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Artist-Faculty

Music Director

Robert Spano

President and CEO

Alan Fletcher

Vice President and Dean of Students

Jennifer White

Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute
Aspen Opera Center
Aspen Opera Center – Voice
Solo Piano
Collaborative Piano
Aspen Conducting Academy
Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
Center for Advanced Quartet Studies
Classical Guitar
American Brass Quintet Seminar @Aspen
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Flute
Oboe
Clarinet
Bassoon
Horn
Trumpet
Tenor Trombone
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Percussion
Harp
Artist-Faculty Emeritus

Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute

Aspen Opera Center

Edward Berkeley, director
The Juilliard School; Circle in the Square Theater School
Renée Fleming, artist-in-residence (limited length of residence)
William Billingham
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Kenneth Merrill
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Charles Prestinari
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Mary Duncan Steidl

Aspen Opera Center – Voice

Vinson Cole
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance; Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Elizabeth Hynes
Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Stephen King
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; Houston Grand Opera Studio
Renée Fleming, artist-in-residence (limited length of residence)
Carol Vaness
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Solo Piano

Fabio Bidini
The Colburn School
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
Rita Sloan
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, leave of absence
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Music@Menlo

Collaborative Piano

Rita Sloan, director
University of Maryland
Jean Barr
Eastman School of Music

Aspen Conducting Academy

Robert Spano, director
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Asadour Santourian, program administrator
Mark Stringer
Larry Rachleff

Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies

Stephen Hartke, composer-in-residence
Oberlin Conservatory
Christopher Theofanidis, composer-in-residence
Yale School of Music

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

Timothy Weiss, conductor
Oberlin Conservatory
Donald Crockett, conductor
Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California

Center for Advanced Quartet Studies

American String Quartet
Manhattan School of Music
Escher String Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Pacifica Quartet
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
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, director
The Juilliard School

American Brass Quintet Seminar @Aspen

American Brass Quintet
The Juilliard School

Violin

Renata Arado
Opera Naples; International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico
Adam Barnett-Hart
Escher String Quartet; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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
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; Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
Austin Hartman
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana 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; College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
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
Danbi Um
Escher String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Almita Vamos
Music Institute of Chicago; Chicago College of Performing Arts
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
Choong-Jin Chang
Philadelphia Orchestra; Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Victoria Chiang
Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University
Christian Colberg
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Wesley Collins
The Cleveland Orchestra
James Dunham
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University; Axelrod String Quartet
Mark Holloway
Pacifica Quartet
Jeffrey Irvine
Cleveland Institute of Music
Masao Kawasaki
The Juilliard School; College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Pierre Lapointe
Escher String Quartet; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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, leave of absence
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
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance
Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
Hochschule für Musik
Brook Speltz
Escher String Quartet; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Brinton Smith
Houston Symphony; Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Brandon Vamos
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Double Bass

Christopher Hanulik
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles
Albert Laszlo
The Juilliard School
Edgar Meyer
Curtis Institute of Music
Timothy Pitts
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University

Flute

Nadine Asin
Florida Grand Opera; Bard College Conservatory of Music
Brook Ferguson
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Demarre McGill
Seattle Symphony
Mark Sparks
St. Louis Symphony; DePaul University School of Music

Oboe

Elaine Douvas
MET Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Alex Klein
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mingjia Liu
San Francisco Opera; San Francisco Conservatory 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

Horn

Andrew Bain
Los Angeles Philharmonic; The Colburn School
Stefan Dohr
Berlin Philharmonic; Hochschule für Musick "Hanns Eisler", Berlin
Erik Ralske
MET Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Eric Reed
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
Kevin Rivard
San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
John Zirbel
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal; Schulich School of Music

Trumpet

Karin Bliznik, leave of absence
St. Louis Symphony
Kevin Cobb
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
Louis Hanzlik
American Brass Quintet; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Hooten
Los Angeles Philharmonic
David Krauss
MET Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Raymond Mase
New York City Ballet Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Stuart Stephenson
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
James Wilt
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Colburn Conservatory of Music

Tenor Trombone

Per Brevig
The Juilliard School
Timothy Higgins
San Francisco Symphony; Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
James Miller
Los Angeles Philharmonic; University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Powell
American Brass Quintet; Orchestra of St. Luke's
R. Douglas Wright
Minnesota Orchestra; Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University

Bass Trombone

John Engelkes
San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Conservatory of Music
John D. Rojak
American Brass Quintet; New York University

Tuba

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

Percussion

Jonathan Haas
New York University; American Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Howard
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Jacob Nissly
San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Joseph Pereira
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Markus Rhoten
New York Philharmonic; The Juilliard School
Edward Stephan
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Cynthia Yeh
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Harp

Nancy Allen
The Juilliard School; New York Philharmonic
Anneleen Lenaerts
Vienna Philharmonic; University of Maastricht
Sivan Magen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Artist-Faculty Emeritus

Adele Addison, voice
Robert Biddlecome, trombone
Bonita Boyd, flute
Bruce Bransby, double bass
Elizabeth Buccheri, Aspen Opera Center - Head of Music, vocal coach
Heidi Castleman, viola
Earl Carlyss, Center for Advanced Quartet Studies; violin
Gabriel Chodos, piano
Carole Cowan, violin
Michael Czaijkowski, composition
John Graham, viola
William Grubb, cello
Irene Gubrud, voice
Thomas Haines, film scoring and audio recording
Alan Harris, cello
Sydney Hodkinson, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; conductor, composer
Jennifer John, violin
Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Catharine Carroll Lees, viola
Eugene Levinson, bass
Jorge Mester, music director
Theodore Oien, clarinet
Antoinette Perry, piano
Sylvia Plyler, AOC
Louis Ranger, trumpet
Christopher Rouse, composition
Ann Schein, piano
W. Stephen Smith, voice
Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet
Paul Sperry, voice
Thomas Stubbs, percussion
Sabina Thatcher, viola
Viviane Thomas, voice
George Tsontakis, composition
Martin Verdrager, theory
David Wakefield, French horn
Dick Waller, clarinet
Richard Woodhams, oboe
Won Bin Yim, violin