Ms. Gedigian has been first prizewinner in the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, and the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition. She keeps an active schedule as a chamber musician as a foundin g member of the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players and was formerly a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet. Her solo recordings include Voice of the Flute and Revolution, both with pianist Rick Rowley.
Ms. Gedigian is on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Center, and has served on the faculties of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, The Boston Conservatory, the Round Top International Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Ms. Gedigian’s teachers include Leone Buyse, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Clement Barone, and Donna Olkowski. |
Dieter Hennings Guitarist - Performers Biography
Dieter Hennings Yeomans's musical endevaours span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo.
Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with the Riverside Symphony, Guanajuato symphony, Canada ’s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, the University of Arizona Philharmonia , and the Orquesta Juvenil de Sonora, Mexico among many others.
Mr. Hennings has won several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition, 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante ( Spain ) International Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition, among others.
Recent engagements include concerts in the festival de guitarra de San Sebastian in Puerto Rico, as well as in the guitar festivals in Chiapas , Mexico , Louisville , Cincinnati . Mr. Hennings also appeared with popsinger Natalie Merchant at the Poetry out loud festival in D.C. Last semester he collaborated with baroque vioinist Monica Huggett and the ensemble Julliard 415 of the prestigious music school. Other engagements include appearances at the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Festival SpazioMusica of Cagliari, Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, University of Chicago, Festival Internacional de Chihuahua, New York’s Joyce Theater, Julliard’s Paul Hall, and New England Conservatory. Mr. Hennings is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule.
Mr. Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers Mario Davidovsky, Carlos SanchezGutierrez, Juan Trigos and Ricardo ZohnMuldoon. Mr. Hennings has recently premiered works by composers Jake Bancks, Wes Matthews, John
Aylward, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Luca Cori, Juan Trigos and Scott Worthington. He recently performed Synchronisms no. 10 for guitar and tape for Mario Davidovsky in a concert dedicated to the composer's work. Mr. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar.
In 2005 and 2007 he participated in the modern premieres of the baroque operas "Apollo and Daphne" and “La virtù de’stralli d’Amore” by Francesco Cavalli, both directed by Paul O'Dette.Mr. Hennings recently performed recitals on baroque lute and guitar at Milan’s Spazio Tadini, the Arizona Early Music Society and the Rochester Early Music Society among many others.
Recent recordings include an album of works by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute and the guitar works of composers Juan Trigos and Luca Cori. Recently he collaborated in a recording project with singer Natalie Merchant which also featured musicians like Winton Marsalis, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and producer Anders Levin. Mr. Hennings is also featured in the recording of the chamber opera Comala by composer Ricardo ZohnMuldoon, Pulitzer prize finalist of last year, recorded on Bridge records.
Since August of 2009, Dieter Hennings is Assistant Professor of Guitar at the University of Kentucky where he supervises and instructs an active, international studio. |