2010 PAFE Adjudicators

Contents

• Piano - Jane Harty - Janet Anderson - David Kellogg
• Strings - Misha Rosenker - John Marshall
• Winds - Paul Taub
• Harp - Mark Andersen
• Voice - David Meyer
• Ballet - No adjudicator has been chosen for Ballet in 2010.

Piano

Jane Harty

Jane Harty is an active and diverse recitalist of solo and chamber music repertoire, as both a pianist and harpsichordist. She holds a D.M.A. degree from the University of Southern California, and studied at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Her teachers have included Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi, a student of Cortot; and Johanna Graudan, a student of Schnabel. She was also a participant in the classes of Nadia Boulanger. In addition to her duties on the piano faculty at Pacific Lutheran University, she is the Artistic Director of Music Northwest in Seattle, and has appeared in recital with members of the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Baroque, and blues, jazz and world musicians. She is also the Director of two chamber music camps, one for students and one for adults. She is the grand-niece of Sir Hamilton Harty, the "Irish Toscanini," and is a specialist in his songs and chamber music.

Her duties at P.L.U. include private instruction in piano performance and accompanying, and classes in piano pedagogy and piano literature. Her teaching philosophy is eclectic, incorporating kinesthetic experience with intellectual understanding of the score, the ultimate goal being to achieve artistic musical expression at every level of study. As a solo pianist her repertoire is broad-based from Mozart and Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms, to Elliott Carter. She is also a harpsichordist and Bach specialist. She has served on the P.L.U. faculty since 1979.

Janet Anderson

Janet Anderson grew up in Kent, Ohio, and studied music and philosophy at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Since moving to Seattle in 1992, she has been an active performer, composer, and teacher. As a pianist she appears frequently in the Ladies Musical Club concert series, and her compositions have been featured in many local venues as well as on KING-fm. She has adjudicated for the Washington State Music Educators Association as well as for PAFE. Janet teaches piano students of all ages at her home in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood, where she lives with her husband, the painter Jeffrey Simmons, and their daughter, Mary.

David Kellogg

David Kellogg is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his undergraduate training at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in piano performance. He studied with Dr. Raymond Dudley, Dr. Richard Morris, Dr. Eiji Hashimoto (harpsichord) and Frank Vincent (jazz piano). He accompanied extensively in the voice studios of Patricia Berlin, Lorenzo Malfatti, and Lucille Evans as well as numerous instrumental studios. At Cincinnati, he was also involved in jazz and musical theatre. His musical travels have taken him as a dance accompanist, musical showcases in South Carolina, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, musical theatre in Indiana, Ohio and Seattle, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma Opera and as a musical arranger. As he has been involved in church music for over 25 years, he is currently the Pastoral Associate for Music at St. Francis of Assisi catholic parish in Burien, Washington. He is the music specialist for St. Francis of Assisi school and has been a music specialist for other Seattle catholic schools. When not involved in church or school music, he is active in accompanying, jazz, classical music and musical theatre. His work also includes private teaching in the Seattle area. Mr. Kellogg holds a M.S. degree from DeVry University, M.B.A. from Marylhurst University and is currently completing a M.Ed. degree from Grand Canyon University.

Strings

Misha Rosenker (Violin and Viola)

Misha Rosenker enjoys a diverse career as a solo performer, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher. The Baltimore Sun reviewed a recent performance as "terrific music-making - technically refined, emotionally charged," while the Des Moines Register praised his "virtuosic surety and musical integrity."

Mr. Rosenker has appeared as soloist with the Des Moines Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Mankato Symphony, and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, among others. An enthusiastic chamber musician, he has collaborated in performance with members of the Baltimore, Minnesota, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Cleveland Orchestras, as well as the Ames, Borodin, Brentano, Manhattan, and Mendelssohn Quartets.

A great passion for teaching has led to prior faculty appointments at the University of Georgia, Drake University, and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he replaced Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet.

As an orchestral player, Mr. Rosenker has held principal positions and served as associate concertmaster of the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra, concertmaster of the Southern Illinois Music Festival, and principal second violin of the Des Moines Symphony and the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina.

Mr. Rosenker was born and raised in California into a distinguished musical family. After early studies with his father, Michael Rosenker, former associate concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Rosenker continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Sidney Harth. He is a graduate of Indiana University and Yale.

Mr. Rosenker served as an adjudicator for PAFE in 2007.

John Marshall (Cello)

Dr. John Marshall is in his sixteenth year as Professor of Cello/Chamber Music at Eastern Washington University and Principal Cellist with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. During the summers he teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. Marshall holds degrees from Indiana, Yale, and Northwestern Universities, where he studied with Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, and Hans Jensen. His doctoral dissertation focuses on music for two cellos and orchestra.

Marshall has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including those sponsored by WAMSO (Minnesota Orchestra), the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, and the Chicago Cello Society. He was selected twice to participate in the prestigious Piatigorsky Cello Seminar. He has also performed in music festivals in Europe and Japan, and toured Germany and Taiwan as a member of the Spokane String Quartet. In 2006, Marshall recorded and produced a CD of cello and bassoon music with Lynne Feller-Marshall. The CD, titled SOAK: The Marriage of Cello and Bassoon, is available on the internet through iTunes and cdbaby.com. Marshall has also been a featured performer on National Public Radio's "Performance Today".

In 2001, Marshall initiated the "CELLObration Spokane" festival. Now an annual event at EWU, CELLObration brings together over 60 student and professional cellists from across the Northwest for a day of learning and performing music for cello ensemble. CELLObration Spokane has become the largest annual gathering of cellists in the western United States. Video clips of CELLObration and cello ensemble at Interlochen are available on YouTube.

Winds

Paul Taub

Born in New York City, Paul Taub has been a resident of Seattle and a Cornish faculty member since 1979. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, and has studied with some of the world's greatest flutists including Michel Debost, Samuel Baron, Marcel Moyse, and Robert Aitken.

As a founding member of the Seattle Chamber Players, Taub has played an active role in the Seattle contemporary music scene and has performed and recorded American and world premieres by internationally known composers such as Robert Aitken, John Cage, George Crumb, Janice Giteck, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wayne Horvitz, Ned Rorem, Toru Takemitsu, Reza Vali, and Peteris Vasks among others. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Olympia Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, the Everett Symphony, the Young Composers Collective, and the Esoterics.

Taub has also worked extensively to promote Soviet/Russian composers in America and American composers in the former Soviet Union. His Soviet repertoire has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today, at the Goodwill Arts Festival, and in a solo recital at the Leningrad Musical Spring International Festival. He has also performed four times in Russia with the Seattle Chamber Players and twice at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland, as well as in Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, and Ukraine.

Taub's program of international solo flute music has been presented at numerous festivals and universities throughout the U.S., Canada, and France. His recital of ten commissioned works has been performed in SeattleÑwhere he gave the first flute recital in the new Benaroya HallÑand in New York City. A CD of these works entitled OoÐEe is available on Periplum Records.

Taub has also been a featured performer at National Flute Association conventions in Los Angeles (1992), Atlanta (1999), and Las Vegas (2003). He is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of both Chamber Music America and the National Flute Association.

Harp

Mark Andersen

Mark Andersen began playing harp as a youth in North Carolina. He has studied Harp, Organ, and Carillon at East Carolina University, The American Conservatory of Music, and The Conservatoire-National de Paris, France. His teachers include Marcel Dupré, Nadia Boulanger, and Pierre Jamet. Mark is the president of the American Harp Society, Greater Seattle and has recorded over 30 albums for International Artists records in New York. He currently serves as Artist in Residence to Daniels Recital Hall in Seattle and hosts the weekly award winning fine arts television show, Crescendo!, which is seen across the United States in major cities including Seattle and Bellevue.

Mark has twice won the International Composer's Competition in Amsterdam, Holland (1976 and 1999) and has had the United States Flag flown in his honor over the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. at the request of Senator John C. Stennis as recognition for his work and concerts to promote the arts nationally.

Voice

David Meyer

David Meyer, baritone, is an associate professor of music at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, where he direct the opera theatre, teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, introduction to voice studies, class voice, diction, and song literature courses to undergraduate and graduate students.

He also maintains an active and varied singing career, appearing frequently as a soloist and recitalist singing an eclectic range of music throughout the United States.

Abroad, Dr. Meyer has sung with the Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden in Germany, with the Krakow opera in Poland, and with the Staatstheater Winterthur in Switzerland. His performances credentials in the States include the Indianapolis opera, the Kentucky opera, the Bellevue Opera, and the Muddy River Opera Company. He has performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in England, at the Concertgebau in Holland, and he has toured with Paul Hillier as a member of Theater of Voices.

Dr. Meyer's operatic repertoire includes the role of Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, Wozzeck in Berg's Wozzeck, Balstrode in Britten's Peter Grimes, Horace Tabor in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, and approximately 30 other roles.

He received the doctor of music in vocal performance and pedagogy, and a master of music from Indiana University. Both graduate degrees included minors in Speech Pathology and music history. He also holds a B.M. in applied voice from The University of Iowa, and did additional graduate study at The Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in England. Dr. Meyer currently serves on the NATS Voice Science advisory Board, and is an active researcher, presenting regularly at the Voice Foundation symposia in Philadelphia.

Ballet

No adjudicator has been chosen for Ballet in 2010.