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NIU Alumna Mia Gormandy Earns Prestigious Fellowship for Steelpan

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PictureNorthern Illinois University (NIU) alumna Mia Gormandy has been named as the 2014 recipient of the Howard Mayor Brown Fellowship. The award is given to promising minority graduate students pursuing a doctoral degree in music, according to the press release.
Gormandy earned both a Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music as a performance major with emphasis on Steelpan at NIU before beginning her studies at Florida State University in the Masters of Musicology program. She’s currently in her pursuit of a doctorate in musicology.

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