Laura Strickling (MM β06, Voice) has announced “The 40@40 Project” in which she has commissioned 40 new art songs from 40 composers. Each commissioned piece is two to five minutes in length scored for soprano and piano. Strickling said of the project “the 40@40 Project is the beginning of a personal mission to commission with intentionality and to encourage and help other performing musicians (or music lovers!) to do the same.”