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Annual Honors Banquet Recognizes Student Achievements
May 17, 2012This past Tuesday, conservatory students, faculty, and administrators gathered for the Honors & Awards Banquet. The annual tradition distinguishes certain students for demonstrating excellence in their areas of undergraduate study as well as in performance, music education, graduate study, and professional development. “Without question, the reason to be at Oberlin is the students,” Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull says.
Student and Faculty Team Present at Professional Music Theory Conference
by Marina Kifferstein ’12 - May 15, 2012Assistant Professor of Music Theory Sigrun Heinzelmann and her student, Amy Hess ’12, will be presenting a paper at the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of Music Theory Midwest on May 18–19, 2012. Hosted by the University of Michigan, the professional conference features a selection of music theory presentations by scholars in the field. Acceptance at this conference is based on a blind, peer-review process and is highly competitive. Most of the selected papers come from university professors and graduate students; Hess is the only undergraduate who will present at this year’s conference.
Alexander Malikov ’12 to be Featured on Performance Today
by Marina Kifferstein '12 - May 11, 2012Beginning May 14, senior pianist Alexander Malikov ’12 will be featured as Young Artist in Residence on the highly acclaimed radio show, Performance Today. The Minnesota based program, which was created by National Public Radio and is now produced by American Public Media, is America’s most popular classical music radio show.
Sullivan Fortner ’08 Awarded Prestigious Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship
by Marina Kifferstein ’12 - May 09, 2012Jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner ’08 has been awarded the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship by the Leonore Annenberg Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. The Fund offers awards each year to exceptionally talented young artists who have completed their formal training and “possess the potential to become the cultural and community leaders of the next generation.”
Photo by Dale Preston
Children’s Concert Series Continues Decades-Long Tradition of Engagement, Education
May 09, 2012“They got it right, and on the first try, too," says the harshest of critics, a child who attended this year's Children's Concert. Sponsored by the music education department, the series celebrates nearly three decades of engaging and educating area school children in the culture of the concert hall.
Photo by Jennifer Manna
Professor John Knight Retires after 34 Years of “Extraordinary Service”
by Marina Kifferstein ’12 - May 08, 2012“I think of Oberlin as Camelot in the cornfields,” John Knight says, “and I’m very grateful and thankful for the beautiful collection of memories I have received here.” Professor Knight directs his final concert with College Community Winds on Thursday, May 10 at 8:00 p.m. The concert, held in Finney Chapel, will feature works by Mussorgsky and Elgar, among others, and is free; no tickets are required.
Lawrence Galloway, Creative Arts alumnus and OJE member, takes his solo during the final concert of the school's annual jazz festival.
Oberlin Jazz Ensemble Travels to Creative Arts High School in Camden, NJ
by Matt Gold ’13 - May 08, 2012Camden, New Jersey, is a difficult city in which to lead a school music program. Connections through Oberlin's Music in America initiative provided the opportunity for the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble to teach and perform at Camden's Creative and Performing Arts High School in April. OJE will perform much of the same repertoire on its free concert in Finney Chapel on May 12 at 8 p.m.
Musicology Department Wins Two Fulbrights, Hands Hall Prize Down through Generations
Andrew Willens ’12 - May 07, 2012“There’s this interesting circularity,” Charles McGuire, professor of musicology, says about the fact that he and his advisee are both winners of a 2012 Fulbright. The mentorship also manifests itself in the awarding of the department's prestigious Hall Prize to student and Fulbright winner Rachel Dickstein, which McGuire himself earned as a conservatory student.
Daniel Walden ’12 Awarded Prestigious Gates Scholarship
Feb 24, 2012Daniel Walden ’12, a double-degree student with majors in classics and piano performance, has been awarded a full scholarship to pursue a master’s program at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar.
Two Students Receive Goldwater Scholarship
Apr 09, 2012Adam Birdsall, a fourth-year double-degree student, and Melanie Malinas, a junior biochemistry major, have been selected from more than 1,000 math, science, and engineering students nationwide to receive a highly competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Star Trek Actor John de Lancie to Narrate Sneetches World Premiere at Oberlin Conservatory
Andrew Willens - Apr 05, 2012John de Lancie, best known for his role as "Q" in Star Trek: The Next Generation will narrate the premiere of The Sneetches on Tuesday, April 17, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. The Sneetches, composed by Lorenzo Palomo, is a symphonic poem and is based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The concert will also feature pieces by Glinka, Gershwin, and Tchaikowsky. Free admission; no tickets are required.
Photo by Josie Davis '15
Oberlin Celebrates more than Two Decades of Music Education in Panama
Marina Kifferstein '12 - Mar 23, 2012Each January, a group of Oberlin Conservatory students travel to Panama to teach at a summer music camp. Although long time program coordinator Joanne Erwin reportedly has no trouble recruiting students on an all expenses paid summer vacation in January, the students get much more out of the trip than tan lines and vitamin D.
