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Portal Wisconsin feature story on Summer Music Clinic
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Christopher Taylor performs Beethoven Sonatas
Associate Professor Christopher Taylor performed all of the Beethoven piano sonatas during the Spring 2008 semester. To honor his accomplishment, School of Music board members Linda and Robert Graebner hosted a reception following the last performance. At the event, Chancellor John Wiley announced a $64,000 gift for Mr. Taylor, to be used in teaching, performance, and research. Information about radio broadcasts of these concerts.
Schwendinger wins Guggenheim Associate Professor Laura Schwendinger's work during her Guggenheim year will include a new
composition for the Corigliano String Quartet of Washington D.C. and
another for the Cygnus Ensemble of New York. In addition, she plans to
prepare recordings of some of her recent works, including Chiaroscuro
Azzuro (a violin concerto) and Esprimere (a cello concerto for Matt
Haimovitz), as well as to create a new work for Sole Nero, the
percussion and piano duo of Anthony Di Sanza and Jessica Johnson, both
UW-Madison faculty members.
Essay Award
J. Griffith Rollefson, a PhD student in the Musicology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Riverside, California, has been awarded first prize in the graduate category in the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst essay contest, Changing Demographics: Migration Flow From and To Germany. Rollefson explored this theme in his essay, “Musical (African) Americanization: Hip Hop and Minority Identity in Berlin,” which was judged by an international panel of jurors. It can be read here. Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award
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national Council for Research in Music Education announced that Ruth
Gustafson has been chosen to receive the Outstanding Dissertation of
the Year Award. This is the second time in the span of eight years that
a UW-Madison music education student has received this prestigious
award. Dr. Gustafson will be honored at the biennial national meeting
of MENC, which will be held in Milwaukee in April.
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Sharon Morrow
Ms.
Morrow, who is finishing a doctorate in Music Education at the
UW-Madison, has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor
of music education at Westminster Choir College. The position will
begin this September.
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Balancing music and athletics
String bass player Kenny Jones, who teaches for the Student Teaching Division, also doubles as a football athlete. Read this article to learn more about his interesting story |
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