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 scope of a conservatory education well beyond the confines of the practice room, performance hall, and class room. Here... Read more

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 linked, it has always struck me as odd that a conservatory as old, distinguished, and multi-faceted... Read more

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, is not a part of our artistic essence. We all too often equate improvisation only with jazz, and usually... Read more

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 Percussion Competition in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Held every two years, the Tromp competition features the world’s best percussionists. This year’s event was conducted... Read more