Claire Wachter Receives OCF Grant
In May 2018, The Nellie Tholen Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation awarded Steinway Artist Claire Wachter a grant of $40,000 to complete the second phase of The Virtual Piano Master Course online video series.
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Dossin named Steinway Artist
Alexandre Dossin, professor of piano performance and literature, who has been added to the prestigious roster of Steinway Artists, will perform at the Steinway and Sons Gallery in Beverly Hills on November 2, 2016.
Critics have called Dossin a "wonderful pianist," "master of contrasts," "master of expressiveness," and “a stunning pianist with a symbiotic relationship with the instrument."
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.
Mentzel Awarded German Exchange Grant
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
Top Composition Honor to Kyr
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.
Musicking Conference Brings Early Music Luminaries
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.
UO Musicologist Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
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
Kaufman Wins 3MT Competition
May 8, 2015—Think fast! Alison Kaufman, a doctoral student in the SOMD’s musicology program (far left in this photo), placed first in the University of Oregon Graduate School's Three-Minute Thesis Competition on Friday, May 1.
Research Spotlight: Loren Kajikawa, Musicology
April 24, 2015—Loren Kajikawa, assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology, tells us about his new book, and why assumptions about race are just as contingent as classifications of musical genre.
Kajikawa reviewed in Register-Guard
February 24, 2015—A new book by Assistant Professor of Musicology Loren Kajikawa is reviewed in the February 22 issue of The Register-Guard.