About us

Joan Forsyth

Head of the Faculty

Canadian pianist Joan Forsyth, is a multi-faceted musician who has received critical acclaim as a soloist and chamber music artist. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Library of Congress, and collaborated with the Cassatt Quartet, the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center and Cygnus. She has toured the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Russia with Cygnus with programs of new American music and has performed in Japan with Trio Spark! Recent performances have been at the Austria Summer Music Festival, Inter-Harmony Music Festival, and the Festival of New American Music at CalState Sacramento, and FIC21 in Mexico. Joan Forsyth has recorded for Furious Artisans, Soundspells, Albany and CRI. In addition to her position as Piano Chairperson at the Third Street Music School, Dr. Forsyth is on the music faculty of Bennington College.

William Anderson

Head of the Composers’ Forum

Guitarist/composer William Anderson began performing chamber music at Tanglewood at age 19. He now performs in guitar festivals and new music festivals in Europe, the U.S., Latin America and in Japan. In New York Anderson performs regulalry with many ensembles including Sequitur, and the Cygnus Ensemble, which he founded in 1985. For ten years he was a member of the Theater Chamber Players in Washington D.C., under the direction of Leon Fleisher and Dina Koston. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Players, under James Levine, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Da Capo Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae and the York Philharmonic.

Anderson appears on many CD recordings, and he has made four CDs that feature him: The Guitar Music of Meyer Kupferman, on Soundspells; Diary of a Seducer, on CRi; and Hausmusik, on Furious Artisans; and Music of J.K. Mertz on Titanic Records.

He appears on numerous other CDs on various lables including Koch, Bridge Records, and Open Space.

Anderson’s compositions have been heard on Danish National Radio, Polish National Radio, and at festivals including the Europe/Asia Festival in Kazan, the Weekend of Chamber Music in the Catskills, the Rotenburg Festival in Northern Germany, and various music festivals in Spain and Italy. He teaches guitar at Sarah Lawrence College, and at Queens College.

Kees Wieringa

Head of
France Summer Music YXIE

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Kees Wieringa is a Dutch pianist, composer, writer and cultural entrepreneur.
He came to prominence for his performances of the Dutch composers Jakob van Domselaer, Daniel Ruyneman and Simeon ten Holt. Kees Wieringa graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1986. He has built an international career over the years with his piano recitals and compositions.
Kees Wieringa was museum director of the Kranenburgh Museum in Bergen, and since 2016 has been the director of the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Qatar. About his time in Qatar he published a bestseller ‘Inshallah’.
At the moment he established his own cultural center in the neighborhood of Paris, named YXIE – Manoir des Arts.

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