NDSU music students and alumni had a strong showing during the recent Minnesota National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. Nine students were finalists in their divisions; five won first place awards.
This year, due to the pandemic, competitors recorded and submitted videos of their performances instead of competing in person.
“We’re so proud of our students and their teachers,” said John Miller, director of the Division of Performing Arts. “They demonstrated consummate professionalism in a regionwide competition that featured hundreds of entrants from Minnesota and bordering universities and colleges.”
Categories and honors include:
Second-year Lower College Classical Treble
• Second place: junior Julie Ly
• Third place: senior Mariah Seidel
First-year Lower College Classical Tenor-Baritone-Bass
• Third place: sophomore Josh Kainz
Fourth-year Upper College Classical Treble
• First place tie: senior Lauren Craig
Third-year Upper College Classical Tenor-Baritone-Bass
• First place: senior Micah Nicolai
Fourth-year Upper College Classical Tenor-Baritone-Bass
• First place: senior Elijah O’Sullivan
• Third place: senior Taylor Krug
Advanced College Graduate Classical Treble
• First place: Jacee Engels, NDSU alumna
Advanced College Graduate Classical Tenor-Baritone-Bass
• First place: Ian Sherwood, NDSU alumnus
Their teachers are current and retired NDSU faculty members Kelly Burns, Mariane Lemieux-Wottrich, Karisa Templeton, Virginia Sublett and Robert Jones.
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