Alumni and faculty news and awards

• Chenoa Anderson (1993-1995, 2004, 2006) released her CD Big Flutes: Canadian Music for Alto and Bass Flute in 2006. The CD was nominated for a 2006 Western Canadian Music Award in the Outstanding Classical Album category.
• 2007 Juno Award winners included alumni Jon Ballantyne (1981, 1984-86, 2003), Traditional Jazz Album of the Year; Jean-Marie Zeitouni (2006-07) and Les Violons du Roy, Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble; Michael Schade (1988) and Richard Bradshaw (1992), Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance; and Steve Bellamy (1997-99, 2006-07)  recording engineer on the Juno-winning CD Bloom by The McDades.
• Pia Bose (2006) accepted an invitation to work at the XVI Escuela de Verano para Jóvenes músicos Ciudad de Lucena in Córdoba, Spain, in August 2006.  She was recently awarded a Peabody Career Development Grant and a Florida Department of State Artist Enhancement Grant (2006).
• Russell Botten (1983), Josh Dixon (1990, 1992), Sean Drabitt (1993, 2001), Ann Elliot-Goldschmid (1992), Nicholas Jacques (1995, 1999, 2001, 2003-2005), Marc Ryser (1994, 1996, 1999-2001, 2004-2006), and Roy Styffe (1981-1982) were all performers at the first Music-By-The-Sea Festival, with artistic director Christopher Donison (2004-05) in Bamfield, British Columbia.
• Paul Brantley (2000) composed Divan (2006), for soprano and piano, commissioned by Amy Synatzske, for the L’Opera du Village, Aix-en-Provence.  
• Martin Cousin (2005-06) debut CD, recorded at the Banff Centre in 2004, released in February 2006, and has had great reviews. He has also had many concerts including Rach 2, Barbican 2, recitals in Northern Italy, and contemporary chamber music with his chamber group Chroma.
• François Daudet (1990-91, 1998) released a new CD with his trio including Guillaume Plays and David Louwerse. He is also the artistic director of the French Chamber Music Festival Les Journees Musicales de Dieulefit.
• Alumni Marc Djokic (2006), Kerry DuWors (1999-2001, 2004-05), Veronique Mathieu (1999-2000), Judy Kang (1998), Jessica Linnebach (1991), and Rachel Mercer (1995, 2005) are all winners of the Musical Instrument Bank National Competition.
• Christin Dross (2007) received third place in the Audio Engineering Society student award in the Classical Surround category for a recording she did at The Banff Centre.
• Phil Dwyer (1982-83, 1986), Mike Murley (1983-84, 2003-05), Phil Nimmons (1980-81, 1998), Rob McConnell (1980), Roberto Occhipinti (1990), Reg Schwager (1979, 1984-85), Don Thompson (1981-89, 1991-98, 2000-01), Kevin Turcotte (1988-89, 1999), and Dave Young (2005) were all recipients at the 2006 National Jazz Awards.
• Pianist Terry Eder (1982), made her Lincoln Center recital debut in April 2006. She was also the Recipient of Artists International’s Outstanding Alumni-Winners Award in Piano.
• The Enso String Quartet (2001, 2005) spent summer 2006 as faculty for Boston University Tanglewood Institute for the String Quartet Seminars and Young Orchestra Programs
• Shawn Everett (2001-03, 2005-06) has been working with Natalie Cole, engineering her album Leavin, which has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison is flying Everett to the U.K. to work with old Beatles equipment to remix an album.
• The Frye Street Quartet (BISCQ 2004), have been named artists-in-residence at Utah State University. Members include William Fedkenheur, Rebecca McFaul, Anne Francis, and Russell Fallstad.
• Reuben Ghose (2005-06), was a two time winner at the DownBeat’s 29th Annual Student Music Awards. He won Engineered Live Recording and Engineered Studio Recording.
• Banff Centre Fleck Fellow, Osvaldo Golijov (2007), won Best Classical Contemporary Composition at the 2007 Grammy Awards for his Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears. The recording was also honoured as Best Opera Recording at the awards.
• Michelle Grégoire’s (2003, 2005, 2007) Gratitude Suite for String Orchestra and Jazz Trio, commissioned by CBC Radio and performed by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, was broadcast on CBC’s “Symphony Hall” this May. The suite, inspired in part by Grégoire’s experience at The Banff Centre, was written in the winter 2007 residency at the Centre.
• Audio engineer Julia Havenstein (2005, 2007) won first place at the Audio Engineering Society student award presentation in Berlin first in the Stereo World/Folk category.
• Micah Hayes (2001, 2003), audio alumni, has accepted the position of visiting professor of Music Media at University of Texas at Arlington.
• Composer, Vincent Ho (2001, 2006), won the first Portland Chamber Music Festival Competition for his piece Shattering the Ethereal Resonance for clarinet, percussion, violin, viola, and cello. He also released his debut CD, Vincent Ho, which features five of his compositions.
• Risa Horowitz (2006) exhibition Trio at the Owen Art Gallery in Sackville New Brunswick, October 2006- November 2006, featured a multi-channel audio/visual installation that documents Horowitz as she teaches herself to play a Franz Schubert Trio for piano, violin, and cello.
• Past audio faculty, Leslie Ann Jones (1966, 2003, 2007), was nominated for Best Engineered Album, Classical, for the albumLátigo.
• The Jupiter String Quartet (2004), were named the sixth recipient of the Cleveland Quartet Award, as well as the Chamber Music Society’s 2006 CMS Two residency program for outstanding young artists.
• Krzystzof Kacska (2006) released two CDs for Acte Prelable Label in May 2006. The first CD consists of music with flute and guitar and the second one involves Estic Rofe (flute) and Anna Kijanowska (piano) with music by A.F. Doppler. In a duo with Perry Schack, Kacska was a laureate from the 2006 National Flute Association (NFA) Chamber Music Competition in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Pianist Anton Kuerti (1981, 1983, 1985-86, 1988-95, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006-07) was selected as one of two recipients of the 2007 Schumann Prize, presented every two years by the Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft in association with the city of Zwickau, birthplace of composer Robert Schumann.
• The Land’s End Chamber Ensemble won the Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Classical Recording for the second year in a row, a Banff Centre Production. Ensemble members include alumni Elizabeth Bergmann (1985, 1999-2003, 2005-06), Marcel Bergmann (1999-2003, 2005, 2007), John Lowry (1995, 2006), Andrea Neumann (1993-1995, 2001, 2006), and Beth Root Sandvoss (1995, 2006-07).
• Rozalind MacPhail (1999-2000, 2004, 2006) is currently touring across Canada with her new five song EP release titled, Seattle Sessions – Less is More.
• Milan Milisavljevic (1999) is the assistant principal violist with the Metropolitan Opera in New York since August 2005. He has also been busy with chamber music and his solo career and performed at the Marlboro Music Festival in summer 2005.
• Nathan Moore (2007) received three prizes at the Audio Engineering Society student awards (second: Stereo Pop/Rock, third: Stereo Jazz and Stereo Classical) for work he recorded or mastered at the Centre, as well as the 2006 Canadian Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) Award.
• Former Jazz Program participants Mike Murley (1983-84, 2003-05),  Jim Vivian (1978-79, 1982-83, 1985-86, 2001), and Stich Wynston’s (1982-84) group, Modern Surfaces, were nominated for the 2006 National Jazz Award Electric Group of the Year. They have a new CD out called Transparent Horizons on TCB Music.
• Quinsin Nachoff’s (1994, 1999, 2000-01)  ensemble Magic Numbers including Jim Black, Mark Helias and Nathalie Bonin (2001, 2004) released their CD, Magic Numbers on the Songlines label. They have been nominated by the National Jazz Awards for best album, best acoustic group and saxophonist of the year. Quinsin Nachoff began teaching at the University of Toronto in 2006.
• Pianist Libor Novacek II (2003) released a critically acclaimed CD for Landor Records, Liszt with music by Jnacek, Martinu, Debussy, and Ravel. He has also won 4th prize in the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition in May 2006.
• Audio alumni Jason O'Connell (2005) starts as the Director of Recording Services at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in summer 2007.
• Antonio Pastor-Otero (2006) was recently admitted to the program of DiplômedeSolisteat the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Switzerland, in the class of Dominique Weber.  He was awarded a scholarship from the Ministerio de Cultura (Spain) to support his studies.  In August 2006, he will serve as Accompanist at the XVI Escuela de Verano para Jóvenes músicos Ciudad de Lucena in Córdoba, Spain. 
• Amandine Pras (France), Peter Rosner (Austria), and Will Howie (Canada), 2007 Banff Centre Audio alumni all won prizes in the International Student Competition in New York at the Audio Engineering Society Convention. Hundreds of applicants competed in seven categories, which narrowed to three finalists in each category.
  
• Angela Park (1997, 1999) was a semi-finalist at the Fifth Honens International Piano Competition this past October 2006.
• Retired program directors, Tom and Isobel Rolston were honoured at the 2007 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award for their lifetime achievement and contribution.
• Saxophonist, Michael Jared Ruby (2007) won the JazzFM Project Jazz, with the grand prize being a $15,000 recording deal with Universal Music Canada.
• Linda Catlin Smith (1998) was winner of the $7,500 Jules Leger Prize for New Chamber Music. She was selected for her piece Garand, written for the Tafelmusick Baroque Orchestra.
• Josh Tidsbury (2005-06) is the recipient of the McGill University, Seymour Schulich’s scholarship and has received a full-time position with CTV, where he is doing high definition surround post-production.
• Trombonist and composer, Alain Trudel (1997, 2004-07), was named the principal conductor of the CBC Radio Orchestra.
• Aleksandr Tsiboulski (2002-2004) was awarded the 2005 Australian-American Fulbright Award for the visual and Performing Arts, and was also the first prize-winner at the 2006 Tokyo International Guitar Competition.
• Dr. Edward Turgeon (1986-89, 1998-99) has recently been appointed Professor of Music and Director of Collaborative Arts at Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Arts, in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also the Artistic Director of the Murray Dranoff Foundation and International Two Piano Competition in Miami.