Emily Fink (Jr) is the vocalist on this Downbeat award winning CD!!

LUJE Wins High DownBeat Honor
The Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Fred Sturm ’73, Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music, has received its third Outstanding Performance Award in DownBeat magazine's annual student music awards competition. In addition, Doug Detrick ’06 was named winner of the Outstanding Jazz Arrangement Award in the jazz arranging category.

http://blogs.lawrence.edu/news/2007/05/lawrence_university_jazz_ensem.html

CONGRATULATIONS
Emily Fink, Mike Axtell and Katie Hawkinson!

Lawrence students selected for Summer Programs:

Emily Fink has been selected for the Bay Area Opera Theater Institute (BSOTI) program for summer 2007.

BASOTI is an intensive opera singer development program, which trains pre-professional singers by immersing them in unique and diverse public performance experiences.

We believe that it is through the direct confrontation with an audience that the performer can discover what he or she truly wants to express. We foster audience support and feed-back, and we provide training with top professionals in the field of opera. We have an effective venue with an additional fine performance space in the beautiful California Palace of the Legion of Honor where we perform with orchestra. Because we acknowledge that every artist thirsts to satisfy his or her inner calling, the faculty works in close cooperation with the students to develop self-expression and achieve professional excellence on all levels.

For more information see http://www.basoti.org/

Mike Axtell and Katie Hawkinson will be members of the College Light Opera Company for summer 2007.

The College Light Opera Company was founded in 1969 and is the largest resident theatre company in the United States. Located in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the company performs nine operettas and musicals each season with full orchestral accompaniment. CLOC is one of the only summer music theatres that performs with full pit orchestra. The 86 members of the company spend the summer working in a professional atmosphere free of other academic responsibilities. CLOC welcomes both younger applicants seeking to gain experience in musical theatre and the more mature performer, musician, and technician seeking to polish his or her craft working with a professional staff and participating in nine different productions. The company performs at the air-conditioned Highfield Theatre in Falmouth and plays to enthusiastic standing-room-only audiences throughout the season.

For more information see http://www.collegelightopera.com/company.htm

Congratulations to this year's winners at NATS.

National Association of Teachers of Singing Auditions 2006

Winners from the Voice Studio of

Karen Leigh-Post

Cassie Glaeser, 2nd place Finalist, High School Girls

Claire Burke, Semi-Finalist, Sophomore Women

Andrew Penning, 2nd place Finalist, Sophomore Men

Katie Hawkinson, 2nd place Finalist, Lower College Women’s Musical Theatre

Grant Anderson, 3rd place Finalist, Junior Men

Mike Axtell, 1st place Finalist, Upper College Men’s Musical Theatre

James Dedering, 2nd place Finalist, Adult Avocational

Congratulations to all who participated in the auditions either as an entrant or as an attendee.  Extenuating circumstances such as being out of the country, at another competition, or ill with food poisoning, kept us from entering 3 more categories. We missed you Emily Fink, Julie Silver and Jeremy Bojko!

Congratulations also to our collaborators who played admirably:  Mike Axtell, Rosie Cannizzo, Bonnie Koestner, Irina Nedelcu-Erickson, Kristin Neustadter, Michael Rivers, and Catherine Walby.

If you don’t participate, you can’t win.  A win comes in many forms.

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