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MUSIC DIRECTOR
Robert Spano

PRESIDENT AND CEO
Alan Fletcher

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS
Solo Piano
Collaborative Piano
Aspen Conducting Academy
Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
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 in Residence
Artist-Faculty Emeritus

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS

Renée Fleming, AOTVA co-artistic director
Patrick Summers, AOTVA co-artistic director
Houston Grand Opera
Myra Huang, director of musical administration and head coach
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, The Metropolitan Opera; Manhattan School of Music
Stephen King, voice instructor
Houston Grand Opera Studio
Carol Vaness, voice instructor
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Rachelle Fleming, music theater coach and director
William Billingham, senior coach
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Kirill Kuzmin, senior coach
Houston Grand Opera; Wolf Trap Opera
Grant Loehnig, senior coach
Opera Philadelphia; Curtis Institute of Music
Kenneth Merrill, senior coach
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Chía Patiño, scenes director and diction coach
Butler School of Music, University of Texas
Nicolò Sbuelz, senior coach
Lindemann Young Artist Program, The Metropolitan Opera
Madeline Slettedahl, senior coach
Houston Grand Opera
Pierre Vallet, senior coach
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, The Metropolitan Opera
Jen Campbell, movement coach

Solo Piano

Hung-Kuan Chen
The Juilliard School; Yale School of Music
Yoheved Kaplinsky
The Juilliard School
Julian Martin
The Juilliard School
Anton Nel
Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin
Arie Vardi
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
Mikhail Voskresensky

Collaborative Piano

Cameron Stowe, director
New England Conservatory; The Juilliard School
Patrick Summers, AOTVA co-artistic director, Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program
Houston Grand Opera
Myra Huang, director of musical administration and head coach, Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, The Metropolitan Opera; Manhattan School of Music
Anton Nel
Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin

Aspen Conducting Academy

Robert Spano, director
Forth Worth Symphony
Jane Glover
Mark Stringer
University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna
Patrick Summers, AOTVA co-artistic director
Houston Grand Opera

Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies

Christopher Theofanidis, composer-in-residence
Yale School of Music
Missy Mazzoli, principal guest composer

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

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

Classical Guitar

Sharon Isbin, director
The Juilliard School

American Brass Quintet Seminar @Aspen

American Brass Quintet
The Juilliard School
Kevin Cobb, trumpet
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
Eric Reed, horn
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School; New York University
Brandon Ridenour, trumpet
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
John D. Rojak, bass trombone
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
Hillary Simms, trombone
American Brass Quinted; The Juilliard School

Violin

Renata Arado
Opera Naples; International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico
Laura Park Chen
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Robert Chen
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ellen dePasquale
Simin Ganatra
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Noah Geller
Seattle Symphony
David Halen
St. Louis Symphony; University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Austin Hartman
Pacifica Quartet; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Cornelia Heard
Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
Masao Kawasaki
The Juilliard School
Alexander Kerr
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Espen Lilleslåtten
Amarillo Symphony Orchestra; Louisiana State University
Robert Lipsett
The Colburn School
Robert McDuffie
McDuffie Center for Strings, Mercer University
Naoko Tanaka
The Juilliard School; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Bing Wang
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
Kathleen Winkler
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University

Viola

Choong-Jin Chang
Philadelphia Orchestra; Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Victoria Chiang
Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University; McDuffie Center for Strings, Mercer University
Christian Colberg
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Wesley Collins
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
Zhenwei Shi
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Ben Ullery
Los Angeles Philharmonic; The Colburn School
Stephen Wyrczynski
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Cello

Richard L. Aaron
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance; The Juilliard School
Darrett Adkins
Oberlin Conservatory; The Juilliard School
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; Aspen String Trio
Brinton Averil 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
Leigh Mesh
MET Orchestra
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
Demarre McGill
Seattle Symphony; College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Mark Sparks
St. Louis Symphony (retired); DePaul University School of Music
Christina Smith
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Oboe

Elaine Douvas
MET Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Alex Klein
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; DePaul University School of Music
Titus Underwood
Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Clarinet

Laura Ardan
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (retired); Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Michael Rusinek
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Curtis Institute of Music
Joaquín Valdepeñas
Toronto Symphony Orchestra (retired); The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music
Stephen Williamson
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University

Bassoon

Nancy Goeres
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Carnegie Mellon University

Horn

Andrew Bain
Los Angeles Philharmonic; The Colburn School
Alexander Kienle
Dallas Symphony; Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Jennifer Montone
Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Institute, Juilliard School
Abel Pereira
National Symphony Orchesta
Kevin Rivard
San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Trumpet

Kevin Cobb
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School
David Krauss
MET Orchestra; The Juilliard School
Anthony Limoncelli
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Raymond Mase
The Juilliard School
Stuart Stephenson
Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Tenor Trombone

Per Brevig
The Juilliard School; Manhattan School of Music
Timothy Higgins
San Francisco Symphony; Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
James Miller
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Sullivan
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Institute of Music

Bass Trombone

Randall Hawes
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (retired); Cleveland Institute of Music
John D. Rojak
American Brass Quintet; The Juilliard School

Tuba

Warren Deck
Lamont School of Music, University of Denver

Percussion

Jonathan Haas
American Symphony Orchestra; New York University
Douglas Howard
Dallas Symphony Orchestra (retired); Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University (retired)
Jacob Nissly
San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Ed Stephan
San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Cynthia Yeh
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; DePaul University

Harp

Nancy Allen
The Juilliard School; New York Philharmonic
Emily Levin
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Katherine Siochi
San Francisco Symphony

Artist-Faculty in Residence

Samuel Williams, saxophone
Colorado Jazz Repertory; Metropolitan State University

Artist-Faculty Emeritus

Martha Aarons, flute
Adele Addison, voice
Robert Biddlecome, trombone
Bonita Boyd, flute
Bruce Bransby, double bass
Elizabeth Buccheri, Aspen Opera Center - Head of Music, vocal coach
Earl Carlyss, Center for Advanced Quartet Studies; violin
Heidi Castleman, viola
Gabriel Chodos, piano
Carole Cowan, violin
John Graham, viola
William Grubb, cello
Thomas Haines, film scoring and audio recording
Per Hannevold, bassoon
Alan Harris, cello
Elizabeth Hynes, voice
Jennifer John, violin
Catharine Carroll Lees, viola
Eugene Levinson, bass
Jorge Mester, music director
Theodore Oien, clarinet
Antoinette Perry, piano
Sylvia Plyler, Aspen Opera Center
Louis Ranger, trumpet
Sylvia Rosenberg, violin
Ann Schein, piano
Rita Sloan, collaborative 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
Won Bin Yim, violin
John Zirbel, French horn