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Quince Ensemble (Photo: Karjaka).
October 30, 2023
The New York Times reviewed favorably recent NYC performances by vocal ensemble Quince, featuring University of Washington Voice faculty Carrie Shaw. “The Approach,” the piece by composer Paul Pinto referenced in the review, received its world premiere in Fall 2022 at Meany Theater in a Quince recital presented by the School of Music.  ... Read more
UW Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Mark Stone/UW Photography)
October 12, 2023
The UW’s director of Orchestral Activities racks up another American Prize win with a recent first-place showing.  David Alexander Rahbee, senior artist-in-residence and director of the UW Symphony, has been awarded a 2023 American Prize for innovative programming developed for the UW Symphony Orchestra during the 2020-21 season. Rahbee and the UW Symphony Orchestra placed first in the collegiate division for Orchestral Programming, winning the Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award. Second and... Read more
John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington
October 11, 2023
By Julia ParkUW Faculty Staff Insider For the more than 1,500 new faculty members joining the University of Washington this fall, adjusting to a brand-new community of colleagues and students may be daunting. But for four new American Indian and Alaska Native hires, many of those foundations have already been laid.     John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish, German, Chicano) said that he first began visiting campus around 2013 at the invitation of professors in the School of Music... Read more
Chris Leuba, former French horn professor
October 2, 2023
Obituary by Roger Kaza  Julian Christopher Leuba, 90, University of Washington French horn faculty from 1967 to 1979, passed away on December 31, 2019. An icon in the horn world, Chris held several leading orchestral positions before joining the UW, including the principal horn positions with the Chicago Symphony, the Minneapolis Symphony (now Minnesota Orchestra), Philharmonia Hungarica, the Aspen Festival, and the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. Chris’s rigorous regimen for his... Read more
Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago
September 27, 2023
Jennifer Iverson, Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, presents “Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value,” on Friday, Oct. 6 in the first talk of the School of Music's 2023 THEME lecture series. THEME, an annual colloquium of UW faculty and students of Theory, History, Ethnomusicology, and Music Education, is held on select Friday afternoons during Autumn Quarter.    All talks are at 4:30 p.m in the School of Music Fishbowl... Read more
Choral conductor Abe Kaplan
September 16, 2023
Read complete obituary in the Seattle Times Abraham Kaplan, affectionately known to most of his family and friends as "Kappy," passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by loved ones in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the 6th of September, 2023. Born in Israel before the founding of the country, he followed in the professional footsteps of his father, Shlomo... Read more

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