This morning, Arianna received the exciting news that she has been elected to join the national music honor society known as Pi Kappa Lambda. She is one of only seventeen undergraduate and graduate students to receive this prestigious honor this year, and she will be inducted to Eastman’s Beta Pi chapter on May 16, 2017.

According to Pi Kappa Lambda‘s website, their mission is:

“The purpose of this Society isto provide an organization dedicated to the furtherance of music in education and education in music in colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, which offer music degree programs in one or more fields.

The primary objective of the Society is the recognition and encouragement of the highest level of musical achievement and academic scholarship.

The Society is convinced that recognizing and honoring persons who have enhanced their talents by serious, diligent, and intelligent study will stimulate others to do the same.”