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May 6, 2025
Hearing Philadelphia, a program created by recently appointed School of Music assistant professor William Dougherty, is helping Philadelphians affected by gun violence to heal through music. Learn more in this feature by Sandra Jones from NPR's WHYY News:
When William “Bill” Dougherty is not teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, he is raising awareness about gun violence.
Dougherty is part of Hearing... Read more
May 5, 2025
From Fifteen Questions
The 18 short pieces on Watras's “Almond Tree Duos” are pure, poignant, powerful in their immediacy. The emotional range is wide and the techniques diverse - but hope is always the overarching sensation.
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May 2, 2025
By Melia Watras for The Strad
To gain our personal understanding of the world around us, we look for meaning and connection. Like images in a dream, inspiration comes from many places. My new album, The almond tree duos, owes much of its existence to its ties to literature, visual art and music. ... Read more
May 1, 2025
Ethnomusicology interim chair John-Carlos Perea lends insights in this article exploring how two local radio shows, "Indigenous Jazz" on Daybreak Star Radio and "Sounds of Survivance" on 90.3 KEXP, are joining the efforts to illuminate and celebrate the genius of Indigenous jazz. ... Read more
April 24, 2025
Étoile, an eight-episode spoof of the world of ballet dancers by creator Amy Sherman Palladino (airing on Prime Video), centers around an elaborately choreographed PR stunt in which rival ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their leading dancers in the hopes of getting more young people to go to the ballet.
The show's premise raises echoes of the historic exchanges of dancers between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a focus of... Read more
April 8, 2025
by Lauren Kirschman, UW News
Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena’ina) had never heard powwow singing before attending an Indigenous music conference in Toronto in 2008.
She was born north of Anchorage, Alaska, where powwows just started appearing in the last 25 years. At the conference, she was drawn to the singing voice of John-Carlos Perea(Mescalero Apache, Irish, Chicano, German). The... Read more
March 12, 2025
From UW College of Arts and Sciences NewsApril 2025 Perspectives newsletterBy Nancy Joseph
Most people know Mozart and Beethoven, composers of the Classical music era. But what about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a Black composer living in Europe at the same time? Saint-Georges is one of seven composers (see sidebar) featured in the Black Composers Project, an hour-long video that pairs historical information about Black composers with performances of their works that... Read more
March 11, 2025
A three-day guest artist residency at the School of Music April 15-17 by the renowned Eroica Trio includes two days of master class sessions in addition to the Trio’s April 16 concert at the Gerlich Theater, Meany Hall.
The Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello—performs works by J.S. Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Fritz Kreisler, George Gershwin, and Johannes Brahms on their April 16 concert. Trio members lead master classes with chamber groups of UW music... Read more