{"id":11095,"date":"2022-10-12T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=11095"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:08:35","slug":"a-year-in-bloomington-music-scholar-david-curtiss-reflects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2022\/10\/12\/a-year-in-bloomington-music-scholar-david-curtiss-reflects\/","title":{"rendered":"A year in Bloomington: Music Scholar David Curtiss reflects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourth-year Astrophysics student and Music Performance Scholar, David Curtiss<\/strong>, reflects on his recent sandwich year abroad.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Over the past four years I have had the honour of being able to say that, alongside my degree in Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics, I am a music scholar here at the University of Kent. I was awarded the Music Performance Scholarship in 2018 on the saxophone and have loved developing my playing through the various ensembles that are on offer as well as under the fantastic tutelage of Peter Cook. All of this progress led to me being fortunate enough on my year abroad last year (2021\/22) to have been accepted into the Tom Walsh Jazz Ensemble<\/strong> at the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University, Bloomington.<\/p>\n

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David playing in a Scholars’ Lunchtime Recital in Colyer-Ferguson Hall along with Music Performance Scholar, Meg Daniel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do also have a particularly large ‘thank you’ to make to the University of Kent Music department and donors to the scholarship programme.\u00a0 Unfortunately, due to several Visa issues I was unable to attend the auditions at Bloomington at the start of term and instead had to submit the YouTube video made by the Music department for the Scholar’s Spotlight<\/em> series in 2021, which fortunately led to my acceptance into one of the music school\u2019s big bands, without which I would not have had such an incredible opportunity!<\/p>\n