STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS NEWS 2022-23

Alumni highlights Student highlights

Jieun Lee (DMA candidate) had the performance she recorded of the Parker Quartet from the Chamber Music Athens Festival in May, 2022 played on the Minnesota Public Radio program “Performance Today!” on May 17, 2023.

Anthony Morris Master’s Conducting Associate (MM candidate) was named a Conducting Fellow for the H. Robert Reynolds Conducting Institute at the 76th Annual Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois in December, 2022.

Joshua Wood (BMus candidate) was one of approximately 10% of the entrants who advanced to the semi-final round at the recent International Horn Competition of America.

Anna Hawkins (DMA candidate) and Annabel Shue (BM), won first place and honorable mention (respectively) in the Georgia Young Artist MTNA competition for piano in Fall, 2022.

Trevor Barroero (DMA, ‘22; MM, ‘19): Winner of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Percussion audition in Tucson, Arizona. He is currently on staff with the university as a percussion instructor for the UGA Community Music School and teaches 42 private percussion students from around GA, SC, FL, and AZ.

This new position marks the third orchestral position Barroero has won since beginning his studies at UGA. In 2018, he won the oneyear position as Principal Percussionist of Orlando Philharmonic and still performs with them regularly. Earlier in 2022, he also won a position as Assistant Principal Percussionist of the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama and was also hired as the Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Anderson University in South Carolina.

Jack Eaddy’s (MM ‘16), currently teaching at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, was one of ten Grammy Music Educator of the Year Finalists. The finalists, who come from 10 cities across eight states, were selected from more than 1,205 initial nominations, which were submitted from 47 states.

Julia Nyunt won Best Score with her director Xavi at the Backlight Student Film Festival. Julia was a Music Therapy major who wanted to try film composing when she met Xavi (her director) through a UGA composition mixer. She recorded it all in the DANCZ center Media studio.

Percussion Alumni Updates: Quintin Mallette (DMA ‘17), appointed Chair of Percussion, East Carolina University; Will Kan (MM, ‘20), appointed United States Army “Pershing’s Own” Ceremonial Band Percussionist; Nathan Tingler (DMA, ‘18), appointed Principal Timpanist, Tallahassee Symphony; Hayden Johnson (BMus, ‘22) appointed Percussionist, United States Air Force Band.

Daniel Karcher (DMA candidate) won the Spotlight on the Arts 4’33” competition November 17, 2022.

Garrett McCord (MTC candidate) has been named as one of three finalists in the Upper Tenor, Baritone, Bass Music Theatre Category of the National Student Auditions at the NATS National competition in spring of 2023.

Rachel McClellan (BMus ‘23) was a Third Price Winner at the 8th Leopold Auer International Violin Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2022.