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Fourth-year violin major Peiwen Su took on the ambitious project to learn and record the entire Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major. The project was both challenging and inspirational—and demonstrated to Su what is possible in this new reality.

The musical studies major will study Carnatic music in India.

TIMARA students compose music for dance... with dancers at their side.

Students devote winter term to mounting an opera premiere.

TIMARA students devote Winter Term 2020 to creating light through music—and vice versa.

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.

Ensembles promote women and trans individuals in classical music, and celebrates repertoire by composers of these identities.

Following an extensive national search, William Quillen has been appointed dean of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. An innovative, forward-looking leader, Quillen has served as acting dean of the conservatory since the fall 2018. He will begin his new role on January 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.

College and conservatory students teach a community orchestra in Uruguay.