Faculty and Staff

Barry Lieberman (Photo: Steve Korn).
School of Music bass instructor Barry Lieberman announces UW retirement  
December 2, 2019
Via Getty: "A group of young women in traditional costumes play Galician music with bagpipes, tambourines and drum in the historic center during the San Froilan festivities on October 6, 2019 in Lugo, Galicia, Spain." ( Xurxo Lobato/Getty Images)
Smithsonian Magazine: Scientists Show Humans May Share a ‘Musical Grammar’
November 26, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Professor Chadwick Allen presents Earthworks Rising, annual School of Music CarolFest, and more
November 25, 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
A new CD by violist Melia Watras, Schumann Resonances"
Textura: Review of Melia Watras, Schumann Resonances
October 21, 2019
Organ Professor Carole Terry (Photo: Steve Korn)
Exit Interview: Organ Professor Carole Terry
October 16, 2019
Rachel Lee Priday, violin
New Faculty Welcomed in 2019-20
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
Lecture-recital image: Bach cello suites
Bach cello suites examined in upcoming lecture-recitals by faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir 
October 9, 2019
Ted Poor
Live from Here: “Be Present Every Day,” Q and A with Ted Poor
October 5, 2019
Steven Demorest
Passages: Steven M. Demorest, former UW Music Ed Professor
September 25, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Visit Arts Buzz at Dawg Daze, buy tickets to the Burke Opening Weekend, and more!
September 20, 2019
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday (Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
The Violin Channel: Violinist Rachel Lee Priday Appointed to University of Washington Teaching Faculty
September 11, 2019
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday (Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
Musical America Worldwide: Violinist Rachel Lee Priday appointed to UW School of Music Faculty
September 11, 2019
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday, UW assistant professor
Broadway World: Violinist Rachel Lee Priday Appointed To The Faculty Of The University Of Washington School Of Music
September 11, 2019
Invisible Music Score
Greenberg Award recording of JoAnn Taricani to be issued by Centaur Records 
September 3, 2019
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday (Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday joins University of Washington School of Music Faculty
August 29, 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: Schumann Resonances
American Record Guide: The Newest Music—Melia Watras: Schumann Resonances
August 21, 2019
Melia Watras, viola
Broadway World: Watras, Lim Start New Year with New Label, CD  
August 21, 2019
Melia Watras: Schumann Resonances
Rafael’s Music Notes: Melia Watras: Schumann Resonances  
August 21, 2019
Melia Watras: Schumann Resonances
An Earful:  Review of Melia Watras: Schumann Resonances 
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
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
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
Richard Karpen's CD "Nam Mai/Strandlines"
New Recordings by UW Music Faculty
April 12, 2019
glasses on sheet music (photo: Dayne Topkin)
Faculty Notes: Spring 2019
April 10, 2019
Wind Ensemble on the Great Wall of China 2019
UW Office of Global Affairs: Building bridges with music
April 10, 2019
Invisible Music Score
Performing Lyric Cultures: Visible and Invisible explores "invisible music"
April 10, 2019
Building bridges with music
April 9, 2019
Professors Joël-François Durand (right) and Larry Starr peruse the score of Durand's new commission for Seattle Symphony (Photo: Joanne DePue).
Q and A: Unpacking Joël-François Durand's new work Tropes de : Bussy 
April 5, 2019
Violist Melia Watras (Photo Michelle Smith-Lewis).
Faculty Profile: Violist Melia Watras on Schumann Resonances and her Folk Style Project
April 3, 2019