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Notable Music Alumni
Bands
Kevin Kessler
Director of Athletic Bands, South Dakota State University
Courtney Long
Assistant Band Director, Davenport West High School
Taylor Matuszeski
Band Director, Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Myron Peterson
Director of Bands, Boise State University
Brass
Katey (Halbert) Jahnke
Assistant Professor of Horn, University of Arkansas
Noah Perkins
Frankfurt, Germany-based trombonist and improviser. Contemporary solo and chamber musician, including as International Ensemble Modern Academy Fellow, 2023-24.
Alicia Rau
Grammy-nominated musician based in New York City
John Reyna
Technical Sergeant and Tubist with the United States Air Force Band
Choral Music
Mariana Farah
Director of Choral Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, conductor of the UW–Madison Concert Choir
Ann Howard Jones
Professor and director of choral activities at Boston University (retired), founder of the UI Larry G. and Ann Howard Jones Vocal Ensemble Residency Program
Composition + Music Theory
Carla Colletti
Professor of Music, Department Chair, Director of Music Theory, Webster University
David Lang
New York City-based composer, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music, 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance, nominated for an Academy Award for "Simple Song #3" from the film Youth.
Kati Meyer
Music Theory Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa School of Music
Dimitri Papageorgiou
Professor of Composition at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Department of Music Studies
Jazz Studies
Fabio Augustinis
Assistant Professor of Practice in Commercial Music and Drum Set, Texas Tech University School of Music
Jerome Gillespie, Jr.
New York-based musician, drummer, composer, bandleader, and teacher
Marion Hayden
Bassist and co-founder of Straight Ahead, the first all-woman jazz ensemble signed to Atlantic Records, and lecturer, Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation, University of Michigan
Cole Peterson
New York-based jazz performer, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute (RSMI) Fellow, 2019
Musicology
Michele Aichele
Curriculum Coordinator, Instructional Designer, Musicologist, Writer, Texas A&M University
Sarah Lucas
Assistant Professor of Musicology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
Musicologist, educator, and correspondent for Christianity Today
Cody Norling
Manager of Administrative Academic and Faculty Affairs, Eastman School of Music
Music Education
Meredith (Olson) Dabbs
General Music Teacher, Choir Director at Elmwood Community Schools, and Choir Director for Young Naperville Singers
David Haas
Founder and Artistic Director, of Vocal Artists of Iowa, and Choral Conductor and Digital Music Educator at Iowa City West High School
Rishi Wagle
Co-Director of Vocal Music - Cedar Rapids Washington High School
Cat Wilson
Associate Professor of Music Education, Western Kentucky University
Music Therapy
Rebecca J. Froman Freiman
Founder and Director of Greater Chicago Music Therapy
Stephanie Johnson
Founder, owner, and CEO of Music Speaks, LLC
Matthew Logan
Pediatric music therapist at University of California San Franscisco (UCSF) Benioff Children's Hospitals, UCSF Internship Director, founder of Music Therapy Source
Alaine Reschke-Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Music Therapy, University of Kentucky School of Music
Organ
Andrew Kreigh
Director of Sacred Music for the Archdiocese of St Louis and the Cathedral Basilica
Scott Magnuson
Iowa Legislative Services Agency, Administrative Services Officer Supervisor
Josh Ring
Professor, Olivet Nazarene University, and Associate for Music Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, IL
Becca Swanson
Middle School Music and Choir Teacher, West Liberty Community School District
Percussion
Peter Grubisich
Assistant Professor of Percussion, Eastern New Mexico University
John O’Shaughnessy
Associate Director of Bands, Muscatine High School
Emily Roane
Philadelphia-based drummer and percussionist. Singer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist for pop-rock duo Pep Rally
Stephen Schick
Percussionist, conductor, author, and Distinguished Professor of Music at University of California San Diego
Piano
Ann DuHamel
Associate Professor, Music; Discipline Coordinator, Music; Head of Keyboard Studies at University of Minnesota Morris
Joana Holanda
Faculty member at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Korak (Gao) Lertpibulchai
Piano Department Chair, Mahidol University College of Music, Thailand
Anthony Capparelli
Faculty at Kunstacademie Deinze in Gent, Belgium
Strings
Lisa Dondlinger
Grammy-nominated Solo Music Artist, Violinist, Vocalist, Session Musician
Megan Karls
Co-Concertmaster of the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra, violinist with Cascade Quartet
Laura Shaw
Cello faculty, Cello Suzuki Teacher Trainer, at Preucil School of Music
Patricia Weitzel
Assistant Professor, Double Bass, at Penn State
Voice
Simon Estes
Internationally-acclaimed operatic bass baritone, currently The F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Artist in Residence at Iowa State University Department of Music and Theatre
Jessica Faselt
Soprano with recent and upcoming roles including at Santa Fe Opera, Detroit Opera, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Cincinnati Opera
Anika Kildegaard
Vocalist specializing in new music and concert repertoire, performing regularly as part of the Grammy-winning new music ensemble, The Crossing, as well as the soprano/double-bass duo, LIGAMENT, alongside Will Yager (2021 DMA).
Robert Lindsey-Nassif
Composer, lyricist, playwright, Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional productions
Woodwinds
Jeiran Hasan
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, and flutist, Logan Canyon Winds
Elissa Kana
Instructor of Saxophone, Arkansas State University
David Sanborn
Six-time Grammy Award-winner, alto saxophonist, soloist and session musician
Jacqueline Wilson
Principal Bassoonist of the Washington Idaho Symphony and Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Washington State University