Music Dragon Stories

Jennifer Weir, executive director and founder of TaikoArts Midwest, will be joining the Homecoming festivities at MSUM! Founding TaikoArts has helped Jennifer discover new parts of herself and redefine what it means to be an Asian American Woman in the arts.

Jennifer Weir, executive director and founder of TaikoArts Midwest, will be joining the Homecoming festivities at MSUM! Founding TaikoArts has helped Jennifer discover new parts of herself and redefine what it means to be an Asian American Woman in the arts.

Emma Dettmann's involvement in the MSUM music department has given her the nickname "Heart of the Center for the Arts" for good reason.

Sierra is an MSUM senior majoring in commercial music and entertainment industries and technology. She can play the euphonium, bassoon, tenor sax, violin, guitar, trumpet, French horn, clarinet, keyboard, string bass and more. On her way to becoming a film composer, Sierra is a multi-talented performer who continually embraces new challenges in the realm of music.

Brandon Van Den Eykel, a Curriculum and Instruction graduate student at MSUM, will be an instructor for this summer's OAKE-certified Kodály program after feeling the impact of the program on his own career.

Meet Dayna Del Val, a proud Dragon with strong ties to MSUM and a passion for the arts in our community. The 1995 theatre graduate is the President & CEO of The Arts Partnership and has served on the MSUM Foundation board of directors since June 2020.

To This We’ve Come, an operatic production in three Acts will be performed live Sunday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Gaede Stage at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Diane Miller graduated from MSUM in 2009 with a degree in music. Since then, she has been immersed in the music industry. Diane is now the host of The Local Show on The Current.

Last week, MSUM hosted Minnesota’s Senate Capital Investment Committee, whose members were on campus to learn more about our planned renovation of Weld Hall.

Antone Leustek ’02 (music education) has a unique opportunity in his field of music education. His choir students in Italy went viral.

MSUM alumni serve where they’re called—across the globe and in their own backyards.