Noël Wan is a winner of a 2019 Lyon & Healy Award.

Dr. Charles W. Lynch III joins Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and Arts School of Music faculty this year.

Mana was also featured during the conference in the workshop "View from the Pit" with Emmanuel Ceysson, Principal Harp of the Metropolitan Opera. 

Ms. Happel, DMA student, has been awarded a Scholar Award by the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO).

P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) recognize and encourage excellence in higher education by providing partial support for study and research to women who will make significant contributions in their varied fields of endeavor. Ms. Happel was nominated by the Monticello (IL) chapter of PEO for this national award. Priority is given to women who are well established in their programs, study or research.

Chen-Yu Huang (DMA 2014) has been appointed principal harpist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, following a three-round audition in September. She is currently Assistant Professor of Harp at Michigan State University and on the harp faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.

A Krannert Debut Artist, she has also served as principal harpist of the Illinois Symphony since 2012, and tours regularly with her chamber ensemble, the Formosa Trio.

Chen-yu was a student of Prof. Ann Yeung. 

Harpists are making it happen now and for the future. 

Stephanie Gustafson has been selected as a 2016-2017 Da Camera of Houston Young Artist! The Da Camera Young Artist Program is a fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers and composers designed to provide career-expanding experiences and training to the next generation of artists, encouraging them to create music for the community and to offer young students and neglected audiences exposure to great music and talented performers, using music as a vehicle for scholastic exploration and inspi