The Music Department is thrilled to announce the hiring of Dr. Tiffany Lu to conduct the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra and to teach in the department. Dr. Lu earned her doctorate at the University of Maryland in 2019 and comes to Sewanee with extensive professional conducting experience, and has won praise for groundbreaking and creative programming. "This is a tremendous time to be entrusted with leadership. It is a privilege to be able to explore the acts of building trust and growing a community through the act of communal music-making,” she says.