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Library

The library at Cornish College specializes in art, dance, design, music, performance production, and theatre. As of 2011 it holds 4700 CDs, 40,000 books, has 2,200 videos, and subscribes to 154 periodicals. Its special collections include an image collection and 35mm slides.

Presidents

  • Nancy Uscher (2011)
  • Sergei P. Tschernisch (1994–2011)
  • Nellie Cornish
    Nellie Cornish
    Nellie Centennial Cornish was a pianist, teacher, writer, and founder of the Cornish School in Seattle, Washington. She was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas about teaching broader values through music education...

     (1914–1939)

Notable faculty

Music
  • Bun-Ching Lam
    Bun-Ching Lam
    Lam Bun-Ching is a composer, pianist, and conductor.She holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong . She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds,...

  • Jay Clayton
    Jay Clayton
    Jay Clayton is an internationally acclaimed avant-garde vocalist and jazz educator.- Early years :...

  • Gary Peacock
    Gary Peacock
    Gary Peacock is an American jazz double-bassist.-Biography:After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio , and Albert Ayler's trio...

  • Adam Stern (conductor)
    Adam Stern (conductor)
    Adam Stern is an American conductor. Born in Hollywood, Stern was trained at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in conducting in 1977 at the age of twenty-one, the youngest music student in CalArts' history to receive a Master's degree.Following years as a...

  • Guy Anderson
    Guy Anderson
    Guy Anderson , born in Edmonds, Washington, was an American Abstract Expressionism painter. Along with Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, Anderson was identified in a Life Magazine article as one of the "northwest mystics," also known as the Northwest School.-Early...

  • Bern Herbolsheimer
    Bern Herbolsheimer
    -Biography:Bern Herbolsheimer has received recognition throughout the United States and Europe for over 500 works ranging from ballet to symphonic, operatic, chamber and choral works. His numerous major commissions and premieres have included ballets for the Frankfurt Ballet, the Atlanta Ballet,...

  • Eric Banks
  • John Cage
    John Cage
    John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

  • Randy Halberstadt
    Randy Halberstadt
    Randy Halberstadt is an American jazz pianist, composer, recording artist, author, and teacher. In addition to leading his own trio and producing his own recordings , he has performed with Herb Ellis, Buddy DeFranco, Nick Brignola, Terry Gibbs, Slide Hampton, Pete Christlieb, Bobby Shew, Joe...

  • Christopher DeLaurenti
    Christopher DeLaurenti
    Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle-based composer, improvisor, and phonographer. A new music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles. His electro-acoustic works are composed of field recordings and often deal with political issues, political protests in particular...

  • Janice Giteck
    Janice Giteck
    -Biography:Giteck grew up in Hicksville, Long Island and moved to Arizona when she was twelve years old. She attended Mills College, completing her Master's in 1969 and studying under Darius Milhaud. She later studied under Olivier Messiaen, and following this she studied percussion with Daniel...

  • Stephen Stubbs
    Stephen Stubbs
    Stephen Stubbs is a lutenist and music director and has been a leading figure in the European early music scene for nearly thirty years....

  • Ingrid Matthews
    Ingrid Matthews
    Ingrid Matthews is a violinist and Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra,Ingrid Matthews is recognized as one of the leading baroque violinists and period instrument performers...

  • Julian Priester
    Julian Priester
    Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...

  • Jovino Santos-Neto
    Jovino Santos-Neto
    Jovino Santos-Neto is a Brazilian American jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, educator and producer....

  • Chuck Deardorf
    Chuck Deardorf
    Chuck Deardorf, is an American musician, best known for playing double bass and bass guitar with numerous internationally known Jazz musicians....

  • Wayne Horvitz
    Wayne Horvitz
    Wayne Horvitz is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer.-Biography:Horvitz, a "defiant cross-breeder of genres", has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble...

  • Paul Taub
    Paul Taub
    Born in New York City, flutist Paul Taub has been a resident of Seattle and a Cornish College of the Arts faculty member since 1979. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, and has studied with some of the world’s greatest flutists including...

  • Tom Varner
    Tom Varner
    Tom Varner is an American jazz horn player and composer.Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey. He holds a B.M...

  • Linda Waterfall
    Linda Waterfall
    Linda Waterfall is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter. She has recorded more than 10 albums beginning with her first in 1977.-Career:...

  • Art Lande
    Art Lande
    Art Lande is a jazz pianist, drummer, composer and educator.Born in New York City, he began piano at age 4, studied at Williams College, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969. He made the first record of his own compositions in 1973 for ECM Records, in a duo with saxophonist/flutist Jan...

  • Vicki Boeckman
    Vicki Boeckman
    Recorder artist Vicki Boeckman is an American performer and educator. She was introduced to the recorder while studying flute at California State University, Northridge. In 1981, she moved to Denmark to continue her studies and teach at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, returning to the United...

  • Seattle Chamber Players
    Seattle Chamber Players
    The Seattle Chamber Players are a chamber ensemble focused on contemporary music, founded in 1989 in Seattle, Washington, U.S. In January 2004, the group was awarded the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming....

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Corigliano Quartet
    Corigliano Quartet
    The Corigliano Quartet is a classical music string quartet founded in 1996 with the blessing of the Pulitzer-, Grammy-, and Oscar-winning John Corigliano. "They are truly one of the great quartets of the new generation," said the composer...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell
    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Lou Harrison
    Lou Harrison
    Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Myra Melford
    Myra Melford
    Myra Melford is a jazz pianist and composer. In recent years, Melford has begun playing the harmonium as well as piano.Melford grew up in the Chicago area...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Jody Diamond
    Jody Diamond
    Jody Diamond is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator. She specializes in traditional and new music for Indonesian gamelan and is active internationally as a scholar, performer, and publisher.-Biography:She received a B.A. from the University of California,...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Matt Wilson (musician)
    Matt Wilson (musician)
    Matt Wilson is a singer/songwriter who is best known as the not overly serious lead of the band Trip Shakespeare. While Matt was an English concentrator at Harvard he met John Munson and Elaine Harris and formed the band Trip Shakespeare. After the breakup he was a drummer for a Minneapolis band...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Meredith Monk
    Meredith Monk
    Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Butch Morris
    Butch Morris
    Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Before his musical career, Morris served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War....

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa
    Rudresh Mahanthappa
    Rudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.Mahanthappa was born in Trieste, Italy, and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1992 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Frank J. Oteri
    Frank J. Oteri
    Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Robert Dick (flautist) (artist-in-residence)
  • Hossein Omoumi
    Hossein Omoumi
    Hossein Omoumi is a scholar and teacher of Persian music, who is Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts of music at the University of California, Irvine. He has performed at many concerts and music festivals as a player of the ney, the traditional reed flute of Iran.-External links:*...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Melia Watras
    Melia Watras
    Described as "staggeringly virtuosic" by The Strad, Melia Watras is a prominent American violist. She is active as a performer and recording artist, both as a soloist and co-founder of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet...

     (artist-in-residence)

Dance
  • Martha Graham
    Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...

  • Merce Cunningham
    Merce Cunningham
    Mercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...

  • Ralph Lemon
    Ralph Lemon
    Ralph Lemon was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lemon has been classified as many things; an African American dancer, a choreographer, company director, a writer and a visual artist but he chooses to categorize himself as a conceptualist. He was raised in a religious environment where as a child...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Mark Morris
    Mark Morris
    Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Syvilla Fort
    Syvilla Fort
    Syvilla Fort was an American dancer, choreographer, and dance educator.Born in Seattle, she was African American and drew on her heritage in her original dance works....

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Donald McKayle
    Donald McKayle
    Donald McKayle is an African American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and 60s that focus on expressing the human condition and more specifically, the black experience in America...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Bill Evans (dancer)
    Bill Evans (dancer)
    Bill Evans is an internationally-known choreographer, performer, teacher, administrator, and movement analyst. More than 200 of Evans' works have been performed by professional and pre-professional ballet, modern dance, and tap companies through the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Europe and...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Seán Curran
    Seán Curran
    Seán Curran is an American dancer and choreographer. Curran's dance company, the Seán Curran Company is based in New York City.As a boy in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, Curran began dancing by learning traditional Irish step dancing...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • David Dorfman (choreographer)
    David Dorfman (choreographer)
    David Dorfman is a dancer, choreographer, musician, activist and teacher. A native of Chicago, IL, he received his bachelor of science in business administration degree in 1977 from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Bebe Miller
    Bebe Miller
    Bebe Miller is an American choreographer, dancer and director.-Biography:Daughter of an elementary school teacher and a ship steward, Bebe Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. She was raised in a public housing project in the Red Hook Nieghborhood...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Ralph Lemon
    Ralph Lemon
    Ralph Lemon was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lemon has been classified as many things; an African American dancer, a choreographer, company director, a writer and a visual artist but he chooses to categorize himself as a conceptualist. He was raised in a religious environment where as a child...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Liz Lerman
    Liz Lerman
    Liz Lerman is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.They have appeared at the National Cathedral, Kennedy Center Opera House, and Millennium Stage, Lansburgh Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.She plans to retire...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Alonzo King
    Alonzo King
    Alonzo King is an American dancer and choreographer working in San Francisco, California. He is known for founding a contemporary ballet company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, in 1982....

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.-Early years:Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.she spend hours working on it to help her...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Elizabeth Streb
    Elizabeth Streb
    Elizabeth Streb is an American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance.-Background:Streb was born and raised in Rochester, New York and, after graduating from the dance program of State University of New York at Brockport in 1972, she was interested in experimental works and...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • David Gordon (choreographer) (artist-in-residence)
  • Steve Paxton
    Steve Paxton
    Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown...

     (artist-in-residence)
  • Jennifer Tipton
    Jennifer Tipton
    Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera.In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University...

    (artist-in-residence)

Theater
  • Robert Sandberg
  • Amy Thone
  • Rinde Eckert (artist in residence)
  • Ping Chong
    Ping Chong
    Ping Chong is an American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. He was born in Toronto and raised in the Chinatown section of New York City...

     (artist in residence)


Performance Production
  • Karen Gjelsteen
  • Ron Erickson
  • Greg Carter
    Greg Carter
    Greg Carter is the founding Artistic Director of Strawberry Theatre Workshop , a non-profit theatre company in Seattle, Washington. He works as a freelance director, designer, and stage manager and teaches at Cornish College of the Arts...

  • Dave Tosti-Lane


Fine Art
  • William Cumming
    William Cumming (artist)
    William "Bill" Cumming is a noted 20th century artist and a founder of the Northwest School....

  • Morris Graves
    Morris Graves
    Morris Cole Graves was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.-Early years:...

  • Gary Hill
    Gary Hill
    Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...

  • Charles Stokes
    Charles Stokes
    Charles Stokes was a painter and sculptor and a prominent member of the last generation of artists identified with the Northwest School. He was the first winner of the prestigious Betty Bowen Award in concert with the Seattle Art Museum in 1979...

  • Mark Tobey
    Mark Tobey
    Mark George Tobey was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the...

  • Ron Wigginton
    Ron Wigginton
    Ron Wigginton is an American artist and landscape architect. Wigginton has won numerous awards for his landscape designs and built projects. His paintings and sculptures are found in West Coast museums and many private collections...

  • Ellen Forney
    Ellen Forney
    Ellen Forney is a cartoonist and teacher based in Seattle, Washington, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and The Stranger , among other publications. Her most recent collection is called Lust...

  • John Butler (artist)
    John Butler (artist)
    John Davidson Butler , was an American artist from Seattle, Washington. He worked primarily as a painter, but later also as a printmaker and ceramicist....

  • Thomas J. Duffy
    Thomas J. Duffy
    Thomas J. Duffy is a designer/craftsman whose present work is the conceptualization and creation of curved doors using lasers. Duffy has also crafted one-of-a-kind cabinets, chairs, and other furniture. For many years, Duffy also made St. Lawrence River rowing skiffs. One of his furniture works is...

  • Windsor Utley
    Windsor Utley
    Windsor Utley was an American musician, artist, teacher and gallery owner, closely associated with the painter Mark Tobey.Utley was born in Laguna, California in 1920...

  • Imogen Cunningham
    Imogen Cunningham
    Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:...

     (artist in residence)


Notable alumni

Dance
  • Merce Cunningham
    Merce Cunningham
    Mercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...

  • Ann Reinking
    Ann Reinking
    Ann Reinking is an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. She has worked extensively in musical theatre, both as a dancer and choreographer, as well as appearing in film.-Biography:...



Music
  • Nick Rolfe
  • Reggie Watts
    Reggie Watts
    Reggie Watts is a Seattle-based comedian and musician. His shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness stand-up in various shifting personae, mixed with loop pedal-based a cappella compositions. He also performs regularly on television, radio, and in live theater...

  • Steve White of The Blue Man Group
  • Michael Wilton
    Michael Wilton
    Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981...

  • Betty X
    Betty X
    Betty X, is an American musician, artist, and writer known for her controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Betty X. Her stage name was formed the combination of 1950's American icons, domestic goddess Betty Crocker, pin-up model Bettie Page with the human...

  • Wendell Yuponce
    Wendell Yuponce
    Wendell J. Yuponce is an Emmy-winning composer and percussionist. He has written for film , television as well as numerous television commercials...



Theater
  • Jane Adams (actress)
    Jane Adams (actress)
    Jane Adams is an American film, television and theatre actress.- Early life :Adams was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Janice, an administrative assistant, and William Adams, an engineer. She has a younger brother, Jonathan, and was raised in Wheaton, Illinois and Bellevue, Washington...

  • Chet Huntley
    Chet Huntley
    Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.-Early life:...

  • Brendan Fraser
    Brendan Fraser
    Brendan James Fraser is a Canadian-American film and stage actor. Fraser portrayed Rick O'Connell in the three-part Mummy film series , and is known for his comedic and fantasy film leading roles in major Hollywood films, including Encino Man , George of the Jungle , Dudley Do-Right , Monkeybone ,...

  • C.S. Lee
    C.S. Lee
    Charles S. "Charlie" Lee , known professionally as C.S. Lee, is a Korean American actor, most notably known for playing Vince Masuka on the Showtime series Dexter.-Personal life:...

  • Wolfe Bowart
    Wolfe Bowart
    Wolfe Bowart is a modern-day physical comedian, actor and playwright whose work is reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. His current touring productions include Letter's End, LaLaLuna and The Man the Sea Saw...

  • David Gasman
    David Gasman
    David Gasman is an actor, director and translator who also directs dubbing of films, cartoons, video games and documentaries. He has appeared in many popular cartoons and video games, such as Rayman and Code Lyoko...

  • Lady Rizo
    Lady Rizo
    Lady Rizo is a comedienne and chanteuse who began performing in New York in 2004. In 2005 she co-created the cult caburlesque show "Lady Rizo and the Assettes" with her close friend and dancer, Amber Star. Coining the word 'caburlesque', the show drew inspiration from theater, vaudeville,...



Fine Art
  • Clayton Lewis
    Clayton Lewis
    Clayton Scott Lewis was an American artist known primarily for his work as an envelope artist and jewelry designer.- Life and career :...

    , painter and sculptor
  • James McMullan
    James McMullan
    James McMullan is an illustrator and designer of theatrical posters.Born in Tsingtao, China, where his grandparents had emigrated from Ireland as missionaries for the Anglican Church, he and his mother fled to Canada at the onset of World War II. In 1944, he enrolled at St. Paul's Boarding School...

  • Felicia Oh
    Felicia Oh
    Felicia Linda Oh is an Asian American black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under senior instructor Jean Jacques Machado, an accomplished submission grappling competitor, martial arts instructor, and college professor.-Biography:Felicia began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in early 2001 after being...

  • SuttonBeresCuller
  • Mark Velasquez
    Mark Velasquez
    Mark Velasquez is a photographer who competed on the first season of Bravo's reality television competition, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.-Early life:...

  • Nancy Wilson (rock musician)


Film
  • Colleen Atwood
    Colleen Atwood
    Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer.Atwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002, Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006, and Alice in Wonderland in 2011. Atwood has collaborated several times with...

    , costume designer, three-time Academy Award winner


Design

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