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Delores Bing (center) with students following their Brahms Piano Quartet performance
Delores Bing has directed Caltech's chamber music program since its founding in 1979. She has organized and coached in excess of 900 small ensembles of Caltech students. Along with her husband, William Bing, who directs Caltech's concert band and jazz bands, she was awarded the 16th Annual Excellence in Teaching Award by the Associated Students of Caltech, and honorary membership in the Caltech Alumni Association.
Educated at Drake University and the University of Southern California, Delores Bing also maintains a busy schedule as a cellist in numerous ensembles in the Los Angeles area. She has performed as a guest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with whom she made 5 recordings under the baton of Gerard Schwartz. She frequently performs with the Los Angeles Master Chorale Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has served as principal cellist with the Orchestra, both in concert and recording. In addition, she has played on the soundtracks of more than 100 motion pictures and television shows ranging from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek to Wall-E.
Robert Ward
Robert Ward pursues an active international career as pianist, orchestral conductor, chamber musician, artistic director of music festivals, juror at international competitions, and master teacher. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Prix di Positano for outstanding performance of Beethoven's piano music, an Austrian Government Grant for study in Vienna, and a Fulbright Award for study in Italy with Wilhelm Kempff. A native of Illinois, his early teachers were former pupils of Isabelle Vengerova, Artur Schnabel, and Emil von Sauer, one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. Later in New York, he coached with Dorothy Taubman.
Long admired for his performances of the Viennese classical composers, Robert Ward is also a proponent of American music, giving many first performances abroad, including works by Gershwin, Cage, and Samuel Barber whose Piano Concerto he introduced on a 10-country tour of South America sponsored by the U.S. State Department. He is active at summer festivals world-wide, including the AMEROPA Chamber Music Festival in Prague; the Liszt Piano Academy in Sopron, Hungary; Corso Internazionale di Musica da Camera in Positano, Italy; and at Tunghai University in Taiwan. With colleagues from Vienna, he founded and directs Piano*Fest*Austria, an international festival in Vienna dedicated to the study and performance of Mozart Concerti.
Renowned as a master teacher, Robert Ward has produced prize-winning students in national and international competitions. In 2002, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts honored Robert Ward as a Distinguished Teacher in the Arts for inspiring young artists and "having the most profound influence on their artistic development." Professor Ward has taught on the faculties of the University of Southern California and UCLA in Los Angeles, and is currently Professor of Piano at California State University and Occidental College and teaches chamber music at the California Institute of Technology.
William Bing has been teaching at Caltech since 1971. In addition to his duties at Caltech, Bill plays and teaches trumpet in the Los Angeles area. Bill has played trumpet with everyone from the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to Henry Mancini. He has appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, the Music Center of Los Angeles County, and has performed for movie soundtracks, television, and commercials.
Bill and his wife, Delores, were the recipients of the 16th annual "Excellence in Teaching Award" from the Associated Students of Caltech.
Donald E. Hudson Visiting Artists
The Donald E. Hudson Chamber Music Fund honors the memory of a lifelong lover of chamber music who served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Caltech. Donald Hudson’s brother Richard established the fund in 2001, in recognition of the interest they shared in chamber music when they were both undergraduates at Caltech.
Donald E. Hudson Visiting Artists are distinguished Los Angeles area musicians who serve as guest coaches in Caltech’s chamber music program. These visiting artists coach chamber ensembles on a weekly basis as they prepare for performances. Specialists in violin, viola, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon have served as Donald E. Hudson Visiting Artists.
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