ENVISION YOUR FUTURE

A degree from the College of Music is the first step on your path to a successful career. Graduates enjoy careers as music producers and engineers, recording artists, private teachers, orchestral and opera performers, arts administrators, composers, conductors, and college professors, and our Music Education and Music Therapy programs boast 100% jobplacement rates. Our alumni are members of an extended musical family that spans the globe.

EMILY FREDRICKSON

BA 2012

Trombonist for the Tony and Grammy award-winning Broadway touring musical, Hadestown ; Associate Professor, University of New Orleans; Director, arranger and composer for the Dee Dee Bridgewater Big Band; past Director of Programming for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

RYAN SPEEDO GREEN

MM 2010

DAMASCUS KAFUMBE

MM 2006, PhD 2011

Edward C. Knox Professor of International Studies; Chair, Department of Music; Director, African Music and Dance Ensemble and Afropop Band, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

KATERINA MCCRIMMON

BM 2020

National YoungArts Winner (Theatre) Presidential Scholar in the Arts; The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, 2109); The Light in the Piazza (Encores! at New York City Center, 2023); Azul: A Bilingual Musical (EP Release, 2023); Funny Girl (Broadway national tour, 2023).

Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera; Board of Regents at University of Hartford

Awards: Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions winner (2011); Sara Tucker Study Grant (2011); George London Foundation Award (2014); Gerda Lissner Foundation - First Prize (2014); Leonore Annenberg Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts Grant (2014); Richard Tucker Career Grant (2014); Grammy AwardPorgy and Bess (2021) and Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2023); Beverly Sills Artist Award (2023).

HAKEEM LEONARD

MM 2008, PhD 2014

Board Certified Music Therapist; Assistant Provost for Inclusion, Diversity & Equity; Associate Professor, Music Therapy, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA; owner, Healing Hearts Music Therapy.

MIA HARTLEY

BM 2017

JD-MBA, Stetson University College of Law; US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar (2017); former Adjunct Professor at University of South Florida; Board-Certified Music Therapist; former Congressional Intern and Scheduler in the US House of Representatives; Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Merge Art Collective; Musician, Composer, and Performer.

JULIA BAUMANIS

BME 2010; MM 2016; PhD 2019

Assistant Director of Bands at Rutgers University (first female conductor in the university’s history); Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra; coauthor of GO ON - Tell Your Story! Voices of Women Band Directors (Midwest, 2023).

MARQUES L.A. GARRETT

PhD 2018

IZABEL ZAMBRZYCKI

MA 2016

Artistic General Manager, Colorado Symphony; past Senior Artistic Planning Manager and Assistant to the Music Director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop.

Associate Professor of Choral Conducting, University of North Texas; past Assistant Professor of Music in Choral Activities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music; 2023 recipient of the Chorus America Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award; founding conductor of the Nebraska Festival Singers; compositions commissioned by the Cincinnati Youth Choir, Concordia Choir, Harvard University, Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, and Westminster Choir College.