Additional Resources
Artist's Official Website: http://www.oberlin.edu
Millennium Stage Home Page
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OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
About the Artist
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber and pronounced a “national treasure” by the Washington Post, its alumni have gone to achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music world. Numerous Oberlin alumni have attained stature as solo performers, composers, and conductors, among them Denyce Graves, David Zinman, Jennifer Koh, Steven Isserlis, Robert Spano, Franco Farina, Christopher Rouse, Lisa Saffer, George Walker, and Christopher Robertson. All of the members of the contemporary music ensembles eighth blackbird and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) are Oberlin graduates, and members of the Miro, Pacifica, Juilliard, and Fry Street quartets, among others, include Oberlin alumni, who can also be found in major orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.
Past Performances
May 19, 2009
Students from Oberlin Conservatory of Music play works by Couperin, Mayuzumi, Boehm, Beethoven, Liszt, and Oberlin pianist Ran Duan. Part of the Kennedy Center Conservatory Project. IN THE TERRACE THEATER
February 25, 2008
Students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music perform classical works by Chopin, Mozart, Muczynski, Smetana, and Richard Strauss. Part of the Conservatory Project. IN THE THEATER LAB
May 23, 2007
Students perform classical works by Donatoni, Pierson, Debussy, Rossini, and Donizetti. Part of the Conservatory Project. In the Terrace Theater
February 18, 2006
Students from the conservatory perform classical works by Khachaturian, Handel, Schumann, and Liszt. Also, the Oberlin Jazz Septet plays jazz standards. THE CONSERVATORY PROJECT
February 25, 2005
Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College presents works by Jenö Hubay, Hugo Wolf, Bohuslav Martinu, Fryderyk Chopin, and Béla Bartók. Conservatory Project:
