Take A Stand

Take A Stand
Regional Professional Development Session
February 15 & 16, 2013
with
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Gary D. Beckman is Director of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Arts at North
Carolina State University where he developed and administers the nation’s first
campus-wide Arts Entrepreneurship Minor.
Before arriving at NC State, he developed the country’s first Music
Entrepreneurship Minor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Music.
He also edited the field’s first essay collection, Disciplining the Arts: Teaching
Entrepreneurship in Context and co-founded the world’s first academic journal on
arts entrepreneurship education, Artivate, where he serves as founding co-editor.
His articles on the topic of Arts Entrepreneurship, leadership education in the arts
and Intellectual Entrepreneurship have appeared in Planning for Higher Education, Symposium, Metropolitan
Universities Journal, Arts Education Policy Review and The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.
In addition to the topics above, has also delivered papers on the philosophical / disciplinary structuring of arts,
campus-wide entrepreneurship programs and those discussing disciplinary development. He is also the founder
and editor of the Arts Entrepreneurship Educator’s Network.
Dan Berkowitz is the manager of Youth Orchestra, LA (YOLA), Gustavo
Dudamel’s signature El Sistema-inspired initiative at the Los Angeles
Philharmonic. Since this appointment in 2009, Mr. Berkowitz has facilitated
YOLA’s growth from 150 to nearly 600 students, co-designed three international
symposiums on El Sistema, managed collaborations with the Simón Bolívar
Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and advised emerging programs from around
the world. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he was a member of the
inaugural class of Abreu Fellows at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA.
As a performing musician and educator, Mr. Berkowitz has appeared with
orchestras in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. He has also worked
as an entrepreneur, developing the infrastructure for Morningstar’s Pan-European and Asian fund research
endeavor in London, England. Mr. Berkowitz received degrees in both music performance and economics from
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he studied trombone with Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes and
Charles Vernon.
Pianist Wayman Chin, Dean of the Conservatory at the Longy School of Music of
Bard College, has performed widely throughout the United States and Asia. Within
the United States, his concerts include performances at Princeton University, the
Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Honolulu Academy of
Arts. In the Far East, Mr. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong
Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, and at the
residence of the US Ambassador in Manila.
Wayman Chin’s playing has been described as, “transcendental, long lines spun like
glorious gold thread,” “ferociously concentrated, intense, focused, and musically
astute” (Boston Herald), “vividly characterized and atmospheric,” (Stamford
Mercury, U.K.) and “sheer magicS.every note is colored.” (the Freeman, Philippines).
Devoted to chamber music playing, Mr. Chin has collaborated with artists such as the Pacifica Quartet, Cassatt
String Quartet, violinist Eric Rosenblith, violist Msumi Rostad, cellist Thomas Kraines, and baritone Thomas
Meglioranza. For twelve seasons he appeared regularly as a member of the artist faculty at the Yellow Barn
Music School and Festival and has also performed and taught at the Stamford International Music Festival in
England; in 2010, he served on the program faculty for the Winter Cycle at the Banff Centre in Canada.
An advocate of new music, Mr. Chin has premiered a number of works by noted composers, including those
of Meyer Kupferman, John McDonald, Scott Wheeler, and Paul Brust; he has also introduced several works of
Aaron Jay Kernis to Boston audiences. Of Chin’s performance of Kernis’ Valentines, with soprano Karyl Ryczek,
David Cleary of 21st Century Music wrote, “Wayman Chin traversed the formidable challenges of the piano part
with conspicuous success. His highly demonstrative performing style excellently suited the work’s forthright
nature.”
Wayman Chin earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School
and a Master of Music degree from Yale University. His principal teachers and mentors were Donald Currier,
Anne Koscielny, Joan Panetti and Raymond Hanson.
Mr. Chin has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and joined the Longy faculty
in 1994. In 2007, he received the Longy School’s George Seaman Award for Excellence in the Art of Teaching.
Christopher Gergen is the CEO of Forward Impact, a firm focused on driving
positive community change through the support of high-growth, high-impact
enterprises. Forward Impact currently supports Bull City Forward in Durham,
NC, Queen City Forward in Charlotte, NC, and HUB Raleigh (all of which
Christopher helped to start). This work complements Christopher’s role as a
fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as well as his position as “Innovator
in Residence” at the Center for Creative Leadership. Christopher is also the
co-author of the nationally acclaimed book Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People
Creating Extraordinary Lives and co-authors a bi-weekly column on social
innovation for the Raleigh News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer titled
“Doing Better at Doing Good.” Additionally, he is the Chairman of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation’s
National Advisory Board on Social Entrepreneurship as well as the Chair of the North Carolina Education
Reform Coalition, Carolina CAN. He lives with his wife and two children in Durham, NC.
Jane Hawkins, pianist, began her career in the US after graduating with distinction
from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied both cello and
piano. She is recognized as an inspired and significant collaborator in her work
with instrumentalists, vocalists and artists of various disciplines.
Ms. Hawkins’s experience includes appearances with the Dorian Wind Quintet,
the Ciompi String Quartet, the Chicago Symphony Chamber Players, and the
American Chamber Players at the Library of Congress. As resident pianist and
faculty member at Musicorda Music Festival, she has performed in concert with
violinists James Buswell, Kenneth Goldsmith and Masuko Ushioda, and cellists
Ronald Leonard, Norman Fisher and Phillip Mueller. She has assisted in masterclasses given by distinguished
musicians Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhart, Pamela Franck, and Janos Starker. With the Ciompi Quartet, she
has concertized in Europe and the major concert halls of China. Other international tours include South Africa
and Canada.
She frequently performs contemporary chamber music, and has worked with composers John Harbison, Barbara
Kolb, Maxwell Raimi, and Robert Ward, with whom she has made two recordings on the Bay Cities label. Other
commercially released CDs include recordings of new works by Paul Schonfield, Mark Kuss, Donald Wheelock,
and Kenneth Frazelle. She has also collaborated with violist Jonathan Bagg of the Ciompi Quartet to produce
CDs of music by Robert Fuchs and Clara and Robert Schumann. These CDs appear on the Albany, Gasparo,
Centaur and Bay Cities labels, respectively.
A strong interest in the possibilities of creating multimedia events has led to numerous collaborations, including
“Aural Landscapes” with violinist Sarah Johnson, “Women’s Voices of the Old American West,” “Echoes of War,”
and “The Seven Deadly Sins” with soprano and University of North Carolina faculty member, Terry Rhodes.
Jane Hawkins currently serves as Chair of the Department of Music at Duke University where as a Professor
of the Practice of Music, she teaches piano and chamber music. An active contributor to the North Carolina
musical community, she is a founding member of the Mallarmé Chamber Players.
Dr. Erik Holmgren has worked closely with El Sistema in Venezuela and been
connected to the development of approximately 15 El Sistema-inspired programs
in this country. He is currently the Director of Teacher Education and Educational
Initiatives at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where he oversees the
Master of Arts in Teaching program and has a lead role in the partnership with
Los Angeles Philharmonic and Bard College, called Take a Stand. Prior to his
work at Longy, Erik served as the Director of the Sistema Fellows Program at New
England Conservatory, which grew out of the TED Prize wish of Maestro Jose
Antonio Abreu. Dr. Holmgren holds five degrees in music including a Doctorate
in Education from Columbia University. He has performed throughout the United
States, Canada, and Venezuela as a concert saxophonist and is the founder of Musical Perspectives, the first
online academic journal focusing on research in music performance. He currently lives in Stow, MA with his
wife and son.
Composer Stephen Jaffe’s works include Concertos for Cello and Orchestra and
Violin and Orchestra as well as numerous chamber and orchestral compositions
which have been performed at major concerts and festivals throughout the
United States, Europe and Asia, by ensembles including The National Symphony
Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conducting; the R.A.I. of Rome, Slovenska
Filharmonija (Slovenian Philhar-monic), the San Francisco, North Carolina and
New Jersey Symphonies, Berlin’s Spectrum Concerts, London’s Lontano, and
many others. Bridge Records has issued three discs of the composer’s music.
Recent premieres have included Designs II for clarinets, guitar and percussion;
and Homage to the Breath: Instrumental and Vocal Meditations for Mezzosoprano and Ten Instruments, with a text by Thich Nhat Hanh, introduced at
the Hirschorn Museum, Washington. Among the composer’s latest compositions are Light Dances (Chamber
Concerto No. 2), written for Philadelphia’s Network for New Music, and String Quartet No. 2 (“Aeolian and
Sylvan Figures”) commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for the Miami Quartet, as well
as two orchestral works written for the North Carolina Symphony: Poetry of the Piedmont, and Cìthara mea
(Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook for Orchestra, based on Spanish Renaissance music. Stephen Jaffe
teaches at Duke University, where he is Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Composition; Jaffe was elected a
member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters in 2012.
Scott Lindroth is a composer whose music has been performed by the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic,
“The President’s Own” Marine Band, the Ciompi Quartet, and many chamber
ensembles in the United States and Europe. His work has been recognized with
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the
Howard Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American
Academy in Rome, and the Revson Foundation. He has been on the music
faculty at Duke since 1990 and began an appointment as Duke’s first Vice Provost
for the Arts in 2008.
Hsiao-mei Ku, a Naxos Artist, is Professor of the Practice in the Department of
Music at Duke University and a member of the Ciompi Quartet. In addition to
her worldwide performing career with the quartet, she has developed research
and performing interests related to her own heritage, the Chinese culture. Her
two solo CDs, Violin and Piano Music by Ma Sicong (I) and (II), were released
by Naxos in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Of her performance, Strings magazine
reviewer Greg Cahill wrote: “These expressive works are played exquisitely by
violinist Hsiao-mei Ku… This CD features some of the most beautiful recorded
chamber music that you will encounter this year, fiercely romantic and filled with
heartfelt emotion.” For the last three years, with the generous support of The
Duke Endowment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she has led a group
of 12 Duke students to engage intensely in immersive service and launch mentoring and school art programs in
Zhuhai, a city in southern part of China.
Patricia Plude: With thirty-five years of teaching experience in the fields of
musicianship, improvisation, aural skills, music theory, and piano, Patricia
Plude is dedicated to teaching improvisation as a vehicle for personal and social
transformation, promoting creativity and innovation in music education, and
helping people of all ages discover and develop a personal creative voice. Patricia
has recently joined the Music Faculty of the new Master of Arts in Teaching
Program of the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Prior to this appointment
she served for twelve years as a Lecturer in Music at Santa Clara University. During
her tenure there she designed and implemented a unique, interactive two-year
aural skills curriculum, which employs improvisation and composition at every
level. She also created a course in Improvisation, in which students use their bodies,
their voices, and their instruments to engage in playful activities that awaken their imagination, build creative
vocabulary, deepen their understanding of the creative process, and lead incrementally to fully improvised art
in various forms. Patricia has significant experience in arts administration and from 1997-2003 served as the
Executive Director of The Walden School, a non-profit summer school and festival for creative young musicians.
She is a contributing author to The Walden School Musicianship Course: A Manual for Teachers, and is the
former Director of The Walden School Teacher Training Institute (2004 – 2012).
Holding advanced degrees in piano performance from The Peabody Institute and San Francisco Conservatory,
Patricia has performed with San Francisco Bay Area new music ensembles such as Earplay and San Francisco
Contemporary Players. She has also served as a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory
Department and Chair of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Composer Commissioning
Program. She has lectured at state and national music conferences on topics such as “Improvisational Music
Theory” and “Releasing the Music Within”, and has published articles that advocate learning music through the
active process of its creation.
Patricia is certified to teach InterPlay®, a philosophy and practice of improvisation designed to unlock the
wisdom of our bodies and in our communities, and she is a former member of the dynamic San Francisco
performing group, Wing It!, an ensemble dedicated to mounting fully improvised performances combining
dance, storytelling, and music. Believing that the arts offer significant opportunities for the expression and
deepening of human spirituality, Patricia also serves as the Minister of Worship Arts for First Mennonite Church
of San Francisco.
Kenneth Rogerson is the director of undergraduate studies and lecturer in Duke
University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He is the co-director of the Policy
Journalism and Media Studies Certificate program. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of South Carolina and currently teaches and researches on technology
policy, news media and international communications. To attempt some life balance, he loves playing viola with the Durham Symphony.
Alexis Spieldenner is a senior at Duke University majoring in International
Comparative Studies with a minor in Japanese. She is a harpist whose passion
for music and El Sistema led her to attend the 2012 Take a Stand Symposium in
LA. As a member of Hart Leadership’s Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL)
program, Alexis spent the summer conducting a community-based research
project which assessed the academic, social and behavioral development of
students in KidZNotes. In the fall of 2012, she participated in an independent
study with Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth to explore future avenues for
strengthening the Duke-KidZNotes partnership.
Kathryn Wyatt: “Music and the arts can level the playing field for all people,
no matter their social or economic background.” Kathryn (“Katie”) Wyatt
is an accomplished musician, educator and innovator in music and social
entrepreneurship. Katie co-founded and assumed the post of Executive Director
of KidZNotes in July 2010. Including her work in El Sistema, Katie is a national
leader in the orchestra field in creating programs for access and opportunity for
all children to experience the transformative power of music. She was a keynote
speaker for the League of American Orchestra’s 2011 National Conference on
“Creating an Environment for Innovation,” and has led seminars and consulted
in music and social entrepreneurship nationally and internationally, including as
faculty with the New World Symphony, League of American Orchestras regional seminars and at Carnegie Hall,
the Panama Jazz Festival, the New England Conservatory Sistema Fellows program, the Cleveland Orchestra, the
Academy at Julliard, and orchestras and youth orchestras across the country. From 2007-2009, Ms. Wyatt served
as Director of Education and Community Engagement for the North Carolina Symphony where she created and
expanded programs statewide that would inspire and captivate young audiences.
Recently Ms. Wyatt was honored with the statewide 2012 “Young Careerist” award by the Business Professional
Women of North Carolina. As an accomplished violist, Katie has toured and performed nationally and
internationally with the orchestras of the New World Symphony, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Columbus
Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and the Spoleto Festival of Charleston, S.C., in the
major concert halls of the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central and South America, China, Japan, and Taiwan.
As an educator, she’s coached North Carolina statewide strings competitions, maintains a private studio, and
served as Adjunct Professor of Viola at N.C. State University from 2007-2009. Her call to leadership in social
justice through the arts was inspired by YOA’s joint performances with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar
Orchestra of Caracas, Venezuela in 2005. The power and success of El Sistema moved her to begin channeling
her passion for music to benefitting communities and positively affecting social change. Wyatt speaks Spanish
and French and holds bachelor degrees in Political Science and Viola Performance from Indiana University and
a Master’s Degree in Viola Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Katie lives and works in Durham,
NC and locally has enjoyed performing chamber music with her quartet, with the indie folk-rock chamber
orchestra, Lost in the Trees, and the indian-bluegrass fusion band Hindugrass.