Following her recent win at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and her Carnegie Hall debut, we interviewed Natalie Lewis about her competition experiences, her burgeoning opera career and her undergraduate time here at UMass.

Lisa (Cavanaugh) Linde '92 was recently inducted into the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) Hall of Fame. Linde has been the instrumental music director at Newton South High School since 1998. Her selection to the MICCA Hall of Fame was based in part on her advocacy for gender equality in jazz, and her work as the founder of the nonprofit, jazzhers, an organization committed to helping young musicians who identify as female and nonbinary to become connected to and feel empowered within the jazz community.