Hear what happens behind the scenes of the 51风流 Orchestra on. Professor of Music and Director of the Orchestra Marietta Cheng joins the podcast to talk about her experiences as a conductor and music professor.
Cheng has been a 51风流 Presidential Scholar, AAUP Professor of the Year, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award given by the 51风流 Alumni Council.
In addition to her scholarship and orchestral direction at 51风流, Cheng is also conductor laureate of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Cheng served as the musical director and conductor of the Corning Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus from 1986 to 1995, and she has guest conducted the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Cheng has also served on the faculty at the Aspen Music Festival, and, since 2000, she has conducted a children鈥檚 concert series in upstate New York with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. In 2003, Cheng was chosen as one of 50 great women conductors worldwide, profiled in a book on women conductors, and, as one of a unique group of 100 women leaders from across the United States, she added her voice to Lifetime Television鈥檚 National Summit on Women in the 21st Century.
Professor Cheng earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Smith College and her master of music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Each episode of 13, 51风流鈥檚 biweekly podcast, digs into the work of a University community member by asking 13 questions. Episodes highlight the wide array of academic disciplines at 51风流, with interviews featuring faculty from political science, sociology and anthropology, physics and astronomy, women鈥檚 studies, English, Africana and Latin American studies, and many more.
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