Touring Faculty and Staff. Concert Tour 2005, C.W. Post Department of Music

Touring Faculty

Alexander Dashnaw, Director of Choral Activities in the Department of Music at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has been a guest conductor of many festival, divisional, regional, and all-state choruses and has conducted choral/vocal workshops at schools and universities and for the AGO (American Guild of Organists)) the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association), the MENC (Music Educators National Conference), among others. He has been artistic director of many choral festivals including the Manhattan, Chicago, and Pacific Choral Festivals, the Jubilee Festival 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). Mr. Dashnaw was honored at Long Island University’s 75th Anniversary Celebration for his outstanding achievements in helping to build the University’s educational programs and reputation.

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.

Maureen Hynes, cellist and gambist, enjoys an active career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher in the New York musical world. She performs regularly with the American Ballet Theater, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of New York, American Composers Orchestra, New York Virtuosi, the Westchester Philharmonic, Queens Symphony and the Long Island Philharmonic. She has also appeared with the Royal Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, at the Spoleto and Aspen Festivals and at the Lake George Opera Festival. Her work in New York also includes substitute work on Broadway. Ms. Hynes was a winner of the Concert Artist Guild Award with the Janus Ensemble and she is currently a member of the Pierrot Consort. She has performed in Europe, Canada, Korea and Hong Kong both as cellist and gambist. In addition to being Professor of Cello and Director of String Studies at Long Island University/C. W. Post, Ms. Hynes is co-director and co-founder of the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival and director of the Merriweather Consort which specializes in Renaissance music.

She is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where she received her B.M. and M.M. degrees. Her gamba studies have been with Lucy Bardo and the New York Consort of Viols. She has led the Merriweather Consort on numerous international tours, as well as in concerts and school presentations on Long Island and in the New York metropolitan area.

Stuart Price, who has taught at C.W. Post since 1977, studied accompanying in California with the pre-eminent accompanist Gwendolyn Koldofsky, receiving his Master's degree from the University of Southern California. Since coming to New York, he has worked with many of the major opera companies on the East Coast, including the Metropolitan Opera, Boston Opera and Lake George Opera Company. He was also musical director for six productions with the Bel Canto Opera Company in New York. He accompanied Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar in a national tour and toured the United States and Canada with The Revelers Quartet. He has been involved with the C.W. Post Opera program since its inception.

Harris Becker, 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, Mr. Becker has premiered many new works for solo guitar and ensembles. Performances include Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He is the Director of Guitar Studies at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is Founder and Director of the Long Island Guitar Festival, now in its tenth season. He 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. In 1999 Harris Becker and guitarist Pasquale Bianculli released the duo guitar CD titled "Catgut Flambo." 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.

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