Fanfare

Distinguished Professor David N. Baker, chair of the Jazz Studies Department, received the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award for 2006 on September 7. The annual award recognizes an IU faculty member who has achieved international recognition for work as a performer, composer, scholar, and educator. With an extraordinary career as composer, jazz pedagogue, performer, and national arts leader, Baker continues to inspire students, faculty colleagues, and alumni, as well as musicians and arts leaders around the world. Click for more >>

Cello master Distinguished Professor Janos Starker is profiled in a feature article in the current issue of Strings magazine. The iconic pedagogue has taught at IU for nearly 50 years. Read about his remarkable and triumphant journey from humble beginnings in 1924 Budapest, Hungary, to the most prestigious echelon of music-making in the world. Click for more >>

A GIFT IN SUPPORT OF THE JEAN SINOR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES

The Jacobs School is pleased to announce that the Music Education Department is the recent recipient of a generous endowed gift in the memory of Professor Jean Sinor, who passed away suddenly in 1999. Her husband, IU Distinguished Professor Emeritus Denis Sinor has made the gift possible. Click for more >>

Fall semester is in full swing at Jacobs with season openers in abundance. Don’t miss Professor of Composition and pianist Don Freund’s performance of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (complete) tonight, September 8, or the faculty of the Early Music Institute in recital tomorrow evening. One of the world’s most prominent conductors, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, will lead the school’s premier orchestral ensemble, the Philharmonic Orchestra, on September 13, and George Hanson will guest-conduct the Chamber Orchestra on the 20 th. Now is the time to get your tickets, if you do not already have them, for IU Opera Theater as it opens its season on September 22 with W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni. This is only the beginning of a year rich in world-class musical performances! Click for more >>

This issue of Fanfare celebrates the accomplishments of Kevin Class, Eli Eban, Jane Fulcher, Carlos Montane, Lewis Rowell, Guy Yehuda, Marc Geelhoed, Carol Vaness, and many more! Click for more >>

Read the feature profile of Janos Starker in Strings magazine, as well as Peter Jacobi’s preview of the fundraiser Night at the Opera, review of soprano Pamela Hinchman, and review of the tango operita Maria de Buenos Aires for The Herald-Times, in addition to its profile of voice student Christia Starnes. We keep track of these articles and many more from around the state and country for your information and convenience. Click here >>

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