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Ciara Glasheen Artem (MM ’12, DMA ’15)
Artem heads the Munster Technological University Cork School of Music (Dean) in Ireland, while continuing to teach as a lecturer (oboe).

Robert Schwartz (DMA ’16)Ìý
Schwartz serves as director of bands and assistant professor of music at Southeastern Louisiana University where he teaches instrumental conducting classes.

Paul Lorenz (BM ’16)Ìý
Lorenz serves as a lecturer (saxophone) at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Allan Armstrong (DMA ’16)
Armstrong received the 2021 Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award at the IU Jacobs School of Music, where he is an assistant professor of music (voice).

Nora Segura-Barpa (BM ’18)
Segura-Barpal serves as the director of individual giving at New Conservatory Theatre Center, a professional theatre in San Francisco. She led the 2020 and 2021 Music Inclusion Coalition's national conference on equity in collegiate music programs, hosting more than 20 institutions from across the country (including CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ).

Josh Wilson (BM ’19)
Wilson is a full-time composer working on multiple exciting podcasts as well as in stock music. Wilson ran the 2020 and 2021 Music Inclusion Coalition's national conference on equity in collegiate music programs, hosting more than 20 institutions from across the country (including CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ).

(BME ’19)
Proctor was the 2022 recipient of the CMEA Outstanding Young Music Educator Award.

Annie Booth (BM ’11, MM ’20)Ìý
BoothÌýhas launched —a new outlet that supports and champions women jazz composers and arrangers by providing a platform for their music to be widely accessed.

Seth Taft (PhD ’20)
Taft serves as director of instrument music, program coordinator of music + music education and assistant professor of music at Limestone University in Gaffney, South Carolina.

Ryan Spencer (DMA ’20)
Spencer won a position with the United States Air Force Academy Band in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Conrad Sclar (DMA ’20)
Sclar serves as principal violist for the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale, violist in the Permian Basin String Quartet and adjunct professor at University of Texas Permian Basin.

(MM ’18, AD '20)
McCahan received the Joy In Singing 2023 Debut Artist Award and presented a recital at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York City in February 2023. McCahan also won the 47th National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Awards competition.

Thomas Erik Angerhofer (MM ’06, DMA ’20)
Angerhofer serves as the director of opera + musical theatre at the University of North Alabama. While much of his work and research has been focused on acoustic voice pedagogy, particularly acoustic and articulatory phonetics as they relate specifically to singing, his GA (Graduate Assistantship) and Graduate Part Time Instructorship (GPTI) at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ provided him invaluable experience in stage direction and dramatic training for lyric theatre. While at the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ College of Music, Angerhofer was able to be mentored by the director of opera studies, eventually teaching a section of opera workshop and assistant directing a number of outstanding guest directors.

Grace Stringfellow (BM ’21)Ìý
Stringfellow was a finalist in the National Collegiate Solo Competition and performed as soloist with the CU Symphony Orchestra after winning the College of Music’s undergraduate Honors Competition.

Dartagnan Stephen (BM ’21)Ìý
Stephen received an assistantship to pursue a master’s degree at Northern Illinois University.

Melinda Mason (MM ’21)
Mason serves as the instrumental music director at Thornton High School in Thornton, Colorado.

Lucas Hopkins (DMA ’21)
Hopkins is an adjunct faculty member (saxophone) at Austin Peay University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Jacob Holster (PhD ’21)Ìý
Holster serves as a lecturer (music education) at Penn State University.

Caleb Dixon (BM ’21)Ìý
Dixon is pursuing a master’s degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Randel Leung (DMA ’22)
In July 2021, Leung won first prize in the prestigious Orchestral Audition Competition of the International Clarinet Association.