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Shepherd School Students Perform at Kennedy Center Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music made an encore performance in May in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. It was the second year the Shepherd School has been invited to participate in the Conservatory Project, a program that brings students from eight top music schools to one of the best-known venues in the country for a series of one-hour performances of classical music, opera, and jazz. “This was a special opportunity for several of our students to perform in one of our nation’s most exalted music venues,” notes Robert Yekovich, dean of the Shepherd School. “Visibility of this kind enhances the school’s fine reputation and brings credit to Rice.” Adding to the honor for students is the fact that attendees are selected by faculty to represent the best of the school’s musical talent. Participants were Fei Xie, bassoon, accompanied by pianist Kana Mimaki; Judson Perry, tenor, accompanied by pianist Calogero Di Liberto; Evan Bertrand, marimba; and Novus, a trombone quartet of Christopher Beaudry, Mike Clayville, Mike Selover, and John Widmer.
The program included works composed by faculty members Pierre Jalbert and Art Gottschalk, as well as works by Alain Bernaud, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Chris Brubeck, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Shepherd School students were joined at the eightday event by peers from Berklee College of Music, The Juilliard School, The Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, the School of Music at Northwestern University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. —Dawn Dorsey
Among the participants in the Performing Arts’ Conservatory Project are, standing from left, graduate student Judson Perry, Novus member Mike Selover, Novus member Mike Clayville and graduate student Fei Xie; sitting from left, senior Evan Bertrand, Novus member Christopher Beaudry, doctoral student Kana Mimaki and Novus member John Widmer. Not pictured is Calogero Di Liberto.
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