Josh Frank (MM ’06, orchestral trumpet)

Josh Frank is a highly sought after musician in New York City as a freelance trumpet performer with major classical ensembles, as well as a composer and music producer for major corporations. As an organizer and director, he has served as Managing Director of the Concert Series Classical Cafe at the 92nd Street Y and has served on the Board to Music Forward, a start up non-profit organization. As a composer and producer, Josh has worked with Corcoran Sunshine Group as well as Vornado Realty Trust as well as producing orchestral events for fashion companies such as Rock & Republic. As an active freelance trumpet performer, Josh has performed with many ensembles such as the Metropolitan Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Riverside Symphony, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Long Island Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, The New World Symphony, as well as performing and recording with the American Brass Quintet. He also performed and recorded with prominent indie rock artists such as Sufjan Stevens. Josh can often be heard at Lincoln Center’s hit show, South Pacific. For the past two summers, Josh has been performing and touring Japan as a soloist and principal trumpet with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. As a Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood, Josh was awarded the Andre Come Scholarship. In 2007, Josh started his own production company, Galien Productions, which creates and licenses music for media.

Suzanne Schwing (MM ’01, voice)

Suzanne Schwing, mezzo-soprano, was originally trained for the stage at LAMDA – the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art – and subsequently received her musical training at Boston University and Manhattan School of Music, where she studied voice and took an unofficial minor in orchestral conducting. Having begun her professional performing arts career in the theatre at the age of 13, Suzanne is now active as an actress, opera singer, music critic, and Shakespeare coach. As a singer, her repertoire ranges from early music to modern composers, covering a total of 12 languages. Since making the parallel leap into the world of opera and classical voice, Suzanne has performed in such venues as New York City Opera, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, the “Kitara” Concert Hall in Sapporo, Japan, and in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. Conductors with whom she has performed in solo and choral capacities include Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, James Levine, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, George Manahan, David Gilbert, Keith Lockhart, Peter Grunberg, James Conlon, Helmuth Rilling, and Sir Simon Rattle. An accomplished stage director and acting coach, Suzanne is currently preparing to direct a production of Macbeth with her own NY-based Shakespeare Workshop, which she founded in 2004; she also writes online as a freelance opera critic for Iconreviews at www.iconreviews.com.

Dylan Maulucci (BM '94, composition)

Dylan Maulucci has worked on motion pictures, TV, and media for over 10 years as a composer, orchestrator and conductor. After graduating from MSM, Dylan set out to Los Angeles in 1995 where he started as a tour guide at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Eventually he found his way into the music department as the assistant to the recording studio manager. There he met the late Michael Kamen during the recording of 101 Dalmatians in 1996. Michael gave him his first break as an assistant orchestrator on Lethal Weapon 4. Soon after, Dylan helped Michael on the first X-men. But it was MSM professor Dr. Erik Lundborg who really helped Dylan when he introduced him to composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek in 1999. Dylan has been Jan’s principal orchestrator since 2000 orchestrating for films such as Unfaithful, Lost Souls, War & Peace, and Pinocchio to name a few. You can hear Dylan’s latest orchestrations for Jan’s TV film Irena’s Children on CBS this April 19th, and the upcoming motion pictures City Island and The Horsemen. Dylan also produces his own travel show called Where To Go NY. In 2010, Dylan will be teaching various seminars at Rozbitek Institute in Pozan, Poland. Rozbitek is a new facility, soon to be completed, as a center for development of new work in the areas of film, theatre, music and new media co-founded by Jan A.P. Kaczmark.