Lee Koonce, lkoonce@gatewaysmusicfestival.org, 917-406-0046 Gateways Music Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary October 30 through November 4. The anniversary celebration will continue in August 2019 with the full Festival, featuring performances by professional classical musicians of African descent from throughout the United States. An anniversary celebration highlight will be the five-day Community Residency Program,…
John Hunt received his bachelor’s degree the Eastman School of Music and his master’s degree from Catholic University. He studied with Loren Glickman, Leonard Sharrow, K. David Van Hoesen, Arthur Weisberg, and has given many performances as an orchestral musician, soloist, and chamber musician, including serving as principal bassoon for the Naples Philharmonic, Aspen Music…
Harold Danko is associated with such jazz legends as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Lee Konitz, and Woody Herman, in performances at major jazz venues throughout the world as a band leader, composer, and solo pianist. Beginning his piano studies at the age of five, Harold became serious about pursuing a career in…
Ernestine McHugh received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the PhD from the University of California at San Diego. Her research interests are comparative religion and cultural anthropology, with specialization in Asia; she has conducted extended field research in the Himalayas. Her many articles and reviews have appeared in…
Ellen Koskoff received a bachelor’s degree from Boston University, a master’s degree from Columbia, and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. A highly respected scholar and author in the areas of ethnomusicology and women in music, her publications include Music in Lubavitcher Life, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music scholarship…
Charles Castleman was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1941. When he was only six, he appeared as a soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and at nine, he made solo recital debuts at Boston’s Jordan Hall and New York’s Town Hall. He was a student of Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute…
Benton Hess’s long career as an opera conductor and vocal coach began in 1976 as Assistant Conductor for the Opera Orchestra of New York, serving with OONY until 2002. He has also conducted for the Arkansas Opera Theater, Augusta Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Minnesota Opera, New York Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Washington Summer…
Barry Snyder received bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as the Performer’s Certificate and the Artist’s Diploma, from Eastman. He studied piano with Wilbur Hoffman, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Cécile Genhart, and accompanying with Brooks Smith and John Celentano, and was a triple prize winner in the 1966 Van Cliburn International Competition: Silver Medal, Pan American…
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Allan Schindler pursued his undergraduate education at Oberlin College and his masters and doctoral studies in composition and musicology at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Ralph Shapey and Richard Wernick. He came to Eastman in 1978, where he taught composition and directed the Eastman Computer Music Center. He…
Alan Harris received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, and a master’s degree and Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University, studying with Raymond Stuhl and Janos Starker. He began his long association with Eastman, and with Rochester, in 1965, when he was also hired as assistant principal cellist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, where…