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Lorraine Sakata
Field recordings by former UW Music professor Lorraine Sakata inducted into Library of Congress Recording Registry

March 30, 2020

UW Music scholarship students present a recital on Feb. 12
School of Music cancels all remaining public events in 2019-20

March 23, 2020

Students at work in the UW Music Library (1950s).
Music Library closed until further notice

March 16, 2020

David Alexander Rahbee.
Whole U Faculty Friday: David Alexander Rahbee

February 11, 2020

Christina Sunardi
Christina Sunardi Named Chair of UW Dance 

February 11, 2020

Pacific Northwest Ballet and the School of Music are collaborating on a symposium exploring the ballet "Giselle" (Photo: courtesy Pacific Northwest Ballet).
April Symposium Re-envisions Giselle

February 11, 2020

Music Ed alumnus Kevin Clayton (left) was recently named Washington State Teacher of the Year by the Washington Music Educators Association (Photo: Pasco School District).
Winter 2020 Student and Alumni Notes

January 31, 2020

Music Ed graduate students involved in the 20th year of Music Alive! in the Yakima Valley.
Still Alive and Well: Music Alive! Turns 20

January 29, 2020

George Garzone performs with UW Music faculty in March and April.
UW Music in the Community: Upcoming Performances and Premieres 

January 24, 2020

David Alexander Rahbee, director of orchestral activities
Crosscut: ‘No One Can Take Your Soul or Ideas’

January 23, 2020

Former School of Music jazz instructor Roy Cummings
 Faculty: Roy Cummings Remembered

January 17, 2020

Mindful travel, Silicon Valley’s evolution, Schumann on viola, Seattle history — UW-authored books, music for the Husky on your list

December 19, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: wrap up the year at the Burke Museum and Henry Art Gallery and see what’s coming up in 2020

December 12, 2019

Faculty Improv band Indigo Mist (Photo: courtesy Seattle Channel)
Seattle Channel: The mind-expanding music of Seattle's Indigo Mist

December 12, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Professor Chadwick Allen presents Earthworks Rising, annual School of Music CarolFest, and more

November 25, 2019

Singer bathed in purple light
Scientific American: What Makes a Song? It’s the Same Recipe in Every Culture

November 21, 2019

Violinist Rachel Lee Priday (Photo: Sammi Bushman, UW Daily)
UW Daily: Virtuoso violinist Rachel Lee Priday joins the UW School of Music

November 13, 2019

Gabriel Kahane appears at the Meany Center in November 2019.
UW Music artists featured in upcoming Meany Center performances

November 12, 2019

Mallets from Harry Partch Instrument collection
Festival of Historical Experimental Music for Percussion Nov. 19-22

October 29, 2019

Taro Kobayashi (BM guitar, '14) has entered St Hugh's College, Oxford, to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Music.
Fall 2019 Student and Alumni Notes

October 16, 2019

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
Fall 2019 Faculty and Staff Notes

October 16, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Visit the Burke Museum, attend a Sankai Juku performance, and more.

October 10, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: New Burke Opening, Marianne Stecher lectures for Scandinavian 30, Composite Gestures closing soon, and more

October 3, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Visit Arts Buzz at Dawg Daze, buy tickets to the Burke Opening Weekend, and more!

September 20, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Hugo House documentary, exhibition opening at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, concert in the library, and more!

September 12, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup; William Morris and the Kelmscott Press Exhibition, Closing soon – Cecilia Vicuña’s About to Happen, and more

August 29, 2019

Melia Watras, viola
Broadway World: Watras, Lim Start New Year with New Label, CD  

August 21, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Creating Alternative Worlds, Bulrusher, Final Week of James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity and more!

August 16, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: writing workshop, exhibition opening, festival:festival, and more

July 16, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Last week to see MFA + MDes exhibition at the Henry, opening of Beverly Semmes, concert at the library, and more

June 18, 2019

Violinist and UW Music alumna Emilie Choi Photo: Alice Ouyang.
Student and Alumni Notes: Summer 2019

June 7, 2019

Music Ed graduate students Chris Mena and Skúli Gestsson (Photo: Joanne DePue)
Songwriting win for Music Ed grad students

June 7, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: A Site Responsive Exhibition, #HEREproject, Sound and Images, Body Awareness, Strange Coupling 2019 Exhibition Reception, Daniel Alexander Jones reading, and more!

June 6, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: You Are Not Invited, world premier of ‘Lynch: A History’ at SIFF, last week to see ‘Nina Simone: Four Women’, Edgar Arceneaux’s Library of Black Lies, and ‘The Learned Ladies’, and more!

May 30, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: Eleventh Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFest XI), Graduation Exhibitions, The Learned Ladies, and more!

May 23, 2019

5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)

May 18, 2019

Music/DXARTS postdoc Marcin Pączkowski prepares JACK Quartet violinist Austin Wulliman for an EEG session
I Care If You Listen:  Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen on recent work with the JACK Quartet

May 15, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: newly launched ARTSUW website, JACK Quartet performance, Heisenberg, Print Sale, Screening at LANGSTON, MFA Dance Concert, and more!

May 15, 2019

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
Chicago Reader: Icelandic cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs music that reflects nature and exile

May 10, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: Peruvian Textiles, This Moment, Innovation the Nordic Way, International Experimental Music Ensemble, MFA Concert, and more!

May 8, 2019

Allen Otte (left) and John Lane of The Innocents. (Kin Lam Lam)
The Seattle Times: These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music focusing on wrongfully convicted prisoners

May 3, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019

April 30, 2019

UW Vocal Opera Theatre (photo: Steve Korn)
The Seattle Times: Think opera is just for hoity-toity rich people? Not so! Here’s a beginner’s guide to this grand art form.

April 29, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Philip Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox, George Rodriguez’s Exhibition Opening at MadArt, West Coast Premiere of “Nina Simone: Four Women”, and more!

April 24, 2019

Marcin Pączkowski - photo: Steve Korn
The Seattle Times: New experiences shape the music of Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence

April 19, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Romeo and Jules, Seattle Symphony: Mozart Symphony No. 40, Performing with the Brain, and more!

April 17, 2019

Guitarist David Russell works with UW guitar student Max Schaeffer (Photo: Dean Ritz).
Spring 2019 Student and Alumni Update

April 12, 2019

Invisible Music Score
Performing Lyric Cultures: Visible and Invisible explores "invisible music"

April 10, 2019

Building bridges with music

April 9, 2019

A big moment for CSO piccolo whiz, Jennifer Gunn

March 4, 2019

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