Alumni in the News

Ryan Fogg (D.M.A., Piano, 2006) enters his 19th year as Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee

Jan. 18, 2024

Fogg has been awarded a sabbatical for the Spring 2024 semester, during which he will be performing 25 solo piano recitals in 16 different states, in addition to the District of Columbia. The culmination of the concert tour will be his debut performance in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Gay Gaddis (B.F.A., Studio Art, 1977) one of 15 women Governor Abbott appoints to Governor’s Commission For Women

Jan. 16, 2024 | Office of the Texas Governer

Chase Bringardner (M.F.A., 2002; Ph.D., Theatre History & Criticism, 2007) named associate provost for academic affairs at Auburn University

Dec. 12, 2023 | Auburn University

Love Muwwakkil (M.F.A., Dance, 2023) performed in the world premier opera "Intelligence" at Houston Grand Opera

Nov. 27, 2023 | Houston Grand Opera

Seven dancers positioned as if they were holding onto each other

M.J. Hickerson's (M.F.A., Studio Art, 1984) exhibition displayed at Ceres Gallery in New York

Nov. 20, 2023 | Ceres Gallery

Painting of a woman with a child surrounded by monarch butterflies

Brent Jackson (B.F.A., Studio Art, 1998) partners with Lake + Flato to create well-designed, affordable homes

Nov. 17, 2023 | Texas Architects

Brent Jackson smiling at camera with a dark background

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

Nov. 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.