PROVOST'S SPOTLIGHT SERIES
A Night of Arts and Culture

The Penn Humanities Forum and
Department of Music proudly present
Penn undergraduates performing in

THE VARIETIES OF MUSICAL TIME
Student Creativity in Action

About the performers...

When Leonardo Dugan graduates in May 2002 with a major in Music, he plans to pursue a doctorate in music composition and eventually compose and teach music. He's been on the Dean's List at Penn since he was a freshman and received a Phi Beta Kappa award in high school. His greatest musical influences? Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bartok, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, and Me'shell Ndegeocello.

Timothy Yue is a Math major (SAS'02) who wants to apply his degree in Math to become a professional tap dancer and filmmaker. Favorite musical genres: Jazz, Blues, Mongolian Throat-singing. Favorite albums: This One's for Blanton, Duke Ellington and Ray Brown; Quest, John Blake; Nevermind, Nirvana. Favorite artists, solo: John Blake, Miles Davis, Robert Johnson. Favorite tap dancers: Lavaughn Robinson, Teddy Hale, Robert Burden. Favorite artists, bands: Chick Webb and his orchestra, Buena Vista Social Club, The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Andrew (Drew) Armstrong (SAS '03) is an English major (creative prose writing) and music minor. He has been studying the cello since age eight. He was principal cellist of the Pioneer H.S. Symphony Orchestra, regarded as one of the best ensembles in Michigan and a veteran outfit of national-level orchestral competition under the baton on Ms. Mary-Jean Quigly-Young. He now studies with Prof. Jeffrey Solow of Philadelphia, an internationally respected teacher, performer, and recording artist, recipient of two grammy nominations, and authority on efficient cello technique. In the summer of 2000, Andrew, Clare Wang, Megan McGill, and Jayon You founded the Penn Chamber Music Society, and watched it quickly grow. Andrew also works at the Daily Pennsylvanian as an editor, and hopes to go into newspapers or magazines after graduation.

Megan McGill (SAS '03) is majoring in the Biological Basis of Behavior and hopes to become a neuroscientist. She is on the Dean's Advisory Board and is president of the Women's Club basketball team. Among her Penn awards: Dean's List, the BBB/Racklin Internship, and in high school she was a national merit scholar and St. Louis Scholar Athlete. She has won the Beethoven Competition, Yamaha Competition, Alton Symphony Orchestra appearances, and semi-finalist international piano competitions.

A junior in the College, Clare Wang plans to major in biology and in English with a concentration in medieval and renaissance literature. She began taking violin lessons at age eight and has most recently studied with Wendy Sharp of the Yale School of Music and Victor Romanul of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Some of her most memorable symphonic experiences include performing under the batons of David Hoose and Joseph
Silverstein and accompanying James Earl Jones in his narration of Tchaikovsky's Peter and the Wolf. Clare's interest in chamber music began when she attended California Summer Music in 1997, a chamber music
festival located in Monterey, CA. She hopes to pursue a career in medicine after she graduates in 2003.