Randolph Foy |
Tonu Kalam |
Dana Protopopescu |
Randall Love |
Mayron Tsong
Dr. Randolph Foy
Dr. Randolph Foy is the Director of Orchestral Activities at NC State University, and holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Iowa (organ) and a doctorate (conducting) from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His teachers have included David Boe and Fenner Douglass (organ) and Frederick Prausnitz (conducting), and John Spitzer (musicology).
He has conducted in the Baltimore/Washington area, and has taught at the University of Richmond, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (founding faculty), and North Carolina School of the Arts. He also conducts and teaches at the Governor's School of NC in Winston-Salem, a summer program for gifted high school students. He has been called "an inspired and inspiring director" and "a totally committed musician whose mission is to spark in his audience the same level of enthusiasm that he clearly feels."
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Tonu Kalam
Tonu Kalam was trained as a conductor, pianist and composer at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Curtis Institute of Music. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen, as well as many years at the Marlboro Music Festival.
A prizewinner in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor’s Competition, he has appeared as guest conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, and in Europe with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Finland’s Oulu Symphony Orchestra.
Maestro Kalam has conducted over 130 opera performances, for companies including the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival and the Nevada Opera Company. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and has held visiting appointments at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. For thirteen years he was an administrator and artist-faculty member at the renowned Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine.
Presently he is a Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Kalam is also in his seventeenth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra, and in 1999 he founded the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra, a 12-member professional string ensemble. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician. Maestro Kalam is also President-Elect of the international Conductors Guild.
Randall Love
Randall Love has degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the New
England Conservatory of Music, and Sweelinck Conservatory of Music
(Amsterdam). He has studied piano with, among others, Edith
Lateiner-Grosz, Patricia Zander, Benjamin Zander, and Sanford Mogolis, and
has also studied with Robert DiDomenica (composition), Lisa Crawford
(harpsichord), and Denes Koromsay (chamber music). He has
studied fortepiano with Jos van Immerseel, Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm
Bilson, and at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.
He is particularly interested in historical performance practice on original instruments (fortepiano) and twentieth century piano music,
and maintains an active performance schedule.
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Dana Protopopescu
Dana Protopopescu began her musical studies in Bucharest at a very young age, finishing at the Brussels Conservatory and the Hochschule fur Musik in Hannover under the guidance of Eduardo del Pueyo and Karl Engel. She performed her first concerto with orchestra at the age of 14. Since then, she has played under the baton of leading conductors including A.Rahbari, I.Markevitch, A.Ostrowsky, and L.Langrée. She has also taken part in many festivals and has been guest of the “Great Soloists” series.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Protopopescu has captivated audiences in London, Seoul, Moscow, Paris, Barcelona, and Montreal, and has recorded various CDs, including the complete piano works of Mendelssohn. Her recordings of the Hummel and Weber concertos won her the highest acclaim in press reviews by CD Classics London, Penguin Guide USA, and Diapason France. Among other awards, she has received the Music Critic Award in Bucharest.
An avid chamber music player, she recorded the ten sonatas for piano and violin of Beethoven, holds the title of official pianist in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition, and has been a member of the Ensemble Contrasts for more than twenty years.
Mayron Tsong
A native of Canada, Dr. Mayron Tsong was one of the youngest musicians to complete a Performer’s Diploma in Piano from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto at age 16. Since that time, she has performed all around the world including across Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, and Russia as a soloist and chamber musician.
She has been featured as a soloist with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (Russia), Symphony North (Houston), the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (Canada), the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra (Canada), and the University of Calgary Orchestra (Canada). Numerous prizes have included First Prize in the Canadian Music Competitions, the Millennium Prize for Russian Performing Arts, and the prestigious Arts B Grant, awarded by the Canada Council. In 1993, Ms. Tsong was Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre, where she was invited to give master classes in 2001.
Dr. Tsong holds graduate degrees in both Piano Performance and Music Theory; and she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts under the tutelage of John Perry at Rice University. Ms. Tsong has also studied with such renowned musicians as Gyorgy Sebok, Robert Levin, Marke Jablonski, Anton Kuerti, Marilyn Engle, Dr. Robin Wood, and Charles Foreman.
Having served of faculty at California State University in Humboldt, as Chair of the Piano Area at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada, Ms. Tsong is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
