Alumni News

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Distinguished Alum Jamie Weaver to Speak at 2024 SOMD Commencement

By Kristen Hudgins

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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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‘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
Alumnus takes 2nd place in national opera competition

By Kristen Hudgins 

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! 

Marching Band in the era of Oregon’s Kamikaze Kids

 

First UO African American Female Grad was a Music Student
February 12, 2016—The UO Special Collections and University Archives Blog has published an article covering Nellie Louise Franklin, a University of Oregon music student who was the first documented African American woman to graduate from the university.