UW guitar students Taro Kobayashi and Denis Ha placed first and second, respectively, in the Northwest Guitar Festival Competition April 13 in Bellingham. read more >

The Jazz Studies Program at the University of Washington takes giant steps forward with the appointments of internationally renowned guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Ted Poor to the School of Music faculty. read more >

The University of Washington School of Music gains new expertise in early music with the appointment of lutenist and baroque opera specialist Stephen Stubbs to the School of Music faculty. read more >

Our students and alumni land great opportunities nationally and internationally--beyond the walls of the School of Music. read more >

Good reviews, new transcriptions, and an upgraded chair position are among noteworthy updates from School of Music faculty for Winter and Spring Quarters 2012-13. read more >

Students from the University of Washington Jazz Studies program will perform with world-renowned musicians while building on the success of a dynamic and ever-expanding creative endeavor April 24-27 when the Improvised Music Project presents IMPfest V. read more >

A longtime partnership between the University of Washington School of Music and Seattle Symphony gains significant momentum with the recent appointment of SSO Music Director Ludovic Morlot to oversee the UW's orchestral conducting program. read more >

The School of Music’s Oceana String Quartet has made an impressive showing in several recent chamber music competitions, performing alongside some of the most promising young musicians in the country. read more >

Was Charles Ives a musical genius, an eccentric dreamer, the father of American music, a great Yankee maverick, fiercely democratic, a difficult crank, or perhaps all of the above? A Festival of Ives, May 6-8 at the School of Music, will celebrate the legacy of this iconic American composer with three days of performances, talks, lectures, and discussion, all open to the public. read more >

Huck Hodge of the School of Music Composition faculty was recently named a winner of the Franco Donatoni International Composition Competition in Milan, Italy. read more >

Jazz Studies Chair Cuong Vu has made Seattle Met's March 2013 list of Top 50 most influential people in Seattle, "game-changing Seattleites thrust(ing) the city into its next phase — in politics, the arts, technology, food, sports, and more." read more >

The University of Washington's Ethnomusicology program embraces change in its second half century with a new undergraduate degree program and more. Read all about it in the Spring issue of Perspectives. read more >

Music Librarian Judy Tsou was recently honored by the Music Library Association for extraordinary service to her profession. read more >

Fifty-six members of the UW Wind Ensemble will spend spring break 2013 in Beijing performing at the China Conservatory of Music and various other concert venues as part of an effort to enhance cultural exchange activities between the United States and China through shared musical endeavors and exchange of scholars. read more >

Laurel Trainor of Toronto's McMaster University delivers the 2013 James C. Carlsen Lecture on Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m., at Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot shares his thoughts about collaborating with the School of Music, guest conducting the UW Symphony (Feb. 28, Meany Theater) and more in this interview from the UW Alumni Assocation's Blog Down to Washington. read more >

Patricia Campbell, professor of Music Education and chair of the UW's Ethnomusicology Program, was honored recently as a finalist for the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award. read more >

Piano professor Robin McCabe and noted Northwest violinist Maria Larionoff embark on their journey through the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin Feb. 17 at Brechemin Auditorium, with commentary by Music History Professor Stephen Rumph, as their Beethoven Project gets under way. Read more in the Feb. 15 Seattle Times. read more >

School of Music faculty artists Melia Watras and Dainius Vaicekonis are among Music and DXARts faculty and students participating in Faculty Dance: Collaborations Jan. 18 and 19, part of the campus-wide Rite of Spring Centennial Celebration. read more >

Collaboration with campus and Seattle arts organizations will spotlight the talents of students and throughout Winter Quarter and beyond when the School of Music participates in the campus-wide celebration of the centennial of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and welcomes Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot to campus to conduct the University Symphony. read more >

Professor Patricia Campbell assumes the presidency of The College Music Society (CMS) in January 2013. read more >

The School of Music joins ArtsUW and the UW Alumni Association in offering UWAA members an opportunity to experience the arts at UW as an insider. The Arts Dawg promotion includes tickets to six campus arts events, discounted ticket prices, admission to pre-show receptions and other insider benefits. read more >

An estate gift to the School of Music will ensure future support for the Ethnomusicology Archives. read more >

The Oceana Quartet, winners of the School of Music’s third annual Chamber Music Competition, recently won first place in the strings division at the state level of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) chamber music competition. read more >

A slight nod from the Grammy Academy, a guest conducting gig in St. Petersburg, Russia, and new professorship and board appointments are among the news from School of Music faculty for Fall Quarter 2012. read more >

Collaborations, presentations, publications, music in the trees and the bright lights of Broadway all play starring roles in the School of Music's student and alumni updates for Fall Quarter 2012. read more >

The University Chorale, conducted by Giselle Wyers, earned a third place spot this past summer in the college and university division of The American Prize in Choral Performance. read more >

The UW will continue to "bring the world to Seattle" throughout the 2012-13 academic year as it has every year since 1962 as the School of Music celebrates the 50th anniversary of its esteemed Ethnomusicology program. read more >

Congratulations to the winners of the School of Music 2012 Concerto Competition! Edging out all other contenders for the top spots were Andrew Chen, piano; Li-Cheng Hung, piano; Masamitsu Ohtake, trombone; and Allion Salvador, violin. The winners will perform with the University Symphony on one of two upcoming 2013 programs. read more >

School of Music students perform for outside judges in the 22nd Annual Concerto Competition Monday, Nov. 19 at Meany Theater. Finalists are Zoe Funai, flute, Natalie Ham, flute; Katherine Isbill, flute; Masa Ohtake, trombone; David Colmenares, viola; Allion Salvador, violin; Charles Welty, bass; Nicholas Tagab, piano; Brent Nitta, piano; Andrew Chen, piano; Thomas Lee, piano; and Li-Cheng Hung, piano. read more >

French Connections, a new series hosted by School of Music Professor Robin McCabe in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of French composer Claude Debussy, kicks off on Sunday, November 18 at Brechemin Auditorium with a program featuring works by Debussy, Ravel, De Falla, and Takemitsu. read more >

Michael Partington, head of guitar studies at the School of Music, will present a solo recital at Benaroya Hall Nov. 10 and a master class at the School of Music Nov. 11 as a featured artist on the Seattle Classic Guitar Society's International Master Class Series. read more >

Timothy Salzman, director of band activities at the School of Music, was co-host of KING FM's popular Musical Chairs program on Friday, Oct. 5. Listen to the broadcast (scroll to second item) and read more about upcoming band activities on the UW Winds webpage. read more >

Violas and viola masters are in the spotlight November 4 and 5 when renowned violist Atar Arad, professor at Indiana University, leads a master class with UW music students and performs a recital with his former student, Associate Professor Melia Watras. read more >

A community choir based in rural Mason County, Washington and directed by School of Music doctoral conducting student Matthew Blegen will have the performance opportunity of a lifetime in late November at New York's Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. read more >

New-Jersey based Newband, custodians of the Harry Partch Instrument Collection, is in residence at the School of Music November 6-8, with a public performance of works by Partch and others at Meany Hall on November 7. read more >

Doctoral Composition student Abby Aresty's latest sound installation plays at the Washington Park Arboretum throughout the month of October. Read more in the Oct. 1 Seattle Times. read more >

A group of incoming UW freshmen got an early start on their University of Washington studies this past summer in a course developed by Percussion Studies chair Tom Collier. read more >

Seattle Magazine goes up-close with trumpeter Cuong Vu of our Jazz Studies program. read more >

The School of Music piano fleet is in the able hands of piano techs Doug Wood and Susan Willanger Cady. read more >

The final UW piano sale will be held at the Classic Pianos showroom in Bellevue September 13 through 16, 2012. read more >

Recent School of Music graduate Melissa Winstanley has been named the University's 2012 President’s Medalist, a distinction awarded to the most accomplished student in the UW’s 7,500 member senior class. read more >

The University of Washington and the Smithsonian Institute celebrate the continuation of a successful cultural and educational partnership this summer with the fourth annual Workshop in World Music Pedagogy, running June 25 through 29 at the School of Music. read more >

The Oceana Quartet, the scholarship quartet of the University of Washington School of Music, has been selected from applicants from across the country to participate in the 2012 St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford University. read more >

Huck Hodge, assistant professor of Composition, has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship in the Creative Arts for his achievements in music composition. read more >

The School of Music welcomes the legendary Harry James Orchestra, directed by Fred Radke and featuring guest singing artist Gina Funes, to Meany Theater on Monday, May 7, 2012 for an evening of music from the Golden Era of Swing. The concert is free, but general admission tickets are recommended. Read more for program details and ticket information. read more >

Homayoun Sakhi and Salar Nader, preservationists and innovators of the musical traditions of Afghanistan, are in residence at the School of Music April 23-May 4. read more >

Graduate conducting student Wendy Moy was among eight conducting fellows nationwide selected by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute (WMI) to participate in February in the Transient Glory Symposium, part of WMI's newly established Carnegie Hall Choral Institute. read more >

The College of Arts and Sciences has named senior Joshua Gailey the 2012 Dean's Medalist for the University of Washington arts division in recognition of his exceptional academic achievement at UW. read more >

Dr. Kari Ragan teaches applied voice and vocal pedagogy at UW, but her interest in the science and medicine of the voice has been a boon to her students as she instructs them in not only the art of singing, but also the science. read more >

Students from the University of Washington Jazz Studies program build on the success of a dynamic and ever-expanding creative endeavor in early May when the Improvised Music Project presents IMPfest IV. The festival runs May 4 and May 10 through 12 at the Hughes Penthouse Theatre. read more >

Judy Tsou, Head of the Music Library and Lecturer in Music History, has been elected president of the Society for American Music (SAM). read more >

The School of Music joins the University-wide celebration of the 150th anniversary of the UW with a variety of events and activities April 19-21. Highlights include performances by the Oceana Quartet, Percussion Ensemble, pianist Craig Sheppard, organ students of Carole Terry, the Marc Seales Group, Burn List (featuring Cuong Vu, trumpet), Chemical Clock, and much more. read more >

Homayoun Sakhi and Salar Nader, preservationists and innovators of the musical traditions of Afghanistan, and Ade Suparman, instrumentalist and composer of Sundanese music from West Java, are in residence at the School of Music during Spring Quarter 2012. read more >

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded Huck Hodge, an assistant professor of Composition, the 2012 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, bestowed on mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. read more >

Ancient art forms meet 21st century innovation April 14 at Bastyr Chapel with the debut of the Solaris Vocal Ensemble, conducted by assistant professor Giselle Wyers. read more >

The School of Music celebrated the appointment of Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot as an Affiliate Professor of Music with a welcome event at Meany Theater on March 5. read more >

The University of Washington Wind Ensemble and Seattle Symphony principal trombonist Ko-Ichiro Yamamoto (also on the faculty of the School of Music) are among Northwest and Japanese classical and jazz musicians joining forces on Sunday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. at Benaroya Hall to present "Winds for Hope: Tomodachi through Music," a benefit concert for Japan. read more >

The Combined Choruses and University Symphon execute a dramatic finish to Winter Quarter Friday, March 9 at Meany Theater with their performance of Bach's Magnificat and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. read more >

Acclaimed French bassoonist Pascal Gallois makes a return visit to the School of Music on Friday, March 9, performing works by UW composition students at 7:30 p.m. at Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

Ralph Humphrey, known for his work with rock icon Frank Zappa, stops by the School of Music on Friday, March 2 to lead an afternoon master class with UW music students and perform in concert with the Ralph Humphrey Trio, featuring School of Music faculty artist Tom Collier and bassist Dan Dean. read more >

The UW Men's Glee Club, directed by Steven M. Demorest, presents its Winter Quarter Concert at Seattle's historic Neptune Theatre on Sunday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Seattle-based vocal group Groove for Thought and vocal groups from Mount Vernon High School and Renton's Hazen High School also appear on the program. read more >

The School of Music presents the debut concert of the Oceana Quartet, Winners of the 2011 UW Strings and Piano Chamber Ensemble Competition, on Sunday, March 4 at Brechemin Auditorium. Selections on the group's debut concert include Debussy's String Quartet, Britten's First Quartet, and Mendelssohn's Capriccio in E minor, Op. 81. read more >

Virtue takes a tipsy tumble when shy Albert is crowned King of the May in Britten's tender coming-of-age opera, running Feb. 16-19 at Meany Studio Theater. read more >

The Vu-Karpen Project, a highly experimental music ensemble led by School of Music Director Richard Karpen and Jazz Studies Associate Professor Cuong Vu, debuts a new work-in-progress on the Winter Quarter Contemporary Group concert, Tuesday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., at Meany Theater. read more >

Two new endowments under establishment at the School of Music will pay homage to Professors Emeriti James C. Carlsen and Barbara Reeder Lundquist and their pioneering contributions to the fields of Systematic Musicology and Music Education. read more >

Alumna Geisa Dutra ('88 MM Piano Performance) is the featured soloist with Philharmonia Northest Feb. 5 in Homage, a program celebrating the music of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. read more >

Three-time Grammy winning bassist John Patitucci is in residence at the School of Music Feb. 23-26 through the Barry Lieberman and Friends Series. read more >

Faculty artist Robin McCabe presents a rare solo piano recital at the University of Washington Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 p.m., at Meany Theater. read more >

Internationally renowned clarinet and mandolin virtuoso Andy Statman is the Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist during Winter Quarter 2012. read more >

School of Music composition students will receive special attention at Benaroya Hall this month when the Seattle Symphony Orchestra devotes its January 31 rehearsal to readings of works by UW student composers. read more >

From 1927 to 1950, music classes at the University of Washington were held in a wooden frame building erected in 1909 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. But on June 1, 1950, the School of Music took up residence in a new, five-story, state-of-the-art building at the head of the Arts and Sciences Quadrangle. read more >

The School of Music has named Professor David Huron from Ohio State University the inaugural James C. Carlsen Visiting Scholar in Music Cognition and Learning at the University of Washington. Head of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab at Ohio State University, he delivers a lecture titled "Music Observed" on Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m., at Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

The University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives and Northwest Heritage Resources recently launched Voices of the First People, a new website honoring the life and work of Upper Skagit elder Vi Hilbert. read more >

Composers from Liszt to Ligeti will be featured in performances by faculty, students, and guest artists during Winter Quarter at the School of Music, which kicks off its quarterly concert calendar this month with a pair of faculty recitals by violist Melia Watras and pianist Robin McCabe. read more >

Grammy-nominated guitarist Mike Stern, known for his work with Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Jaco Pastorius, and many others, leads a workshop/clinic with UW Jazz Studies students Dec. 6 at the School of Music. read more >

The School of Music presents a wide range of performances by students and faculty as Fall Quarter draws to a close. read more >

Big band expert Fred Radke, known for leading and performing with the Harry James Orchestra, makes his UW debut as director of the Studio Jazz Ensemble on Dec. 7 at Meany Studio Theater. The concert also features the premiere of a new work "Red Riding Hood," composed and performed by students in the UW Modern Band. read more >

The School of Music continues its celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Littlefield Organ series with The Littlefield Organ Festival, a weekend of faculty recitals by organ faculty Douglas Cleveland (Nov. 18) and Carole Terry (Nov. 21). read more >

Noted singer Laila Lamrini presents a lecture-recital on malhun, the sung poetry of Morocco, at Brechemin Auditorium on Monday, November 14, 2012. The free event is co-sponsored by the School of Music and the UW Middle East Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. read more >

Winners of the School of Music's annual Concerto Competition were announced Nov. 14 following performances at Meany Theater. read more >

Finalists have been selected for the School of Music Concerto Competition. Students performing in the Concerto Competition on Monday, November 14, 7 p.m., Meany Theater are: Maria-Alise Agrawal, flute; Megan Bledsoe, harp; MeeAe Hong, violin; Ting-Yao "Grace" Huang, piano; Britanee Hwee, piano; Colleen McElroy, flute; Elizabeth Yao, piano; and Monica Yoon, piano. Read on for program details. read more >

Music Professor Joël-François Durand presents "Bringing a High-end Audiophile Product to Market: the Talea" at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, as part of the Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows Lecture Series. read more >

Assistant Professor Cuong Vu and former and current Jazz Studies students will appear with the Seattle Symphony October 18 in a performance of a new commissioned work, ONE, a commentary on the legacy of musician Quincy Jones. read more >

School of Music pianist Craig Sheppard stages a grand celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt with an ambitious program at Meany Theater on Friday, October 21. read more >

Huck Hodge, an assistant professor of Composition at the School of Music, has been awarded a commission by Music at the Anthology for a piece composed for Boston-based new music group the JACK Quartet. read more >

The School of Music welcomes three new additions to its faculty for 2011-12. read more >

Two leaders of East and West coast piano innovation debut their new collaborative two pianos project at Brechemin Auditorium on Saturday, October 15 when Craig Taborn and Gust Burns present "Two Pianos," co-sponsored by the School of Music, Non-Sequitur, and Earshot Jazz. read more >

Musical instruction has been an important part of the offerings at the University of Washington since 1862, when piano instruction was first offered just one year after the territorial university first opened its doors 150 years ago. read more >

Professor Tom Collier resurrects his popular Mallethead series this year with a trio of percussion-centered programs featuring distinguished guest drummers. The series kicks off on Friday, November 18 at the Meany Studio Theater with a performance spotlighting guest drummer Alex Acuña, known for his work with jazz fusion group Weather Report. read more >

The Ethnomusicology program continues a 50-year tradition in 2011-12 of welcoming to the School of Music renowned visiting artists from around the world. read more >

Faculty, students, and guest artists will perform in a special series of concerts throughout 2011-12 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the UW's Littlefield Organ Series. read more >

Twenty-six freshmen getting an early start on their University of Washington studies are discovering music close to the edge in a new course developed by Percussion Studies chair Tom Collier. read more >

Internationally prominent conductor, violist, and professor Vilem Sokol, who taught at the School of Music from 1948 to 1985, died Friday Aug. 19 at age 96. read more >

The UW Summer Concert band, conducted by Erin Bodnar, and the UW Summer Chorale, conducted by Jeremiah Selvey, perform in separate concerts on Thursday, Aug. 18. read more >

Aine Heneghan, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, has been awarded a national fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). read more >

Congratulations to the School of Music Class of 2011! Photos from our Grand Finale celebration, held at the School of Music on Commencement Day, June 11, 2011, may be viewed on our Facebook page. read more >

Faculty violist Melia Watras performs Krzysztof Penderecki's Viola Concerto (1983) with the University Symphony Friday, June 3, 7:30 p.m. at Meany Theater. Also on the program: Mozart's Symphony No. 39, K.543 and Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome. The group rehearsed for this final concert of the 2010-11 academic year on May 25 at Meany. read more >

The University of Washington and the Smithsonian Institute continue a cultural and educational partnership this summer with the third annual Workshop in World Music Pedagogy, running June 27 through July 1 at the School of Music. read more >

Jae-In Shin, a doctoral student studying violin with Ron Patterson, outshone competitors from Juilliard, Northwestern University, The Butler School of Music at the University of Texas and other notable schools May 21 to take the Grand Prize at the Carmel Music Society's 35th Annual Competition. read more >

The diva of avant garde pianism, Margaret Leng Tan, will be in residence at the School of Music May 25 and 26. Highlights include a workshop, film screening and a solo recital in the Meany Studio Theater. read more >

Judy Tsou, head of the Music Library, discovered a long-lost unpublished manuscript by American songwriter Amy Beach last summer during an inventory project in the Music Library. The song, "Birth," written in 1929, was premiered by soprano Nataly Wickham at the spring 2011 Voice Division Recital. read more >

School of Music graduates Julia Tai and Jeremy Jolley challenge listeners to rethink the musical genre of the concerto when their Seattle Modern Orchestra presents its season finale at Meany Theater Friday, May 13. "20th Century Concerti?" features an all-star cast of local classical musicians, including Clifford Dunn, flute; Michael Lim, violin; Maria Mannisto, soprano; Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, harp; and Matthew Kocmieroski and Gunnar Folsom, percussions. read more >

Two of the Pacific Northwest's finest classical musicians reunite at Brechemin Auditorium on Sunday, April 17 in a concert of works by Brahms, Schumann, and Faure. Seattle Symphony Orchestra Concert Master Maria Larionoff, violin, and School of Music Professor Robin McCabe, piano, are the featured guests for the final installment of this season's Barry Lieberman and Friends Series. read more >

The Division of Ethnomusicology welcomes visiting artists Young Sub Lee of Korea and Heri Purwanto of Java to the School of Music during Spring Quarter 2011. Both artists will be featured in the Division's annual Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists Concert Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m., at Meany Theater. read more >

School of Music faculty members Richard Karpen, Cuong Vu, Juan Pampin, and Luke Bergman are on the bill for the third annual Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPfest), running April 30 through May 7 at various Seattle venues. read more >

The viola studios of the University of Washington, led by Melia Watras, and Seattle University, led by former School of Music student Amber Archibald, unite for a concert in Brechemin Auditorium at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 10. The program includes works by Bach, Bartok, Hindemith, Paganini, Rochberg, Shostakovich, and Walton. read more >

Jazz Studies Professor Cuong Vu's latest release, "Leaps of Faith," recorded with the Cuong Vu 4-tet last April at the Chapel Performance Space, is a New York Times Critics Choice. read more >

School of Music faculty will be in the spotlight when the College Band Directors National Association holds its national conference in Seattle March 23 through 26. A keynote address by Music History professor Larry Starr and a concert by the UW Wind Ensemble featuring new works by Huck Hodge and Cuong Vu and performances by Donna Shin, flute; Ko-Ichoro Yamamoto, trombone; and Cuong Vu, trumpet are among the highlights. read more >

Current and former UW music students are deeply involved in the establishment of a new local record label, Table and Chairs, which celebrates its launch Saturday, March 12, at Seattle's Q. Café. read more >

Senegalese percussionist Thione Diop wraps up the School's Performing Ethnomusicology Series Friday, March 11 with a workshop and concert of traditional West African music.. read more >

UW graduate music student Jeremiah Cawley interviewed University Chorale conductor Giselle Wyers recently about Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah," which she will conduct at Meany Theater Friday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. in a combined performance by the UW Chamber Singers, Chorale, and University Symphony. read more >

School of Music student Geoffrey Larson has co-founded a fresh new orchestra making waves in the local classical music community. His Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra will appear at Meany Theater Feb. 28 alongside members of the UW Baroque Ensemble (See our events calendar for details). Read more about the group in a recent article in the Seattle Times. read more >

Performer, luthier, and scholar Cesar Castro will lead a lecture and discussion on the art of son jarocho Friday, February 25 at the School of Music, the next event in the School's Performing Ethnomusicology Series. read more >

UW Symphony interim conductor Jonathan Pasternack's debut CD with the London Symphony Orchestra is out now on the Naxos label, and the critics approve. See the conductor in action this Thursday, Feb. 24, 7:30, at Meany Theater, when the Symphony performs works by Haydn and Shostakovich. For more insight into the conductor and his work, read a recent interview on the local music blog Gathering Note. read more >

Deborah Wong from the University of California, Riverside will lead a lecture and seminar Friday February 18 at the School of Music in the Winter Quarter Performing Ethnomusicology Series. A February 25 appearance by scholar Antonio Garcia de Leon has been cancelled; scholar and musician Cesar Castro will appear in his place. read more >

Guest pianist Ryo Yanagitani will participate in a panel discussion on careers in music and present a guest artist recital during his visit to the School of Music February 18 and 19. read more >

Grammy-Award-nominated author Gage Averill, dean of arts at the University of British Columbia, presents a lecture and performance at the School of Music Friday, February 11 as part of the School's Performing Ethnomusicology Series. read more >

The School of Music's February 14 Contemporary Group concert will feature new works performed by internationally renowned visiting artists Garth Knox, Stefan Östersjö, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, and Ho Hoai Anh. The program will include the premiere of a new work by School of Music composer Richard Karpen and a special appearance by faculty artist Cuong Vu. read more >

Composition professor Juan Pampin's piece "On Space" will receive its American premiere when Les Percussions de Strasbourg performs at Meany Theater Feb. 19. Learn more about the composer and his work in a recent article from UW Today. read more >

Europe's leading percussion ensemble makes a stop at Meany Theater February 19 on a West Coast Tour commemorating the group's 50th anniversary. read more >

School of Music alumni Julia Tai and Jeremy Jolley are giving Seattle music lovers a warm welcome to contemporary classical music with their newly formed ensemble, The Seattle Modern Orchestra (appearing at UW's Meany Theater on Friday, May 13). Learn more about the group and its co-conductors in a recent interview in the Seattle Times. read more >

A February 4 lecture and seminar by Jocelyne Guilbault, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the next event in the School's Performing Ethnomusicology Series, running through Winter Quarter 2011. A lecture and seminar by Antonio Garcia de Leon, originally scheduled for January 29, has been rescheduled for February 25. read more >

Faculty guitarist Michael Partington makes his Seattle Opera debut this week as a wandering minstrel accompanying Count Almaviva in the first scene of Barber of Seville. Read on for an indepth interview with Partington up now on the Seattle Opera Blog. read more >

Homayun Sakhi, renowned performer on the Afghan rabab, presents a concert and demonstration/discussion at the School of Music on Friday, January 21 as part of the School's Performining Ethnomusicology Series, running through Winter Quarter 2011. read more >

When piano professor Craig Sheppard takes the stage for his Feb. 9 recital at Meany Theater, few in the audience will be aware of the immense amount of preparation that goes into such a performance. Learn more in the fall issue of Arts and Sciences Perspectives, in which faculty artists Sheppard, Melia Watras, and Cuong Vu share how they prepare for major public performances. read more >

Famed violin virtuoso Gil Shaham makes a stop at the School of Music on Friday, January 7 to lead a free master class with UW string students. read more >

The composer collective Deep Listening Band, featuring School of Music emeritus professor Stuart Dempster, will create two new works in a week-long residency sponsored by the School of Music, the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, and Town Hall. read more >

A January 14 concert and workshop by Brazilian-born multi-instrumentalist Jovino Santos Neto and his trio kicks off the School of Music's Performing Ethnomusicology Series, running through Winter Quarter 2011. read more >

Students in Professor Larry Starr's Music Criticism class investigated many story angles in their quest to reveal fascinating aspects of the University Symphony's preparations for its Friday, Dec. 10 concert at Meany Theater. read more >

Composition professor Joël-François Durand has been named one of the University's inaugural UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows in recognition of his innovative work in developing a high-end audio tonearm known as the Talea. read more >

Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell has been elected chair of the board of Smithsonian Folkways, the nonprofit record label and archive of the Smithsonian Institution. read more >

Jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin makes a stop at the School of Music Brechemin Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, December 6 to discuss improvisation in the latest installment of the School's Jazz Dialogues Series. read more >

Noted composer James M. Beale, professor of theory and composition at the University of Washington School of Music from 1948 to 1994, died November 4 at age 86. read more >

Music History Professor's new book on George Gershwin is the latest volume in the popular Yale University Press Broadway Masters series. read more >

Faculty organist Carole Terry lent her considerable talents to Seattle Symphony's Organ Celebration at Benaroya Hall Oct. 23. Read more in R.M. Campbell's review on Gathering Note, a Seattle-based classical music blog. read more >

School of Music faculty artist Donna Shin will be the featured soloist Oct. 22 when Peruvian-born conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in a multi-media program of music inspired by the Incan Trail. read more >

The legendary alto saxophonist, still on the cutting edge of post-bop improvisation after six decades in the music business, makes a special appearance at the School of Music on Monday, October 4. read more >

The landscape for jazz in Seattle is growing ever more vibrant, thanks in large part to excellent programs at the middle and high school levels and some dynamic talent and creativity emanating from the UW School of Music. Read all about it in the New York Times (registration may be required). read more >

The Seattle music community suffered a major loss on July 31 with the untimely death of conductor George Shangrow. Born and raised in Seattle, he attended Roosevelt High School and the University of Washington, where he studied conducting with Samuel Krachmalnick and harpsichord with Sylvia Kind. School of Music alumnus Melinda Bargreen remembers George Shangrow in a recent tribute in the Seattle Times. read more >

School of Music professor Craig Sheppard earned rave reviews for his masterful performances at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival Beethoven this past June. read more >

Some of the world's leading researchers in the fields of music cognition and perception will share recent findings on the UW campus Aug. 23-27 at the 11th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. read more >

A summer workshop offered jointly by the School of Music and the Smithsonian Institution will help educators develop new ways to teach their students about musical cultures of the world. read more >

School of Music alumnus Eric Banks (MA, Theory, '95; DMA, Choral Conducting, '95) with Austin-based choral group Conspiraire has been awarded the 2010 Dale Warland Singers Commission Award by the national service organization All Chorus America. read more >

The School of Music presents a free workshop/performance by bassist Ron Carter on Friday, May 28, 1:30 p.m., in Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

The internationally renowned jazz guitarist makes a stop at the School of Music Friday, April 30, noon to 1 p.m., at Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

Assistant Professor of Composition Huck Hodge has been awarded one music's highest honors--the Rome Prize in Music Composition. read more >

Assistant Professor Cuong Vu is one of seven UW educators to be awarded the 2010 UW Distinguished Teaching Award, a notable accomplishment for a young professor in his third year of teaching. Northwest Asian Weekly recently took an in-depth look at this exceptional musician and his approach to music making and teaching. read more >

World-renowned guitarist Bill Frisell will take the stage with some of the UW's top jazz students April 18 in a concert at Meany Hall capping off a week-long celebration of jazz at the UW. read more >

Michael Partington, head of the UW's guitar program, stopped by the KING FM studios last week with flutist Donna Shin and guitarist Kevin Callahan to talk with Arts Channel host Marta Zekan about the works to be performed during Partington's faculty recital, Guitar Plus!, Sunday February 28, 7:30 p.m. at Brechemin Auditorium. read more >

School of Music faculty and students will join other celebrated performing artists in an afternoon of duo performances at the Seattle Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. with concert proceeds benefiting Haiti disaster relief. read more >

Students in the University Symphony will perform side by side with members of Seattle Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 23 at Meany Theater when Seattle Symphony Artistic Director Gerard Schwarz is guest conductor for this special free performance. read more >

The UW Contemporary Group presents a Faculty Composition Showcase at Meany Hall Feb. 16, featuring works by Joël-François Durand, Huck Hodge, Richard Karpen, Juan Pampin, and Diane Thome. read more >

Composition professor Joël-François Durand spent his summer working at the UW campus, but was rarely seen in the Music Building. Instead, the associate director of the School of Music logged more than 800 hours in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. read more >

Ethnomusicology graduate student Cody Case is in Tunisia for the 2009-10 academic year, his study funded through a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship. read more >

Tenor Gregory Carroll continues to show exceptional promise as an emerging artist in the opera world, garnering several top honors and special distinctions in the past year alone. read more >

School of Music Composition faculty Richard Karpen (also director of the School of Music) and Juan Pampin and alumnus Josh Parmenter were featured composers this fall at the Warsaw Autumn 2009 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music read more >

A March 8 concert by the UW Women's Choir and St. Mark's Women's Choir will benefit Noel House, an emergency shelter for homeless women. read more >

The Seattle Times profiles UW Symphony conductor Jonathan Pasternack and presents an overview of our 2010-11 concert season read more >

read more >

read more >

Music Librarian Judy Tsou unearthed a previously unpublished song by composer Amy Beach last summer during an inventory project at the Music Library. The song, titled "Birth," composed in 1929, will receive its long-delayed world premiere on Monday, May 16 at the School of Music, when senior Nataly Wickham, soprano, will perform the work during the spring quarter Voice Division Recital, 7:30 p.m. at Brechemin Auditorium. Read on for an account, written by Judy Tsou, of the composer and her music. read more >

read more >

read more >

read more >