Music

Stephen A. Futrell, chair of the Department of Music, has been invited to serve as a panelist for the North Carolina Arts Council Arts & Audiences Grants Panel.

It’s one of the greatest thrills a musician can experience. Stephen Futrell, an associate professor and chair in the Department of Music, has been invited to conduct a concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall next summer – and he wants to take Elon students with him to participate in the performance.

Stephen Futrell, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Music, has been invited to serve as the repertoire and standards chair for jazz choirs for the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association.

Joseph Kalichstein, a renowned musician whose piano performances have garnered international accolades, will perform classical works in a March 12 campus performance as part of the Adams Foundation Recital Series sponsored by Elon University and the (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News.

Elon University music majors Jacob Danieley and Kaitlyn Fay have been named finalists in the 12th Annual John Lennon Scholarship Songwriting Program, a national contest established in 1997 by Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, and the BMI Foundation.