Touring Faculty and Staff. Concert Tour 2004, C.W. Post Department of Music

Touring Faculty and Staff

Alexander Dashnaw, Director of Choral Activities and former Chairman of the Department of Music at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has been guest conductor of many festival, divisional, regional, and all-state choruses and has conducted choral/vocal workshops for schools, the AGO (American Guild of Organists) and the ACDA (American Choral Directors Association). He has been artistic director of many festivals, including the Manhattan, Chicago, and Pacific Choral Festivals, the jubilee in Washington, D.C., and the Strathclyde in Scotland. He served as Director of Choral Activities at the Hart School of Music, University of Hartford, as conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus in concerts and conducted the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra together with the Manhattan Chorale in concerts at the Kennedy Center and at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Dashnaw, whose awards include the Distinguished Service Award to Culture from the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, a University Award for Excellence in Teaching at Long Island University and the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement, has served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association and is currently serving as President of the New York State Association of College Music Programs (NYSACMP). Recently Mr. Dashnaw was honored at Long Island University's 75th Anniversary Celebration for his outstanding chievements in helping to build the University's educational programs and reputation.

Harris Becker, acting Director of the Merriweather Consort, guitarist and lutenist, is an active soloist, chamber musician, educator and adjudicator. Performances have taken him throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Mexico and Canada. New York performances include Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Becker has premiered many new works for solo guitar and guitar in ensembles. Composers who have dedicated works to him include Raoul Pleskow, Howard Rovics, Carlo Domeniconi and the microtonal composer, Johnny Reinhard. Director of Guitar Studies at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Mr. Becker is Founder and Director of the Long Island Guitar Festival, which is in its 12th year. In 1997, the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, selected Mr. Becker to be part of Florida’s Artist Residency program, giving lecture/demonstrations on the history of the guitar, including performances on the lute and Baroque guitar. Mr. Becker has been on the music faculties of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and Director of Music for Mixed Ensembles at the International Institute for Chamber Music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Of his recording, "Catgut Flambo," with guitarist Pasquale Bianculli, Guitar Review called it "...one of the most beautiful-sounding guitar recordings I have heard." His transcriptions and editions are published by T.D. Ellis Music Publishing.

Jeffrey Johnson, director of the C.W. Post Madrigal Singers, has appeared on Broadway and off, in opera, regional theatre, and in several seminal theatre pieces including the video opera The Cave by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, The Boston Early Music production of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur, and the multimedia opera Chaos at the Kitchen in New York. A founding member of the highly acclaimed male vocal ensemble "Lionheart," he also sings and records with the early music ensembles "New York Collegium," "The Voices of Ascension," and "Pomerium." Independent projects include performing as bass soloist in a Bach cantata series with the Orchestra of St. Lukes' Chamber Ensemble, a collaboration with the synthesist Wendy Carlos, work in extended vocal techniques, and a chant and sitar project entitled "Meeting of Angels." He is also active as a director of plays and theatre pieces. Recordings can be heard on Koch International Classics, Nimbus, RCA-Catalyst, Delos, Electra Nonesuch, Music Masters, Dorian, and Deutsche Grammaphon Archive.

Lisa N. Meyer, soprano, has been an active professional musician as a soloist, conductor, choral singer and teacher across the United States and Europe. After attaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in the 1986, she became a member of the internationally acclaimed professional choir the Gregg Smith Singers. During her three seasons with the ensemble, she traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a member of the New York Treble Singers, a professional women's choir specializing in the music of women composers and contemporary works. In the fall of 1998, Ms. Meyer was hired as the first Production Coordinator for the C.W. Post Department of Music, managing the daily operations, concert schedules, and student concert series along with concert tours, publicity materials and recruitment. In addition to her position at C.W. Post and her freelance work as a vocalist, she presently maintains a studio of private voice, piano, and guitar students and is the choir director and conductor for the Community Unitarian Church at White Plains in Westchester County, New York.

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Concert Tour 2004

Ireland, Wales & England

Touring Faculty and Staff