News
Sydney's Opera Home
March 25, 2015
Josie Davis
Oberlin Conservatory graduate Sydney Mancasola ’11 earns a warm welcome to the career of her dreams.
![Sydney Mancasola](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sydney_cropfornewshub_1.jpg?itok=-_F23P-c)
Organists Earn Prizes in Major International Competitions
March 23, 2015
Conservatory Communications Staff
Students of James David Christie shine under the spotlight in France, Russia, and the Netherlands.
![Organ pipes detail.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/organ_1.jpg?itok=9hniyCG-)
Recital Talk with Jeremy Reynolds '15
March 20, 2015
Conservatory Communications Staff
Oberlin clarinetist recounts his performance experience.
![student throwing pie at face of another student.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jeremy_reynolds_picture.png?itok=pho-HTqa)
Lifelong Cooperation
March 18, 2015
Sky Kalfus
From Rhode Island to Chicago to California, Oberlin students are applying their OSCA training to a different breed of co-op.
![Group of people seated in a circle playing music with an acoustic guitar and djembe drums.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/alice_liu_0.jpg?itok=1SKk3mhx)
Ties to “Forever Professor”
March 18, 2015
Lisa Gulasy
A short documentary premiering at the Cleveland International Film Festival was created with help of current students, alums, and others with ties to the college.
![McKinly surronded by his collection of unusual clocks.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/forever-professor-mark-home_0.jpg?itok=MV8Bks_E)
Access and Mentoring to #ReachHigher
March 16, 2015
Communications Staff
Ninde Scholars tutors help low-income and first-generation Oberlin High School students prepare for and apply to college.
![](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/ninde_screen_shot_0.jpg?itok=vPFI4kXy)
Coding and Composing
March 13, 2015
Sky Kalfus
Eli Stine ’14 unites his two passions, music and computer science, as a Jefferson Fellow in the Composition and Computer Technologies Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.
![Eli Stine ’14 posed with computer](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/contact_picture_7_0.png?itok=nwIxqXaU)
From Physics to Flora
March 13, 2015
Rosalind Black
Kirsten Liebl ’13 is following her heart toward a career in horticulture, working at a series of public gardens and farms.
![Kirsten Liebl ’13](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/kirsten_liebl_0_0.png?itok=ig69y_ob)
Imagining Havana
March 12, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Hispanic studies course and winter-term trip to Havana provide an unfiltered account of life in Cuba.
![](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bus_embargo_2_0.jpg?itok=1AOx-hb6)
Student Composers Get a Formalist Education
March 12, 2015
Daniel Hautzinger
New creations, written over winter term, spring to life through a string quartet collaboration on campus.
![Student composers worked with members of the Formalist Quartet](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/dsc_0179_1.jpg?itok=bOdYcs1O)