Congratulations to all of our 2009 IU Jacobs School of Music Graduates! We wish you well as you join an elite group of almost 14,000 Jacobs alumni, including some of the most famous and respected artists in the world.The Jacobs School of Music is honored to have been able to help nurture such tremendous talent and wishes every success to all! Keep in touch and become a friend on Facebook!

Indiana University's Menahem Pressler will accept a 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Edison Foundation on behalf of the Beaux Art Trio at the annual "Edison Klassiek Gala" June 11 in The Hague. A Distinguished Professor in IU's Jacobs School of Music, Pressler is a renowned pianist and a founding member of the trio. >>Click here for more.

Indiana University Professor of Composition Jeffrey Hass was recently awarded a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship to live and work at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities on the Mediterranean coast south of Genoa, Italy. Hass, who also serves as director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music at the Jacobs School of Music, will begin the fellowship in September 2009. The fellowship announcement follows three other honors for Hass, including a $17,000 IU New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grant; first prize and an orchestral commission for a work for the 2009 Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City; and having a piece accepted for performance at the 2009 conference of the International Computer Music Association in Montreal this August. >>Click here for more.

This edition of Fanfare sends kudos to J. Peter Burkholder, Gideon Alon, Yi-Chun Chen, David Hughes, Stacy Wilson, Clint Needham, Erol Ozsever, Alize Rozsnyai, and many others! >>Click here for more.

Read the Indianapolis Star’s Q&A with pianist Andre Watts and the Herald-Times’ articles about the Fairview violin program, as well as all the other music school coverage in the Herald-Times and beyond.>>Click here for more.