Jaden Teague-Núñez, a musician and pannist born in Panama City, Panama, is beginning to receive a growing number of honors and recognition. Early in 2024, the young pannist became the first to win the Crain-Mailing Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, making history.

His father, Liam Teague, a Trinidadian professor of music and director of steelpan studies at Northern Illinois University, performed Teague-Nunez’s difficult steelpan solo and orchestra piece, A Visit to Hell, as part of his historic triumph. Dr. Jamie Whitmarsh organized it.