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Marilyn Shrude
named Distinguished Artist Professor
BOWLING GREEN, O.--Dr. Marilyn
Shrude, professor and chair of the department of musicology/composition/theory
in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University,
was named by the BGSU Board of Trustees as a Distinguished Artist
Professor at its June 29 meeting.
The Distinguished Research/Artist
Professor Award, established in 1982, recognizes professors
who have earned national and international recognition through
research and publication or creative and artistic achievement.
A colleague who nominated Shrude
for the recognition described her as an "internationally
known and award-winning composer, a recognized advocate of new
music, a gifted pianist who has performed in significant international
recitals and a superb teacher."
Dr. Richard Kennell, interim dean
of the College of Musical Arts, supported the nomination, adding
that Shrude’s "mentoring of talented students at BGSU
has resulted in a generation of composers now teaching around
the nation."
Shrude is the founder of the MidAmerican
Center for Contemporary Music and co-directs the annual New
Music and Art Festival at BGSU. Her compositions have been performed
across the United States, in Europe and in Asia, and she has
been a guest artist at festivals around the world. Her recorded
work has been broadcast on both television and radio, including
Swiss and Belgian National Radio.
Her numerous honors include a composer
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an
Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
In 1984 she became the first woman
to receive the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for Orchestral
Music, and in 1998 was the first woman to receive the Cleveland
Arts Prize in music. In May 2000 she was awarded a one-month
residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference
Center in Bellagio, Italy. The grants she has received total
nearly a million dollars.
Shrude holds a bachelor’s
degree from Alverno College and a master’s degree and doctorate
from Northwestern University.
A frequent guest composer at universities
and music institutes around the country, she also participates
often in outreach activities in music and composition for younger
students and has received several awards for her educational
leadership. She has been on the faculty at the University since
1977, when she began as an instructor. She was named full professor
in 1984.
The other BGSU faculty member who
holds the title of Distinguished Artist Professor is Dr. John
Sampen, who received the designation in 1996. The internationally
acclaimed saxophonist is also highly regarded as a teacher and
has had several students who have gone on to great success as
well.
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