Majors: MusPerformance
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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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Brian Pfaltzgraff
Dr. Brian Pfaltzgraff is a professor of voice at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. While completing the Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Michigan, Dr. Pfaltzgraff was on the faculties of Ohio Northern University, and Concordia University, Ann Arbor. He received his Master of Arts in German Literature and his Master of Music…