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The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located in Bibbins Hall, on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni can be found in most major professional ensembles. Admission is based primarily on an extremely competitive audition. Over 1400 musicians from around the world apply for a freshman class of around 120. It is one of the few American conservatories to be completely attached to a liberal arts college (Oberlin College, allowing students the opportunity to seriously pursue degrees in both music and a traditional liberal arts subject via the five year Double-Degree program). Oberlin College and Conservatory pride themselves on being almost exclusively undergraduate. The faculty's primary focus is the development of students as musicians, artists, and people.
In an interview between Frank J. Oteri and Timothy Weiss, the coach of the famous contemporary music ensemble "eighth blackbird," Weiss states "One advantage [of Oberlin] is that there are only undergraduates, and the reason I think this is an advantage is that at a school like Juilliard or other schools you might name that have a very strong or large population of graduate students is that those students, by their nature, tend to be somewhat more vocationally minded. They are understandably worried about their next step as musicians: How are they going to enter the industry? How are they going to make a living? And because of that, that can trickle down. The nice thing at Oberlin is that they are immensely talented, but they're not really concerned about their future. They might be a little bit, but it's not what occupies their thoughts. They are thinking about music as an art form. They're preoccupied with how they're going to change the artistic culture. And I think that's actually very important."
The conservatory also contains the largest collection of Steinway & Sons pianos outside the Steinway factory.
Minoru Yamasaki designed the conservatory building in 1963. The style of the building closely resembles Yamasaki's later design of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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Undergraduate courses offered
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- Composition
- Jazz Studies
- Technology In Music And Related Arts (TIMARA)
- Organ
- Piano
- Vocal Performance
- Music Education
- Music Theory
- Music History
- Historical Performance
- Instrumental Music Performance - for flute, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone, bassoon, classical saxophone, French horn, tuba, violin, viola, double bass, cello, harp and classical guitar
- Percussion
Famous Alumni
- Jim Altieri, composer and musician
- Eric Arbiter, bassoonist
- Cory Arcangel, computer artist
- Sibbi Bernhardsson, violinist, Pacifica Quartet
- MaVynee Betsch, piano and voice
- Donald Bryant, pianist, choir director, and composer
- Salvatore Champagne, tenor
- Brian Chase, drummer Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Will Chase, actor
- Stanley Cowell, jazz pianist
- Jeremy Denk, pianist
- eighth blackbird (all members), contemporary music sextet
- Monica Ellis, bassoonist
- Peter Evans, trumpeter
- Franco Farina, tenor
- James Feddeck, conductor
- Simin Ganatra, violinist, Pacifica Quartet
- Kyle Gann, composer
- James Giles, pianist
- Judith Gordon, pianist
- Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
- Erin Hannigan, oboist
- Zack Hickman, bassist Josh Ritter
- Natalie Hinderas, professor, pianist and composer
- Moses Hogan, conductor, composer, and arranger
- David Hoose, conductor
- Paul Horn, flute, saxophones
- International Contemporary Ensemble, contemporary music ensemble
- Darrett Adkins, cellist
- Steven Isserlis, cellist
- John Kennedy (musician), composer and conductor
- Carla Kihlstedt, violinist/singer
- Alex Klein, oboist
- Jennifer Koh, violinist
- Balint Karosi, organist and composer
- Judy Kuhn, actress/singer
- Scott Lawton, conductor
- Rex Lee, actor on HBO series Entourage
- Rhoda Pinsley Levin, pianist [1][2]
- Michael Maguire, actor/singer, best known for playing Enjolras in the original Broadway production of Les Miserables
- Emily Manzo, pianist
- David Maslanka, composer
- James McBride, saxophonist, composer, and author of the New York Times best-seller, The Color of Water.
- Rebecca (McClure) Norberg, Fulbright scholar, dramatic soprano, professor, pedagogue
- Charles McGuire, musicologist
- Kevin McHugh, pianist
- David Miller, tenor, member of the multi-platinum operatic pop quartet Il Divo
- Amy X Neuburg, composer/singer/electronic artist
- James Paul, conductor
- Chris Parrello, guitarist and composer
- Liz Phair, singer / songwriter
- Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor
- George Rose, choral conductor
- Thomas Rosenkranz, pianist
- Ned Rothenberg, woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer
- Christopher Rouse, Pulitzer Prize winning composer [3]
- John Sandor, tenor
- Greg Saunier, drummer Deerhoof
- Jenny Scheinman, jazz violinist
- Robert Shannon, Director of the keyboard division at Oberlin Conservatory
- Andrew Shapiro, composer/songwriter [4]
- Robert Sims
- Shinkoyo, art+music collective Shinkoyo, Sadjeljko
- Robert Spano, conductor
- Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboist
- William Grant Still, composer (did not graduate)
- Ginger Brooks Takahashi, artist / performer in the band MEN
- Edward Tarr, trumpeter and musicologist
- Jon Theodore, drummer The Mars Volta
- Carol Wincenc, flutist
- Gene Young, composer, conductor, trumpet player
- David Zinman, conductor
See also
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Oberlin Conservatory of Music |
- Conservatory Website
- Conservatory of Music on Oberwiki
- Oberlin College Archives, see Record Group 10 for Conservatory-specific material
- Oberlin Woodwind Ensemble with director George E. Waln, circa 1948-51 (photo)
- Art of the States: Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble performing Oberlin faculty member Lewis Nielson's St. Francis preaches to the birds (2005)
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