FROM THE DIRECTOR
Autumn Quarter at the School of Music contains both the beginning of a new academic year and the closing of a calendar year, and both are cause for thanks and reflection. In this issue of Quarter Notes, meet our new faculty and learn about some return visits by School of Music alumni as well as other recent news from our community. In this season of gratitude, we are immensely grateful to you—the many friends of the School of Music whose care and generosity makes so much possible here. Your contributions to the School in the past year have helped our students advance their educational goals, provided resources to our faculty to enhance their teaching and research, and supported specific and general activities and opportunities across our degree programs. You are an essential part of our successes and achievements. Thank you very much for your continued support!
—Joël-François Durand, Acting Director, School of Music
The School of Music welcomes new faculty in Composition, Instrumental Performance, Music Education, and Music Theory in 2022-23.
Jeffrey Bowen, Composition
Alumnus Jeffrey Bowen (’15 DMA, Composition; ’12 MM, Composition) returns to the School of Music as a lecturer in the Composition Program. Bowen is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been performed… Read more
Longtime habitués of the Music Building will notice some familiar faces at the School of Music in 2022-23 with the return of several School of Music alumni as instructors, guest artists, and visiting scholars.
New faculty joining the School of Music in Autumn 2022 include alumni from several degree programs: Jeffrey Bowen ('15 DMA, Composition) in Composition, Anita Kumar ('22 PhD, Music Ed) in Music Education, Luis Rivera ('22 MA, Music Theory) in Music Theory, and Andrew Romanick ('08 DMA,… Read more
School of Music students and alumni report recent academic appointments, performances, career milestones, and other notable achievements.
Tess Altiveros (’10 MM, Voice) is busy this season with roles and engagements nationwide. She sings Soldier in The Falling and the Rising with Arizona Opera, Intermountain Opera and Opera Memphis; Giannetta in Elixir with Seattle Opera; Nana/Wajma in the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns at Seattle Opera.… Read more
Publications, recordings, premieres, research highlights, and other news from the School of Music faculty.
Joël-François Durand, Composition
His work for clarinet and violin, La mesure de l'ange (2022), was recorded in Vienna, Austria in September 2022 by Austro-Italian violinist Olivia De Prato (known for her work with the Mivos Quartet) and Hungarian clarinetist Szilard Benes (Schallfeld Ensemble). The piece was written for the 70th birthday of Durand’s UW faculty… Read more
School of Music faculty member Frederick Reece received a First Book Manuscript Award as part of his recruitment to the University of Washington as an assistant professor in the Music History program. Reece's permanent appointment was effective in Autumn 2021, and prior to that, he served a year as visiting lecturer in the program.
Reece completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University with his dissertation “Ringing False: Music Analysis, Forgery, and the Technologies of Truth.” He has… Read more