U-M organ students Kaelan Hansson (PhD, aerospace engineering) and James Renfer (BM, organ performance & sacred music) have been named winners in the American Guild of Organists’ national AGO Student Commissioning Project. The AGO has provided a cash award for Hansson to compose a new work for organ which Renfer will premiere.
For SMTD Piano Alum, Immersion in the Gershwin Initiative Leads to Prestigious Prizes
The activities of the Gershwin Initiative, an ongoing partnership between the University of Michigan and the Gershwin estate, are multifaceted, involving many aspects of SMTD. Comprehensive in scope, the initiative fundamentally blends the abstract with the practical,...