Oberlin Conservatory of Music
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The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the nation's oldest continuously operating conservatory. It is considered one of the best music schools in the United States, and its alumni and alumnae can be found in many professional ensembles. It is one of the few American conservatories to be completely attached to a liberal arts college. One advantage that this offers students is the opportunity to seriously pursue degrees in both music and a traditional liberal arts subject (through Oberlin College via the five year Double-Degree program).
The conservatory building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1963. The style of the building closely resembles Yamasaki's later design of the World Trade Center in New York City.
The conservatory offers undergraduate degrees in:
- Composition
- Jazz Studies
- Technology In Music And Related Arts (TIMARA)
- Organ
- Piano
- Vocal Performance
- Music Education
- Music Theory
- Music History
- Historical Performance
- All orchestral instruments: strings (including harp) and winds
- Classical Guitar
- Percussion
Alumni
- Cory Arcangel, computer artist
- Brian Chase, drummer Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Franco Farina, tenor
- Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
- Steven Isserlis, cellist
- Carla Kihlstedt, violinist/singer
- Alex Klein, oboist
- Jennifer Koh, violinist
- Judy Kuhn, actress/singer
- Emily Manzo, pianist
- David Maslanka, composer
- David Miller, tenor, member of the multi-platinum operatic pop quartet Il Divo
- Amy X Neuburg, composer/singer/electronic artist
- Ned Rothenberg, woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer
- Christopher Rouse, Pulitzer Prize winning composer [link]
- eighth blackbird (all members), contemporary music sextet
- Jon Theodore, drummer The Mars Volta
External links
- [Conservatory Website]
- [Conservatory of Music] on Oberwiki
- [Oberlin College Archives], see Record Group 10 for Conservatory-specific material
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