Music Studies
BRANDON DERFLER - Assistant to the Academy Provost
Ph.D. in Music
Theory, Univ. of WA, M.A. in Musicology, Univ. of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. B.A. in Music, Univ. of Utah. Teaching Associate at the
Univ. of WA and Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1995-2004, where
he taught courses in music theory, ear-training, 20th-century music and
18th-century tonal counterpoint. Assistant Editor of Perspectives of
New Music. Author and translator of articles in GAMUT Journal,
Indiana Theory Review, and Perspectives of New Music. His
research interests include minimalism and transformational theory. Piano.
ERIC FLESHER
DMA Studied Composition with Joël-François Durand,
Univ. of WA), Paul-Heinz Dittrich (Künstlerisch-weiterbildendes Studium,
Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin), Alexander Goehr (M. Phil.,
Univ. of Cambridge), and Aurelio de la Vega (B.M., California State
Univ. Northridge). Additional studies in master classes with Aaron Jay
Kernis, Jukka Tiensuu, Gerhard Stäbler, and Charles Wuorinen. His
compositions have been performed widely in both Europe and the United
States, and have appeared at such festivals as June in Buffalo, Bumbershoot (Seattle), and the Brandenburg Colloquium for New
Music. Prizes include honors from the Internationaler Wettbewerb für
Neue Musik (Rheinsberg, Germany) for his composition To Sleep,
Perchance and the Hanns Eisler Preis (Berlin) for InSolve. In
2002, he was awarded the Franz Liszt Stipendium by the Hochschüle
für Musik "Franz Liszt" in Weimar, Germany, where he lived as a guest
composer-in-residence for 4 months. Piano.
DOROTHY KLOTZMAN - Academy Vice President & Provost
Composer, Conductor. B.S., M.S., The Juilliard School;
Director, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College; Executive Director,
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. Recipient
of the Danforth Foundation's "Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching."
Member: ASCAP. Clarinet, piano, composition.
JAMES E. PAUL - Academy President
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Historical Performance Practice;
University of Washington; M.A., Composition, Univ. of WA; B.A. in Music,
Lewis and Clark College, Oregon; Graduate, Royal School of Church Music,
England. Professor, United States International University, San Diego;
Adjunct Professor in Comprehensive Musicianship, San Diego State
University. Music Producer, National Public Radio. Founder and Director, Early Music Ensemble, a world touring ensemble for 20 years. Choral Conductor.
Keyboards: piano, organ, harpsichord. Composition.
DANIELA LANDOLFI - Children's Program
Director.
Academy faculty since 2002, Daniela has taught Pre-college and
Children's classes. In 2007 Daniela directs the Children's Program,
taking over from her mother, Carol Macaulay. Daniela attended the
Manhattan School of Music in New York City from the age of 2, where her
major teacher was her mother, Carol Macaulay, founding Director of the
Academy Children's Program. Daniela's studies included theory, ear
training, sight singing, private and ensemble instruction in violin,
percussion, and voice. She pursued additional vocal education with
private teachers specializing in various vocal styles and techniques.
She participated in performances, solo and ensemble, both nationally and
internationally including Carnegie Hall and Medugorje, Bosnia. She has
taught private voice lessons, and performed in varied styles as part of
different musical projects, that included several CDs as soloist. She
was also lead singer of the original rock band, Inergroove, and
is a worship leader for the Disciples of Christ, both locally and
nationally.
HIRO IMAMURA DAVID, piano.
MM, Univ. WA, 2008. Starting 2007, Hiro taught
'Theory for String Players" (as requested by our late String
Chair, Kent Coleman). She coaches an ensemble; is
accompanist for the Coleman Violin Studio; and a private
piano studio teacher. Hiro was an established concert pianist in Europe
before returning to the U.S with her young children - when teaching,
collaborating, accompanying took priority.
BRIANNA ATWELL, viola, violin.
BM, MM. DMA pending. Effective 2007, Brianna (a long time ensemble coach at the Academy) also teaches 'Sight Reading Skills' to string players (her Master's topic). Brianna is a professional
violist; a studio teacher of violin and viola; and produces
professional scores from manuscripts for composers in the region. Director, "Academy Artists Present" series.
BRADLEY HAWKINS (picture pending), cello.
Ear
Training and Ensemble Coach. Brad teaches at the Lakeside School, is a
professional 'cellist, and a studio 'cello teacher.
EMILY GREENLEAF (picture pending), voice.
bio pending
JASON SAH, DMA, (picture pending), violist and teacher of upper strings and chamber music. He will be teaching a 'Strings Literature" class at the Academy of Music NW 2009-10. DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Viola Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in May 2008. Heavily involved in music education and performance in the Greater Seattle area, expanding private studio, working in the Bothell, Lake Washington, and Eckstein public schools, as well as coaching chamber music. He has served as a Doctoral Viola Assistant at Eastman and as Instructor of Viola at the University of Rochester; as summer faculty at music festivals in Michigan, Colorado, Vermont, Washington, New York. Plays chamber music regularly in Seattle, and appears as violist with the Starry Night Chamber Players and as Principal Viola of the Federal Way Symphony.
As a performer, Mr. Sah has been heard in North America and Europe. Performed with the Salzburg Camerata and Salzburg Kammerphilarmonie and most recently as a member of the new music ensemble Broadband. An avid chamber musician, he co-founded in 2005 the Viola and Guitar duo Ten Strings, which appeared extensively in concert series throughout upstate New York. Upcoming plans include acting juror at regional orchestral competitions, string coaching at the Icicle Creek music retreat, and performances and masterclasses in Colombia and Malaysia.
ANNIE CENTER, (picture pending), viola, piano. Orchestra Excerpts (class for orchestra auditions), 2009-10. BM
in piano and viola from Peabody Conservatory; MM in chamber music San
Francisco Conservatory, attended Prague Mozart Academy in Czech
Republic. Piano soloist w/San Francisco Symphony, Hong Kong
Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on their 1991 Asian
Tour. Toured England, Germany, France, Wales with the California Youth
Symphony both as a piano and as a viola soloist.
As a violist and chamber musician, performed
with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri,
Emerson,
Cleveland, Philadelphia string quartets, Beaux Arts Trio.
Participated in the
Marlboro, Ravinia, Olympic, Utah, and Prague Festivals.
Major teachers: Robert Schultz, Paul Hersh, Isadore Tinkelman, Robert
Weirich, Paul Coletti. Also worked with Claude Frank, Ruth Laredo,
Richard Goode, Leon Fleisher, Ian Swanson, Steven Isserlis, and Hatto Beyerle.
As principal violist of the Phoenix Symphony String Orchestra and the Arizona
Chamber Orchestra, she performed as viola soloist with both
ensembles. Assistant principal violist of the Phoenix Symphony since 1997.
Private instructor with award-winning students and the pianist of the Concorda Trio with her cellist husband, Michael Center and violinist Dana Pasley in Phoenix,
Arizona. Opening a new studio in Seattle. 2009, teaching, & coaching.