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Music Education students, faculty, and alumni at the 2020 Washington Music Educators Association conference (Photo: courtesy Patricia Campbell). -
Music Ed PhD candidate Juliana Cantarelli Vita (Photo courtesy UW Music Education).
Honors, conferences, and recent publications from School of Music students and alumni.
Music Education faculty and a healthy representation of undergraduate and graduate students gathered at the WMEA 2020 conference in Yakima on February 13-16. Former Huskies came in from their school-teaching positions across the state of Washington, from Seattle to Spokane, and from the Canadian border to the Columbia River. School of Music faculty participants at the conference included Patricia Campbell, Christopher Roberts, Kevin Weingarten, Giselle Wyers, and Geoffrey Boers. Recognition at the General Assembly went to Kevin Clayton (’98 Music Ed) as the 2020 secondary school teacher of the year and to Professor Campbell for the 2020 higher education award.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita (PhD, Music Education) was recently awarded the 2020 Elizabeth May (Slater) Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Education Section. Her research, ”Childhood, Repatriation, and Sustainability: A 5th-Grade School Music Experience in North America,” examines the relevance of repatriation and repatriated recordings of children’s musical cultures to school music. Her research extends also to the role of women musicians in not only sustaining music through the transmission of traditions, but also pressing into newly expressive forms that communicate messages of activism through a blend of music, poetry, dance, and theater.
Students and alumni of the UW Ethnomusicology program report recent successes and publications. Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Claire Anderson received the 2020 Borealis Prize for the outstanding paper in literary and cultural studies at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies. Recent publications of Ethnomusicology PhD alumni include Will Coppola's research on musical humility published in Music Education Research, and Karen Howard's article on knowledge practices in the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing.
Elise Kim (BM flute) has been selected as winner of the 2020 National Flute Association Masterclass Competition. Due to the COVID-19 cancellation of the 2020 convention, she will perform at the 2021 National Flute Association convention in Washington, D.C. in August 2021. Last summer, she was the concerto competition winner and soloist at the 2019 Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. This summer, she was selected to perform at the 2020 Pierre Monteux Summer Festival Orchestra, but it was cancelled due to COVID-19. Elise Kim was a UW Concerto Competition winner in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Grace Jun (BM flute) - will be a featured performer at the ARIA International Summer Academy this summer. Normally in residence in Massachusetts, ARIA has transferred their program offerings to an online format for Summer 2020.