[NEohioPAL]Oberlin Conservatory of Music Presents Danenberg Student Honors Recital Nov. 1

[Marci Janas]

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Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations

440.775.8328 (office); 440.667.2724 (cell); marci.janas at oberlin.edu


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


The Oberlin Conservatory of Music Features its Most Gifted Musicians =20
in the Danenberg Student Honors Recital on Nov. 1



OBERLIN, OHIO (Oct. 27, 2006)=97Nine outstanding students from the =20
Oberlin Conservatory of Music will present a program of classical and =20=

jazz music at the Conservatory=92s Danenberg Student Honors Recital on =20=

Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. The concert is free =20
and open to the public. Finney Chapel is located across from Tappan =20
Square at 90 N. Professor St., on the corner of Professor and Lorain =20
streets, across from Tappan Square. Free parking is available =20
throughout the campus.

Featured in this year=92s recital are organist Daniel Tappe =9207; =20
percussionist Jonathan Hepfer =9207; soprano Stephanie Washington =9207; =
=20
a jazz ensemble featuring trumpeter Theo Croker =9207, bassist Chris =20
Mees =9209, drummer Charles Foldesh =9207, and pianist Sullivan Fortner =20=

=9208; violinist Yan Tong =9210, and pianist Minjung Kim =9208.

Daniel Tappe

The program will open with a performance by Tappe of Jean Langlais=92 =20=

F=EAte. A native of Anrochte, Germany, Tappe attended the =20
Musikhochschule in L=FCbeck, Germany, where, in addition to studying =20
organ with Martin Haselb=F6ck and Lorenzo Ghielmi, he studied church =20
music (conducting with Gerd M=FCller-Lorenz, improvisation with Karl =20
Berhardin Kropf, and piano with Evelinde Trenkner) and music =20
education. =46rom 1990 until 2001 he held positions as organist in =20
North Germany. Tappe has performed in master classes with Marie-=20
Louise Langlais, Andrea Marcon, Olivier Latry, Harald Vogel, and =20
Carole Terry. Enrolled in the Conservatory=92s combined bachelor and =20
master of music program, Tappe studies organ with Professor of Organ =20
James David Christie, harpsichord with Associate Professor of =20
Harpsichord Webb Wiggins, and clavichord and fortepiano with =20
Associate Professor of Historical Performance David Breitman. Tappe, =20
who is also organist at Christ Church in Oberlin, will earn a =20
bachelor of music degree in organ performance and a master of music =20
degree in historical performance in May 2007.

Jonathan Hepfer

Hepfer will perform =93Solo de Vibraphone=94 (from Le Livre des =
Claviers) =20
by Phillippe Manoury. Under the guidance of Professor of Percussion =20
Michael Rosen, with whom he studies, and Ruth Strickland Gardner =20
Professor of Music Timothy Weiss, he has performed works by such =20
composers as Applebaum, Aperghis, Cage, Donatoni, Feldman, Globokar, =20
Ligeti, Manoury, Wuorinen and Xenakis. Hepfer has consistently worked =20=

to organize chamber music projects of his own, and is the co-founder =20
of the contemporary music sextet Echoi. In the summer of 2004 he =20
attended the Aspen Music Festival and, in 2005, he was a fellow at =20
the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, where he worked with composer =20
Steve Reich. In February 2006 Hepfer participated in Carnegie Hall=92s =20=

Professional Training Workshop with David Robertson, where he =20
performed the solo glockenspiel part on Messiaen=92s Oiseaux Exotiques. =20=

That summer he performed with Ensemble SurPlus at the June in Buffalo =20=

festival, and received a full scholarship to study with Jean-Pierre =20
Drouet at Centre Acanthes in France. He recently performed with the =20
Slee Sinfonietta to inaugurate SUNY Buffalo=92s Center for 21st Century =20=

Music.  Hepfer is from Buffalo, New York.

Stephanie Washington

Washington, a vocal performance major who studies with Associate =20
Professor of Singing Lorraine Manz, will sing four songs from Claude =20
Debussy=92s Ariettes Oubli=E9es, accompanied by pianist Daniel Michalak. =
=20
In her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has performed as the soprano =20
soloist in Schubert=92s Mass in G, and she was the winner of the =20
citywide Martin Luther King Jr. Talent Competition. Washington =20
represented Oklahoma in the national Prince Hall Masons=92 Talent and =20=

Scholarship Pageant in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the prize =20
for first runner up. In 2003 she participated in the Quartz Mountain =20
Summer Arts Institute, taking a master class with soprano Leona =20
Mitchell. Her Oberlin Opera Theater credits include the role of =20
Clarina in Rossini=92s La Cambiale di matrimonio and the choruses of =20
Orpheus in the Underworld, Dialogues des Carm=E9lites, Die lustigen =20
Weiber von Windsor, and Cos=EC fan tutte. In Oberlin=92s upcoming fall =20=

opera, L=92elisir d=92amore, she will be singing the role of Giannetta.


The jazz ensemble will announce their piece from the stage.

Theo Croker
Croker, from Leesburg, Florda, is a student of Visiting Professor of =20
Jazz Trumpet Marcus Belgrave and grandson of the legendary trumpet =20
player Doc Cheatham. Croker was featured as a special guest with =20
trombonist Al Grey at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and has appeared =20=

at Dizzy=92s Club Coca Cola and Cleopatra=92s Needle in New York City, =
at =20
Snug Harbor, The Palm Court, and Cafe Brazil in New Orleans, and =20
Murphy=92s, Nighttown, The Bop Stop, and Flow Cafe in Cleveland. He has =20=

performed with musicians Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Wendell Logan, =20=

Donald Byrd, Gary Bartz, Nicholas Payton, Louis Hayes, Ellis =20
Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Eric Lewis, The Lincoln Center Jazz =20
Orchestra, Clark Terry, Henry Butler, Marcus Belgrave, Wycleff =20
Gordon, Roscoe Mitchell, and others.

Chris Mees
Mees, of San Diego, California, has studied with Bob Magnusson and =20
John Clayton.   At Oberlin, he studies with Professor of Jazz Studies =20=

and Double Bass Peter Dominguez. Mees has spent the past five years =20
playing with some of the West Coast=92s premier jazz musicians; at =20
Oberlin, he is a member of the Theo Croker Quintet and is an active =20
performer on the Cleveland jazz scene. Interested in both classical =20
and jazz idioms, he hopes to pursue a teaching career that will fuse =20
the two worlds.

Charles Foldesh

Foldesh, from Prescott, Arizona, studies with Assistant Professor of =20
Jazz Percussion Billy Hart and is a receipient of the John Coltrane =20
Scholarship. He has shared the stage with Marcus Belgrave, Gary =20
Bartz, George Benson, John Clayton, Bryan Lynch, and Roscoe Mitchell. =20=

He performs in Toledo, Ohio with Claude Black, Clifford Murphy, and =20
Alex Han, and has performed at such festivals as the Texas =20
International Jazz Festival, the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival, =20
and the Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival. Foldesh has recorded with =20
Marcus Belgrave and the John-Davis Quartet, and appears on Alex Han=92s =20=

debut album, Fourteen.

Sullivan Fortner
Fortner is from LaPlace, Louisiana, and was valedictorian at the New =20
Orleans Center of Creative Arts. He has won scholarships to the =20
Skidmore Jazz Studies Summer Program and the Vail Jazz Institute. =20
Fortner has performed as a jazz and gospel musician throughout =20
Louisiana, and has appeared in Washington, D.C., with Clyde Kerr Jr., =20=

Kent Jordan, Donald Harrison, and Nicholas Payton. He studies with =20
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano Dan Wall.

  Yan Tong

Tong will perform the Moderato nobile movement of Erich Korngold=92s =20
Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, accompanied by pianist Yu Sakamoto. She =20
is a native of Shanghai, China, and studied with Shi Xiang Zhang and =20
Zheng Shi Sheng at the Shanghai Conservatory, where she was ranked as =20=

the top middle school candidate. She has performed numerous solo =20
engagements in her native China. Tong also attended the Josef Haydn =20
Conservatory and the University of Vienna, and was a scholarship =20
student at the Summer Strings Academy in Australia, at Canada=92s Music =20=

Bridge at Mount Royal College, and at the Meadowmount School. She has =20=

won several national and international competitions, including third =20
prize in the Postacchini International Violin Competition in Italy, =20
first prize in the International Violin Competition in France, third =20
prize in the Austrian Brahms Competition, and Grand Prize and Best =20
Performance Prize in the First International Strings Competition in =20
Kazakstan. She studies with Professor of Violin Marilyn McDonald.


Minjung Kim
Kim will close the concert, performing Paraphrase on Rigoletto by =20
Franz Liszt. A native of Seoul, South Korea, she entered her first =20
competition at the age of 7. She was an honors student at Seoul Arts =20
High School and in 2004 came to the United States to study at the =20
Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has also studied chamber music =20
under the coaching of Myung-Hwa Chung in Korea. Kim has won the Korea =20=

Times Music Competition, Eum-youn Piano Competition, and Teenagers =20
Music Competition in Korea. She has participated master classes with =20
many distinguished musicians, including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jose =20
Feghali, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Yong Hee Moon, Hye-sun Baek, and Jin-=20
woo Jung. She recently performed in the Vienna Music Festival and at =20
the TCU-Cliburn Institute of Music. Kim is a student of Associate =20
Professor of Piano Haewon Song.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid =20
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the =20
oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. =20
Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the =20
highest caliber and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the =20
Washington Post, Oberlin=92s alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious =20=

careers in all aspects of the serious music world.

  For more information about events at the Oberlin Conservatory of =20
Music, please visit Oberlin.edu/con or call the Conservatory=92s 24-=20
hour concert hotline at 440-775-6933.


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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440.775.8328
(F) 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu



Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440.775.8328
(F) 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu





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">OBERLIN, OHIO (Oct. 27, 2006)=97Nine outstanding students from the =
Oberlin Conservatory of Music will present a program of classical and =
jazz music at the Conservatory=92s Danenberg Student Honors Recital on =
Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. The concert is free and =
open to the public. Finney Chapel is located across from Tappan Square =
at 90 N. Professor St., on the corner of Professor and Lorain streets, =
across from Tappan Square. Free parking is available throughout the =
campus.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><DIV =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Featured in this year=92s recital are organist =
Daniel Tappe =9207; percussionist Jonathan Hepfer =9207; soprano =
Stephanie Washington =9207; a jazz ensemble featuring trumpeter Theo =
Croker =9207, bassist Chris Mees =9209, drummer Charles Foldesh =9207, =
and pianist Sullivan Fortner =9208; violinist Yan Tong =9210, and =
pianist Minjung Kim =9208.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px =
0.0px">=A0</P><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Daniel Tappe</B></DIV><DIV =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; =
min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The program =
will open with a performance by Tappe of Jean Langlais=92 <I>F=EAte</I>. =
A native of Anrochte, Germany, Tappe attended the Musikhochschule in =
L=FCbeck, Germany, where, in addition to studying organ with Martin =
Haselb=F6ck and Lorenzo Ghielmi, he studied church music (conducting =
with Gerd M=FCller-Lorenz, improvisation with Karl Berhardin Kropf, and =
piano with Evelinde Trenkner) and music education. =46rom 1990 until =
2001 he held positions as organist in North Germany. Tappe has performed =
in master classes with Marie-Louise Langlais, Andrea Marcon, Olivier =
Latry, Harald Vogel, and Carole Terry. Enrolled in the Conservatory=92s =
combined bachelor and master of music program, Tappe studies organ with =
Professor of Organ James David Christie, harpsichord with Associate =
Professor of Harpsichord Webb Wiggins, and clavichord and fortepiano =
with Associate Professor of Historical Performance David Breitman. =
Tappe, who is also organist at Christ Church in Oberlin, will earn a =
bachelor of music degree in organ performance and a master of music =
degree in historical performance in May 2007.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px"><B>Jonathan Hepfer</B></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px">Hepfer will perform =93Solo de Vibraphone=94 (from <I>Le Livre =
des Claviers</I>) by Phillippe Manoury. Under the guidance of Professor =
of Percussion Michael Rosen, with whom he studies, and Ruth Strickland =
Gardner Professor of Music Timothy Weiss, he has performed works by such =
composers as Applebaum, Aperghis, Cage, Donatoni, Feldman, Globokar, =
Ligeti, Manoury, Wuorinen and Xenakis. Hepfer has consistently worked to =
organize chamber music projects of his own, and is the co-founder of the =
contemporary music sextet Echoi. In the summer of 2004 he attended the =
Aspen Music Festival and, in 2005, he was a fellow at the Bang on a Can =
Summer Institute, where he worked with composer Steve Reich. In February =
2006 Hepfer participated in Carnegie Hall=92s Professional Training =
Workshop with David Robertson, where he performed the solo glockenspiel =
part on Messiaen=92s <I>Oiseaux</I> <I>Exotiques</I>. That summer he =
performed with Ensemble SurPlus at the June in Buffalo festival, and =
received a full scholarship to study with Jean-Pierre Drouet at Centre =
Acanthes in France. He recently performed with the Slee Sinfonietta to =
inaugurate SUNY Buffalo=92s Center for 21st Century Music.=A0 Hepfer is =
from Buffalo, New York.</P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px"><B>Stephanie Washington</B></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px =
12.0px 0.0px">Washington, a vocal performance major who studies with =
Associate Professor of Singing Lorraine Manz, will sing four songs from =
Claude Debussy=92s <I>Ariettes Oubli=E9es</I>, accompanied by pianist =
Daniel Michalak. In her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has performed =
as the soprano soloist in Schubert=92s <I>Mass in G</I>, and she was the =
winner of the citywide Martin Luther King Jr. Talent Competition. =
Washington represented Oklahoma in the national Prince Hall Masons=92 =
Talent and Scholarship Pageant in Philadelphia, where she was awarded =
the prize for first runner up. In 2003 she participated in the Quartz =
Mountain Summer Arts Institute, taking a master class with soprano Leona =
Mitchell. Her Oberlin Opera Theater credits include the role of Clarina =
in Rossini=92s <I>La Cambiale di matrimonio</I> and the choruses of =
<I>Orpheus in the Underworld</I>, <I>Dialogues des Carm=E9lites</I>, =
<I>Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor</I>, and <I>Cos=EC fan tutte</I>. In =
Oberlin=92s upcoming fall opera, <I>L=92elisir d=92amore, </I>she will =
be singing the role of Giannetta.</P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The jazz ensemble will announce =
their piece from the stage.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px =
0.0px">=A0</P><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Theo Croker</B></DIV><DIV =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Croker, from Leesburg, Florda, is a student of =
Visiting Professor of Jazz Trumpet Marcus Belgrave and grandson of the =
legendary trumpet player Doc Cheatham.<FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: =
14.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT>Croker was featured as a special guest with =
trombonist Al Grey at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and has appeared at =
Dizzy=92s Club Coca Cola and Cleopatra=92s Needle in New York City, at =
Snug Harbor, The Palm Court, and Cafe Brazil in New Orleans, and =
Murphy=92s, Nighttown, The Bop Stop, and Flow Cafe in Cleveland. He has =
performed with musicians Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Wendell Logan, =
Donald Byrd, Gary Bartz, Nicholas Payton, Louis Hayes, Ellis Marsalis, =
Roy Hargrove, Eric Lewis, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Clark =
Terry, Henry Butler, Marcus Belgrave, Wycleff Gordon, Roscoe Mitchell, =
and others.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><DIV =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; "><B>Chris Mees</B></DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">Mees, of San Diego, California, has studied with Bob =
Magnusson and John Clayton.=A0 =A0At Oberlin, he studies with Professor =
of Jazz Studies and Double Bass Peter Dominguez. Mees has spent the past =
five years playing with some of the West Coast=92s premier jazz =
musicians; at Oberlin, he is a member of the Theo Croker Quintet and is =
an active performer on the Cleveland jazz scene. Interested in both =
classical and jazz idioms, he hopes to pursue a teaching career that =
will fuse the two worlds.</P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px"><B>Charles Foldesh</B></P><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Foldesh, from =
Prescott, Arizona, studies with Assistant Professor of Jazz Percussion =
Billy Hart and is a receipient of the John Coltrane Scholarship. He has =
shared the stage with Marcus Belgrave, Gary Bartz, George Benson, John =
Clayton, Bryan Lynch, and Roscoe Mitchell. He performs in Toledo, Ohio =
with Claude Black, Clifford Murphy, and Alex Han, and has performed at =
such festivals as the Texas International Jazz Festival, the Art Tatum =
Jazz Heritage Festival, and the Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival. =
Foldesh has recorded with Marcus Belgrave and the John-Davis Quartet, =
and appears on Alex Han=92s debut album, <I>Fourteen</I>.</DIV><P =
style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><DIV style=3D"margin-top:=
 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; =
"><B>Sullivan Fortner</B></DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px">Fortner is from LaPlace, Louisiana, and was valedictorian at the =
New Orleans Center of Creative Arts. He has won scholarships to the =
Skidmore Jazz Studies Summer Program and the Vail Jazz Institute. =
Fortner has performed as a jazz and gospel musician throughout =
Louisiana, and has appeared in Washington, D.C., with Clyde Kerr Jr., =
Kent Jordan, Donald Harrison, and Nicholas Payton. He studies with =
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano Dan Wall.</P><P =
style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">=A0<B>Yan Tong<SPAN =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: =
normal;"></SPAN></B></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px =
0.0px"><B><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: =
normal;">Tong will perform the </SPAN><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-weight: normal;"><I>Moderato nobile</I></SPAN><SPAN =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: normal;"> movement of =
Erich Korngold=92s </SPAN><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-weight: normal;"><I>Concerto in D Major, Op. =
35</I></SPAN><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: =
normal;">, accompanied by pianist Yu Sakamoto. She is a native of =
Shanghai, China, and studied with Shi Xiang Zhang and Zheng Shi Sheng at =
the Shanghai Conservatory, where she was ranked as the top middle school =
candidate. She has performed numerous solo engagements in her native =
China. Tong also attended the Josef Haydn Conservatory and the =
University of Vienna, and was a scholarship student at the Summer =
Strings Academy in Australia, at Canada=92s Music Bridge at Mount Royal =
College, and at the Meadowmount School. She has won several national and =
international competitions, including third prize in the Postacchini =
International Violin Competition in Italy, first prize in the =
International Violin Competition in France, third prize in the Austrian =
Brahms Competition, and Grand Prize and Best Performance Prize in the =
First International Strings Competition in Kazakstan. She studies with =
Professor of Violin Marilyn McDonald.</SPAN></B></P><P style=3D"margin: =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">=A0</P><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Minjung =
Kim</B></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kim will close the concert, =
performing Paraphrase on<I> Rigoletto </I>by Franz Liszt. A native of =
Seoul, South Korea, she entered her first competition at the age of 7. =
She was an honors student at Seoul Arts High School and in 2004 came to =
the United States to study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has =
also studied chamber music under the coaching of Myung-Hwa Chung in =
Korea.<FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Times" size=3D"4"><SPAN =
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Piano Competition, and Teenagers Music Competition in Korea. She has =
participated master classes with many distinguished musicians, including =
Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jose Feghali, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Yong Hee Moon, =
Hye-sun Baek, and Jin-woo Jung. She recently performed in the Vienna =
Music Festival and at the TCU-Cliburn Institute of Music. Kim is a =
student of Associate Professor of Piano Haewon Song.</DIV><P =
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intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest =
continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned =
internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber =
and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the Washington Post, =
Oberlin=92s alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious careers in all =
aspects of the serious music world.</DIV><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px =
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