News
‘‘Rands at Oberlin’’ Features English Horn Professor Robert Walters, Oberlin Ensembles
April 21, 2020
Erich Burnett
Oberlin Music release serves as premiere recording of conservatory-commissioned Concerto for English Horn.
![musician on stage shaking hands with man at front of stage.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/robert_walters_and_bernard_rands_by_larry_kasparek.jpg?itok=jHNLFY1g)
2019-20 Concerto Competition Winners to Return for Fall Performances
April 9, 2020
Erich Burnett
Scheduled spring appearances canceled amid Oberlin’s transition to remote learning.
![four winners of the 2019-20 Senior Concerto Competition.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2019-20_concerto_winners.jpg?itok=Ighv0Pvo)
Oberlin Gives Students in the Arts and Sciences a New Path to Musical Education
March 10, 2020
Communications Staff
Oberlin’s liberal arts students will have a new way to tap into the world-class musical education offered by the Conservatory of Music next year, as the institution launches a new music minor.
![Violin section and conductor](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/as-orchestra-ygulenko.jpg?itok=hU6F1E9g)
(UPDATED) Oberlin Opera Theater Presents Mozart’s "Così fan tutte" March 11-15
February 28, 2020
Erich Burnett
Conservatory singers and Oberlin Orchestra bring comic tale of deceitful romance to life in four performances.
![cartoon man and woman having a text chat](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/cosi_fan_tutte_graphic.png?itok=tU7P05lX)
Campus Honors Beethoven in Singularly Oberlin Fashion
February 14, 2020
Erich Burnett
Ambitious, year-long schedule of performances showcases student and faculty performers.
![Ludwig van Beethoven](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/beethoven_for_web.jpg?itok=udZzstGi)
A Conversation with Phlox Ensemble Conductor Sophia Bass
January 30, 2020
Hannah Schoepe ’20
The Phlox ensemble, an orchestra and choir promoting women and trans individuals in classical music, is an intensive winter term project that provides a space for students of traditionally underrepresented gender identities and those with a commitment to gender inclusion to engage with classical music.
![A sepia image of woman with long hairand white blouse facing forward.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bass-headshot-cn.jpg?itok=SDfk8Ytl)
Crafting Strategies To Aid Health Care Reform: Emma Eisenberg ’17
June 4, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
As an assistant account executive at GMMB, a communications agency in Washington, D.C., Emma Eisenberg ’17 creates strategies to aid the progress of health care reform.
![Emma Eisenberg ’17 Black and white headshot of Emma Eisenberg.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/emma_eisenberg_headshot.jpg?itok=o4cCMgWB)
Madisyn Mettenburg ’19 Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea
May 15, 2019
Phoebe Pan ’20
Madisyn Mettenburg ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea.
![Madisyn Mettenburg ’19 Madisyn Mettenburg seated, posing outside of the Conservatory of Music library.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/madisyn_mettenburg_headshot.jpg?itok=MemNC-Uo)
Oberlin Arts and Sciences Orchestra Offers Non-Music Majors Access to Conservatory
May 14, 2019
Hillary Hempstead
Led by Visiting Assistant Professor of Conducting Tiffany Chang ’09, the Oberlin Arts and Sciences Orchestra gives students in the College of Arts and Sciences access to experiences in the conservatory.
![Oberlin Arts and Sciences Orchestra Oberlin Arts and Sciences Orchestra plays in Finney Chapel](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oaso-conduct.jpg?itok=eXuNrdht)
Queer Country Singer Eli Conley ’08 Helps Others Find Their Voice
April 30, 2019
Amanda Nagy
Eli Conley returned to Oberlin earlier this spring to perform and lead a workshop on social justice songs.
![Eli Conley workshop Picture of people sitting in a circle around a person playing guitar](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/eliconleyworkshp1-michael_hartman.jpg?itok=r1jHHQvj)