Michael Cameron and Stefan Milenkovich perform with Camerata Illinois during the DoCha festival 2017.
Orpheum Theater, Champaign, Illinois.
Two current students and a member of the High School Chamber Music Academy were selected to perform with Sinfonia da Camera.
Zhen Piao (AD in organ, 2017, and MM in piano) has won 2nd prize in the Shanghai International Organ Competition. The Competition took place September 14-15, 2017 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Zhen was one of six finalists from five countries.
Reported to be the first international organ competition in China, the Competition was held as part of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's International Organ Festival. Finalists perfomed on one of the largest organs in China: a 5-manual, 88-rank Rieger instrument.
Harpists are making it happen now and for the future.
Flute alumnae and students are making it happen now, and for the future.
Pauline Jung, MM 2017, recently placed 3rd in the National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition. As the world's most prestigious annually recurring competition for flute, Pauline excelled through three rounds of live auditions at the Minneapolis convention.
Illinois flutists Jenny Shin (DMA), and Dani Stevens (DMA) joined Pauline as 3 of the 15 quarterfinalists selected via recording.
Bravo to all for their significant accomplishments!
The University of Illinois Chamber Singers performed with the chamber choir of the Vienna School of Music as part of a 12-day European trip this summer.
Zhen Piao, an artist diploma organ student of Dana Robinson, has been selected as one of six finalists in the First Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Organ Competition. He will perform in Shanghai, China, for the two final rounds of the competition on September 14-15, 2017.
Zhen was among 24 applicants from 9 different countries. Zhen holds the MM in piano from the University of Illinois, where he studied with William Heiles.
Thornton Miller, PhD Student in Musicology is among fourteen current students and recent alumni who have been awarded Fulbright grants for the coming academic year.
Thornton will travel to Russia to conduct research and teach.
This past February, it was announced that the U of I Jazz Trombone Ensemble, directed by Professor Jim Pugh, had been selected winners of the Kai Winding Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition, sponsored annually by the International Trombone Association.
