Gloria Kim Receives Fellowship From American Symphony Orchestra League By Joanna Chang
			Gloria Kim ’02 is one of only five recipients of the 2003 American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) Management Fellowships. The finals were held March 23 and 24 in New York City. Kim won the yearlong ASOL fellowship after a competitive application process and will work with three different orchestras in the areas of artistic and strategic planning, production, contract negotiations, and board development. She will begin the program by managing one of the Aspen Festival orchestras this summer. A candidate for the degrees of bachelor of arts in arts administration and bachelor of music in piano performance, Kim is a pupil of Associate Professor of Piano Angela Cheng. She recently performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Vox Caeli Sinfonia on April 7, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Kim served as president of the Oberlin Music Coalition and a project co-director of Classical Action Oberlin, the first collegiate branch of the New York-based Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS. She also participated in the Collaborative Artist Program and the Community Outreach Program for three summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School. "The opportunity to receive both a conservatory and liberal arts education is something that I have always appreciated about Oberlin," says Kim. "The resources and alumni network were so helpful to me during all my years here." Kim is profiled with other northeast Ohio college students in the May issue of Northern Ohio Live magazine as one of the area’s "best and brightest." Another recipient of a 2003 ASOL Orchestral Management Fellowship is Makiko Freeman '96, a double-degree graduate in trumpet performance and German. Freeman, who also studied at the Central College in Vienna and the University of Vienna, is the artistic coordinator for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, Inc. Since 1980, the ASOL program has offered comprehensive training to some of the field's most promising management talent. Kim and Freeman join a group of more than 100 alumni of the program who continue to serve as leaders in the field. Past recipients of the ASOL Fellowship include Oberlin graduates Margaret Dredge '97 and Oberlin College Trustee Allison Vulgamore '80, who serve as artistic administrator of the Utah Symphony and president of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, respectively. PHOTO CREDIT: AL FUCHS
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