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July 6, 2009: Monteux School in Hancock, Maine Back |
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Performers from the Monteux School for conductors and orchestra musicans in Hancock, Maine perform live in the Bangor studios. Michael Jinbo, Music Director and William C. White, 2009 Conducting Associate were joined by Jeremy Benson on flute, Stan Renard on violin, William Curry on viola, Kurt Harrison on cello and Constance Koo on harp. They performed Mozart Flute Quartet in D Major and Gabriel Faure, Apres un Reve.
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Jeremy Benson, flute, 1st year is a doctoral student in flute performance at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he studies with Bart Feller. He studied at Florida State University where he received his master’s degree in 2008. He served as Piccolo player in the Gadsden Symphony Orchestra (Alabama) from 2001-2006. He currently lives outside of New York City where he plays freelance and Broadway musicals, currently subbing for SHREK the Musical.
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William Curry II, conductor/viola, 1st year is a senior at Northwestern University, currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in viola performance while studying conducting with Maestro Victor Yampolsky. A founding member of Northwestern’s Helios String Quartet, Will is actively involved in chamber music while also performing with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and the Cervantes Institute Orchestra in Chicago. Also interested in music direction, he conducted The Wizard of Oz this past winter and will be music directing and conducting Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors in the spring of 2010. Will plans to continue his conducting pursuits with hopes of pursuing a master’s degree in conducting upon graduating from Northwestern.
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Kurt Harrison, cello, 1st year, studied cello with Samuel Mayes and Jeffrey Solow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), earning his Bachelor of Music degree in 1985 and his master’s in 1986. While attending the Eastern Music Festival at Chautaugua, NY, he studied with Chaim Zemach and Ellen Westermann. Masterclass performances include Margaret Rowell, Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot. Noted performances have been a recital at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston 1989, and various competitions including, João Pessoa, Brazil (’88), Scheveningen, Holland (’89), Prague (’89), Belgrade (’90), Moscow (’90), Geneva (’91), and Cremona, Italy (’91). From the summer of 1993 to the present, he has been owner and operator of a sheet music business. As of January 2008, he has once again continued cello studies. |
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Stan Renard, conductor/violin, 2nd year grew up in the south of France. Stan is a violinist, violist, conductor and arranger. He has studied violin with Veda Reynolds (Curtis Institute), Alexandre Brussilovsky (assistant to Leonid Kogan in Moscow and Yehudi Menuhin in London), Philip Setzer (Emerson String Quartet), Marylou Speaker Churchill (Principal Second Violinist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and French violinist Flora Elfege, and has also studied viola with Kathryn Lockwood (Lark String Quartet). Stan established Chamber Orchestra Opus 1, now in residency at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has studied conducting with Maestros Lanfranco Marcelletti, Harvey Sollberger and Michael Jinbo. He founded the Bohemian Quartet, which releases its latest recording Beyond Tradition in August 2009. Stan holds two MM degrees, from the Versailles Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; an MBA from Providence College; and is earning a PhD in international business at Southern New Hampshire University and a DMA in violin performance under the mentoring of Theodore Arm at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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