Celebrate!

Susanna Leiva, from left, Sarah Stein, Marie Ferguson (in white), and Hanna Orr in the Opera Theater Rutgers production of Giacomo Puccini’s Il Tabarro.

Music alum Peter Martin’s quartet, Third Coast Percussion, has a song listed among the 100 Best Songs of 2018 by NPR. Their cover of Philip Glass’s Madeira River came in at No. 17.

Art & design MFA student Jeanette Mundt and faculty Steffani Jemison are among the 75 artists selected to present work in this year’s Whitney Biennial, running from May 17 through September 22.

Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times named faculty Pam Tanowitz’s “Four Quartets” among the best dance of 2018, calling it “the most sublime new work of dance theater this year.”

Opera News listed faculty Bob Aldridge’s Sister Carrie among the “5 Best New Works of 2018.”

Organ faculty Renée Anne Louprette had a busy fall, performing solo recitals at Royal Festival Hall in London; the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; and at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.