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November 8, 2023
Tacoma Opera’s recent production of Carmen may as well have been staged on the UW campus for all of the current and past students and faculty involved on stage, in the pit, and in a host of roles behind the scenes.
Credit for this proliferation of UW-connected personnel lies in no small part with the leadership of Limuel Forgey, Tacoma Opera’s general director and a doctoral voice student at the UW. Since his appointment at Tacoma Opera earlier this year, he has noticeably—and... Read more
November 2, 2023
University of Washington doctoral candidate Lorin Green, a flutist and arts community leader who studies with Donna Shin, is one of only five students from across the country to be selected to join the League of American Orchestras’ newly created Student Leadership Council. The student council, the first in the League’s 81-year history, is intended to help the New York City-based service organization integrate the voices of young people into its work and thereby support the growth of student... Read more
October 31, 2023
The digital publication I Care if You Listen reviewed recent performances at New York City’s Kaufman Music Center by Quince Ensemble, a vocal group featuring UW Voice faculty Carrie Henneman Shaw.
By JENNIFER JOLLEYfor I Care if You Listen
Kaufman Music Center inaugurated its new “Artist as Curator” series on Thursday, Oct. 26 with Quince Ensemble. Advertised as “... Read more
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
October 18, 2023
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
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
October 4, 2023
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