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IU Jacobs School's Summer Music series features array of world-class concerts

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As part of Indiana University's third annual Summer Festival of the Arts, the Jacobs School of Music will present Summer Music, a series of more than 50 free and ticketed events from June 14 through July 23. The series will include an array of world-class concerts featuring orchestra, harp, chamber music, piano, band, percussion, opera, jazz and other special events.

Highlights this year include the triennial USA International Harp Competition, legendary pianist Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler, the Pacifica and Rubens quartets, jazz trumpeter Jason Palmer and special programming for each of the three Festival Orchestra concerts.

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In the News

REVIEW (HT – Peter Jacobi): Battling sopranos tested in ‘The Impresario’

Violette Verdy Returns to the Paris Opera Ballet

The Jacobs School mourns the passing of alumna Eleanor Fell

Alumnus Brian Blume appointed as Instructor of Percussion at Southeastern University in Florida

IU Students, Faculty and Alumni Return to China for Performance at Prestigious International Conference

REVIEW (Herald Times – Peter Jacobi): Menahem Pressler, Festival Orchestra a sumptuous feast

Richardson to present at 2013 Midwest Clinic: An International Band & Orchestra Conference

Preview: Peter Jacobi introduces “The Impresario” in the HT before today’s performance

Roger Kalia receives 2013 Career Assistance Award from Solti Foundation US

Pacifica Quartet receives glowing review in London’s Telegraph for “The Soviet Experience Vol. 3″ CD

IU Jazz Faculty present A Tribute to Freddie Hubbard with trumpeter Jason Palmer

David Baker receives James B. Calvert Outstanding Music Educator Award

Dan Carson wins principal bass with Alabama Symphony

Roger Kalia appointed Assistant Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

DiOrio’s Choral Music Performed in China / Hong Kong

Brenda Brenner is Quarterfinalist in first-ever Grammy Music Educator award

Alumna Ann Fink hired by St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Jacobs alumnus Abrey Allicock is featured in this month’s Opera News

Violinist Timothy Kantor is featured as “Young Artist-in-Residence” on “Performance Today,” with collaborative pianist Clare Longendyke

Alumna Melanie Diener receives rave review for “Tristan und Isolde”

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News Releases

IU Jacobs School of Music Percussion Ensemble Wins Prestigious International Competition

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The IU Jacobs School of Music's Percussion Ensemble, directed by Jacobs School faculty John Tafoya and Kevin Bobo, has won the Percussive Arts Society's International Percussion Competition. The ensemble will perform at the society's international convention in Indianapolis, November 15, 2013.

Trombonist Wayne Wallace appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music jazz faculty

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The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce that jazz trombonist Wayne Wallace will join its faculty as professor of practice in jazz this fall. A five-time Grammy nominee, Wallace is one of the most respected exponents of African American-Latin music in the world today.

Ehrlich honored with University Medal during Alumni Hall rededication

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Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presented the University Medal to IU President Emeritus Thomas Ehrlich at the June 7 rededication of the renovated Alumni Hall. The ceremony also served as the formal naming of the organ recently installed in the historic hall in the Indiana Memorial Union, now known as the Webb-Ehrlich Great Organ of Alumni Hall. Ehrlich shares the naming honor with Charles H. Webb, dean emeritus of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

IU Women’s Philanthropy Council awards more than $120,000 in grants

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The Indiana University Women's Philanthropy Council will award grants totaling $124,730 to 12 schools or organizations affiliated with four IU campuses. The awards range from $4,000 to $20,000 and will support projects that foster community outreach, career development, public health, student philanthropy, education and diversity at IU Bloomington, IUPUC, IUPUI and IU Southeast.

Indiana University String Academy Virtuosi to perform in Argentina and Brazil

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Members of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music String Academy, directed by Jacobs professor Mimi Zweig, will leave this Sunday, June 2, for a performance tour of Argentina and Brazil, returning June 19.

IU Jacobs School faculty help lead workshop in Kenya

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Led by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty member Kimberly Carballo and Mpingo Studios Director Diana Smith Nixon, five Bloomington musicians will join their counterparts in Nairobi, Kenya, this month for a three-week teaching and performance workshop at schools in the area.

Art, theater, film highlight IU's annual Summer Festival of the Arts

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The third annual Summer Festival of the Arts, which is quickly becoming one of Indiana University's most anticipated summer traditions, begins today. The festival began in 2011 as a way to support the creation of new arts events. It also showcases the many cultural offerings that help make the community such a vibrant arts destination for townies and tourists, as well as those attending the various camps, conferences and workshops held over the summer on the Bloomington campus.

IU Jacobs School students and faculty travel for musicological research in Italy

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Four students and an alumna from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music travel to Italy this month for the second annual four-week summer research project on manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries at the Greggiati Library in the city of Ostiglia.

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