Steve Antosca, composer Steve Antosca has a Master’s degree in Computer Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is on the music faculty of George Mason University. He is Chair and a composer member of the Contemporary Music Forum and founder of edgEnsemble. Mr. Antosca’s computer music compositions have been performed throughout the United States and he was a guest composer at the Southeastern Composer’s League 1997 Festival of New Music and at Radford University’s New Horizons 2002 Festival. He has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work shadowland appears in the MIT publication “The Csound Book”. In 2001, Mr. Antosca produced the “Exploring the American Piano” concert for the Smithsonian’s Piano 300 Exhibition. He premiered his work invisible landscape for piano and conducted electronics, which was regarded by the Washington Post as “the highlight of the evening”. He has received numerous grants for the creation of new compositions and for teaching technology. He has been an Artist-in-Residence with the Music Department at the Ellington School, working with young musicians interested in incorporating technology in their music. Recent commissions include a composition for dance, computer processed audio and text premiered in September 2002 at the Kennedy Center as part of their Local Dance Commissioning Project and a commission for pianist Laurie Hudicek for a new work, traces of spirit whispers, for piano and real-time computer processed audio, performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in September of 2003. Lina Bahn, violin A native of Chicago, Lina Bahn finished her degrees at The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, and the Indiana University (abd). Her teachers have included Roland and Almita Vamos, Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, Naoko Tanaka, and Miriam Fried. As a soloist, Ms. Bahn has performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Serena (Chile). In 1996 she was a soloist with the Malaysian National Symphony Orchestra and performed for the King of Malaysia and President Frei of Chile. Ms. Bahn joined the award winning Corigliano Quartet in 1999 and served as part-time lecturer on the faculty of Indiana University. During the 2000 academic year, the Corigliano Quartet resided in New York as assistants to the Juilliard String Quartet at the Juilliard School. They have performed throughout the country in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia Festival, Carnegie Weill Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, and on Lincoln Center’s “Great Performers Series”. They have been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, including NPR’s “All Things Considered”, and Chicago’s WFMT “Live From Studio One”, and have recorded for CRI and Naxos. Lori Barnet, cello Cellist Lori Barnet is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont. She was introduced to contemporary composition and performance there by Jacob Glick, violist and Jan deGaetani, mezzo. Miss Barnet has been a member of numerous performing ensembles, including Penn Contemporary Players, Relache, and Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, and The Contemporary Music Forum in Washington, DC. She has traveled extensively in Europe and Russia performing works by American composers and has several recordings to her credit. Tours to Russia, Denmark and England have featured performances of works by George Crumb, with Mr. Crumb as a participant. She also serves as principal cellist with the National Chamber Orchestra and Wolf Trap Opera Orchestra, and is heard frequently in chamber music performances throughout the Washington area. She is Adjunct Associate Professor of cello at The George Washington University and continues to work with secondary school students as cello coach for the Montgomery Classic Youth Orchestras. Miss Barnet is married and has three children. Douglas Boyce, composer Composer Douglas Boyce was born in 1970 in New York. After performing with a variety of punk rock bands in the greater New York metropolitan area, he attended Williams College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Music, with honors, in 1992; in 1996 he received a Master of Music degree from the University of Oregon. In 1998 he attended the Master-Class in Composition at the Aspen Festival. He received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, where he was awarded the 1999 Weiss Prize in Composition for Trois Complaintes. In summer 2000, he received a residency fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Music at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Mr. Boyce remains active as a scholar of medieval music, as an improviser and conductor, and has written music for theatrical productions on both coasts, including The Muslin Plays, a film and performance project developed with JMandle Performance for the 1996 SOHO Arts Festival. In 1999, he and his works were featured on WXPN's Dystopia, in Philadelphia. Current projects include 'dogshow,' a collaborative film project with San Francisco video artist Anne Etheridge, and work for the Endy Emby ensemble. His works have been performed in a number of cities, including Philadelphia, New York, Aspen, Frankfurt and Prague. Carole Bean, flute Carole Bean is currently a member of the National Symphony Orchestra (solo piccolo). She has been a member of the Harrisburg Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Xalapa Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony (extra), and various chamber groups, including Chamber Music Hawaii and Eclipse Chamber Orchestra. She is the resident flutist of the Contemporary Music Forum. Mary Cliff, recording Mary Cliff has worked in radio at WJMD, WAVA, WHFS and WETA . At WETA, classical music productions have included general classical announcing/programming/producing; a ten-week series of music written by women; a sustaining two-hour weekly contemporary classical and chamber music program; research/script/voicing/production of concerts for broadcast; public affairs programs; the only full-range folk music program in the greater Washington area ('73 to present); studio and remote engineering and hosting from progressive rock to jazz to opera. As a freelance engineer she has worked various festivals as diverse as Chamizal (El Paso), Cuyahoga (OH), Lowell (MA), NYC, Chattanooga (TN), and in the DC area. Ms. Cliff was the assistant engineer for the Contemporary Music Forum CRI recording and has been the broadcast producer and recording engineer for CMF from 1974 to the present. Ms. Cliff is also an Advisory Board member to Washington Area Music Association and Washington Revels. Barry Dove, percussion Barry Dove has had a long and distinguished musical career. He received his Bachelor's in Music Education, Performer's Certificate, and Master's Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Also there, he earned a first Prize award in the Yale Gordon Concerto Competition. Mr. Dove also attended the University of Ghana in Accra to study West African drumming styles and the University of Havana, Cuba. The Washington Post has described Mr. Dove as having "superhuman dexterity", "exceptionally virtuosic" and "a marvelous player". Barry accompanied the George Shearing Quintet touring Japan and Germany. In 1988 and 1991 he was bestowed Artist-in-Residence at the Walden School of Music in New Hampshire. As an accomplished musician Mr. Dove has had many prominent solos including those with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. Recitals have also been numerous at many esteemed colleges, universities, and music halls. Mr. Dove has recorded for National Geographic Explorer Channel, The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, and for a PBS special with Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Dove has premiered sixteen new works in the past ten years, thirteen of which were commissioned for him. In addition to his own quartet, the Barry Dove Jazz Quartet, and trio, the Global Percussion Trio, teaching at University of Maryland Baltimore County and Loyola College, Mr. Dove is the principal percussionist of the Washington Contemporary Music Forum, Polaris Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble, principal Timpanist for the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Key West Symphony Orchestra and section percussion with the Harrisburg Symphony. David Jones, clarinet David Jones joined the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra as Principal Clarinet in 1998. He has also performed extensively with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as well being a member of the Contemporary Music Forum and a featured artist with the American Chamber Players, and the 20th Century Consort. Comfortable in many different musical situations, Mr. Jones has worked with Tony Bennett, Jose Carreras, Rosemary Clooney, Placido Domingo, Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, The Manhattan Transfer, Jesse Norman, Luciano Pavarotti, David Sanborn, Rod Stewart and The Temptations as well as the national tours of Kiss Me Kate, Cinderella, Annie, Cabaret, A Chorus Line, The King and I, Showboat, West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz. He can also be heard on numerous radio and television commercials. Mr. Jones attended Northwestern University where he studied with Robert Marcellus, Clark Brody and Russell Dagon. Anthony Villa, composer Anthony Villa, composer and pianist, received his D.M.A. in composition from the University of Maryland, where he studied composition with Lawrence Moss. His chamber music includes works for a variety of instrumental and vocal combinations, from works for solo performer and electronic instruments to those for chamber orchestra. The Washington Post has praised his Quartet as "the rare piece that sounds fresh while hinting at the near past" and his Two Songs as "deserv[ing] a lasting place in the musical firmament." Villa is also active as a jazz pianist and composer currently with Jazz Caravan, a Baltimore-based sextet. Since 1984, he has been on the faculty of Loyola College in Maryland, where he is a Professor and Director of Music and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, teaching theory and composition and directing the jazz program. Villa has been a composer-member of the Contemporary Music Forum since 1991. His music is available through Ardito Music (ASCAP). Fred Weck, composer Frederick Weck began his musical career as a trombonist where his main interest was jazz and improvisation. His interest in composition was pursued at the Catholic university of America where he studied with Russell Woollen and Conrad Bernier. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, electronic music with Emerson Myers, multi-media communications at the Germain School of Photography in New York, film-making and digital video at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and attended workshops in computer music at MIT and in electronic music at the University of Chicago. In the 1960s Mr. Weck served as musical director of the American Choreographers Workshop in New York. his works, which often combine electronic music and film or video with choral or instrumental ensembles, have been performed extensively in Washington as well as throughout the United States and Europe. His awards include the Hans Kindler Foundation Award in Composition and the Shenandoah Conservatory Medal of Excellence. William Wright, conductor William Wright was for many years a member of the National Symphony Orchestra, in which he played clarinet and E-flat clarinet. He has also been a member of the faculties of Catholic University and George Washington University, where he conducted the symphony orchestra and taught clarinet, saxophone, and conducting. As a member of the Contemporary Music Forum he plays clarinet and saxophone and conducts the ensemble in larger works. |
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