Horn workshop Saturday at OU

The University of Oklahoma School of Music will sponsor a horn workshop Saturday at Catlett Music Center. The event is open to all public school, collegiate and amateur horn players.

Workshop registration begins 8:30 a.m. and sessions begin at 9 a.m. The event will conclude at 5 p.m. The workshop will consist of age-specific clinics for hornists, as well as musical interludes by collegiate horn choirs from Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City University and OU.

A general session on section playing will be hosted by the horn section of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra. Local clinicians for the event will be Lanette Compton, horn professor at OSU, Kate Pritchett, horn professor at OCU, and Dr. Eldon Matlick, horn professor at OU.

The special guest artist for this event is Haley Hoops, hornist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Hoops joined the DSO as second hornist in 1999. Hoops is a member of the Dallas Symphony brass quintet and is an active chamber musician.

Hoops will give two formal master classes for all participants and will give short solo performances to start each session. Registration fee is $10 and will be collected the day of the event.

Students earn spots in scholar class

Two graduate research students from the University of Oklahoma's K20 Center Technology Leadership Cohort have been selected to be part of the 2008 David L. Clark National Scholars class.

Glenne' Whisenhunt, Lexington, and Sharon Wilbur, El Reno, will present their research Friday at David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy in New York. The seminar brings emerging educational administration and policy scholars and noted researchers together for two days of presentations, generative discussion and professional growth.

Student receives Pearl Carter-Scott aviation scholarship

Jared Wingo, a freshman aerospace engineering/aviation management student at the University of Oklahoma, is the 2008 recipient of the Pearl Carter-Scott aviation scholarship given by the Wiley Post Commission to a member of the Chickasaw Nation.

Wingo will be presented with the $5,000 scholarship April 4, during the Wiley Post Spirit Award Banquet at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.

Wingo, 19, is a 2007 graduate of Sulphur High School. Scheduled to graduate from OU in 2011, he wants to work in the aviation industry as a pilot or airplane designer.