College of Letters & Science
Bassist Kathryn Schulmeister is an internationally active soloist and ensemble musician whose creative practice encompasses contemporary, classical, and experimental music. She is a member of ELISION Ensemble and Fonema Consort and has appeared as a guest artist with Ensemble MusikFabrik, Klangforum Wien, Wild Up!, Ensemble Vertixe Sonora, SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg, Delirium Musicum, and Ensemble Dal …
Laura Schwendinger, composer of Artemisia, winner of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Opera award ($50,000), one of the largest such award to composers of opera, was the first composer to win the Berlin Prize in 1999 and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. A professor of music composition at UW–Madison, her works have …
Ruka Shironishi’s research focuses on the modal harmony that emerged from the plainchant revival in nineteenth-century France, a subject she has presented on at national and regional conferences, including the Society for Music Theory (SMT) and the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS). She also serves on the board of MTSNYS and on the …
Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times), Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests. He is known for a passionate advocacy of music written in the past 100 years — Messiaen, Ligeti, and …
Scott Teeple serves as a professor of music and director of bands at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In this role, he conducts the wind ensemble, teaches graduate conducting, and oversees all aspects of the UW–Madison Band program. Mr. Teeple is in demand as a clinician and guest conductor. He is regularly invited to guest conduct throughout …
American bass Matthew Treviño is an internationally active performer and educator whose career encompasses opera, concert, and the recording arts. A native of Texas, he has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras throughout North America and Europe, including English National Opera, Dallas Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opera Colorado, Austin Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Calgary Opera, …
Little Rock, Arkansas native Gabriel Wade is a versatile trumpeter, pianist, and educator with a rich performance history. He’s shared the stage with iconic ensembles and artists such as the Count Basie Orchestra and Bobby Watson, and Chicago staples like the Clif Wallace Big Band, Tom Garling Jazz Orchestra, Marlene Rosenberg Quartet, and the Afro-Caribbean …
Johannes Wallmann is a pianist and composer, recording artist on Shifting Paradigm Records and Fresh Sound New Talent Records, a Yamaha Piano artist, and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Wallmann has performed extensively as a bandleader and as a sideman in local, national, and international venues. Born 1974 in Germany, Johannes …
As an ethnomusicologist, John Walsh is broadly interested in the relationships between music and cities. Specifically, his work explores the music scene as a flexible form of collective expressive culture that articulates relations between sociality, materiality, and aesthetics. His current research focuses on contemporary music scenes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under conditions of political transformation. Walsh received …
Michael Weinstein-Reiman is a historian of music theory. His work seeks to elucidate music theory’s role in the history of ideas over the longue durée. His related research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy, music pedagogy, literature, gender and sexuality, and disability studies. In 2021, he received the Ph.D. in Music Theory from Columbia …