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![David Pickar ’23 plays an upright bass on the steps of Shattuck Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-05/Music-practice1-new-1536x1031.jpg?h=e2c443c8&itok=5Lt71wEq)
Conservatory faculty have found creative ways to safely educate and motivate student musicians, on campus or scattered around the world.
![John Holiday on The Voice.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-11/John-Holiday-2-crop-new-1024x843.jpeg?h=6cb6db2a&itok=gPPq81KK)
We tracked Lawrence Conservatory of Music Professor John Holiday's journey on The Voice.
![Isabel Kelly ’21 works on a flute mask in the Lawrence University costume shop.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-05/CostumeShop1-new-1536x1024.jpg?h=01354db4&itok=2kkvBxSR)
Lawrence University music students will soon be getting specially made face masks suitable for their music-making needs.
![Erin Lesser](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-05/Erin_Lesser-2-new-768x673.jpg?h=cde6f2ba&itok=3CvbckzK)
Lesser was asked to participate in The Boccaccio Project, an artistic collaboration in which 10 commissions of new music would be shared with the world.
![Sarah Navy smiling for a portrait, wearing a red shirt](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-02/sh.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=KhpFFQS8)
Sarah E. Navy ’22, president of BSU, has been on a mission to keep members of the student organization connected.
![Theater professor Kathy Privatt (center top) and some of her students work through preparations for a radio drama to be performed live on Zoom on Friday night.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-03/Radio-drama-1-crop-1024x845.jpg?h=bf9fb899&itok=Dr7zGy-b)
Despite students being spread across the globe this term, the Theatre Arts department performs a radio drama presented live on Zoom.
![Central Park Five opera performance](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/cp5.jpg?h=9b1b7d0f&itok=av_oX6BC)
The Central Park Five, an opera that featured Derrell Acon ’10 in a leading role when it debuted last summer in southern California, has won a Pulitzer Prize for music.
![The Lawrence University Jazz Band at the Conservatory](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-03/Jazz-Band-new-1024x732.jpg?h=a3133557&itok=CBGw4SeI)
Lawrence University’s jazz program has earned a prestigious DownBeat award for the third consecutive year, this time in the Latin Group category.
![Lawrence University students gathered for an impromptu performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-03/Elijah_014-768x514.jpg?h=bb1dd82a&itok=gGEIivRV)
Music School Central named Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music one of the best “hidden gem” music schools in the country. The top-10 ranking placed Lawrence at No. 3.
![Count Almaviva during a dress rehearsal for The Marriage of Figaro](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-10/figaro.jpg?h=4bf90136&itok=iEiiVzn-)
Opera Theatre students prepare to open the production of The Marriage of Figaro, the classic opera from the superstar duo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte.
![Holly Beemer '22 listens as music professor Estelí Gomez, seated to her right, gives feedback during a studio voice class in the Music-Drama Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-02/Gomez2x-1024x696.jpg?h=8db79c34&itok=aTreweuP)
Professor Esteli Gomez balances teaching Lawrence voice students with performing internationally.
![Patty Darling stands, wearing a black winter coat, against a backdrop of a snow-covered Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-06/MainMallGreenPattyDarling1-768x519.jpg?h=b174261a&itok=zN9jwSef)
Patty Darling directs the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble, which has received rave reviews.
![Rehanna Rexroat '20 plays the violin during a recent rehearsal session in Shattuck Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-02/RehannaRexroatlead.jpg?h=81d02d30&itok=CaGo3cec)
The senior violin recital for Rehanna Rexroat ’20 will be more than just the summit of her academic career at Lawrence — one that boasts majors in violin performance, instrumental music education, and choral/general music education.