As Boone's glorious summer begins, we celebrate many recent noteworthy accomplishments of HSoM students, faculty, and alumni. See KUDOS for details.
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
Summer Session I continues through Friday, June 24.
Cannon Music Camp begins on Saturday, June 25. (See attached concert flyer for details.)
Summer Session II begins on Thursday, June 30.
Looking Ahead
University Convocation will occur on Monday, August 15, at 10 am, in the Holmes Convocation Center.
Fall 2016 classes begin on Tuesday, August 16.
Kudos and Other News and Events
HSoM Music Industry Studies student Christa Giammattei has won the National Sigma Alpha Iota Music Industry Internship Competition. Just one such award is given out each year, chosen from applicants throughout the United States.
Two HSoM students' research presentations were honored at the 2016 Concurso MUSICALIA de Investigación de la Universidad de las Artes (Music Research Competition of the University of the Arts) in Havana, Cuba: Music Education student Caley Wahl won first prize for "Multicultural Music Education Resources," and Music Therapy student Jasmine Tilden was awarded honorable mention for "The Effects of the Music Tutoring Lab on Grades and Attitude."
HSoM professor of music theory Jennifer Snodgrass is a quarterfinalist for the 2017 GRAMMY Foundation Music Educator Award. Semifinalists will be announced in September. She has also received an ASU Graduate Research Associate Mentoring award for 2016-18.
HSoM interim director of orchestras Cornelia Laemmli Orth has been named music director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York. She plans to maintain her home in this region, continuing her work as music director of the Symphony of the Mountains.
HSoM faculty bassoonist Jon Beebe has been reappointed by ASU Faculty Senate to serve another three-year term as a member of the campus-wide Academic Policies and Procedures Committee (AP&P).
Music Industry Studies alumnus and HSoM Advisory Board member Chris Barton has been named the new executive director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
With best wishes as the summer continues,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029
**If you'd like to have something included in future iterations of these announcements, please send me an email with "announcements" in the subject line. Please feel free to send me information about artists (HSoM colleagues and others) who will collaborate in faculty recitals. My listings here sometimes miss those details. I'll be happy to add family/personal announcements, too. Please submit announcements as pdf's or in plain text, unformatted (no special spacing, bullets, etc.). Please include hyperlinks as appropriate.
**Please send information about upcoming off-campus performances and presentations by faculty and students. I'll include them in this "HSoM On the Road..." section.