2005–2006 Travel Grants

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
