College of Musical Arts

2005–2006 Travel Grants

Promusica

Over $26,000 was awarded to 75 College of Musical Arts students in need of funds toward travel expenses to attend national and international competitions, festivals and conferences.

International

BGSU Asian Studies Student Exchange Program, Seoul, South Korea

Heather Strohschein

Composition World Premiere, Tribuna Sax-Ensemble, Madrid, Spain

Steven Kemper

East Meets West in Holland, World Music and Dance Centre of Codarts, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Daniel Schellhas

Faenza Estate Musica, Faenza, Italy

David Babich

8th International Pitten Music Festival, Pitten, Austria

Jami Haswell

4th International Summer Academy & Festival, Corfu, Greece

Dean Altstaetter, Anna Ballmer, Joan Cano, Olga Cleianchina, Stijn De Cock, Katie Liesner, Paraschos Paraschoudis, Pantelis Polichronidis, Tatiana Shustova, Lauren Tourkow and Anton Zotov

Musicking in Merida, Field Research, Yucatan, Mexico

Samantha Mudge

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, Germany

Mingwei Zhao

University Choral Society 2006 Summer European Tour

Chris Bruck, Tim Bruno, Jeshua Franklin, Ellen Gartner, Elizabeth Hanson, Amanda Lovitt, Jackie Nemeth and Dawn Wagner

National

American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Katherine Hubley, Alyson Payne and Amanda Sewell

Audition, Pittsburgh Opera

Kisma Jordan

Audition, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Mingwei Zhao

Chautauqua Music Festival, Chautauqua Institution, New York

Cheng Hu and Yuanyuan Zhou

ClarinetFest® 2006, International Clarinet Association, Atlanta

Brian McLemore

Collegiate Chorale May Tour (Ohio, Pa., Va. & N.C.)

Trevor Garrabrant, Jodie Hutchinson, Joshua Jones, Tiffany Mason-Williams and Atonn Smeltzer

Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs, Ark.

Maria Bessmeltseva

Jesse Levine Lesson, Yale University

Matthew Maffett

Manchester Chamber Orchestra, Fall Tour, Vermont

Matthew Maffett

The MasterWorks Festival, Winona Lake, Ind.

Qingqing Ye

2005 Midwest Clinic and International Band and Orchestra Conference, Chicago

Joel Crawford, Kurt Dieringer, Brett Dodson and Kristin Ungaro

2nd Annual Music of the South Conference, Research Project Presentation, University of Mississippi, Oxford

Amanda Sewell

Nahono Sax Quartet University Tour (Ohio, W.Va. & Ky.)

Chris Chmielewski, Ryan Muncy and David Wegehaupt

National Orchestral Institute, University of Maryland

Virgiliu Lupu-Sfarlea

9th Annual National Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, New York

David Babich and Jody Lang

North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, Iowa

Jeff Heisler and Michael VanPelt

The Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridges, 2006 Grant Awards, New York

Kisma Jordan

Society for Ethnomusicology, 50th Annual Meeting, Atlanta

Mark Gerolami, Sidra Lawrence, Samantha Mudge and Heather Strohschein

Tubonium 4, Upper Midwest Tuba-Euphonium Conference, St. Peter, Minn.

Stewart Blatt, Thomas Frank, Julian Greening and Amanda Plocher

University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, Norman, Okla.

Shannon Paschall

Regional

Low Brass Festival, Cleveland Composers Guild, Akron

Michael Ritchie, Scott Schneider and Stefan Stolarchuk

National Association of Teachers of Singing, Ashland

Joan Cano, Courtney Cleveland, Abigail Krawson, Allison Patterson, Laura Van Fossen and Marissa Zacharias

Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Columbus

Robert Zolnowski