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A review of the Great Artists Series Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Great Artists Series: Grammy nominee Joyce Yang performs March 24 - The Source
Great Artists Series: Tafelmusik and ‘Passions Revealed’ - The Source
PhD Student Tad Biggs invited to give a talk as part of the Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival
World-renowned pianist Jeremy Denk to perform in St. Louis as part of Great Artist Series - St. Louis Dispatch
"Denk will kick off Washington University's 2024 Great Artists Series with solo recital and book talk." - STL Magazine
Christopher Stark is the new curator for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performances at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Friends of Music Concerto Competition Winners Announcement Fall '22
The spark for ‘Fire Ecologies’
Washington University announces 2023 Great Artists Series - Learn more in The Source
J'Nai Bridges will kick off 2023 Great Artists Series of classical concerts
Faculty composer Chris Stark named a '22-'23 Rome Prize winner
"WashU and Sheldon welcome DakhaBrakha" - article from The Source
An interview with Attacca Quartet's violinist Domenic Salerni in STL Magazine
Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet's performance in the Great Artists Series was featured in The Source
Alumni Feature - In honor of the Dept of Music's 75th Anniversary - Jennifer Klauder, Associate Director of Communications at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Jazz News reviews The Art Ensemble of Chicago, the French translation of Paul Steinbeck's book Message to Our Folks, published by the Presses Universitaires du Midi.
Faculty composer, Chris Stark talks about his new work "Second Nature"
Learn more from The Source about 'What Belongs to You' - an opera in progress
Alumni Feature - In honor of the Dept of Music's 75th Anniversary - Dr. Miller
Alumni Feature - In honor of the Dept of Music's 75th Anniversary - Rev. Dr. Liu
WashU student composer Joseph Mosby premieres his song Entropy with WashU faculty
Cellist Jeremy Lin - Winner of the Friends of Music Concerto & Aria Competition '21-'22
WashU's Lauren Eldridge Stewart recently contributed to a BBC Radio 4 Soul Episode
Washington University partners with Sheldon for Whitaker World Music Series
The Calyx Trio was awarded its second Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America
Learn more from The Source about the '22 Great Artists Series
Daniel Fister received an award from the Society for Ethnomusicology
Alexander Stefaniak's book "Becoming Clara Schumann: Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon" is available for pre-order.
"Becoming Clara Schumann" is available from Indiana University Press on November 2.
The STL Post-Dispatch featured an article on the '22 Great Artists Series Announcement
CRE2-Department of Music-The Sheldon Partnership
PhD Candidate Elena Arredondo Farel awarded a Center for the Humanities Fellowship
PhD Candidate Elena Arredondo Farel received a Center for the Humanities Fellowship
PhD Candidate Daniel Fister awarded a Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship
PhD Candidate Daniel Fister awarded a Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship
WashU flutists win first and second place in young artist competition
Through two rounds of competition, undergraduate flutists Lillie Kang and Maria Schmeer won first and second place respectively in the Flute Society of St. Louis Collegiate Young Artist Competition.
Pianist Cindy Lu wins spot in competitive masterclass with Victor Rosenbaum
The Art Ensemble of Chicago, the French translation of Paul Steinbeck's book Message to Our Folks, was just published by the Presses Universitaires du Midi. The edition features a preface by Ludovic Florin and an afterword by Alexandre Pierrepont.
"Tear Down the Walls: White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock," the latest book by Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Patrick Burke is now available.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Musicology Paula Clare Harper has been named named the new Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Glenn Korff School of Music
Faculty member Cally Banham will host "Tango with Cally," a weekly show on Classic 107.3.
Todd Decker and Lauren Eldridge Stewart will participate in a symposium this April - a collaboration between WashU and OTSL
2021 Friends of Music Concerto & Aria Competition Winners
Paula Harper launches “Music Scholarship at a Distance”
Paula Harper, a postdoctoral fellow in musicology, launched the online colloquium “Music Scholarship at a Distance” from her St. Louis apartment.
Coming soon to WashU - Eric Owen, bass-baritone with Jeremy Denk, piano
Flutist Cameron Perrin wins the 2018-2019 Friends of Music Concerto Competition
Cameron Perrin will perform Griffes Poem on December 2nd with the Washington University Symphony Orchestra.
Stark awarded a 2018 Barlow Commission
Christopher Stark has won a 2018 commission/prize for a new violin/electronics piece for Shawn Weil of the St. Louis Symphony that will involve research in Asia.
Keith Wehmeier, Teacher of Applied Music, wins major opera role at the Miami Music Festival
Keith Wehmeier will be in Miami in June to perform the role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Nicole Aldrich elected as Vice-President (College/University) of the Missouri Music Educators Association
MMEA’s state membership of over 3,000 music educators encourages everyone to join together as advocates for music education in our schools.