| Every few weeks, the School of Music publicity office profiles an alumnus of interest. The list below contains a few of those who have been in the spotlight. We will include others as they become available. Enjoy! |
Fisher Kings and Queens
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The Avery Fisher Prize and Career Grant are among the most prestigious awards in classical music. Eleven awards winners have studied at the Jacobs School of Music and two winners are currently on the school's faculty--a pedigree unsurpassed.
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A Grammy Winner!
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Internationally acclaimed concert pianist and alumna Angelin Chang, won this year's Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra for her piano solo performance of Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques (Exotic Birds) with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conducted by John McLaughlin Williams, who also won the Grammy. Find Out More >> |
Original Chamber Works 
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With multiple talents as a composer, pianist and theorist, the very gifted alumni Martin Kennedy continues to develop a spectacular career. A professor of theory and composition at Washington University in St. Louis, he was recently profiled in a preview of an upcoming concert featuring his chamber works, many of which were composed while he studied at the IU Jacobs School of Music.
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Sara Caswell CD Release 
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Bloomington native Sara Caswell, a Wells Scholar and graduate of Indiana University's School of Music with a BM'00 in violin performance and jazz studies and an Artist Diploma'02 in violin performance, is now living in New York City beginning her second year of study toward a master's degree in Jazz Violin at the Manhattan School of Music.
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WFIU Artist of the Month 
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In a new collaboration with WFIU, the School of Music-affiliated Artists of the Month, announced in WFIU’s Directions in Sound program guide, will now be featured in Fanfare with a convenient link so you may listen online. Professor of Music and Director of the Latin American Music Center Carmen Téllez is celebrated.
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Kathleen Tran Awarded
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Indiana University alumna Kathleen Tran, who in 2002 became the 14th IU student and second woman from IU to be named a Rhodes Scholar, has been named as one of 30 winners of the 2005 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
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Double Your Pleasure
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Twenty-three-year-old DaXun Zhang, may not play baseball, but he sure can play the double bass. This IU School of Music student of Lawrence Hurst is fresh from a triumphant recital at the Terrrace Theater in Washington, D.C., March 22, and is the first bassist to be so featured in the Washington Performing Arts Society’s Kreeger String Series at the Kennedy Center.
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A Date with Destiny
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It’s been quite a ride for Angela Brown, opera’s newest diva. But to truly appreciate what the Indiana University School of Music voice alumna recently accomplished in New York City, one has to understand just how far she has come.
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National Treasure(s)
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The Library of Congress Music Series in Washington, D.C., has seen a lot of traffic with associations to IU School of Music during this 2004-2005 season, including performances by a number of alumni.
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Bell Comes Home
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Alumni violinist Joshua Bell and composer Behzad Ranjbaran spent a few hours visiting with students and faculty from the School of Music and members of the public about the American premiere of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.
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Opera Exellence
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Congratulations to Jordan Bisch who is now a proud IU Alumnus and student of Timothy Noble. Jordanis one of four grand-prize winners from the March 20 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Selected from more than 1,500 competitors, Bisch was one of nine finalists surviving district-level competitions, regional auditions, and the national semifinals in New York City.
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Family Tai
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Violinist Tai Murray received her Artist Diploma in Performance from IU in May 2000 and, soon after, was hailed by Ebony magazine as “one of the new child prodigies." Tai was recently featured in Essence magazine’s “Accomplished, Amazing, and Under 40” and continues to develop her meteoric career in New York.
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All That Jazz
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Most people think of David Baker as a distinguished professor of music and a brilliant composer, but he is also a proud IU alumnus and he has received his first Emmy award to add to his already crowded award shelf.
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Botti Beautiful
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How does it feel to have your recording edge Diana Krall out of the No. 1 slot on the jazz charts and stay there for over 10 weeks? Or to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show and then outsell every other album an Amazon.com for six days?
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Dreams Come True
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Cary Boyce, a composer and co-artistic director of the Aguavá New Music Studio production company, decided to keep his base in Bloomington after graduating with a doctorate in composition from the IU School of Music. A growing figure on the local and national music scene, he has been featured on nationally syndicated broadcasts such as Center Stage from Wolftrap, Cathedral Classics with the Dale Warland Singers, and WFIU’s Harmonia.
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