A Tempo Highlights: Fearless Foursome, Tour de Force, SpirioCast

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In 2023, the Dover Quartet named Julianne Lee (Violin ’05) as its new violist, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra embarked on its first-ever West Coast tour of the United States under conductor Osmo Vänskä. Steinway’s high-tech Spirio player piano arrived at Curtis in 2020, and this spring, performances by six piano students were captured in a recital and beamed out in real-time to Spirio owners in North America, Europe, and Africa. 

From the Spring 2023 Issue

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Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Conducting ’91) Named Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at Rice University

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