The IU Department of Musicology is pleased to share the inaugural recipients of two new and impactful fellowships. The Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney Fund for Musicology legacy gift was announced earlier this year. In order to witness the positive impacts their gifts will have during their lifetimes, Peter and Doug also committed additional support. Thanks to this support, we are able to share that Patrick Domico, Ph.D. candidate in musicology, is the inaugural recipient of the Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Originally from Memphis, TN, Domico completed a B.A. in Music from the Univer ..read more

Musicology Department chair, Professor Halina Goldberg, spearheaded Jacobs School of Music’s participation, as part of a consortium of orchestras and universities, in a program that recently secured a $400,000 National Endowment of the Humanities grant. The consortium, Music Unwound, was founded in 2010 by American music scholar Joseph Horowitz to promote humanities-infused public programming based on topics in American classical music, using cross-disciplinarity to strengthen both student and audience engagement. Of the school’s participation in the grant program, Professor Goldberg says, “Th ..read more

Congratulations to two Jacobs School of Music students, Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso, recipients of our 2023 Austin B. Caswell Awards. Maness received the award for his paper “The Tragedy of the Ospedali”. The committee also recently opened the award up to podcasts and Damaso’s “Recording techniques in early jazz and how they helped shape the music” is our first recipient in this category. “The Tragedy of the Ospedali” by Hudson Maness At a glance, Vivaldi’s direction of the women’s conservatory of Venice takes on a mythical status. One of the most celebrated composers of the Venetian Renais ..read more

  The Musicology department is overjoyed to announce that Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Burkholder and his husband, Doug McKinney, have established a legacy gift for the Musicology Department. The Chair of the Musicology Department, Professor Halina Goldberg, announced the news following Peter Burkholder’s opening lecture for the GMA/GTA Research Symposium on Friday, March 31.  After the announcement, Peter, Doug, and the Musicology department celebrated with a reception catered by Piccoli Dolci. Like much of Peter’s and Doug’s efforts throughout the years, the main thrust ..read more

Join us for the twenty-ninth annual GTA/GMA symposium next Friday and Saturday, March 31-April 1! The featured speakers include Dr. Peter Burkholder (March 31, 12:30, Ford Hall), Dr. Orit Hilewicz (April 1, 1:30, Sweeney), and Dr. Andrew Mead (April 1, 6:30, Sweeney). In addition to the featured talks and fabulous panels, there will be two roundtables at the symposium, “Analytical Applications of Intonation Theory” led by Jack Bussert and “Notation and the Body” led by Miguel Arango Calle and Travis Whaley. The symposium was started in 1994 by the Graduate Theory Association. For the last thre ..read more

  Join us next Wednesday, March 29th, to hear from guest lecturer and Indiana University alumus, Derek Stauff, who be presenting his talk, entitled, “Reading Psalm 15 as Dialogue: Sebastian Knüpfer’s ‘Herr, wer wird wohnen?’ and its Models”. The event will take place at 3:00 PM in room M350 (Simon Music Center). Derek Stauff is an associate professor of music at Hillsdale College (Michigan), teaching music history and organ. In 2014 he completed his Ph.D. in musicology from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, with a dissertation on music, confession, and politics during the Th ..read more

Sergio Ospina Romero, Assistant Professor in Musicology, is one of eight IU Faculty members to receive an inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship, a program that “aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.” Thanks to this support, Prof. Ospina Romero has invited two outstanding scholars to deliver talks on Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23. David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of the awarded and widely read book Selling Soun ..read more

Last month, the musicology department and the Latin American Music Center partnered up to present the event series Sounding Latinidades: Exploring Ainadamar in preparation for the opening of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar at IU. Adjunct professor of Musicology and Music in General Studies, Christine Wisch, opened the series on January 23rd with her lecture “The Musical Language of Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘Ainadamar'” in which she explored how Golijov brings different musical worlds together to create a powerful score. The series continued with a presentation and discussion on Flamenco music and cultur ..read more

On Friday, March 3rd, IU Opera Theater presents the world premiere of the opera Anne Frank by Shulamit Ran and Charles Kondek. In anticipation of the event, the Jacobs School of Music has collaborated with the Eskenazi Museum of Art and the Borns Jewish Studies Program to present a series of performances, panel discussions, and gallery talks relating to the work and its subjects. Jacobs School performer diploma student Kate Johnson as Anne Frank. This Thursday, March 2, the Jacobs School will present “An Exploration of the Opera Anne Frank: Panel and Conversation with the Composer & Artis ..read more

Congratulations to Professor Philip Ford and his podcasting partner JF Martel on the latest review of their podcast Weird Studies in the London Times, receiving 4 stars from critic James Marriott. This review comes on the tail of another recent write-up in The New York Times this past summer, which similarly recommended the podcast to its readers. Weird Studies was first produced in 2018 and is self-described by its hosts as “a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call ‘reality.’” In the L ..read more