Music News

Daniel DeShazo, B.M.E. ’09 (music education), just started a position as music director at Helena United Methodist Church in Helena, Ala.

Bart Folse ’79 (music education) was elected president of the Board of Directors of Symphony Chorus of New Orleans.

Jeff Albert ’93, of Mandeville, La., is a trombonist and composer and performer of free jazz improvisation.

Loyola University New Orleans student David Castillo won first prize in March 2010 in the Stewart Brady Competition for Young Artists sponsored by

Valerie Richmond ’12 (music industry studies) joined the Marketing Department at the Houston Symphony.

Hailed by The New York Times as “bright, active, and fastidiously musical,” and by Opera News as having “a golden sound,” Sarah Jane McMahon ’02 is

Natalie Mae ’09 is a soulful Americana/folk vocalist with a fiddle in tow.

Christine MacDonnell ’84 (clarinet, flute, oboe and bass clarinet) and pianist Steven Vaughan ’84 released their n