Art

Elaine O’Brien signed a contract to publish her book on global modernisms.

The Renaissance Quarterly will publish a strong review of Catherine Turrill’s essay and catalog published in Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588): The Painter Prioress of Renaissance Florence (Syracuse UP, 2008).

English

Cynthia Linville was featured in "A not-so-dumb guide to publishers' secrets: Now is a good time to write poetry in Sacramento," by Josh Fernandez in the Sacramento News and Review.

Kylee Cook, graduate student in creative writing, had a work of innovative prose accepted for publication in InPosse Journal.

Leanne Cameron, graduate student in TESOL, was accepted as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Poland for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Congratulations to the 2009 Bazzanella Literary Award Winners: James Benton, Jill Buettner, Joe Montalbo, Janet Reyes Lopez, Bridget Crenshaw Mabunga, Trina Drotar, Elison Alcovendaz, Jeffrey Pressnell, Steve Owen, Lucy Nevins, Kelsey Sorensen, Ron Cruz, Timothy Sanders, Jonathan Alston, and Hugh Trenton Durst, Jr.

The following faculty members received awards from the Faculty Senate’s Research and Creative Activity Program: Brad Buchanan for his book on British modernists, Peter Grandbois for a collection of short stories entitled Wait Your Turn, David Madden for his project on Paul West, and Doug Rice for Enchanted Memories: Photographing the Disappearance of Time and Bodies.

Foreign Languages

Wilfrido H. Corral presented "Los nuevos narradores hispanoamericanos y el sesentayochismo" for the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Munich.  At the National Library of Madrid, he moderated a panel and served as conference respondent for "Homenaje a Juan Carlos Onetti en el centenario de su nacimiento 1909-2009."

History

The following M.A. students were all accepted into Ph.D. programs next year:  Jordan Biro (University of Colorado and University of New Mexico), Chelsea Del Rio (University of Michigan), Brittany Hancock (University of Houston), Thomas O’Donnell (University of California, Davis), and Nathan Wilson (University of Nebraska).

Following are further accomplishments by our M.A. students:

• Jennifer Norton received a highly competitive Fulbright-Hayes Summer Seminar Fellowship for Teachers to Poland (June-July 2009).
• Heather Lavezzo won a scholarship to attend the California Association of Museum’s annual conference.
• Michelle Balaguy’s article “Recreating Recreation: The Automobile Culture in Postwar America” will be published in the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal (Spring 2010).
• Lisa Prince has contributed much to public history in the Sacramento area, including exhibits at the New City Hall (on former U.S. Representative Robert Matsui) and at the Sacramento History Museum (“1968: It Happened Here”), as well as the development of the Sacramento Speaker Series (featuring, this year, our own Joseph Palermo).
• Carol Francis will present her paper “The Colonies of Greenland” at the Phi Alpha Theta Conference in spring 2010.

Recent graduate Aaron Richardson’s article “Basil J. Vlavianos Manuscripts” was accepted by the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora.

Music

Judy Bossuat published "March to the Beat" in Strings, and she trained teachers and taught students at Suzuki Institute workshops at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Ithaca College, Utah, Idaho and the Swiss Alps.

Jim Chopyak presented "Gus Steyn: Malaysian or World Musician?" at the 40th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Laurel Zucker released a double-CD tribute to Samuel Baron with The New York Flute Club for the National Flute Association Convention.

On April 3-4, in Novato, Robert Halseth conducted the Marin School of the Arts Concert Band in a program that included “Lincolnshire Posy” (Percy Grainger), “Armenian Dances I” (Alfred Reed), and “Folk Dances” (Dmitri Shostakovich).

Deborah Pittman received a commission from the Concert Division of the Crocker Art Gallery to create a young audiences performance piece to accompany the touring Norman Rockwell Exhibit in 2013.

Professor Pittman and alumnus Christopher Cook will lead a three-day teacher training intensive in the use of hands-on interactive theatre skills as a part of a summer institute for teachers at UC Davis. The institute will involve a collaboration between The California Arts Project, Arts Bridge and Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS).

Ian Swensen has been chosen to represent the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on a tour of Korea in August.   He will be performing with pianist Wu Han and David Finckel, cellist of the Emerson Quartet.

Anna Kruger has been selected by artistic director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg to be principal violist of the New Century Chamber Orchestra.

Richard Cionco recently performed the Piano Concerto of Edvard Grieg with the Camellia Symphony at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.  He was interviewed by Jeffrey Callison on KXJZ's "Insight" prior to the performance.

Bass trombone student Rudy Hoehn has been accepted to participate in the Joseph Alessi Trombone Seminar in New Mexico this summer. Rudy is one of only six bass trombonists from around the world selected to work closely with Mr. Alessi, principal trombone in the New York Philharmonic.

The following students performed at the Teachers of Singing Association Competition held April 25 at CSU Stanislaus.  There were 140 singers competing from the San Joaquin region (Yuba City to Fresno), and our Sac State winners took home these prizes:

• Erica Wilens: First Place, Division II Classical Singing
• Kristin Bluemel: Second Place, Division V Classical Singing
• Rachel Burgin: Third Place, Division IV Classical Singing
• Erica Wilens: Second Place, Division II Musical Theater

Two voice majors recently competed at the Sacramento Master Singers' competition for young singers: Jason Dyer, first place, and Elizabeth Randolph: second place.  Both were featured soloists in the Master Singers' Concert on May 17 in Grass Valley.

Following are further accomplishments by our voice students:

• Ellen Presley has been accepted to the University of Miami summer program at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
• Sara Haugland has been accepted to the Abingden Summer Music program in England, where she will spend a week learning from teachers on faculty at the Guildhall School of Music, London.
• Tammy Brock has been accepted to the OperaWorks six-week summer program held at CSU, Northridge.
  

Theatre and Dance

Student Lean Damasco performed with the Nicholas Leichter Dance Company in New York City.

Nine Sac State students participated in the Joe Goode Performance Group intensive at CSU Summer Arts in Fresno.  Goode chose Lean Damasco and Tung Nguyen to apprentice with his company and perform in San Francisco.

Michelle Felten directed Mame for Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa.

Ed Brazo played Cinderella's father for the Music Circus production of Into the Woods.