UNCG student Peggy Marshall awarded Mr. Holland’s Opus Grant
Peggy Marshall, a second-year MME student at UNCG, whose full-time job is as orchestra director at St. Paul’s Middle School in Robeson County, NC where she teaches 108 orchestra students in a small, rural town south of Fayetteville, NC. She applied for and was recently awarded a grant from Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation which will buy 7 violins, 5 […]
SMTD mourns the loss of Alumna Lisa Foerster & family
We were tremendously saddened to learn of the untimely passing of recent alum, Dr. Lisa Foerster. Lisa, her children: Emma and Thomas Hamel; and her sister: Lorraine Alstererg all died as the result of an automobile accident on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Lisa completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UNCG in 2012. She […]