Music Undergraduate Spotlight

Mary Elizabeth Bowden Appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet

Gold medal Global Music Award winner joins Shenandoah Conservatory

Shenandoah Conservatory has appointed classical trumpeter and gold medal Global Music Award winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden, M.M., as assistant professor of trumpet beginning August 2019.…

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Shenandoah Performing Arts Students Collaborate In Radical Experiment

Student Performance Week Breaks New Ground

Being a leader doesn’t mean you have all of the answers; it just means you know how to find the people who do.” Jenna Barricklo…

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Composer Residency with Newman Culminates in Premiere of New Work, “NOVEL ROMANCE”

On Dec. 5, and Dec. 6, Director of Composition and Coordinator of New Music Jonathan Newman, M.M., participated in a guest composer residency at the…

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Music Education Students Attend VMEA Annual Conference in Virginia

From Nov. 15, through Nov. 17, Shenandoah Conservatory music education undergraduate students attended the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) annual conference at The Homestead Resort…

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MPRT Students Visit NYC for Audio Engineering Society Convention

Twenty-seven Music Production & Recording Technology (MPRT) students and three Shenandoah Conservatory faculty members recently visited New York City to attend the 145th Audio Engineering…

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Students to Perform Work by Azerbaijani Composer for Kronos Quartet’s Fifty-for-the-Future Project

Director of Chamber Music and Professor of Viola and Chamber Music Doris Lederer, Diploma, Curtis Institute of Music, will work with select undergraduate students to…

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Changing Lives with Music Therapy

Sara Woodward is a neurologic music therapist at Ingleside at King Farm

Shenandoah University student Sara Woodward is helping to fine tune the mobility and memory of older adults through music. Woodward, 26, a resident of Laurel,…

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Crass ’18 Awarded $5,000 in Strong Scholars Scholarship

Music education major Olivia Crass ’18 was one of two Shenandoah University students selected to be a Strong Scholars recipient, receiving $5,000 from the Hattie…

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