Eli Eban will serve as acting principal clarinet with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for three weeks in May 2007.

Jane Fulcher was invited to give a lecture to the Musicology Department at the University of Michigan on March 30, 2007. Her subject was "From Hybrid to Metamorphosis: Poulenc's Path Toward Symbolic Resistance and Counter-Discourse During Vichy."

Professor of Music Theory Robert Hatten has presented the following invited lectures in spring 2007: “Performance and Analysis—or Synthesis: Theorizing Gesture and Texture for Performers” (Baylor, Illinois, Penn State); “A Theory of Musical Gesture” (Temple); “Troping of Meaning in Penderecki’s Credo,” (Symposium, Houston Baptist); “Interpreting the ‘Tempest’ through Topics, Gestures, and Agency,” (Symposium, McGill); “A Surfeit of Musics: What Poems Concede When Set to Other Music,” (GTA Symposium, Indiana University). Over spring break he gave 10 hours of lectures on four Beethoven piano sonatas, Op. 27, no. 2; Op. 31, no. 3; Op. 79; and Op. 111, at the University of Alcalá in Spain.

Soprano Kathryn Aaron sang Elisa in 2006 BLEMF performances of Il re pastore. She is a student of Robert Harrison.

Erick Carballo has won the Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award for 2006-2007 for his dissertation "De La Pampa Al Cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginsatera." The award, which carries a monetary stipend of $2,000, is the highest honor for research that Indiana University bestows upon its graduate students. The dissertation was directed by David Neumeyer, who began work with Carballo while still at IU and continued after his move to UT-Austin. Other members of the committee were Thomas Mattiesen, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, and Carmen Tellez.

Sarah Daughtrey , candidate for the DM in Vocal Performance and Literature, has just accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor with Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA. Completing her position of assistant professor of voice at Marshall University (MU) in Huntington, WV, this year, Daughtrey will be performing several works with the university, including soloing with the MU Wind Symphony in Ron Nelson's “Aspen Jubilee," arias from Carmen with the MU Choral Union, and a faculty chamber recital with saxophonist Ed Bingham, performing "Songs of Tagore" by Frank Ticheli for voice, saxophone, and piano. She will also be performing a faculty recital with fellow IU doctoral student and MU faculty member Julio Alves of works for voice and guitar, including Daniel Pinkham's "Charm Me Asleep" and Ernesto Cordero's "Four Works for Voice and Guitar." Daughtrey also recently directed a performance of Franz von Suppe's operetta The Fair Galatea with MU Opera Theatre, for which she wrote an updated libretto and script, moving the setting to Renaissance Italy. She is a student of Patricia Wise.

Carol DuPont, a student of Costanza Cuccaro, will be performing the role of Plutone in Monteverdi's Orfeo with the Bloomington Early Music Festival this May.

Jennifer Feinstein, a student of Costanza Cuccaro, will be joining The Indianapolis Opera Young Artist Program in 2007–2008. She will sing Third Lady in The Magic Flute and cover Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann. This April, she will sing Dame Quickly in Falstaff for the informance performance of the Young Artists.

Bass John Huckle, a master of music student in voice performance, performed the role of Sarastro in Ball State University’s production of Die Zauberfloete in January 2006. This past summer, he was a studio apprentice at Central City Opera. Huckle is a student of Robert Harrison.

Matthew Leese, a specialist in early music performance practice and a student of Robert Harrison, began a faculty appointment (voice) at Milikin University in spring 2006. This coming summer, Professor Leese will be a faculty member at La Bella Musica BAROQUE, Urbania, Italy.

A student of Robert Harrison, baritone Joseph Legaspi was selected to perform and study at Brevard in summer 2006. Additionally, he was chosen to study at the Barcelona Art Song Study Program by the program’s leader, Teresa Berganza.

Fang Yu Lin, soprano and doctoral student in voice, has won the Bell Canto Prize in the Orpheus National Vocal Competition in Nashville, TN. Lin is a student of Patricia Wise.

Tenor Brian Manternach's feature article "Adolescence Again?" appeared in the October 2006 issue of Classical Singer. Manternach is a doctor of music student of Robert Harrison.

 Rachel Moore, senior BM candidate in voice, won second place in the undergraduate division of the Indianapolis Matinee Musical Vocal Competition. She studies with Patricia Wise.

Kevin Murphy, a student of Costanza Cuccaro, will join The Opera Carolina Young Artist Outreach Program. He will sing the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance and Masetto in Don Giovanni.

Chester Pidduck, a master of music student in the studio of Robert Harrison, was a spring 2006 tour artist with Glimmerglass Opera. Currently, Pidduck is an apprentice artist with Opera Colorado, Denver.

Yungee Rhie was chosen by the Early Music Department of the Jacobs School of Music for the roles of Euridice and La Speranza in the new production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in May, as part of the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Rhie is a student of Patricia Wise.

Marc Schapman will be joining the University of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville as assistant professor of voice. He is a student of Costanza Cuccaro.

Hyounsoo Sohn, mezzo-soprano, is an Artist Diploma student in the Jacobs School of Music. Her recent professional engagements as a soloist include the Beethoven Ninth Symphony with the Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra of Milwaukee in 2006, the Mozart Requiem with the Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester in 2006, the Bach Wedding Cantata #196, 197 with the Bach Society of Minnesota in 2007, and the Ethyl Smyth Mass in D with the Minnesota Center Chorale, St. Cloud, in 2007. Sohn will sing the role of Queen Naklang in the opera Princess Naklang in Seoul, Korea, in June and July 2007. She is a student of Patricia Havranek.

Duo Jung-Carballo, comprised of violinist Ji-Woon Jung (D.M. student of Federico Agostini) and pianist Kimberly Carballo (M.M. 99), recently had a concert tour in Mexico. The duo returned to Aguascalientes to perform at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes as the 2006 winners of the Premio Manuel M. Ponce. While in Mexico, they gave a series of recitals, including a second recital in Aguascalientes and several other concerts in the cities of Zacatecas, Lagos de Moreno, and San Luis Potasí. Additionally, they gave chamber music master classes at the Conservatory of Music in Zacatecas and at the Manuel M. Ponce Conservatory in Aguascalientes.

Sarah Taylor has been awarded a semester's study abroad in Vienna with The Institute for the International Education of Students. She will study voice, art history, and German. Taylor is a Wells Scholar and a student of Costanza Cuccaro.

A former student of Robert Harrison, Lianne Gennaco sang the role of Maria in West Side Story with Bay Colony Productions in Boston, summer 2006.

Soprano Annie Gill will sing the role of Donna Anna in Operafestival di Roma's production of Don Giovanni this summer in Rome. Gill is currently a first-year candidate for the Graduate Performance Diploma in Vocal Performance at the Peabody Conservatory, where she studies with Steven Rainbolt. The Peabody Conservatory has awarded Gill with a Peabody Career Development Grant. In March, she won first place at the Maryland District NATS competition in the Advanced Graduate Women category. She is featured in a documentary about young artists titled "The Singer, The Composer, and The Weeble." The documentary was filmed throughout 2006 in Boston and can be viewed on YouTube at www.youtube.com/rafolanfranco. Gill holds a BM in Vocal Performance from Indiana University, where she studied with Patricia Wise, and an MM in Vocal Performance from Boston University, where she studied with Susan Ormont.

Mezzo-soprano Kimberly Gratland James, DM’06, PD’00, recently performed the title role of Carmen in a staged production of the French dialogue version with the Helena Symphony Orchestra. In April, she will sing the mezzo-soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem for a Texas Christian University Gala Event in Ft. Worth's Bass Hall and soon after reprise the Verdi with the Corpus Christi Symphony, conducted by John Giordano. James has also been selected to participate in the NATS Intern Program this summer. She continues to teach applied voice and first-year music theory at the University of Montana. James is a student of Costanza Cuccaro.

Jacobs alumna Courtney Mills gave her first New York recital in Bruno Walter Hall recently. She is currently in the Lindemann Young Artist Program of the Metropolitan Opera. Mills studied with Patricia Wise.

Eric Silberger, 18-year-old violinist, former IU OPEN student, and an Indianapolis native, has been selected as one of two violinists representing the United States at the prestigious 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Russia, in June 2007. Most recently, Silberger has won a Toyota Scholarship Award for the invitees of the Tchaikovsky Competition in New York. He is currently a scholarship student and studies violin with the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow, at the Juilliard Pre-College. Silberger serves as concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and is a 12 th-grader at Tenafly High School in New Jersey. His performance schedule includes recitals and solo performances with orchestras and a solo recital debut at the Louvre in Paris, France, in October 2007, which will be broadcast live on Radio France.

Scott Voyles, MM'06, has been personally invited by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Chinary Ung to conduct the world premiere of Spiral IX in a special concert at the Asia Society in New York City. The work for baritone, viola, and percussion will be performed by New York-based musicians Thomas Buckner (baritone), Susan Ung (viola), and Steven Schick (formerly Bang on a Can All-Stars). Voyles will also conduct Koji Nakano's Time Song II: Howling Through Time in its world premiere performance. The Four Generations Concert at the Asia Society will feature leading Asian composers Chou Wen-chung, Chinary Ung, Hi Kyung Kim, Kee-Yong Chong, and young Japanese composer Koji Nakano in pre-concert discussion and performance.