White Prize Recital: Blake Logan, cello

Watch the webcast  – streamed live at concert time.

Blake Logan is an awardee of the Dolores '54 and Donald '57 White Prize.

Blake will present a performance titled "Out of Silence: Visionaries of Sound Old and New". This program features the music of Dolores White and other female and Black composers whose work is similarly visionary. Ranging from America to Poland and Iceland, this recital traces a thread of tradition and innovation through all its works.

Program:

Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre Trio Sonata No. 1 in G Minor

Dolores White 4 Sequences for Solo Cello

Grażyna Bacewicz Polish Caprice for Solo Violin

Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

Anna Thorvaldsdottir Shades of Silence (2012)

About the White Prize

The Dolores ’54 and Donald ’57 White Prize Fund was established in 2021 to provide awards to Conservatory students who demonstrate leadership in elevating Oberlin Conservatory’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals through music performance. Prizes are awarded for performance-based projects demonstrating students’ commitment to supporting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in music and commitment to excellence in music performance. The 2022-23 academic year is the inaugural year of the prize awards.  Learn more. [LINK: https://www.oberlin.edu/news/oberlin-conservatory-launches-dolores-54-and-donald-57-white-prize]

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