The Principia College Music Department is pleased to congratulate Carson Landry, C'20, for having been awarded by the US Department of State a Fulbright fellowship. Landry will study carillon performance at the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, Belgium during academic year 2020-2021. He is a Producer/Performer Music Studies major and has been active in carillon, voice, and organ during his tenure at Principia College. He was also selected to co-direct the College’s Public Affairs Conference (Spring 2020) and founded the Principia Carillon Guild to raise interest in the instrument. Landry writes, “I’m so grateful to have been introduced to the carillon at Principia, and to have my studies so generously supported by the Jean L. Rainwater Carillon Fun” which provides tuition-free lessons for study of carillon.
Principia’s carillon professor and recitalist, Carlo van Ulft, served as the primary mentor for Landry’s Fulbright research grant proposal. Van Ulft is carillonist of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield, Illinois and Director of the North American Carillon School. A native of the Netherlands, he also taught at the Royal Carillon School in Belgium from 1984-1997. Van Ulft says, “Principia’s carillon program is a very unique opportunity for students to study and perform on this very rare musical instrument.”
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