John Glenn Paton, lecturer in voice and diction, is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado where he taught for 18 years. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has sung in operas, oratorios and recitals, and specializes in German lieder and contemporary art songs. Based on his research into authentic sources of Italian arias and correct performance practice, Paton has published extensively and has authored a book on voice training. P - R
Antoinette Perry, raised in a musical family, gave her first public performance at the age of four. She later studied at the University of Texas at Austin, the Hochschule fŸr Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Munich and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She also participated in the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, the Aspen Music School and the New College Music Festival in Sarasota, Florida. Her teachers include John Perry, Carlo Zecchi, Gilbert Kalish, Richard Goode, Lilian Kallir and Danielle Martin. Ms. Perry has since appeared throughout the United States and Europe. Le Dauphine Libere of France lauded her "... irreproachable technique," "a musical comprehension which could only belong to one of the Greats." Germaine Vadi of "Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphine" wrote, "One felt himself to be in the presence of a great pianist-an absolute art of nuance, her subtle touch, and finally her perfect musical understanding, which permits her to assimilate the music of all cultures." Distinguishing herself also as a chamber musician, Ms. Perry has collaborated with such other fine artists as Henri Temanka, Carol Wincenc, Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Peter Rejto, Ralph Kirshkaum, Earl Carlys, Froydis Ree Wekre, David Shifrin, Nathaniel Rosen, Jeffrey Solow, David Shostac, Kees Hulsmann, Lawrence Dutton and her husband John Perry. She performs regularly as an artist at the Aspen Music Festival, where she also teaches during the summer, as well as on numerous series in the Los Angeles area. She has appeared on the series "California Chamber Virtuosi," "Music for Misha," and festivals in Ojai, Santa Barbara and Austin, Texas. She has been heard often on National Public Radio, the Bravo Network and Continental Airlines in-flight programming. Professor Perry is a member of the piano faculty of the R. D. Colburn School for the Performing Arts, artist piano faculty at the Aspen Music Festival, adjunct faculty teaching piano majors at California State University, Long Beach and has recently joined the piano faculty at USC.
John Perry, professor of keyboard studies and distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music. He was a student of Cecile Genhart, and during those summers worked with Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he worked with Wladyslav Kendra in Vienna and Carlo Zecchi in Rome. Mr. Perry has won numerous prizes in international competitions. He has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America. As a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry has collaborated with some of the world's finest instrumentalists. He enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world. His students have been first-prize winners in major competitions including the Rubinstein, Music Teachers' National Association, Naumburg, Chopin National competition, Beethoven Foundation competition, Federated Music Clubs, the Young Keyboard Artists Association, American Music Society Competition, and Young Musicians Foundation; and finalists in the Chopin International, Van Cliburn, and Queen Elizabeth competitions. Mr. Perry is a member of the faculty of the Colburn School for Performing Arts, a frequent guest faculty member at the Banff Centre, artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Festival and the Holland Music Sessions. He records on the Telefunken, Musical Heritage Society, CBC, Fox, ACA and Academy Records labels.
David Pfeiffer, resident stage director of the USC Opera, was on the directing staff at New York City Opera for 10 years. He directed, among others, Pearl Fisher's Mikado and Carmen, and worked on over 50 productions. Mr. Pfeiffer has directed for many U.S. and Canadian opera companies, including the Opera Company of Philadelphia, L'Opera Montreal, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Pacific, Carolina Opera, Grand Rapids Opera and Memphis Opera. He has taught opera and musical theatre workshops and classes at many schools, including Oakland University, Carnegie Mellon, Butler University and at Young Artists programs in Pittsburgh, Utah, Indianapolis, Opera Pacific and L'Opera de Montreal. Mr. Pfeiffer was the recipient of a National Opera Institute Grant to apprentice to Rhoda Levine, which allowed him to work and observe at Netherlands Opera, and the Holland, Santa Fe and Lake George festivals. He has a bachelor of music degree from Oakland University and he received a Hillberry Fellowship toward master of fine arts work in theatre direction at Wayne State University.
Daniel Pollack, professor of keyboard studies, was a winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. He has performed as a recitalist and soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States, Soviet Union, and on annual tours of Europe, South America and the Far East. He was the first American pianist to be invited to perform in the People's Republic of China. Mr. Pollack has recorded for major labels and for motion pictures. He is a frequent international adjudicator, including the 1986 and 1990 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He participated in the USC Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, received the USC Ramo Music Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1986, the University's Associates Award in 1987 and an honorary doctoral degree from Newberry College, South Carolina.
Roy Poper, adjunct assistant professor of trumpet, maintains an exciting and distinguished career in all facets of trumpet performance. He performs as principal trumpet with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Joffrey, Bolshoi and American Ballet Theatre orchestras. As a founding member of the Modern Brass Quintet he toured extensively in North America and, with that group, recorded on the Orion label. As a studio musician he has performed on the scores for over 500 major motion pictures. A respected teacher in Los Angeles for over 20 years, Mr. Poper has conducted international master classes in Belgium, the Netherlands and most recently as artist in residence at the Yong Pyeong Music Festival in Korea. His principal teachers include Pierre Thibaud of the Paris Opera and James Stamp, with whom he studied at USC.
Frank Potenza is an assistant professor in the studio guitar department and a protŽgŽ of the late Joe Pass. An active recording artist, composer and performer with four solo albums to his credit, Mr. Potenza also has extensive freelance recording experience. He has performed in concert with Joe Pass, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Watrous, Ernie Watts, Ronnie Laws, Wilton Felder, Joe Sample, Red Callender, Buddy Collette, Bobby Lyle, Harold Land, Jimmy Smith, Bud Shank, Bill Mays, Gerald Wiggins, Gene Harris and others. He was formerly the director of guitar studies and performance ensembles at Long Beach City College. As an active member of the International Association of Jazz Educators, he was a featured performer at their 1993 and 1995 annual conferences.
David Raksin is the composer of more than 450 film and television scores and of numerous works for musical theatre, dance, chamber groups and voice. His compositions have been performed and recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and others. He served as commentator on The Subject is Film Music for National Public Radio. President of the Composers and Lyricists Guild, he received the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Commission, Library of Congress, in 1982. He is the only composer whose works are included in the Library of Congress book, Wonderful Inventions. Professor Raksin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and was a student of Arnold Schoenberg.
Louise Reichlin, director and choreographer, began her professional career in New York performing in concert and on Broadway, and continued her performance and choreograph work throughout North America. In 1972 she began to work extensively from her home base in Los Angeles and founded the Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers and the Louise Reichlin & Dancers Company in 1979. Her choreography has been seen in the U.S. at the American Dance Festival, Dance Kaleidoscope, in 16 mainstage productions for USC Drama and Opera, and recently in the Los Angeles production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare Festival. In addition, Ms. Reichlin's dance company has performed in more than a 1,000 engagements throughout Southern California. Professor Reichlin is the corecipient of a faculty research and innovation fund grant from USC for a choreography and performance project. She has served as a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, Loyola Marymount University and USC, in addition to teaching special workshops and creating projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District, Pasadena Citywide Arts and at many other schools and colleges. Ms. Reichlin's dance company is also the recipient of several grants from the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Partnership Program and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission. She is a biographee in Who's Who in the West and Who's Who in Entertainment, a board member of the Hollywood Arts Council and a member of the Los Angeles Dance Foundation, the Dance Resource Center, California Dance Educators, AEA, AGMA, SAG, Western Alliance of Arts Administrators and of the Los Angeles Macintosh Group. Ms. Reichlin has served on a number of panels for Los Angeles City and County. Her degrees include a bachelor of arts from Bennington College and a master of fine arts from the University of California, Irvine.
Cherry Rhodes
, adjunct professor of organ, is the first American to win an international organ competition (Munich, 1996). She has played recitals at Notre Dame in Paris and at international organ festivals in Bratislava and Presov, Freiburg, Munich, NŸrnberg, Paris, St. Albans, Luxembourg and Vienna. Ms. Rhodes made her musical debut at age 17 when she appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra and subsequently with the South German Radio Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the French National Radio, the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Phoenix Symphony. Ms. Rhodes is a frequent performer at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, including four recitals at the 1996 Centennial Convention held in New York City. As an international performer, she has appeared at recitals at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas and the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee. Ms. Rhodes is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied under Alexander McCurdy. The recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller grants, Ms. Rhodes studied in Munich and Paris with Karl Richter, Marie-Claire Alain and Jean Guillou. Many of her students have won awards, grants and top prizes in competitions both in the U.S. and in Europe.Cellist Daniel Rothmuller joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1970 and was named associate principal in 1975. He has performed under such notable conductors as Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Andre Previn and composer Witold Lutoslawski. Under the latter's baton he gave the first West Coast performance of the renowned Polish composer's Cello Concerto. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Rothmuller has performed with various ensembles in Europe and America and is a member of the chamber ensembles An die Musik, the Jordan Piano Trio, the New Wave Chamber Players and the Ima concert series. Mr. Rothmuller was educated at Indiana University where he was a student of Fritz Magg. He also studied with Janos Starker and participated in the USC Piatigorsky Master Class. Mr. Rothmuller currently teaches orchestral repertoire at USC.
For more than 20 years, James Rötter has enjoyed a multifaceted international career, including performances as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral saxophonist throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Mexico and South America. As the principal on-call saxophonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, he has concertized, toured and recorded with many of the world's leading conductors. He is also a frequent performer with the Pacific, Pasadena, Long Beach, Glendale and Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestras. In addition, he has performed as a guest artist with the Rotterdam, St. Petersburg and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Opera Orchestra of Lyon, on their American tours, the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on one domestic and three international tours. Mr. Rštter is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, with which he toured as the alto saxophonist from 1978 to 1990. Mr. Rštter has performed on many of the world's most prestigious concert series and music festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, the Promenade Concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall, the International Music Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, New York's 92nd St. "Y," the Ojai Festival, the San Antonio Festival of the Arts, and literally hundreds of community and university concert series throughout the nation.
