Undergraduate Honors and Awards
We are delighted to announce that five graduating seniors have received special honors from the Department: Michal Dzitko, Hannah Edgar, Joshua Kaufman, Kim Kawczinski, and M. Will Myers. Three of them...
View ArticleRobert Kendrick named the William Colvin Professor of Music, Romance...
We are delighted to relay the wonderful news that Robert L. Kendrick has been named the William Colvin Professor in Music, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College.
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A bold first season for U. of C.'s contemporary music center
Tyshawn Sorey will be among several innovative musicians featured during the first season of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. - Original Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...
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Augusta Read Thomas' bold new venture at the University of Chicago
Augusta Read Thomas is championing an expansive new composition center at the University of Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)via the Chicago Tribune: Augusta Read Thomas' bold new...
View ArticleChicago Center for Contemporary Composition invites applications for the...
The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition offers an annual yearlong position to an exceptionally promising composer writing contemporary classical music. The deadline for application is November...
View ArticleEnsemble-in-Residence, Sweet Honey In The Rock, visits campus for a variety...
The internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-nominated female African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock® begins its 2018-19 season residency at the University of Chicago with a wide...
View ArticleFaculty and Graduate Students Recognized at the 2018 American Musicological...
The Department of Music is delighted to share the wonderful news that our faculty and graduate students were recognized at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in San Antonio...
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Anna C. Schultz receives Society of Ethnomusicology's Jaap Kunst Prize...
The Department of Music is pleased to share the news that Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities Anna C. Schultz has received the Jaap Kunst Prize 2018 Honorable Mention for her article...
View ArticleWet Ink, co-directed by Assistant Professor Sam Pluta, named Best Ensemble of...
Last week The New York Times printed its list of "Best Classical Music of 2018," naming Wet Ink the best ensemble. Assistant Professor of Composition Sam Pluta is one seven world class composers,...
View ArticleGrossman Ensemble project sparks surge of creative energy
Marking a new era in new music for this city of proud musical institutions, December 2018 brought the formal debut of the Grossman Ensemble as a contemporary sinfonietta comprising thirteen nationally...
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Plena Libre Appointed Ensemble-In-Residence at the University of Chicago for...
Grammy-nominated group to bring Puerto Rican genres to new generationChicago (Hyde Park) – Contemporary masters Plena Libre have been appointed the Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence at the...
View ArticleAshkan Behzadi has been named to 2019-20 Postdoctoral Researcher with the...
The Department of Music and the CCCC are pleased to announce Ashkan Behzadi as the 2019-20 Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor in the Division of the Humanities. Behzadi will develop new...
View ArticleAssistant Professor Sam Pluta named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
We’re proud to share the news that Assistant Professor Sam Pluta has received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship! Pluta is one of five University of Chicago scholars who earned the award. Guggenheim...
View ArticleTwo Department of Music Students Awarded Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowships
Each year, the College provides up to five Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowships, allowing graduate students to teach one undergraduate course of their own design in their home department. We’re pleased to...
View ArticleMusic History/Theory PhD Student Siavash Sabetrohani receives DAAD Research...
We’re pleased to share the news that PhD student Siavash Sabetrohani has received a 10-month Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Research Fellowship for the upcoming year. Sabetrohani will spend the...
View ArticleTwo Music Department Faculty Members Selected for Franke Institute Faculty...
We’re thrilled to share the news that two of our Department of Music Faculty members have received Faculty Fellowships from the Franke Institute of Humanities for the 2019-20 academic year....
View ArticleElectronic musician’s offbeat approach melds sound with computer science
Like many other musicians, Sam Pluta can get lost in performance—head bobbing, fingers flying, shoulders shimmying. But on stage, he isn’t strumming a guitar or pounding a drum set. His instrument of...
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Music Department Graduate Student wins 2018-19 AMS-Midwest IU Award
We’re pleased to announce that Andrew Malilay White has been chosen as winner of the 2018-19 American Musicological Society-Midwest’s Indiana University Press Award for his paper, “Teaching by Example:...
View ArticleMusic Department Faculty win Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
Each year, the University recognizes faculty for exceptional teaching and mentoring with the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards, believed to be the nation’s oldest prize for...
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Six UChicago Alumni Receive Academic Appointments
We are pleased to announce that five recent graduates from the Department's PhD program and one current PhD candidate have received academic appointments at universities across the country....
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