Robert Taylor appointed Director of Bands at Northwestern
/sites/default/files/2024-04/20240423_taylor_rob.jpgThe Bienen School of Music has appointed Robert Taylor as professor of conducting and director of bands.
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The Bienen School of Music has appointed Robert Taylor as professor of conducting and director of bands.
Nearly 250 Bienen students will take the stage for a powerful collaborative performance led by Director of Orchestras Donald Schleicher and Director of Choral Organizations Andrew Megill.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/04/together-in-musical-harmony/The Northwestern Medical Orchestra is hitting a high note with continued growth among its musicians as well as its audience. Led by Bienen alumna Jennifer Huang, the ensemble recently performed a work by Dean Holland.
https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/01/17/northwestern-medical-orchestr…Several Bienen School of Music artists are among the 2024 Grammy Award nominees.
Donald Nally, director of choral organizations at the Bienen School of Music, has won his third Grammy Award to date for best choral performance with The Crossing.
Andrew Megill has been appointed Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Organizations at the Bienen School of Music.
Donald Schleicher ’77 MMus has been appointed Director of Orchestras and Artist-in-Residence at the Bienen School of Music for a four-year term, beginning September 1, 2023.
Northwestern faculty and alumni are well represented among this year's Grammy Award nominees. The Crossing, Dover Quartet, Third Coast Percussion, and Brian d'Arcy James all received nominations.
Victor Yampolsky, the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, marking the conclusion of a 38-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern.
Professor Donald Nally has received a Grammy Award nomination for the sixth consecutive year. Several Northwestern alumni are also among this year’s Grammy nominees.
The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected doctoral candidate Taichi Fukumura ’17 MMus as a recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award.
Berlin-based American conductor Roderick Cox ’11 MMus was the winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Learn more in this Alumni Spotlight feature.
Bienen students are known for creating innovative avenues through music, and doctoral candidate Taichi Fukumura ’17 MMus is no different.
Kyle Dickson, a master's conducting student of Victor Yampolsky, is featured by the Grant Part Music Festival. “I think being a mentor to black and brown kids is what made me a social justice warrior—because I have to protect my students."
https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/discover/news-stories/project-inclusion-…Mallory Thompson ‘79, ‘80 MMus is director of bands, professor of music, and coordinator of the conducting program at the Bienen School of Music. Learn more in this Alumni Spotlight feature.
Roderick Cox, a 2011 graduate of the Bienen School and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, has received the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award.
The recently established Thomas Kasdorf Scholarship in Choral Music will support two Bienen School choral conducting graduate students.
Tyrone Clinton Jr., a doctoral conducting student of Donald Nally, has received the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians. The $22,000 grant will support Clinton’s research in Mexico during the 2016-2017 academic year.