Alumni Chronicles
Spring 2007 graduating master’s candidate in Opera Theater bass-baritone Yevegeniy Chainikov will become a new member of the Opera Institute at Boston University this coming fall. He was also one of the ten winners of the Los Angeles semifinals Metropolitan Opera Auditions last season. He was one of five finalists in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera Auditions and just won a place in Boston University’s Opera Institute.
Former music theater major Kelly Jean Grant (nee Hedtke), is currently staring in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company.
Kevin Gorman, who completed the DMA is saxophone in May 2006, presented concerts with the Joseph Wytko Saxophone Quartet, and continues to serve on the faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he teaches saxophone and chamber music.
Alumnae organists Dr. Sunmin Kim and Dr. So-Yi Ahn have been appointed as instructors at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Thomas McCaslin, tuba graduate, was hired as tuba/euphonium professor at East Carolina University.
Max Miller, former vocal performance major, is currently singing the role of Ralph Rackstraw in an Off, Off Broadway production of H. M. S. Pinafore, which has just been nominated for a NY Drama Circle Award.
Matthew Patnode, who earned both the MM and DMA degrees in saxophone at ASU, and who was recently promoted to the rank of associate professor of Music at North Dakota State University, hosted a regional convention of the North American Saxophone Alliance.
Rubia Sousa Santos was appointed assistant professor for piano and collaborative piano at the University of Wyoming.
Natalya Shkoda (D.M.A. in Piano Performance ‘06) released her debut commercial solo CD featuring the first Western recording of “Eleven Etudes in the Form of Old Dances,” Op. 19, by Ukrainian composer Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko in London, U.K., in October 2006 (“Toccata Classics”). Shkoda’s CD received a number of outstanding reviews. For more information about the CD, please contact Shkoda at shkodana@yahoo.com. In the fall of 2006 Shkoda presented a lecture-recital in the International Symposium and Conference “Schumann: A View across the Disciplines” at the Texas Tech University School of Music in Lubbock, Texas. She has also enjoyed a fruitful concert season in 2006-2007, performing different programs at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, Texas Tech, Lubbock Christian University, ASU, NAU and the Friendship Village of Tempe. In the spring of 2007, Shkoda present master-classes and workshops for piano students at Texas Tech and NAU. She also served as an adjudicator for the East Valley Music Teachers’ Association Piano Competition and the Arizona Study Program.
Hamilton Tescarollo was appointed assistant professor/director of keyboard studies at Indiana University – Purdue in Fort Wayne.
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