• Music students join alum in claiming honors at international competition

    Bear playing a tubaCompeting at the Leonard Falcone International Tuba-Euphonium Competition, arguably the top annual amateur competition for the two instruments, two Baylor students and one recent graduate came away with high honors.

    In a field comprised of tubists of all ages, two students from Baylor’s School of Music — graduate student Clay Garrett and senior Kevin Butler — were among the event’s 10 semifinalists, and Garrett went on to claim third place overall in an event usually dominated by doctoral music students.

    Recent graduate Matt Shipes, BME ’08, now a graduate student at the University of Arkansas, was a semifinalist in the euphonium competition. In total, that means 15% of the semifinalists (and 17% of the medalists) at this international competition were Baylor Bears!

    Sic ’em, Baylor School of Music students!