Karen Parks ’83 was awarded the Carl F. Kohrt Distinguished Alumni Award on February 11, 2023 at the annual Bell Tower Ball. The award was presented in recognition of significant professional or personal accomplishments and in gratitude for continued loyalty to Furman University.
Click here to watch the Bell Tower Ball video honoring Karen Parks.
Furman University music alumni Mary Wannamaker Huff ’99 and Mary-Mitchell Campbell ’96 played a key role in a special Easter performance by Broadway singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth on NBC’s “TODAY.” Read more
David Kelley ’94 was announced as the First Prize winner of the 2023 Peter & Lois Fyfe Choral Composition Contest for his composition “Pentecost.” The Fyfe Award is supported by members of the Sewanee Church Music Conference, and Dr. Kelley’s piece will be performed at the 2023 Conference, July 10-16.
Emma Mehigan ’22 (current graduate student in music theory at the University of Alabama), presented “Form in C.P.E. Bach’s “Prussian” and “Württemberg” Piano Sonatas” to the South Central Society for Music Theory. The presentation grew out of her senior project for her BM in music theory at Furman.