participating music teachers and students.

Dr. David Curtin will also join us from Lock Haven University, USA. He is a Steinway Scholar and has performed and toured extensively throughout the world. We are offering our best piano performers a chance to participate in master classes with Dr. Curtin. We will also have the pleasure of hearing Dr. Curtin perform during the Festival. Representatives from all the above universities will be on hand to answer you and your students’ questions about music and university.

The Festival fee is USD195 (RMB1300) per person. This covers all meals, the Festival t-shirt, refreshments, bus transfers, workshop fees, venue rental and the after concert party. Accomodation is not included and schools should make their own arrangements with the Grand Metro Park or Diamond Court Hotel, both less than ten minutes from the College. Bus transfers to and from the hotel are included. All information and booking forms are available on our website www.iscms.net

The nature of this Festival and the ISCMS network is quality driven, ambitious and progressive. If you participate in this year’s Festival we expect you and your students to have learned all pieces before you arrive. This assures us of a certain level of performance expected by all member schools of ISCMS, and built on over the past three years.

This Festival is open to your best singers and orchestral players. They must be grade VIII or above (ABRSM). We sincerely hope you consider participating in this year’s Festival. Our website can be found at www.iscms.net and further inquiries can be made via ISCMS@dulwich-beijing.cn.

Be part of this exciting festival bringing musical

stories to life in the world famous Shanghai Oriental

Arts Centre Concert Hall. Relive the classic tale of

in stimulating music workshops with practitioners.

Shanghai 2011

GALA CONCERT PROGRAMME

GALA CONCERT PROGRAMME1. Chinese National Anthem2. Belshazzar’s Feast3. Peter and the Wolf4. Pomp and Circumstance March

We are very proud to announce that the Gala Concert on Saturday, February 19th will take place in the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre Concert Hall.

The International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS – founded in 2007) is proud to invite you to participate in its 4th annual choral festival to be held at Dulwich College Shanghai from Wednesday, 16th to Sunday, 20th February 2011.

ISCMS has gone from strength to strength since its inaugural Festival in 2008, a performance of the Faure Requiem. This was followed in 2009 by a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria held at South Island School Hong Kong, increasing the standard and performance level further as we now build and expand. Last year’s Festival culminated in a very exciting performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.

We currently have 18 member schools from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Abu Dhabi and, China. We continue to strive to grow, mature and solidify ISCMS as the premier Choral Music Network in this region.

This year, a choir of 200 will perform Belshazzar’s Feast, with orchestral performers from participating schools, joined by musicians from the Conservatoire in Shanghai and the best players from several International schools in the Shanghai area.

We welcome back our patron and friend, Dr. Martin Adams. He also will give a presentation on the new IB set works. He will advise throughout the Festival, including taking sectional rehearsals and generally bring his enthusiasm and energy to all we do.

We also welcome back Dr. Robert Hasty, the professor of orchestral conducting at Northwestern University in Chicago. He will conduct Belshazzar’s Feast, he will also take sectional rehearsals with the choir and offer an orchestral conducting master class for

SHANGHAI ORIENTAL ARTS CENTRE

BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST

Ms. Christina TrulioA native Californian, Christina has lived in the Chicago area for 10 years where she continues her career as a songwriter and guitar teacher, having included a detour to Boston where she received a degree in composition from Berklee College of Music. Christina has always been a songwriter,

Boss’s Son” at the age of 17. She has worked both on her own and collaborated with writers from around the world, including Rique Pantoja (Brazilian pianist with Milton Nascimiento), Don Grusin, and Kate Markowitz (vocalist with James Taylor). In the early ’90s, she had a platinum selling single in Germany.

from around the world, at Berklee, in L.A. and in Chicago, but especially by the singer/songwriters that were a part of the early L.A. music scene, where she performed at famous venues like McCabe’s and The Troubador.

Mr. Sam MatthewsSam Matthews, cellist and conductor, has a multifaceted career as a professional musician and

of chamber music, Mr.Matthews has collaborated with such international artists as Donald Sutherland, Amit Peled, Zhang Le and Xu Zhong. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Singapore Symphony, the Shanghai Sinfonietta

and the Akron Symphony. Mr. Matthews is currently the associate artistic director and conductor for the Shanghai ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Matthews also dedicates his time to educating the next generation of musicians through teaching at various schools including Dulwich College Shanghai and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Since 2006, he has run an instrument exporting/retail business and in his free time, makes violin, viola and cello bows. Mr. Matthews has studied conducting with Kenneth Kiesler, Markand Thakar and Gustav Meier and will be conducting the Pomp and Circumstance March for ISCMS.

Mr Matthew GossMatthew Goss graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia; receiving a Bachelor of Music Performance in Improvisation. He has worked performing both as a pianist and saxophonist with various groups ranging from Latin Jazz Orchestras to various Jazz ensembles. Following several year of performing Matthew returned to education at Deakin University where

he was awarded a Bachelor of Teaching. Since then Matthew has led Music and Arts departments in Melbourne, Singapore and Shanghai. In his capacity as a Musical Director, he has conducted at Hamer Hall in Melbourne. He has also directed and conducted various musical productions and school orchestras. He now plans to focus his musical talents in the area of conducting and Music Education. He will be conducting Peter and the Wolf for ISCMS.

Dr. David CurtinA native of Rochester, New York, pianist Dr. David Curtin earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, his Master of Music degree from the University of Louisville School of Music, and his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts (in English) from the State University of New York College at Fredonia. Dr. Curtin won

annual competition, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory’s Concerto Competition. His recent performances have included appearances with the Ohio Valley Symphony as soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, multiple engagements with the East Mountain Artist Series in Albuquerque, and recitals at historic Steinway Hall in New York City. An international teacher and performer, Dr. Curtin recently held piano master classes in Shanghai and Beijing, China. Dr. Curtin currently serves on the piano teaching faculty at Lock Haven University, an All-Steinway School in located central Pennsylvania. He will be conducting Belshazzar’s Feast at this year’s festival.

Dr. Robert G. HastyDr. Hasty is the associate director of orchestras, conductor of the Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Summer Orchestra at Northwestern University. He teaches the graduate and undergraduate conducting courses.He is an adjudicator, clinician and violinist. He is the music director of the Merit Symphony Orchestra Chicago, and the conductor of the

National High School Music Institute Orchestra. He is also the former vice president of string education at the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. His music research includes an investigation into critical listening while conducting. He presented his paper at the international meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music. He studied conducting with Victor Yampolsky and violin with Alice Schoenfeld.

Dr. Martin AdamsDr. Adams studied at Southampton University, and for a number of years was active as a composer and arranger of theatre music, and as a conductor of semi-professional choirs and orchestras. For three years he lectured at Leeds University, and in 1979 moved to Trinity College Dublin, where he is a Senior Lecturer, a Fellow of the college and head of the Music Department. His research

interests lie in English music of the 17th century, mainly Purcell, and the late-19th early-20th centuries, mainly Elgar, on whose music he has written several analytical papers. Henry Purcell: the Origins and Development of His Musical Style (Cambridge, 1995) is the only extensive and detailed study of that composer’s compositional practice, and has just become available in paperback.

PRACTITIONERS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday 16th February

Thursday 17th February