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One day last year, Greg Tardy, associate professor of jazz saxophone, was working out at the gym when he received an unexpected call. It was totally out of the blue, but it was a call he had been waiting for

Article by Brooks Clark Thanks to the Sandra G. Powell Endowed Professorship of Piano, the School of Music has for the past four years benefited from having internationally-recognized pianist and professor Chih-Long Hu on its faculty. “It was an unbelievable gift

Victor Chávez’s dedication to the clarinet community fueled the tremendous success of ClarinetFest® 2019. It was about fulfilling a dream, but it wasn’t even his own dream. That’s why Victor Chávez, assistant professor of clarinet, worked so hard to bring the

Ellen Reid, recent School of Music artist in residence and Oak Ridge, Tennessee native, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her debut opera, “p r i s m.” The opera addresses the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. “I

It only took thirty seconds for Katie Johnson’s life work—teaching and playing horn—to be transformed. The assistant professor of horn was playing for her idol, Frøydis Ree Wekre, one of the world’s leading horn players and teachers in Frøydis’s home country