Theme: "Listening To Women's Voices And Celebrating Our Diversity"
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Presented to: Professor Carmen Balthrop
Women of Color Award Recipient, Associate Professor of music, Carmen Balthrop has exemplified excellence as an internationally acclaimed performer and teacher. During her sixteen year tenure at the University of Maryland (UM), she has demonstrated commitment to advance the welfare of students of color at teh UM, as well as the greater community. Professor Balthrop, who in 1995 was one of the first UM Alumni Hall of Fame inductees, served as a member of UM's Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education (OMSE) Committee, the David C. Driskell Post Doctorate Fellowship Award for the Study of the African Diaspora, and as a judge for the Poetry Slam celebrating Langston Hughes Centennial during this spring, 2002.
Professor Balthrop mentors and encourages her students to perform music composed by people of color. She has prepared special programs in honor of Black History Month, such as "Songs of Color," in which she included students from the School of Music, and incorporated music and poetry of African Americans. Professor Balthorp's students are making valuable contributions in every area of the music world, including teaching, performing, publishing, composing, and recording. In her professional activity, she has starred on Broadway in the title role of Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha," in "Porgy and Bess," and on Canadian Public Television in William Grant Still's "Aurora." In the words of her nominators, Professor Balthorp has pizzazz. Her American Indian and African American heritage, along with her artistry have helped form her as a fabulous performer and teacher.
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