Impact

  • jack gaffney splattered piano
    If you’ve ever stopped to enjoy the music drifting from a painted piano near the Pearl Street Cheesecake Factory, then you’ve been exposed to the many talents of first-year composition student Jack Gaffney.
  • andrea ramsey conducting
    Andrea Ramsey hopes her piece about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis will move choral fans to activism.
  • becky roser receives honor
    Her beaming smile, joyous demeanor and boundless energy have endeared Becky Roser to the College of Music community and made her name synonymous with the kind of support and generosity that make a successful career in the arts possible for ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ students.
  • bob charles endowment dinner dean and the charles pose
    Bob Charles isn’t a professional musician. He played euphonium in high school and college band, but his life has taken him on a different journey in the decades since. Still, like so many people, he can’t imagine a life without music.
  • andrew brown
    The program is set for the 31st Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Competition at the College of Music.
  • marty evans on stage in grusin
    Marty Coffin Evans is steward of her father's legacy at the College of Music, a tireless champion for vocal pedagogy and ever an advocate of her alma mater, the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ.
  • edain at her desk
    Any moment in one’s life could signify the beginning of something big. For Edain Butterfield, that moment came during her time as a music student.
  • frank and joan conlon
    Joan Catoni Conlon and her husband Frank recently endowed a fellowship to support graduate students pursuing the Master of Music or Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Literature degrees.
  • student on appalachian trail
    Composition alumnus Keane Southard is raising funds to write a symphony about the Appalachian Trail.
  • brooke murray with check
    Senior voice major Brooke Murray talks about the inspiration for her Sing It Forward venture.
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