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March 12, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. GGRWHC Annual Meeting and Reception
A Conversation with Julianne Vanden Wyngaard,
facilitated by local historian, Cindy Laug
Refreshments provided
GVSU, L. William Seidman Center, Rm. 1008
(see map below with location and parking)
Meet Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, an accomplished pianist and carillonist who, in 1967, became the first female Black faculty member hired at Grand Valley State College. A standout student at South High in Grand Rapids, she earned a scholarship to the prestigious Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester upon graduation. Vanden Wyngaard’s music and teaching career took a new turn when Cook Carillon was built on the Grand Valley campus in 1994. At the urging of Grand Valley President, Don Lubbers, Vanden Wyngaard agreed to learn to play the carillon and she traveled to the Netherlands over several years to study at the Netherlands Carillon School. As her career blossomed, she created a popular carillon series at Grand Valley and she performed as a carillonist across the country and the world. Retired from Grand Valley, she is still in demand as a performer and recently was the guest artist for the Freedom Concert at the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia. View her playing the carillon here.
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