The document provides announcements for upcoming concerts and events at Duke University's Department of Music between January 10-22, including a residency with William Conable on the Alexander Technique, faculty recitals, master classes, and guest performances by the Meehan/Perkins Percussion Duo. It also provides news briefs on accomplishments of Duke music alumni, faculty, and students.

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Duke Notes: January 9, 2012 News &
Announcements
Upcoming Concerts and Events The Ciompi Quartet visited the
cities of Xuzhou, Tsingdao and
Tuesday, January 10 — Friday, January 13 Chengdu on their December
Alexander Technique Residency with William Conable 2011 China tour. View more
See a complete listing of residency events and sign up to highlights from their trip here.
participate.
William Conable enjoys worldwide renown as a teacher of the
Alexander Technique, a method for improving freedom and ease of
movement and physical coordination which is of special interest to
musicians and other performing artists. He is Emeritus Professor of
Music at the Ohio State University, and has appeared as cello
soloist with the Columbus, Youngstown, Springfield, Knox County,
and Welsh Hills Symphonies. For eleven years he was Principal
Cellist of the Columbus Symphony, and has served in the same
position for the Youngstown and Springfield Symphonies and the
Dayton Opera. William Conable received his doctorate from Boston Duke graduate student composer
University. David Kirkland Garner won First
Prize in The National Association
of Composers, USA 2011 Young
Composers Competition for
Miracles... Not Math, for string
bass and harp.
Rodney Wynkoop, Director of
the Duke Chorale and Professor
of the Practice of Music, was
featured in the Durham News in a
piece that focused on his work
with the Choral Society of
Durham, which he has directed
for 25 years. Dr. Wynkoop has
just returned for a tour to Greece
and Turkey with the Duke Chapel
Choir, which he also leads as
director of Chapel Music at Duke.
John Brown, Director of the
Duke Jazz Program, was also
recently featured in the Durham
************************************************************** Herald-Sun for his work with 1st-
8th graders attending the Emily K
Friday, January 13 Center in Durham.
8 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Faculty/Guest Recital: Eric Pritchard, violin, William Conable,
cello, and Philip Amalong, piano Bill Cunliffe (Duke '78) was
awarded a Grammy for Best
Program: Instrumental Arrangement for
Fauré, Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 2009 for "West Side Story

2. Schubert, Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 100 Medley,” on the album
Resonance Big Band Plays
Eric Pritchard is Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke Tribute to Oscar Peterson
University and a member of the Ciompi Quartet. William Conable is (Resonance Records). In 2010,
Emeritus Professor Music at Ohio State University and former he was nominated for a Grammy
Principal Cellist of the Columbus Symphony. Philip Amalong is a for Best Instrumental
former Chair of the Department of Music at the College of Mount Composition for his concerto for
St. Joseph in Cincinnati, OH. He is an active soloist, chamber trumpet and orchestra, fourth
musician, recording artist, producer and entrepreneur. stream … La Banda, performed
by Terell Stafford and the Temple
*************************************************************** University Symphony Orchestra
(BCM+D Records) and
Friday, January 20 was honored with The Los
4:30 pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Building Angeles Jazz Society's
Lecture Series in Music: Richard Will (University of Virginia) Composer/Arranger Award. That
“Zooming In, Gazing Back: Don Giovanni on Television” year he also was honored as a
distinguished faculty member of
Richard Will (University of Virginia) specializes in European music the College of the Arts at Cal
of the 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as American folk and State Fullerton.
roots music. Current projects include Mozart Live: Performance,
Media, and Meaning, an examination of Mozart performance in the Cunliffe wrote the score for the
20th century. He is the author of The Characteristic Symphony in 2011 documentary On the
the Age of Haydn and Beethoven (Cambridge University Press, Shoulders of Giants, produced by
2002), and of articles and reviews in Music & Letters, Journal of the basketball legend Kareem Abdul-
American Musicological Society, Beethoven Forum, Musical Jabbar. His newest release is
Quarterly, The Cambridge History of 18th-Century Music, and That Time of Year (Metre
elsewhere. Records), featuring his solo piano
on a variety of traditional
****************************************************** Christmas tunes with guest
vocalist Denise Donatelli.
Saturday, January 21
12 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Percussion/Composition Master Class with the
Meehan/Perkins Percussion Duo
Since its founding in 2006, the Meehan/ Perkins Duo (Todd
Meehan and Doug Perkins) has redefined the American percussion
duo through its diverse commissions and engaging performances.
The Duo has been called "superb young players" by the New
Yorker and "gifted percussionists" by the Wall Street Journal.
Dedicated to creating a new body of work for the percussion duo
genre, to date the Duo has collaborated with composers David
Lang, Paul Lansky, Nathan Davis, John Supko, and Matt McBane
to expand the repertoire and produce eclectic new acoustic and
electro-acoustic works for percussion. The Duo has shared this Paul Jeffrey (left), retired director
of the Duke Jazz Program with
music with audiences throughout the country, including
performances at Weill Recital Hall, the Ojai Music Festival, Dr. Sonny Rollins, 2011
Monadnock Music, the Yellow Barn Festival, the International Kennedy Center honoree. (Photo
from www.washingtonpost.com)
Festival-Institute at Round Top, the Stone, the Percussive Arts
Society International Convention, and abroad in St. Petersburg and
Petrozavodsk, Russia. The Department of Music's
Spring 2012 Calendar of
Events is now available online.
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Saturday, January 21
8 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Encounters: with the music of our time presents the
Meehan/Perkins Percussion Duo and guest performers
Nicholas Lewis, clarinet/bass clarinet, and Dan Lippel, guitar.
Expert percussionists Todd Meehan and Doug Perkins offer a
program including premieres by postdoctoral
fellow Daniel Thomas Davis and faculty composers Stephen
Jaffe, Anthony Kelley, Scott Lindroth and John Supko.
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Sunday, January 22
4 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Faculty Recital: Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz, soprano & David
Heid, piano
If Music Be the Food of Love: works by Purcell, Schubert,
Rossini and spirituals arranged by African-American women
composers.
Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz, lyric soprano, is a Lecturing Fellow in the
Department of Music at Duke University. She teaches voice,
diction, opera and chamber ensemble at Duke and professional
and professional-track voice students in her large private studio.
She taught voice at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-G and Columbia
International University, as well as teaching church music at Institut
Injil Indonesia in Batu, East Java, before coming to teach full time
at Duke.
David Heid comes to North Carolina after a successful career in
New York City as a vocal coach/accompanist. He is currently a staff
accompanist and teaches piano at Duke University as well as being
in demand throughout the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area as a
collaborative artist. He has worked with many of the area’s leading
organizations, including the Durham Choral Society, The Chamber
Orchestra of the Triangle, The Fletcher Foundation, Opera
Company of North Carolina, Theater in the Park, Thompson
Theater Summerfest and Long Leaf Opera.
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