Kent State University’s Glauser School of Music held the second annual Roy Minoff Composition Competition in Spring 2024 with judging completed in July. Peter Fahey of Clonmel, Ireland, has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Roy Minoff Composition Competition.The goal of this competition is to support the creation of a significant new work that will receive its world premiere at Kent State by the Glauser School of Music faculty in the fall of 2025. The commissioned piece, scored for clarinet, viola and piano, will be between 15 and 30 minutes.The Roy Minoff Composition Competition i...

You go, Jocelyn Darci Trimmer! School of Theatre and Dance alumna Jocelyn Darci Trimmer has made her debut on the pink carpet. The recent grad has landed a role in the “Mean Girls” national tour as an ensemble member and the Regina George understudy. However, her journey started much earlier.Growing up in Jeffersonville, Ohio, Trimmer started dancing at the age of two. She spent hours watching her mother teach dance at her studio, Step-In-Time Dance Studio, and choreograph the musicals at the local high school. Trimmer discovered her love and talent for singing not long after. She played ...

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