Music Theory Teachers and Composition Teachers

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MICHAEL ADCOCK
Music Theory, Piano

D.M.A., M.M., Artist Diploma, Peabody Conservatory; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory.

Studies with Leon Fleisher, Ellen Mack, Julian Martin, Joseph Schwartz; adjunct faculty, Peabody Conservatory; faculty, Musicorda Summer Festival; associate faculty, Sarasota Music Festival. Winner, Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize, first prize, Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, Washington International Piano Competition prize winner, finalist, Concert Artists Guild Competition; soloist with Baltimore and Richmond Symphonies, recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, La Gesse Festival, France, Phillips Collection, Embassy Series; chamber music at Kennedy Center, Corcoran Gallery. Performances with Denyce Graves, St. Petersburg String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, Jamie Buswell.

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MARCEL MAICAN
Music Theory, Trombone

Ph.D., M.M., (trombone), M.M., (conducting), Ciprian Porumbescu College of Music, Bucharest

First Prize, National Competition for Brass and Wind Instruments. Principal trombonist, National Symphony of Romania. Performed in Europe, Kuwait and Asia as a conductor and soloist with “The Romantics.” String Orchestra. Conductor and Director of Jazz, St. Anselm’s Abbey School. Chairman of Composition for Washington Music Teachers Association.

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JEFFERY WATSON
Music Theory, Composition, Piano, Vocal Coaching

D.M.A., University of Maryland; M.M., Eastman School of Music; B.M., DePauw University.

Soloist, the Honduran National Symphony, the Pan American Symphony, the Rosario (Argentina) Chamber Orchestra, The Alexandria Symphony and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra with the Kirov Ballet. Pianist with internationally-acclaimed tango quintet, QuinTango, including performances with the Wichita Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes (Mexico), at Lincoln Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Buenos Aires, the Amalfi Coast Festival, and the International Tango Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 2009, performed with soprano Susan Bender in Croatia for the International Conference of the College Music Society and was guest artist at the Fairbanks (Alaska) summer music festival. In March 2011, soloist and clinician at 3rd International Piano Festival in Lima, Peru. Toured Uruguay and Argentina with QuinTango, conducted Ravel’s opera L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, and performed with the WCM piano faculty at TEDMED conference that was simulcast to 80 countries around the world. Performances in Dutch Harbor, Alaska under auspices of the Aleutian Arts Council. Former faculty, George Washington University.

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HASKELL SMALL (In Memoriam)
Music Theory, Composition, Piano

Professional studies, San Francisco Conservatory; B.F.A. Carnegie-Mellon University. Piano studies with Leon Fleisher, William Masselos, Harry Franklin and Jeanne Behrend; composition studies with Roland Leich and Vincent Persichetti.

Award winner, Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition. Featured in PBS special, “A Celebration of the Piano.” Recorded numerous CDs. Concerts in London, Paris, Berlin, Italy, Vienna, South America, Japan, China, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Spoleto Festival. Commissions by Phillips Collection, including Renoir’s Feast celebrating 2006 return of Renoir’s painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party. Other commissions from Washington Ballet, Three Rivers Piano Competition, Georgetown Symphony, Paul Hill Chorale. Winner, Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. Composer-in-Residence, Mt. Vernon Orchestra, 2002-03.

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