Advanced Certificate in Performance candidate Juan Del Bosco, a tenor from Mexico City and one of the premier class of the Conservatory of Music’s fledgling Professional Studies Program, performed at the United Nations on September 24 at the High Level Forum for Education and Woman’s Rights. His distinguished audience was peopled primarily by 30 First Ladies from around the world. Juan sang a variety of famous operatic arias by Verdi and Puccini. His singing was so well received that he has been asked to perform for another event at the United Nations on October 23. Del Bosco also recently had the opportunity to sing for the king and queen of Morocco at a private dinner in Manhattan. Afterward, the king, himself, approached Del Bosco to congratulate him, and the staff asked for his business card, advising him not to be surprised if he is called one day to go to sing for them at the palace. Claudine Avalos, candidate for the B.Mus in Music Eduction with a concentration in voice (2016) and president of the Brooklyn College NAfME chapter, has been accepted as part of the prestigious Pipeline program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes: “The CUNY Pipeline program is a year-long fellowship program offered by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity. The program is designed to provide educational and financial support to undergraduates from groups currently underrepresented in our nation’s universities who are interested in pursuing the Ph.D. in preparation for college-level teaching and advanced research. The program is open to CUNY students and accepts about 30 students each year in any discipline except law, business and medicine. Fellows take part in a six-week summer research institute program at the Graduate Center designed to introduce them to graduate level work and research skills. Throughout the academic year, fellows attend monthly colloquia, complete a research project in their field, and present this work at the CUNY Pipeline Conference held at the Graduate Center. “This year, I was selected to be a part of this program and will be focusing on applying to doctoral programs in ethnomusicology. For my Pipeline research project I will be focusing on Afro-Peruvian music. Using my background as a music education major, I will look at how this music can be integrated in an urban educational setting and the implications it may have on music education. I am very excited to start this work and hope to continue to expand on this research throughout my doctoral studies.”
