PLAGUE DIARY Recently the San Francisco Chronicle profiled lecturer Ben Goldberg’s new project “Plague Diary,” a musical account of the COVID-19 pandemic
HIVE CHOIR Composition Graduate Student Didem Coskunseven recently collaborated with Belfast’s HIVE Choir on their song “Murmuration,” adding electronics and visuals
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Kirsten Paige (Ph.D. ’18) participated in an online panel and contributed an essay to the program guide for the Michigan Opera Theater premiere of “Götterdämmerung.” |
FROMM FOUNDATION Composition Professor, Ken Ueno, has been awarded a prestigious commission from Harvard’s Fromm Music Foundation
BROWN FELLOWSHIP Musicology graduate student Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit has been awarded the prestigious Howard Mayer Brown dissertation fellowship by the American Musicological Society for his project “Sounding Civilization: Race and Sovereignty in the Imperial Opera of Siam, 1870-1910.”
AMS 2020 Graduate Students Ryan Gourley and Amalya Lehmann, as well as Professor Nicholas Mathew, are presenting at this year’s virtual AMS in addition to the many former Berkeleyans featured on the program. |
SONEVYTSKY WINS LOCKWOOD Music faculty member Maria Sonevytsky’s book “Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine” has been awarded the prestigious Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society.
150 YEARS OF WOMEN AT BERKELEY Helen Farnsworth, the first-ever employee in the Music Department, has been honored as part of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley Celebration.
2020 HELLMAN FELLOW Assistant Professor Maria Sonevytsky has been awarded a Hellman Fellows Fund to develop work on Soviet children’s music |
