News

January 23, 2015—Associate Professor of Flute Molly Barth has been awarded a New Music USA grant during its third round of project grants.
January 20 2015— The University of Oregon’s Department of Dance will present Dance 2015, the annual faculty dance concert, at 8 p.m. on Feb. 12, 13, and 14 in the newly-remodeled Robinson Theatre, part of the Miller Theatre Complex on the UO campus.
January 8, 2015—Rita J. Honka, founder of the University of Oregon’s Dance Africa program, is stepping down from her role as company director.
January 5, 2015—Marian Smith, professor of musicology and music history, tells us about unearthing forgotten choreography.
December 16, 2014—Ethan Gans-Morse, a 2013 alumnus and composer of the new opera The Canticle of the Black Madonna, is profiled in the winter 2014 issue of Oregon Quarterly.
 
The article details Gans-Morse’s process in creating and premiering his opera at the UO School of Music and Dance, his relationships with composition faculty member Robe

April 2017—Starting Wednesday, April. 19, the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance will premiere the Music Today Festival, a biannual celebration of the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

December 2, 2014—The University of Oregon Chamber Choir is once again headed overseas, this time to Marktoberdorf, Germany!
Women’s Choral Society Celebrates 80 Years of UO Scholarships
November 17, 2014—On Monday, Dec. 1, a premier performer in the Willamette Valley music scene will launch one of his most ambitious projects to date. 
 
Alexandre Dossin, University of Oregon associate professor of piano performance and piano literature, will launch “In Beall with Brahms,” a concert cycle featuring the complete chamber works with piano by Johannes Brahms, a first for the University of Oregon. The Dec. 1 concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
November 5, 2014—Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium Michael Grose is profiled in the October 2014 issue of The Brass Herald, a British publication.
 
The article details Grose’s experiences studying under the iconic wind and brass pedagogue