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Conservatory Celebrates Standout Students for 2024
May 13, 2024
Communications Staff
Annual reception held May 13 in Stull Recital Hall.
![Elizabeth Hanje with conservatory deans.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/conservatory_awards_ceremony_in_stull_hall-38_0.jpg?itok=Bp7nUap4)
Violinist Maya Irizarry Lambright to Solo with Oberlin Orchestra
May 9, 2024
Cathy Partlow Strauss '84
A winner of the 2023-24 Senior Concerto Competition, Lambright will open the program with Shulamit Ran's Violin Concerto. The second half of the program features the orchestra in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
![Maya Irizarry Lambright violinist wearing gray suite and with short curly hair stands in front of windows](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/concertowinners2024_lambright_760x570.jpg?itok=GvsFtWWx)
Cleveland Orchestra Violinist Amy Lee to Join Oberlin Conservatory Faculty
March 26, 2024
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
With Lee’s broad experience as a soloist and orchestral and chamber musician, she brings wide dimension to the role.
![portrait of Amy Lee with violin portrait of Amy Lee with violin](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/amy_lee_violin-760x570.png?itok=Ltmzxctj)
Conservatory Celebrates Recipients of 2022-23 Honors & Awards
May 23, 2023
Communications Staff
Recipients of Oberlin Conservatory’s 2022-23 Honors and Awards included 43 outstanding students from across the Conservatory’s 11 divisions. Most of the prizes were given to graduating...
![Conservatory students pose with awards.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/con-awards-2023.jpg?itok=heOAO9ht)
Spring Performances Slated for Winners Named in Oberlin’s Concerto Competition
March 29, 2023
Joshua Reinier
Each fall, Oberlin Conservatory seniors have the opportunity to compete in the annual Concerto Competition, with the top four winners featured in the spring as soloists with the Oberlin orchestras.
![headshots of the four student competition winners The four winners](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/concerto-competition.png?itok=LjMTtHwf)
Oberlin Ensembles Perform for United Nations at Carnegie Hall
November 10, 2022
Office of Communications
December 2 concert before U.N. General Assembly celebrates new partnership; public preview in Oberlin slated for November 29.
![Oberlin Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/carnegie_hall_by_fadi_kheir.jpg?itok=ap8AxmZp)
Cooper International Competition Participants Announced
July 14, 2022
Joshua Reinier
Eighteen young violinists to compete for expanded prizes beginning August 15.
![Violinist performing with pianist](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/cooper_competition_760x570_promo_2022_0.jpg?itok=hIB4Smcs)
Cooper Competition for Violin Returns to Oberlin in August 2022
February 14, 2022
Erich Burnett
The Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition, which brings some of the world’s most talented young musicians to the campus of Oberlin College and Conservatory every summer, returns in...
![Thomas and Evon Cooper Competition at Oberlin.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2022_cooper_competion_web_page_graphic.png?itok=KEqYpc6i)
Faculty Composer Jesse Jones Featured on New Oberlin Music Recording
December 2, 2021
Erich Burnett
"In Profile" includes performances by Oberlin students, faculty, and guests.
![Jesse Jones.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jones_butterfield_duo_courtesy_jesse_jones.jpg?itok=3j8CS08k)
Winners Named in Oberlin’s 2021 Senior Concerto Competition
November 18, 2021
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Four instrumentalists will perform with the Oberlin Orchestra in April and May 2022.
![Leo Choi, David Lee, Johnum Palado, and Evyn Levy.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/concerto_winners_composite.png?itok=kT8gaBSK)