[NEohioPAL]New Faculty Appointments at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Marci Janas Marci.Janas at oberlin.edu
Thu Jun 3 08:40:36 PDT 2004


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:	MEDIA CONTACT: Marci Janas
June 3, 2004		marci.janas at oberlin.edu//440-775-8328

New Faculty Appointments at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music

OBERLIN, OHIO -- New faculty appointments at the Oberlin Conservatory of=20
Music for the 2004-2005 academic year announced recently by Acting Dean of=20
the Conservatory David Stull include a new addition to the vocal studies=20
division, two additions to the composition department, and one in music=20
theory.

Salvatore Champagne, a 1985 graduate of the Conservatory who also holds a=20
master of music degree from the Juilliard School, has been named associate=20
professor of singing. A leading tenor at opera houses throughout Europe,=20
including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Z=FCrich, and Teatro =
Bellini,=20
Champagne's teachers include Oberlin Professor of Singing Richard Miller=20
and Margaret Harshaw, Ellen Fauyll, and Enrico di Giuseppe. Champagne has=20
also studied at the University of Indiana, the Britten-Pears School, and=20
the Mozarteum. A top prize winner at the Mirjam Helin International Singing =

Competition and the International Singing Competition at s'Hertogenbosch,=20
he has been a soloist with the Cologne Philharmonic, the London=20
Philharmonia, and other orchestras under such conductors as Leonard=20
Bernstein, James Conlon, and Leonard Slatkin. His recordings appear on EMI=20
and Mark Records.

Ross Feller joins the composition department as assistant professor of=20
composition. Feller recently served as an assistant professor at Georgia=20
College & State University, where he coordinated its music theory and=20
composition programs. A specialist in contemporary saxophone techniques, he =

has directed and performed with the GC&SU Jazz Combo. He studied=20
composition with Pulitzer Prize-winner Henry Brant, Pulitzer Prize-nominee=20
Morgan Powell, and Salvatore Martirano, winner of the Prix de Rome.=20
Feller=92s compositions have been finalists in the Gaudeamus Foundation=20
International Composers' Competition (Amsterdam) and the American Society=20
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Young Composers' Competition=20
(New York City).

His work has been nominated for awards from the Theodore Presser Foundation =

and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been performed at=20
venues, conferences, and festivals throughout the United States and in=20
Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. A guest scholar at the=20
Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland from 1996 to 1997, Feller's=20
research focused on the recent music of Brian Ferneyhough, which he=20
analyzed, transcribed, and indexed from the composer=92s original sketches=20
and manuscript materials. Feller has contributed numerous book chapters,=20
articles, and reviews to scholarly publications. He holds a doctor of=20
musical arts degree in composition-theory from the University of Illinois=20
at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarly background also includes studies in=20
ethnomusicology. He received a bachelor of music degree, also in=20
composition-theory, from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.

Amelia Kaplan, the other appointment in the composition department, will be =

assistant professor of composition. A visiting assistant professor of=20
composition and theory at the University of Iowa for the past four years,=20
Kaplan's Ph.D. in music composition is from the University of Chicago; she=20
holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University. A recipient =

of an ASCAP Young Composers' Grant for Chicago Chanson (1992), she also=20
held a fellowship that year at the prestigious Gaudeamus International New=20
Music Festival. She has held residencies at the McDowell Colony, Ucross,=20
the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative=20
Arts. Kaplan has studied with composition scholars and composers such as=20
Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, John Eaton, Ralph Shapey, Franco Donatoni=20
(at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where she received a=20
diploma of merit), and with Tristan Murail and Andr=E9 Boucourechliev at =
the=20
American Conservatory in Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France, where she=20
earned a diploma. Her recent commissions include solo works for German=20
violinist Annette Barbara-Vogel and bassoonist Benjamin Coelho.

Jan Miyake, who has served as visiting instructor of music theory at=20
Oberlin since 2002, has been named assistant professor of music theory.=20
Miyake received bachelor of music and bachelor of arts degrees from the=20
Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College in 1996, received a=20
master of arts degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music (Queens=20
College), and received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2004.=20
She has presented papers at annual meetings of the New York City Graduate=20
Students in Music, the Society for Music Theory, and the Music Theory=20
Society of New York State. Trained as a violist -- at Oberlin she studied=20
with Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey -- she is a research assistant to the=20
acclaimed violinist Midori.

New visiting faculty members for the 2004-05 academic year are:

- Karen Bottge, visiting assistant professor of music theory;
- Julie Hedges Brown, visiting assistant professor of musicology;
- Peter Laki, visiting assistant professor of musicology; and
- Wendy Wan-Ki Lee, visiting instructor of music theory.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated within the=20
intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest=20
continuously operating conservatory in the United States. It is renowned=20
internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber.

Primarily an undergraduate conservatory of music, Oberlin provides its=20
students with unparalleled individual attention and training from more than =

85 artist-teachers and scholars. Through hundreds of courses in classical=20
and jazz performance, vocal studies, music history and theory, music=20
education, composition and TIMARA (Technology in Music and the Related=20
Arts), Oberlin has prepared many of the music world=92s notable luminaries=20
for successful careers in all walks of the profession. Oberlin's=20
collaborations with The Cleveland Orchestra support a core element of=20
Oberlin's mission: that professional training and contact with one of the=20
world=92s great orchestras is seminal to a formal music education.

For more information about Oberlin, visit http://www.oberlin.edu.

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</bigger><underline>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</underline>	<underline>MEDIA =
CONTACT: Marci Janas

</underline>June 3, =
2004		<color><param>0000,0000,00ff</param><underline>marci.janas at oberlin.edu=
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</bigger></underline></color><bigger><bigger><bigger><bold>New Faculty =
Appointments at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music


</bold>OBERLIN, OHIO -- New faculty appointments at the Oberlin =
Conservatory of Music for the 2004-2005 academic year announced recently by =
Acting Dean of the Conservatory David Stull include a new addition to the =
vocal studies division, two additions to the composition department, and =
one in music theory.


<bold>Salvatore Champagne</bold>, a 1985 graduate of the Conservatory who =
also holds a master of music degree from the Juilliard School, has been =
named <bold>associate professor of singing</bold>. A leading tenor at opera =
houses throughout Europe, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus =
Z=FCrich, and Teatro Bellini, Champagne's teachers include Oberlin =
Professor of Singing Richard Miller and Margaret Harshaw, Ellen Fauyll, and =
Enrico di Giuseppe. Champagne has also studied at the University of =
Indiana, the Britten-Pears School, and the Mozarteum. A top prize winner at =
the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition and the International =
Singing Competition at s'Hertogenbosch, he has been a soloist with the =
Cologne Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, and other orchestras under =
such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, James Conlon, and Leonard Slatkin. =
His recordings appear on EMI and Mark Records.


<bold>Ross Feller </bold>joins the composition department as =
<bold>assistant professor of composition.</bold> Feller recently served as =
an assistant professor at Georgia College & State University, where he =
coordinated its music theory and composition programs. A specialist in =
contemporary saxophone techniques, he has directed and performed with the =
GC&SU Jazz Combo. He studied composition with Pulitzer Prize-winner Henry =
Brant, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Morgan Powell, and Salvatore Martirano, =
winner of the Prix de Rome. Feller=92s compositions have been finalists in =
the Gaudeamus Foundation International Composers' Competition (Amsterdam) =
and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) =
Young Composers' Competition (New York City).


His work has been nominated for awards from the Theodore Presser Foundation =
and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been performed at =
venues, conferences, and festivals throughout the United States and in =
Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. A guest scholar at the =
Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland from 1996 to 1997, Feller's =
research focused on the recent music of Brian Ferneyhough, which he =
analyzed, transcribed, and indexed from the composer=92s original sketches =
and manuscript materials. Feller has contributed numerous book chapters, =
articles, and reviews to scholarly publications. He holds a doctor of =
musical arts degree in composition-theory from the University of Illinois =
at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarly background also includes studies in =
ethnomusicology. He received a bachelor of music degree, also in =
composition-theory, from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.


<bold>Amelia Kaplan</bold>, the other appointment in the composition =
department, will be <bold>assistant professor of composition</bold>. A =
visiting assistant professor of composition and theory at the University of =
Iowa for the past four years, Kaplan's Ph.D. in music composition is from =
the University of Chicago; she holds a bachelor's degree in physics from =
Princeton University. A recipient of an ASCAP Young Composers' Grant for =
<italic>Chicago Chanson</italic> (1992), she also held a fellowship that =
year at the prestigious Gaudeamus International New Music Festival. She has =
held residencies at the McDowell Colony, Ucross, the Atlantic Center for =
the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Kaplan has studied =
with composition scholars and composers such as Shulamit Ran, Marta =
Ptaszynska, John Eaton, Ralph Shapey, Franco Donatoni (at the Accademia =
Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where she received a diploma of merit), =
and with Tristan Murail and Andr=E9 Boucourechliev at the American =
Conservatory in Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France, where she earned a =
diploma. Her recent commissions include solo works for German violinist =
Annette Barbara-Vogel and bassoonist Benjamin Coelho.=20


<bold>Jan Miyake</bold>, who has served as visiting instructor of music =
theory at Oberlin since 2002, has been named <bold>assistant professor of =
music theory</bold>.   Miyake received bachelor of music and bachelor of =
arts degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College in =
1996, received a master of arts degree from the Aaron Copland School of =
Music (Queens College), and received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, =
CUNY, in 2004.  She has presented papers at annual meetings of the New York =
City Graduate Students in Music, the Society for Music Theory, and the =
Music Theory Society of New York State. Trained as a violist -- at Oberlin =
she studied with Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey -- she is a research =
assistant to the acclaimed violinist Midori.=20


New visiting faculty members for the 2004-05 academic year are:


- Karen Bottge, visiting assistant professor of music theory;

- Julie Hedges Brown, visiting assistant professor of musicology;=20

- Peter Laki, visiting assistant professor of musicology; and

- Wendy Wan-Ki Lee, visiting instructor of music theory.


<bold>The Oberlin Conservatory of Music</bold>, founded in 1865 and =
situated within the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is =
the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. It is =
renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest =
caliber.


Primarily an undergraduate conservatory of music, Oberlin provides its =
students with unparalleled individual attention and training from more than =
85 artist-teachers and scholars. Through hundreds of courses in classical =
and jazz performance, vocal studies, music history and theory, music =
education, composition and TIMARA (Technology in Music and the Related =
Arts), Oberlin has prepared many of the music world=92s notable luminaries =
for successful careers in all walks of the profession. Oberlin's =
collaborations with The Cleveland Orchestra support a core element of =
Oberlin's mission: that professional training and contact with one of the =
world=92s great orchestras is seminal to a formal music education.


For more information about Oberlin, visit =
<color><param>0080,0000,0080</param><underline>http://www.oberlin.edu</under=
line></color>.


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