Thursday, March 4, 2010

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.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Spencer Topel

Assistant Professor

D.M.A., Cornell University
B.M, M.M. Juilliard School of Music

 Composer Spencer Topel is among America's most innovative and sought-after interdisciplinary composers. The recipient of numerous awards and honors (including the Palmer Dixon Prize from the Juilliard School for best composition, BMI and ASCAP Awards, and the first American composer to be awarded a Danish International Visiting Artist Residency).

He received degrees from Cornell and The Juilliard School before joining the Tenure-Track Faculty at Dartmouth College, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Music. He is on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Emerging Technologies in the Arts, and is involved with curation of festivals and conferences, including the Sound and Music Computing, the International Computer Music Conference, and the International Society of Music Information Retrieval. More information on his work can be found at: http://www.spencertopel.com.