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2011 News and Notes
Happy 2011 to all! We hope this will be another fabulous year for each of you in every way. Please send some news and come by and visit us at camp if you can—our 62nd season!
Best wishes for a great year, great music and peace,
Jamie & Ellen
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Adam Luker (staff 2000s) married Emily Robida in a small ceremony in Castries, St. Lucia on January 7, 2011. CONGRATULATIONS to Adam and Emily on their big day in such a beautiful place! See all the wedding photos. |
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Jamie and Ellen have greatly enjoyed attending recent performances by 2000s staff alumni Dan Stackhouse and Karen Oliver. On February 4, Dan performed in the pit orchestra for the Boston Conservatory's excellent production of Humperdinck's classic Hansel & Gretel, given in the brand new, beautiful BC theater. And on February 12, Karen played in a marvelous recital by the U.S Army Training and Doctrine Command Band Brass Quintet at Gordon College. Dan and Karen both did outstanding jobs and it was such a pleasure to see and hear them. Bravo! |
Dan Stackhouse
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 Ellen with Karen Oliver |
 U.S Army Training and Doctrine Command Band Brass Quintet |
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Semesters Abroad: Hannah Saltman (camper 1990s & 2000s) is on a semester abroad in Costa Rica, attending an intensive environmental studies program run by the BU School for Field Studies. Jared LaCasce (camper & staff 1990s & 2000s) is continuing his jazz studies in Italy, at a satellite campus of NYU, where Cara Bergantino (camper & staff 2000s) spent her spring semester last year. And Alex Gallitano (staff 2000s) has recently returned from the fall semester in Prague, where he continued his film studies at an NYU satellite facility. |
Jo Horsley (camper & staff 1990s) is now living in LA and is working as a studio and movie composer. Jo's recent projects have included the movie Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman & Aaron Eckhart, the National Geographic series Great Migrations, and a short film presented at the Sundance Film Festival called Babyland, directed by Marc Fratello. Jo and his wife Lisa are also the proud parents of their son Desmond, one year old, so Jo has to balance parenting and composing, quite an excellent arrangement! You can follow all of Jo's activities on his website. |
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Jamie had a happy reunion with 2010 campers Lucy Swanson, Lucy Duda, Amanda Lin and Carson King during February school vacation at the Boston Muesum of Science. The kids were spending the day there in the exhibit halls and Jamie came in to work with Lucy's mom, Jane Duda on the new E/C website. |
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Betsey Hinkle (staff 2000s) is an active violin freelancer in Boston and a key member of MusiConnects, the new home of her string group, the Boston Public Quartet. The BPQ's mission is achieving social change through chamber music, connecting kids, families, and community. You can follow all of Betsey's activities with the BPQ at MusiConnects' website. |
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Carol Ravich (camper 1950s) writes in to share her memories of Camp Encore in Marblehead: "...I recently googled my name and was very surprised to find it being mentioned under a bio of Ruth Carsch, a camper in 1956 at Camp Encore in Marblehead. I remember her well, and also the wonderful summers I had at Phil and Ruth Saltman’s camp... I still have photos from my 1956 performance of The King and I and such great memories hearing Ruth sing... in the performance held in Marblehead. In 1957, I performed in Camp Encore’s production of Brigadoon, which was held at the North Shore Circular Theatre. Our training was of the highest level of professionalism and the campers were very disciplined and talented... My music teacher at Camp Encore was Jacob Druckman, and his wonderful wife Murial Topaz (Juillard faculty) gave me private ballet classes during our lunch break…" Carol went on to become the principal ballerina of the Boston Ballet Company. |
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Jerry Hurley (camper 1950s, staff 1960s) has retired from teaching and lives in Concord with his wife Gertrude. Jerry has gone back to taking piano lessons and has regular gigs at Concord Park Assisted living and the Concord Council on Aging. |
Sophie Donohue (camper 2000s) has won a Silver Key award in the 2010/2011 Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing competition, for a photograph she took as part of a photo class at Framingham High School. Sophie took the picture of her subject with no makeup whatsoever, and then 'applied the makeup' digitally! You can see the photo here. Bravo Sophie! |
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Sarah Plovnick and Lia Gallitano (campers, staff 2000s) received Brookline Hub Youth Awards on February 28, Sarah for her social justice literacy work and LIa for her work with the Brookline Food Pantry. Congratulations Sarah and Lia and keep up this great community work! |
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The Fryeburg Academy combo, big band and vocal jazz ensemble won yet again at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival, held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on March 5. These outstanding ensembles, under the direction of Brent LaCasce (camper 1970s, staff 1990s–2000s) have consistently won performance awards at the Berklee festival, as well as at numerous other festivals in Maine and New Hampshire. Among the performers pictured at right are: John Dana, Naomi Ela, Allie Gagnon, Devin LaCasce and Kelsey Sheehan (campers and staff 2000s). |
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Dr. Wayne Goins (staff 1980s, 1990s) has just released his sixth album of jazz guitar music on his own label, Little Apple Records, entitled Chronicles of Carmela. Wayne is Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas ("the Little Apple"). In addition to teaching classes and leading ensembles at KSU, Wayne has written four books about jazz, adjudicates festivals throughout the midwest, and pursues an active performing and recording schedule. Wayne's recordings are available at CDBaby and on iTunes. Check 'em out! |
| Kelly Dehnert (staff 1980s) has received the largest Alumni Ventures grant this year from the Yale School of Music, to support a university-level band program he is directing in Malawi, where he and spouse Connie Dehnert (staff 1980s) are currently in their fifth year as missionaries within the African Bible College network. Read all about it on their web page. |
Adil Jain (staff 1990s) writes that he has fond memories of Encore/Coda from his summer of 1998 and is still in touch with many of his fellow counselors of that summer. Adil works in Mumbai, India as a photographer and movie director, and you can see everything he's doing on his website. |
| Bryan Louie (camper 2000s) has been selected as a member of the Monterey County Jazz All Star Band, which will be playing in the Next Generation Jazz Festival in April and the Monterey Jazz Festival in September, in addition to a traveling schedule of several cities around the Midwest this summer. Bryan also continues to play as a member of the Monterey Youth Honors Orchestra on trumpet, and the Honors Chamber Music Ensemble on piano. | John Louie (camper 2000s) has been accepted Early Decision to Middlebury College for Fall 2011, and will also be a member of the Varisty Golf team there. John also continues to play piano for the Stevenson School Jazz Band in his senior year. He plans to major in Economics and International Relations and hopes to have a career as a diplomat. |
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| Jamie was reunited with Martin Bejerano and Stuart Papp (campers 1980s, 1990s) on March 18 at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, where Martin was performing with the Roy Haynes quartet (yes— THE Roy Haynes!). It was a fantastic concert, with outstanding performances given by all the performers. Stuart has returned to Boston to work in the investment business with his father, and Martin teaches in the jazz department ofthe Frost School of Music at the University of Miami when he's not touring. You can catch up with all of Martin's activities on his website. | ||
 Stephanie Palocz, Sarah Plovnick and members of Genghis Barbie |
 Sarah Plovnick, Stephanie Palocz
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| Stephanie Palocz and Sarah Plovnick (campers & staff 2000s) attended the Northeast Horn Workshop at the University of New Hampshire on March 15–17, along with Ellen. This workshop was attended by horn players of all stripes from across New England and featured clinics by world famous hornists Kendall Betts, Bernard Scully, Lowell Greer & Herman Baumann, as well as a special appearance by the fabulous all-girl horn quartet Genghis Barbie. | ||
| Encore/Coda folks were seen in late March at The Mass Music teachers All-State Conference at the World Trade Center on the Boston waterfront, where Jamie was on hand to exhibit camp brochures. |
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 Don Dregalla (staff 1990s, 2000s) |
 Steve Peeler (staff 1990s) |
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 Steve with Joe Oneschuk (staff 1990s) |
 Stephanie Palocz and Grace Quinn (campers, staff, 2000s) |
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| Daphne Uviller (camper 1980s) has just published her 2nd book, Hotel No Tell, an urban caper featuring Zephyr Zuckerman, the hapless heroine from her first book, Super in the City. Zephyr is now a detective with (a fictional version of) NYC's Department of Investigation and is undercover as a concierge at a Greenwich Village hotel. The Wall Street Journal called Super "witty and piquant." The San Jose Mercury News wrote, “For sheer fun, Super can’t be beat. The story is part mystery, part screwball comedy, part sexcapade... and all entertaining.” You can see more and buy it at Amazon.com. |
Dan Freeman (camper 1990s) in the process of completing a Master's at Dubspot in NYC, a cutting edge DJ/Electronic production school, and teaching there as well. His specialty is Ableton Live 8 and he'll be going to Minneapolis in June to become an Ableton Certified Trainer, which gives him the company stamp to teach Ableton worldwide at any Institute that teaches the software and makes anywhere he teaches an official Ableton training center. Dan and his musical partner Ken have also completed an electronic music production studio in Brooklyn and are also working as a rhythm section with several NYC electro artists. They have a series of live shows scheduled in June, both abroad and in the US. Check it all out on their website. |
| Laura Jekel (Camper, Staff, 1990s, 2000s) writes, "Hello from Price Hill in Cincinnati! After an amazing year as an Abreu Fellow in Boston, Baltimore, New York, L.A. and Venezuela, I'm finally putting what I learned into practice. I arrived in Cincinnati in June and have been working on founding MYCincinnati, a youth music program that will be modeled after Venezuela's national youth orchestra program, El Sistema. MYCincinnati will be under the auspices of Price Hill Will, a community-based organization. The program itself will take place in a former dormitory building that is attached to a church in Lower Price Hill. The space is being provided rent free by BLOC. Recently, a group of 25 high-schoolers from Indianapolis came in to paint the building. You can learn more about Laura's work and travels on her blog. |  |
| Jo Horsley (Camper, Staff, 1990s, 2000s) recently composed music for a film called "My Kingdom (Da Wu Sheng)", a Chinese martial arts/action/ drama/romance that takes place in 1920s Shanghai, and is based on the lives of traditional "Opera Warriors." Jo wrote and recorded about 80 minutes of music with a 30-piece orchestra and a big band, and performed many of the piano parts himself. He writes, "Working on this project was a blast!" The film premiered September 9 in the U.S., and screened nationally on a limited basis. You can watch a trailer from the movie on YouTube. |
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Jon Regen (Camper 1980s) writes: Dear Friends and Fans, I'm pleased to announce that my new album REVOLUTION is now available at: cdbaby, itunes, and amazon.com. Many thanks to the masterful cast of musicians, engineers and producers who lent their sounds and souls to the music. Join us as the celebration continues LIVE, with upcoming tour dates in Cleveland, Boston and New London, CT. See you soon at a stop along the road!—JR For upcoming tour dates, visit Jon's website. |
| Ed Marcus' (staff 1980s, 1990s, 2000s) Suite for Chamber Orchestra enjoyed acclaim for its world premiere performance by the Chroma Chamber Orchestra, in their inaugural concert. You can read a review of the orchestra here. Scroll down to the middle of the page to read about Ed's piece. Ed wrote us, “It was really nice for me to get a sense that I can “play in that league” as a composer. We made lots of potentially valuable contacts, and in fact Penny and I are planning to move to Chicago (or actually a nearby suburb like Evanston, where our horn-playing friend Lisa Taylor lives, or Skokie) this summer to see if the 10-fold greater musical activity versus St. Paul might provide more opportunities.” |
| Stacey Holliday (staff 2000s) has begun a new piano studio in Panama City, FL. Read all about it at www.pianolessonsinpanamacity.com |
| Bill Barclay (staff 2000s) is a theater professor at Brandies University in Waltham, MA, and has just directed a wonderful production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, featuring two sets of twins in the cast (wow!), and all original music composed by Bill. You can read all about it on the Brandeis Theater Department website. Bravo, Maestro! |  |
| Hannah Saltman (camper, staff 1990s, 2000s) performed in a recital with other Leonard Bernstein Scholars on December 11 at Brandeis. The program included several chamber music works as well as music for viola and piano. |  |
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2000s campers Nicholas Gallitano, Catherine Ashur, and Matt Gagnon were brought together at Jordan Hall on Tuesday, December 20, for a beautiful concert of two of NECs eight youth orchestras. Nicholas and Catherine played viola in the Youth Repertory Orchestra, while Matt was in the audience to support his sister, also in the YRO. Kaylee Lino (camper, staff 2000s) also performed on the program, but we couldn't find her for the picture. Jamie attended and sat with Catherine's family, all camp alumni across a period of about 40 years!: George, Mary Lou, Elizabeth, and Amy (Meg is away in China). Also in attendance were Nicholas' family, including alumni Lia and Alex Gallitano (camper, staff 2000s). |
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