Two Kansas University music graduates were recently awarded leadership positions within national associations.

Each of the women will begin her term of office July 1. Martha Randall was named president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and Lynn Brinckmeyer became president of the National Association for Music Education.

Randall, a soprano, currently teaches voice and vocal pedagogy at the University of Maryland in College Park. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, the Constitution Hall and the Phillips Gallery, and she has performed with the National Symphony, Washington Bach Consort and the Kansas City Philharmonic.

Lynn Brinckmeyer is currently assistant professor of music and director of choral music education at Texas State University. She has taught elementary music and middle school choir in New Mexico, and higher education music education in the Pacific Northwest.