Alison Lee (DMA 2018, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) was first prize winner of the National Young Artists Competition hosted by the Coeur d'Alene Symphony (Idaho) on January 15, 2019.

Maria Mannone (PhD 2017, composition, student of Alex Lubet) recently interviewed the American mathematical physicist John Baez for Math is in the Air: Blog on Applied Mathematics.

Professor of Music Education Laura Sindberg and her work leading the University of Minnesota Band Project is featured in a video segment produced by David Ullman of CLA’s LATIS Video Services.

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. 

Lydia Artymiw (piano) returned to guest teach at The Juilliard School in New York from November 26 through November 30, 2018. 

Jiye Kim (DMA 2012, piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) and Minsun Kim (DMA 2012, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) will perform a two piano recital on December 9, 2018 at the Sejong Chamber Hall in Seoul, Korea.