UChicago Hosts the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies 2017 Fall...
The Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS) 2017 Fall Conference come to the University of Chicago on Saturday, October 14.
View ArticleUpcoming Alumni Receptions
Join faculty for an alumni reception at the upcoming annual meetings of the Society for Ethomusicology, Society for Music Theory, and American Musicological Society.
View ArticleUChicago pianist Kirk Swanson wins second place at Illinois State Music...
Kirk Swanson, second-year PhD student at The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering, wins second place at the Illinois State Music Teachers Association Piano Competition.
View Article"Sonorous Earth" by Augusta Read Thomas described as "a joyous affirmation of...
SONOROUS EARTH for percussion quartet and orchestra premiered at the Chicago Philharmonic's Sunday, November 12 performance at Harris Theatre received rave reviews.
View ArticleRecent Student Honors
We're pleased to share news about the recent accomplishments of our students!
View ArticleJazz Worlds / World Jazz by Philip Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino wins Ruth A....
The Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society honors each year a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit published during the previous year.
View ArticleThe Department of Music is presenting several events as part of the Nuclear...
As part of the University-wide commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the world's first nuclear chain reaction, there are five free performances including six world premieres to which you are invited.
View ArticleAugusta Read Thomas’s album Ritual Incantations praised as spellbinding
Jeremy Glazier, constributor for La Tempestad writes "...this is a composer for whom music and joy are synonymous. In a world that all too often seems dappled by our more destructive magicks, Thomas...
View ArticleDislocations: Reassessing Ligeti’s Many Worlds in the 21st Century
A Symposium at the University of Chicago, March 6-8, 2018This symposium seeks to bring together several audiences to think together about dislocation, (post)modernity, music in exile, appropriation,...
View ArticleJoin us in honoring the memory of Philip Gossett, February 8 at 4:30 p.m.
Please join us in honoring the memory of Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Music, on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
View ArticleSweet Honey In The Rock Appointed Ensemble-in-Residence for the 2018-19 Season
The internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-nominated female African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock® has been appointed the Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence at the...
View ArticleUniversity Professor of Composition Augusta Read Thomas featured in Strings...
Composer Augusta Read Thomas is featured in Strings Magazine's 2018 April Issue as part of the American Master's series.
View ArticleProfessor Robert Kendrick elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Music Robert Kendrick, along with 15 other UChicago faculty members, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
View ArticlePhD Candidate Ailsa Lipscombe wins Charlotte Frisbie Student Paper Prize
Ailsa Lipscombe, Doctoral Student in Music History and Theory, was awarded the 2017 Charlotte Frisbie Student Paper Prize. Lipscombe's paper Disembodiment as Disempowerment: Indigenous Vocal...
View ArticleImani Winds final week as Ensemble-in-Residence culminates with two public...
Imani Winds returns to campus for the final week as the Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence. The musicians will participate in a range of activities that culminates with two public performances.
View ArticleUniversity Professor Augusta Read Thomas to premiere new opera featuring...
Santa Fe Opera announced the October 2019 premiere of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun by composer and University Professor Augusta Read Thomas and librettist Leslie Dunton-Downer, featuring Nicole Paris,...
View ArticleProfessor Philip V. Bohlman receives the 2017 Fumio Koizumi Prize in...
We are proud to announce that Philip V. Bohlman, the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and the College, has been awarded the 2017 Fumio Koizumi Prize in...
View ArticleOlga Sánchez-Kisielewska wins award from the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center...
We are pleased to announce that Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Lecturer in Music Theory, is a recipient of the first Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for research delivered at the inaugural Pedagogy into...
View ArticleRecent job placements and appointments
It is that time of year when many of our current students, recent graduates, and affiliates are receiving job offers or fellowship appointments. We are pleased to share the most recent accomplishments.
View ArticleTonia Ko Named 2018-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chicago Center for...
The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition (CCCC) is pleased to announce Tonia Ko as the 2018-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor in the Division of the Humanities. Ko will...
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