Department Honors:

Eric Rosenstein, ’11, a double major in music history and religion is awarded 2011 Honors, the top honor a department bestows. He recently completed his senior honors thesis on the organ as a modern symbol of cultural hybridity in American Reform Jewish worship. During his junior year, he studied abroad at the Rothberg International School at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  Mr. Rosenstein has sung in both the Dickinson College Choir and Collegium during his four years and participated in a student a cappella ensemble, The Infernos.   IN Spring of 2011, he was featured as the tenor soloist for the Dickinson Orchestra's performance of Mozart's Requiem, and  took active role in Opera Scenes. He has studied voice with Perryne Anker, Lynn Helding, and Jonathan Hays.  His post-graduate plans include rabbinical studies at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Eric has been an inspiration to his colleagues and  a force in the department.

Trust-T Award:

has been awarded to two students: Ilana Rainero-de Haan, ’12 and George Bowerman, ’12.

Ilana Rainero-de Haan ’12, was born in San Francisco, CA and is a junior Music Composition major at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She attended The Walden School, a five-week music composition camp in New Hampshire, for four summers while in high school. A pianist and composer, Ilana has been studying piano for fifteen years and composition for six. In 2008 she was awarded the ASCAP Irving Berlin summer camp scholarship and a commission to write a piece for the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, which they premiered in New York City and Philadelphia in June 2010. Last summer Ilana interned with the program “Keeping Score” at the San Francisco Symphony. She is currently spending her junior year abroad in Bologna, Italy, where she is an intern at the Museo della Musica of Bologna.

Ilana is receiving this award for exceptional leadership and commitment to the programs of the department, including leadership and organization in the Music Society, her work as a student accompanist and her exceptional achievements as a composer.

George Bowerman ‘12 is a rising Senior music piano performance major. He contributes
greatly to the music community both on and off campus and as such stands as
a great ambassador for the college. He has given performances in
Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and at prestigious summer
programs at Eastman School of Music and Brevard Music Center. On campus
George contributes as a soloist, and collaborative pianist, as a Teaching
Assistant for the Department, as orchestral pianist and a concerto soloist
with the Dickinson College Community Orchestra and is an active member of
the College Music Society.

Carmen Neuberger Award:
Aubrey Holmes ’11 majored in music performance and studied violin with Dr. Blanka Bednarz.  He has made a rich contribution to the artistic life of the college and the community. Aubrey’s commitment to chamber music has allowed him to participate in concerts with the Dickinson College Collegium, as well as the former Dickinson Artists in Residence, Florestan Recital Project.  During the past few years, Aubrey has participated in, and been a scholarship student at programs such as Music Naturally at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster, PA., the International Music Institute & Festival in Emmitsburg, MD., and The Brevard Music Center, in Brevard, NC., where among others, he had the opportunity to play under the baton of and study with artists such as Jonathan Carney, Arnold Steinhardt, Keith Lockhart, and JoAnn Falletta, and where he represented Dickinson in the first violin section, front stands.  During the winter of 2009/10, Aubrey took part in a concert tour of China with Sinfonietta Polonia, performing in cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Shenyang and others.  Aubrey has been a member of the Dickinson College Orchestra where he played a significant leadership role: leading the second violins and sectionals. He has also contributed his talents and taken Dickinson's name to the larger community outside of Carlisle, playing in the Shippensburg University Orchestra as principal second violin, as substitute for the York Symphony Orchestra, among others. An avid chamber musician, Aubrey participated in multiple (and simultaneous) ensembles, volunteering to support fellow students in their recitals, in musicals, Weiss Prize performance (all these well beyond the requirements of the degree). He has served in the Music Society. While at home and at school, Aubrey has taken part in outreach for younger musicians and students, having performed in and taught at many of the elementary schools throughout the area, among others as part of the Dickinson College Music Outreach Program, also mentoring younger colleagues, prospective students. Aubrey is a two-time winner of the Dickinson College Concerto Competition. This spring he performed Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Dickinson College Orchestra. Aubrey chose to come to Dickinson to pursue excellent liberal arts education, but also to pursue music at the highest level and prepare for graduate school in music and the competitive world of music at large. He will enter a Master's of Music program in performance at the Boston Conservatory in the fall.

We congratulate all recipients of the 2011 awards and wish them every success in their artistic and other endeavors.