Robert Stahly, ’08, B.M. Music Education, Tuba, is currently the director of Orchestras and Music Technology at Longmont High School in Longmont, Colo. where he conducts three orchestras, teaches AP Music Theory, and Music Technology. He also teaches the tuba section and serves as the visual caption head and head sound designer/mixing engineer for Loveland High School Marching Band.
Dana Kinney, ’15, M.M. Music, will be serving as assistant director at Dallas Opera for their production of Manon by Jules Massenet in Feb. E. Loren Meeker is the director.
Jaclyn Bradley Palmer, ’14, M.M. Music Therapy, has had her first study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology; A first-of-its-kind study finds that music therapy lessened anxiety for women undergoing surgical breast biopsies for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The two-year study out of University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center involved 207 patients. Jaclyn was the lead author and is a music therapist at UH. “Our aim was to determine if music therapy affected anxiety levels, anesthesia requirements, recovery time, and patient satisfaction with the surgical experience,” she said in a press release. Read more about the study. “I am so thankful to CSU,” she said in an email to the music therapy faculty.
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