Kevin Noe, executive artistic director

Kevin Noe is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. A passionate supporter and promoter of composers, creators, and the arts of our time, Mr. Noe has commissioned and premiered over thirty new works written for new music ensembles and orchestras in the last five years alone. He has a particular interest in works which employ a variety of art forms including music, dance, theater, film, and visual arts, and he serves regularly as conductor, stage director, actor, and filmmaker for a variety of mixed-media, operatic, and theatrical productions. Mr. Noe is a co-founder of the newly formed company Now Here This which creates and performs new works in a wide variety of forms, and is currently in creation of its first multi-disciplinary work entitled Glass Witness.

Mr. Noe has held conducting posts at the University of Texas at Austin, Duquesne University, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Opera Center and he works regularly as a guest conductor with a wide variety of ensembles. Noe completed his graduate studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas where he received the prestigious Sally Shepherd Perkins Prize in Music and was awarded the Maurice Abravanel Fellowship as a conductor at the Tanglewood Festival. Mr. Noe’s principal conducting teacher was Larry Rachleff, and he also studied conducting with Robert Spano, Gunther Schuller, and Seiji Ozawa.

Paul Ford, technical director

Paul is an actor who resides in Pittsburgh. Most recently he appeared in Julius Ceasar with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and Baby’s Blues at The Pittsburgh Playhouse. Paul also appeared in Richard The II for Quantum Theatre, Coriolanus with Unseamíd Shakespeare co. and a host of productions at City Theatre Co. His favorites there include The Baltimore Waltz and Master Class.

Paul is currently the Technical Director at City Theatre and is entering his 17th season with the company. Paul is proud and excited to be joining Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble this season and would like to thank his partner Jerry for the well of love and support he provides.

Lindsey Goodman, flute

Lindsey Goodman has been described as a “legitimate virtuoso” who performs with “agility and emotion” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and “impressive artistry.” An avid performer of new music, “flutist Lindsey Goodman appears to know no fear in tackling the most demanding music” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). An advocate for emerging American composers and electroacoustic or multimedia works, Lindsey is an active commissioner of new pieces and has given over forty-five world premieres, including thirteen solo and chamber compositions written especially for her. Ms. Goodman is in her ninth season as the flutist for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and her solo recording debut of Russell Pinkston's Lizamander for flute and MAX/MSP is featured on PNME's most recent CD release, against the emptiness, on the New Dynamic Records label.

Known for her “superb,” “bravura performances” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), Lindsey has performed as a soloist throughout the eastern United States and Canada. Most recently, she has appeared in recital on the Sound Series at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, soloed at the June in Buffalo (NY) composers’ festival, and been in residence as a recitalist and clinician at the University of Akron (OH) and Frostburg State University (MD). Ms. Goodman has also performed with the new music band Alarm Will Sound in the Miller Theatre (NYC), with the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra (PA), and with the Montclaire String Quartet (WV).

As an orchestral musician, Ms. Goodman holds the Martha Gaines Wehrle Chair, having completed her third season as the principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, where she can be heard on that ensemble's first-ever CD release. Lindsey has also performed with the Toledo and Lima (OH) Symphony Orchestras, the Fort Wayne (IN), Erie (PA), and Tuscarawas (OH) Philharmonics, the Ohio Valley Symphony, and with the New World Symphony (FL).

A student of New York Philharmonic principal flutist Robert Langevin, Goodman also studied with Walfrid Kujala, former principal piccolo of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She received her masters degree from Northwestern University, her bachelors degree summa cum laude from Duquesne University, and a professional studies diploma from the Manhattan School of Music’s orchestral performance program. Born in Virginia and raised in Ohio, Lindsey resides outside Columbus, Ohio with her husband, percussionist and educator Chris Carmean, and their dog, Jack. There, she maintains an active teaching studio and moonlights as a soprano, golfer, and fashionista.

Conor Llewellyn Hanick, piano

An active performer and versatile musician, Conor Hanick’s performances have been hailed by the New York Times and Gramophone magazine as “excellent,” “brilliant,” “astounding” and “colorful,” demonstrating “technical precision and musical conviction,” and, in a 2009 performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Couleurs de l’cite celeste, reminded New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini of “a young Peter Serkin.”

As soloist, chamber musician and ensemble member, Mr. Hanick has been heard in the United States, Europe and Japan, and has performed in Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, Lucerne Hall, and Kyoto Concert Hall. He has appeared with Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, and David Robertson, in these performances covering an enormous variety of repertoire ranging from Franz Schreker and Francis Poulenc to Messiaen and Boulez, whose Derive I Mr. Hanick has performed twice under the baton of the composer. Mr. Hanick has also worked with Alfred Brendel, Peter Serkin, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, and members of Ensemble InterContemporain.

In 2009 Mr. Hanick was invited to perform with David Robertson and the Juilliard Orchestra in the inaugural concert of Alice Tully Hall’s reopening celebration, playing Messiaen’s ninety-minute piano concerto, Des canyons aux etoiles..., a work he also performed in 2008 with Jeffery Milarsky and the AXIOM Ensemble in Lincoln Center. In addition to his appearances with the Juilliard Orchestra and the AXIOM Ensemble, Mr. Hanick has been a soloist with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn in the concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestra Iowa in Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, the New Juilliard Ensemble in the opening concert of the 2007 FOCUS! Festival in György Kurtág's piano concerto, ...quasi una fantasia..., the Des Moines Symphony, and the Eastern Symphony Orchestra. This year Mr. Hanick also performs again with the Juilliard Orchestra in the world premiere of Hyeon Joon Sohn’s Piano Concerto, and later with members of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in two all-John Adams programs.

A devoted promoter of contemporary music, Mr. Hanick has collaborated with, commissioned, and performed works of composers from Northwestern University, Princeton University, Yale University, the Aspen Music Festival, Manhattan School of Music, and Juilliard, where in 2007 he performed solo piano works and collaborated with Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang in a series of concerts at Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and in 2009 worked with John Adams on the composer’s works for solo piano, and chamber ensemble. As part of the Lucerne Festival in 2008, Mr. Hanick worked with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain in works by Elliott Carter, Boulez, and Luciano Berio. Mr. Hanick is a member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, AXIOM, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and has performed with the Metropolis and NOW ensembles.

At age eight Mr. Hanick began studying violin and viola in the Iowa City Community School District before starting piano at age ten, two years later beginning studies at the University of Iowa with Daniel Shapiro and Rene Lecuona. In 2005 Mr. Hanick graduated with honors in piano and journalism from Northwestern University, studying piano with Alan Chow and Ursula Oppens.

Now a student at the Juilliard School, where he completed his master’s degree in 2008 and was awarded the Helen Fay prize in piano, Mr. Hanick is a full-scholarship C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio. He resides in New York City.

Timothy Jones, bass-baritone

Acclaimed in concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe, Timothy Jones is rapidly emerging as one of the leading bass-baritones of his generation. His eagerly anticipated performances combine intelligent musicianship, commanding vocal technique and a unique ability to connect with audiences. He is a champion of opera, the concert stage, chamber music, solo recitals and the premieres of contemporary works.

Jones has performed under Craig Hella Johnson, Martin Katz, David Mairs, Nicholas McGegan, Gustav Meier, Kevin Noe, Laurence Leighton Smith, and Christopher Wilkins. A favorite of contemporary composers, he has commissioned and premiered numerous compositions including works by Robert Avalon, James Balentine, Derek Bermel, Laura Carmichael, John Vasconcelos Costa, Ellwood Derr, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Heuser, Jeffrey Nytch, Doug Opel, and Joe Stuessy.

Jones is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano and voice at Centenary College and earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan, where he studied under the tutelage of distinguished professor George Shirley. He was the winner of the Alice Baird Award, the Joy Whitman Weinberger Award, the Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee Award for academic study and the Friends of Opera Competition. He was also awarded a fellowship at the Aspen Opera Theater Center where he was a winner in the Concerto/Aria Competition. Jones currently resides in Houston where he serves on the faculty of the University of Houston.

Norbert Lewandowski, cello

Norbert Lewandowski was born in Milwaukee, WI and began cello studies at the age of 13. He holds a Master’s degree in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music and currently resides in Charleston, SC where he is the principal cellist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Prior to his position in Charleston Norbert performed as a member of the Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Minnesota Opera, and the chamber music festival in Taos, New Mexico. He has also been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions including past performances with the New World Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Norbert's extensive experience with new music includes a wide array of performances and recordings with the groups Alarm Will Sound and Brave New Works, and was highlighted in early 2008 by an appointment as cellist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Norbert's cello was made by Emil Hjorth in Copenhagen, 1890, and is on a generous loan from the Virtu Foundation in Charlottesville, VA.

Campbell MacDonald, clarinet

Seattle native Campbell MacDonald is Principal Clarinet of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and a fixture at chamber music, opera, pop and orchestral music venues throughout the mid west. Campbell has appeared in numerous performances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Symphony and prior to joining the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in September of 2004, held positions in the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit and spent six summers in Mexico City, Mexico as Solo Clarinetist of La Orquésta Sinfónica de Minería. He has performed solo and chamber music recitals in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Oberlin, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids and Seattle.

In addition to his duties with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Campbell is an active chamber musician and performer of new music. In 2008 Campbell was invited to become a member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble for their annual summer season at Pittsburgh's City Theatre, and appeared with the ensemble in Scotland for performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (www.iceorg.org) and has performed with the group extensively throughout the country, including a concert at Columbia University's Miller Theatre praised by the New York Times as one of the “Top 10 Classical Music Moments of 2003”, and at Finney Chapel in Oberlin, Ohio as part of the prestigious Artist Recital Series at Oberlin College. Campbell's recent activities with ICE include appearances on the Bb contrabass clarinet in the acclaimed North American Premiere of the revised, fully-staged production of Iannis Xenakis' opera Oresteia at Miller Theatre in September, 2008 , as well as a performance at the grand opening gala of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York the following October. This coming August he will join ICE at Alice Tully Hall as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival in a performance of works by John Adams, with the composer conducting. He has made additional chamber music appearances with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, with the Seattle Chamber Players at Nordstrom Recital Hall and with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as part of the 8 Days in June festival.

Mr. MacDonald performed on the International Contemporary Ensemble's 2007 CD release of Huang Ruo's Chamber Concerto Cycle on the NAXOS label as well as the KOCH release of Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major by the Detroit Chamber Winds. Campbell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, attended DePaul University in Chicago, and has studied privately with Larry Combs, David Weber, Lawrence McDonald, and Laura DeLuca.

Chris McGlumphy, Director of Development & Sound Designer

From 2004 to 2006 Chris McGlumphy was Managing Director of Philadelphia’s new music ensemble Relâche. During this time he presented 26 concerts and 14 world premiere works, including a major new work from composer Gavin Bryars; an evening-length drama by the Minimum Security Composers Collective based on the books of Maurice Sendak; a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic silent The Lodger with a new live score by British composer Joby Talbot; and composer Jay Fluellen’s innovative tribute to Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday that brought together the Relâche Ensemble octet, a gospel choir, original poetry and film for special performances at the National Constitution Center and the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia.

From 2006 to 2008, Chris was Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society where he presented a series of 6 to 8 chamber music concerts per season featuring some of the world’s most renowned musicians. He also planned and implemented the largest special event in the organization’s history – a two-year, eight concert festival of string quartets that included the commissioning of four new works.

Chris has composed scores for a number of films, including the award winning independent feature Being Claudine, Vasarma’s Lovers, and the experimental silent film Synchronicity; as well as works for live theater such as Gibbous Moon, Inchoate’s Journal, James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and songs for the American premiere of Dario Fo’s The Devil With Boobs. Chris has also worked with the Music Department of ABC Television and for several years worked in the promotion department of one of America’s oldest and most respected classical music publishers, G. Schirmer, Inc. Chris completed his undergraduate studies at Dickinson College, where he earned a B.A. in Music and a B.S. in Mathematics, and his graduate work at New York University, where received an M.M. in Music Technology. While at NYU, he studied composition with Ken Valitsky, Nick Didkovsky, Philip Johnston, and Ron Sadoff; Max/MSP programming with Dafna Naphtali; and audio editing with Emmy winning sound editor Sean Huff.

Andy Ostrowski, lighting designer

Andy Ostrowski is pleased to be working for PNME once again. This past year has been quite busy for Andy, during which time he designed multiple shows for City Theater, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, the Pittsburgh Playhouse and 5 operas for Pittsburgh Opera. During the summer of 2003 he worked in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Munich as the Lighting Director for an international tour of Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess." He also had time to design "My Fair Lady" and "Funny Girl" for Civic Light Opera. He recently had the opportunity to be part of the world premiere of "RED" for the Pittsburgh Playhouse Conservatory, while his work on Pittsburgh Irish and Classical's production of "Faith Healer" was revived and toured 15 cities in Ireland.

Andy has also designed productions for Club Med and has worked and designed for the Spoleto Festival, USA. A prominent member of the Pittsburgh theatrical community for over a decade, Andy's work on "Grand Hotel" for the Playhouse Conservatory 2 years ago earned him a national merit award from the American College Theater Festival. He would like to thank his family and friends for their ongoing support.

Nathalie Shaw, violin

Nathalie Shaw was born in London in 1984 and made her concerto debut at the age of ten playing Mozart's D major Concerto. Since then she has appeared regularly as soloist in France, Italy and throughout the U.K. Her concerto repertoire is extensive and, over the last three years alone, she has performed concertos by Brahms, Bruch, Beethoven, Chausson, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Vieuxtemps and Vivaldi with orchestra. Her performances of Paganini's 1st Violin Concerto with the Leeds Sinfonia and Nottingham Symphony Orchestra were described as "heart-stopping," "dazzling" and "full of bubbling wit" (Nottingham Evening Post). She appeared as soloist in Stravinsky's Concertino conducted by Pierre Boulez in the 2008 Lucerne Festival.

Nathalie has given recitals in festivals and music clubs in the U.K., France, Italy and Switzerland. She has developed a wide-ranging recital repertoire and has a particular interest in 20th and 21st century music. This season, she has included works by Bruno Maderna, Lutoslawski and James Macmillan in her programs and gave the world premiere of Jérôme Combier"s Anima Foglia for solo violin in the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland this year. In November she gave further performances of this work written for her, including as part of "Le Louvre invite Pierre Boulez" series in the Louvre, Paris (broadcast live on french radio).

Nathalie studied in London with David Takeno, in the U.S.A. at the Meadowmount School of Music and, with the aid of a Zaleski Foundation Scholarship, in Paris and Italy with Olivier Charlier and Ana Chumachenko. Awarded her Premier Prix in Paris "à l'unanimité avec felicitations du jury" in 2004, in the same year she also became a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music (F.R.S.M.). Nathalie is a laureate of the Avignon International Violin Competition, the Vatelot-Rampal Violin Competition and in 2007, won 1st prize in the violin competition "Union Française des Musiciens" in Paris.

Nathalie was recently invited to play with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and Cologne. She joined PNME in 2008. Following a premiere performance of Arches for solo violin by Kevin Puts, The Pittsburgh Tribune described her virtuosity as "stunning" and "mesmerizing."

David Skidmore, percussion

David Skidmore is active as both a performer and composer of music for percussion. In addition to his work with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, David is a member of Third Coast Percussion, the Lucerne Festival Percussion Group, and Collide. He is a dedicated advocate for the music of our time, having commissioned, premiered, and performed dozens of new works by many of the great composers of the 20th and 21st century. David has been featured as a soloist in Chicago, London, and Sapporo, Japan. As a chamber musician, David has performed for the Music on the Edge series in Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Art Museum Concert Series, June in Buffalo, Klangspuren Schwaz, the Philharmonie Essen, the Ojai Music Festival, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Bang On a Can Marathon, the Princeton Composers’ Ensemble, and at three Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. He has performed with So Percussion, the Signal Contemporary Ensemble, and Contempo (the University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players). David has also performed as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Pacific Music Festival, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and the National Repertory Orchestra.

David’s compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and universities across the country. He was awarded 1st prize in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest and 2nd prize in the 2004 contest.

David received the Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and the Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. His teachers have included Robert Van Sice, Michael Burritt, James Ross, Paul Wertico, and Michael Hernandez.

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