Alumni Careers — Prepare to make your mark:

Life after the University of Minnesota

Whether winning principal positions in major orchestras throughout the world or bringing music to the classroom, our alumni are making their mark on the music world and beyond.

 

Where are they now?

  • Ahmed Anzaldúa
    • Artistic Director, choral music ensemble Border CrosSing
  • Brent Assink
    • Executive Director, San Francisco Symphony (retired)
  • Jim Bartsch
    • Conductor and Co-Artistic Director of Minnesota Youth Symphony's Philharmonic Orchestra and String Orchestra
  • Mark Bilyeu
    • Pianist, Founding Artistic Co-Director of the Source Song Festival
  • Phillip Brunelle
    • Conductor and organist, founder of VocalEssence
  • Jocelyn Dueck
    • Adjunct Professor, Mannes College: The New School for Music; Assistant Teaching Professor of Collaborative Piano, Carnegie Mellon School of Music
  • Vicki Fingalson
    • Professor of Voice and Opera Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  • Phil Ford
    • Professor of Musicology, Indiana University
  • Charles Forsberg
    • Professor of Music, St. Olaf College (retired)
  • Angela Fuller
    • Principal Second Violin, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  • Paula Gudmundson
    • Assistant Professor of Flute, University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Corey Hamm
    • Professor of Piano and Chamber Music, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Jocelyn Hagen
    • Composer, clinician, performer
  • Julia Heinen
    • Professor of Clarinet, California State University, Northridge
  • Steve Heitzeg
    • Emmy award-winning composer
  • Linh Kauffman
    • Soprano, founding member of Minnesota Bach Ensemble
  • Pat Kelley
    • Co-Artistic Director and Conductor, Minnesota Youth Symphonies
  • Libby Larsen
    • Composer; Co-Founder, American Composers Forum
  • Patrice Michaels
    • Soprano, Director of Vocal Studies, University of Chicago; Lecturer, Voice and Opera, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University 
  • Stephen Paulus 
    • Grammy award-winning composer and Co-Founder, American Composers Forum (deceased)
  • Charles Piklar
    • Principal viola, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (retired)
  • Russell Platt
    • Composer; staff/music writer and critic, New Yorker magazine
  • Paul Reller
    • Associate Professor of Music, University of South Florida
  • Thomas Rolfs
    • Principal trumpet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Boston Pops
  • Kelly Rossum
    • Associate Professor (trumpet), Christopher Newport University
  • Maria Schneider
    • Grammy award-winning composer and director, Maria Schneider Orchestra and Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
  • David Evan Thomas
    • Composer; McKnight Fellow
  • Ryan Truesdell
    • Composer, arranger, and producer, Gil Evans Project; Grammy award-winning producer for Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
  • Leigh Wakefield
    • Professor of Clarinet, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
  • Rick Walters
    • Vice President, Classical and Vocal Publications at Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Robert Walser
    • Professor, Case Western Reserve University
  • Dale Warland
    • Founder, Dale Warland Singers
  • David Zinman
    • Grammy award-winning conductor