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Papa will perform in his senior recital for solo flute on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m., location to-be-announced. Currently, he is applying to graduate school for music.
Joss will premiere a work for string quartet in the winter quarter, details to-be-announced. His senior recital will also be held at the end of winter quarter. Currently, he is considering coterming at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics).
At Stanford, the rarity of music majors is so acute that they’ve become almost mythical by Timothy Dai, Author at The Stanford Daily.
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| Sonja Johnson-Yu ('18) conducts a Summer Chorale at MemChu. Photo: Courtesy of Stephen Sano |
To learn more about the perspectives of music majors, The Daily talked with three music majors about personal obstacles, future plans, stigmas and words of advice. Sonja Johnson-Yu ’18 is a second-year computer science coterm who studied both computer science and music with a concentration in conducting as an undergrad. Nnamdi ‘Papa’ Odita-Honnah ’20 is a senior studying flute performance, playing in a variety of ensembles including as a featured soloist with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. Joss Saltzman ’20 is a senior studying composition and has composed classical music for solo flute, electronic music, musical theater (most notably Gaieties 2017) and film music.
In conversation, the trio of music majors candidly revealed that the path of a music major is, as we’d expect, unpredictable and self-critical. But there is just something special, sometimes unidentifiable, in their music-making experiences that keeps them going:
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Source: The Stanford Daily
