September 2021

Celebrate the Fall Festival at Shenandoah starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 18. There will be games outside the Health & Life Sciences Building…

Kaela Dunlap ’20 (Bachelor of Music in Music Production & Recording Technology (MRPT)) will serve as the production manager of music facilities at Shenandoah Conservatory…

Shenandoah University is one of 70 colleges in the country to be designated as a Great College to Work For and one of only 42…

Kelly Donah ’21 (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre) is embarking on the national tour of “Cats” playing the role of Rumpleteazer. The tour…

Auxiliary Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music History Alanna Ropchock Tierno, Ph.D., was featured in a docu-concert performance of Josquin’s “Missa Pange lingua.” The video was…

Samuel Bradshaw ’22 (Bachelor of Music in Composition) was awarded the 2021 William Averitt Prize for Excellence in Composition for his percussion quartet “Bury Me…

Kelsee Sweigard ’16 (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre) was cast in the North American tour of “Pretty Woman: The Musical.” This first national…

Mathilde Handelsman ’20 (Doctor of Music Arts in Performance) was appointed lecturer of piano and director of the Piano Extension Program at the University of…

Shenandoah University celebrates another successful year by retaining its spot as the second-highest ranked Virginia private school among national universities in the 2022 U.S. News…

*Throughout 2021, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite histories and reminiscences published in the immediate decades…