Executive Director and Dean • Department Coordinators Strings • Woodwinds • Brass • Percussion • Guitar Piano • Organ • Voice • Staff Accompanists • Chamber Music Composition • Conducting • Eurhythmics • Musicianship Music Technology Lab • Jazz Studies Program The Preschool Center Musicianship RUTH ALPERSON, Ph.D. - Dean, Eurhythmics, Musicianship, Junior Chorus B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., N.Y.U.; Dalcroze Eurhythmics Licentiate, London; Dalcroze Diploma, Geneva. Director, Dalcroze Program at Diller-Quaile; Faculty, NYU. Workshops in universities worldwide. Board of Directors: Bennington Chamber Music Conference. RICHARD CARRICK - Composition, Music Technology Lab, Musicianship B.A. Music/Mathematics Columbia University, Studied Mario Davidovsky, David Rakowski. M.A. and Ph.D. University of California-San Diego, Studied Brian Ferneyhough, Aleck Karis (piano). Director and Pianist Either/Or Music Ensemble, NYC. Composition performance highlights include the Konzerthaus Vienna, Paradiso Amsterdam, Merkin Theatre New York, LACMA Los Angeles, Darmstadt Summer Festival. Residences and performances at IRCAM, Banff Centre for the Arts, Royaumont and Fontainbleau, Wellesley Composers Conference, Lange Nacht fur Neuw Klang Austria, MATA. Teaching Artist for NY Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. Former Lecturer in Music Theory and Musicianship at UC-San Diego. ELIZABETH FLEISCHER - Sight-singing, Musicianship B.A., M.A., Columbia University. Studied: New England Conservatory, Aspen Choral Institute, Dalcroze School. Guest teaching at workshops and residencies: Amherst Early Music Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, Bank St. College of Education, N.Y.C. Board of Education, the Dalcroze Society, Columbia Festival Orchestra, WNCN, Jazz Studies Program of Manhattan College of Music. Her sight-singing program has been featured in New York Magazine's "Best Teachers in New York," Town and Country. Choral Singer, Sing Magazines, PBS's City Arts. Former faculty: Barnard College. Faculty: Lucy Moses School. YUKIKO KONISHI - Piano, Musicianship, Eurhythmics B.A., Osaka College of Music (Japan); Certificate, Dalcroze School of Music, NY. Studied: Kanazawa, Dorensky, Mikowsky, Abramson, Alperson, Farber, Schuster. Soloist: Kansai Philharmonic. Soloist: Arukadia Chamber. Recording: EMI. Winner: Young Artists Piano Competition, Hanshin, Japan. Faculty: Thurnauer School of Music. WILMA MACHOVER - Director of Artistic Programs, Pedagogy Seminars, Music Resource Center, Piano Graduate, Juilliard. Pianist, teacher, author, lecturer. Consultant on 21st century music curriculum. Author: Sound Choices: Guiding Your Child's Musical Experiences, Oxford University Press. EDMUND NIEMANN - Piano, Musicianship, Coordinator,Performers Showcase and Music of Our Time Festival, Director, Community Outreach B.M., M.M., Manhattan School of Music. Studied: Goldsand, Balsam, Canteros, Degaetani, Fuchs, Katz. Co-founder: Double Edge. Tours: U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Member: Steve Reich and Musicians (1998 Grammy winner). Former Member: Parnassus, Contemporary Ensemble. Faculty: Princeton, Pace, Sarah Lawrence. Recordings: Nonesuch, Koch, CRI, New World, New Albion. top of page