The Oberlin Conservatory of Music has announced the new Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, which will take place from January 18 to 22, 2012 on the Oberlin College campus in Ohio. The weeklong series of events is meant to bring together national music journalists, renowned musicians, and aspiring young writers and will include performances, critical review and discussion panels, and keynote addresses by critics. Musical participants will include the Cleveland Orchestra, pianist Jeremy Denk, the baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Journalists for the writer’s panel will include New Yorker music critic Alex Ross; USC journalism professor and former Washington Post music critic Tim Page; Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette; and Wall Street Journal critic Heidi Waleson. Leading up to the Institute, the student writers will have worked with a special preparatory team of local journalists and writers while taking the Oberlin Conservatory’s new course in music criticism. At the end of the course, one Rubin Institute Fellow will be awarded the $10,000 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism. Details on the Rubin Institute Fellows will be released near the end of the fall semester. For more information on the program, visit http://new.oberlin.edu/office/rubininstitute/index.dot.
Posted October 6, 2011
