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Houston Symphony CEM Fellowship
Bernini Chan (violin) & Donald Rabin (flute) were selected as the first Moores graduate students to become Houston Symphony Community-Embedded Musician fellows.
A Love So Fierce and Free Review
Reviewed by Grammaphone, David Ashley White and Daryl Robinson receive rave reviews on their collaboration on White’s organ works, A Love So Fierce and Free.
Rob Smith Wins MMI Teaching Prize

Rob Smith, Director of AURA Contemporary Ensemble, selected as winner of the Teaching Prize for Innovative Uses of Media by Media and the Modern Image.
CDC Grant Activities
Uniting the arts and health by impacting the Houston Community, the CDC has selected Dr. Courtney Crappell, the Director of the Moores School of Music, for a $75,000 grant to encourage vaccine awareness through the arts.
Randolph-Yosea at Music Symposium
Namarea Randolph-Yosea, second year graduate student from the studio of Melanie Sonnenberg, has been invited to perform two arias from lesser-known operas by William Grant Still at a Symposium of Music on “Black Identities on the Operatic Stage."
Alex Jones, International Organ Competition Finalist 
Doctor of Musical Arts Organ student, Alex Jones, has been selected as a finalist for the Elizabeth B. Stephens International Organ Competition and will travel to Atlanta in June for the finals.