News
Students Create Project That Engages Local Hospital Patients and Nursing Home Residents
June 4, 2024
George Rogers
Oboist Meera Bhatia ’23 and flutist Emily Nixon ’23 visited local hospital and nursing homes over the past academic year, commissioning and premiering a piece by Jeff Scott through the Gletherow-Young-Deppman Project Award.
![Bhatia and Nixon at Mercy Two student musicians pose in Mercy Hospital lobby.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/202312_bhatia-nixon_jstrauss_760x570.jpg?itok=oMwa_LOf)
The Making of a World Premiere: Paul Desenne’s Double Flute Concerto Has its Day in Oberlin
November 1, 2023
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
After a 10-year-long route to its debut, Still’s championship of this piece will be realized in a November 1 performance with conductor Raphael Jiménez leading the Oberlin Orchestra, and with her student Dylan Masariego as co-soloist.
![two flute soloists rehearse in front of an orchestra two flute soloists rehearse in front of an orchestra](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/desenne_rehearsal_oct_2023.jpg?itok=6AeCPXzq)
Oberlin Music Label Releases “Wish: Music of Valerie Coleman”
May 25, 2023
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Flute Professor Alexa Still collaborates with pianist Evan Hines '16 in seven works for flute written by composer Valerie Coleman—some inspired by poems of Maya Angelou and Fred D'Aguiar; album also features the readings of these poems by Oberlin's President Carmen Ambar.
![Wish album cover - image showing a hand with butterfly resting on index finger hand with butterfly resting on index finger](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/wish_cover_760x570.png?itok=vhKZsYqO)
Oberlin Ensembles Perform for United Nations at Carnegie Hall
November 10, 2022
Office of Communications
December 2 concert before U.N. General Assembly celebrates new partnership; public preview in Oberlin slated for November 29.
![Oberlin Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/carnegie_hall_by_fadi_kheir.jpg?itok=ap8AxmZp)
$1.4M Gift Supports Oberlin Flute Students
December 10, 2021
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Anonymous donation augments previously established Robert Willoughby Flute Scholarship Fund.
![flute section of an orchestra.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/chicago_tour-370.jpg?itok=3XCIPZ0e)
Summer at Oberlin: Home Edition
June 17, 2020
Erich Burnett
The conservatory’s popular summer programs experience a virtual reset for 2020.
![front entrance of Bibbins Hall in summer](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bibbins_hall_in_summer_by_bryan_rubin_18.jpg?itok=PgpfIazE)
A Flutist’s French Connection
May 15, 2020
Erich Burnett
Fulbright honor for Karisma Palmore ’20 supports international music studies and language research.
![Fulbrith student Karisma Palmore.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/karisma_palmore.jpg?itok=O71sEMDm)
Oberlin Conservatory Claims Record Number of Fulbright Finalists
May 13, 2020
Erich Burnett
Honored students for 2020-21 plan musical studies across Europe, teaching in India, and more.
![Fulbright Program](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/fulbright_logo_2020.jpg?itok=kqIul4L7)
Oberlin Music Releases Works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
November 16, 2018
Erich Burnett
Songtree features performances by prominent Oberlin alumni and the Contemporary Music Ensemble.
![Songtree: Music of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oc_18-03_songtree_front_cover2_copy_3.jpg?itok=cSm9ek0Y)
Beauty Amid the Brutality
August 31, 2018
Erich Burnett
Cross-campus collaboration celebrates artistic master works and hidden gems made in the shadow of WWI.
![WWI combat promoting "Creative Arts & Music in the Shadow of War" event](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/wwi-image1.jpg?itok=f1j7pvuX)