Aaron Copland in Georgetown

Saturday, May 29 and
Thursday June 3 -
Sunday June 6, 2009

Art on the Square
will take place
on October 16 & 17, 2010

Georgetown Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box 846
Georgetown, TX 78627

Tel 512.639.0433

E-mail tickets@gtownfestival.org

Kenneth Sheppard is chairman of the Department of Music of Southwestern University and is conductor of the Southwestern University Chorale. Dr. Sheppard has been invited to the 2010 Shanghai Expo to lead the Chorale in the Haydn Mass in Time of War, which he presented with Austin Civic Chorus and the San Gabriel Chorale in Carnegie Hall in 2004. He has appeared as conductor of the Festival Orchestra and Chorus every year at the Georgetown Festival of the Arts.

Music from Copland House is the acclaimed resident ensemble at Aaron Copland's longtime New York home, now restored as a unique creative center for American music. The group has been engaged by some of America's foremost concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, Brandeis University, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Columbia University's Miller Theatre, Yaddo, and the Caramoor International, Cape Cod, and Bard Music Festivals. Inspired by Copland's peerless, lifelong advocacy of American composers, the ensemble also offers children's programs, master classes, lectures, residencies and workshops and other educational and community outreach activities.

Virginia Dupuy, mezzo soprano, is an alumna of Southwestern University. She has a celebrated career in vocal performance and recording, including a Grammy nomination for a recent CD, and is also a respected scholar regarding settings of Emily Dickinson texts. She teaches at Southern Methodist University. Ms. Dupuy has appeared at all our festivals.

Bruce Cain, baritone, is Professor of Voice at Southwestern University, where he directs the opera theatre program. He has a doctorate from Northwestern University. He has appeared frequently as soloist with the Austin Civic Chorus, the Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, and other groups, and is the conductor of the San Gabriel Chorale. Dr. Cain has appeared as soloist every year for the Georgetown Festival of the Arts.

Hai Zheng, cello, is Artist in Residence at Southwestern University. She has appeared in recital at the Shanghai Conservatory and New York City's Steinway Hall, in master classes and recitals at Guangzhou and Macau Conservatories, and at a special invitation concert for the Hong Kong Asia Society. Hai Zheng has made frequent appearances as soloist and with chamber ensembles in our festivals.

KiyoshiTamagawa,, piano, has appeared throughout North America and in England and India, in solo recitals and with performers such as violinist Eugene Fodor, cellist Evangeline Benedetti of the New York Philharmonic, and members of the Shanghai Quartet. He is head of the piano faculty in the Department of Music at Southwestern University

Dana Zenobi, soprano, has had an impressive operatic career. She spent two seasons with Lyric Opera Cleveland, during which time she sang in the first production of Adamo's Little Women, directed by the composer. Other recent performances include the Austin Lyric Opera's production of Philip Glass's Waiting for the Barbarians. She is voice instructor at Southwestern University.

Adrienne Inglis, flute, has had a career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in the Austin area for many years. She performs, records and tours with the Latin-American folk music trio Chaski. She has recorded many film soundtracks, playing up to twelve different flutes. She is flute instructor at Southwestern University.

Anna Carney, clarinet, has performed and lectured at such prestigious conferences as the International ClarinetFest, SEAMUS Nationa Conference, and the College Music Society National Conference in Quebec. She has been a member of numerous orchestras in North and Central America. She is clarinet instructor at Southwestern University.

Dale Dietert, pianist, voice teacher and coach, has served on the faculties of the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies (Aldeburgh, England), the International Institute of Vocal Arts (Tel Aviv, Israel) and the Sommerakademie Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria). He is now on the faculty of Southern Methodist University. We welcome him back to the Festival of the Arts after his memorable appearance at the Mendelssohn festival.

Charles Aguillon, is in his fourteenth year with Georgetown ISD. He is currently Associate Principal of the GISD Ninth Grade Campus. In 2007, while GISD Director of Fine Arts, Mr. Aguillon founded the Performing Arts Alliance of Georgetown. He currently serves as President and CEO of the Georgetown Symphony Society and as Chair of the City of Georgetown Arts and Culture Board.

JD Janda, has been Director of Fine Arts for Georgetown ISD since May 2009, supervising the dance, theater, visual arts and music departments. He was a high school band director for 29 years, the last 22 in Katy ISD. In 2001 he received the Southwestern Bell - UIL Sponsor Excellence Award for the state of Texas in recognition for his outstanding contributions to students' lives. He is immediate past president of the Texas Music Educators Association and serves on many state and local committees.

Jason Schayot, is in his tenth year of teaching in the Georgetown Independent School District. He is the Director of Bands for Georgetown ISD. His responsibilities include directing the GHS Wind Symphony, assisting with the GHS Marching Band, Jazz Band, and Symphonic Band, and coordinating the GISD band program for grades 6-12. Mr. Schayot also is the director of the pit orchestra for school musicals and co-directs the GHS Full Orchestra.

Thomas Fairlie is the founder and director of the Temple Symphony Orchestra and Director of the Division of Fine Arts at Temple College. He also conducts the Temple Jazz Orchestra. The Temple Symphony has appeared at all our festivals since Haydn in Georgetown.

Scotty Rundel Rundell is Director of Music and Fine Arts Ministries at Georgetown's First United Methodist Church.

Pam RossmanRossman is organist at Georgetown's First United Methodist Church and at Southwestern University, where she teaches private and class piano.

Eve Fariss, teaches private piano in Georgetown and Austin and accompanies the San Gabriel Chorale. She holds the MM degree from the University of Texas at Austin and BM degree from Southwestern University. She taught public school vocal and choral music in the Houston, Dallas and Round Rock school districts for 30 years

Hank Hammett, the Director of Opera at Southern Methodist University, is an acclaimed director and acting coach for singers. He has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Theâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Opera Company of Philadelphia and The Dallas Opera, among others.