Kudos to Sophie Till!

We are proud to announce that Sophie Till has been awarded a grant through the Pennsylvania Council on the Art’s unique program, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts. The grant will fund a televised recital of Sophie performing violin show pieces. Accompanying her will be pianist, Ronald Stabinsky. The recital will be filmed on January 20th, 2008 at WVIA's state-of-the-art high-definition television studio. Anyone wishing to attend the recital should contact WVIA at 1-800-326-9842. Admission is free of charge.

Sophie holds an advanced music degree from the Royal College of Music in London and a master of music degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) where she studied under Charles Treger. She is persuing a PhD on the Beethoven Violin Sonatas at The University of Leeds (UK).

An active free-lance violinist throughout Europe and Eastern United States, she formerly taught at both Eton College and the Royal College of Music, Junior Department. She was recently named the recipient of the F. Lammot Belin Arts Award and is currently recording the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas. She serves on the music faculty of Marywood University, where she is the director of the string division, and is an Artist in Residence at Wyoming Seminary.

At PAI, Sophie taught violin lessons, coached chamber music, presented masterclasses and performed with the resident string quartet.

Rock Doves

Jamie Kurtz, PAI set and lighting director, says it took Renaissance Entertainment Technologies just four days to build their first set headed to New York City. Like the set for PAI's production of Oliver, it was built and painted in their studio then loaded into the theater, which in this case was the Irish Arts Center in New York City.

Charlie Corcoran, set designer for "The Molly Maguires" at the F.M. Kirby Center in April, designed this set for the play “Rock Doves,” by the Northern Irish playwright Marie Jones.

A photo can be seen in the New York Times review of the play.

Opera Hause

Mind control, torture, biological weapons, LSD, and defenestration are ingredients for a new opera that could only be about "Man." Evan Hause's final Defenestration opera, "Man: Biology of a Fall," about the infamous 1953 CIA cold-cocking of army bio-weapons researcher Frank Olson, runs for four nights only: October 4, 5, 6, and 7 (matinee). Libretto is by Gary Heidt.


San-ky Kim, PAI voice faculty, sings the part of Gottlieb.


Tickets ($15-35) and Directions available from the Kumble Theater box office: http://www.kumbletheater.org/; (718) 488-1624. Showtimes: October 4, 5, 6 (Th-Sat) at 7:30 PM; October 7 (Sun) at 3:00 PM.

More information: http://www.manbiologyofafall.com/

Don't Miss Carrie and Martha!

Make sure you don't miss Carrie Ellmore Tallitsch with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Carrie is on the dance faculty at PAI, and is a full time member of the Martha Graham Dance Company.

The New York Season at the Joyce Theater will end on September 23, but the company travels extensively throughout the United States and abroad.

Please follow the links for performance information:

http://www.carrieellmore.com/

http://www.marthagrahamdance.org/

http://www.joyce.org/