French Horn Rebecca Salo wins 2018 Sudler Prize in the Arts

Rebecca Salo has been named the 2018 winner of the Purdue Sudler Prize in the Arts. This marks the eleventh time in fifteen years a Purdue Bands & Orchestras student has been named Purdue’s top senior in the arts.

This prestigious prize was endowed by Louis Sudler, a Chicago industrialist with an incredible appreciation of the arts. It has since served as an annual prize in the arts at fourteen major universities:  Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Chicago, Michigan State, Oberlin College, Purdue University, Duke, Rice, and Stanford.

Each year, top seniors in the arts are nominated by their respective departments at Purdue to compete for the award.  Contestants come from Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue Musical Organizations, Purdue Bands & Orchestras and the Purdue Black Cultural Center.

Salo is a senior at Purdue University, majoring in electrical engineering with minors in mathematics and music theory. Rebecca currently plays principal French horn in the Purdue Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also been a member of the Purdue Brass Quintet and the Purdue Wind Ensemble. She has recently performed as a soloist with the Kokomo Park Band and Purdue Wind Ensemble, and will be the guest soloist with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra later this spring. After graduating from Purdue in May, Rebecca plans to pursue a Masters in Horn performance.