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1w ago
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Nadia Chana has won a Jaap Kunst Prize for her 2023 article “Ugly Publics.” The prize recognizes the most significant article in ethnomusicology written by members of the Society for Ethnomusicology during the first 10 years of their scholarly career. Chana’s article was published in the Fall 2023 issue of the […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
1w ago
Just a few months after earning a performance spot at one of the most distinguished choral conferences in the nation, Concert Choir has been named a 2024 American Prize in Choral Performance winner in the “college/university chorus—larger program” category. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is one of the nation’s most […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
1w ago
Ben Jaeger (Music Education 2000) has been named a recipient of a 2024 Rockwell Award. Awarded by the School of Education, these honors recognize exemplary teachers and other school professionals who mentor and provide high-quality field experiences to UW–Madison students who are preparing to work in schools. Recipients of these awards receive $1,000 each for […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
3w ago
Purchase tickets University Opera begins the 2024-25 season with Songbird, a reimagining of Offenbach’s hilarious operetta La Périchole in 1920s New Orleans. Songbird was adapted by Eric Sean Fogel, James Lowe (musical arrangement and orchestration), and Kelley Rourke (English lyrics and book). The adaptation, a masterful mashup of 19th century operetta with the jazzy Ragtime […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
1M ago
Since his undergraduate days at UW–Madison, Cody Goetz (Piano Performance and Spanish ’17) has maintained a focus on community engaged music education opportunities. “From the first moment I started working with Cody as an undergraduate piano major, I knew that he wanted to make a difference in the world,” Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
2M ago
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Mead Witter School of Music
3M ago
The School of Music is proud to present a new concert series, Live from the Mead Witter School of Music. Held the second Sunday of each month during the academic year in Collins Recital Hall at the Hamel Music Center, this series will focus on chamber music performances by faculty ensembles, top student groups, and […]
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Mead Witter School of Music
4M ago
The School of Music is excited to announce Herb Payung as the next Assistant Director of Bands. He will serve alongside the band faculty to teach and help guide the historic University of Wisconsin Bands program in the School of Music. In addition, he will assist with aspects in both the athletic and concert band programs, and the undergraduate curriculum. Payung replaces Alexander Gonzalez, who has been hired as the Director of Bands at Southern Oregon University.
“As an alumnus of UW–Madison, I am aware not only of the well-established musical tradition of the Mead Witter School of Music, b ..read more
Mead Witter School of Music
4M ago
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) has announced that Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Mariana Farah, has been invited through its peer-review process to perform at the national conference in Dallas, Texas. One of the highest honors in choral music, Concert Choir will perform on March 19, 2025 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and at the Winspear Opera House.
Under the leadership of Dr. Farah since 2021, Concert Choir has already performed at the Wisconsin State Music Conference and has been nominated as a finalist for the 2024 American Prize in Choral ..read more
Mead Witter School of Music
6M ago
Professor Susan C. Cook and Professor Paul Rowe are retiring this spring.
Cook is a professor of musicology, and was formerly the academic associate dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School and director of the School of Music. She also held the Walt Whitman Chair in American Culture Studies as part of the Fulbright Distinguished Teaching Program in the Netherlands.
Cook’s teaching and research focuses on contemporary and American music of all kinds and demonstrates her abiding interest in feminist methodologies and cultural criticism. The author of Opera for a New Republic, she ..read more