1977

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Phillip Silver ’77, ’79 M.M. (Piano Performance) recently released a world premiere CD on the London based Toccata Classics label of chamber music by Leone Sinigaglia, an Italian-Jewish student of Dvorak, friend of Brahms, and ultimately at the age of 77, Holocaust victim. Performing with Phillip is his wife, cellist Noreen Silver ’80 M.M., and violinist Solomia Soroka. Phillip lives in Bangor, Maine and was recently promoted to Professor of Music at the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine, Orono. 2011-06-28

NEC faculty member, jazz pianist, and composer Fred Hersch ’77 was recently featured in an NPR “Fresh Air” story about his new album, Whirl, and his incredible recovery after a coma.  Hersch is also collaborating with composer Herschel Garfein ’82 M.M., composer for the recent operatic adaptation of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, on a new work entitled My Coma Dreams. Hersch was named Jazz Pianist of the Year for 2011 from the Jazz Journalists Association. 2011-06-21

After thirty years as a high school music educator and conductor, David Winer '77 (Music Education and Tuba) is in his third year as the K-12 Supervisor of Music for the Westport, CT Public Schools.  In October, David conducted the Berkshire Music Festival Honors Band and will be conducting the Connecticut Music Educators Association Eastern Region Band in January, 2010. 2009-11-06

Roger Kaza ’77 has been appointed principal French horn for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, a position he will begin in September, 2009. He had previously performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has also previously performed with the St. Louis Symphony from 1983 to 1995. He is currently associate principal horn of the Houston Symphony and principal horn of the Chautauqua, N.Y. Symphony, and assistant professor of horn at the University of Houston as well. He currently resides in Houston, Tex.

Bart Marantz ’77 M.M. was interviewed in JazzEd Magazine, where he discussed his years of jazz training, performing, and teaching. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas, Texas. The school’s music department has received 207 DownBeat student music awards. Bart’s son, Luke, is the winner of 14 DownBeat student music awards. 2009-08-18

Robert “Bo” Winiker ’77 DP has been performing with the Bo and Bill Winiker Orchestra at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge. There, Bo and his brother Bill have been hosting dinner dances every month.  The brothers were recently featured in articles by Brookline Magazine and the Cambridge Chronicle. The band continues to perform every Sunday at Skipjack’s in Copley Square (where they have been a staple for 18 years), as well as performing many wedding receptions, corporate events, and social functions. Bo resides in Brookline, Mass. 2009-08-13

Help find your lost classmates

Unfortunately, NEC has lost touch with some of your classmates. If you have e-mail or other contact information for any of the people listed below, please let us know so that we can keep them informed of reunions and other NEC activities.

William W Austin, Anna E Bachman, Maura Jill Bernstein, Josephine S. Blagden, Carter R Bryan, Janet L. Casey, Austin George Charpentier, Patricia Maureen Charpentier, Sandra Ciacci, Robert Dicamillo, Kevin P. Dornan, Teri L. Duke, Lynne Eaton, Eric Grunin, Theodore Merrill Haines, Thomas Hansen, Thomas Alan Hill, Carolyn Hoenig, F Matthew Johnson, Miyoko Kimura, Jeffrey David Kline, Stephen Palmer Knopp, Mayumi Andria Knudsen, Thomas James Koch, Eun Ae Yoo Lee, Patricia N. Lentz, Janet A Lohman, James Elwyn Lytle, Miyoko Kimura Maeda, Kenneth Mason, Yiu Dick Mo, Sachiko Nagatoishi, Debra Ann O'Brien, Katharine F Pardee, Eun-Shim Park, Jane H. F. Perkins, Gregory James Reinhart, Rebecca Roop, Lorenzo Ross, Deborah Lee Rudolph, Frank John Sacci, Robert L. Sandstrom, Donald Spies, Ismael G. Sugranes, Masahito Tanaka, Judith B. Welles, Claude K White.

2011-07-21