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SYDNEY, AUS (August 16, 2024) — Nik Divall, a 2024 Oberlin College and Conservatory graduate, has been awarded a Fulbright for the 2024-25 academic year.
Divall, who graduated from the Conservatory with a major in classical guitar performance, earned a Fulbright study and research award to Germany and plans to live in the German port city of Bremen pursuing a master’s degree in historical performance, basso continuo playing.
“Basso continuo was a method composers of the baroque period used to inform semi-improved accompaniment for singers and other instruments,” he explains. “I will focus my studies on three instruments: the theorbo, archlute, and baroque lute.”
Dival started playing theorbo in fall 2021 and plans to pursue music professionally.
“Seeing that Oberlin equipped me with the training to be a classical guitarist, the Fulbright scholarship will award me with the essential training I need in order to work professionally as a basso continuo player,” he says.
Divall is one of 19 Oberlin alums or recent grads who have been awarded a Fulbright for the 2024-25 academic year, breaking the college’s previous record of honorees in a single academic year.
The Fulbright Program is the federal government’s flagship international academic exchange program. Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad.
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