Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute Honored By Marci Janas ’91
			Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute [BPI], directed by Kenneth Slowik of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society and co-founded 30 years ago by Catharina Meints, Associate Professor of Viola da Gamba and Cello, and James Caldwell, Professor of Oboe, was a finalist in the 2001 Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement. The awards were announced in the October issue of the magazine. The finalist’s award, presented in the category of classical music and opera, cites BPI’s pre-eminence as the first group in the country to establish a summer institute for early-music singers and period instrument players, calling it a "precious regional—and national—resource" and praising it for keeping "the rich musical heritage of the baroque period alive through historically informed performance of the highest quality." The awards were conferred at a gala black tie dinner held in September at Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland. This year’s prize went to Cleveland Opera (which brought the Three Tenors to Cleveland). The other finalist in the classical music and opera category was Cleveland’s Severance Hall, honored for its restoration of the E. M. Skinner Norton Memorial Organ.
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