School of Music

Pursue Your Passion

Team: Student

  • Noah Smith
    November 2, 2020 by

    Noah Smith is a Junior music education major, from Evansville, IN. “I began playing music at a young age, experimenting with the harmonica, piano, recorder, and a small drum pad. I was originally inspired to do music through listening to it all the time because of my father. He would be listening to something all […]

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  • Madison Relue
    November 2, 2020 by

    Madison Relue is from Fishers, Indiana. She is in her senior year as a Choral and General Music Education Major. “Voice is my primary instrument. I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember. I was involved in choir and theatre from a very young age. “I’ve made so many memories in my short […]

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  • Jacob Fernandez
    November 2, 2020 by

    Jacob Fernandez is from Oklahoma City and is in his second year of the Artist Diploma program for bassoon performance. “I’ve studied bassoon for thirteen years. I decided to play bassoon in seventh grade when I was told to I couldn’t play percussion. I kept playing bassoon because to my teacher at the time, Carl […]

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  • Hayden Giesseman
    October 2, 2020 by

    Hayden Giesseman is a second year Doctor of Arts clarinetist. “One of my favorite memories of Ball State so far was being in the pit orchestra last Fall for the Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance‘s A Little Night Music. I had such a fun time being a part of that production as it […]

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  • Ceven Webb
    September 24, 2020 by

    Ceven Webb is a senior music education major. “It’s so hard to pick a favoriteBall State memory. Joining the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and getting to traverse college as a first-generation student with the support of 70 brothers has to be one of the best memories I have, and one of the reasons I’ve managed […]

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  • Alex Karker
    September 14, 2020 by

    Alex Karker is a junior music performance major from Houston, Texas. “I chose Ball State over other schools because it has amazing string faculty and performance spaces. I love Sursa Hall because of how it is structured and allows string instruments to really sing. I also like how campus is not too big and not […]

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  • Anna Lorenzen
    September 14, 2020 by

    Anna Lorenzen is a Master of Music hornist from York, Pennsylvania “I chose Ball State for my master’s because of the opportunities the school was able to offer and how much they cared about me and my success! I have been playing horn since the 4th grade, so that’s about 13 years now. When I […]

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  • Noah Connolly
    June 1, 2020 by

    Noah Connolly is a computer science and oboe performance double major from Greentown, Indiana, pictured here with oboe professor Lisa Kozenko. “I chose to attend Ball State for several reasons. I’ve always had a close connection to the University because both my dad and older brother went here. Then after having a lesson with Dr. […]

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  • Wolff Roos
    May 11, 2020 by

    Wolff Roos is a senior from Indianapolis pursing a degree in organ performance with secondary studies in jazz. “The first time I ever heard a pipe organ was at the age of 3. My father was a priest at an Episcopal church in Vincennes, IN. We lived in the parish house at the time that […]

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  • Julianna Shamel
    May 4, 2020 by

    Julianna Shamel is a first year masters student in Vocal Performance, from Highland IN. This past spring, Julianna was supposed to perform the role of Cendrillon in BSOT’s production of Massenet’s Cendrillon. Due to the unforeseen circumstance with COVID-19, the show has been postponed.  “It is such a beautiful work and I have been very […]

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