Alumni Spotlights

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Dustin Williams (B.A., Music, 2008) hired on as Senior Counsel at Patreon

April 4, 2024

Altin Sencalar (B.M., Jazz Studies, 2017) interviewed by New York Times about life in New York City since relocating in 2022

March 22, 2024
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Renuka Jayasinghe (B.M., Jazz Performance) breaks into Austin’s music scene with local band Big Wy’s Brass Band

February 21, 2024
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James Sclater's (D.M.A., Composition, 1970) new Concerto for Violin and Orchestra premiered by the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra

February 13, 2024

The three-movement, 23 minute work was commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church Choir of Jackson, MS in honor of Kemp's selection as the new concertmaster of the MSO.

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Altin Sencalar (B.M., Jazz Studies, 2017) releasing his 5th album on Posi-Tone Records

January 30, 2024 | Dusty Groove

The album releases on March 29.

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Hermes Camacho (D.M.A., Composition, 2011) appointed deputy director at Austin Soundwaves

January 25, 2024

An arts education nonprofit based on El Sistema that works with more than 1,100 students throughout greater Austin and with nearly 30 full and part-time staff, Austin Soundwaves partners with schools and community programs to provide orchestra, band, and mariachi teaching, teacher coaching, mentoring, and creative youth development. Hermes has been with the organization since 2012.

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Yutaka Kono (D.M.A., Tuba Performance, 2002) appointed as the Music Director of Orchestra of Central Tokyo

November 17, 2023

Kono has also been appointed as the Associate Director/Head of Program in Music of the School of the Arts at the University of Vermont. He has been the Orchestra Director and the Head of String Area at the university since 2011.

Lee Kohlenberg, Jr. (B.M., Organ, 1966) played a recital for the Anderson SC AGO

October 18, 2023

Kohlenberg, Jr. also played on L'Organo series of Piccolo Spoleto in June, which was his sixth time performing.

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Lecolion Washington (B.M., Music Studies, 1999) talks about balancing performing and administrating

October 12, 2023 | Arts Journal

Andrew Sigler (D.M.A., Music Composition, 2014) promoted to Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of Tennessee College of Music

October 5, 2023

Sigler is the area coordinator of the Theory, Composition, Technology and is president of the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA).