AMS BOSTON 2019Berkeley lands EIGHT graduate student papers (Bay, Sheehan, Turner, Sauberlich, Wangpaiboonkit, Gudesblatt, Mendelssohn) and FOUR faculty papers (Casadei, Davies, Sonevytsky, Smart)[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7495″ link=”https://music.illinois.edu/martirano-award”] GONCÜ WINS MARTIRANO AWARDUC Berkeley Composer Selim Goncu’s piece “Widerklang” for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cell is a recipient of the 2019 Martirano Memorial Composition Award given by the University of Illinois.[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7350″ link=”https://www.nationalopera.gr/en/stavros-niarchos-hall/sn-opera/item/2643-pope-joan”] VASSILANDONAKIS, POPE JOANThe Greek National Opera has commissioned Yiorgos Vassilandonakis Ph.D. ’06 to write a new opera to celebrate their 80th anniversary. Pope Joan will be premiered in the Stavros Niarchos Hall in 2020[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7318″ link=”https://www.lesgensdeberkeleymagazine.com/blog/interview-with-clara-olivares-uc-berkeley-phd-candidate-in-music-composition?fbclid=IwAR1wWfSKbkoXl1EZXQ8QvQiSauISdfF1K9ZCiLnFRvfwkfqMOUx7JkTe4Fw”] OLIVARES & LES GENS DE BERKELEYClara Olivares, a graduate student in Composition and native of France, sat down for an interview with Les Gens de Berkeley[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7113″ link=”https://www.aauw.org/aauw_check/fellowships_directory/#rid4842″] KAPUSTA TO EASTMANJohn Kapusta (PhD UC Berkeley, 2017) has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology at Eastman School of Music[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7119″ link=”https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshar.es%2Fa0uevZ%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3-TuMvKwbf4ly_G3USfJEaaH4V5nISIgprtqErC-gadJRnUJzPlLajthI&h=AT01LBTSdTDny0BRVeDlUdFAwvHt-5dSnBiEK0DPnJtEo8RnWyl99GBPEqX79cNpXUUcljVKW5oY2ETvZZJE-Izr-lWKQYEMOIvmsg09b8sylvl17gxmmVPO0xRvb4tF4ivCXzknhYdEwL0DNgG-70ND_5DKLXl_zXn6BnJWmOrCVZ_iwBCMv1HwVy9JoFRGm0lUwfmxMP-EPfa7q4eLocE_AZfPVStOSdeDABtrtR1VHvCGDe_Moi2Wvk_X0aMGIv5_rYgyIwH_WkcoPLTJhFdYRbvQu1hdbwfWd91lVQ_wtexjHGgPqXvvThVXsj9i5AhlzpJnPE7BDgRxdOfd5wFJrKu8NnlqPPVKO0tCJpz5Jw9SeyN1YphsY-wKDEFr4CdrSrJwwSTu4QVq1NzDBPbIRdLu60o90bZ38tcJ65aYRNAf7dqePuND5PWaetvt6jVO_zhdlsVBw63y_PT7d25Dv1_IiFIOw2fW-D1P822PUoHCluy8EqGjKY680qldzzP5qZH_wnrIHxfIIsTjxGM_llrofkHlvcM5rLhRby1Cw0oDVXCDWH0ZD8OjgRjqUfSot8RsO_RSsNcvTcH7xx_PhvDgUTUefs9s44ASnR9HK_0g2o3v1UytVQZH1hwJK5hBtu51i0aBmUfeGb3kkyLMOA”] HER HOLINESSNew opera by Graduate Student composer Curtis Rumrill titled “Her Holiness, The Winter Dog,” premieres
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TSAY ’14 WINS FULBRIGHTMosa Tsay will study with Anssi Karttunen at École Normale de Musique de Paris as part of a project to perform works for solo cello by Kaija Saariaho, Betsy Jolas, and Pascal Dusapin[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7351″ link=”https://chenlily.com/”] CHEN TO TAIPEILily Chen, Ph.D. ’17 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Taipei National University of the Arts where she will teach composition and music technology[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7294″ link=”https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RSAhrendt”] AHRENDT TO UTRECHTRebekah Ahrendt Ph.D. ’11 has joined the Department of Media and Culture Studies as an Associate Professor at the Universiteit Utrecht in Utrecht, the Netherlands following stints at Yale and Tufts[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7277″ link=”http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/beethoven-expert-and-esteemed-pianist-william-kinderman-joins-music-faculty”] KINDERMAN JOINS UCLAWilliam Kinderman Ph.D. ’80 has been named inaugural holder of the Leo M. Klein and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies and professor of music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7110″] SCOTT PRESENTS IN CAIRODoctoral student Melissa J. Scott, graduate student in ethnomusicology, presented at ICTM’s Music of the Arab World Study Group conference in Cairo, Egypt in January 2019. In her paper, “Rethinking Jordanian Music: Perspectives on the Politics of Style,” she assessed the extent to which histories of Iraqi and Palestinian forced migration to Jordan inform local musical practices as well as musicians’ attitudes towards Syrian refugees |
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GOODHEART AT RPIMatthew Goodheart Ph.D. ’13 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he will teach composition, improvisation, and sound installation[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7327″ link=”https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/users/lchisholm”] CHISHOLM ’15Leon Chisholm Ph.D ’15 is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 980 at the Free University in Berlin, and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7319″ link=”https://www.aauw.org/aauw_check/fellowships_directory/#rid4842″] AZAHAR WINS AAUW FELLOWSHIPPh.D. Ethnomusicology student Christina Azahar has been named a 2019-20 Fellow by The American Association of University Women (AAUW)[pbs_component_photo image_id=”7111″] SUSTAINABLE SOUNDSJonathan Turner will present “Exploring Shifts in the Material Production of Sustainable Instrument Manufacturing at Blackbird Guitar” at the conference titled “Sustainable Sounds: Interrogating The Materials of Music Making Technologies,” to be held on Saturday, 11 May 2019, at St. Cecilia’s Hall Concert Room and Music Museum, University of Edinburgh
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