Summer 2018 Quarter Notes | School of Music

An end-of-year send-off for the UW Music Class of 2018 brought together students, families, friends, and loved ones at the Music Building June 8 to pay tribute to the degree recipients and all of the many hours of hard work, discipline, joy, tears, and sheer determination they've invested in their time at the School of Music. This issue of Quarter Notes is dedicated to them.

Read on for more about the Class of 2018 as well as some updates from current and former UW Music students. Then view an album of photos from our Grand Finale celebration. Happy Summer!

Congratulations, UW Music Class of 2018!

The School of Music honored its Class of 2018 Friday, June 8 with its annual Grand Finale celebration, providing a festive send-off to 58 degree recipients and their friends and loved ones. The UW Music Class of 2018 includes 31 students earning graduate degrees—12 master’s, 7 PhD, and 12 DMA—and 27 students earning BM or BA degrees. Fully half of the undergraduates earning music degrees double-majored in programs outside of music, earning second degrees in an array of programs including… Read more

UW Music's Giuliana Conti named president of graduate student senate

Tori Hernandez, UW President Ana Mari Cauce, Giuliana Conti and Elloise Soh-Yeun Kim at GPSS Senate meeting, January 2018 (photo via: UW GPSS)

Music Education doctoral student Giuliana Conti has been elected president of the University of Washington's Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS). In that role she will lead the senate in the 2018-19 academic year, working on multiple matters of interest to UW students in masters and doctoral degree-granting programs across all university programs, disciplines, and fields. A second-year PhD student, Conti taught extensively in K-… Read more

Student and Alumni Notes: Summer 2018

UW flute students with Prof. Donna Shin (far right).

UW Music students and alumni head into summer busy with festival appearances, new employment opportunities, fresh honors, competition wins, and more. Students and alumni from Music Education and Ethnomusicology are finishing up their degree programs and accepting university positions beginning in fall of 2018 including: David Aarons, University of North Carolina-Greensboro (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology); Will Coppola, University of North Texas (Assistant… Read more

Featured 2018 UW Music Grad: Kristina Terwilliger

When 5,500 UW graduates entered Husky Stadium for the June 9, 2018 Commencement, student gonfalonieres bore the flags leading each school and college into the stadium. At the head of the processional of graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences was UW Music grad Krissy Terwilliger (’18 BM Vocal Performance), showing not a twinge of nerves under the gaze of 40,000 attendees in the stadium. Performing in front of massive crowds is a piece of cake for Terwilliger, who graduated from the… Read more

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