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Louis Saxton named Spring 2024 Outstanding Graduating Senior: At the College of Music鈥檚 commencement ceremony on May 9, we look forward to celebrating the remarkable accomplishments and indelible impact of undergraduate cellist Louis Saxton! Congratulations to Louis and all our fantastic graduates in the Class of 2024!

By faculty vote, congratulations also to Outstanding Junior Nathaniel George, music education鈥攃horal; Outstanding Sophomore Ruby Anderson, musical theatre; and Outstanding Freshman Corvina Graham, flute performance!

We wish you a wonderful summer!听This newsletter will resume in the fall.

• Graduating DMA student shares College of Music experience, future plans: When Joy Yamaguchi graduates from our College of Music next week with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, the work she started here will continue. 鈥淐ompleting this degree has helped me realize my strength and solidify my focus as a multifaceted artist,鈥� she shares.
• The 精品SM在线影片 Center for Humanities & the Arts has announced its Engaged Arts & Humanities Cohort for 2024-鈥�26鈥攊ncluding Nicholas Felder who鈥檚 currently earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition at our College of Music! In partnership with the 精品SM在线影片 Office for Public & Community-Engaged Scholarship, the program helps graduate students apply the tools of their academic disciplines, interests and lived experiences to develop community-engaged projects.听
• At the College of Music鈥檚 commencement ceremony next week, we鈥檒l welcome esteemed music educator Joshua Russell back to campus to present him the College of Music鈥檚 2024 Distinguished Alumnus Award!听
• In more alumni news, the (BM composition 鈥�83) a recipient of its 2024 Awards in Music which acknowledge composers as artists who have arrived at their own voice.听
• The U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band has named our Professor of Composition Carter Pann the winner of its 鈥淢ach 1鈥� contest鈥攁 composer commission competition that fosters collaboration with civilian composers. Pann will work with the band over the next year on a new composition for brass quintet.
• We鈥檙e excited to welcome Lillian Gordis as assistant professor of harpsichord! 鈥淚 look forward to building a diverse and thriving early music community, and attracting students from far and wide to our program at the College of Music,鈥� she shares.听
• : Learn how our Middle School Ensembles program matches the desire of young musicians to gain advanced ensemble experience with the need for classroom experience among future music teachers.听听
• (Daily Camera): Our College of Music has created three new versions of the traditional 1901 Pomp & Circumstance theme to play at graduation鈥攊n Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing styles. John Gunther, director of our Thompson Jazz Studies Program, and John Davis, dean of the College of Music, discuss the project.