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Paul Ellison, professor of double bass; Robert Yekovich, dean of the Shepherd School of Music; Cho-Liang Lin, professor of violin; and Michael Webster, professor of clarinet, met with Mark O' Connor (center), who recently performed a Guest Artist Recital and Workshop at the Shepherd School of Music.


Pierre Jalbert, associate professor of composition and theory; and Norman Fischer, professor of cello, along with students of the Shepherd School attended an open discussion led by the Kronos Quartet on April 11, 2008.

SERVICE AWARDS FOR FACULTY AND STAFF

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Commitment to Rice among its employees was apparent at the annual service awards luncheon held last week, at which 352 employees and retirees were honored for their collective 4,794 years of service.

“We owe our success to the continuing dedication of all of you,” Rice President David Leebron said as he thanked the crowd. Among those recognized, almost a quarter had put in more than 20 years at Rice, and the retirees averaged 25 years of service.

Reminded of Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree,” Leebron said he hoped that like the boy in the story, these employees would take great satisfaction in their relationships with their trees. “But you can’t cut it down so you have a stump to sit on,” he cautioned.

One thing the retirees and honorees are certain to take satisfaction in is the memento in recognition of their service, which for the first time they will be able to select themselves, thanks to a new gift program.

Celebrating ten years of service to the Shepherd School of Music was Joyce Farwell, Professor of Voice at the Shepherd School who teaches voice, vocal pedagogy and vocal coaching for collaborative artists.

Faculty and staff celebrating twenty years of service were Robert Atherholt, Andrew Bradley, Richard Brown, Brian Connelly, and C. Dean Shank.

Robert Atherholt is a graduate of The Juilliard School of Music. He is Professor of Oboe at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and has been on the faculty of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestral Seminar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the National Orchestra Institute in College Park Maryland, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and in Texas at the Texas Music Festival, and the American Festival for the Arts.

Richard Brown is Professor of Percussion and plays regularly with the Houston Symphony as well as Principle Percussion of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra.

Brian Connelly is a member of the ensemble Context, performing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pianos, as well as on the modern Steinway. His three-CD recording with Context of music by Robert Schumann and Prince Louis Ferdinand has just been released.

Since 1984 C. Dean Shank has held the position of Artist Teacher of Piano in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he is active in the preparatory division. Other teaching responsibilities include piano pedagogy, the history & development of the piano, and studio piano.

Retiring this year is Anne Schnoebelen, Joseph and Ida Kirkland Mullen Professor Emerita of Musicology. Schnoebelen taught a Baroque survey, and graduate seminars in Monteverdi, Bach, Beethoven, and performance practices. She is general editor of the series: Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music (25 volumes, Garland Publishing). She served as Interim Dean of the Shepherd School of Music from January 2002 through July 2003.
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