CROSSSOUND 20000 - DIRECTORS

CROSSSOUND 2000
DIRECTORS

JOCELYN CLARK attended grades K-12 in Juneau where she took piano lessons and played the clarinet and oboe in various school music groups as well as the Juneau Symphony. After graduating from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1987 she spent a year in Japan where she became interested in non-Western music. She started studying the koto at the age of 18 with the Sawai Koto Academy at Wesleyan University. From 1990 she studied zheng at the Nanjing Academy for the Arts in China, continuing her studies the following year with Wang Changyuan in New York City. In the winters of 1992 and 1993 she toured Southeast Alaska performing zheng and doing workshops with the Orion Trombone Quartet and the Alaska Musicians Guild. From 1992 to 1995 she received a scholarship to study traditional Korean music majoring in kayagûm performance at the National Classical Music Institute in Seoul, Korea. Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University in Boston where she has produced a number of concerts featuring both traditional and modern compositions for East Asian instruments. Clark performs regularly with the Wang Changyuan Zheng Art Ensemble of New York, and the Sawai Koto Ensemble of New York, and also as a soloist. Most recently, she has won a Fulbright award for the 1999-2000 academic year to return to Korea to study Korean traditional music.

STEFAN HAKENBERG born in Wuppertal, Germany, studied

music at the conservatories in Düsseldorf and Cologne, and composition with Hans Werner Henze. He contributed to Henze's "Alternative Cultural Projects". Inspired by experiences there, he developed his own projects such as "Der Kinderkreuzzug" for the Opera of Cologne. In 1994 Stefan Hakenberg was accepted into a Ph.D. program at Harvard University where he studied with Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands. Other grants and fellowships brought him to the summer festivals in Tanglewood, Aspen, and Fontainebleau, to the artists' colonies "The MacDowell Colony" in New Hampshire, "Yaddo" in Saratoga Springs and to the "Atelierhaus Worpswede" in Lower Saxony. The Endowment for the Arts in North-Rhine Westfalia has sponsored his work repeatedly. Amongst the presenters of his music are the "Ensemble Phorminx" from Darmstadt, "The New Millennium Ensemble" from New York, the "Bangkok Saxophone Quartet," "Duo Contemporain" from Rotterdam, and "UnitedBerlin," conductors like Jeffrey Milarsky, Morris Rosenzweig, Richard Pittman, George Tsontakis and Markus Stenz, and soloists like Phoebe Carrai, Xiaolian Dai, Aeri Ji, and Changyuan Wang. His compositional output includes works for a wide variety of media, from solo chamber music to stage works to multimedia installations. His composition "Like Juicy Peaches" has been interpreted in a video by Theo Lipfert. Of particular meaning in his artistic development are both composing in collaboration with amateurs, and the integration of players from the folk music world or of non-western background.

SALLY SCHLICHTING - Coordinator of CrossSound '00 in Juneau and concert coordinator for the Juneau Symphony Showcase chamber music concerts since 1995, firmly believes there can not ever be too much chamber music in the world. Schlichting began playing flute at the age of ten in her home town, Juneau, Alaska. She played flute through high school, and attended music workshops and summer camps including Interlochen before continuing her music studies at the University of Southern California and the University of Washington, where she earned a degree in music in 1990. She has studied flute with Pamela Ryker, Mary Louise Poor, Felix Skowronek, Gary Woodward and Mel Flood. Ms. Schlichting currently enjoys a full life in music, playing regularly with the Juneau Symphony, the Nimbus Ensemble, the Dal Segno flute and guitar duo and especially with her aunt, pianist Mary Watson. She was delighted to be a part of the inaugural performances of Cros s Sound.

ROGER SCHMIDT - Coordinator of CrossSound '00 in Sitka - grew up in his present home, Sitka. As a musician he has studied trombone at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, Austria, at Oberlin Conservatory and at the Aspen Music Festival. His principal teachers have been Raymond Premru of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paul Welcomer of the San Francisco Symphony. He has worked as a free lance musician in the San Francisco Bay area playing with various groups in a wide range of musical styles.

ROALD SIMONSON - Stage Director - has directed a lot of theater classic, modern and original. In 1990 he won a National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellowship, a year-long stipendium for work, travel and study awarded to a few promising young directors each year. In the past he's also worked in the world of international opera, particularly as an Associate Artistic Director with Peter Sellars on operas by John Adams, Mozart and Handel. Other artistic associations he's benefited from in particular have been with Robert Wilson, the theater artist, and Mark Morris, the choreographer. Mr. Simonson is a graduate of Harvard University. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT HIS LATEST FILM, The Beer Commercial.