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Syllabus

To see a PDF of the 2008 syllabus, click here.

2008 Calendar

Entry Deadline
Extended to:
February 1, 2008

Instrumental and Voice Adjudications
April 7 - 12, 2008
Bellevue Christian Church

Concerto Play Off Competition
April 11, 2008
7:30 P.M.
Bellevue Christian Church

Ballet Adjudication
March 16, 2008
PNB Francia Russell Center.

Recognition Concerts
April 26, 2008 at 7:30 P.M.
April 27, 2008 at 2:00 P.M.
Bellevue Christian Church

Map to Bellevue Christian Church

Map to Francia Russell Center

2008 PAFE Adjudicators

Contents

Piano

Leonard Richter

Leonard Richter

Leonard Richter is professor of music in piano and theory at Walla Walla College. At WWC since 1978, he is an award-winning teacher whose piano students have gained national and international recognition.

A native of Czechoslovakia, Richter completed a Performer's Diploma with high honors at the People's Conservatory in 1962. Six years later he graduated with majors in German and English from Palacky University in Olomouc. After leaving Czechoslovakia he completed M.Mus. degrees in piano at Andrews University in 1971 and at the Manhattan School of Music in 1977. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1984.

Richter has studied piano with several noted teachers including Anna Skalicka, Brno Conservatory; Dora Zaslavasky, Manhattan School of Music; and Adele Marcus, The Juilliard School. An active performer for many years, Dr. Richter is a frequent recitalist and accompanist. He has given numerous guest lecture-demonstrations and is a sought-after adjudicator for piano competitions in the Northwest.

While at WWC, Richter has established a reputation for producing outstanding pianists who consistently rank high in regional and national competitions. On four occasions his college students won the Northwest Wurlitzer Competition in piano and advanced to compete against six other regional winners in the national finals. In 2003 his student Stephen Beus was the first prize collegiate winner in the MTNA national competition. Many of Dr. Richter's students have gone on to complete graduate degrees and have obtained appointments teaching piano at various universities and colleges.

Jeffrey Savage

Jeffrey Savage

American pianist Jeffrey Savage has performed across North America in recitals, festivals, and with orchestras. His orchestral appearances include performances with the Shreveport and Lincoln symphonies, as well as with orchestras in New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming. Active as a soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Savage has performed in such venues as Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard Theater, and in festivals such as the FOCUS! Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and the Banff Keyboard Festival. In recent seasons, he has traveled to Japan and China, where he gave a series of performances and masterclasses.

Jeffrey Savage has been a prizewinner in several national and international competitions. His performances in competitions have been broadcast on public television and radio. Raised in western Nebraska, Jeffrey received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked with Robert Spillman and Angela Cheng. After graduating from Colorado with highest honors, he continued his studies at The Juilliard School, finishing the master's program with Martin Canin in 1996 and the doctoral program with Yoheved Kaplinsky in 2002. Before joining the faculty of Washington State University, Dr. Savage taught at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, and at Juilliard in both the Pre-College and College divisions.

Karen Hsaio-Savage

Karen Hsaio-Savage

Praised as a "tour de force" (Santa Barbara News-Press) and for the "breathtaking beauty and pure lyricism" of her playing (Le Soleil, Vancouver), Karen Hsiao Savage recently won second prize with husband Jeffrey Savage in the two-piano division at Concours Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo, Norway. During the competition their duo, 88 Squared, performed with members of the Oslo Philharmonic.

An active performer, Karen Savage joined the prestigious Perlman Music Program in its China tour, including a residency at the Shanghai Conservatory and a live national broadcast from the Shanghai Theater. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall, and has performed in community outreach concerts through the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Dr. Savage completed masters and doctoral degrees in collaborative piano at The Juilliard School under full scholarship. She also holds a masters degree in piano performance from Juilliard, a bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria, and performance diplomas from the Victoria and Toronto conservatories. Major teachers include Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jonathan Feldman, Samuel Sanders, Margo Garrett, Robin Wood, Winifred Wood, and Edward Parker.

Currently she serves on the faculty of Washington State University's School of Music, where she teaches piano and chamber music and is coordinator of accompanying. Projects for 2007-2008 include commissions of new two-piano works by Heather Schmidt and Daniel Ott through WSU's New Faculty Seed Grant, and a benefit concert for Grace and Hope for Children supported by The Juilliard School and New-York-based Sing for Hope Foundation, with distinguished Juilliard alumni Jennifer Alymer, Kathleen Flynn, Randall Scarlata, and Benjamin Sosland.

Violin and Viola

Erica Wadley

Erica Wadley

Professional Performances

Premieres:

* Commissioned by EW

University Teaching Experience:

The University of Arizona
Faculty
Viola & String Course Professor

University of Nevada Las Vegas
Adjunct Faculty
Viola Professor

Southern Utah University
Adjunct Faculty
Viola Professor

Adjudication

Publications

Grants

Education
Doctor of Musical Arts
1997 - The University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ


Master of Music
1993 - Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL
Bachelor of Music
1991 - The University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA

Cello and Bass

John Michel

John Michel

John Michel, in his sixteenth year as cello professor at Central Washington University, enjoys his career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher.

Last fall he gave multiple performances of the Six Bach Cello Suites for memory, a significant accomplishment for any professional cellist. In 2003 he collaborated with conductor Paul-Elliott Cobbs and the Tacoma Youth and Everett Symphonies in performances of Elgar's Cello Concerto. In 2001, he was one of seven cellists featured at the First Kobe International Cello Festival,Japan. There he gave a solo recital and masterclass, and performed with 750 other cellists from around the world in grand cello choir concert.

At the World Cello Congress III, he premiered the new Solo Cello Sonata "Othmar" by composer Maria Newman. In addition to regular solo recitals, he has performed the Dvorak, Shostakovich, Haydn D, Elgar, Tchaikovsky "Rococo", Brahms Double and Beethoven Triple Concertos with various orchestras including the Shenandoah Bach Festival Orchestra, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, Everett Symphony, the Wenatchee Symphony, and the Yakima Symphony. He has recorded onto CD the Dvorak Cello Concerto and Bach Suites G & C, and the Newman Solo Sonata, which also can be heard at JohnMichel.com.

Mr. Michel is a member of the Kairos String Quartet, which holds an endowed professorship as the resident ensemble of Central Washington University. For the past eleven years the Kairos Quartet has been regularly performing and teaching throughout the Northwest. Their last east coast tour included concerts in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania and a live appearance on Philadelphia's WFLN radio. The Kairos Quartet has recorded the "Birthday of the Infanta" CD featuring works of Kairos violinist Maria Newman on the Raptoria Caam label. He is also the cellist of the CWU "Rainier" Piano Trio that has toured throughout the Northwest.

He is the founder and former director of the Internet Cello Society (cello.org), a cyber-community of cellists, that shares the knowledge and joy of cello playing with enthusiasts from around the globe. Currently the 14000 ICS members represent 84 different countries.

Mr. Michel has given masterclasses for the Banff International Orchestra Festivals; Olympia, Icicle Creek and Tacoma Youth Symphony organizations; the Seattle Cello Society and the Interlochen Arts Camp. He is continuing to develop the "String Pedagogy Reference" website (stringteaching.com), which includes videos of fundamental exercises and activities for string instruction. The American String Teacher Association, Washington chapter, named him Outstanding College String Teacher in 1996.

His formal training includes Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Michigan and the New England Conservatory. Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio, Jeffrey Solow, Stefan Popov, Ned Johnson, John Lenz and Susan Ladley were his main teachers. John Michel is currently in his fourteenth year as cello professor in the String Program of the Music Department at Central Washington University. He is married to Kairos violinist Carrie Rehkopf, and has three sons, ages 10, 6, and 5.

Woodwinds

Lisa McCarthy

Lisa McCarthy

Lisa McCarthy currently teaches flute, flute choir, pedagogy and performance classes at Western Washington University. She has also been on the faculties at the Maritime Conservatory of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Delta Institute of the Arts in Ladner, B.C. She is principal of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra, the Whatcom Symphony Chamber Orchestra and plays in two chamber ensembles, Impromptu and Zephyr Winds. Her flute and bassoon duo, Impromptu, received national recognition and was invited to perform at the National Flute Association Convention in Nashville and the International Double Reed Society Conference in Indiana. The duo is in the final stages of producing a CD featuring new works for the flute and bassoon, including a piece written for them by Dr. Roger Briggs. Lisa maintains a private studio, coaches in the new Whatcom Symphony Orchestra NOW! chamber music program and adjudicates all around the Pacific Northwest. She has performed in master classes with renowned flutists Francis Blaisdell, Julius Baker, Jeanne Baxtresser and Walfrid Kujala. Her teachers include Rae Terpenning, Karla Flygare, and Zart Dombourian-Eby.

Voice

Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson attracted national attention in 1990 as a winner of the Bel Canto Competition of Chicago. Creator of more than 50 opera roles, Mr. Johnson is a frequent guest with companies throughout the country including Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera, Opera Colorado, Anchorage Opera, Portland Opera, Stockton Opera, Central City Opera, Las Vegas Opera, and the Wildwood Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Notable roles in his repertoire include the title role in "The Marriage of Figaro", Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet", Schaunard in "La Boheme", Dancairo in "Carmen", Yamadori in "Madame Butterfly", Masetto in "Don Giovanni", Prince Ottokar in "Der Freischutz", Angelotti in "Tosca", Papageno in "The Magic Flute", Don Alfonso in "Cosi Fan Tutte", Fleville in "Andrea Chenier", Dr. Falke in "Die Fledermaus", and the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance".

On the concert stage, Mr. Johnson has been a soloist with orchestras throughout the Northwest including Seattle Symphony, American Sinfonietta, Tacoma Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony. Concert engagements have included Orff's "Carmina Burana", Handel's "Messiah", Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem", Rachmaninoff's "The Bells", Haydn's "Creation", Frahm's "War Cantata", Bach's "Magnificat", Mozart's "Requiem", and Faure's "Requiem".

Mr. Johnson's professional stage directing credits include Puccini's "La Boheme", Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti", Puccini's "Tosca", Menotti's "The Telephone", and Pasatieri's "La Divina", with Tacoma Opera.

As Director of Opera Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University from 1994 to 2004, Mr. Johnson's fully staged productions included Lehar's "The Merry Widow", Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Sondheim's "Into the Woods", Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance", and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and "Suor Angelica".

Future engagements with Seattle Opera include the role of Sciarrone in Puccini's "Tosca", Antonio in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", and Baron Douphol in Verdi's "La Traviata". For Tacoma Opera, Mr. Johnson will sing Jupiter in Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld" and direct Mozart's "The Impresario".

Harp

Heidi Lehwalder

Heidi Lehwalder

Heidi Lehwalder, harpist, has performed as a guest artist with more than 65 orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, including the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as with the symphonies of Phoenix, Buffalo, Louisville, Wichita, Savanna, Syracuse, and Honolulu.

She has made 55 appearances with the Seattle Symphony and has collaborated with conductors Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Erich Leinsdorf, Arthur Fiedler, Gerard Schwarz, Lucas Foss, Andre Kostelanetz, Dennis Russell Davies, and Charles Dutoit. Her recent performances include a 10-city tour with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and two performances during their 2006-07 season at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.

An esteemed chamber musician, Lehwalder has performed in numerous concerts with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1972 to the present. She has participated in the Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Santa Fe, and Spoleto Festivals. Lehwalder is the only harpist ever to be invited to tour with Rudolf SerkinŐs famed Music from Marlboro. During summer 1987, she served as Professor of Harp in Korea's First International Chamber Music Festival. As a member of the Orpheus Trio, she toured for eight years throughout North America and Europe with flutist Paula Robison and violist Scott Nickrenz. She has also toured extensively with flutist Carol Wincenc.

Lehwalder is the inspiration for numerous harp concerti, both written for and dedicated to her, including Jose Serebrier's Colores Magicos, Roberto Camano's Concerto for Harp, and Michael Colgrass' Auras, as well as Sheila Silver's From Darkness Emerging for harp and string quintet.

As a recording artist, Lehwalder has recorded for RCA, RCA Red Seal, CRI, Nonesuch, and Vanguard. Her collaborations include recordings with the Orpheus Trio, The Philadelphia Singers, Benedita Valente, Maureen Forrester, James Galway, Richard Stolzman, and the Tokyo String Quartet.

She has appeared on national television on the Firestone Hour, Leonard BernsteinŐs Young People's Concerts, NBC's Today Show, CBS Cable with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and PBS, both in joint recital with the Annapolis Brass Quintet and during the 1998-99 season as part of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Star-Studded 30th Anniversary Gala.

Lehwalder is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts, which has been nationally broadcast on NPR for 17 of the last 19 seasons. She also has served as Artistic Director of Belle Arte Concerts in Seattle and as Artistic Administrator of the Seattle International Music Festival. Lehwalder was Professor of Harp at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia from 2003 to 2006.

She is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and has the distinction of being the first recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize.

Ballet

Naomi Glass

Naomi Glass

Naomi Glass, a native of Mercer Island, Washington, trained at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, San Francisco Ballet School and Houston Ballet Academy before joining Houston Ballet in 1994. In 1997, she was nominated by Ben Stevenson to represent Houston Ballet for the Princess Grace Award. Some of her favorite roles include Stanton Welch's Madame Butterfly and Indigo, Ben Stevenson's Three Preludes, Evening Pas de Deux, Five Poems, Dusk and Twilight; Nacho Duato's Without Words; Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground and "Wendy" in Peter Pan. Ms. Glass has danced the full-length ballets The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra, La Sylphide, The Snow Maiden, Firebird and Don Quixote. Beyond her classical repertoire, Ms. Glass has been showcased in a variety of contemporary and neoclassical roles, including works by William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, George Balanchine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Lila York, Helgi Tomasson, Frederick Ashton, Glen Tetley, and others. Ms. Glass retired from her soloist position at Houston Ballet in 2004, and is currently the Ballet Mistress of Houston Repertoire Ballet and a committed teacher to the Ballet Center of Houston.

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