Preston Duncan (saxophone) performed and gave a class at the Manhattan School of Music on November 26, 2018 and at the Buffet-Crampon Showroom on November 27, 2018 in New York City. 

Students Jared Anderson (music education) and François Harewood (BM, music education/piano, student of Paul Shaw) presented a remote roundtable discussion with European University Cyprus doctoral students Antogoni Kiriakidou, Anna Archontopoulou, Katerina Adamopoulou, as well as Professors Yiannis Miralis (European University Cyprus) and Akosua Obuo Addo (U of M, music education) at the 8th Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education with international participation held in Thessaloniki, Greece on November 24, 2018. 

Jiyeon Hwang (DMA, voice, student of Jean del Santo) won the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra's 21st Annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition in the Emerging Artist category. She will perform “Quel guardo Il Cavaliere” from Gaetano Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale on March 23, 2019 at the Church of St. Albert the Great in Minneapolis.

Preston Duncan (saxophone) taught at the National Conservatory of Lisbon and the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa from November 16 to November 19, 2018. He also gave a concert.