Daniel James Chan (BM ‘04) has released season one original score digital album of NBC’s Quantum Leap.

Aaron Jensen, trumpet (DMA ’20) becomes Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia (USA).

Eldred Marshall (DMA ’18) leads Mansfield Philharmonic as artistic director and conductor. D Magazine describes the ensemble as one of the most diverse orchestras in the United States.

Kourtney Strade-Austin (PhD ‘22, Performing Arts Health) has accepts the position of Assistant Professor of Voice/Choir at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Lindsay Pope (DMA ‘19) won the position of Assistant Professor of Choral Activities at the University of Massachusetts. She won the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation Prize and has been serving UMASS as interim DCA. 

Joshua R. Brown (DMA ’20) has been named Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies and Chair of Ensembles at Dallas Baptist University effective Fall 2023. He is also Executive Director of Voces Pacis - Voices of Peace, a Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex-based choral organization.

Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology ‘22) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Commerce.

University of North Texas Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin, Scott Tixier, was on the Yale campus as a guest of Hilary Hahn during her artist-in-residence. He also held a Masterclass on jazz strings improvisation.

Sarah Dunbar (DMA ’19 multiple woodwinds, MM ’17 multiple woodwinds, BM ’15 in jazz saxophone and BM ’15 in classical saxophone) accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music (classical and jazz saxophone) at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.

Former first trumpet with the North Texas State University’s (UNT) One O'Clock Lab Band® Dan Fornero performed with the Oscar Awards Orchestra during the 95th presentation.