On June 21, 2021, the Cleveland Institute of Music announced the fellows for the 2021 Future of Music Faculty Fellowship Program, a critical step forward in creating a culture of diversity within the music academy and beyond.
Samantha Lampe, a second-year Ph.D. student in musicology, won the AR Editions Award for most outstanding student paper presented at the American Musicological Society’s Midwest fall chapter meeting. Her paper was titled, “To Dream: The Civil Rights Movement’s ‘Impossible Dream’” and explored an unusual phenomenon in which a hit song from Broadway became an anthem for racial justice.
Flutists Jenny Shin (DMA), Dani Stevens (DMA), and Pauline Jung (MM) have been invited to compete in the quarterfinals of the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. Held this year in Minneapolis, MN, and recognized as the most prestigious annually held competition for flute in the world, it is the United States' most elite solo competition for flute. These Illinois flutists represent 3 of the competition's 15 quarterfinal slots. Bravo to all on their achievements and good luck as they go against the world's best young talent!
So Jung Kwak, coordinator of the School of Music's Piano Laboratory Program, was recently featured in the News-Gazette in an interview with Melissa Merli.
