The document provides information about an upcoming Gala Concert including the program, performers, and guest speakers. The concert will take place at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre Concert Hall and will feature Belshazzar's Feast performed by a 200-person choir along with orchestra members from participating schools. Guest speakers include Dr. David Curtin who will give piano performances and masterclasses, Dr. Robert Hasty who will conduct Belshazzar's Feast, and Dr. Martin Adams who will advise throughout the festival. The event is part of the 4th annual International Schools Choral Music Society festival bringing together schools from Asia and the US.

1. GALA CONCERT
PROGRAMME
Shanghai 2011
GALA CONCERT PROGRAMME participating music teachers and students.
1. Chinese National Anthem
2. Belshazzar’s Feast Dr. David Curtin will also join us from Lock Haven University,
3. Peter and the Wolf USA. He is a Steinway Scholar and has performed and toured
4. Pomp and Circumstance March extensively throughout the world. We are offering our best
piano performers a chance to participate in master classes
We are very proud to announce that the Gala Concert on Saturday, with Dr. Curtin. We will also have the pleasure of hearing Dr.
February 19th will take place in the Shanghai Oriental Arts Curtin perform during the Festival. Representatives from all
Centre Concert Hall. the above universities will be on hand to answer you and
your students’ questions about music and university.
The International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS –
founded in 2007) is proud to invite you to participate in its 4th The Festival fee is USD195 (RMB1300) per person. This
annual choral festival to be held at Dulwich College Shanghai covers all meals, the Festival t-shirt, refreshments, bus
from Wednesday, 16th to Sunday, 20th February 2011. transfers, workshop fees, venue rental and the after concert FEAST
R’S
party. Accomodation is not included and schools should BELSHAZZA
ISCMS has gone from strength to strength since its inaugural make their own arrangements with the Grand Metro Park or
Festival in 2008, a performance of the Faure Requiem. This was Diamond Court Hotel, both less than ten minutes from the
followed in 2009 by a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria held at College. Bus transfers to and from the hotel are included. All
Be part of this exciting festival bringing musical
South Island School Hong Kong, increasing the standard and information and booking forms are available on our website
performance level further as we now build and expand. Last www.iscms.net stories to life in the world famous Shanghai Oriental
year’s Festival culminated in a very exciting performance of
Arts Centre Concert Hall. Relive the classic tale of
Mozart’s Requiem in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. The nature of this Festival and the ISCMS network is quality
driven, ambitious and progressive. If you participate in this
We currently have 18 member schools from Hong Kong, Singapore, year’s Festival we expect you and your students to have
Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Abu Dhabi and, learned all pieces before you arrive. This assures us of a
China. We continue to strive to grow, mature and solidify ISCMS certain level of performance expected by all member schools
as the premier Choral Music Network in this region. of ISCMS, and built on over the past three years.
in stimulating music workshops with practitioners.
This year, a choir of 200 will perform Belshazzar’s Feast, with This Festival is open to your best singers and orchestral
orchestral performers from participating schools, joined by players. They must be grade VIII or above (ABRSM). We
musicians from the Conservatoire in Shanghai and the best sincerely hope you consider participating in this year’s
players from several International schools in the Shanghai area. Festival. Our website can be found at www.iscms.net and
further inquiries can be made via ISCMS@dulwich-beijing.
We welcome back our patron and friend, Dr. Martin Adams. cn.
He also will give a presentation on the new IB set works. He
will advise throughout the Festival, including taking sectional
rehearsals and generally bring his enthusiasm and energy to all
we do.
We also welcome back Dr. Robert Hasty, the professor of orchestral
conducting at Northwestern University in Chicago. He will SHANGHAI ORIENTAL ARTS CENTRE
conduct Belshazzar’s Feast, he will also take sectional rehearsals
with the choir and offer an orchestral conducting master class for

2. PRACTITIONERS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Dr. David Curtin Ms. Christina Trulio Wednesday 16th February
A native of Rochester, New York, pianist Dr. A native Californian, Christina has lived in the
David Curtin earned his Doctor of Musical Arts Chicago area for 10 years where she continues her
degree from the University of Cincinnati College- career as a songwriter and guitar teacher, having
Conservatory of Music, his Master of Music included a detour to Boston where she received
degree from the University of Louisville School a degree in composition from Berklee College of
of Music, and his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor Music. Christina has always been a songwriter,
of Arts (in English) from the State University of
New York College at Fredonia. Dr. Curtin won Boss’s Son” at the age of 17. She has worked both Thursday 17th February
on her own and collaborated with writers from around the world,
annual competition, and the University of Cincinnati College- including Rique Pantoja (Brazilian pianist with Milton Nascimiento),
Conservatory’s Concerto Competition. His recent performances Don Grusin, and Kate Markowitz (vocalist with James Taylor). In the
have included appearances with the Ohio Valley Symphony as early ’90s, she had a platinum selling single in Germany.
soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, multiple engagements with the
East Mountain Artist Series in Albuquerque, and recitals at historic from around the world, at Berklee, in L.A. and in Chicago, but
Steinway Hall in New York City. An international teacher and especially by the singer/songwriters that were a part of the early L.A.
performer, Dr. Curtin recently held piano master classes in Shanghai music scene, where she performed at famous venues like McCabe’s
and Beijing, China. Dr. Curtin currently serves on the piano teaching and The Troubador.
faculty at Lock Haven University, an All-Steinway School in located
central Pennsylvania. He will be conducting Belshazzar’s Feast at Mr. Sam Matthews
this year’s festival. Sam Matthews, cellist and conductor, has a
multifaceted career as a professional musician and
Dr. Robert G. Hasty
Dr. Hasty is the associate director of orchestras, of chamber music, Mr.Matthews has collaborated
conductor of the Chamber Orchestra, with such international artists as Donald
Philharmonia, and Summer Orchestra at Sutherland, Amit Peled, Zhang Le and Xu Zhong.
Northwestern University. He teaches the graduate As an orchestral musician, he has performed with
and undergraduate conducting courses. the Singapore Symphony, the Shanghai Sinfonietta
He is an adjudicator, clinician and violinist. He and the Akron Symphony. Mr. Matthews is currently the associate
is the music director of the Merit Symphony artistic director and conductor for the Shanghai ProMusica Chamber
Orchestra Chicago, and the conductor of the Orchestra. Mr. Matthews also dedicates his time to educating the
National High School Music Institute Orchestra. He is also the former next generation of musicians through teaching at various schools
vice president of string education at the Southern California School including Dulwich College Shanghai and the Baltimore School for the
Band and Orchestra Association. His music research includes an Arts. Since 2006, he has run an instrument exporting/retail business
investigation into critical listening while conducting. He presented and in his free time, makes violin, viola and cello bows. Mr. Matthews
his paper at the international meeting of the European Society for has studied conducting with Kenneth Kiesler, Markand Thakar and
Cognitive Sciences of Music. He studied conducting with Victor Gustav Meier and will be conducting the Pomp and Circumstance
Yampolsky and violin with Alice Schoenfeld. March for ISCMS.
Dr. Martin Adams Mr Matthew Goss
Dr. Adams studied at Southampton University, Matthew Goss graduated from the Victorian
and for a number of years was active as a composer College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia; receiving
and arranger of theatre music, and as a conductor a Bachelor of Music Performance in Improvisation.
of semi-professional choirs and orchestras. For He has worked performing both as a pianist and
three years he lectured at Leeds University, and saxophonist with various groups ranging from
in 1979 moved to Trinity College Dublin, where Latin Jazz Orchestras to various Jazz ensembles.
he is a Senior Lecturer, a Fellow of the college Following several year of performing Matthew
and head of the Music Department. His research returned to education at Deakin University where
interests lie in English music of the 17th century, mainly Purcell, and he was awarded a Bachelor of Teaching. Since then Matthew has led
the late-19th early-20th centuries, mainly Elgar, on whose music he Music and Arts departments in Melbourne, Singapore and Shanghai.
has written several analytical papers. Henry Purcell: the Origins In his capacity as a Musical Director, he has conducted at Hamer Hall
and Development of His Musical Style (Cambridge, 1995) is the in Melbourne. He has also directed and conducted various musical
only extensive and detailed study of that composer’s compositional productions and school orchestras. He now plans to focus his musical
practice, and has just become available in paperback. talents in the area of conducting and Music Education. He will be
conducting Peter and the Wolf for ISCMS.