layton State music professor wins Binkley Award

Clayton

State music professor wins Binkley Award

Early Music America,

the national advocacy organization for

historically-inspired performance, has announced that

Clayton College & State University Professor of Music

Dr. Lyle Nordstrom is the recipient of the Thomas Binkley

Award for the year 2000.

The Binkley

Award is given annually for excellence in scholarship and

performance of early music at the college and university

level. The award is named for the late Thomas Binkley,

who established and directed the Early Music Institute at

Indiana University, after having taught at the Schola

Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland and having directed

the Studio der Fr�hen Musik in their world-wide tours.

Nordstrom

was cited not only for the "extraordinary level of

activity and excellence as Director of Early Music

Activities at Clayton College & State

University," but also for his work at Oakland

University where he taught for 23 years, as well as the

impressive record of conferences and symposia he has

organized, and workshops in which he has taught

throughout the nation.

Nordstrom's

influence in mentoring students, several of whom have

gone on to international careers in the field of Early

Music, was also a factor in the award.

Among the

most prominent of Nordstrom's former students are:

soprano Ellen Hargis, who is an international recording

star; violinist David Douglass, who has also recorded on

several labels, and who will be appearing in Spivey Hall

next year as the director of The Kinges Noyse; bass and

lutanist Joel Frederikson, who is currently dividing his

time between Munich, Germany and New York City and who

has appeared in Spivey Hall as a member of the Boston

Camerata; and Michael Lynn, currently the recorder and

Baroque flute teacher at Oberlin Conservatory.

In

addition, several CCSU graduates are making their marks

in the professional world. Soprano Jolle Greenleaf (1993)

has performed with several groups in New York, as well as

the Folger Consort in Washington; lutanist Craig

Marchetti (1996) received a master's degree with a

performance certificate from Indiana University and is

currently performing throughout Europe; Harpsichordist

Holly Chatham (1996) received a master's degree with a

performer's certificate from Indiana University and is

currently based in New York and touring with Bimbetta.

Nordstrom

will be honored at a reception at the Berkeley Early

Music Festival in June. An article about the award will

be in the May Issue of the Early Music America magazine.

Clayton

College & State University, a member institution of

the University System of Georgia, is located in Morrow in

south metro Atlanta.

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