San Francisco Conservatory of Music Announces 2014 Rubin Institute Fellows

San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announced the names of the 17 young writers participating in the public and private events comprising the 2014 The Rubin Institute for Music Criticism. Taking place in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area from November 5 through 10, 2014, the biennial Institute, now in its second season, is devoted to the advancement of classical music criticism and aims to be a positive force in the art of writing and talking about music, as well as a catalyst in sparking dialogue on the topic.

Birgit Hottenrott, Executive Director of the Rubin Institute, welcomed the Rubin Fellows, saying: "It is with pleasure that I introduce the 2014 Rubin Institute Fellows: from the University of California, Berkeley- Landon Bain, Christopher James King and Theodora Martin; from Stanford University- Joe Cadagin and Anna Whittstruck; from Oberlin Conservatory of Music- Daniel Hautzinger, Jarrett Hoffman, Zoe Madonna and Aaron Wolff; from Yale School of Music- Jacob Ashworth, Fiona Last, Daniel Schlosberg and Scarlett Tong Zuo, and from SFCM- Joseph Christianson, Brian Fitzsousa, Patrick Galvin and John Zientek. With various musical backgrounds encompassing studies in oboe, violin, guitar, cello, piano, composing, conducting, recording engineering, musicology, music history and singing, these young writers will bring an eagerness to both enhance their skills in the craft of writing music and to express their generation's perspectives on the art of music criticism."

During the week-long Institute, the Rubin Fellows will:

-attend the public Keynote Address by The New York Times Chief Music Critic Anthony Tommasini, which opens the Rubin Institute on November 5 at 5 PM at SFCM's Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall;

-review each of the four concerts offered November 6 through 9 presented by the 2014 Performance Partners: the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Cal Performances and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra;

-experience the reality of professional deadlines by having to submit their reviews by a specific time following each concert;

-have their work publicly and privately critiqued by the Institute's Writers Panel (Anne Midgette, Washington Post critic and author; Tim Page, professor, journalism and music, University of Southern California; John Rockwell, writer and arts critic; Alex Ross, The New Yorker magazine critic and author; Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal critic and author; and Rubin Institute benefactor Stephen Rubin, President and Publisher of Henry Holt & Co.);

-attend all Institute Public Panel discussions featuring members of the Institute's Faculty Critics November 6 and 8 at 2 PM at SFCM's Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, and November 9 at 11 AM at the University of California, Berkeley's Hertz Hall;

-attend all four pre-performance lectures given by: Alex Ross (November 6 at 7 PM, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco), Heidi Waleson (November 7 at 7:15 PM, Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco), Anne Midgette (November 8 at 6:35 PM, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco) and John Rockwell (November 9 at 2 PM Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley).

In addition, select Rubin Fellows' reviews will be:

-posted on the Institute's website;

-considered for the $10,000 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism, to be awarded to one of the Fellows at the Closing Ceremony of the Institute on November 10 at 10 AM at SFCM's Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall.

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