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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, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï alumnus will perform American spirituals and a community children's concert.

Latest honors continue a remarkable run for the 1990 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï alumnus.

Perched atop Bibbins Hall, ÍøÆسԹÏ'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 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 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 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï alumnus and Met Opera singer Alek Shrader "a gifted young tenor." He will present a recital at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 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 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 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 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and donations are welcome.

The ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 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.