Butler University junior Abigail Eutsler of Linden recently presented and performed in the Butler School of Music’s “Expanding the Canon Lecture Recital Project” in the Edison Duckwall Recital Hall, which introduced songs by underrepresented composers and poets. Her presentation was “Can’t Seem to Find a Dwelling Place: Creating Tension and Instability Through Arpeggiation in Amy Beach’s ‘I Send My Heart Up to Three.’”
Eutsler received the Woman’s Department Club of Indianapolis Music Merit Award scholarship as a freshman. She also received the Efroymson Prize for Diversity in Vocal Performance from which she donated a portion of the prize money to the School of Music to acquire more diverse repertoire for its music library and to assemble a group of diverse classical musicians from the Indianapolis area to talk with Butler voice students about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the opera world.
Eutsler is a three-time Indiana Scholar of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, Free and Accepted Masons by the Grand Lodge of Indiana Scholarship Board and recipient of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite national Abbott Scholarship. Named to the Jordan College of the Arts Dean’s List in Spring 2023, she serves as president of the Sigma Alpha Iota Zeta chapter during the 2023-24 academic year. She is pursuing a five-year Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance and choral music education.
