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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 7:16pm
Student News
Kent State Music Education PHD candidate Beth Ann Hepburn recently conducted the Gwinnett County (GA) Elementary Honor Chorus. Students gathered from across the county for the March 23 event. In addition to her doctoral work at Kent State, Beth Ann is currently a cho...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 5:00pm
The Kent Blossom Music Festival has been awarded a $15,000 Kulas Foundation Grant to support the Kulas Visiting Artist residency during the Summer 2019 season. This marks the seventh season of receiving a grant from the foundation, which has supported visits from such distinguish...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 11:14am
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 4:50pm
Kent, Ohio – The Kent State University Orchestra and Combined Choirs join together to conclude the School of Music’s 2018-19 concert season on Sun., May 5 at 3 p.m. in Cartwright Hall’s University Auditorium. This annual audience favorite brings together nearly 200 musicians from...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:18pm
Graduate clarinetist Tiago Carvalho e Silva has been awarded a full assistantship to attend Michigan State University’s prestigious College of Music in East Lansing to pursue his Doctorate of Musical Arts. The assistantship includes a significant stipend and full tuition remissio...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 4:54pm
Kent, Ohio – The Kent Keyboard Series concludes its dynamic 2018-2019 season with pianist Chu-Fang Huang, Steinway Artist, and internationally renowned soloist, on Sun., April 14 at 5 p.m. in Ludwig Recital Hall. In addition to performing solo piano works, she will be joined by K...
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 1:07pm
Scott Little and Ian Daugherty, both students of Kent State oboe professor Danna Sundet, earned top scholarship prizes in Tuesday Musical’s 2019 Scholarship Competition held on March 23 on The University of Akron campus. The annual competition attracted over 130 applicants repres...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 4:13pm
Current Student News
Manuel Gomez, Freshman Vocal Performance major, was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Hal Leonard Vocal Competition College/University, Art Song division. Manuel was chosen from nearly 100 singers in the United States and Canada. He is an undergraduate stud...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 3:26pm
Violist Cristian Diaz, MM in Chamber Music, has been selected for the prestigious Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Diversity Fellowship. Now in its second year, the Fellowship is awarded to only five applicants per year. C...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 2:14pm
When Dr. Saroj Sutaria retired from the Kent State University College of Education faculty in 1992, she began to seek out new ways to become involved with the community at Kent State and, more broadly, in Northeast Ohio. It was then that she learned of the opportunities to become...