Hult accepts Willamette Rep as resident stage troupe.

Byline: The Register-Guard

The Willamette Repertory Theatre has become the ninth resident company at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, joining Dance Theatre of Oregon, Eugene Ballet Company, Eugene Concert Choir, Eugene Opera, Eugene Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Oregon Festival of American Music and Oregon Mozart Players.

Residency status entitles performing arts companies to reduced rates and fees at the Hult Center, as well as scheduling priority.

Company founder Kirk Boyd said achieving residency status is "quite an achievement, since we started this theater from thin, thin air."

For its fourth season in the Hult Center's Soreng Theatre, Willamette Rep will do three productions: "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Blithe Spirit" and "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)."

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON MUSIC students have won a number of recent awards. Jasmine Hedrick, a doctoral student in flute performance, won the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle 2001 tour competition. She won first prize: $2,000 and a weeklong tour of concerts and school presentations in Central Washington. Hedrick, a student of Richard Trombley, also placed second in the Mid-South Flute Festival Young Artist Competition, March 8-9, in Clarkville, Tenn. She is also a 2002 winner of the National Flute Association Master Class Performers Competition and will perform Aug. 15-18 at the national convention in Washington, D.C. In addition, two UO music majors received Downbeat Awards in March in an annual national jazz competition sponsored by Downbeat magazine. Greg Goebel won for best original composition, "Starcrossed," and Devin Sanders won for his arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time." Both are undergraduates. And Hung-Yun Chu, a doctoral student in piano performance studying with Dean Kramer, was chosen as a semifinalist in the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition and Festival, held in March in Pasadena, Calif.

THE NEW WILLAMETTE Art Theatre Summer Conservatory for Youth will offer a summer theater camp for participants ages 8-19. The camp, to be held at the University of Oregon in mid-August, will be conducted by seven UO theater students in conjunction with the UO Cultural Forum and the Renegade Theatre Project of Eugene. In addition to acting classes (improvisation, auditioning, voice and dialect, theater games, warm-up exercises and musical theater), the camp also will offer sessions on design (set, lights, sound and costume), dance and movement, and playwriting. The camp will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 19-23 in Villard Hall. The cost is $150 if parents register by July 15; between July 15 and Aug. 12, the cost will be $175. "I wanted a camp like this when I was growing up," project spokesman Eric-Michael MacCionnaith says. "It is our intent to establish an environment of ensemble where our students can grow and learn the craft." Information: 741-6894.