Katherine Carlin (IAC 00-02) graduated from Michigan State University Lyman Briggs College and Honors College with highest honors with bachelor’s degrees in Physiology and Anthropology in May 2009. She is pursuing her medical degree at Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine in August 2009. Katie is also a member of Alpha Phi Omega community service fraternity. She has been awarded a full scholarship from the United States Air Force.
Sarah Huff (IAA 00-02, IAC St 03-04, IAA St 09-present) is a residence hall staff member in the Mozart Beethoven residence hall at Interlochen Arts Academy.
Gabriel DiMartino (IAA 00-02, IAC St 05-06) and his father Vince DiMartino (IAC Fac 05-07) were featured on the cover and in an article in the May-July, 2009 issue of The Brass Herald magazine.
Brian Sweigart (IAA 00-01, IAC St 02) was appointed chair of the eurhythmics department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
John McKaig's (IAA Fac 01-present) photograph of President Obama signing autographs was printed in the August 25, 2009 edition of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the USA Today newspapers.
Andrea Jarrett (IAC 02-06) of Saline, Michigan, was named a 2009 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Andrea attends The Juilliard School and is majoring in violin performance.
Marjorie Failoni (IAC 02) has appeared in the Broadway stage version of "High School Musical 2" and for the summer of 2009 Marjorie was the assistant choreographer for the premiere in London, England. She lives in New York City.
Holly Mellinger (IAA 02-03) is a student at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work was presented during the 2009 Grand Rapids Arts Prize festival.
Conrad Ramsey (IAC 03) earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minor in criminal justice, from the Rochester Institutes of Technology in Rochester, New York in May 2009.
Christian White (IAC 03, IAA 03-04) starred as the Scarecrow in the off-Broadway production of "The Wiz" at the City Center Mainstage in New York City in July 2009.
Jonathan Gregoire (IAC 03-05, IAA 04-06) is a senior at Saint John’s University and the recipient of a Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award for the 2009-10 academic year.
Alyson Rzeszotarski (IAA 03-05) graduated in May 2009 from Manhattan School of Music in New York. She is a concert percussionist and won the Atlanta modern snare drum competition.
Megan Szymanski (IAC 04) is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA). She is earning her master’s degree in flute performance and is a NCSA concerto competition winner.
Justin Miller (IAC 04) was the assistant organist at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey. Justin continues his studies as the organ scholar at Blackburn Cathedral in Lancashire, England.
Nathaniel West (IAC 04-05, 07) is a double bassist from Upper Arlington, Ohio and was named a 2009 Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
James-Grant Robertson (IAC 04) is attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and will play the role of Pinellino in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in the Miami University's fall 2009 opera production.
Joel Morris (IAC 99, IAA 04-05, IAC St 06) is a composer and performer. In March 2009, his song "Bitter Winter" for soprano and piano tied for first place in an art song composition competition. Joel was commissioned to write a choral piece for the St. James Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon and his piano music has been featured as part of the Four by Four piano-duet series in Portland.
Kara Huckabone (IAC 05-07) performed in April 2009 at The Opera House in Howell, Michigan and in her high school production of "Oklahoma."
Jeffrey Abshear (IAC St 05-06) is the director of the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
SiYi "CiCi" Fang (IAA 05-07) won first prize at the 2009 Music Teachers National Association performance competition. CiCi is a current student at the University of Michigan.
Jack Whaley (IAA 05-07, IAC St 07) is at the University of Miami in Florida where he studies music business.
Hannah Checkley (IAA 05-06) earned first place in the best undergraduate short category of the 2009 Ivy League Film Festival. Her screenplay was titled "Tom, Dick and Harry." Hannah attends Emerson College.
(Robert) Conrad Cornelison (IAC 06-07, IAA 07-08) is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance at The Julliard School.
Booyeon Han (IAC 06) is a violinist and was named a 2009 Presidential Scholar in Academics.
Nicole Ducommun (IAC 06, IAA 06-07) is stationed in Southern California with the United States Navy working on sensitive electronic and information systems. She has also been cast in the first ever youth production of the full score of “RENT” by Jonathan Larson as one of the lead characters, Maureen. The show opened June-July 2009 in San Diego in the Lyceum Theatre.
Steven Johnson (IAA 07-09) was named a 2009 Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Bethany Jeffery (IAA 07-09) is attending Pace University in the fall 2009.
Corey Dundee (IAC 08-09) is attending Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music studying saxophone performance. Corey studies with Otis Murphy (IAC 90).