Outstanding Showing by Conservatory Percussion Graduate
APPLETON, WIS. — The music career of Lawrence University alumnus Mike Truesdell recently received a rocket boost after he earned second-place honors at the prestigious 2010 Tromp International...
View ArticleWhy we Need Improvisation
We are musicians. We have spent countless hours in practice rooms refining our technique and nurturing our musicianship. But for so many of us, improvisation, the art of spontaneous musical creation,...
View ArticleDance Leaps into the Conservatory!
I am thrilled to announce that through a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Conservatory has been able to add a two year visiting professorship in dance. With music and dance so closely...
View ArticleConservatory Squared launches a New Era in Musical Internships
I am very excited to announce our new forward-looking internship program, Conservatory Squared: Grow Your Music Career Exponentially. This is a wonderful addition to our four year effort to expand the...
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SEAMUS: A Celebration of Electro-acoustic Music Making!
Lawrence is thrilled to host the national conference of SEAMUS, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. Over the next three days our conservatory will host thirteen recitals,...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneurial Musician: Creating a Musical Life
As musicians, what we do at the Lawrence University Conservatory is difficult. Thousands of hours of intense practice, endless self-analysis, endless external criticism and guidance, endless...
View ArticleMuseum as Symphony: Listening to Natural History
Typically when we head to great museum, the experience is primarily visual. We marvel at the building itself which usually makes its own bold architectural statement. We crane our necks to look up at...
View ArticleFall Festival kicks off the Musical Bounty of October
With a nip in the air and the trees shimmering in their refulgent glory, Lawrence welcomes parents, alumni, friends and family back to campus for Fall Festival. This annual event also kicks of a rich...
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Four Lessons from Bali
Last week Lawrence enjoyed a three day visit from Çudamani, one of Bali’s premiere music and dance ensembles. This visit had special meaning for Lawrence, because our very own Director of Gamelan, I...
View ArticleThe 21st Century Conservatory
So what does the ideal conservatory of the 21st century look like? Sound like? How radically different is it from the hundreds of conservatories that dot the globe today? To answer these questions, we...
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