UC's College-Conservatory of Music Welcomes New Faculty and Staff with 2008-09 Academic Year

With the onset of the 2008-09 academic year, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music proudly welcomes ten new faculty members and two new members to its staff.
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FACULTY

Deirdre Carberry
Assistant Professor of Dance

Education: Training at the American Ballet Theatre School, the Miami Conservatory, and with David Howard and Elena Tchernichova; additional training at School of American Ballet and Harkness House Ballet

Deirdre Carberry was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) at age 14 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and continued to dance with the company for 12 years. She won a silver medal at the First U.S. International Ballet Competition, and was then invited to perform at the Spoleto Festival USA alongside Alicia Alonso, Sir Anthony Dowell and Merrill Ashley. Twyla Tharp cast Carberry as the leading ballerina in the new work Tharp choreographed, The Little Ballet, for which Carberry partnered with Baryshnikov. Other important engagements include: her debut as Kitri in Baryshnikov's Don Quixote; dancing opposite Fernando Bujones as the Sugar Plum Fairy at SUNY Purchase; and partnering with Baryshnikov to perform Balanchine's Who Cares? at the AIDS Benefit Gala at Paris' Moulin Rouge. Carberry toured to Central and South America with Ballet Spectacular, throughout the USA with Baryshnikov & Company, to Israel with Elena Tchernichova's American Classical Ballet, and throughout Europe with Alexander Godunov & Stars of the American Ballet. She has appeared on PBS' "Great Performances" series in "Baryshnikov Dances Balanchine" and "Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra & More" with American Ballet Theatre, and she was featured in television and video programs "ABT at the Met" and "ABT in San Francisco."
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Robin Guarino
Associate Professor of Opera; J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera

Education: BA and MFA, Bard College; additional studies at The British Institute and Goethe Institute; study with Jean Pierre-Ponnelle at the Munich State Opera and The Metropolitan Opera

Robin Guarino joins CCM after most recently serving on the faculty of The Juilliard School. Additional teaching and directing engagements have included the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, New York University and UCLA. She worked as a stage director with The Metropolitan Opera, where she directed and restaged productions of Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro and Lohengrin. Additional directing engagements have included Glimmerglass Opera, Seattle Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Virginia Opera, Chautauqua Opera and the American Symphony Orchestra in performances at Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Recent directing engagements include The Marriage of Figaro and L'etoile for the Wolf Trap Opera Festival, La Calisto, Iphigenie en Aulide and The Magic Flute for Juilliard Opera Theatre, Il Signor Bruschino for Gotham Chamber Opera, and Giulio Cesare in Egitto for Seattle Opera. Guarino directed Six Ten-Minute Operas I & II for the Eos Orchestra (New York City), which included the world premieres of chamber operas by Jake Heggie (Again) and Mark Adamo (Avow), the world premiere of David del Tredici's monodrama, Dracula (also with Eos), and the American premiere of Heinrich Sutermeister's Die Schwarze Spinne for Gotham Chamber Opera. Also a filmmaker, she produced and directed four independent films including Crossing the Atlantic, which was shown on PBS' "Independent Focus."
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Jean P. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Arts Administration

Education: BM, University of Michigan; MM, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Diploma, National Centre for Orchestral Studies, University of London; additional studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and American University

Jean Hamilton comes to CCM after most recently serving on the faculty of the Shenandoah University Conservatory in Virginia. Previous professional appointments include manager and artistic administrator with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, orchestra manager with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, general manager with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, general manager with the National Symphony Orchestra, and executive director of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. A former orchestra management fellow with the American Symphony Orchestra League, Hamilton also performed as hornist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
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Dianne Kronour
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education

Education: BA, Meredith College; MM (Voice) & MM (Music Education), University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Dianne Kronour joins CCM after most recently teaching music at Lebanon City Schools. Additional past teaching engagements include the College of Mount St. Joseph, CCM and Winston Salem/Forsyth County Public Schools. She served as director of music ministry and director of adult choirs at Lebanon United Methodist Church, and she also served as organizer of the Greater Cincinnati Choral Festival, including over 200 select singers from 28 area high schools. Trained in Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze and Pathwise, Kronour was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda in 1976. She is an active member and treasurer of the Greater Cincinnati chapter of American Orff-Schulwerk Association and has been a member of the Music Educators National Conference, the National Association for Teachers of Singing and the American Choral Directors Association. Kronour has performed professionally in opera, music theater, oratorio and recitals.
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Marie-France Lefebvre
Assistant Professor of Opera/Voice Coaching

Education: BA, Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Hull; MA, Manhattan School of Music; DMA, University of Michigan

Marie-France Lefebvre studied piano with Monique Collet-Samyn, Dale Bartlett, Donal Nold, Artur Balsam, Joseph Seiger, Martin Katz, Arthur Greene, Anton Nel and Jeffrey Gilliam. She most recently served on the faculty of the Michigan State University School of Music and, previously, at the University of Maryland-College Park. As a diction coach, Lefebvre has worked with CCM and the Curtis Institute of Music, and she has served as diction coach/assistant conductor with The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Santa Fe Opera, Natchez Opera, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Michigan Opera Theatre. She was the program and music director for the 20th Century Opera and Song Interpretation Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts and a prompter with The Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera, where she worked with such celebrated opera artists as Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Veronica Villaroel. Lefebvre has served as a collaborative pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Washington International Voice Competition, CBC Radio recitals, and performances with major artists including Samuel Ramey, Bruce Ford, Denyce Graves, Harolyn Blackwell and more.
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Samuel Ng
Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Education: BM, MA and PhD, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Samuel Ng has taught music theory at Louisiana State University, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Community Music School and Hochstein School of Music. He also taught at St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong. Ng has received numerous awards and honors, including the Louisiana State University School of Music Teacher Appreciation Award, the Alfred Mann Dissertation Award at University of Rochester, and the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award with the Music Theory Society of New York State. He also has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Society of New York State, Music Theory Southeast, the Society of Music Perception and Cognition and the Society for Music Theory.
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Matthew G. Peattie
Assistant Professor of Musicology

Education: BM, University of Calgary; MA, Universite de Montreal; PhD, Harvard University

Matthew Peattie most recently served as the associate director of the Atkinson Centre for Mature and Part-Time Students at York University in Toronto. Previously, he was a lecturer and teaching fellow at Harvard University, where he won the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Peattie has presented papers at Boston University, Wellesley College, Yale University, Harvard University, and at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Med-Ren Conference of the Royal Musical Association, the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, and more. In Boston, he served as music director of Ensemble 1521: Ensemble for Renaissance and Medieval Music, as assistant conductor with the Convivium Musicum Choir for Renaissance Music, and as director of choral activities with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Peattie has also performed with the choirs of Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal and Les Violons du Roy in Quebec City, and he was a member of Atelier de Musique Baroque de L'Universite de Montreal.
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Peter DePietro
Assistant Professor of Electronic Media

Education: BS, Syracuse University; MPS, New York University

Peter DePietro taught interactive communications for four years at Quinnipiac University (Hamden, Connecticut) and, previously, he taught new media and digital arts for six years at New York University, New School University's Parsons School for Design and the Pratt Institute. He also has served as lecturer and master teacher at Syracuse University and Cornell University. For five years, he was director of interactive media and online creative with the advertising agency Omnicom Inc., where he led new media initiatives such as interactive development and digital media design. He has had installations and exhibits featured in major galleries throughout the country, and he has developed Internet-based projects and Web sites for Al Roker Entertainment, An Gorta Mor, Chris Gardner Media, Dell, New York University, Omnicom, Professional Performing Arts School, Western Union and more. DePietro is the author of numerous publications and presentations, including Your Place on the Internet, BarnesandNoble.com: A Goliath Online Presence Transformed and Technology and Design, which was presented at University of California-Berkeley and published in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. An award-winning playwright/director with nine plays published by Samuel French, Inc., DePietro also was the producing artistic director for Manhattan Rep Company for ten years.
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Stirling Scot Shelton
Associate Professor of Technical Direction

Education: BFA, University of Florida; MFA, University of MissouriÐKansas City

Stirling Shelton joins CCM after ten years as technical director with the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He also has served as technical director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Music Theatre of Wichita, Missouri Repertory Theatre, East Carolina Summer Theatre and Pennsylvania Center Stage. Among his numerous professional engagements, he served as production coordinator and lighting designer for Metropolitan Community College Playfest (Kansas City, Missouri), and as lighting designer for productions with Miami University, Johnson Community College, CCM and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also served as an adjunct professor at Penn State University. Shelton has received a Cincinnati Enquirer Acclaim Award, two Cincinnati Entertainment Awards and the Florida Player of the Year award.
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Annunziata Tomaro
Instructor of Conducting

Education: BM, University of Michigan; MM, University of New Mexico; DMA, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; additional studies at Humboldt Universitat (Berlin, Germany)

Annunziata Tomaro joined the CCM faculty as Instructor of Conducting in 2007. She conducts the CCM Concert Orchestra and MoMus, CCM's contemporary ensemble. Tomaro has been music director of The Phoenix Ensemble and the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, and she is the interim music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony. In addition to conducting a wide range of contemporary and symphonic works, Tomaro's opera performances include La Boheme, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Werther, Stravinsky's Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari's Il Segreto di Susanna, Conrad Susa's Dangerous Liaisons, and Enid Sutherland's Daphne and Apollo Remade. Tomaro's honors include the Presser Award, the Robinson Scholarship, presented by the Conductor's Guild, and a Fulbright Grant to Berlin, Germany.
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STAFF

Andrea Maisonpierre-Fitzgerald
Manager of Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships

Education: BM, University of Maryland; MM, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Andrea Maisonpierre-Fitzgerald joins CCM after working as the assistant box office manager with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A native of North Carolina, Maisonpierre-Fitzgerald worked in both administrative and teaching roles while pursuing graduate studies in flute at CCM. She has participated in national competitions and continues to teach flute privately.
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Stacey Leigh Mohr
Costume Shop Foreman

Education: Bauder Fashion Design College, Sonoma State University, Brigham Young University

Stacey Leigh Mohr comes to CCM after mostly recently serving on the faculty of Northern Kentucky University. She has created costumes and managed costume production for professional theater companies and costume shops, and she has traveled nationally to teach costume-related seminars and courses. Mohr also was the founder, owner and operator of Renaissance Dancewear, a manufacturer of professional dancewear for theater companies, film and television throughout the United States.
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For more information regarding CCM's faculty or staff, please contact Katie Syroney at 513-556-9484 or katie.syroney@uc.edu. Complete faculty bios and additional information are also available on CCM's Web site at www.ccm.uc.edu.