Music

SingerUniverse.com named Elon alumnus Frank Hurd the October "Best Vocalist of the Month" with his song, "By Your Side." The track is from Frank's recently released EP "Pressed for Time," which charted at #11 on the Singer/Songwriter genre of iTunes the week of its debut.

Thomas Erdmann, professor of music, had three 6,000-word articles featured on the front cover of the November/December 2012 issue of Saxophone Journal.

Brad Linde '01, a music major and jazz studies minor while at Elon, was honored Sept. 14 at the 27th-annual Washington, D.C., Mayor's Arts Awards with an Outstanding Emerging Artist Award.

Music technology alumnus Frank Hurd '12 has released his debut solo EP "Pressed for Time" on iTunes this week and it climbed to #11 on the iTunes Bestseller list for top singer/songwriter albums in one day.

Omri Shimron, associate professor of music, opened Randolph College's Guest Artist Series for the 2012-2013 season, with a performance of Frederic Rzewki's "36 Variations on The People United Will Never Be Defeated!".

Jacob Danieley '10 produced a new LP titled "Telling The Story" for the Sneed Family, due to be released this Christmas. Jacob also engineered and performed on many of the tracks.

Professor of Music Thomas Erdmann had his article, Thinking Forward And Staying True: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, published in the October 2012 issue of the International Trumpet Guild Journal.