Last fall, fifteen UO music students studied abroad for three months in Vienna, Austria. Violinist Professor Gearhart created the program to give music students the opportunity to experience Vienna, the birthplace of classical music, as the music core sequences often make it difficult for music majors to study abroad.
Rodney Dorsey is the Associate Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands and the Oregon Wind Ensemble. He shares his amazement on how students create music that can have an affect on an audience. Bryn Hlava, a dance major, explains the wonderful relationship between music and dance and its positive role in her education as a dancer.
April 21, 2016—The University of Oregon is pleased to welcome the famed producer and composer Guy Sigsworth for May 4-8 residency on the UO campus. The UO School of Music and Dance has named Sigsworth a 2016 Robert M.
April 21, 2016—Eric Mentzel, associate professor of voice at the University of Oregon, has been awarded a grant by the prestigious DAAD (Deustcher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or German Academic Exchange Service) to support teaching this term in Germany.
Mentzel is currently a guest professor at the Staatliche H
April 5, 2016—Robert Kyr, head of the composition area of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, has been awarded one of the top prizes in the country in the field of music composition.
March 30, 2016—On April 15 and 16, the UO Repertory Dance Company, composed of elite student dancers of the University of Oregon, will launch its 18th season.
March 15, 2016—This April, graduate students and faculty members of the musicology area of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance will facilitate an ambitious academic conference on the UO campus.
March 10, 2016—Professor of Musicology Marian Smith has been awarded a Resident Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, funded in part by the Mellon Foundation.
Together with her collaborator Doug Fullington of Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Smith will be in residence in summer 2016 at New York University, where the Center for Ballet and the Art
March 9, 2016—In recognition of the centennial of the UO fight song, the Oregon Legislature has proclaimed that tomorrow, March 10, is officially "Mighty Oregon" Day!
