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Conservatory of Music Kulas Musical Arts Building Merner-Pfeiffer Hall Conservatory Annex (UCC) Dietsch Hall (440)826-2369 1-866-BW-MUSIC 1-866-296-8742 |
Dynamic learning, collaborative mentoring and professional results make our Conservatory of Music a proven choice for students aspiring to the best graduate schools; orchestras; operas; theatres; and teaching, arts management and music therapy positions. We also serve over 2,000 community members each year through our Conservatory Outreach division's ensembles, classes, private lessons and summer music programs.
Undergraduate-Only Conservatory with Exceptional Opportunities
With an emphasis on experiential learning within a liberal arts environment, our majors, programs and minors unite excellence with innovation. Students take leading roles in performing, composing, conducting, managing and teaching.
Collaborative Mentoring with Accomplished Artists
As established professionals, our faculty brings impressive credentials and real-world experience to our Conservatory. Students benefit from individual attention and expert guidance.
Professional Results Leading to a Career
From our impressive Bach Festival to our recent graduates on Broadway, our Conservatory of Music has garnered national and international attention. B-W alumni work as professionals in symphony orchestras and as teachers, composers, arts managers and music therapists worldwide.
Conservatory Accolades
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Recent News
Composer-in-Residence Mandy Fang receives Meet the Composer grant -- Fang will create a collaborative work with Kasumi, a video artist from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Conservatory flute professor George Pope performance previewed in ClevelandClassical -- Chamber Music Society recital season announced.
Trista Moldavan '02 playing Christine in final tour of Phantom of the Opera -- B-W grad is interviewed about her experience by the Akron Beacon Journal and The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Composer Keane Southard '09 has his 2nd Piano Sonata featured on WRSU
B-W Center for Performing Arts Health and Research continues research into musicians' health -- Center members present paper at the International Performing Arts Medicine Association annual meeting
Conservatory building project receives $3.6 million in state tax credits for historic restoration -- the funds will help transform a former church into additional space for the B-W Conservatory of Music
Conservatory Director Peter Landgren profiled by the Plain Dealer's Sarah Crump - the interview will appear in the print edition of the Plain Dealer soon but read the online version here
Steel Burkhardt '07 to play Berger in the London West End production of Hair - Burkhardt was an original company member of the Broadway production of Hair. Read the Playbill announcement here
Benjamin Wayne Smith named Director of the B-W Opera Program - Smith is currently resident assistant director at Seattle Opera, Read the Plain Dealer announcement here
B-W quartet takes jazz to Kentucky school children - four B-W Conservatory of Music students spent their spring break touring schools in Kentucky
B-W performs CHESS: the London Stage Version at PlayhouseSquare -- In their third year of partnership, PlayhouseSquare and the B-W Music Theatre and Arts Management programs presented a sold-out run of CHESS at the 14th Street Theatre
Soprano Jane Eaglen to join Baldwin-Wallace voice faculty -- eminent English soprano admired worldwide for her performances in Wagner operas, will join the voice faculty at B-W this fall. Read the Plain Dealer announcement here
B-W's 79th Bach Festival receives rave reviews -- The Plain Dealer's Don Rosenberg writes the festival "achieved a bold synthesis of modern and historic performance practices even as they made a living, breathing thing of Bach’s masterpiece... the audience was in raptures, a testament to the performers’ heightened skills and Bach’s soaring vision"
Conservatory names Mandy Fang new Composer-in-Residence -- Fang, who will complete her doctorate at Cornell in May, will join the B-W faculty this fall
Clint Needham '04 wins prestigious Charles Ives Scholarhip -- the award is given to composition students of great promise by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Margaret Mezzacappa '09 to make Kennedy Center debut -- Ms. Mezzacappa, mezzo soprano, performed in a program of French Jewish music with the Biava Quartet on April 29
Entreprenuership in the Conservatory -- A recent article was published by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation about the B-W Conservatory's initiative to introduce Entrepreneurship to all B-W music majors
La Boheme and Rent in Repertory -- B-W announces first ever productions of La Boheme and Rent in repertory planned for February 2011
Iron Composer -- B-W hosts the instant composition competition Iron Composer including five composer contestestants from across the US
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