The University of Arizona School of Music goes on summer hiatus, but its talented faculty artists won't be sunning themselves on the beach.
Here's a rundown of how some will spend the summer:
• Thomas Cockrell, director of orchestral activities: Two weeks in Mexico City teaching and conducting Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenile Carlos Chávez.
• Piano prof John Milbauer: Seven weeks performing and teaching at the renown Chautauqua Music Festival in New York; performing concerts at the Gene Byron Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, and at St. Petersburg College in Florida. Finishing CD of Debussy, Crumb and Bartók.
• Choral prof Elizabeth Schauer: Returning for a fourth summer to Rider University's Westminster Choir College to teach conducting.
• Regents Professor Paula Fan: Will spend two weeks exploring the fossa of Madagascar in her annual Earthwatch expedition. Later this summer, the pianist joins violinist Steven Moeckel at the Oregon Coast Music Festival for a recital, then flies to London to perform with tenor Mitchell Sturges at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She and her solar-powered piano trio, the AzRISE Solar Storytellers, also will perform youth-oriented recitals through the summer.
• Choral activities director Bruce Chamberlain: Heading to Seoul, South Korea, for several guest-conducting gigs. Will also be a faculty member for the inaugural Margaret Hillis Conducting Symposium in Chicago and will spend his sixth summer on the faculty of the International Conducting Institute at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J.
• Horn prof Daniel Katzen: Will spend the summer recording a new CD, performing with the Toronto Symphony in June and playing and teaching at the Tanglewood Music Festival in western Massachusetts in July.
• Composition prof Craig Walsh: Traveling to Bosnia and Herzegovina to hear world premieres of his new String Quartet, commissioned by the Manhattan String Quartet.
• Voice prof Kristin Dauphinais: Heading to Saarburg, Germany, to teach and perform at the Saarburger Serenaden International Music Festival.
• Clarinet professor Jerry Kirkbride: Has a pair of concerts lined up in New York with the Dorian Wind Quintet.
• Cello professor Mark Votapek: Heading to Honolulu for the Aloha International Piano Festival in June, and will spend part of July in California performing and teaching at the Sierra Academy of Music in Mammoth Lakes. In August, he comes home to perform with the St. Andrew's Bach Society.
And here's how some of the distinguished students will spend their summers:
• Flute major Victoria Hauk: Will travel with the UA's Harp Fusion to China in July to tour and perform at Shanghai's World Music Expo.
• Conducting fellow Jackson Warren: Joins the summer staff for Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Ark., to work on performances of "Don Giovanni" and "Carmen."
• Conducting fellow Keitaro Harada: Will be a conducting fellow at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisting with productions of Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos"; conducting Schubert's Symphony No. 5 and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture." He also will be a featured guest on NPR's classical program "From the Top," which will broadcast in mid-June.
• Baritone Brian Witkowski: Will spend the summer performing at Pepperdine University's Songfest in Malibu, Calif., as a 2010 recipient of the Marc and Eva Stern Fellowship Award.
• Violist Kimberly Hankins: Will spend the summer in Reykjavik, Iceland, touring with the Iceland Arts Academy string quartet and attending the SKARK Music Festival. In August, she zips to Luxembourg to take part with UA viola prof Hong-Mei Xiao in the Vianden Music Festival.
Contact Cathalena E. Burch at 573-4642 or cburch@azstarnet.com
