Alumni Updates

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Shea Fairaday (BFA ’21, theatre & drama) officially voices the playable character Cipher in the English dub of Honkai: Star Rail, a popular role-playing gacha video game boasting over 25 million players across over 150 countries. She plays the role of the demigod of trickery, a mischievous woman with cat ears and a gift for speed. Fairaday has also done voice work for MiHoYo’s other popular game, Genshin Impact, and provided work for the Las Vegas revue show Awakening (from the puppetry designers of The Lion King on Broadway). She can be heard or seen in a variety of yet-to-be-released AAA and mocap-focused video game titles.

Gregory Gropper (BM ’22, voice) was hired by the Opera Company of Middlebury to perform the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and to cover Marcello in La Bohème in June 2025. Gropper was also invited by Premiere Opera Vocal Arts Institute in Puglia, Italy, to perform Marcello in July 2025.

Bethlehem “Betti” Kelley (BM ’24, violin), third-prize laureate of the 2024 Sphinx Competition, recently appeared as a soloist with the Akron Symphony, performing Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. At SMTD, Kelley studied with Danielle Belen.

Johanna Kepler (BFA ’20, dance) is currently pursuing a master of fine arts degree in embodied interdisciplinary praxis at Duke University, with an expected graduation in spring 2026. She is also enrolled in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate program at Fuqua Business School. In fall 2024, Kepler’s work was featured in Duke University’s November Dances, the dance program’s fall concert. As part of her MFA thesis research, she received funding from Duke University for ethnographic research on Mayan art and culture, which she conducted in summer 2025. Additionally, Kepler served as a project manager for Duke’s Arts+ program in summer 2025.

The text scores of Akari Komura (MM ’21, composition), from an ongoing composition project, “Sonic Habitat,” have been included in the book A Year of Deep Listening, recently published by the Center for Deep Listening.

Allison Nicotera (DMA ’22, bassoon) and her new music ensemble Exceptet released their debut album, Treelines, in January 2025 with New Focus Recordings. Exceptet completed a short post-album release tour in May 2025, performing in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Columbus.

Mezzo-soprano Meridian Prall (MM ’20, voice) recently received the Richard Tucker Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of the great Brooklyn-born tenor by nurturing the careers of talented young American opera singers. Through awards, grants for study, performance opportunities, and other activities, the foundation provides professional development for singers at various stages of their careers.

Megan Bascom (MFA ’19, dance) has been appointed assistant professor of performing arts – contemporary dance at Wichita State University, beginning August 2025. In this tenure-track role, she will teach contemporary technique, improvisation, and composition, and she will contribute original choreography for departmental concerts. Known for her dynamic, relationship-driven approach to dance, Bascom brings a bold choreographic voice and a deep commitment to embodied expression, supported by extensive experience as a choreographer, educator, and performer. She is also known as Megan Hillman-Hammer.

David Cook (MM ’14, clarinet, chamber music) was featured at the 2025 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Fort Worth, Texas, as a headlining artist performing Garrett Gillingham’s Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble with the Dallas Asian Winds and as a master class teacher. Cook was recently awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of clarinet at Millikin University, where he has served on faculty since 2018.

Gordon Granger (BFA ’11, theatre & drama) is entering his 10th season in the properties department of Lyric Opera of Chicago and his second season as head prop fabricator. He is a proud journeyman of his union, IATSE Local 2 Stagehands, and when not building puppets or repairing 200-year-old furniture, he can be found working at various venues throughout the city on everything from rock concerts to corporate events as a stagehand, carpenter, and rigger.

Anne Heminger (PhD ’19, musicology) recently published her first monograph, Reforming Community: Music, Religious Change, and English Identity in Mid-Tudor London, with Clemson University Press. Part of Clemson’s Studies in British Musical Cultures series, Reforming Community examines the roles that religious music played in shaping the formation of new English identities during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547–53) and Mary I (r. 1553–58). Heminger is currently assistant professor of music in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa.

Oliver Jia (DMA ’17, piano) joined the faculty of the University of Central Arkansas as artist-in-residence, chair of piano, and manager of the university’s Steinway Initiative. His appointment began in the fall of 2025.

Following a decade of work as a teacher, Ben Linstrom (BFA ’11, jazz studies) is serving as school administrator at the Detroit Waldorf School, a historic independent school founded in 1965 that offers a holistic, arts-integrated education for children from early childhood through grade eight. Linstrom is also completing a graduate degree in public administration at Wayne State University, where he was inducted into the Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Honor Society for Public Affairs & Administration, in spring 2025. On March 30, 2025, he became a published author with the release of A Waldorf Education for All, a book that explores accessibility, inclusion, and the evolution of Waldorf education in today’s world.

Anna Piotrowski (BM ’14, violin) has joined the faculty of Harold Washington College in Chicago, Illinois, as adjunct professor; she will teach music literature and work with private violin students.

Music teacher educator and administrator Jared R. Rawlings (PhD ’15, music education) has been appointed director of the University of Maryland School of Music, effective July 1, 2025. Widely known for his research on bullying in music classrooms, which has been recognized by the American Educational Research Association, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, and the Bullying Research Network, Rawlings brings a wealth of teaching, scholarship, and administrative experience to UMD. Previously the director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri, Rawlings also taught music education coursework at the University of Utah and served as associate dean for faculty and academic affairs within the College of Fine Arts.

Amanda Ross (MM ’15, trumpet, chamber music; SM ’17, DMA ’20, trumpet) was selected to be a guest performer at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Hartford, Connecticut. She performed a recital consisting of two new works for trumpet, “Did You See the Dragon?” by Remi Inari and “ALMANAC” by Corey Smith.

Paty Lorena Solórzano (MFA ’15, dance), a 2024–25 Dance Source Houston artist-in-residence, premiered her work La Maleza at Barnstorm Dance Fest in April. She performed Threads and Traces at the Menil Collection in May, and performed at the International Dance Festival New Orleans in September. Beyond performance, Solórzano served on the Arizona Dance Film Festival selection committee. She presented her research at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference and is co-authoring a Texas University Press book chapter on ritual, memory, and recorded sound. Currently a resident artist at Houston Met Dance, she also performs with Houston’s Nameless Sound.

Brandon Straub (MM ’10, conducting; MM ’11, harpsichord) is director of music at St. Paul’s Choir School, Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; resident conductor for the Harvard Glee Club; and a pianist for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. During the 2024–25 season, his boy choristers collaborated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Harvard Choruses.

Cara AnnMarie (Heitman) (BMA ’01, voice) continues to build a dynamic career as an actress, singer, and entrepreneur. Best known for her recurring role as Sue on Netflix’s Cobra Kai, she’s also appeared in Florida Man, Containment, and Detroiters. Her latest film, Love, Courage and the Battle of Bushy Run – featuring her on-screen singing – recently premiered in London and is set for US release. She co-founded Doggy Do Good, an eco-conscious pet brand, with her husband and documents their family travels as “The RV Actress” on YouTube, blending motherhood, music, and Hollywood life from the road.

Since finishing their doctoral studies at Northwestern University, Eliza Brown (BM ’07, cello, composition) and Chris Wild (BM ’05, cello; MM ’07, music education) have settled together in Indianapolis. Associate professor of music at DePauw University, Brown has upcoming premieres of new works with Network for New Music, New Morse Code, and Duo della Luna, and she is developing a forthcoming opera. A conductor and cellist, Wild conducts orchestras at Purdue University and is artistic director and conductor of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony. He has been a member of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente since 2007 and has recently performed for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series and with the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Euclid Quartet.

Pledge of Peace, composed by Nicole DiPaolo (BM ’08, music theory), won 2nd prize in Nashville in Harmony‘s inaugural call for scores and was premiered on June 13, 2025. Pledge of Peace is a choral setting of a text by Muscogee poet Alexander Posey, and DiPaolo credits SMTD for her connection with Posey’s poetry: his niece Kirsten C. Kunkle (MM ’04, DMA ’07, voice) introduced it to her while both were SMTD students. DiPaolo’s Nocturne in G# Minor, published by EVC Music, had its Macedonian and Danish premieres in the 2024-25 season. DiPaolo has also been an active collaborative pianist and harpsichordist in Nashville, and she served during the 2024-25 academic year as a guest artist on basso continuo at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Joshua Duchan (MA ’03, PhD ’07, musicology) has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Music at Wayne State University, where he also serves as associate department chair. He recently authored a chapter, “Collegiate A Cappella in the Age of Coronavirus,” in the new The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing (Oxford University Press). His current research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century depictions of newsies in American sheet music, a collaborative project with Eric Freedman of Michigan State University, an early version of which won the 2024 top prize in the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Aaron Hill (BM ’04, oboe) is starting a new role as director of the School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. He recently completed a term as faculty senate chair, released 12 Soon-to-Be Famous Studies for Oboe through Conway Publications, and earned tenure and promotion to associate professor. His solo CD, Solitary Discourse, is available through Soundset Recordings and includes an arrangement of Bach’s Partita No. 2 for Violin in D Minor and premiere recordings of original works by Hill and by fellow Michigan alum Andre Myers (MM ’00, DMA ’05, composition), among others.

In fall 2024 Shannon McGinnis (DMA ’03, piano) was appointed associate dean at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. She concluded her tenure as program director of opera in spring 2025, having launched a revised professional diploma in opera focused on career preparation and performance excellence. Recent performance highlights include a 2024 recital with 2025 Laffont Grand Finals winner Michelle Mariposa and a 2025 recital with Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman. Upcoming events include a world premiere by 2008 Guggenheim Fellow Kyong Mee Choi for Chicago’s 2025 Ear Taxi Festival in October.

The latest album by Jeff Myers (DMA ’07, composition) is a sonic exploration where piano sonorities linger in the air, tracing their own presence without the instrument itself. Goodnight (Neuma Records, 2025) is a collection of electroacoustic compositions born from long, quiet nights, perfect for deep listening or drifting into sleep. Drawing from piano harmonics, Myers layers and stretches them into vast dronescapes – atmospheric and spectral, with moments of warmth, anticipation, and intensity.

Papas as Falstaff for Pacific Northwest Opera

Andy Papas (BM ’07, voice) began a busy 2024–25 season with his dream role debut, Verdi’s Falstaff, for Pacific Northwest Opera. In February, he performed in Rhiannon Giddens’s triumphant Omar’s Journey with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, alongside a star-studded cast. After that, Papas made audiences laugh as Mustafa (L’italiana in Algeri) at both Anchorage Opera (Alaska) and Opera in the Heights (Houston), directed by fellow alum Ben Robinson (BM ’06, voice). In May he sang his eighth Magnifico (La Cenerentola), this time for Wichita Grand Opera, and in July his first mainstage Tonio (Pagliacci), for Union Avenue Opera (St. Louis).

Andrea Reinkemeyer (MM ’01, DMA ’05, composition) was recently awarded tenure at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she serves as the director of composition and associate professor of music. Her piece The Thaw for voices and wind ensemble was awarded the 2024 American Prize in Composition for a Major Choral Work. In May 2025, the Eugene Symphony and conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong released a recording on the Delos label featuring her tone poem Water Sings Fire for orchestra.

In March, Darryl Semira (BFA ’01, musical theatre) finished a successful run of the heart-wrenching, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal in the role of Dan. In July 2025, he returned to Shakespeare in Delaware Park in its historic 50th season, tackling the role of the Duke of Buckingham in Richard III.

Mindy Streem (BMA ’01, voice) has recently attained the position of clinical director of orthodontic support at the Aspen Group. She is also the president of the Harvard Dental Alumni Association and was nominated to be on the graduate school board of directors of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Nicole Young-Martin (BTA ’01) has enjoyed a very productive year as an arts entrepreneur. Her podcast, Black Writers Read, received the 2024 Black Podcasting Award for Best Literary Podcast. She received ValleyCreates’ 2024 Kent Alexander Award for Radical Imagination, awarded to Western Massachusetts-based artist-activists doing impactful work in the community. Young-Martin has taught arts management courses for the Arts Extension Service at University of Massachusetts Amherst for two years and is a sought-after independent theatre producer in the region, currently working on two commissioned plays. She serves as co-president of the board of directors of WAM Theatre, a small professional theatre company in the Berkshires.

Nicholas Abruzzo (BFA ’95, theatre & drama) was promoted to assistant principal of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA).

In 2025, Ramiro Belgardt (BM ’92, cello) won his fourth Golden Reel Award, presented by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. He won Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Documentary for the film Music by John Williams. He also completed his second semester as an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Stephen Caplan (MM ’82, DMA ’92, oboe) has retired from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after thirty-eight years on the faculty, and he has been designated emeritus professor of music. He will continue performing as principal oboe of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, where he also serves as chair of the Orchestra Committee and recently negotiated a new three-year contract. He will also continue to be active as a sponsoring teacher for the Association for Body Mapping Education.

Barrett Foa (BFA ’99, musical theatre) was recently featured on the Netflix/Shondaland smash hit comedic murder mystery, The Residence, playing the First Gentleman of the United States.

Daniel Gwirtzman (BFA ’92, dance) became chair of SMTD’s Alumni Board after the fall 2024 board meeting in Ann Arbor. In December his dance Flashpoint premiered during Ithaca College’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance’s season. In April 2025, La MaMa presented the NYC premiere of his program-length dance e-Motion, which Culturebot reviewed as “profoundly chilling,” noting Gwirtzman’s performance as “masterful.” In May, he was promoted to associate professor at Ithaca College. In June, Framing Ménerbes, a feature-length film shot in France that Gwirtzman directed, choreographed, edited, and performed in, made its premiere in Provence and its US premiere at the Dolby Screening Room in Manhattan.

Through his NYC based company, Foundation Theatrical, Erich Jungwirth (BFA ’92, theatre & drama) spent much of the last three years working as the owner’s rep for Gulfshore Playhouse’s new 40,000-square-foot performing arts center in Naples, Florida. The theatre features two state-of-the-art performance spaces, as well as spectacular flexible-use rehearsal spaces, a classroom, costume shop, technical spaces, catering kitchen, gorgeous lobby spaces, and enough dressing rooms to accommodate 30-plus performers. Jungwirth also serves as general manager of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and touring productions. He has called New York home for almost 30 years, and he enjoys weekends and summers in northwest Connecticut with his wife and two kids.

Milton Rubén Laufer (BM ’95, piano) was named the Jack G. Buncher Chair and head of the School of Music within the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, assuming the role on July 1, 2025. He previously served as director of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, a position he held from 2019.

Jody Madaras (BFA ’93, musical theatre) was named artistic director for Hampton Arts, which includes Hampton Coliseum, the American Theatre, and the Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia, with a tenure that began in March 2024. That same month, David Vandervliet (BFA ’93, theatre & drama) began serving as production manager for the American Theatre. Both graduates have remained friends and colleagues working on numerous theatre productions for nearly 32 years, including Madaras’s 1942-themed musical, All Hands on Deck! Show. Their newest collaboration includes providing diverse musical, dramatic, and dance programming for the American Theatre, Virginia’s first integrated theatre, built in 1908.

The newest CD from Elena Ruehr (BM ’84, DMA ’91, composition), Songs for Stephen, has been released on Avie Records.

Stephen Thomas (DMA ’97, piano pedagogy & performance), coordinator of keyboard studies at Brigham Young University – Idaho, recently spent a sabbatical leave preparing the complete Chopin nocturne cycle for a series of four lecture recitals, “The Nocturne Project,” which he has since presented in multiple venues. The series also featured modern nocturnes, including two written expressly for Thomas by composers Deborah Kavasch and John Marvin. He plans to record the Chopin cycle for release online.

Edward Benyas (BA ’84, oboe) is professor emeritus of oboe and conducting at Southern Illinois University (SIU), artistic director of the Southern Illinois Music Festival, principal conductor at Winter Opera St. Louis and Musica Le Mans, and executive director of the Cascade Symphony. In May he received SIU’s Distinguished Service Award. With degrees in oboe, conducting, law, and political science from Northwestern and Michigan, he has conducted orchestras and opera companies throughout North America, Europe, and China. He has also performed as oboist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera, on tour with Andrea Bocelli, and at the Carmel, Spoleto, and Banff music festivals.

Kyle Dzapo (BM ’83, music education, flute), Caterpillar Professor of Music at Bradley University, will perform at 2025 flute festivals in Singapore; Sydney, Australia (duo performance with flutist András Adorján); and Zagreb, Croatia. She presented a lecture-recital at the 2025 National Flute Association convention in August. Oxford University Press has just released her book, Joachim Andersen: Flutist, Conductor, and Composer of More than the Etudes, and her new edition of Joachim Andersen’s Au bord de la mer, Op. 9 (the sixth in their Kyle Dzapo Series), has been published by Zimmermann-Schott.

Compositions by Stephen Michael Gryč (BM ’71, music education; MM ’76, music theory, composition; DMA ’83, composition) were featured in performances by the United States Coast Guard Band (USCGB) on two concerts at the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, December 18, 2024. The band performed Gryč’s Rossiniana for woodwind octet and his Spring Rain for solo harp and band with soloist Megan Sesma, who commissioned the work. The USCGB also performed Gryč’s new work Riding the Crest during the band’s concert tour of Washington, Oregon, and northern California in February 2025. Riding the Crest was commissioned by the band in celebration of its centennial year (2025).

Scott Messing (PhD ’86, musicology), Charles A. Dana Professor of Music Emeritus at Alma College, published his article in the second volume (2024) of the Belvedere Research Journal, an international, peer-reviewed, open access e-journal devoted to research in Austrian art history in the widest historical sense. The article is titled “Schubert Gets Busted: Ancient and Modern Sources for the Composer’s Gravesite Memorial.” Messing read his paper “The Small Reveal: The Identity of Beethoven’s Brutus Bust” at the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at Wayne State University, June 25–27, 2025.

Kirk Moss (BM ’87, music education) serves as assistant vice provost for faculty and academic programs and professor of music at University of Northwestern – St. Paul (UNW), overseeing faculty, academic offerings, staffing, the registrar’s office, and financial matters for traditional, adult undergraduate, and graduate programming. In spring 2025, Tempo Press published his string orchestra arrangement of the American folk melody “Arise.” In 2021, he received UNW’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Moss is a former national president of the American String Teachers Association.

Morton Achter (BM ’61, MM ’63, music theory; PhD ’72, musicology) continues to work with local community theatres in midcoast Maine. This past March he directed Agatha Christie’s iconic The Mousetrap for the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath, the fifth production he has done at the venue. He also gives pre-opera talks at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Saturday afternoon telecasts.

Robert Chambers (MM ’72, music theory) has completed a translation of Max Kalbeck’s four-volume biography of Johannes Brahms. Rich in musical examples and personal anecdotes from the composer’s friends and acquaintances, the biography provides a unique look into Brahms’s life as recounted by Kalbeck, his friend of 23 years.

In Paris, Steven Gross (BM ’76, horn) presented the program Musique et Poésie at the Temple de Porte Royale, and in Prague, he played and taught at the I-AME Institute. Parma Records released his Soundscapes for Solo Horn by Czech and German Masters. His commissions include a trio release from composers Jennifer Higdon and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, including violinist Phil Ficsor (BM ’97, MM ’98, violin). In period performance, Gross soloed Telemann Concerti with the Roanoque Baroque (Roanoke, Virginia). Gross retired as professor of horn and head of wind, brass, and percussion at the University of California – Santa Barbara, following 29 years of service.

Recent compositions by Richard Jennings (MM ’78, voice, composition) include the score for Quaranteen, a short horror film soon to be seen in film festivals; the score is a battle between the ghost of an early 20th-century composer and an early-pandemic Goth teen embodying “shoegaze” rock. Winter Tales was a live illustrated storytelling event in Point Reyes Station, California, featuring Jennings’s original chamber ensemble music with slide guitar and banjo. In This Place (An American Lyric), a choral commission, is a setting of the poem by Amanda Gorman and was performed by the Kalamazoo Children’s Chorus on May 4, 2025. Jennings wrote the music for solo violin performed onstage during Jamie Greenblatt’s play Female, Ashkenazi with a Sewing Machine in an August 2025 Chicago production.

Patricia McCarty (BM ’74, MM ’76, viola) recently released a recording with guitarist Bill Zito, Crossings, which features music from the Baroque period to the 21st century, including works by Telemann, Paganini, Paul Kont, John Hawkins (title piece), Günter Braun, Roberto Sierra, Luigi Legnani, Granados, de Falla, and Joaquin Nin.

William Moersch (BM ’75, MM ’76, percussion), professor emeritus of percussion at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, their highest honor, at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention 2025. Previously, the society recognized his contributions with their Lifetime Achievement in Education Award. To date, he has commissioned 121 works from composers, including seven recipients of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. The commissions are primarily for marimba in a variety of settings – solo, chamber, and concerto. Moersch serves as an artist endorser for Pearl/Adams Percussion, SABIAN Cymbals, Grover Pro Percussion, and Innovative Percussion.

Robert Petters (MM ’67, PhD ’74, music education) teaches an online class, “Introduction to Musical Experiences,” at North Carolina State University, and he conducts the community orchestra the Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle (RTOOT). He is also the co-orchestrator of Claude Smith’s Emperata Overture, originally for concert band.

Ray Pettit (BM ’72, music education) is currently chief AI officer at Neuro-AI Design, integrating neuroscience and AI to address the relationship between AI and creativity in the arts, music, entertainment, advertising, media, and communications industries. In addition, Neuro-AI Design has developed a foundational set of AI courses and workshops applicable to undergraduate, graduate, and executive education and lifelong learning programs.

Bill Ritchie (MM ’77, double bass) semi-retired from the Omaha Symphony, after performing for 40 years as assistant principal bass, in 2023. During the past two years, he has continued to perform in Omaha and as a substitute in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo (Michigan), South Bend (Indiana), and Alabama. He also performed as a sub with Iowa Orchestra, Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. Ritchie was honored to be awarded the 2024 Private Studio Teacher of the Year by the Nebraska Chapter of the American String Teachers Association at the Nebraska Music Educators Association Conference in November 2024.

Charles M. Atkinson (MM ’65, music education) presented the keynote address “Between harmoniká and grammatica: The Beginnings of Musical Analysis in the West” for the Japanese section of the International Association for the Study of Gregorian Chant in Osaka, Japan, in October 2024. In March 2025 he presented “On Rhetoric and Change of Mode in Plainchant East and West” at the 100th-anniversary meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, and in May his article “Ein Wrong-Way Corrigan – oder nur ein wenig vom Kurs abgekommen? Der Expositor der Alia musica und die modi” appeared in a festschrift for Wolfgang Hirschmann.

Tubist Brent Herhold (BM ’64, MM ’65, music education) joined the Stanford Wind Symphony for their spring quarter concerts on May 30 and June 1 at Bing Concert Hall, on the Stanford University campus. The program featured conductor and composer Giancarlo Aquilanti’s composition Te Deum, written for wind symphony, cellos, chorus, and soprano soloist. The Wind Symphony was joined for the performances by the Bay Area’s Masterworks Chorale, the Stanford Cello Choir, and soprano Eyra Norman. Herhold toured in Italy with the ensemble in June, with Norman joining the tour.