 A number of current Jacobs students and alumni were mentioned in The New York Times’ review of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Princeton Festival in New Jersey. Included were Caroline Worra, Daniel Bubeck, Brian Stucki, director Steven LaCosse and conductor Richard Tang Yuk.
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 French hornist Everett Burns won the solo competition at the 2009 International Horn Symposium conference on June 7. The three-round event was open worldwide to hornists up to 25 years old. The prizes included $1,000, a master class with renowned Japanese hornist Hiroshi Matsuzaki, and a solo performance in the I.H.S. Grande Finale Concert. Burns is a sophomore student of Jeff Nelsen.
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Robert Bennett, MM’00, wrote the theme to ABC's new primetime show The Superstars, which premiered June 23. ABC and Juma Entertainment are producing the new series, which pits elite athletes and celebrities against each another in athletic events resembling a decathlon.
 Leighann Daihl, MM’09, modern flute, MM’09, early flutes, was awarded a Fulbright to study at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands for academic year 2009-10. She will study Baroque flute performance with Wilbert Hazelzet, in addition to taking specific courses in different aspects of the Baroque period. Daihl also will play in the conservatory's Baroque orchestra and small chamber ensembles, while investigating how the standard Baroque flute repertoire was established and why hundreds of pieces have been left out. She will also travel to the conservatory in nearby Utrecht to research its collection. After investigating these extensive catalogs, Daihl will try to expand the popular repertoire of the Baroque flute by bringing back copies of rare manuscripts and performing them throughout the United States. She studied modern flute with Kate Lukas and early flutes with Michael McCraw.
 Meghan Dewald will work as cover soprano for Dawn Upshaw in Cincinnati Opera's production of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar. Dewald sang the principal role of Margarita Xirgu in the collegiate premiere of Ainadamar at the Jacobs School in October 2007, with Carmen Helena Tellez conducting. The Cincinnati production will open July 9 at Cincinnati's Music Hall. Dewald was a student of Costanza Cuccaro.
Laury Gutierrez, MM, is the founder and director of La Donna Musicale , a non-profit organization dedicated to the research and historical performance of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Contemporary music by women composers. Read her recent profile in the Harvard University Gazette. Gutierrez studied with Wendy Gillespie.
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David Baker was inducted into the