College of Musical Arts
2008–2009 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

1st International Saxophone Competition (Lodz, Poland)

James Fusik

BGSU Study Abroad, Language Programs (Salzburg, Austria & Tours, France)

Andrea Avers, Yen-Lin Goh, Daniel Knaggs, Katie Liesner, Rachel Snitzer, Kate Stubbs, Ivana Tjandra and Sarah Wardle

Chamber Music Recital and Master Classes (Romania)

Ioana Galu

Franz Schubert Institute (Baden, Austria)

Matthew Hayner

Gabala International Music Festival (Gabala, Azerbaijan)

Alexander Ponomarchuk

Seventh International Summer Academy & Festival (Corfu, Greece)

Yen-Lin Goh, Yinhui Li, Tania Moldovan, Catherine Nicolia and Sally Williams

Master Classes (Paris, France)

Mariam Vardzelashvili

Music 09 New Music Festival (Blonay, Switzerland)

Yen-Lin Goh

International Salzburg Marimba Competition 2009 (Austria)

Isabelle Huang

soundSCAPE Festival (Italy)

Yijia Bu

National

2008 Midwest Clinic-Band & Orchestra Conference (Chicago)

Aaron Backes, Chris Baumgartner, Irene Fiesinger, Janet Fu, James Fusik and Ryan Yahl

2008 Society of Ethnomusicology (Middletown, Conn.)

Heather Bergseth

2009 National Collegiate Wind Ensemble (New York)

Elizabeth Lawler

American Musicological Society Conference (Nashville)

Sean Foster and Michael Vincent

Analysis & Performance Symposium (Bloomington, Ind.)

Stefanie Acevedo, Nicholas Jurkowski and Ying-Wei Sung

Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, Maine)

Raphael Lizama

Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention,
Collegiate Barborshop Quartet Contest (Anaheim, Calif.)

Nicholas Gordon, Gordon Howe and Drew Ochoa

2009 Conductor's Guild Conference (New York)

Katherine Kilburn

Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, N.C.)

Danielle Buenger

Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma National Convention (Phoenix)

Edward Bialorucki

MasterWorks Festival (Winona Lake, Ind.)

Miranda Badour and Casey Mink

Mid-West Chapter of Ethnomusicologists (Minneapolis)

Stephanie George

Music Teacher's National Association Conference (Atlanta)

Krysten Groman, Pamela Klueck, Rachel Mauricio, Christopher Narloch, Andrew Sprung and Ivana Tjandra

Oklahoma Flute Society, 2008 Oklahoma Flute Fair (Edmund, Okla.)

Yeji Kim

Paper Presentation at the Music and Moving Image Conference (New York)

Yen-Lin Goh

Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Austin, Texas)

Isabelle Huang

Phi Mu Alpha National Convention (Orlando, Fla.)

Anthony Gallina

Skidmore Jazz Institute (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)

Erik Moellman

Starling DeLay Symposium (New York)

Katherine Hubley

Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (Boston)

Yijia Bu

Thesis Research (New Orleans)

Morgen Stiegler

United States Navy Band Saxophone Symposium (Fairfax, Va.)

Andrew Braet

Regional

2008 Firelands Symphony Orchestra Audition (Sandusky, Ohio)

Yeji Kim

2008 Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Audition (Kalamazoo, Mich.)

Yeji Kim

Central Ohio Flute Festival (Columbus, Ohio)

Erin Latham, Anna Paziker, Josh Simmons and Ian Wenz

National Association of Teachers of Singing, 2009 Buckeye Chapter Auditions (Cedarville, Ohio)

Tammie Bradley, LaRiche Jones, Abigail Krawson, Jing Lin and Rachel Snitzer

Ohio Music Education Association Conference (Columbus, Ohio)

Chris Baumgartner, Irene Fiesinger, Megan Link and Ellen Pagan