Piano Master Class with Continuum Members Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs

Joel Sachs, piano and co-director

JOEL SACHS, co-director of Continuum, has conducted at major festivals throughout the world, has been music director for experimental operas, and performs extensively as a pianist. At Juilliard he conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, and directs the annual “Focus!” festival of new music. He is also Artistic Director of Juilliard concerts at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Summergarden” festival. His diverse appearances include orchestra concerts in China, El Salvador, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and residencies in Brazil. Joel Sachs can be heard with Continuum on Nonesuch, CRI, TNC, and Naxos recordings, among others. He also recorded intercultural music of the Americas with Mexico City’s La Camerata de las Americas, and Icelandic music with the Reykjavik chamber orchestra Caput. He received Columbia University’s Alice M. Ditson Award to a conductor for service to American music. A graduate of Harvard, he received the Ph. D. at Columbia. He is writing a biography of Henry Cowell, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Cheryl Seltzer, piano and co-director

CHERYL SELTZER, pianist, has been co-director of Continuum since she co-founded it in 1966. Active in contemporary music since studying at Mills College with composers Darius Milhaud, Leon Kirchner, and Lawrence Moss, she also holds graduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University. Mrs. Seltzer made her professional debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and appears as a soloist and ensemble performer in contemporary and traditional music. She has participated in the Marlboro and Tanglewood Festivals, and has recorded for Naxos, new Albion, TNC, Vox, Nonesuch, CRI, and Musical Heritage Society, among others. She is on the faculty of the Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance (New York), where she directed the Young People’s Program for ten years, and an officer of the Stefan Wolpe Society, which oversees the restoration, publication, and promotion of the composer’s works.

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