The Curtis Institute of Music has received $1.5 million from Milton L. Rock to create a chair in composition studies, which will be named in his honor. The new faculty chair will be held by Jennifer Higdon, who has been a member of the Curtis faculty since 1994.
Additionally, Curtis will receive a matching donation of $1.5 million from board chairman H. F. "Gerry" Lenfest. Lenfest has pledged up to $17 million to match any gift that endows a faculty chair.
The Rock gift will also establish a student fellowship in which the fellowship holder writes a dance work to be performed by students of the Rock School for Dance Education. Wang Jie (pictured), a twenty-eight-year-old student born and raised in Shanghai, gets the honors this first time.
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