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{{Infobox school
| name = Oberlin Conservatory of Music
| image = oberlinconservatoryfront e.jpg
| imagesize = 250px
| caption = Musician entering the Oberlin Conservatory
| founded = 1865
| type = [[Private school|Private]]
| head_name = Dean
| head = David Stull
| faculty = 88
| enrollment = 615
| free_label1 = Practice Rooms
| free_text1 = 150
| free_label2 = Concert Halls
| free_text2 = 5
| affiliations = [[Oberlin College]]
| city = [[Oberlin, Ohio|Oberlin]]
| state = [[Ohio]]
| country = [[United States|USA]]
| website = http://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory
}}
 
[[Image:Oberlin music1.jpg|thumb|right|Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College]]
[[File:The Kohl Building.jpeg|thumb|The Kohl Building, opened in 2010]]
 
The '''Oberlin Conservatory of Music''', located on the campus of [[Oberlin College]] in [[Oberlin, Ohio]], was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni can be found in most major professional ensembles. Admission is based primarily on an extremely competitive audition. Over 1400 musicians from around the world apply for a freshman class of around 120. It is one of the few American conservatories to be completely attached to a liberal arts college ([[Oberlin College]], allowing students the opportunity to seriously pursue degrees in both music and a traditional liberal arts subject via the five year Double-Degree program). Oberlin College and Conservatory pride themselves on being almost exclusively undergraduate.
 
In an interview between Frank J. Oteri and Timothy Weiss, the coach of the famous contemporary music ensemble "[[eighth blackbird]]," Weiss states "One advantage [of Oberlin] is that there are only undergraduates, and the reason I think this is an advantage is that at a school like Juilliard or other schools you might name that have a very strong or large population of graduate students is that those students, by their nature, tend to be somewhat more vocationally minded. They are understandably worried about their next step as musicians: How are they going to enter the industry? How are they going to make a living? And because of that, that can trickle down. The nice thing at Oberlin is that they are immensely talented, but they're not really concerned about their future. They might be a little bit, but it's not what occupies their thoughts. They are thinking about music as an art form. They're preoccupied with how they're going to change the artistic culture. And I think that's actually very important."
 
Oberlin Conservatory is a recipient of the 2009 [[National Medal of Arts]], the highest award given by the United States government to artists and arts patrons in recognition of the wealth and depth of their creative expressions. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the only professional music school to be so honored by President Barack Obama.
 
Due to the Conservatory's affiliation with [[Elisha Grey]], inventor of the [[Synthesizer|electromechanical oscillator]], and [[Thaddeus Cahill]], inventor of the [[telharmonium]], Oberlin Conservatory is considered to be the birthplace of electronic music. The TIMARA (Technology In Music And Related Arts) program was the world's first conservatory program in [[electronic music]], established in 1967.
 
The conservatory also contains the largest collection of [[Steinway & Sons]] pianos outside the Steinway factory.
 
[[Minoru Yamasaki]] designed the conservatory building in 1963. The style of the building closely resembles Yamasaki's later design of the [[World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]].
 
==Undergraduate courses offered==
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*[[Musical composition|Composition]]
*[[Jazz]] Studies
*Technology In Music And Related Arts (TIMARA)
*[[Organ (music)|Organ]]
*[[Piano]]
*Vocal Performance
*[[Music Theory]]
*[[Music history|Music History]]
*[[Historical performance]]
*Instrumental Music Performance - for [[flute]], [[clarinet]], [[oboe]], [[trumpet]], [[trombone]], [[bassoon]], [[French horn]], [[tuba]], [[violin]], [[viola]], [[double bass]], [[cello]], [[harp]] and classical [[guitar]]
*[[percussion instrument|Percussion]]
 
==Notable alumni/ae==
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* [[Cory Arcangel]], computer artist
* [[Eric Bogosian]], writer, actor, performer
* Sibbi Bernhardsson, violinist, [[Pacifica Quartet]]
* [[MaVynee Betsch]], piano and voice
* [[Thaddeus Cahill]], composer, physicist and inventor of the [[Telharmonium]].
* [[Brian Chase]], drummer [[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]]
* [[Claire Chase]], flautist
* [[Will Chase]], Broadway actor
* [[James David Christie]], organist and pedagogue
* [[Stanley Cowell]], jazz pianist
* [[Jeremy Denk]], pianist
* [[R. Nathaniel Dett]], conductor, pianist, composer, arranger
* [[Eighth Blackbird]] (all members), contemporary music sextet
* Moppa Elliott, bassist and leader of [[Mostly Other People Do the Killing]]
* [[Peter Evans (musician)|Peter Evans]], trumpeter
* [[James Feddeck]], conductor
* Simin Ganatra, violinist, [[Pacifica Quartet]]
* [[Kyle Gann]], composer
* [[Rhiannon Giddens]], soprano, banjo player
* James Giles, pianist
* [[Judith Gordon]], pianist
* [[Denyce Graves]], mezzo-soprano
* [[Elisha Grey]], physicist and inventor of the [[electromechanical oscillator]].
* Anne Gross, soprano
* [[Natalie Hinderas]], professor, pianist and composer
* [[Moses Hogan]], conductor, composer, and arranger
* [[Paul Horn (jazz musician)|Paul Horn]], flute, saxophones
* [[Matt Hubbard (musician)]], [[Willie Nelson]] producer and member of [[7 Walkers]]
* Cristin Hubbard, actor/singer, Madame Giry in [[The Phantom of the Opera]].
* [[International Contemporary Ensemble]], contemporary music ensemble
* [[Steven Isserlis]], cellist
* [[Frederick Jackson]], baritone
* [[John Kennedy (musician)|John Kennedy]], composer and conductor
* [[Carla Kihlstedt]], violinist/singer
* [[Alex Klein]], oboist
* [[Jennifer Koh]], violinist
* [[Judy Kuhn]], actress/singer
* [[Scott Lawton (conductor)|Scott Lawton]], conductor
* [[Sylvia Olden Lee]], vocal coach and accompanist
* [[Rex Lee (actor)|Rex Lee]], actor on [[HBO]] series [[Entourage (TV series)|Entourage]]
* [http://www.differentdrummusic.com/rhodapinsleylevin Rhoda Pinsley Levin], pianist
* [[Michael Maguire (actor)|Michael Maguire]], actor/singer, best known for playing [[Enjolras]] in the original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]''
* [[David Maslanka]], composer
* [[James McBride (writer)|James McBride]], saxophonist, composer, and author of the [[New York Times]] best-seller, [[The Color of Water]]
* Charles Edward McGuire, musicologist and author of ''Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic [[Solfège|Sol-fa]] Movement'' and ''Epic Narration: The Oratorios of [[Edward Elgar]]''
* [[Kevin McHugh (musician)|Kevin McHugh]], pianist
* [[Jack Melick|John T. "Jack" Melick, Jr.]], band leader, pianist, and arranger
* [[David Miller (singer)|David Miller]], tenor, member of the multi-platinum operatic pop quartet [[Il Divo]]
* [[Amy X Neuburg]], composer/singer/electronic artist
* Kassa Overall, jazz drummer
* [[James Paul]], conductor
* [[William Porter (organist)|William Porter]], organist and pedagogue
* Marni Raab, [[Christine Daae]] in [[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]].
* [[Derek Lee Ragin]], countertenor
* Lenore Rosenberg, Associate Artistic Administrator of the [[Metropolitan Opera]]
* [[Thomas Rosenkranz]], pianist
* [[Ned Rothenberg]], woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer
* [[Christopher Rouse (composer)|Christopher Rouse]], Pulitzer Prize winning composer [http://www.christopherrouse.com/]
* Lisa Saffer, soprano
* Greg Saunier, drummer for [[Deerhoof]]
* [[Jenny Scheinman]], jazz violinist
* [[Andrew Shapiro]], composer/songwriter
* [[Robert Sims]]
* [[Robert Spano]], conductor
* Robert Shannon, pianist, director of the keyboard department at the Oberlin Conservatory
* [[William Grant Still]], composer
* [[Jon Theodore]], drummer [[The Mars Volta]]
* [[David Zinman]], conductor
 
 
==See also==
*[[Oberlin Jazz Ensemble]]
*[[List of colleges and university schools of music in the USA]]
 
==External links==
{{Commons category|Oberlin Conservatory of Music}}
*[http://www.oberlin.edu/con/ Conservatory Website]
*[http://oberwiki.net/index.php?title=Conservatory_of_Music Conservatory of Music] on Oberwiki
*[http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/ Oberlin College Archives], see Record Group 10 for Conservatory-specific material
*[http://www.differentdrummusic.com/Rhoda_Pinsley_Levin_photos.htm Oberlin Woodwind Ensemble with director George E. Waln, circa 1948-51] (photo)
*[http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/performer.pl?ens=125 Art of the States: Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble] live and studio performances from the Oberlin Conservatory
 
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