2024/25 Academy Guest Artists Booklet

MUSIC

NAME Dr. Alejandro Cremaschi PROFESSION Professor of Piano Pedagogy at The University of Colorado Boulder and Executive Director of Sous International Music Festival EDUCATION Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota SPECIAL NOTES Prize winner at the International Beethoven Sonata Piano Competition VISIT DETAILS September – Taught group piano and piano pedagogy classes, followed by an Interlochen Public Radio piano recording session

Dr. Alejandro Cremaschi

NAME Dr. David Earll PROFESSION Assistant Professor of Tuba-Euphonium at the University of Kansas

EDUCATION Doctorate of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance at Arizona State University under the tutelage of Dr. Deanna Swoboda SPECIAL NOTES 2016 Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research VISIT DETAILS September – Gave a tuba and euphonium brass master class on technique, musicianship, and career development

Dr. David Earll

NAME Dr. Sandra Snow PROFESSION Professor of Choral Conducting, Director of Choral Programs, and Chair of the Conducting Area at Eastern Michigan University EDUCATION Ph.D. in Music Education with a Choral Cognate from Michigan State University VISIT DETAILS Oct. 9-10 – Coached ensemble numbers during the Opera Workshop of Amahl and the Night Visitors and led a discussion with composition students on the current and future direction of choral works NAME Dr. Jennifer Dirkes (IAC 05-06, IAA 06-08) PROFESSION Musical composer EDUCATION Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) SPECIAL NOTES Orchestrator for Wicked (2024), Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), and Geostorm (2017) VISIT DETAILS October – Spoke to composition students about the realities of working as a Hollywood orchestrator and composer

Dr. Sandra Snow

Dr. Jennifer Dirkes Alumni

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