2020 Ellalou Dimmock Honors Virtual Recital

The 2020 Ellalou Dimmock Vocal Honors Award Recital premiered virtually this year. CFA School of Music hosted a live premiere of the pre-recorded recital on the evening of Friday, December 4. Congratulations to this year’s winners, Tara Dougherty (CFA’21) and Tara Palazuelos (CFA’21)!

The Ellalou Dimmock Memorial Award is presented each year to students who demonstrate excellence in vocal performance throughout their undergraduate studies. Tara Dougherty is a BM soprano studying with Lynn Eustis, and Tara Palazuelos, BM mezzo-soprano, is in the studio of Penelope Bitzas.

The 2020 program includes art songs and duets by Boulanger, Brahms, Grever, Heggie, Lara, Schumann, Smith, Viardot, and Wallach. Dougherty and Palazuelos are accompanied by Professor Shiela Kibbe. See the full program here.

The recital was pre-recorded and streamed live for audiences on Friday, December 4, 2020.

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CFA School of Music

Founded in 1872, Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music combines the intimacy and intensity of traditional conservatory-style training with a broad liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and elective coursework at the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, conducting, composition and theory, musicology, music education, and historical performance, as well as artist and performance diplomas and a certificate program in its Opera Institute. Learn more about CFA School of Music at bu.edu/cfa/music.