ARTIST FACULTY
ARTIST FACULTY JAY CHRISTY is Acting Associate Principal Second/Assistant Principal Second Violinist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. An active teacher and coach in the metropolitan Atlanta area, he is an Artist Affiliate at Emory University, and has been on the faculty of Reinhardt College and Covenant College. Mr. Christy holds degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University. STEVE COHEN is Professor of Clarinet at Northwestern University. He performs regularly with the Chicago Symphony and the Chicago Lyric Opera. He is the former Principal Clarinet of the New Orleans Symphony, and previously served on the faculties of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Louisiana State University. Mr. Cohen holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and his teachers have included Loren Kitt, Larry McDonald, Karl Leister, and Robert Marcellus.
DAVID COUCHERON joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Concertmaster in September 2010. He has been a soloist with the BBC, Sendai, and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras as well given solo recitals in concert halls around the world. Mr. Coucheron is the featured soloist on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Vaughan William’s The Lark Ascending. He holds degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Guildhall School.
GWENDOLYN DEASE is currently Associate Professor of Percussion at the Michigan State University College of Music. She maintains a career as an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, performing throughout the United States, Asia and South America. Dease has studied with worldrenowned professors Robert van Sice, Keiko Abe, and John Beck. She holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy, Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and the Yale School of Music. DAVID DZUBAY is chair of the Composition Department and Director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His music has been performed by orchestras, ensembles, and soloists throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, and has been recorded on the Sony, Bridge, and Naxos labels. Recent honors include Guggenheim and MacDowell fellowships, a 2011 Arts and Letters Award, and the 2010 Heckscher Prize. ERIKA ECKERT is Associate Professor of Viola at University of Colorado Boulder. As co-founder of the Cavani Quartet, she performed worldwide and garnered an impressive list of awards and prizes. Ms. Eckert performs frequently as guest-violist with the Takács Quartet. She also served as adjudicator for the NFAA Arts Recognition and Talent Search, the exclusive nominating agency for the Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and appeared in their Academy Nominated Documentary, Rehearsing a Dream.
Violist SUSAN CULPO is currently Assistant Principal Viola of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and performs regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. She is also a member of the Proteus String Quartet at Rhode Island College. Ms. Culpo earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University.
JOSEPH EVANS has appeared as leading tenor at opera houses around the world including La Scala, English National Opera, La Fenice, and the New York City Opera. Concert appearances include performances with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Orchestre L’Ile de France, and the Radio-Symphonie Orchester of Berlin. Mr. Evans is Professor of Voice and Division Chair of Voice Studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music.
Hornist HAZEL DEAN DAVIS currently resides in Boston, where she frequently performs with the Boston Symphony and Pops, the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry, and the San Francisco Symphony. For 11 years prior, she played second and fourth horn with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has spent past summers at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Pacific Music Festival, and Marlboro. She holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Harvard University where she studied with Julie Landsman and James Sommerville.
Hornist GABRIELLE FINCK is currently Associate Principal Horn of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, National Symphony, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, and the New World Symphony. Ms. Finck studied at Boston University and has been on the faculty at Towson University and the National Symphony’s Summer Music Institute.
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