Community Impact

Professor Bela Siki
Seattle Times: Passages: Professor Emeritus Bela Siki
November 2, 2020
Bela Siki, internationally renowned UW emeritus faculty pianist, dies at 97
October 30, 2020
Choral Journal cover
Choral Journal  explores "Sounds of Blackness"
October 2, 2020
Outgoing School of Music director Richard Karpen.
  Exit Interview: Richard Karpen, School of Music director
June 26, 2020
Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir
Summer 2020 Faculty Notes
June 25, 2020
Music Ed PhD candidate Juliana Cantarelli Vita
Summer 2020 Student and Alumni Notes
June 25, 2020
Collage of book covers
Summer Reading: Recommended reading on diversity, equity, and inclusion from UW Music Education
June 25, 2020
Sarah Kolat has been making masks during the COVID 19 pandemic (Photo: Courtesy Sarah Kolat).
The Masks that Bind
May 17, 2020
Lorraine Sakata
Field recordings by former UW Music professor Lorraine Sakata inducted into Library of Congress Recording Registry
March 30, 2020
Violin headstock
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