Sally Pinkas

Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
M.M., Indiana University
Artist Diploma, New England Conservatory

Since her London debut, Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas has concertized widely in the USA, Europe, Russia, China and Africa, as soloist and as a member of the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo (with husband Evan Hirsch). She has participated in summer festivals at Marlboro, Tanglewood, Aspen, Kfar Blum (Israel), Rocca di Mezzo (Italy) and Pontlevoy (France), and has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops, Aspen Philharmonia, Jupiter Symphony, and the Dobrich Chamber Orchestra (Bulgaria).

Her extensive discography includes Debussy’s Twelve Etudes and Estampes (Centaur), Rochberg’s Piano works (Naxos), Bread and Roses: Piano works by Christian Wolff (Mode), and Fauré’s Thirteen Nocturnes (Musica Omnia), named one of 2002's best CDs by The Boston Globe. A Schumann solo disc, as well as Fauré’s two Piano Quartets (with the Adaskin Trio) were recently released on MSR Classics to critical acclaim. Pinkas holds performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University. Her principal teachers were Russell Sherman, George Sebok, Luise Vosgerchian and Genia Bar-Niv (piano), Sergiu Natra (composition), and Robert Koff (chamber music). She serves as Pianist-in-residence and Professor of Music at Dartmouth College (NH).

Theodore Levin

Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music

Ph.D., M.F.A., Princeton University

B.A., Amherst College

Theodore Levin is a specialist on music, expressive culture, and traditional spirituality in Central Asia and Siberia. His two books, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) and Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond, which won ASCAPís 2007 BÈla Bartok Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology. As an advocate for music and musicians from other cultures, Levin has produced recordings, curated concerts and festivals, and contributed to international arts initiatives. During an extended leave from Dartmouth, he served as the first executive director of the Silk Road Project, founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and currently serves as Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia, and as a chair of the Arts and Culture sub-board of the Soros Foundationsí Open Society Institute. He is currently working on a book on culture and development in Asia, and completing a 10-volume CD-DVD series, ìMusic of Central Asiaî, released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. At Dartmouth he teaches courses on ethnomusicology and world music, sacred music in East and West, and, in 2008, began teaching an interdisciplinary course on the Silk Road.

Alex Ogle

Senior Lecturer, Flute
Director, Performance Laboratory in Chamber Music

Alex Ogle has performed at the Marlboro and New England Bach Festivals and played principal flute for, among others, the D'Oyly Carte Opera, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the original American production of Jesus Christ Superstar. At conventions of the National Flute Association he has performed several times and moderated a panel on the teaching of Arnold Jacobs. For many years he also taught flute at Amherst and Mount Holyoke Colleges. He attended Harvard College and the Juilliard School of Music and studied with Douglas Royal, James Pappoutsakis, Julius Baker, Harold Bennett, Marcel Moyse, and Keith Underwood. He has recorded for MusicMasters and Opus One.

David Newsam

Senior Lecturer, Jazz Guitar

B.A., Berklee College of Music

David Newsam is an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music. He also teaches at the University of New Hampshire. He has performed with Clark Terry, Joe Williams, Milt Jackson, Louis Bellson, Buddy DeFranco, and Dave McKenna. He has co-authored a highly successful book entitled Making Money Teaching Music, published by Writer's Digest Books.

John Muratore

Senior Lecturer, Classical Guitar

M.M., New England Conservatory

B.M., University of Akron

John Muratore has performed as guitar soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Russia. He has performed with numerous ensembles including Alea III, the Spectrum Singers, the Mastersingers and Counterpoint. Recent concerto appearances have been with the Vermont Symphony, Boston Chamber Orchestra and Symphony by the Sea, under the direction of Jonathan McPhee. Among the composers with whom John has worked closely to produce new solo and chamber works for the guitar are Daniel Pinkham, Scott Wheeler, Larry Bell, Roger Zahab and Jon Appleton. Mr. Muratore has been the featured soloist at the Academie Festival des Arcs (France), St. Petersburg (Russia) Chamber Concerts and the Atelier International Concert Series in Paris. In 1996 John was awarded First Prize in Alpha Delta Kappa Foundationís National Competition for String Players. The Boston Globe has described him as ìa fleet-fingered and musicianly performerî and has characterized his playing asÖîunleashing so many different varieties of tone and color in quick successionÖa kind of aural iridescence.î John, whose live performances are often featured on WGBH Radios Classical Performances with host Richard Knisely, has recorded for Albany and Arabesque Records. His recent, critically-acclaimed solo CD, Shadow Box, has been hailed by Britain's Classical Guitar magazine as "a fine recording with serious intent."

Erma Mellinger

Lecturer, Voice

M.M., Eastman School of Music

B.M., Northwestern University

In addition to earning a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, Erma also earned both Teaching and Performance Awards. A professional singer, Erma has performed leading roles with many of the country's major opera companies including the Cleveland Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Fresno International Grand Opera, and the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh.

Gregory Hayes

Senior Lecturer, Classical Piano

M.M., Manhattan School of Music

B.A., Amherst College

Gregory Hayes has taught piano and occasionally harpsichord at Dartmouth College since 1991. He is a busy chamber musician and orchestral keyboard player, and has appeared as soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. He plays harpsichord, piano, and celesta regularly for the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed with the Vermont Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Lukeís (New York). He has participated often in the New England Bach Festival and Marlboro Music Festival, and on the Mohawk Trail Concerts series. He is longtime music director for the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence (Massachusetts), and for fourteen years directed Da Camera Singers, an auditioned chorus based in Amherst. Mr. Hayes is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and the Manhattan School of Music. He has also studied at the Hartt School of Music and, for several summers, at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. His teachers have included Ming Tcherepnin, Kenneth Fearn, Dora Zaslavsky, and Raymond Hanson. He has written frequently on music, including liner notes for many recordings and articles and reviews for magazines and newspapers. He lives in Goshen (Massachusetts) and has taught for many summers at Greenwood Music Camp in nearby Cummington. In his free time he enjoys playing squash and building stone walls.

Thomas Haunton

Senior Lecturer, French Horn

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music

A freelance horn player based in Boston, Thomas Haunton performs as Principal Horn in both the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and as Third Horn of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra for over twenty seasons, Mr. Haunton has toured extensively throughout the United States, Japan, and Korea. A winner of the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition as a member of the woodwind quintet, Quintet di Legno, Mr. Haunton has also performed as guest principal horn of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in two films, "Yes, Giorgio" and "Blown Away," and in a music video for MTV by the rock music group, Aerosmith. Under the baton of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Keith Lockhart, Mr. Haunton has performed with many notable artists from the fields of classical music (Beverly Sills, Isaac Stern, Itzak Pearlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Andrea Bocelli), jazz music (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie), country/folk music (Johnny Cash, John Denver, James Taylor), Broadway show music (Richard Harris, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Ben Vereen, Faith Prince, Bebe Neuwirth), comedy (Victor Borge, Dom DeLuise) and rock music (Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Aerosmith). Mr. Haunton is also the author of numerous publications, including a book of French horn excerpts published by Margun Music entitled Horn Passages of the Symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Jan Halloran

Lecturer, Clarinet

M.M., Boston University

B.M., Eastman School of Music

A resident of the Boston area, Jan Halloran holds the position of Principal Clarinet with Boston Lyric Opera and regularly appears with many of the city’s preeminent ensembles, including Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic and Boston Classical Orchestra. In addition, her busy freelance career features performances throughout New England. She has been a member of the Portland Symphony’s clarinet section since 1993, spends summers with Opera North and the New Hampshire Music Festival, and has performed with the Vermont Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Halloran was a founding member of the New England Reed Trio, with whom she performed, recorded and commissioned dozens of new works for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. She has also been a guest artist with the South Coast Chamber Music Society and Classicopia.

She has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College since 2007, and also maintains a private teaching studio.  Ms. Halloran holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music from Boston University. Her primary teachers were Thomas Thompson, Michael Webster and Thomas Martin.

Fred Haas

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Distinguished Lecturer, Saxophone, Jazz Piano
Director, Performance Laboratory in Jazz Improvisation

A.B., Dartmouth College

Fred Haas has performed with Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Joe Morello, Don Cherry, Milt Hinton and many others. A Dartmouth graduate (í73), Fred teaches saxophone, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz history and music theory. He is the founder of Interplay Jazz Camp, an intensive, holistic summer workshop in jazz improvisation. Fred has recorded many CDs, including several for his own JazzToons label. He is also an active performer and composer, traveling internationally to play and teach with a variety of jazz groups.

John Dunlop

Lecturer, Cello

M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music

B.M., Oberlin College

John Dunlop has lived in the Northeast for over twenty years, and held positions as Principal Cellist with the Vermont Symphony, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Opera North, Vermont Mozart Festival and the Green Mountain Opera Festival. He has performed as soloist with both the VSO and BCO, as well as many chamber music performances with notable area musicians. He studied under Richard Kapuscinski at Oberlin Conservatory and Bonnie Hampton at the San Francisco Conservatory, and has played in master classes for Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Grossman, Steve Doane and others. John has also composed and recorded several award-wining film soundtracks for short films, including a documentary on childhood hunger in Vermont, where he called on his skills as a guitarist and bouzouki player in addition to cello. He has worked with Trey Anastasio of Phish on many of his solo albums. Besides his work at Dartmouth, John teaches privately in Richmond, Vermont where he shares a studio with his partner, VSO violinist Laura Markowitz.

Hafiz Shabazz

Adjunct Associate Professor

M.Ed., Cambridge College

Hafiz Shabazz, master drummer and Director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble, is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer, and lecturer. He teaches courses on improvisation and non-Western music. He has studied at the University of Ghana and the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has studied in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, Julius Hemphill and Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. Professor Shabazz toured for many years with Wind and Thunder, a group devoted to improvisational jazz and non-Western music. He has toured France, the Caribbean, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Duke University, and lectured in over 500 schools and universities. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, West Africa, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and African Sensibilities.

Robert Duff

Lecturer

D.M.A., University of Southern California

M.A., Temple University

B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Robert Duff, conductor, is the director of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Chamber Singers, and teaches courses in music theory in the Music Department. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2004, Dr. Duff served on the faculties of Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, and Mount St. Mary’s College, and as the Director of Music for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, where he directed the music programs for nearly 300 parishes. He holds degrees in conducting, piano and voice from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Temple University, and the University of Southern California, where he earned a doctorate of musical arts in 2000. An active commissioner of new music, Dr. Duff has given several world premieres of works for both orchestral and choral forces. He has been appointed by Governor John Lynch as Councilor to the New Hampshire Council on the Arts, and he is the President of the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division.

Jody Diamond

Senior Lecturer

Director, Performance Lab in Indonesian Gamelan

B.A., University of California, Berkeley

M.A., San Francisco State University

Jody Diamond is a composer, scholar, teacher, performer, and publisher who has been involved in Indonesian arts since 1970. She is an internationally recognized expert on Indonesian music, and has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship and two National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. She has taught courses in the music of Asia and Indonesia at universities in the U.S. and Australia, and her compositions for gamelan, voice and other instruments have been performed internationally. Ms. Diamond is a Senior Lecturer in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and director of the Gamelan Performance Lab at Dartmouth College, Director of the American Gamelan Institute (www.gamelan.org), and an Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University, where she is initiating a new program in gamelan and composition with Gamelan Si Betty, built by Lou Harrison and William Colvig.

Edward Carroll

Lecturer, Trumpet

B.M., M.M., Juilliard School of Music

A native of Chicago, Edward Carroll was appointed lecturer in music in the spring of 2005. He also serves on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as instructor of trumpet and coordinator of brass studies and has enjoyed appointments as the International Chair of Brass Studies at London's Royal Academy of Music and Professor of Trumpet at the Rotterdam (NL) Conservatory, as well as having a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He is the Director of the newly-formed Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale and Head of Brass at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.

Louis Burkot

Senior Lecturer, Voice

Director, Dartmouth College Glee Club

M.M., Yale School of Music

B. A., University of Virginia

Louis Burkot conductor received Dartmouth College's Distinguished Lecturer award in the spring of 2000 for his work in vocal instruction in the Department of Music. As an operatic conductor, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe has praised Mr. Burkot's work as "first-rate, capable, and stylish" and Opera North News has noted that his conducting "sparkles with verve and sensitivity to the needs of singers." Under Mr. Burkot's tutelage, many Dartmouth students have continued their musical studies at New England Conservatory, Boston University, Indiana University, Cincinnati Conservatory and others. Mr. Burkot's conducting studies included the Yale School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and the Houston Grand Opera. He is also Artistic Director of Opera North, which recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.    In addition he is on the faculty of both the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute at Sarah Lawerence College and the Atlanta Academy of Vocal Arts.

Neil Boyer

Senior Lecturer, Oboe

M.M., SUNY at Stony Brook

B.M., Mannes College of Music.

Neil Boyer is principal oboist of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and at Dartmouth College. He also teaches privately and is an active chamber music player.

Don Baldini

Lecturer, Double Bass

B.M., Indiana University

University of California

Don Baldini received his B.M. from Indiana University and did graduate studies at the University of California. In addition to teaching at Dartmouth, he is on the faculty of Keene State College where he conducts the orchestra and jazz ensembles and teaches classes in theory, string methods, jazz history and sight-singing. He performs regularly with the Vermont Symphony, Opera North, Keene Chamber Orchestra, Dartmouth Wind Symphony and Dartmouth Glee Club. He has also performed on television on the Tonight Show, St. Elsewhere, Winds of War, Love Boat, Bob Newhart Show, Matlock, Perry Como Holiday Specials, Charlie’s Angels, and in the films Little Mermaid, Fantasia, Benji the Hunted, Being There, and The Jazz Singer. Baldini can be heard on two newly released Frank Sinatra recordings, "Live at the Meadowlands" and the "Carnegie Hall 1984" collection, and a newly released DVD "Frank Sinatra Live from Tokyo" recorded at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

Tim Atherton

Senior Lecturer, Trombone, Tuba and Euphonium

B.M., University of Massachusetts

Tim Atherton is a freelance trombonist and educator.  He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has studied privately with Per Brevig, of the Metropolitan Opera and John Swallow, of the New York Brass Quintet.   Mr. Atherton is a regular member of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, Massachusetts Wind Orchestra, New England Jazz Ensemble and the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. He is a Senior Lecturer in Low Brass at Dartmouth College, Studio Instructor and Director of the Brass Ensembles at Williams College, and an Adjunct Professor in Low Brass and Jazz History at Westfield State College where, for seventeen years he served as director of the acclaimed W.S.C. Jazz Ensemble.  For twenty-five years, he has mentored numerous students who have become highly regarded professional instrumentalists and teachers.  He has served as an adjudicator and guest conductor for festival jazz ensembles throughout New England. He has performed, recorded and toured nationally and internationally. Mr. Atherton is featured on four recent CD publications:  The New England Jazz Ensemble Live, A Cookin’ Christmas with The New England Jazz Ensemble, An Imperfect Storm -The Large Ensemble Compositions of Andy Jaffe, and Chilling Winds with The Massachusetts Wind Orchestra. In August of 2004 Mr. Atherton was featured with the Danbury Brass Band on a tour of Australia. In 2001 Mr. Atherton traveled to China where he performed and gave workshops at the conservatories of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang and Beijing. His article, “Playing Together: A Journal on Workshops in China” was published in the January 2002 issue of the International Trombone Association Journal.

Anthony Princiotti

Anthony Princiotti received his Doctor of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a B.M. from the Juilliard School. He was the recipient of a conducting fellowship at Tanglewood where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier, and Seiji Ozawa. Mr.Princiotti has been a recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Scholarship, the Charles Ives Scholarship, and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize. Between 1981 and 1987, he was first violinist with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has appeared as a guest conductor with the Vermont Symphony, The New England String Ensemble, The Hartford Symphony, the San Paolo State Symphony, the Yale Philharmonic, the Norfolk Festival Orchestra, the Pioneer Valley Symphony and the Young Artists Philharmonic.  In addition to his work with the Dartmouth Symphony, Mr. Princiotti is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Vermont Symphony.   His critically-acclaimed CD of Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Violin is the first recording of these works by an American violinist.