Oberlin Conservatory Alumna to Present Percussion Performance

On Sunday, November 7 at 8pm, Bonnie Whiting Smith ‘03 will present a guest percussion performance in Conservatory Central Room 25. Admission is free.

Bonnie Whiting Smith explores the flexible boundaries between music and other disciplines, focusing specifically on music for vocalizing percussionist. Current projects include a solo simultaneous realization of all of John Cage’s 45’ for a Speaker and 27’10.554” for a percussionist and work with red fish blue fish, the Seattle Percussion Collective, and percussionist Allen Otte. Bonnie spent three years with Tales & Scales, a quartet combining new music, dance, and theater for family audiences, giving over 400 performances in 25 states and appearing with the Dallas, Oregon, Indianapolis, Buffalo, and Louisville orchestras. She has played at the Kravis Center, the Oberlin Percussion Institute, with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Switzerland under the direction of Pierre Boulez, and traveled to perform in New Zealand, Italy, Canada, and Panama. Bonnie has premiered music by Jerome Kitzke, Randall Woolf, John Luther Adams, and Michael Pisaro, worked with Frederic Rzewski and Steve Reich, and she champions the music of her peers. Bonnie attended Oberlin Conservatory, Interlochen Arts Academy, and University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.

She is a doctoral student in Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California, San Diego and principal percussionist of the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. www.bonniewhitingsmith.com

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Central Unit, Room 25

77 West College Street

Oberlin, OH 44074