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Image Credits (L-R): Miró Quartet by Jeff Wilson; Paul Lewis by Kaupo Kikkas; Danish Quartet by Caroline Bittencourt; Junction Trio by Shervin Lainez; Sasha Cooke by Stephanie Girard; Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason by Jake Turney; Pacifica Quartet by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Karen Slack by Kia Caldwell; Mahan Esfahani by Kaja Smith.
Featuring the Miró Quartet in a World Premiere by Caroline Shaw, Pianist Paul Lewis (Baltimore Recital Debut), Danish String Quartet (Baltimore Debut), Junction Trio (Baltimore Debut), Mezzo-Soprano Sasha Cooke (Baltimore Recital Debut), Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, the Pacifica Quartet with Soprano Karen Slack (Baltimore Debut), and Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani (Baltimore Debut)
May 10, 2021
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Pierson College courtyard.
Eighteen Yale College juniors received honors from the Council of the Heads of Colleges in recognition of their scholarship, contributions to college life, and their character.
The winning students, their prizes, and the award citations written by their heads of college follow.
F. Wilder Bellamy Jr. Memorial Prize
Established in 1939 by friends of F. Wilder Bellamy Jr., B.A. 1937, the prize is awarded to a junior who best exemplifies the qualities for which F. Wilder Bellamy, Jr. is remembered, including personal integrity, loyalty to friends, and high-spiritedness in athletics, academics, and social life.
6. A Waterbird
Debra Rentz, soprano, is Chair of the Voice Division at Ohio University. She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Music History from Illinois State University and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Illinois. Rentz has performed extensively in opera, operetta, oratorio, recital, and orchestral concerts. She has been featured as a soloist in numerous oratorios, including Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mass in Time of War, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Operatic roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition, Debra has considerable experience performing Gilbert and Sullivan. Other operetta performances include the American stage premiere of Emmerich Kalman’s Duchess of Chicago with Chicago Light Opera and Josephine in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore