News: Honors and Awards

Faculty/staff honors: Holocaust commemoration, new compositions, a top local album of 2020

February 9, 2021

Violinist Renee Zhang
Violin Concerto Competition winners named

January 15, 2021

The best Seattle albums of 2020: Critics choose the top releases of the year

December 26, 2020

Washington state musicians produced some great albums in 2020 — here are the top ones, as chosen by critics

December 26, 2020

Max Shaffer
Autumn 2020 Student and Alumni Notes

December 2, 2020

Winners: CONDUCTORS (orchestra), 2019-20

August 26, 2020

Faculty/staff honors: Distinguished contributions to Asian studies, social equity award, Swedish physical geography honor, new Cascade Public Media director

May 6, 2020

Violinist Renee Zhang
Violinist Renee Zhang named UW President's Medalist for 2018-19

February 18, 2020

Christina Sunardi
Christina Sunardi Named Chair of UW Dance 

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 alumnus Kevin Clayton (center) was recently named Washington State Teacher of the Year by the Washington Music Educators Association (Photo: Pasco School District).
UW Music faculty, alumnus among 2020 Washington Music Education Association honorees 

December 2, 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

“American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music,” by Marisol Berríos-Miranda, Shannon Dudley and Michelle Habell-Pallán
American Sabor wins Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence

October 10, 2019

Graduate wind conducting student Shayna Stahl (Photo: courtesy Shayna Stahl).
American Prize for conducting alumna Shayna Stahl

September 29, 2019

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

June 7, 2019

UW Music Grand Finale 2019
Congratulations, UW School of Music Class of 2019!

June 6, 2019

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

April 12, 2019

glasses on sheet music (photo: Dayne Topkin)
Faculty Notes: Spring 2019

April 10, 2019

Awards, residencies, for faculty composer Huck Hodge

January 31, 2019

Professor with student.
A Happy 100th: UW Music celebrates a life in music

January 15, 2019

Cuong Vu: Change in the Air CD cover
New Publications and Recordings: Winter 2019

January 15, 2019

Music Ed alumnus Matt Brown
Regional Teacher of the Year Awards for UW Music alumni Matt Brown, Ethan Chessain

January 15, 2019

Patricia Campbell headshot Photo: Steve Korn
UW Music's Pat Campbell joins Association for Cultural Equity Board

January 15, 2019

Stuart MacDonald performs with the UW Big Band
Grant awards for Jazz Studies Alums Stuart MacDonald, Levi Gillis

November 30, 2018

Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting at the Asheville, N.C., Percussion Festival, 2018 (Photo: Jesse Kit).
Fall 2018 Faculty Notes

October 15, 2018

Graduate wind conducting student Shayna Stahl (Photo: courtesy Shayna Stahl).
UW Music students, alumni honored with 2017-18 American Prize wins

October 12, 2018

Featured Twirler Krissy Terwilliger
Featured 2018 UW Music Grad: Kristina Terwilliger

June 15, 2018

UW flute students with Prof. Donna Shin (far right).
Student and Alumni Notes: Summer 2018

May 21, 2018

Carole Terry Festival schedule
Carole Terry Symposium Celebrates Longtime UW Organ Professor  

May 9, 2018

Huck Hodge, UW Music
UW Perspectives: Inspired by Ives

April 23, 2018

Robin McCabe with UW Music alum Zeze Xue
Faculty News: Spring 2018

March 30, 2018

A prestigious award brings UW composer Huck Hodge time to reflect, write

March 9, 2018

JoAnn Taricani, professor of Music History
Noah Greenberg Award for Music History faculty JoAnn Taricani

February 15, 2018

Faculty composer Huck Hodge (Photo: Dennis R. Wise).
Faculty composer Huck Hodge awarded Charles Ives Living 

January 29, 2018

Brendan McGovern
Top Honors for Four Undergrads

June 7, 2017