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Student Council

The Curtis Student Council plays an active role in monitoring and improving the quality of student life at Curtis. Recent suggestions from the council have helped enhance building security, maintenance, and equipment. Council members also attend certain meetings of the Board of Trustees, the Friends' Board, the Alumni Council, and the academic faculty.

 The council is made up of twelve students representing the various disciplines within Curtis. Elections are held each April. Council meetings are scheduled weekly, and meetings with the administration take place on a regular basis. Student Council representatives for the 2009-10 school year are:

President: Billy Short (Bassoon)
Vice President: Joel Link (Violin)
Treasurer: Pallavi Mahidhara (Piano)
Secretary: Masha Popova (Flute)

Dayna Anderson (Violin)
Rebekah Daley (Horn)
J. D. Gersen (Conducting)
Kuok-wai Lio (Piano)
Chris Rogerson (Composition)
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (Viola)
Sarah Shafer (Voice)
Camden Shaw (Cello)

Council members serve as student leaders for the academic, musical, and social affairs of the student body. The Student Council also plans service projects, and it provides a forum to discuss with other students your thoughts on the artistic and academic concerns so vital to The Curtis Institute of Music. Contact Student Council by e-mail at student.council@curtis.edu.

 


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Curtis Musicians Perform at the Mann Center

Curtis students and recent graduates make their Philadelphia Orchestra debuts at the Mann Center June 29, June 30, and July 1 under the direction of Rossen Milanov, artistic director of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center and a 1994 graduate of Curtis.

On Monday, June 29 at 8 p.m., works by Beethoven are featured. Benjamin Beilman performs Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra, and 2009 graduate Kyu Yeon Kim performs Piano Concerto No. 4.

Twins Christina and Michelle Naughton, second-year Curtis students, perform on Tuesday, June 30 at 8 p.m. The concert includes an appearance by Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter, narrating Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals.

On Wednesday, July 1 at 8 p.m., fourteen-year-old Curtis violinist Yu-Chien Tseng performs Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with conductor and harpsichordist Lio Kuokman, a 2009 graduate. Lio also leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro.

For more information, visit www.manncenter.org
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