Fulton resident Evangeline Canfield honored with Chancellor's Award

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Evangeline Canfield

OSWEGO, NY (04/24/2013)(readMedia)-- SUNY Oswego senior music major Evangeline Canfield of Fulton is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest student recognition through the statewide university system.

Canfield, honored with her twin sister Elizabeth Canfield, volunteers extensively around the region as a piano instructor, accompanist and performer with budding pianists ages 4 to 14. Among her honors are the 2012 Maurice O. Boyd Scholarship for the college music department's most outstanding upperclassman and and being selected to perform at the SUNY-wide University Faculty Senate Plenary Showcase.

She shares many of the accomplishments and volunteerism of her sister, including dramatized storytelling at Oswego Public Library, performing at the opening of the LaVeck Concert Series with Canadian pianist Christine Vanderkooy, playing for the city of Fulton's annual tree-lighting ceremony and also attending the University of Cincinnati's summer conservatory program.

For the future, Canfield plans to attend graduate school with her twin for a master of music degree in piano performance, and they eventually hope to become a professional piano duo.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News named it among the "Top 20 Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2013, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2013 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and named the college to its 2013 list of "Best Value Colleges."

A 152-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.