Alumni and Donor News

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For Mark and Mari Dembrow, supporting students means more than just money.
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SOMD Student Discovers Passion for Music Education with Guidance from Alum

By Kristen Hudgins 

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Two music education alumni receive top award in Oregon for excellence in teaching

By Kristen Hudgins

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Murdock Family generously donates $1 million to SOMD for student scholarships

By Kristen Hudgins

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‘Her music is beautiful and needs to be heard!’ Alumna partners with SOMD professor to release world-premiere recordings of works by underrepresented female composer

By Kristen Hudgins

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Alum composes work inspired by autistic, nonverbal son

By Kristen Hudgins  

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April Alumni Spotlight: Julia Vickers
UO SOMD Faculty and Alumni to Attend Musicology Conference

Many SOMD faculty and Alumni are participating in the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Music Theory in New Orleans, Louisiana November 10-13, 2022. You can view the conference activities the SOMD representatives will be taking part in below! 

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Brad Garner Reaches New “Creative Heights” with an Interdisciplinary Dance Project funded by the Oregon Community Foundation

Associate Professor of Dance Brad Garner and his non-profit organization "Integrated Arts" has won a $75,000 Creative Heights Award from the Oregon Community Foundation to produce and tour a new work based on the life of legendary inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla. The work, which is entitled "Tesla: Light, Sound, Color," aims to creatively merge artistic disciplines with physics. The premiere performance is scheduled for Fall 2017 at the Soreng Theatre in the Hult Center.