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Start to Spring 2025 at WFU Music

by Liz Thomas

We’re excited to get a new year and a new semester started at WFU Music!

Student scholarship and performances

Jacob Kathman, trombone

WFU Music major and Presidential Scholar

Nora Resk, soprano

WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar

Alexandra Eliasek Senior Presentation

WFU Music major

Adam Waszkiewicz, clarinet

WFU Music major and Presidential Scholar

Kyria Pidherny, violin

WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar

The Future of Music Leadership: Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt with the WFU Choirs

We are excited to welcome acclaimed choral director, scholar, and educator Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt to Wake Forest for a special residency with WFU Choirs!

Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor Emerita of Choral Studies at the University of Toronto where she held the Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. Her teaching experiences range from public school to community ensembles and church choirs. Dr. Apfelstadt is editor of a book on women choral composers to be published by GIA in 2025.

The Future of Music Leadership guest series is generously co-sponsored by a grant from the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University.

Virtual Wavelengths: Dr. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

We are excited to virtually welcome Dr. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, curator in the Musical Instruments Division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a special online lecture for Dr. Stewart Carter’s First Year Seminar, The World of Musical Instruments.

Interested in learning more about this unique lecture series from WFU Music? Visit our Virtual Wavelengths page.

This event is free and open to the public! Check out our Events page to join on March 25 at 2:00 pm.