Amirtha Kidambi, M.Mus., voice performance,聽2012.聽On Oct. 3, 2014, soprano Amirtha Kidambi will make her Carnegie Hall debut with the Elizabeth-Caroline Unit in Darius Jones’ The Oversoul Manual.聽She will be joining singers Kristin Slipp, Sarah Dyson Martin and Jean Carla Rodea in performing this work that they have been working on with Jones over the previous two years.聽Prior to the Carnegie Hall performance, they are performing the work at Greenwich Music House on Sept. 20.聽Both performances are leading up to the release on Oct. 14 of their album for Aum Fidelity.
Georgia Lowe, M.Mus., harp performance, 2014.聽In summer 2014 Lowe was the harp soloist in two special concerts in her native Australia.聽On June 13 she performed Ernesto Rodrigo’s evocative and popular Concierto de Aranju茅z (1939) with the Mosman Symphony Orchestra near her home in North Sydney.聽In July she performed the concerto again, in the concert series “Harp Legends,” at the renowned Sydney Opera House.聽She studied at the Sydney Conservatory of Music before coming to 可乐视频 in September 2012 to study with harp virtuoso Sivan Magen at the Conservatory.聽She is back in New York this fall for some additional post-graduate training and performing experiences.
Benjamin Bierman, M.Mus., composition, 2002.聽Bierman received his tenure and promotion to associate professor in music at John Jay College in fall 2014.聽In early 2015 his textbook Listening to Jazz will be published by Oxford University Press.
Todd Brunel, M.Mus., 2007, clarinet performance.聽Brunel is now a member of the music faculty at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. He continues聽 to play clarinet and bass clarinet for the Eric Hofbauer Quintet.聽That quintet聽just released a double album, Prehistoric Jazz, Volumes 1 and 2, that features jazz versions of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The CD received a by jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on the NPR show Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Yiu-Kwong Chung (known as 鈥漋ason鈥� to us),聽 M.A., percussion, 1983; D.M.A., 1991, CUNY Grad Center. Vason is the general director of the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, which embarked on a tour to Macao and Hong Kong in October 2014. The repertoire included some of his own compositions.
Caitr铆ona O’Leary, B.Mus., voice performance, 1994.聽Janice Gerboth recently heard Caitr铆ona O’Leary interviewed live on WQXR about her newly released CD The Wexford Carols (Heresy Records), an album of traditional folk Christmas carols, featuring guest artists Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash and Rhiannon Giddens.聽This is the 18th critically acclaimed album for O’Leary, who, with her band, D煤lra, has toured and performed around the world with “intense and passionate performances of Traditional Irish song, folk and early music.”聽Visit for more news.
