ARTISTIC FACULTY & GUESTS

STACY CADWELL, Sweet Fields

Stacy Caddell, formally a soloist of the New York City Ballet, left to work with Twyla Tharp and toured with her and Mikhail Baryshnikov for several years. Caddell has assisted. Tharp at American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet and was the dance supervisor on the Broadway show Movin’ Out. She most recently staged a Jerome Robbins/Twyla Tharp collaboration at the New York City Ballet for the Robbins Festival and is currently staging ballets for Tharp all over the world.

SUSAN CHOU, The Four Temperaments, Solo Pianist

Susan Chou was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and has lived in the United States since she was 16. She attended Northwestern University for her undergraduate study. While at Northwestern, Chou was greatly inspired by her main teacher Alan Chow. In the past, she had performed in master classes given by Jerome Lowenthal, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Nelita True, James Giles, Gordon Back, Pacifica String Quartet, and Chicago String Quartet. In addition, she has worked with famous musicians such as Julian Martin, Ursula Oppens, Angela Cheng, Miriam Fried, and Victor Yampolsky. Chou has performed in solo and chamber recitals and enjoys working with others. She has performed with the Good Samaritan Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University Student Orchestra, and Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. Chou was awarded first prize in the Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition and performed with the Symphony of the Mountains. She was one of the six semifinalists in the 2007 Rolf and Brigitte Gardey International Piano Competition. Recently, she was a prize-winner in the National Society of Arts and Letters Music Competition. She is currently a doctoral student and an associate instructor at Indiana University on full scholarship studying with Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio.

FLORENCE COUVRETTE-DUPUIS, Endless Night, Pianist

Couvrette-Dupuis studied at Université de Montréal, where she has completed both her bachelor’s and master’s in piano performance under Marc Durand. Couvrette-Dupuis has received numerous prizes and grants, including first prize at the Canadian Music Competition and at the Montreal Music Festival (2001, 2002, 2003). She is also a winner of Les jeunes artistes Series of Radio-Canada (2002). In 2003, she participated in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, winning the Paul Merkelo Scholarship and the Orford Arts Centre Special Prize, a special grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2008. She also performed with the Orchestre de l’Universite de Montreal. Since 2001, Couvrette-Dupuis has given numerous piano recitals for Les jeunes artistes and Les étoiles de demain of Radio-Canada, as well as a Début recital for CBC Radio Two and a live broadcasted emission for Studio Sparks, (CBC Radio Two). In January 2006, she recorded the Camille Saint-Saëns Carnaval des animaux, under the direction of Stephan Laforest. She is presently enrolled in the Performer Diploma at the Jacobs School of Music, where she works with André Watts. She has attended master classes given by Nathalie Pépin, Richard Raymond ,John Perry, Jacques Rouvier, Jean-Marc Luisada, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Julian Martin at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Orford Arts Centre, and at the Ecole Normale in Paris as part as the Paris Piano program. She is an associate instructor at the Jacobs School of Music.

DAN DUELL, The Four Temperaments, Ballet Master

Founder and artistic director of Ballet Chicago, Dan Duell is passionate about the pursuit of contemporary classicism in its purest form. As a dancer with the New York City Ballet (NYCB) from 1972-1987, he was taught and coached daily by George Balanchine. Quickly rising through the ranks, Duell was promoted to soloist in 1977, then principal dancer in 1979. He embodied a wide-ranging repertoire, dancing leading roles in the ballets of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, and Jacques d’Amboise, among others, including multiple works that were created for him. A Ford Foundation Scholarship recipient from the age of 13, he trained with the Dayton Civic Ballet, then at the School of American Ballet, and, at the age of 19, was invited to join NYCB. In addition to his 15 years at NYCB, he was a featured guest artist for numerous companies nationwide and performed for several PBS Dance in America public television programs. Duell has been choreographing since 1980 and has created works for Ballet Chicago, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Dayton Ballet, Harkness Dance Theatre, the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and the School of American Ballet. He also collaborated with WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago to design two programs; an Emmy Award-winning special (outstanding cultural programming) on Ballet Chicago, and Love in Four Acts, a program showcasing four Chicago choreographers selected by Duell. He was awarded the 2000 Ruth Page Award from the Chicago Dance Community for Artistic Direction of the Ballet Chicago Studio Company.

Duell is a frequent lecturer on ballet, music, and the arts, serves on several not-for-profit advisory boards, and has been an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Duell is a repetiteur for the George Balanchine Trust and stages ballets across the United States. He conducts master classes in both the United States and Europe, most recently completing teaching engagements at the School of American Ballet, Indiana University at Bloomington, the University of Iowa, and the Bulgarian National Dance Academy in Sophia, Bulgaria.

SANDRA JENNINGS, The Four Temperaments

Sandra Jennings was born in Boston and began her dance training with June Paxman of the Washington Ballet and later with E. Virginia Williams at Boston Ballet. Other teachers include Harriet Hoctor, Shanna Bereska, Margaret Gill, and her mother, Jacqueline Cronsberg. At the age of 13, she received a Ford Foundation scholarship to SAB in New York. At the age of 15, Jennings performed Balanchine’s Tarantella at New York’s City Center. In 1974, Jennings was asked by George Balanchine to join the New York City Ballet, where she worked with him for the next nine years. During her tenure, she danced a vast repertoire that included principal and soloist roles in many ballets by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. In addition to becoming a renowned repetiteur for the Balanchine Trust, staging over 30 ballets for companies all around the world, Jennings has taught at schools and companies in the United States and abroad, and has taught at San Francisco Ballet School’s Summer Session since 2000. She was company teacher and ballet mistress at Pennsylvania Ballet for nine years, and was company teacher and ballet mistress for the San Francisco Ballet from 2002 until 2006. She currently tours the world as a guest teacher and repetiteur of Balanchine’s works.

KUTTNER QUARTET, Endless Night

The Kuttner Quartet, which changes members annually, features four of the top string players in the Jacobs School of Music. This year the members are Peter Vickery, Violin; Thomas Rogers, Violin; Kaitlyn Flowers, Viola; and Ian Jones, Cello.

ANDRES MORAN, The Four Temperaments, Conductor

Texas native Andres Moran was appointed associate instructor in the Instrumental Conducting department for Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2007. In this role, Moran collaborated with IU Opera and Ballet Theater on its production of Perspectives 1900’s, conducting fully staged versions of Debussy’s L’Après-midi d’un faune and Chopin’s Les Sylphides.

In addition to serving as assistant conductor for numerous orchestral programs, Moran worked closely with composer William Bolcom in the IU première of his opera A Wedding, as well as a new production of Puccini’s La bohème.

As assistant conductor for the National Repertory Orchestra in 2008, Moran shared the podium with Maestro Carl Topilow on several occasions, in both classical and pops concerts, while also conducting full orchestral and educational programs throughout the season.

In 2007, Moran served as staff conductor at the Brevard Music Festival where he led orchestral and chamber music performances while assisting Maestro David Effron. During the previous summer season, he was invited to the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, CO, to lead a concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.

Moran is currently pursuing conducting studies with David Effron while at Indiana University. He received a graduate degree in Orchestral Conducting while studying with Paul Phillips at Southern Methodist University while simultaneously pursuing a degree in Horn Performance with Dallas Symphony principal hornist Gregory Hustis. Moran also holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from New Mexico State University. Often invited to participate in conducting master classes, Moran has studied under numerous conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Marin Alsop, and Michael Morgan.

DORICHA SALES, Endless Night, Ballet Mistress

Doricha Sales received training at the Boston Ballet with founder E. Virginia Williams, as well as the School of American Ballet and Walnut Hill School of the Arts. At the age of 8, she joined the Children’s Performing Company of the Boston Ballet; at age 11, joined Boston Ballet II; and at 14, Boston Ballet. She has also danced with Dance Theater of Florida and Florida Dance Theater and has been a guest with Ballet Florida and the Indianapolis Ballet Theater. She has been an advocate of arts and education, working as director of ballet for Rochelle School of the Arts, as a dance representative of the Hawaiian Alliance for Arts and Education and served on the Committee for Artistic Excellence in Florida. Sales has two degrees, both of which she obtained at Indiana University: a Bachelor of Science. in Ballet Performance and History and a Master of Science in Ballet Pedagogy and Educational Psychology.

SUSAN SWANEY, Sweet Fields, Symphonic Choir Conductor

Susan Swaney brings a wealth of varied experience to the IU Jacobs School of Music, having performed everything from opera premières to viol consorts to jazz back-up. She is artistic director of Voces Novae chamber choir, which presents multi-dimensional thematic programs, and of the Unitarian Universalist Church, where she has built a fine 65-voice choir and musical outreach program. She is also a former director of the IU Children’s Choir and was music director of IU Theater’s Pirates of Penzance. Swaney is finishing her doctoral paper for her DM in Choral Conducting and teaches in the Choral Department. She received her undergraduate degree in Music History and Violin from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from IU in Voice, where she performed leading roles in Nixon in China, Ghosts of Versailles, Candide, Les Noces, and Fiddler on the Roof. As a member of Aguava New Music Studio she has sung in Israel, Mexico, at the New York Microtonal Festival, and at the Library of Congress.

GUOPING WANG, The Four Temperaments, Ballet Master

A native of China, Guoping Wang studied ballet at the Ballet Department of the Shanghai Dance School and in the graduate program at the IU Jacobs School of Music. He danced with the Shanghai Ballet Company from July 1980 to October 1991 and joined Ballet Chicago in 1993, performing leading roles with the company through 1995. In 1997, while also a member of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Wang was recognized by the Chicago Dance Community with a Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Dance Achievement. Wang has been on the faculty of the School of Ballet Chicago and a guest teacher and coach for the Indiana University Ballet Theater. This is Wang’s fourth year as a full-time faculty member at IU.

DANIEL ULBRICHT, New York City Ballet, Endless Night, Guest Dancer

Daniel Ulbricht was born in St. Petersburg, FL, and began his dance training at the age of 11 at the Judith Lee Johnson Studio of Dance, studying with Lenny Holmes. He also studied at Les Jeunes Danseurs with Javier Dubraq and attended the Chautauqua Summer Dance Program, training with Jean Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. In 1999, Ulbricht was invited by the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, to continue his training during their Winter Program. As a student at SAB, Ulbricht performed with New York City Ballet as a Jester in Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty. In December 2000, he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and, in November 2001, he joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet. In January 2005, Ulbricht was promoted to the rank of soloist and to principal dancer in May 2007.