Fall 2015 Quarter Notes

The 2015-16 academic year is in full swing at the School of Music, with scholarly research and performance activities always in the forefront. In this issue of Quarter Notes you will read about ways in which our faculty and students are creating great music on the University campus and beyond, meet our newest faculty members, and learn more about the reverberating impacts of the collaborative partnership between the School of Music and resident ensemble Pacific MusicWorks.

UW faculty composers featured in Oct. 23 Seattle Symphony [UNTITLED] performance

UW Composers 2015-16
World premieres by faculty composers Richard Karpen, Joël-François Durand, and Huck Hodge are the focus of Seattle Symphony’s October 23 [UNTITLED] performance, the first of three concerts this season in the orchestra’s late-night new music series. The pieces, commissioned by Seattle Music Director Ludovic Morlot, will be performed by a dressed-down coterie of Seattle Symphony players in the Grand Lobby of the Symphony’s downtown Seattle home. Works on the program—Karpen’s Program Music… Read more

UW Music and Pacific MusicWorks: Partnership intensifies in 2015-16

UW music students perform in Semele.
As the artistic partnership between the School of Music and Seattle production company Pacific MusicWorks enters its third academic year, PMW’s Grammy winning artistic director, Stephen Stubbs, finds himself ever more engaged and immersed in the life of the school where he earned an undergraduate degree in composition in 1975 and now serves as senior artist-in-residence. Initial partnership activities at the UW focused primarily on full-scale professional opera productions co-presented by UW… Read more

New faculty welcomed for 2015-16

Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir
The School of Music welcomes new faculty for the 2015-16 academic year, with new appointments in Strings, Instrumental Performance, Music Education, Jazz Studies, and more. Tekla Cunningham, Baroque ViolinStrings program Tekla Cunningham joins the UW School of Music strings faculty in Fall 2015, teaching baroque violin. In addition to directing the orchestra of Seattle production company (and UW ensemble-in-residence) Pacific MusicWorks, Cunningham serves as principal second violin… Read more

Celebrating the Singing Revolution

Geoffrey Boers and Choral Conducting Students in Latvia
The Singing Revolution of 1991 was a remarkable victory of the people of the countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia over the occupying forces of the Soviet Union. Their weapon? The human voice. Historically, the people of this region are among the most vocal of any culture in the world. From the earliest roots of their modern culture they have encoded their history and cultural story in song, and have used singing for virtually all the events of life, from menial daily tasks, to work, to… Read more

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