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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
The Fredonia Marimba Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Kay Stonefelt, won First Place in the Open Small Ensemble category of The Education Africa Virtual International Marimba and Steelpan Festival held Dec. 5 through 13.
School of Music faculty member Fr. Sean Duggan will celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday with a streamed performance of three of the composer’s late sonatas, on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.
Fredonia School of Music alumna Lynne (Bona) Ruda has again been named one of 10 Finalists nationwide for the Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academy and GRAMMY Museum.
Faculty and alumni from the Fredonia School of Music were recognized with nominations for 2021 GRAMMYs.
The Hillman Opera, produced each year by the Fredonia School of Music in conjunction with the Hillman Memorial Music Association, is breaking new ground this year with a unique production in an online format. The production of “Beatrice and Benedict” will be available starting Nov. 27 on the School of Music’s YouTube channel, noted opera producer and Fredonia alumnus Dr. Robert Strauss of the School of Music.
The National Opera Association announced that Fredonia’s 2019 Hillman Opera production of “Cendrillion” by Jules Massenet, with the libretto by Henri Cain, has earned First Place in Division III of the association’s annual opera production competition. A total of 12 awards were presented to productions at colleges and universities nationwide.
The Institute for Composer Diversity (ICD), based at the Fredonia School of Music, has been chosen as a recipient of a $100,000 Sphinx Venture Fund (SVF) grant for 2021. The Detroit-based social justice organization is dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts.
School of Music Professor Natasha Farny will present a paper on three women composers for cello at the “Women are Not Born to Compose” virtual conference at the Luigi Boccherini Central Study Conference Center in Lucca, Italy.
String musicians at Fredonia have created an ever-growing series of community outreach initiatives that are connecting with aspiring musicians in the Fredonia Central School district as well as members of the community’s elderly population.
Eric Guo, 18, from Toronto, is First Prize Winner of the Fifth Claudette Sorel Piano Competition, conducted by the Fredonia School of Music on Sunday, Nov. 8.