Music Major

With the support of Albion College’s Music Department, Luke Rivard ’24 this fall will join a graduate program in composition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Hundreds of vocalists will gather March 17-18 at Albion College for the twice-postponed National Intercollegiate Tenor-Bass Choruses Conference. The world-renowned Cantus offers a headline concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 17, while ensembles from five U.S. states and Canada will perform five additional concerts during the two-day conference. All performances take place in Albion College’s Goodrich Chapel.

Rivard and Endsley have new stamps in their passports now thanks to Dr. Clayton Parr’s first-year seminar on Vienna and Albion Go Grants. Endsley was in Parr’s first-year seminar, and Rivard participated through the music major colloquium course.

A pair of volumes by Dr. Lia Jensen-Abbott aids in sharing anew the story of one of the most important African American composers.

Music and physics majors Nathaniel Jennings, ’22, and Daniel McGarry, ’22, are concluding a successful undergraduate run. 

The Music Department piano professor is using her own positive undergraduate honors experience as inspiration for leading Albion College’s Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program.

Doran, who died December 6 at the age of 86, earned a reputation as an exacting and challenging professor during his 37 years at Albion College, from 1963 to 2000.

Albion College professor of piano David Abbott may not have the answers to the challenges, conflicts and uncertainties of today’s world. But in a unique performance October 8, he and adjunct music professor Anna Khalikova offered a place to start.

It’s fascinating music trivia: one of Beethoven’s greatest piano works, the Diabelli Variations, is Volume II, but Beethoven did not write, or even contribute to, Volume I. Some 200 years later, Albion College music professor Lia Jensen-Abbott—whose doctoral work focused on Beethoven’s Variations—is now putting a new spin on Volume I, with an idea the creative genius of Beethoven could never have imagined.

Albion College Professor and Director of Choral Activities Clayton Parr, ’80, has long viewed the Republic of Georgia as something of a second home so when the chance was presented to take his Briton Singers, a 12-member a capella group, to the country in May to perform and learn about the culture, it was an opportunity not to be missed.