Bassoon Student Selected to Perform at Kennedy Center

September 2008

Elizabeth Goolian

Matthew Morris, a master’s student in bassoon working with Jeffrey Lyman, has been invited to the Kennedy Center for a weekend of events, to include a concert performance and work with the innovative young strings trio Time for Three, frequent visitors to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance last year. The occasion marks the 5th anniversary of the Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center, which invited one student from each of the 14 schools that have been participants in the project. Students from the School were first invited to perform as part of the Conservatory Project, created to “introduce Washington audiences to young musicians destined to have important careers,” and have been invited back every year since. The orchestra that has been pulled together for the weekend, called the Conservatory Project 5th Anniversary Ensemble Orchestra, is comprised of students from top schools of music and conservatories from around the country. Together they will perform Aaron Copland’s evocative and inspiring Appalacian Spring along with a work composed by Time for Three member Ranaan Meyer, American Suite.