On August 16, True Concord Voices and Orchestra released A Dream So Bright, an album of Jake Runestad’s (MM ’11, Composition) music. Ross Tamaccio (MM
Jordan Randall Smith (’14, Conducting), Daniel Sampson (MM ’19, Voice),and Jonathan T. Rush (MM ’19, Conducting) are among the leaders of the Florence Price Festival
Jason Buckwalter (MM ’06, GPD ’08, Voice) was appointed the first General Director of the Maryland Opera.
Clara Plestis (BM ’17, Voice) won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special. Plestis served as the Executive Producer of Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of
Faculty artist Denyce Graves has been appointed the Artistic Advisor of the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory.
Soprano and faculty artist Ah Young Hong (BM ’98, MM ’01, Voice) sings a haunting series of words-as-sounds to open “The Quiet Sound of Making Beds,” a
Soprano, administrator, and professional studies faculty Megan Ihnen (MM ’09, Voice) talks about her role as executive director of the Live Music Project on a
Bridge Records, founded by David Starobin (BM ’73, Guitar) with president Becky Starobin (BM ’73, Violin), released Anna Weesner’s My Mother in Love featuring faculty
Melanie Walker (MM ’19, Voice) was recently named Adjunct Instructor of Voice at Alma College.
The recording of Poppaea (New Focus Recordings)—the opera by faculty artist Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, co-starring faculty artist