You are here

Recent News

Marianne Weitmann
September 14, 2024
Marianne Weltmann, former longtime esteemed professor of voice at the University of Washington, Western Washington University, and the University of Puget Sound, died on June 2, 2024, at the age of 93. The cause of death was breast cancer. Marianne was born in Stettin , Germany, on September 9, 1930 to father Erhard Weltman and mother Emilie Wieluner Weltman. As a young child she fled Nazi Germany with her family and immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Ohio. Her early... Read more
Alumnus Jerry Jensen
September 14, 2024
Tech expert and musician Jerry Jensen passed away 2024 July 31 in California, where he had lived since 1975, from complications due to kidney failure. He was 74. Jerry was the middle son of Norman and Laura Jensen, and grew up in the Ravenna Park neighborhood of Seattle. He played French horn in the Seattle Youth Symphony and kept playing throughout his life. His father was a band director at Ballard High School and later a producer/director at a new KCTS television station. His mother was a... Read more
Play/Write cover
August 27, 2024
In the midst of contemporary classical music releases that tend to bank on a cerebral approach to music, here is an album that requires listening with one’s heart. Exploring the relationship between words and music, and close collaborations with composers, performers, writers and poets, Play / Write unfolds an exquisite world in which beauty and dreams flirt with sorrow. Compositions by Melia Watras (also a superb violist), Frances White and Leilehua Lanzilotti focus on strings and involve... Read more
Play/Write cover
August 27, 2024
Earlier albums by violist Melia Watras (b. 1969) garnered accolades for the originality of their vision and realization of their creator's audacious sensibility. To create String Masks, for example, she utilized Harry Partch instruments; 26, on the other hand, was deemed by The Strad “a beautiful celebration of 21st century viola music.” The latter as aptly describes Watras's latest collection Play/Write, a splendid addition to her discography that, as its title intimates, explores fusions... Read more
Doctoral student Daren Weissfisch (DMA, Orchestral Conducting). Photo: UW Photography.
June 18, 2024
School of Music students and alumni report recent academic and artistic appointments, awards and distinctions and new career directions in the beginning weeks of Summer 2024. School of Music doctoral student Daren Weissfisch (DMA, Orchestral Conducting) was recently announced as the new music director of Seattle’s Lake Union Civic Orchestra. The selection followed a year-long search and a season of auditions. “The orchestra and the audience loved his infectious energy... Read more
Gabriel Solis, divisional dean for the arts
June 16, 2024
UW Ethnomusicology Professor Gabriel Solis discusses implications of Spotify’s recent price increases in this episode of LAist's Airtalk podcast.Featured on LAist 
School of Music choral conducting alumni Jen Rodgers and Leann Conley Holcom (Photo: Joanne DePue).
June 14, 2024
School of Music friends and alumni returned to campus on May 31, 2024 for the second annual UW Music Homecoming. Co-hosted by the School of Music and the UW Alumni Association, the event followed a performance by the UW Symphony Orchestra and Combined UW Choirs at Meany Hall, the final School of Music performance at Meany for the 2023-24 concert season.  Held at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, the reception included live jazz by a UW student trio featuring Toby Miller, drums;... Read more
School of Music faculty Shannon Dudley and Marisol Berrios-Miranda in Leon, Spain (Photo: Courtesy Shannon Dudley).
June 14, 2024
School of Music faculty report recent performances, tour dates, recordings, residencies and other notable achievements.  Shannon Dudley, Ethnomusicology Chair of the UW’s Ethnomusicology program recently co-led, with School of Music affiliate faculty Marisol Berríos-Miranda, a quarter-long study abroad program in León, Spain. The program included a week of study with master musician and educator Paco Diez, guest lectures by several Spanish ethnomusicologists... Read more

Pages

Share