Maria Mannone (PhD, 2017, composition, student of Alex Lubet) will participate in a collaborative project on music and technology.

Tatiana Roitman Mann (DMA, 2007, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) has accepted the full-time tenure track position as assistant professor of piano at the Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Texas.

Dr. Alejandro Cremaschi (DMA, 1997; MM, 1995, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Alumnus in Visual and Performing Arts Award by the University of Maryland.

Alex Lubet (creative studies and media) was interviewed by the Star Tribune’s popular music critic Jon Bream for a June 14 story on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize lecture

Sondra Wieland Howe (PhD, 1988, music education, student of Chad Furman; MA, 1985, musicology, student of Donna Cardamone-Jackson) presented her paper “Songs of Stephen Foster on Commodore Perry's 'Black Ships' in Japan, 1853-1854" at the NAfME Symposium.

Lydia Artymiw (piano) performs a solo recital at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA on June 10, 2017.

Brian Edward Dowdy (DMA, 2017, orchestral conducting, student of Mark Russell Smith) has been appointed artistic director and principal conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the 2017-18 season.

Maria Mannone's (PhD, 2017, composition, student of Alex Lubet) article on blind conductor and pianist Marco Orsini titled "Marco Orsini Conducts Music without Seeing It or the Orchestra" was published in the magazine of the American Council of the Blind.

Seongwon Han (DMA, 2007, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) will perform an all Rachmaninoff solo recital at the Daegu Concert Hall Recital Hall on June 7, 2017 in Daegu, South Korea.