The second Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism will be hosted by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from November 5 to 10, 2014. The institute, devoted to instruction in classical-music criticism, will be open to students from the San Francisco Conservatory as well as University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Yale School of Music. At the conclusion the institute, one writer will be awarded the $10,000 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism. During the institute student writers will receive feedback and observations from journalists and university-level writers in public and private settings. The San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Cal Performances, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will also present performances at the institute. The Rubin Institute for Music Criticism is a biennial event first held at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2012, with a Writers Panel that included New Yorker critic Alex Ross, Washington Post critic Anne Midgette, USC Journalism and Music Professor Tim Page, and Wall Street Journal critic Heidi Waleson. In August, further details will be announced about concerts, keynote addresses, and Writers Panel members. A preview page is available at http://www.sfcm.edu/rubin-institute.
Posted May 16, 2014
