Majors: MusEducation
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Wartburg Community Symphony receives Iowa Arts Council grant
The Wartburg Community Symphony has received an $11,800 Iowa Arts Council Grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority in support of its February concert, This Tender Land: An Iowa Tribute. For this performance, the symphony will collaborate with Wartburg’s Opera Workshop on a production of Aaron Copland’s “The Tender Land,” a stirring snapshot of Midwest…
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Three Wartburg College graduates receive Young Alumni Awards
Wartburg College recognized three outstanding young alumni for service to their communities with a Young Alumni Award. The award honors graduates from the past 15 years who are living the four pillars of the Wartburg College mission: leadership, service, faith, and learning. This year’s recipients are: Britni Cohen-Wichner, a 2018 Wartburg graduate, earned her degree…
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Wartburg to host second music faculty lecture commemorating endowed professorship
Wartburg College’s Scott Muntefering and Lia Snead will present their research on two Iowa musicians and mentoring in music education as a part of a faculty lecture series commemorating 10 years of the Eugene and Ruth Weidler Drape Distinguished Professorship in Music Education. The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Orchestra…
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Wartburg Community Symphony conductor receives third in American Prize contest
Rebecca Nederhiser, conductor of the Wartburg Community Symphony, has received third place in the American Prize — Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming. Nederhiser submitted the symphony’s February 2023 performance, “Music Takes Flight,” for consideration. The concert featured the world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s “Messages from Everywhere,” a groundbreaking work combining the orchestra, a…
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Wartburg Community Symphony conductor finalist for American Prize
Rebecca Nederhiser, conductor of the Wartburg Community Symphony, is a finalist for the American Prize’s — Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming. Nederhiser submitted the symphony’s February 2023 performance, “Music Takes Flight,” for consideration. The concert featured the world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s “Messages from Everywhere,” a groundbreaking work combining the orchestra, choir, AI…
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McGuigan, Waheed selected as student speakers at Wartburg Commencement on May 26
Megan McGuigan of Story City and Rahima Waheed of Karachi, Pakistan, will deliver the student messages at the Wartburg College Commencement on Sunday, May 26. Based on nominations from their peers and in consultation with faculty and staff, Wartburg College President Rebecca Ehretsman invited the seniors to give the remarks on behalf of the Class…