Seven-year-old violinist Jeffrey Kuan won a statewide audition for the Sylvia and Jacob Handler Violin Masterclass music workshop held in early March by concert artist Todd Phillips. He was one of eight performing students for the master class hosted by the JCC Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly.

Sharif Labban switched from violin to viola in 2003, and now at age 11 is the principal violist for the Pro Arte Orchestra, one of three Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey orchestras.

At age 7, Zachery Klopman is the youngest to earn the role of concertmaster with the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra, Preparatory Symphony Orchestra. He debuted in this role in January 2004.

Four years ago Katie Rinderknecht started on Day 1 of a 100-Day Club practice program at the Cedar Rapids Symphony School of Music that Paul founded in Iowa. She hasn't missed a day since. Her goal is to practice every day for five years. Now a student at the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, this violinist is preparing for a Preucil School String Orchestra trip to China in 2005.

While a student of Paul's at the University of Northern Iowa Suzuki School Christopher Vuk, a 16-year-old high school graduate, recorded his first full-length CD.

Now living in Missouri, Libby Quetsch has twice competed in state hoe-down competitions, each time winning an award. In Spring 2004 she gave her Book Four graduation recital.