Spring Quarter at the School of Music brings news of faculty appointments for 2023-24 and a recent boost to the Music Building Campaign from friends Steve and Sylvia Burges. Read more in this issue of Quarter Notes about these welcome developments as well as other recent news from our students, faculty, and alumni. As we wrap up our 2022-23 performance season, we invite our graduating music students and alumni back to campus on Friday, June 2 for our first-ever UW Music Homecoming, featuring a year-end performance by the UW Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs with special guest, actor and UW alum Garret Dillahunt, as well as a post-concert celebration. Details are in this issue. We hope you can make it!
–Joël-François Durand,
–Joël-François Durand,
Acting Director, UW School of Music
Dr. Stephen Price joins the University of Washington School of Music faculty in September 2023 as the inaugural Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow and artist-in-residence in organ performance. A native of Buffalo, New York, he comes to the UW from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he has taught organ, church music, and music theory since 2018.
Price’s appointment is made possible by the organ builder and artist Paul B. Fritts, whose extraordinary $1.5 million gift in 2021 created the... Read more
The University of Washington School of Music announces the appointments of new faculty in Ethnomusicology and Music History for Autumn 2023. John-Carlos Perea joins the faculty in September 2023 as Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Mark Rodgers as Assistant Teaching Professor in Music History.
"We are grateful to our Deans in the College of Arts and Sciences for their help in making possible these appointments,” says Joël-François Durand, director of the School of Music. “We are very... Read more
The Music Building Campaign has received a generous leadership gift from School of Music friends Steve and Sylvia Burges, whose contribution will help fund crucial updates to performance and teaching spaces in the Music Building.
The couple has longstanding connections to the University of Washington. Steve Burges served on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering from 1970 through 2010, retiring as a Professor Emeritus. Sylvia earned master’s degrees at the UW in Educational... Read more
Academic appointments, performances, career milestones, and other notable achievements.
Alumnus Anthony Vine ('13 MM Composition), a former student of Huck Hodge, has been awarded a Rome Prize in Composition, one of the world’s most prestigious composing awards. Vine joins an elite group of renowned composers who have received the coveted award and residency, including the UW’s Huck Hodge (2010), and William O. Smith (1958, 1980). A PhD candidate in music composition at... Read more
World premieres, new appointments, and prestigious opening gigs are among news reported recently by School of Music faculty
Kelly Kitchens, Voice
School of Music faculty member Kelly Kitchens has been appointed interim artistic director of Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre. The appointment was announced recently in the wake of the departure of Gus Menary, the company’s artistic director since 2020. Kitchens has stage directed two successful Opera Workshops at the UW since... Read more
University of Washington Law faculty Peter Nicolas has gone back to school--this time studying music at the UW in addition to his work at the School of Law. A new interdisciplinary class he has developed is helping UW students navigate the complex world of music copyright and other legal issues in the music industry, including intellectual property law as it relates to music and musicians.... Read more
Get an insider's look at the UW Symphony Orchestra, from auditions to rehearsals to first performance, in this video feature from UW Marketing and Communications.
View the video
Perspectives editor Nancy Joseph spoke with UW School of Music faculty and staff about preparing students for music careers, including Ted Poor, associate director of the School of Music, professor of drums and Donald E. Petersen Fellow for Excellence; Christina Sunardi, associate professor of ethnomusicology, Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professor, and chair of the Department of Dance; and Katie Hollenbach, School of Music assistant director for admissions,... Read more