Scholarship Recipients 2008-2009 Wolf Trap Foundation Scholarship for Performing Arts Teacher Recipients

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These scholarships honor the exceptional instruction and performance achievements of public high school teachers of music, dance, and theater in Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudoun Counties in Virginia; Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in Maryland; and the District of Columbia.

ARLINGTON COUNTY

Carol Cadby
Yorktown High School

Italian Commedia dell’ arte specialist Wickham Avery will introduce 65 theatre arts students to Commedia style and origins, directing a one-act production of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid. Students will incorporate exercises learned during the project in their annual teambuilding workshops at Arlington middle schools in February 2009, working with 70 – 90 middle students on the Commedia dell’ arte style. Parents will film the project and develop a documentary to be aired on Arlington Public School and Arlington County cable channels. Final performances of The Imaginary Invalid will take place on November 13 – 15, 2008, and will be Yorktown’s submission for the 2008 – 09 CAPPIES program.

Gene Pohl
Wakefield High School

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra members Steve Fraser and Allison Bailey, along with Lisa Cridge of the National Gallery Chamber Orchestra, will work with the 40 student Wakefield High School Orchestra in several sectional and full-orchestra rehearsals of a Corelli Concerto Grosso with soloists. Students will be exposed to the concerti grossi style particular to the baroque period, in which musical material alternates between several soloists and a full orchestra. The guest artists will perform alongside the orchestra in their May 28, 2009 final performance.

FAIRFAX COUNTY

Cheryl Cooley
Centreville High School

Electric violinist Caryn Lyn will introduce extended techniques and new performance technologies to over 120 orchestra members. In this very hands-on residency, students will learn different styles of playing traditional instruments and five- and six-string electric violins, as well as using looping software to enhance their performance capabilities. In addition, up to 500 students from the music department will observe Ms. Lyn’s residency visits and attend the final performance on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

Gretta Sandberg
McLean High School

Bridgid Bibbens, a non-traditional violinist who has performed with John Mayer, Mary J. Blige, Josh Groban, Jay-Z, and Harry Connick, Jr., will introduce 150 students to alternative styles of string playing, including jazz, blues, fiddling, and rock. Through multiple workshops, high school orchestra members and students from Longfellow Middle School will explore improvisation, new techniques, and various genres of music. Participating students will perform with Ms. Bibbens at the culminating concert on Friday, February 13, 2009.

LOUDOUN COUNTY

Nancy Riley
Heritage High School

Nationally renowned composer and choral conductor Deen Entsminger will compose a new work for the school’s Heritage Singers choral ensemble. Dr. Entsminger will also conduct over 150 students in rehearsals of his new composition as well as his older body of work. Between rehearsals, students will visit a local retirement community to sing with residents and share their new commission. The final performance on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 will feature Dr. Entsminger conducting both Heritage High School students as well as residents of the retirement community.

Sean Hartmetz
Dominion High School

Latin percussion artist Joe McCarthy will coach 12 band students in learning authentic drumming patterns, rhythms, and techniques from Latin America. Students will then visit Sugarland and Meadowland Elementary Schools to mentor fifth grade students during the new after-school “Latin Music Club.” Hundreds of community members will attend the final performance on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 during the high school’s Fine Arts Night.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Carolyn Gipe
Northwest High School

Jazz vocalist and composer Barry Gurley will write a new jazz choral work to match the skill and vocal range of the school’s most experienced choirs. Throughout the project, students will be introduced to new techniques and improvisation for the first time. More than 80 choir members will participate in rehearsals and master classes taught by Mr. Gurley, who will conduct the final performance on Thursday, May 21, 2009.

Christopher Kosmaceski
Walter Johnson High School

Alan Baylock, chief arranger for the renowned “Airmen of Note” jazz ensemble of the U.S. Air Force Band, will compose an original work for the school’s jazz ensemble, using input from students. Mr. Baylock will conduct the 22-piece ensemble in rehearsals and concert and will also present a lecture to the high school’s AP Music Theory students on the creative process of a composer. In keeping with the ‘Go Green with Wolf Trap’ initiative, the new commission will include environmental themes and will be premiered on Thursday, May 21, 2009.

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY

William Lake
Gwynn Park High School

Keiron Irvine, Director of the Howard University Brass Ensemble, Elija Hosterloh, a doctoral clarinet student at Peabody Conservatory and currently the Assistant Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Maryland, and Derek Anthony Johnson, an accomplished flutist, will provide private instruction to 30 members of the Intermediate and Advanced Bands at Gwynn Park High School for ten weeks. Lessons will focus on approved solo pieces to be performed at the Prince George’s County Solo and Ensemble festival and individual parts for the bands’ competition pieces in the District Ensemble Festival. The March 27, 2009 final performance will feature both the ensemble competition pieces and a selection of solo performances.

Daniel Sitomer
DuVal High School

University band directors Dr. John Lamkin II, Melvin Miles, Jr., and Chris Vadala, along with double bassist Leonardo Lucini, will conduct a series of master classes for the 20-member DuVal High School “Tigers of Jazz” ensemble. The master classes will emphasize improvisation, theory, composition, and performance technique. The final performance will take place on Earth Day, April 22, 2009 and will feature an environmentally-themed jazz piece.

WASHINGTON, DC

Kenneth Johnson
Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Noted writer and director Tavin Wilkes will create an original play, The Aftermath Project, in collaboration with 90 students from the Theater and Literary Media Classes at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The play will explore the immediate impact of the 2008 presidential election on the psyche of America by examining the history of race and gender in American suffrage, using newspaper clippings, found text, journalistic documents, memoirs, and biographies. Premiering at the Ellington Theatre Department’s Fall Theatre Showcase on November 20 and 21, 2008, the production will be re-mounted during Inauguration Week in January 2009.

Darrell Watson
Frank W. Ballou Senior High School

Paul I. Adams, Associate Director of Bands at Norfolk State University and one of the leading marching band arrangers in the country, will compose the school’s first ever fight song. Mr. Adams’ composition process will include researching the history of Ballou High School and interviewing current students, faculty, and alumni to gain a better understanding of the school’s rich history and identity. The 85 members of the Ballou “Majestic” Knights Marching Band will rehearse the new fight song with its composer before premiering it at the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadina, CA on January 1, 2009. The fight song will also be featured in the January 21, 2009 Inaugural Parade and the 2009 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, NY.

This program is made possible through a generous grant from the Catherine Filene Shouse Education Fund.