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Carrie Koffman
Carrie Koffman joined the faculty of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford in the fall of 2003. Prior to this, she held positions as Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Penn State University, Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of New Mexico, and taught at Boston University.
Recent performances have included the Faenza International Saxophone Festival in Italy; a tour throughout New Zealand; the Xi'an International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival in China; the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan; the Virginia Arts Festival; the International Viola Congress; the World Saxophone Congress; the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conventions; and the International Double Reed Convention in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Koffman has been a featured soloist with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra, the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hartt Wind Ensemble, the PSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and the UNM Wind Symphony. Among her ensemble performing credits are appearances with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut, Sequitur in New York City, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Symphony.
She is a member of the contemporary chamber music duo, "The Irrelevants," with violist Tim Deighton. Additionally, she appears frequently as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician throughout the United States. Commissions and premieres include compositions by Lawrence Blind, Michael Colgrass, Stephen Michael Gryc, Michael Mauldin, Gunther Schuller, Christopher Schultis, James Sellars, and William Wood, in addition to several works commissioned by "The Irrelevants."
Koffman's saxophone students have won numerous competitions. She also formerly taught saxophone for the All-State Program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and was the Director of Bands at Belleville South Middle School in Belleville, Michigan. Koffman is a graduate with high honors from the University of Michigan where she studied with Donald Sinta, and the University of North Texas where she studied with James Riggs and Eric Nestler.
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Tim Deighton
Tim Deighton is Associate Professor of viola at Penn State University, where he also teaches chamber music, viola literature and pedagogy, and directs the Penn State Viola Ensemble. A native of New Zealand, he received a bachelor of music and first class honours degree from Victoria University of Wellington, an artist diploma from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and a doctor of musical arts degree in violin and viola from the University of Kansas. He is a National Recording Artist for Radio New Zealand, and was a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
In 2002 Deighton was recognized as Outstanding String Teacher of the Year by the Pennsylvania-Delaware String Teachers Association. A regular contributor to musical periodicals, his articles have appeared in such publications as Strings, the American String Teacher, Journal of the American Viola Society, the New York Violist, and VIOLOZ (the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society). In 1999 he organized and directed "ViolaFest," a three-day event at Penn State, involving more than 200 violists from across North America and abroad.
Having long held a fascination for new music, he has performed International, U.S., European, and Australasian premieres of numerous works, several of which were commissioned by or written for him. As a member of the contemporary chamber music duo "The Irrelevants," he and saxophonist Carrie Koffman have commissioned and premiered many new works. They appeared at the 2003 World Saxophone Congress and at the XXXII International Viola Congress in June 2004. In April 2001 he was featured as an invited performer at the XXVIII International Viola Congress, where he performed several new works for solo viola. His first solo CD, featuring music for viola by New Zealand composers, was released in 2002 on the Atoll label. His playing on this disc was described in The Stradas "brilliant and differentiated," and the CD was ranked by the New Zealand Listener one of the Top 10 classical recordings of 2002.
Deighton appears frequently in recital with his wife, pianist Ann Deighton. During the summer he serves on the faculty of the International Musical Arts Institute (IMAI) at Fryeburg, Maine. Other recent solo and chamber music appearances at festivals have included Music at Penn's Woods (PA), The Pierre Monteux Festival (ME), the Gold Coast Music Festival (CA), the Dublin International Symphonic Festival, Ireland, Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves, France, and the Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music.
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