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Clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan ’06 rises quickly to a principal role with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Hunter Gordon ’14 studies bassoon full-time at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, hoping to begin his career as a professional musician.

Inspired by tragic events during an 1888 blizzard, the piece will also be performed March 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Best known as Officer Clemmons from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumnus will perform American spirituals and a community children's concert.

Latest honors continue a remarkable run for the 1990 Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumnus.

Perched atop Bibbins Hall, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's newest performance space offers a creative solution to the conservatory’s great demand for concert venues and pays tribute to the former dean who envisioned it.

The contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird, formed at Â鶹ÊÓƵ by students in 1996, has recently won their third Grammy Award—Best Chamber Music Performance—for a piece written by composer Stephen Hartke, also a 2013 Grammy Award winner.

The Washington Post calls Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumnus and Met Opera singer Alek Shrader "a gifted young tenor." He will present a recital at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Conservatory on March 1, at 7 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall. The concert is free and no tickets are required.

On Sunday, February 17 at 3 p.m., musicians from the widely acclaimed Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Conservatory of Music will perform in a concert to benefit homeless families served by Family Promise of Lorain County. The concert will be held at First Church in Â鶹ÊÓƵ and donations are welcome.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Orchestra, performing with guest soloist Jeremy Denk ’90 and led by Associate Professor of Conducting Raphael Jiménez, will give a preview of their 2013 NYC Tour Carnegie Hall program on January 16 in Finney Chapel. The concert will begin at 8:00 p.m. and admission is free.