas Opera Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Allen is a founding member of the SlideHandlers trombone quartet and performs with the Bluebonnet Brass, a quintet the tours the United States. He has been a featured soloist with the Abilene Philharmonic and the Marshall Symphony Orchestra and he also toured for a year as solo trombonist with the versatile sextet Rhythm & Brass. Allen previously held positions as artist-in-residence at East Texas Baptist University and as instructor of low brass at Howard Payne University and Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. This is Allen's fifth summer at OSAI.
Anne Eisfeller
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Harp
Anne Eisfeller is the principal harpist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony, and also adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has performed with Opera Southwest, Four Corners Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Festival, and Octubre Internacional in Mexico. In addition to OSAI, her summers take her to Oregon for the Peter Britt, Coast, and Cascade Festivals, and to Italy where she performs with Assisi Musica and serves as the chamber music coordinator. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees with high distinction from Indiana University, where she studied with and assisted Peter Eagle.
Misha Galaganov
Fort Worth, Texas
Viola
Dr. Misha Galaganov, viola professor at Texas Christian University and director of Chamber Music Roundup, has performed as a soloist and given master classes in Russia, Italy, Israel, Czech Republic, Mexico, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and the USA. His performance at Carnegie Hall was called "warm and expressive" by the New York Music Review He is also a member of Trio Con Brio, a group that inspired leading composers from several countries to write new pieces for them. Dr. Galaganov received his degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from Rice University in Houston, TX. His students now have successful careers in the USA and abroad.
Catherine Hudgins
Boston, Massachusetts
Clarinet
Clarinetist Catherine Hudgins began her career in Caracas, Venezuela, as a member of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas. She later held positions in the Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas, the Charleston Symphony, and the Boise Philharmonic. Hudgins performs frequently with the Boston Symphony, Portland Symphony (Maine), and as principal clarinetist with the National Lyric Opera. She has appeared with many other orchestras, including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, and the Rantos Collegium of Australia. Hudgins was featured in chamber music concerts at the Spoleto and Scotia Festivals. She recently participated in the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto Japan, Tokyo Opera Nomori, and the Mito Chamber Orchestra,all under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. She also performed for the inaugural performances of Ozawa's Tokyo Opera Nomori. Her chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, West German Radio, RAI (Italian Radio), SCETV and CBC, among others. She studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus.
Rossitza Jekova-Goza
Norman, Oklahoma
Violin
Bulgarian-born violinist Rossitza Jekova-Goza has been praised for her lightning fast technique and elegance of phrasing. A former concertmaster of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Verbier Orchestra in Switzerland, she has served as head of the string area at the University of Arkansas and has held faculty positions at the D'Angelo School of Music and the prestigious Encore School for Strings. She has appeared as a soloist and recitalist on numerous stages in Europe and the United States. In addition to her duties at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Goza serves as concertmaster of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. Her formal studies at Louisiana State University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, together with her broad experience as an orchestral, chamber and solo artist, have made her an engaging performer and a perceptive teacher.
Michael Murray
Springfield, Missouri
Cello
Michael Murray is the founding member of the Hawthorne Trio, an artist-faculty ensemble at Missouri State University. The Hawthorne Trio has performed across the United States, Japan, Czech Republic, England, and at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Murray held an artist/scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, where he researched music for cello composed in the 1930s. Murray is the principal cellist of the Springfield Symphony, and he was recently a featured soloist with the orchestra in Beethoven's Triple Concerto. His wide orchestral experience includes the Minnesota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Kansas City Camerata and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He received a College of Arts and Letters award in teaching from MSU and a National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowship for study at Harvard University.
Valerie Naranjo
New York, New York
Percussion
Known for her pioneering efforts in West African keyboard percussion, Valerie Dee Naranjo is the first woman permitted by chiefly decree to publicly perform Ghanaian gyil, and the only Westerner to receive first prize at Ghana's prestigious Kobine Festival. Naranjo has been the percussionist for NBC's Saturday Night Live Band for over 11 years. She wrote the African percussion arrangements for Broadway's Tony Award-winning The Lion King, and she has performed and recorded with The Lion King, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tori Amos, Kakraba Lobi, The Paul Winter Consort, and many more. She was named the "World Music Percussionist of the Year 2005," and has studied with some of the world's strictest percussion masters, including Leigh Howard Stevens, Gordon Stout, Dave Samuels, Adama Drame, and Kakraba Lobi. A recipient of the 2007 New York State Rockefeller Arts Grant, Naranjo has performed on six continents and in such esteemed locations as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Festival Hall in London, Lunario in Mexico City, the Opera House in Perth, Australia, on-site at Egypt's great pyramids, the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and many more.
Terry Roberts
Florence, South Carolina
French Horn
Dr. Terry Roberts completed a bachelor's of music at Florida State University. After graduation, he moved to Germany, where he studied with Erich Penzel and performed with Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He was then appointed solo horn of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed for eight years. Roberts studied conducting in Cologne, Germany and at the Conservatoire du Nice, France. He worked with many well known conductors including Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Neville Mariner. In 1993, Roberts moved back to the United States and started a freelance career as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician. In 1994, he was a prizewinner in the professional division of the American Horn Competition. Currently, he is founder and music director of the Francis Marion University String Ensemble. In addition, Roberts is adjunct instructor of music at University of North Carolina-Pembroke and Francis Marion University and music director/conductor of the Florence Symphony Orchestra and the Florence Symphony Youth Orchestra in South Carolina.
Karl Sievers
Norman, OKlahoma
Trumpet
Dr. Karl Sievers grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. His primary teachers were Delbert Hoon, Leon Rapier and William Adam. Sievers received bachelor's and master's degrees in trumpet performance from Indiana University and a D.M.A from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Sievers has performed in the orchestras of Indianapolis, Charlotte, and Dayton, he was the co-principal trumpet in the Cincinnati Ballet, and he is currently the principal trumpeter of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the University of Oklahoma Brass Quintet. Sievers' commercial playing includes live television, recording sessions and touring shows. Sievers is an artist clinician for the Bach Trumpet Corporation and is a member of the boards of directors of the International Trumpet Guild and the National Trumpet Competition. Teaching is Sievers' passion. Formerly a member of the faculty at Wright State University, he currently enjoys the position of professor of trumpet at the University of Oklahoma.
Virginia Sircy
Alexandria, Virginia
Piano
Virginia Rice Sircy was professor of music at Cameron University from 1968-2001 and also taught at Mississippi College and William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. Dr. Sircy holds three degrees in piano performance. She has premiered two works for solo piano, Charles Knox's "Sonata" and the "Mirror Etudes" of Vincent Persichetti. Sircy is an active chamber music performer, collaborating with violinist Eudice Shapiro, cellist Gilbert Reese, baritone Richard Lalli, and artists from the Joan Riley Agency. Since her move to Northern Virginia, Sircy has performed with the Friday Morning Music Club (est. 1886) in an all-Hayden concert and is currently in rehearsal with a vocal quartet that will perform "Evidence of Things Not Seen" by Ned Rorem in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Sircy is currently music director and choirmaster/organist at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Virginia. This is Dr. Sircy's 21st year as an OSAI faculty member.
Anthony Stoops
Norman, Oklahoma
Double Bass
Anthony Stoops is assistant professor of double bass and chair of strings at the University of Oklahoma school of music. Dr. Stoops is widely regarded as one of the top bass soloists in the world today. Since winning first prize in the International Society of Bassists international solo competition, he has performed throughout the U.S. and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Stoops earned his graduate degrees at the University of Michigan where he was a student of legendary pedagogue Stuart Sankey. His other teachers include Diana Gannett, Jeff Bradetich and Stephen Molina. As an orchestral musician, Stoops has performed in the Detroit and Columbus Symphony orchestras under many top conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Neeme Järvi, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez and Charles Dutoit. Prior to his appointment at OU, he taught at Bowling Green State University.
Caen Thomason-Redus
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Flute
Caen Thomason-Redus is the assistant professor of flute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and enjoys traveling the world performing and presenting master classes. He can be heard on The Flute Collection, three new recordings and annotated anthologies of graded flute solos published by Schirmer. Thomason-Redus is particularly active in chamber music through the UWM faculty artist series Chamber Music Milwaukee and his own series of recitals. Other recent performances include recitals of music by African American composers at the National Flute Association Convention and the Madison Flute Festival, solos with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and UWM's major ensembles, and numerous guest appearances at universities and concert halls. Prior to arriving in Milwaukee, he spent two years performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as their Minority Fellow. He currently performs with professional orchestras including the St. Louis, Milwaukee and Kansas City symphonies. Thomason-Redus began playing Muramatsu flutes in 2003 and is a Muramatsu Artist.
Elizabeth Tomorsky
Boston, Massachusetts
Oboe
Elizabeth Tomorsky is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received her undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Michigan. After graduation, she played in the professional quintet the West Texas Winds, while teaching and performing in west Texas. Tomorsky was then awarded a fellowship at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where she graduated with the highest award given to a performance major. She has performed with such prestigious groups as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. In 2006, Tomorsky resigned from her positions as solo English horn with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the nonprofit chamber music ensemble she founded, The Chamber Music Society of Charleston, to accept a fellowship to pursue her D.M.A. at Boston University. She currently teaches at New England Conservatory's pre-college division and the prestigious Boston University Tanglewood Institute. This is Tomorsky's fourth summer at OAI.
Katie Wolfe
Iowa City, Iowa
Violin
Katie Wolfe joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in August 2004. Her career as a soloist, teacher, chamber musician and orchestral principal on national and international stages has included performances in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, the Soviet Union, Spain and the Netherlands. Wolfe received the Fulbright Lecture Award to teach and perform in Bolivia. She formed a string quartet that performed concerts throughout the country, taught at the National Conservatory, and served as associate concertmaster of the National Symphony of Bolivia for one season. As a freelance artist in New York City, she performed and toured with groups such as Jupiter Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the S.E.M. Ensemble and the City Island Baroque Ensemble, as well as in pit orchestras of Broadway musicals. Before moving to Iowa, Wolfe was assistant professor of violin and viola at Oklahoma State University for five years and served as associate concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
June 14 –
29, 2008 Miscellaneous Faculty
David Hyer & Shelby Rothell
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Ballroom Dance
David Hyer and Shelby Rothell are professional ballroom dancers competing in American Smooth within the National Dance Council of America's sanctioned events. They have won titles at the Holiday Dance Classic in Las Vegas, the Dancer's Cup Grand Ball, California Open, St. Louis Star Ball and Heart of America DanceSport Championships. Hyer and Rothell were ranked fourth at the United States Rising Star National Championships, and were semi-finalists in the World Professional American Smooth Championship. When not competing, Hyer and Rothell have been guest performers for the Kaleidoscope Dancers Company, Oklahoma Philharmonic, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Community Dance Alliance, and Joie De Vie. They have also served as guest faculty at the American College Dance Festival, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, University of Central Oklahoma, and surrounding regional studios and public schools. They also teach in the Oklahoma City area under the name Competitive Edge.
Leila Nazarali
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fitness Instructor
Leila Nazarali has been teaching fitness in a variety of formats for over twenty years. She enjoys working with clients on a one-on-one basis as well as in group fitness classes. Nazarali is currently certified in aerobics, step aerobics, yoga, Pilates, weight training, cycling and kickboxing. She holds a bachelor's of science and a master's degree in business management /information systems from Oklahoma City University. Nazarali enjoys helping individuals reach their fitness goals and improve their lifestyles. She is proud to return to Quartz Mountain for her sixth year at OSAI.
Regina Saisi
San Francisco, California
Improvisation
Regina Saisi is a San Francisco-based actor and improviser. She is an instructor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Marin School District, and at BATS Improv. She has taught at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and the California Institute of the Arts. She has an international reputation as one of the foremost improvisation teachers and performers in the world, having performed and taught in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Finland and Sweden. A pioneer in the development of long-form improv, she is a founding member of the improvisational theater companies True Fiction Magazine and Pulp Playhouse and is a member of BATS Improv. Saisi is a firm believer that improvisation has value to anyone, regardless of their profession, and has taught improvisation to corporate clients such as Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems, as well as to inner-city youth in Oakland and San Francisco.
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