Michael Stepniak (MM ‘98, GPD ‘99, Viola) has been elected President-Elect of the College Music Society, to serve as President-Elect in 2022, President in 2023-24, and Past-President in 2025.
Si-Yan Darren Li (MM, AD ’08, Cello) has been named Program Director of String Chamber Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Li will be working with Philip Setzer, who was recently appointed Artistic Director of String Chamber Music.
Violin Professor Judith Ingolfsson and pianist Vladimir Stoupel of Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel released an album of works by Karol Rathaus, Heinz Tiessen, and Paul Arma through Naxos. The sonatas by Tiessen and Arma were recorded for the first time.
Dr. Katherine A. Okesson (BM ’99, Violin) has been hired as the new Director of Suzuki Strings and Orchestral Studies for the Sedona Charter School, in Sedona, Arizona.
Bridge Records releases The Tattooed Stranger: Historic Soundtrack Recordings (1946-195) by Alan Shulman (’26, Cello). These soundtrack recordings have been restored and are being issued for the first time.
