Woodwinds
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Harry Searing |
Harry Searing is an active freelance artist on both bassoon and contrabassoon in the New York City area and has been for over 30 years. Most notably, he has performed many concerts with the New York Philharmonic with such great conductors as Bernstein, Boulez, Mehta, and Leinsdorf. In addition to performing with practically every classical organization in the New York – New Jersey area, he has performed with several distinguished groups while on tour, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2002 he performed nine concerts with three different organizations on Heckelphone, an extremely rare instrument. He can be heard as bassoon soloist in the soundtrack to Brian DePalma’s 2004 film, Femme Fatale. In addition to performing, Mr. Searing has an extensive career in music publishing, having worked for such publishers as Boosey & Hawkes, Schott, and G. Schirmer. In 2003, he started his own publishing firm, LRQ Publishing, devoted to the bassoon music of the great Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone. He is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music where is studied with Stephen Maxym.
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Susan Palma-Nidel Adjunct Professor Flute 973-655-7212 palmas@mail.montclair.edu |
Flutist Susan Palma-Nidel is the principal flutist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae. She has performed as soloist and principal flutist with many groups including Martha Graham and Paul Taylor Dance Companies, the Stuttgart, Netherlands and Royal Ballet, Madeira Bach Festival, Santa Fe Opera and Bach Chamber Soloists. She has performed internationally as soloist in concertos of Mozart, Vivaldi, Telemann, Ibert, Kirchner and Gandolfi and has premiered works of many composers including Carter, Babbitt, and Mackay. She has appeared on over 100 recordings. Her recording of the Mozart Flute Concertos and the Flute and Harp Concerto with Nancy Allen and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra was named the "best recording of these works to date" by Gramophone Magazine. Other recordings include the 2001 Grammy winning Shadow Dances (chamber works of Stravinsky) with Orpheus. She has also recorded chamber music with bassoonist Frank Morelli, a Latin-American CD with Denyce Graves, new songs with jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, a DVD with Jane Monheit and a recording with Tony Bennett and KD Lang. Ms. Palma-Nidel is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School.
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Tanya Dusevic Witek Adjunct Professor - Flute Chamber Music Coordinator (973) 655-7212 witekt@mail.montclair.edu |
Tanya Dusevic Witek has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Continuum. She has recorded for EMI, Bridge, NHK, CRI, Panasonic and CBC, and her debut solo recording was released in 2006 on the MSR label. Ms. Witek has appeared at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and has toured with the acclaimed Musicians from Marlboro. As a founder of the Forest Hills Chamber Players, she is dedicated to bringing free performances to community venues in the outer boroughs of New York City. She graduated from the University of Calgary and received her master and doctoral degrees from Juilliard. Ms. Witek is currently a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Institute, the New York Philharmonic and is a faculty member for The Academy: A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and The Weill Music Institute.
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Marsha Heller Adjunct Professor Oboe 973-655-7212 hellerma@mail.montclair.edu |
Oboist Marsha Heller has been recognized for her expressive playing and beautiful tone by the New York Times and Performing Arts Magazine, among many others. She studied with Harvey McGuire of the Cleveland Orchestra, at Oberlin Conservatory with DeVere Moore, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and in New York with Harold Gomberg and Henry Schuman. Since her debut as winner of the Concert Artists' Guild Competition in 1971 she has performed with diverse groups including the American Symphony, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Martha Graham Dance Company, Bronx Arts Ensemble, and New York Pops. She has been a frequent guest soloist at the Berkshire Bach Society, Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival and the New Jersey Chamber Music Society. She is a member of the Queen's Chamber Band, which performs Baroque and contemporary works. Her recordings include Music of Carlos Surinach, Ritmo Jondo and Three is Company, all with the Bronx Arts Ensemble, JCF-the Buckeburg Bach and Ragtime at the Ritz with the Trio Bell'Arte, and Viva Italia with the Queen's Chamber Band. Ms Heller has taught oboe and chamber music at MSU since 1991.
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Andrew Adelson Adjunct Professor Oboe 973-622-7212 adelsona@mail.montclair.edu |
Andrew Adelson can be heard playing both oboe and English horn in orchestras, chamber music ensembles and as a soloist in the U.S. and abroad. He has been the solo English horn/oboe with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2000. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Mexico City Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, Mr. Adelson has performed with the Aspen Wind Quintet and Bargemusic. He can be heard playing on recordings on the Delos and Koch labels. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Ferrillo and Elaine Douvas. His connection with Juilliard has continued through teaching master classes in Interpersonal and Ensemble Skills for the Orchestral Player as well as master classes in instrument repair. He has also taught at New Jersey City University, Drew Summer Music and Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Adelson has played on Broadway in the pit orchestras for King and I, 1776, and the Sound of Music. He has spent summers playing in Tanglewood, Interlochen and Waterloo Music Festivals and as a chamber music coach and performer at Rencontres Musicales Internationales at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France.
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Keriann DiBari Adjunct Professor Clarinet 973-655-7212 |
KeriAnn DiBari-Oberle is currently a member of the Little Orchestra Society, Greenwich Symphony, and Erie Philharmonic. She has performed as principal clarinetist and as a member of the clarinet/saxophone section in many orchestras including the New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Choral Society, New York Virtuosi and American Symphony. She has performed with Matchbox 20, the Moody Blues, Joni Mitchell, Michael Feinstein, Crystal Gale, Mandy Patinkin, Peter, Paul and Mary, and the Manhattan Transfer. She has won many competitions and performed as soloist in concertos by Creston, Etler, Mozart and Weber. She has performed solo works of Debussy and Poulenc on New York’s WQXR radio; and chamber music at Weil Recital Hall. She can be heard on many television commercials and in movies including Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas, Hercules, and The Presidents (PBS). Her performances on Broadway include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, Ragtime, and Crazy For You. She is heard on the original Broadway cast album of Beauty and the Beast, and on albums by Cy Coleman and the Gotham Wind Symphony. She has spent summers performing in Aspen, the Grand Tetons and Altenburg, Germany. Ms. DiBari-Oberle was a student of Burt Hara, Bil Jackson, John Moses, Peter Simenauer and David Weber.
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Romie de Guise-Langlois Adjunct Professor Clarinet 973-655-7212 |
Praised as “…extraordinary...” and “…a formidable clarinetist...” by the New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist with the Houston Symphony, Ensemble ACJW, the Yale Philharmonia, McGill University Symphony Orchestra and at Banff Center for the Arts. She is a winner of the 2011 Astral Artists’ National Audition and was awarded the First Prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg competition; she was additionally a First Prize winner of Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, Ms. de Guise-Langlois joins the roster of CMS Two in 2012. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia and Boston Chamber Music Societies, 92 Y Street, and Chamber Music Northwest among many others. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford Symphony Orchestras and she is a member of The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned her B.M. degree from McGill University and her M.M. and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin.
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Dennis Smylie Adjunct Professor Clarinet and Bass Clarinet (973) 655-7212 |
Bass clarinetist Dennis Smylie received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Joseph Allard. His other teachers have included Alfred Zetzer, Stephan Freeman, Kalman Opperman and Bill Street. He is a member of the American Symphony and the Brooklyn Philharmonic and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet and Opera, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the St. Louis and Montreal symphonies, and Speculum Musicae. Mr. Smylie was the bass clarinet soloist in the premiere performance and recording of Donald Martino's Triple Concerto. He has given recitals and presentations at Juilliard, Oberlin, Yale, Princeton, Kent State University, Florida State University and the University of Washington in Seattle, as well as in Salida, Aspen, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Mr. Smylie has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch, New World Records, CRI, RCA and Virgin Classics.
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Paul Cohen Adjunct Professor Saxophone 973-655-7212 cohenpa@mail.montclair.edu |
Paul Cohen holds an M.M and DMA degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the New Jersey Symphony and San Francisco Symphony. His many solo orchestra performances include works by Debussy, Creston, Ibert, Glazonov, Martin, and Villa-Lobos. He has played in numerous ensembles including the Cleveland Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, New Jersey Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, Group for Contemporary Music, New York Solisti and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded three albums with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds under the direction of Frederick Fennell, a compact disk of the music of Villa-Lobos with the Quintet of the Americas, and recordings with the Saxophone Sinfonia, Paul Winter Consort, and the New Sousa Band. Recent recordings include an environmental-Jazz CD of solo improvisations and his solo CD, Vintage Saxophones Revisited, featuring the premiere recording of Cowell's Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 18. He has published more than 100 articles on the history and literature of the saxophone.
Timothy Ruedeman
Adjunct Professor
Saxophone
973-655-7212
ruedemant@mail.montclair.edu
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Seth Baer Adjunct Professor Bassoon 973-622-7212 baers@mail.montclair.edu |
Seth Baer attended the Juilliard School and Princeton University where he graduated with honors while studying with Frank Morelli. At the age of 19, Seth won a substitute position with the Philadelphia Orchestra. During the 2003-2004 season, Seth served a one-year position with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He has performed with ensembles including the Pennsylvania Ballet, Haddonfield Symphony, Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He won First Prize in the Hewlett-Woodmere Young Artist Competition and was featured on the Mcgraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase on WQXR radio. Seth has performed at Bargemusic and is a member of the Fountain Chamber Music Society, with whom he maintains a residency for the Carnegie Hall education department, headlining their CarnegieKids and Musical Explorers series. He has performed at the Music Academy of the West, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival in Italy, and at the Altenburg Music Festival in Germany. He has performed as principal bassoon of the Mark Morris Dance Group Orchestra and the Key West Symphony and is a member of Amici New York, the resident orchestra at the OK Mozart festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Seth has taught classes at the Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music; he has also coached the New York Youth Symphony and New Jersey Youth Symphony.