NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR
As we enter the 2021-22 academic year, we have begun to shift back to the modes of learning and public performance that we took for granted until March 2020: meeting courses in classrooms, seeing students in person, and inviting audiences back into our concert halls. Parts of this have been very familiar and highly anticipated, and parts of this return have been very new, such as the care we now take to keep our performers and audiences as safe as possible.
The School of Music welcomes new faculty to its Music History, Music Education, and Instrumental Performance programs in the 2021-22 academic year.
Dr. Frederick Reece joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the Music History program. Dr. Reece has established the foundations of his work with several studies on issues of authorship and authenticity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music. His forthcoming monograph, Forgery in Musical Composition:… Read more
The University of Washington Symphony Orchestra (David Rahbee, director) has been awarded the American Prize in Orchestral Performance, 2021, in the college university division (smaller program).
The orchestra was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, administered by Hat City Music Theater in Danbury, Connecticut, … Read more
School of Music students and alumni report academic appointments, performances, career milestones and other notable achievements.
Sarah J. Bartolome (’10 PhD, Music Education), an Associate Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University, recently contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book General Music: Dimensions of Practice (Abril & Gault, Oxford University Press) and co-authored an article, “An Ethnography of an Individual Music… Read more
Honors, accolades, research highlights and other news from the School of Music faculty.
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music Education, Ethnomusicology
The Music Education chair continues her studies into the recordings of Alan Lomax in a new project she has been conducting with Music Ed graduate student Clayton Dahm. Working with the recordings of Alan Lomax that are available on his Global Jukebox of recordings from across the world’s musical cultures, the new project is a program of music… Read more
School of Music Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell was honored recently by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which presented her with one of its top awards at its recent annual international meeting. Professor Campbell was presented with an Honorary Membership at the Society’s Oct. 30 virtual meeting.
“It’s one of the very few such awards in the field, so I am pleased, if even a bit surprised to receive it,” Campbell says. “I’m honored to be joining honored members like Bruno Nettl, Kay… Read more