Oberlin Graduates Receive Grammy Awards by Joanna Chang
			Two Oberlin Conservatory graduates, Alex Klein’87 and Christopher Rouse’ 71, were among the winners in the 44th Annual Grammy Awards. Klein, principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony, was one of the soloists who received the award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Teldec Classics recording of the Strauss Wind Concerti. Rouse, a Pulitzer-prize winning composer, won Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his Concert De Gaudí for Guitar and Orchestra, which was recorded by guitarist Sharon Isbin, conductor Muhai Tang, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra on the Teldec Classics label. The awards ceremony was held February 27, 2002, in Los Angeles and nationally televised. One of the most respected oboists in the history of the instrument, Klein received first prize in Geneva's Concours Internationale d’Execution Musicale and in the F. Gillet and New York International oboe competitions. A native of Brazil, Klein studied with Conservatory Professor of Oboe James Caldwell from 1984 to 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree and an artist's diploma at Oberlin. Rouse '71 is one of America's most prominent composers of orchestral music. A pupil of George Crumb and Karel Husa, his music has been played by every major orchestra in the U.S. and numerous ensembles overseas including, the Berlin Philharmonic; the Sydney, Melbourne, London, Toronto, and Moscow symphonies; the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; the Orchestre de Paris; and the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, as well as the radio orchestras of Helsinki, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Tokyo, and Austria. Concert de Gaudí, commissioned jointly by the NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg) and the Dallas Symphony, was inspired by the exotic and fanciful designs of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí.
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