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June 13 –
28, 2009 Ballet
Flavio Salazar
New York, New York
Ballet
Flavio Salazar, a native of Colombia, began his dance studies at the Colombian Institute of Classical Ballet (Incolballet). He joined Ballet de Cali in 1985, before joining the faculty of Incolballet upon his certification by the National Ballet of Cuba to teach methodology and pedagogy of ballet technique. In 1990, he studied at the Houston Ballet Academy as a full scholarship student, and later joined Ballet Arizona in 1992. In 1993, Salazar was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). During his thirteen-year career with ABT, Salazar danced nearly every ballet in ABT's repertoire, before retiring from the company in July of 2006. Salazar's teaching experience extends from his early years of professional dancing in Colombia. He has taught classes at ABT II, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the ABT Summer Intensive, the Alvin Ailey School, and Ballet Tech, among others.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Creative Writing
George Bilgere
University Heights, Ohio
Creative Writing
George Bilgere's recent books are The Good Kiss (University of Akron Press, 2002), and Haywire (Utah State University Press), which won the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2006. He is the author of two other books of poetry, The Going (University of Missouri, 1995) and Big Bang (Copper Beech Press, 1999). The Going received both the Devins Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems appear regularly in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Field, and New England Review. He has been featured in Best American Poetry in 1999 and 2002. Radio host Garrison Keillor has read Bilgere's poems on a number of occasions on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac." Bilgere has given readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and at colleges and public institutions around the country. He directs the creative writing program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Creative Writing Guest Artist
Billy Collins
Winter Park, Florida
Creative Writing Guest Artist
Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar. He is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion." He has published eight collections of poetry, with his last three collections breaking sales records. Collins' readings are usually standing-room only, and his audience includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. Billy Collins served as the United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003 and as the New York State Poet Laureate from 2004-2006. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Levinson Prize -- all awarded by Poetry magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for humorous poetry. Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York.
Photo courtesy Jersey Walz
June 13 –
28, 2009 Drawing & Painting
Kristy Deetz
DePere, Wisconsin
Drawing & Painting
Kristy Deetz, associate professor and chair of the art discipline at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, received her M.F.A. in painting and drawing from The Ohio State University. Deetz has taught painting and drawing at a number of universities and art schools over the past twenty years and frequently gives encaustic painting workshops at art centers such as Anderson Ranch, OxBow, and Penland. Her extensive exhibition record includes competitive, invitational, and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Her recent encaustic and oil paintings revise traditional images of drapery and still life and explore how image and process reveal and conceal substance and spirit. Carved wooden reliefs painted with encaustic, her "book" series are visual metaphors of the book form and autobiographical explorations. Playing off of concepts like palimpsest, aporia, and table of contents,these pieces operate as visual puns and connect ideas of language to body and earth.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Photography
Jill Enfield
New York, New York
Photography
A fine art and editorial photographer, Jill Enfield has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at schools in New York City and throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Southeast Banking Corporation, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in Colombia, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, and Hotel Parisi in La Jolla, California, among others. Enfield received a faculty development grant from The New School in New York City to produce a new body of work using the wet collodion technique. Enfield's work was one of 42 images selected from thousands through the HERE IS NEW YORK archive to commemorate the fifth anniversary of September 11th. The prints hung on the fence surrounding Ground Zero in Manhattan for a year. Her book Photo-Imaging - A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes won the Golden Light Award for Best Technical Book in 2002. It is now out of print, but Enfield is working on an updated version which will be out in early 2010.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Photography - Darkroom Technician
Konrad Eek
Norman, Oklahoma
Photography -- Darkroom Technician
Konrad Eek owns and operates Maxwell Eek Design Photography, a commercial photography studio specializing in product and advertising photography. He serves a diverse client base, ranging from Carlisle Food Service Products to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. In addition to his commercial photographic work, Eek is very involved in arts education. He has served as an adjunct professor of photography for Oklahoma City Community College for over a decade. He teaches classes in photo lighting, advanced darkroom techniques, and alternative photographic processes. He also serves on the curriculum development committee for the college. For the last 20 years, Eek has served the Oklahoma Arts Institute in a variety of roles.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Photography -- Digital Technician
Ben Long
San Francisco, California
Photography -- Digital Technician
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, writer, and teacher. The author of over a dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he has been a longtime contributor or contributing editor to many magazines including MacWeek, MacUser, Macworld UK, and others. He currently writes for Macworld magazine, and is a senior editor at CreativePro.com. His photography clients include 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world. He occasionally dabbles in computer programming, and has written image editing utilities that are used by National Geographic, the British Museum, and the White House. Long was an OSAI acting student in 1985.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Film & Video
Bradley Beesley
Austin, Texas
Film & Video
Bradley Beesley's cinematic career includes documenting oddball Americana, strange sub-cultures, homegrown rock stars, and his latest film, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo. After graduating from art school, Beesley filmed legendary bluesman R.L. Burnside for his first movie, Hill Stomp Hollar, in 1999. He has since directed eight feature-length films, including six documentaries, a concert film and a sci-fi narrative. Beesley is the producer and director of the backwoods cult classic Okie Noodling (PBS). The film chronicles the lost art of bare-handed catfishing in his home state of Oklahoma. After collecting over 400 hours of footage, Shout! Factory released The Fearless Freaks in 2005, a documentary chronicling and starring The Flaming Lips. Beesley has collaborated on over 15 music videos with the Grammy Award-winning Lips and directed their live DVD, UFO's at the Zoo (Warner Bros.) Last year saw the release of the science fiction picture Christmas on Mars (Warner Bros.), co-directed with Lips founder and front man Wayne Coyne. Other feature documentaries include The Creek Runs Red (Independent Lens), and Summercamp! (Sundance Channel). His TV credits include Roller Girls and Paranormal State (A&E) and Storm Chasers. (Discovery).
June 13 –
28, 2009 Acting
John de Lancie
South Pasadena, California
Acting
John de Lancie has an eclectic career, spanning the genres of film, television, theater, orchestral music, opera, and literature dramatization. His film credits include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Bad Influence, The Onion Field, Taking Care of Business, Fearless, Multiplicity, Nicholas, Patient 14, The Big Time, and Reign on Me. His television credits include Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, West Wing, Without a Trace, Judging Amy, The Closer, L.A. Law, Civil Wars, The Practice, Touched by an Angel, and many more. He has been a member of The American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, and the Old Globe, among others. Mr. de Lancie has performed with many orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra, and has directed operas, including Tosca. With co-owner Leonard Nimoy, de Lancie created the production company Alien Voices, devoted to the dramatization of classic science fiction. He recently returned from a national tour of the Scopes Monkey Trial with Ed Asner, where he played Clarence Darrow.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Film & Video Editor
Jeff Rich
Savannah, Georgia
Film & Video Editor
Jeff Rich received his bachelor's degree in film and is pursuing an MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His current photography project, "Watershed," has been shown at numerous galleries along the east coast. Rich currently runs the facility of the photography department at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Orchestra Section Faculty
Rodney Ackmann
Colombia, Missouri
Bassoon
Rodney Ackmann joined the music faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia in August 2005, following 22 seasons as principal bassoonist of the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed as principal bassoonist with the Tulsa Opera Orchestra, North Arkansas Symphony, Sarasota Music Festival and the Musica nel Chiostro and Spoleto Festivals in Italy. Other performance affiliations include Solisti New York, Missouri Quintet, and the Assisi Italy Music Festival. As a soloist, Ackmann has appeared with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Musica Regala and the Tulsa Philharmonic. He has recorded for Chandos and Enharmonic and has been heard on NPR's Performance Today. He served for seven summers as visiting assistant professor of music at the Indiana University School of Music. Ackmann holds the BME, MM, and Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, where he was a student of Leonard Sharrow and Sidney Rosenberg.
John Allen
Moore, Oklahoma
Trombone & Tuba
John Allen is currently the principal trombonist for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the adjunct trombone instructor at Oklahoma City University. For eleven years, Allen served as principal trombone with the Abilene Philharmonic. He was also the principal trombone with the Plano Symphony Orchestra and he often appears with the Dallas Opera Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Allen is a founding member of the SlideHandlers trombone quartet and performs with the Bluebonnet Brass, a quintet the tours the United States. He has been a featured soloist with the Abilene Philharmonic and the Marshall Symphony Orchestra and he also toured for a year as solo trombonist with the versatile sextet Rhythm & Brass. Allen previously held positions as artist-in-residence at East Texas Baptist University and as instructor of low brass at Howard Payne University and Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. This is Allen's sixth summer at OSAI.
Amy Anderson
Lubbock, Texas
Oboe
Amy Anderson, oboe professor at Texas Tech University, is an active clinician and recitalist performing at conventions of the International Double Reed Society, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, Texas Music Educators Association, and Percussive Arts Society. She and Lisa Rogers are dedicated to expanding the repertoire for oboe and percussion with commissioned works. Anderson's recording of Incantations by van Appledorn has been broadcast on public radio and CBC's Wired for Sound. She has held positions at University of Florida, Luther College, and Hochstein Music School, and with orchestras in Florida, Texas, New York, and the Breckenridge Music Festival. Anderson holds bachelor and masters degrees from University of North Texas, the Performer's Certificate from Eastman School of Music and completed an Artist Residency Artist at Banff Centre for the Arts. Her primary teachers include Richard Killmer and Charles Veazey. Anderson has recorded for Albany Records and Living Artist Recordings.
Karel Butz
Bloomington, Indiana
Violin
Karel Butz has performed in several orchestras, including the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Spoleto Festival USA, Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Terre Haute Symphony, Richmond (IN) Symphony, and Camerata Orchestra. He teaches violin for the Indiana University String Academy and has taught orchestra in Houston, Texas as well as in Carmel, Indiana. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in music education at Indiana University and studying violin with Mimi Zweig.
Anne Eisfeller
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Harp
Anne Eisfeller is the principal harpist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony, and she also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has performed with Opera Southwest, Four Corners Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Festival, and Octubre Internacional in Mexico. In addition to OSAI, her summers take her to Oregon for the Peter Britt, Coast, and Cascade Festivals, and to Italy where she performs with the Assisi Festival and serves as the chamber music coordinator. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees with high distinction from Indiana University, where she studied with and assisted Peter Eagle.
Misha Galaganov
Fort Worth, Texas
Viola
Dr. Misha Galaganov, viola professor at Texas Christian University and director of Chamber Music Roundup, has performed as a soloist and given master classes in Russia, Italy, Israel, Czech Republic, Mexico, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and the USA. His performance at Carnegie Hall was called "warm and expressive" by the New York Music Review He is also a member of Trio Con Brio, a group that inspired leading composers from several countries to write new pieces for them. Dr. Galaganov received his degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from Rice University in Houston, TX. His students now have successful careers in the USA and abroad.
Jessica Gilliam-Valls
Austin, Texas
Double Bass
Dr. Jessica Gilliam-Valls is a double bassist, cellist, recording artist, producer, educator, wife and mother. The Austin native exemplifies the ubiquitous artistry of a true music lover, heeding to no single genre, discipline, or stage. Gilliam-Valls studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, received a master's from the Manhattan School of Music, and earned a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. She has shared the stage with a dozen orchestras, including the Austin Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Tosca Tango Orchestra, and Orqestra da Radio e Televisao Cultura. She has appeared regularly with chamber ensembles, tango and bluegrass bands, in studio recording sessions, on film soundtracks, television and radio jingles, and popular festival stages around the world. She is presently a faculty member at The Austin Chamber Music Center and Huston-Tillotson University and a member of the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra.
Catherine Hudgins
Boston, Massachusetts
Clarinet
Clarinetist Catherine Hudgins began her career in Caracas, Venezuela, as a member of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas. She later held positions in the Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas, the Charleston Symphony, and the Boise Philharmonic. Hudgins performs frequently with the Boston Symphony, Portland Symphony (Maine), and as principal clarinetist with the National Lyric Opera. She has appeared with many other orchestras, including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, and the Rantos Collegium of Australia. Hudgins was featured in chamber music concerts at the Spoleto and Scotia Festivals. She recently participated in the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto Japan, Tokyo Opera Nomori, and the Mito Chamber Orchestra,all under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. She also performed for the inaugural performances of Ozawa's Tokyo Opera Nomori. Her chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, West German Radio, RAI (Italian Radio), SCETV and CBC, among others. She studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus.
Michael Murray
Springfield, Missouri
Cello
Dr. Michael Murray is the founding member of the Hawthorne Trio, an artist-faculty ensemble at Missouri State University. The Hawthorne Trio has performed widely across the United States, Japan, Czech Republic, England, and at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. Murray held an artist/scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, where he researched music for cello composed in the 1930s. Murray is the principal cellist of the Springfield Symphony and his wide orchestral experience includes the Minnesota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Kansas City Camerata and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He received a College of Arts and Letters Award in Teaching from Missouri State University and a National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowship for study at Harvard University. Murray leaves for London later this summer to serve on the faculty of the Missouri London Program for the remainder of the year.
Valerie Naranjo
New York, New York
Percussion
http://www.mandaramusic.com
Valerie Naranjo has studied music in ten African countries. She was the first woman permitted to publicly perform Ghanaian gyil and the only Westerner to receive a first prize at Ghana's Kobine Festival. With her mentor Kakraba Lobi, she toured, recorded, and compiled the 15 transcriptions West African Music for the Marimba Soloist. Naranjo performs solo marimba and gyil with her world music group Mandara, and she has been the percussionist for NBC's Saturday Night Live Band for 12 years. She wrote the percussion arrangements and performed for Broadway's Tony Award-winning The Lion King. She has performed with Megadrums, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tori Amos, The Paul Winter Consort, and many more. She has recorded ten CDs, featuring a variety of musical styles. She has been named "World Percussionist of the Year" by Drum! magazine twice, and she has been featured in Modern Drummer, Rhythm, Percussive Notes, and World Percussion Rhythm magazines. She was a featured artist at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention six times, and she has been featured at festivals and symposia on six continents. Naranjo apprenticed with Leigh Stevens, Gordon Stout, and Dave Samuels. She received a B.M.E. at the University of Oklahoma and an M.M. at Ithaca College.
Terry Roberts
Florence, South Carolina
French Horn
Dr. Terry Roberts completed a bachelor's of music at Florida State University. After graduation, he moved to Germany, where he studied with Erich Penzel and performed with Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He was then appointed solo horn of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed for eight years. Roberts studied conducting in Cologne, Germany and at the Conservatoire du Nice, France. He worked with many well known conductors including Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Neville Mariner. In 1993, Roberts moved back to the United States and started a freelance career as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician. In 1994, he was a prizewinner in the professional division of the American Horn Competition. Currently, he is founder and music director of the Francis Marion University String Ensemble. In addition, Roberts is adjunct instructor of music at University of North Carolina-Pembroke and Francis Marion University and music director/conductor of the Florence Symphony Orchestra and the Florence Symphony Youth Orchestra in South Carolina.
Karl Sievers
Norman, Oklahoma
Music Director & Trumpet
Dr. Karl Sievers grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. His primary teachers were Delbert Hoon, Leon Rapier and William Adam. Sievers received bachelor's and master's degrees in trumpet performance from Indiana University and a D.M.A from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Sievers has performed in the orchestras of Indianapolis, Charlotte, and Dayton, he was the co-principal trumpet in the Cincinnati Ballet, and he is currently the principal trumpeter of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the University of Oklahoma Brass Quintet. Sievers' commercial playing includes live television, recording sessions and touring shows. Sievers is an artist clinician for the Bach Trumpet Corporation and is a member of the boards of directors of the International Trumpet Guild and the National Trumpet Competition. Teaching is Sievers' passion. Formerly a member of the faculty at Wright State University, he currently enjoys the position of professor of trumpet at the University of Oklahoma.
Virginia Sircy
Alexandria, Virginia
Piano
Dr. Virginia Rice Sircy was professor of music at Cameron University and holds three degrees in piano performance. She has been soloist for two piano premieres and made her fifth solo appearance with the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2006. An active chamber musician, Sircy is a founding member of Words and Music (2008), a vocal quartet with piano accompaniment. They have performed Ned Rorem's "The Evidence of Things Not Seen," a compendium of art songs, throughout the Washington, D.C. area and in New York. Sircy has conducted recent performances of Haydn's Mass in Time of War in northern Virginia and served as music director and conductor for four performances of Benjamin Britten's opera Noye's Fludde, a production that was co-produced by St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Virginia and the Washington Revels in D.C. This marks Dr. Sircy's twenty-second year as a member of the OSAI faculty.
Katie Wolfe
Iowa City, Iowa
Violin
Katie Wolfe joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in August 2004. Her career as a soloist, teacher, chamber musician and orchestral principal on national and international stages has included performances in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, the Soviet Union, Spain and the Netherlands. Wolfe received the Fulbright Lecture Award to teach and perform in Bolivia. She formed a string quartet that performed concerts throughout the country, taught at the National Conservatory, and served as associate concertmaster of the National Symphony of Bolivia for one season. As a freelance artist in New York City, she performed and toured with groups such as Jupiter Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the S.E.M. Ensemble and the City Island Baroque Ensemble, as well as in pit orchestras of Broadway musicals. Before moving to Iowa, Wolfe was assistant professor of violin and viola at Oklahoma State University for five years and served as associate concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
Evelien Woolard
Cincinnati, Ohio
Flute
Evelien Woolard is a founding member of the Taft Woodwind Quintet, first-prize winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and twice finalist in the International Munich Competition. A strong advocate for chamber music, Woolard is also a member of LYRICA, a harp, flute, and cello trio and AULT MUSIC, a guitar, flute, and double bass trio, both based in Cincinnati. She serves as principal flutist of the Cincinnati Ballet, Richmond Symphony (Indiana), and Blue Ash/Montgomery Orchestras and has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and the Dayton and Lexington Philharmonics. Woolard spent twelve years as flute instructor for the preparatory department of the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory for Music and nine years in the same position at the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Ballet Accompanist
Steven Mitchell
New York, New York
Ballet Accompanist
http://www.stevenvmitchell.com/
Steven Mitchell has accompanied and performed for some of the most recognized dance organizations around the world. Most recently he was rehearsal pianist for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City. Mitchell has performed as soloist and with the ballet orchestra for the Boston Ballet Company, and he has held key positions with the Pittsburgh Ballet. In New York City, he has played at major ballet schools including Ballet Academy East, School of American Ballet, Broadway Dance Center, and Steps on Broadway. He was class pianist for the Columbia Pictures film Center Stage, and his music can be heard in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In addition to his accompanist work, Mitchell devoted many years to educating New York City public school children about musical theater as music director and pianist for Rosie's Broadway Kids. Mitchell holds degrees from Houghton College in New York and Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Modern Dance
Andrew Palermo
New York, New York
Modern Dance
http://www.dredance.com/
Andrew Palermo is the co-artistic director of dre.dance, a New York City-based contemporary dance company that he helms with childhood friend Taye Diggs. Palermo's stage choreography and direction credits include performances at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, Carnegie Hall, The Public Theater, 37 Arts, New York City Festival of Dance, Hudson Theatre, The Old Globe, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Prince Music Theatre, and more. Teaching credits include dance and/or acting instruction at University of Cincinnati-CCM, University of Michigan, Pepperdine University, Wichita State University, SUNY Potsdam, Music Theater Italy, Rochester School of the Arts, Broadway Dance Center, The Edge P.A.C., Millennium Dance Complex, Dance New Amsterdam and numerous national conventions, studios and performing arts camps. Palermo's performing highlights include the original Broadway casts of Wicked and Annie Get Your Gun, and the Broadway revival of How to Succeed... He has toured nationally and internationally with West Side Story, and performed Off-Broadway in Michael John La Chiusa's Little Fish. Other performing credits include Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Hollywood Bowl, and more.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Interdisciplinary Faculty
Beth Emerson & David Hyer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Ballroom Dance
Beth Emerson is a Champion Level dancer, teacher, coach, judge and performer. She has produced annual dance festivals since 1994 and is currently the event director of the Oklahoma Dance Rush, held in Oklahoma City. After earning a B.A. in microbiology, she conducted plant virology research for several years. In 1992, she made "the next logical career move" and became a full-time dance professional. Emerson has taught and competed both nationally and internationally since 1991, teaching Country Western Couples, Ballroom, and Swing, as well as coaching and choreographing for dance teams. She has won many Country Western championships and has had students who have won world championships. She has been active in the United Country Western Dance Council for 15 years, and is currently the vice-president for rules. She is certified as a contest coordinator and Masters Level Judge. *******
David Hyer is a professional ballroom dancer and has competed in American Smooth within the National Dance Council of America's sanctioned events. Hyer has won titles at the Holiday Dance Classic in Las Vegas, the Dancer's Cup Grand Ball, California Open, St. Louis Star Ball and Heart of America Dancesport Championships. Hyer and former partner Shelby Rothell were ranked fourth at the United States Rising Star National Championships, and were semi-finalists in the World Professional American Smooth Championship. When not competing, Hyer has been a guest performer for the Kaleidoscope Dancers Company, Oklahoma Philharmonic, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Community Dance Alliance, and Joie De Vie. He has also served as guest faculty at the American College Dance Festival, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, University of Central Oklahoma, and surrounding regional studios and public schools. He recently appeared as the featured dancer in Lyric Theatre's production of Swing in Oklahoma City.
Regina Saisi
San Francisco, California
Improvisation
Regina Saisi is a San Francisco-based actor and improviser. She is an instructor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Marin School District, and at BATS Improv. She has taught at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and the California Institute of the Arts. She has an international reputation as one of the foremost improvisation teachers and performers in the world, having performed and taught in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Finland and Sweden. A pioneer in the development of long-form improv, she is a founding member of the improvisational theater companies True Fiction Magazine and Pulp Playhouse and is a member of BATS Improv. Saisi is a firm believer that improvisation has value to anyone, regardless of their profession, and has taught improvisation to corporate clients such as Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems, as well as to inner-city youth in Oakland and San Francisco.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Chorus Conductor
Charles Bruffy
Kansas City, Missouri
Chorus Conductor
Charles Bruffy is one of the most highly respected and sought-after choral conductors in the nation. He has been artistic director of the Kansas City Chorale since 1988 and the Phoenix Bach Choir since 1999. In 2007, Bruffy's choruses' recording of Passion Week was nominated in four Grammy Award categories: Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Surround Sound Album, and Best Engineered Classical Album. In December 2008, his recent releases on the Chandos label were once again recognized by the Academy with four nominations: Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Small Ensemble and Best Surround Sound Album. In addition to his work with these choirs, the Kansas City Symphony recently named Bruffy as chorus director of the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. He has also conducted choruses across the nation, and conducted Verdi's Requiem in Sydney in 2003. This year, his commitments will take him to New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Wisconsin and Indianapolis.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Chorus Section Faculty
Keith Dixon
Kingwood, Texas
Men's Chorus Section Leader
Keith Dixon has sung with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, with whom he recorded the Telarc releases "Amazing Grace," "Evocation of the Spirit" and "Appear and Inspire." He has also performed with the Houston Symphony Chorus and Concert Chorale of Houston. Dixon served multiple terms as an ACDA repertoire and standards chair and has been the organizer for both divisional and national honor choirs. Since 1995, Dixon has been the musical director of the Bay Area Chorus, a community chorus that appears in the Weston Noble DVD "Perpetual Inspiration." Choirs under his direction have performed at four Texas Music Educators Association conventions and have presented honor choir concerts for American Classic Madrigal Festivals on four occasions. His activities as a workshop and choir clinician include serving as the OSAI choral section leader for four summers.
Patrice Sollenberger
Leawood, Kansas
Women's Chorus Section Leader
Patrice Sollenberger received her Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Kansas, and she has been a choral music educator for 27 years. She serves as guest clinician for area honor choirs and adjudicator for music festivals throughout the Midwest. She is currently the director of choral music at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Sollenberger is the artistic assistant and a member of the Kansas City Chorale. From 1996 - 2003, Sollenberger performed annually with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and Carnegie Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall. In the summer of 1998, she was selected to participate in Shaw's forty-voice choral workshop and concert series at Furman University. Sollenberger's husband Jay is a professional trumpet player, and they have one son, Brandon. This is Sollenberger's fourth year at OSAI.
Brett Terry
Kansas City, Missouri
Choral Accompanist
Brett Terry is a native of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and was an OSAI chorus student. His organ performances have received high praise, describing him as "one of the bright new stars on the crown of the King of Instruments," and his voice as being one which "captures the heart, eases the mind, and soothes the soul." These performances include concert and recital work, having played and sung in some of the great venues of the country. Recently, Terry has been given performances throughout the United States, including a recital at the OK Mozart International Festival. In addition to his solo performances, Terry is a highly sought-after collaborative musician. He frequently appears in collaborative concerts and recitals throughout the Kansas City-area and the country. He is an active member of the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Orchestra Conductor
Christian Knapp
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conductor
One of today's foremost young conductors, Christian Knapp is known for his dynamic presence and ability to inspire audiences and musicians alike. He has conducted with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Mexico City Philharmonic, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony, where he served as associate conductor from 2004-2006. His most recent engagements include the Portland and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Knapp has conducted operas including Turn of the Screw, The Rake's Progress, and Le Nozze di Figaro, among others. As associate conductor of Broomhill Opera in London from 2000-2003, he helped create their sister company in South Africa. He has also worked with the Perspectives New Music Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, with whom he gave the U.S. premiere of Zona by Magnus Lindberg at Lincoln Center in 2006. Knapp studied at Tufts University, New England Conservatory, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and St. Petersburg State Conservatory.
Photo courtesy of John Naumann
June 13 –
28, 2009 Orchestra Guest Composer
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
Longmont, Colorado
Orchestra Guest Composer
http://www.jerodtate.com/
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate was born in 1968 in Norman, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Tate is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition, and a recent review by The Washington Post states that "Tate's connection to nature and the human experience was quite apparent in this piece...rarer still is his ability to effectively infuse classical music with American Indian nationalism." Tate's orchestral works were recorded by the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus and are currently available on Thunderbird Records. Tate's works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Ballet and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony. Tate received his B.M. in piano performance from Northwestern University and his M.M. in piano performance and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is composer-in-residence for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy.
June 13 –
28, 2009 Film & Video Technician
Paul Taggart
Beirut, Lebanon
Film & Video Technician
http://www.paultaggart.com/
Paul Taggart is a photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon focusing primarily on the Middle East and Africa. He works on a range of stories including war coverage in Iraq and Lebanon, the famine in Niger, the 2005 tsunami in Banda Aceh Indonesia, oil militias in Nigeria, Congolese refugees in Tanzania, and eco-pirates off the coasts of Antarctica. Taggart's clients include Newsweek, TIME Magazine, US News and World Report, The New York Times, Harper's and Queen, People Magazine, Figaro, Der Spiegel, The International Herald Tribune, Maxim, and National Geographic Adventure. This will be Taggart's sixth year working with the OSAI film program. Originally from Tulsa, he was an OSAI photography student for two summers. Taggart is currently working on a long term documentary project examining the definition of terrorism and human rights issues.
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