Elena Denny (MM, cello, student of Tanya Remenikova) and Louisa Woodfull-Harris (MM, violin, student of Sally O'Reilly) will participate in the Virtuoso & Belcanto festival and competition in Lucca, Italy.

The 2017 e-Piano Junior Competition, co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota School of Music, featured breathtaking performances from 25 contestants from around the globe.

Tanya Remenikova (cello) and Ivan Konev (DMA, 2010, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) will present a duo recital at Hennepin United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.

Dennis A. Hawkins Jr. (DMA, 2017, wind conducting, student of Craig Kirchhoff, Jerry Luckhardt, and Emily Threinen) has been named interim lecturer, associate director of bands/director of athletic bands at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Kaitlin Lalmond (BM, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) will be a scholarship participant at the Seattle Summer Music Institute at the University of Washington.

Lydia Artymiw (piano) will teach applied piano, coach chamber music, present master classes, and perform at the Round Top Music Festival and Institute.

David Baldwin (trumpet) will perform his edition of Canzona for Four Trumpets and Continuo by Samuel Scheidt on the Festival of Trumpets concert at the International Trumpet Guild Conference.

Alexander Braginsky (piano) and Tanya Remenikova (cello) performed works of Rachmaninov and Shostakovich at the Russian Museum of Art.

Alexander Braginsky (piano) was a jury member at Texas Music Teachers Association State Performance Competition in Dallas, Texas on June 15 and 16, 2017.