National Award for UW-Green Bay music alumna, Rebekah Erdman

Rebekah Erdman ’17 (Music and Spanish & Latin Studies) was the winner of the 2021 National Opera Association’s, Scholarly Paper Competition with “The Immortal Hour of the English Choral Drama.” Erdman will be invited to present her paper in January 2022 at the national conference in Houston. Erdman is a Ph. D. student in musicology at the University of Iowa. She holds a MM in Clarinet Performance from the University of Minnesota Duluth and a BM in Music Education from UW-Green Bay. Erdman’s research explores the music of late-nineteenth and twentieth century Great Britain, with an emphasis on the Pastoral style. Her other research interests include women in music, chamber music, and music history pedagogy. She has worked with students of all ages, shared her research in various formats locally and regionally, and currently serves as co-president for The Musicology Society at Iowa.