The State University of New York at Fredonia's renowned School of Music will have a new director starting in July, but its current director will not be leaving the campus. The University has announced that Dr. Melvin Unger will take over the duties starting on July 1st according to Dean Ralph Blasting of Fredonia’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.
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Blasting says the current Director Karl Boelter is leaving the post, but not the campus. He will be joining the campus' Music faculty. Dr. Unger currently serves as director of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute at Baldwin Wallace University in Cleveland. At Fredonia, Unger will oversee a total enrollment of approximately 600 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as more than 100 faculty and staff in the School of Music.
