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March 5, 2025
When people who knew him say that Glenn D. White was a “Renaissance individual,” they are remembering a brilliant and affable man whose careers variously included work as a physicist, sound engineer, inventor, university educator, wine purveyor, and pipe organ repairman.
The former School of Music faculty member was in a class all his own, a physicist passionate about music who taught acoustics, laboratory instrumentation, recording technology, and research methods at the School of Music from... Read more
March 4, 2025
Recent honors awarded to violist Melia Watras, head of the UW Strings program, recognize her distinguished contributions to the instrument as performer, composer, teacher, and leader. The Maurice W. Riley Award, granted annually by the American Viola Society (AVS), honors outstanding exemplars of the viola world. Watras was presented the award at the 2024 AVS Festival, held at the Colburn School in Los Angeles this past summer.
AVS also commissioned a work from Watras for viola ensemble. Her... Read more
February 26, 2025
By Lauren KirschmanUW News
Ted Poor doesn’t separate his work as a professional musician and his teaching responsibilities at the University of Washington.
At the UW, he’s the associate director of the School of Music and an associate professor of jazz studies. The rest of his calendar is filled with tours, performances and recording sessions. While the packed schedule can occasionally be difficult to navigate, Poor said his two worlds aren’t really disconnected.
“My work here at the UW and... Read more
February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
An ambitious Black History Month celebration project at the University of Washington School of Music convened faculty, students, and staff around pipe organs in six different Seattle locations in the creation of the Black Composers Project.
Created and led by Dr. Stephen Price, head of organ studies at the UW, the project culminated in a one-hour video featuring original music and adaptations of works by composers Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George; Scott Joplin; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor... Read more
February 14, 2025
In his 30 years at the School of Music, trumpeter Roy Cummings influenced the musical training of thousands of students, introducing them to the greats of the jazz art form and encouraging their professional and musical aspirations. He also was a cofounder of the School’s Jazz Studies Program, serving as its chair from 1979 to 1993.
Cummings’ career at UW began in 1970 when he became a trumpet instructor after earning music and music education degrees at UW, and continued with his longtime... Read more
February 6, 2025
In a recent interview with Bloomberg Law, School of Music adjunct faculty member Peter Nicolas weighs in on the impacts on songwriters of recent court rulings in favor of Spotify USA Inc. and its "bundling" pricing structure that drastically reduced royalty payment to artists on the streaming platform.
The ruling, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, opens the door for providers like Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to mimic Spotify’s royalty-slashing... Read more
January 23, 2025
From The Strad, Jan 29, 2024
Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim performs ‘Hertabuise’ by violist–composer Melia Watras, a work for violin and narrator, setting a poem by poet Herbert Woodward Martin who performs as the narrator.
‘Hertabuise is part of my continued work with poet and friend Herbert Woodward Martin,’ wrote Watras. ‘I asked Herb if he was interested in a new collaboration, this time with him reading to a single violin, played by Michael Jinsoo Lim. Among the writings... Read more
January 23, 2025
Doppelgänger Dances for violin solo was written in 2017 by composer Melia Watras. Her husband, violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, performs the work on the upcoming album Kinetic.
This video... Read more