Corey Hamm (DMA 2005, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) returned to the U of M School of Music on February 12 to present a piano master class and also performed the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto with the Kenwood Symphony under the direction of Yuri ivan (DMA, conducting) on February 16 in Minneapolis.

Kathryn Huether (PhD, musicology, advisee of Karen Painter) has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (University of Minnesota Graduate School Fellowship) for the 2019-20 academic year. 

Dean Billmeyer (organ) will perform works of American composers John Knowles Paine and Leo Sowerby, and Austrian composer Michael Radulescu on the 1998 Casavant Frères organ at the Church of St. Louis, King of France, in St. Paul, MN.

It's with great sadness that we share the news that Rush Williams (MM 2004, voice) passed away on December 21, 2018, after a valiant battle with cancer.