2006–2007 Travel Grants
Nearly $39,000 was awarded to 98 College of Musical Arts students in need of funds toward travel expenses to attend national and international competitions, festivals and conferences.
International
BGSU Alumni Chamber Choir Sweden Tour
Elizabeth Hanson
Concert and European Tour of Si Ji Tu by Timothy Stulman (Madrid, Spain)
Octavio Más-Arocas
Cosmos Sax Quartet, Performance (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Theofilos Sotiriadis
Cultural Tourism Research (Merida, Mexico)
Samantha Closz
European Premiere of Venti Sancta Spiritus (Segorba, Spain)
Patrick Peringer
“Exploring Brass Ensembles in Greece” Workshop (Kalavrito, Greece)
KaCee Booth, Joel Crawford, Stefan Stolarchuk, Joshua Thompson and Clinton Webb
Fifth International Summer Academy & Festival (Corfu, Greece)
Irina Arbatskaya, Danielle Buenger, Adam Liddle, Peter Oehrtman, Tatiana Shustova and Anton Zotov
“Intense Language and Musical Study for a Classical Singer,” Study Abroad (France and Austria)
Sara Emerson
4th International Competition of Saxophone “Adolphe Sax” (Dinaut, Belgium)
David Wegehaupt
MTNA 2007 Collaborative Conference (Toronto)
Rachel Blesch, Kate Muser, I-Chen Yeh and Margaret Young
La Musica Lirica, Summer Workshop (Nova Feltria, Italy)
Alana Kolb
“Music and Art in Florence” Workshop, Studio Art Centers International (SACI) (Florence, Italy)
Olga Godula, Jody Lang, Elizabeth Lawler, Kathryn Lent, Brian McLemore, Amy Riske, Lindy Smith and Carl Wiggins
Ohio Ambassadors of Music Band and Choir 2007 European Tour
Andrea Avers, Felicia Tchen and Daniel Weber
Rehearsals at L’Ecole and l’Opera de Massy (Paris)
Catherine O’Shaughnessy
Research Work on the Coronation of Charles II (London)
Kathryn Pierce
Scottish Storytelling Centre: Gamelan Day (Glasgow, Scotland)
Daniel Schellhas
Weimar International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Weimar, Germany)
Tatiana Shustova
National
2007 American Choral Directors Association Convention (Miami)
Alison Aquila, Kristina Green, Dawn Wagner and Eric West
AMS Annual Meeting (Los Angeles)
Teresa Batterson
Brevard Music Center, Summer Institute & Festival (Brevard, North Carolina)
Katia Bessmeltseva
Chautauqua Music Festival, Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, N.Y.)
Ruoxu Chen
2007 Collegiate Chorale Midwest Tour (Ohio, Ill., Minn.)
Jodie Hutchinson, Joshua Jones and Atonn Smeltzer
2006–07 Flute Fair Competition, Rochester Flute (Rochester, N.Y.)
Yeji Kim and Michael Liu
Eastern Trombone Workshop (Ft. Myer, Va.)
Stefan Stolarchuk and Anthony Triplett
32nd Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference (Amherst, Mass.)
Davis McKinney
The 2007 Kingsville Competitions: The Isabel Scionti Piano Concerto and Piano Solo Competitions (Kingsville, Texas)
Ruoxu Chen
The Midwest Clinic (Chicago)
Caitlin Bartholic, Jennifer Bell, Heather Bergseth, Joel Diegert, Brett Dodson , Jim Javorsky, Andrew Messerli, Cody Rex, Amy Riske, Melinda Schoeneck, Emily Webb, Chelsea Wilson and Courtney Wright
National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy 2007 (Chicago)
Chiafang Tu
2007 National Wind Ensemble Audition (New York)
Charles Bindis and Sarah Roth
2007 Northeast Horn Workshop (Mansfield, Pa.)
Mathew Evans, Paul Roberts and Sarah Stebelton
Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Course, Level One (Rochester, N.Y.)
Jennifer Lucas
2006 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Austin, Texas)
Robert McClure
The Plowman Chamber Music Competition (Columbia, Mo.)
Maria Bessmeltseva, Jesse Griggs, Paraschos Paraschoudis and Heather Scott
The Second Bösendorfer USASU International Piano Competition (Tempe, Ariz.)
Ilya Blinov
“Shades of Minimalism” Tour—saxophone quartet tour (Pa., Mass., and Conn.)
Susan Poirier
The Society for Ethnomusicology, 51st Annual Conference— Decolonizing Ethnomusicolgy (Honolulu)
Allison Eckardt and Heather Strohschein
Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies (New York City)
Katherine Hubley
Tau Beta Sigma National Convention (Orlando, Fla.)
Leah Steffensky
Thompson Symposium for Master’s Degree Students: Research in Practice (University Park, Pa.)
Jennifer Lucas
2007 University Men’s Chorus Spring Tour (Ohio, Ga., Fla.)
Atonn Smeltzer
Regional
ASTA Conference (Detroit)
Elizabeth Chibucos, Sarah Connelly, Mihai Popean and Kimberly Smith
Double Reed Day (Grand Valley, Mich.)
Ovidiu Corneanu
IAJE Intercollegiate Jazz Ensemble (Columbus, Ohio)
Tim Cieplowski, Stephen Slivka and Steven Walker
MasterWorks Festival (Winona Lake, Indiana)
Qingqing Ye
MTNA Competition—Central Michigan
Maria Bessmeltseva
NATS Regional Competition (Muncie, Ind.)
Lizabeth Malanga and Marissa Zacharias
NATS State Competition (Bluffton, Ohio)
Jessica Bush, Tina Hogan, Kathryn Vorwald and Marissa Zacharias
Young Artist Woodwind Competition, East Central Division (Michigan)
Yeji Kim
Young Artist Woodwind Competition, MTNA, State (Oberlin, Ohio)
Kristen Hoverman, Yeji Kim and Michael Liu