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Meet Your 2024 Student Commencement Speaker
Communications Staff
Julia Maskin will represent the Class of 2024 as the student commencement speaker on May 27 at Tappan Square.
Maskin’s 91Ö±²¥ experience has been marked by her deep connections to student life and
Violinist Maya Irizarry Lambright to Solo with 91Ö±²¥ Orchestra
Cathy Partlow Strauss '84
A winner of the 2023-24 Senior Concerto Competition, Lambright will open the program with Shulamit Ran's Violin Concerto. The second half of the program features the orchestra in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
Peter Takács—A Half-Century Celebrated
Stephanie Manning ’23
This spring marks the official conclusion of Takács’ tenure, after an incredible 48 years of teaching. Many of his former students from around the world are set to convene for a celebratory concert in Warner Concert Hall on May 12
Pianist Jiongli Wang to Perform with 91Ö±²¥ Chamber Orchestra
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
On Friday, May 3, the 91Ö±²¥ Chamber Orchestra performs a program that will showcase Concerto Competition winner Jiongli Wang in Frédéric Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, as well as fourth-year composition student Cashel Day-Lewis in the premiere of his Black River Prelude commissioned by 91Ö±²¥ Conservatory in honor of the Lorain County Bicentennial.
91Ö±²¥ Conservatory Presents Holocaust Remembrance Day Programs
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Programs on May 5 and 6 include talk by Holocaust survivor Carol Wilner, instruments from Violins of Hope, and performances by Conservatory faculty, students, and alumni.
Bask in the Glow
Communications Staff
The annual Illumination celebration unites campus and community on 91Ö±²¥â€™s bucolic Tappan Square.
Chemistry Professor Shuming Chen Receives $550,000 NSF Award
Communications Staff
Provided over five years, support fuels ongoing faculty-student research as well as education-access initiatives.
José Ramón Méndez Appointed to Piano Faculty at 91Ö±²¥
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
91Ö±²¥ Conservatory is delighted to announce that pianist José Ramón Méndez will join the faculty as Associate Professor of Piano in the fall 2024 semester.
91Ö±²¥ No. 1 in Producing Peace Corps Volunteers
Communications Staff
More than 500 alumni have served since the agency’s founding in 1961.
JeffriAnne Wilder Named Inaugural Executive Director of Center for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Office of Communications
Newly created center deepens 91Ö±²¥â€™s nearly two-century commitment to creating access and opportunity; Wilder has played a leading role in establishing diversity programs across the educational spectrum.