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Robert Snarrenberg, Associate Professor of Theory at WashU, has received a grant from the WashU Office of Digital Transformation.
Chris Becker inducted into the 2025 Missouri Music Educators Association Hall of Fame

St. Louis composer uses sounds of nature in an urgent warning about climate change

Antonio Vergara's album The Fury, which features WashU faculty member Candice Ivory, is nominated for a GRAMMY award

Lauren Eldridge Stewart, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, interviewed in the Chicago Tribune

(Re)Discovering Julia Perry Symposium and performance highlighting pioneering Black composer Sept. 27-28
Dr. Patrick Burke, Professor of Music, won the Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from WashU's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Paul Steinbeck featured on the Music Book Podcast

The online journal "All About Jazz" reviewed Paul Steinbeck's newly released paperback edition of "Sound Experiments"

WashU Director of Vocal Studies and Choir, John McDonald receives National ACDA Appointment

Feature on Christina Linsenmeyer (WashU '93) Yale’s Associate Curator of Musical Instruments
Todd Decker's book “Astaire by Numbers” was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Candice Ivory's new album reviews and features

Candice Ivory's forthcoming album reviewed in Americana Highways

Candice Ivory publishes article in The African American Folklorist

Candice Ivory's album When the Levee Breaks to be released on October 6
Todd Decker (Paul Tietjens Professor of Music) has just completed a three-year term as editor of the journal American Music

The Department of Music is sad to note that Roland C. Jordan, Professor Emeritus of Music, passed away (84)

Esther Kurtz awarded BECHS-Africa Fellowship
Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, has been awarded a six-month Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

More reviews for Paul Steinbeck's book Sound Experiments

Learn more about WashU Prof of Music Todd Decker's latest book.

The Women's Song Forum invited Prof. Alex Stefaniak to write a guest post on Clara Schumann's Lieder.

WashU Prof of Music Todd Decker recently had a piece go live that he wrote with Masi Asare on Show Boat.

Paul Steinbeck's book Sound Experiments reviewed by Italian critic Claudio Sessa for La Lettura
An interview with Lauren Eldridge Stewart on her work “Recital: Classical Music and Narrative Power in Haiti”

Paul Steinbeck publishes article about Black composers in UK music magazine The Wire
WashU's Lauren Eldridge Stewart is named a host for the SLSO's live broadcasts

Paul Steinbeck's book Sound Experiments was reviewed in Booklist

PhD student, Felipe Guz Tinoco, recently participated in a virtual residency with the National Endowment for the Humanities about "Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom."

Paul Steinbeck's book Sound Experiments reviewed by UK critic Stewart Smith for The Wire

Paul Steinbeck was interviewed for the website of San Francisco bookstore and publisher City Lights

Associate professor of music Paul Steinbeck was interviewed in the latest issue of Music Journalism Insider.

Patrick Burke explores the history of St. Louis's Powell Hall

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.

Composer Christopher Stark's piece will premiere in March as part of the St. Louis Symphony's Live at the Pulitzer concert series

WashU's Lauren Eldridge Stewart recently contributed to a BBC Radio 4 Soul Episode

Paul Steinbeck's new book, "Sound Experiments" is available for pre-order.
A note of welcome from Patrick Burke, Chair of Music

Welcome to Christopher Douthitt, Lecturer in Electronic Music

WashU flutists win first and second place in young artist competition

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
A note from Alexander Stefaniak, Interim Chair of Music

Musical Lunch Box Launches

WUSTL MUSIC SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Jennifer Gartley was named a Dean's Community Response Award Winner.
Norwegian encounters with the world’s music makers - Interview with Faculty Fellow Patrick Burke
New book release by Craig Monson, Paul Tietjens Professor Emeritus of Music
WesterParse:Species Counterpoint Online - developed by Robert Snarrenberg, Associate Prof. of Theory at WashU

Christopher Stark, composer & Nina Ferrigno, piano receive Chamber Music America Awards

Aldrich is principal author of position paper from the National Collegiate Choral Organization on virtual choirs

Musical Postcards #18 with Hannah Frey

Paula Harper launches “Music Scholarship at a Distance”

Musical Postcards launch with Todd and Kelly Decker
Christopher Stark is named recipient of the Copland House, Sylvia Goldstein Award
Christopher Stark received the Aaron Copland Bogliasco Fellowship in Music from the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy

Works from Christopher Stark and LJ White to be featured on "Live at Pulitzer" Series from the St. Louis Symphony

What does war sound like? Todd Decker on the music of combat films
Todd Decker featured on the BBC World Service: "It Jus' Keeps Rolling: The Story of Ol' Man River"

Clare Bokulich wins the 2018 Roland Jackson Award from the American Musicological Society
Paul Steinbeck's book Message to Our Folks earned the 2018 Steve Larson Award for Jazz Scholarship from the Society for Music Theory's Jazz Interest Group.
Stark awarded a 2018 Barlow Commission
