KMI's
Internationally-Renowned Faculty includes the following:
Valerie
Becker, Charlyn Bethell, Margaret Callaghan, Karrie Chan-Lam, Susan
Cleveland, Joanne Crowell, Mary Epstein, David Hodgkins, Martha
Holmes, Brian Michaud, Tom Morris, Susie Petrov, Elaine Quilichini,
Jonathan Rappaport, David Richardson, Wendy Silverberg, Gabór
Virágh, Katalin Virágh, Pamela Wood. Guest Artist:Gilbert
De Greeve, President International Kodály Society
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David
Hodgkins: Choir Director and Level
III Conducting
Instructor
Recently featured in Choral Director Magazine (Jan. 2006), conductor
David Hodgkins has delighted audiences in the greater Boston area
for over 15 years with "creative programs, sung with enthusiasm
and tonal beauty"(Ed Tapper, Bay Windows). Mr. Hodgkins is the
Artistic Director of Coro Allegro in Boston which Boston Globe critic
Michael Manning deemed "one of Boston's most accomplished
choruses", The New England Classical Singers in Andover, and
is Director of Music at the Commonwealth School in Boston.
His ensembles have been featured at ACDA and GALA Music
Festivals, and collaborated with the Boston Cecilia, Handel and
Haydn Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the Landmarks Orchestra.
Mr. Hodgkins has also made numerous guest appearances as music festival
conductor and conducting clinician, and currently serves on the Advisory
Board of The Boston City Singers, Jane Money, Artistic
Director. A champion of contemporary music, Mr. Hodgkins has conducted
world premiere performances of works by Patricia Van Ness, Daniel
Pinkham, Charles Fussell, Alan Fletcher, Kenneth Fuchs, Richard
St. Clair, Aaron Rosenthal, and Ruth Lomon, and Boston premieres of
works by Marianne Martinez, Rebecca Clarke, Arvo Part, and William
Grant Still. He has released two critically acclaimed compact
discs entitled "In the Clearing" and "somewhere
i have never traveled" with Coro Allegro. Mr. Hodgkins received
a BMus in voice, piano and harpsichord from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and earned his Master of Music in
choral conducting from Temple University in Philadelphia. Mr.
Hodgkins also was a conducting Fellow at both the Aspen and Sandpoint
Music Festivals. His conducting mentors include Alan Harler, Wayne
Abercrombie, Fiora Contino, Paul Vermel, James Roth, and Gunther
Schuller. Mr. Hodgkins has been on the faculties of the New
England Conservatory, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Temple
University and Clark University.
Pamela
Wood: Solfège
and African-American Music Instructor
Ms. Wood has appeared
as soprano soloist with the Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco,
London and Israel Philharmonics, and American Composers Orchestras
under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, Dennis Russell Davies,
Jacob Druckman, John Adams, and Zubin Mehta. She has concertized throughout
Europe, Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Recognized for her work
with twentieth-century composers, she has premiered and recorded with
Steve Reich & Musicians on the Angel, ECM, Nonesuch, and Revels
labels; has been acclaimed for her performances of monodramatic operas
including Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night and Nancy
Van de Vate's A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum; and is in demand
as a workshop clinician in the areas of voice, solfège, and
folk song research. She studied with Eunice Alberts, Olga Averino,
R. Louise Burge, Sylvia Olden Lee, David Blair McClosky, Donna Roll,
Rawn Spearman, and Paul Ulanowsky; and earned the B. Mus. Ed. at Howard
University, M.M. in Vocal Performance at University of Massachusetts,
and Advanced Certificates at the Kodály Musical Training Institute
and the Kodály Center of America. Ms. Wood serves as a member
of the Boards of the Kodály Center of America and the Boston
Children's Chorus, on the faculties of the Kodály Music Institute
and Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at the
New England Conservatory, and as Senior Lecturer in Music at MIT.
Her achievements are cited in several Marquis' Who's Who publications.
Please
note: The Kodály Music Institute at New England Conservatory
reserves the right to substitute instructors.