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Artist-Faculty

Music Director

Robert Spano

President and CEO

Alan Fletcher

Vice President and Dean of Students

Jennifer Johnston

Aspen Opera Center – Voice

Edward Berkeley
The Juilliard School; Circle in the Square Theater School
Elizabeth Buccheri
Lyric Opera of Chicago; Northwestern University
* Renée Fleming
William Billingham
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Garnett Bruce
Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University; Utah Symphony
Brian DeMaris
Timothy Long
State University of New York at Stony Brook; Voices of Hope
Kenneth Merrill
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Jeanne Slater
The Juilliard School; Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program
Mary Duncan Steidl
Diane Zola
Houston Grand Opera

Solo Piano

Hung-Kuan Chen
The Juilliard School; Yale School of Music
Yoheved Kaplinsky
The Juilliard School
Julian Martin
The Juilliard School
Anton Nel
University of Texas at Austin
Ann Schein
Rita Sloan, leave of absence
University of Maryland
Arie Vardi
Virginia Weckstrom
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
New England Conservatory; The Juilliard School
Wu Han
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Music@Menlo

Collaborative Piano

Rita Sloan, leave of absence
University of Maryland
Andrew Harley
Levine School of Music
Kevin Murphy
Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music

Aspen Conducting Academy

Robert Spano
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Asadour Santourian
Mark Stringer
Larry Rachleff
Markus Stenz

Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies

Stephen Hartke
Oberlin Conservatory
Christopher Theofanidis
Yale School of Music

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

Donald Crockett
Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Timothy Weiss
Oberlin Conservatory
Stephen Burns
Fulcrum Point New Music Project of Chicago

Center for Advanced Quartet Studies

Pacifica Quartet
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
American String Quartet
Manhattan School of Music
James Dunham
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; Axelrod String Quartet
Sylvia Rosenberg
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Donald Weilerstein
New England Conservatory; The Juilliard School

Classical Guitar

Sharon Isbin
The Juilliard School

Violin

* Renata Arado
Opera Naples; International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico
* Sibbi Bernhardsson
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
* Laurie Carney
American String Quartet; Manhattan School of Music
* Laura Park Chen
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Robert Chen
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
* David Coucheron
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
* Ellen dePasquale
* Simin Ganatra
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
David Halen
St. Louis Symphony; University of Michigan
* Robert Hanford
Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra; Northwestern University
Cornelia Heard
Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
Paul Kantor
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory
Masao Kawasaki
The Juilliard School; University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Alexander Kerr
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Espen Lilleslåtten
Louisiana State University; Amarillo Symphony Orchestra
Robert Lipsett
The Colburn School
* Robert McDuffie
Mercer University
Sylvia Rosenberg
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Naoko Tanaka
The Juilliard School; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Bing Wang
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Donald Weilerstein
New England Conservatory; The Juilliard School
* Peter Winograd
American String Quartet; Manhattan School of Music

Viola

* Daniel Avshalomov
American String Quartet; Manhattan School of Music
Heidi Castleman, leave of absence
The Juilliard School, Heifetz Institute
Choong-Jin Chang
Philadelphia Orchestra; Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Victoria Chiang
Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University
James Dunham
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; Axelrod String Quartet
* Beth Guterman Chu
St. Louis Symphony
Masao Kawasaki
The Juilliard School; University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
* Maiya Papach
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
* Masumi Per Rostad
Sabina Thatcher
University of Minnesota School of Music
* Thomas Turner
Minnesota Orchestra; University of Minnesota School of Music
* Jonathan Vinocour
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Stephen Wyrczynski
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Cello

Richard L. Aaron
University of Michigan; The Juilliard School
Darrett Adkins
Oberlin Conservatory; The Juilliard School
David Finckel
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Music@Menlo
Desmond Hoebig
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Eric Kim
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Michael Mermagen
Catholic University of America; Aspen String Trio
Brinton Smith
Houston Symphony; Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
* Brandon Vamos
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Double Bass

Bruce Bransby
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Christopher Hanulik
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California Los Angeles
Albert Laszlo
The Juilliard School; University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Edgar Meyer
Curtis Institute of Music

Flute

Nadine Asin
Florida Grand Opera; Bard College Conservatory of Music
* Aralee Dorough
Houston Symphony; University of Houston-Moores School of Music
Mark Sparks, leave of absence
St. Louis Symphony; DePaul University School of Music
Jeffrey Khaner
Philadelphia Orchestra; Curtis Institute of Music
Christina Smith
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Oboe

Elaine Douvas
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Alex Klein
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Richard Woodhams
Philadelphia Orchestra; Curtis Institute of Music

Clarinet

Michael Rusinek
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Curtis Institute of Music
Joaquin Valdepeñas
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music

Bassoon

Nancy Goeres
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Carnegie Mellon University
Per Hannevold
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Grieg Academy, University of Bergen

Trumpet

Karin Bliznik
St. Louis Symphony
Kevin Cobb
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
Louis Hanzlik
American Brass Quintet; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Mase
New York City Ballet Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Thomas Hooten
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Stuart Stephenson
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Tenor Trombone

Per Brevig
The Juilliard School
James Miller
Los Angeles Philharmonic, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Powell
American Brass Quintet; Orchestra of St. Luke's

Bass Trombone

John D. Rojak
American Brass Quintet; New York University

Tuba

Warren Deck
Denver Brass; Lamont School of Music, University of Denver

Percussion

Frank Epstein
Boston Symphony Orchestra; New England Conservatory
Jonathan Haas
New York University; American Symphony Orchestra
David Herbert
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; DePaul University
Douglas Howard
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Joseph Pereira
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Edward Stephan
Thomas Stubbs
St. Louis Symphony; St. Louis University
Mark Yancich
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Emory University
Cynthia Yeh
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Harp

Nancy Allen
The Juilliard School; New York Philharmonic
Anneleen Lenaerts
Vienna Philharmonic; University of Maastricht

* Asterisk indicates that the Faculty does not teach privately.