NIU Alumna Mia Gormandy Earns Prestigious Fellowship for Steelpan

Northern 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.