2007

Yevgeniy Reznik

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition, Winner
• NMTA Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition, Winner

Celeste Case Ruchala

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition, Alternate
• NMTA Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition, Honorable Mention

David Woods (with the Liquid Velvet Woodwind Quintet)

• MTNA State Collegiate Artist Chamber Music Competition, Winner

Kristi Michael and Julie Neal

• Participated in the 2007 International Youth Wind Orchestra in Killarney, Ireland (invitation by peer reviewed audition). They returned to Ireland this September to perform in the UNL Opera Orchestra in a production of "Most Happy Fellow."

Jessica Vansteenburg

• UNL Graduate Concerto Competition Winner

2006

Julie Neal

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition, Winner

Elizabeth Aleksander , Jessica Vansteenburg, and David Woods

• Invited performers, College Band Director's National Association's Regional Honor Band, Evanston, IL
  

Jenny Rosser (private student, 12th grade)

• Senior soloist with Lincoln High School Band
  

Celeste Case Ruchala (private student, 11th grade)

• UNL Young Artist Award Winner
• Nebraska State Band Association Conference concerto soloist with Lincoln Southeast High School (March)
• Winner of Lincoln Youth Symphony Senior Soloist Award (performance in 2007)

2005

Alejandro Lozada

• Hixson-Lied CF&PA Doctoral Fellowship, $4,000

Jenny Rosser (private student, 12th grade)

• Principal clarinetist, Nebraska All-State Band (November)

Celeste Case Ruchala (private student, 11th grade)

• Principal clarinetist, Nebraska All-State Orchestra (November)

2004

Alejandro Lozada

• Honorable Mention, International Clarinet Association's Orchestral Repertoire Competition,University of Maryland, College Park, 2004 ICA ClarinetFest
• Graduate Concerto Competition Winner
• Hixson-Lied CF&PA Doctoral Fellowship, $4,000
  

2003

Christy Banks

• Awarded the John R. MacDonald Doctoral Fellowship, $4,000

Alejandro Lozada

• Awarded the Hixson- Lied CF&PA Doctoral Fellowship, $4,000
  

Jake Wallace

• Fellowship recipient to attend "The Art of Wind Band Teaching X" at the University of Minnesota - July 20-25
• With the Narom Quintet, MTNA Regional Collegiate Chamber Music Competition, Alternate
  

2002

Lenora French

• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist, First Place
  

Jake Wallace

• With the Narom Quintet, Winner of the MTNA State Collegiate Chamber Music Competition

2001

Jenny Stuart

• Presser Scholar Winner

Jessica Lindsey

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist, Honorable Mention
  

2000

Blackwood Trio (Jessica Lindsey, Jeni Gossard, and Mary Williams)

• MTNA State Collegiate Chamber Music Competition, Alternate

Jeni Gossard

• NMTA State Collegiate Artist Competition, Second Place

Jessica Lindsey

• NMTA State Collegiate Artist Competition, Honorable Mention

Jenny Stuart

• Chosen for the Collegiate MENC Student Recital at the Nebraska AllState Conference- Clinic

1999

Christa Balderson

• Chosen for Collegiate MENC Student Recital at the Nebraska AllState Conference-Clinic

Erin Hill

• With the St. Cecilia Trio - violin, clarinet and piano, competed at the National Level in Los Angeles, CA at the MTNA Chamber Music Collegiate Artist Competition
• With the St. Cecilia Trio, MTNA Regional Chamber Music Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner, Minot, ND

Chelsea Howell

• MTNA Regional Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner, Minot, ND

Wendy O'Dell Pfrimmer

• Selected as clarinetist for the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma National Intercollegiate Band, St. Louis, MO

Eileen Preuss

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Alternate
• With the Salem Trio - clarinet, horn and piano, MTNA State Chamber Music Collegiate Artist Competition - Alternate
• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Second Place

1998

Erin Hill

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention
• With the St. Cecilia Trio, MTNA State Chamber Music Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner

Chelsea Howell

• UNL Graduate Concerto Competition - Winner, Carl Maria von Weber "Concertino"
• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner
• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner

Eileen Preuss

• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Second Place Winner
• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention

1997

Andrea Leising Bitunjac

• Chosen for Collegiate MENC Student Recital at Nebraska AllState Conference-Clinic
• Presser Scholar Winner

Erica Corwin

• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist - Winner

Erin Hill

• UNL Undergraduate Concerto Competition - Winner, W.A. Mozart, "Concerto," Adagio mvt.
• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention
• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention

1996

Erica Corwin

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention
• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Honorable Mention

Christy Kucera (Banks)

• MTNA Regional Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Alternate, Boulder, CO

1995

Christy Kucera (Banks)

• MTNA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner
• NMTA State Woodwind Collegiate Artist Competition - Winner

 

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