East Branch Friends of the Arts
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Mauricio Villazón 21, was born in Mexico and studies cello with Owen Carman at the Meadowmount Conservatory. His former teachers include Moonlight Tran and University of Nevada at Las Vegas professor Andy Smith. He has attended Meadowmount for three summers and was an assistant teacher last summer. He performed and taught at the Las Vegas 2nd Annual Cello Day Festival held at the Las Vegas Academy and has performed concerts as soloist and chamber music collaborator in Las Vegas and locally at the Meadowmount School, Au Sable Club and the Crater Club and SUNY-Plattsburgh. Mauricio won 2nd place in the annual Bolognini Cello Competition in Las Vegas and has taught privately in Las Vegas. He recently competed in the Hudson Valley String Competition in Poughkeepsie, NY. Angel Welp 15, from Westport, New York, attends Westport Central School and the Meadowmount Conservatory as a student of Owen Carman. Angel began her studies at a young age and has attended Meadowmount School of Music for five summers. She has attended the SMU Pre-college Music Conservatory of Dallas, The Institute for Strings and the Mannes Pre-College Music Program where she studied with Katherine Brainard. Angel has also studied with Rebecca Seivers, Mimi McShane, Tanya Carey and Melissa Kraut. Isah Webb 18, began studying cello at the age of fifteen. He is a resident of Seattle, Washington where he performed with the Seattle Conservatory and Young Symphony programs. He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy where he studied with Melissa Kraut. Isah currently studies with Owen Carman at the Meadowmount Conservatory. Owen Carman received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute and his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School where he studied cello with Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, David Soyer and Orlando Cole. He studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Curtis, and Budapest String Quartets. He was named Professor Emeritus in 2002 at Michigan State University where he taught cello and chamber music since 1977. Mr. Carman was formerly the Principal Cellist of the Eastern Music Festival, the New York City Symphony, Philadelphia Lyric Opera and a summer member of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was also a member of the New College and Beaumont String Quartets. He was a guest artist with the Juilliard, Chester, and Rackham String Quartets and has performed solo and chamber music concerts on PBS television and National Public Radio. As cellist of The Meadowmount Trio, he has recorded CDs for Melodiya, Russian Disc, Citadel, and Equilibrium record labels. He has performed solo and chamber music concerts in Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Russia, and has presented master classes at many major universities and conservatories throughout the U.S and China. His former students perform in many major U.S. orchestras, chamber ensembles and teach at prominent music schools. He joined the Meadowmount faculty in 1981 and was appointed Director of Meadowmount and President of the Society for Strings, Inc. in 1989. A multi-faceted musician, Dr. Karen Becker has appeared in major concert halls across the country as soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and assistant conductor. Though classically trained, Dr. Becker enjoys performing and studying all musical genres and styles. In New York City, Dr. Becker was adjunct faculty at Brooklyn College, worked as pianist for the American Opera Project at New York City Opera, appeared as piano soloist on the Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art, and as a keyboard player in the Phillip Glass Ensemble. She also was featured on the Music from Japan series at Columbia University's Miller Theater, and is a champion of contemporary music, having played premieres by John Cage, and rarely heard music by Charles Koechlin, and Erik Satie. This exposure to the music of Koechlin led Becker to her research on surrealism in the music of Vladimir Dukelsky and the surrealist theater of Alberto Savinio, resulting in her dissertation Surrealism in Music: The Surrealist Suite and Les Chants de la mi-mort. Dr. Becker holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the University of Wisconsin. Her primary teachers include: Van Cliburn medallist Christopher Taylor, Robert Spillman, Margo Garrett, Samuel Sanders, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, and Ellsworth Snyder. |
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