Alumni
- The College of Music’s National Alumni Council is hard at work creating beneficial experiences for students and alumni.
- For the second time since 2016, winners of the prestigious Ekstrand and Honors performance competitions will take the stage, along with graduate quartet-in-residence Ajax Quartet.
- “I believe that a degree in music prepares you for amazing things in this world because the elements of music translate to other creative disciplines."
- Alumna Amy Marie Stewart credits her undergrad in opera from the College of Music for garnering such praise as “sweet-toned singing” from the New York Post for her performance in “¡Figaro! (90210).”
- Sam Estes—a bassoonist, vocalist and pianist—specializes in taking a compositional approach to sound design in his various roles in Southern California.
- Since completing a bachelor’s in music at the Ƶ Boulder College of Music, composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and guitarist Carl Rydlund hasn’t missed a beat.
- New opera “If I Were You” gets the Ƶ NOW treatment this summer at Eklund Opera’s trailblazing workshop program.
- Distinguished Alumni Jon Kull and Tia Fuller, along with Distinguished Service Award winner Joseph Negler, will be honored and recognized for their contributions to the College of Music on Thursday, May 10.
- As Kolby Morris (BM ’08) thinks back on her musical training, she says some of the most influential forces that led her to where she is today were ethnomusicology and world music.
- Robust alumni engagement platform—musicbuffalumni.com—fosters music industry innovations, entrepreneurship, professional development and networking