Artistic Directors of the First Annual Cros s Sound Festival July 10, 1999, 8 PM at the Northern Lights Church, Juneau, Alaska and July 11, 3 PM at Chapel by the Lake, University of Southeast, Alaska

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. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992 with the Kellam Prize for East Asian Studies. In the winters of 1992 and 1993 she toured Southeast Alaska as a guest soloist performing zheng and doing workshops with the Orion Trombone Quartet and the Alaska Musicians Guild. From 1992 to 1994 she received a scholarship to study traditional Korean music majoring in kayagûm performance at the National Classical Music Institute in Seoul, Korea. In Sept. 1993, she received first prize with kayagûm sanjo in the KBS TV 26th Korean Folk Arts Contest for Foreigners. In Sept. 1995 she won the grand prize with kayagûm pyôngchang in the HBS TV first annual Korean Folk Arts Contest for Foreigners. 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 Cros s Sound '99 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 is delighted to be a part of the inaugural performances of Cros s Sound.   [Mission Statement] [KayaToy] [Web Forum] [Donations] [CrossSound '99 HOME] [Enter CrossSound 2000]