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90 years after his assassination by fascists, Frederico García Lorca continues to inspire. The latest work to take its cue from the Spanish poet is a new boundary-breaking chamber opera by Elisabet Curbelo, Associate Professor of Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Utah.

U Clarinets travelled to South Korea to perform at the International Clarinet Association (ICA) conference.

Perry G. Fine, an alum of the VCU School of Medicine, has completed and produced a musical, written a symphony and helped organize a medical orchestra at the University of Utah, where he is an anesthesiology professor.

For more than 160 years, Daynes Music has stood as one of Utah’s most enduring cultural institutions. It is now closing.

Since receiving the School of Music Advisory Board Scholar Award in Sept. 2025, Jane Hatter has taught a seminar on Women in Music, given three conference presentations and a campus lecture, visited a local high school, and provided a pre-concert talk for Utopia Early Music.

A gem of Salt Lake City’s music scene, Hot House West Swing Orchestra grew from a seed planted by two students during their time in the University of Utah School of Music. This month, UtahPresents brings the fourteen-piece group home to Kingsbury Hall.

Every year, the day after Utah Philharmonia’s Haunted Orchestra concert concludes, Dr. Robert Baldwin starts thinking about the music selections for the next year. That’s just how much fun the show is.

School of Music Associate Professor Elizabeth T. Craft recently published "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" with Oxford University Press.

Claudia Restrepo (DMA’ 17) was appointed as the Assistant Principal Librarian with the New York Philharmonic! She begins her new appointment this summer as she concludes her work this season with the Utah Symphony.

Alumni newsletter Spring 2024

U School of Music associate professor Jane Hatter is spending the year abroad at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy as a 2023-2024 CRIA Fellow in The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a special presentation of Sonic Blossom, a participatory artwork by Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei. Sonic Blossom is a performance-based project that allows local, classically trained singers to offer a spontaneous gift of song to museum visitors in the UMFA galleries.

For composer Amy Scurria, Alice from Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was an obvious, albeit unconventional, opera heroine waiting to take the stage. Premiering April 12-13, 2024.

Look no further than the University of Utah campus to add a touch of art to this festive season –– from markets supporting local artists to concerts full of holiday flair –– we have got you covered all month long. Grab a friend (or a few) and join us!

Powerful exchange of culture and music, highlighting six extraordinary Japanese musicians in performances across the Mountain West. Supported by a grant from the Council of Dee Fellows at the University of Utah, and led by School of Music Professor Kirstin Chavez in partnership with Assistant Professor Ashton Lazarus from the Department of World Languages & Cultures in the College of Humanities.

The Jazz Ambassadors of the United States Army Field Band are coming to University of Utah's campus for a special (free!) performance at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on Wednesday November 1, 2023.

The Society for Music Teacher Education will hold their symposium at the U. Dr. Carla Shalaby will be the Susan Conkling Keynote Address speaker.

Musicians worldwide dream of performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. For professionals and emerging artists alike, it is an honor to play in the revered venue.

The University of Utah is pleased to host the second meeting of Teaching Composition: A Symposium on Music Composition Pedagogy. This conference fills an important gap in music scholarship. In other areas of music academia—for example, performance or theory—there are pedagogy journals, conferences, courses, and degree programs.

School of Music alumni stories and updates from Spring 2023.

March 13-17, 2023
 Curbelo Piano Duo: masterclasses, lectures, and concerts. Free and open to the public.

Congratulations to Michelle Pedersen (DMA), a soprano at the School of Music who was cast as Giovanna in the upcoming Utah Opera production of Rigoletto.

The US Navy Band Tour is making an important stop at the University of Utah on March 16. Tickets are FREE, but reserve early as they may sell out.

University of Utah Trumpet Ensemble has advanced to compete Live Rounds at the National Trumpet Competition in Boulder, CO in March 2023.

School of Music students and faculty are creating the future, making their mark with original compositions that are then selected for ensembles and groups to perform.

Shazia Manzoor is a world renowned Qawwali singer from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She has recorded numerous albums including 2018 recording with Shergill Records. She stars in the music video with singer, Zakir Amanat on the song "Akh Da Nasha".

Alumna of University of Utah School of Music, Morgan Smith, and current U student, Rachel Horman participated in International Musicians Academy July 29, 2022.

This summer, School of Music students traveled to the 2022 Saarburg Festival, where they performed demanding repertoire in a multitude of venues across Germany and Luxembourg.

Recent graduate from the University of Utah School of Music, Connor P. Brown, has received the distinguished 2022-23 Fulbright Award, and was selected to be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Germany. Brown earned BA degrees in both German and Music, and focused heavily on piano performance while at the U.

Performing Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” with the University of Utah opera program has been a long-held aspiration for director Robert Breault. Beyond its cultural popularity, moody environment, and complex characters, the show allows for broad collaboration and interdisciplinary participation.

Please join the University of Utah Chamber Choir for the world premiere of Adrian Dunn's, The 42 Project! Dr. Austin Thorpe and the University of Utah Chamber Choir have commissioned Mr. Dunn to write a choral suite honoring the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. We seek to honor Jackie, his family, and all that he stood for as an exemplary athlete and civil rights icon. 

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in partnership with the University of Utah Department of English, and the School of Music, will host an engaging evening of art with visiting artist Alisha B. Wormsley; a new media artist who negotiates collective memory, the synchronicity of time, and the narratives of women of color.

U Music scholarships make all the difference. This weekend, the U School of Music will celebrate students and the generous community that supports them at the annual Camerata Awards.

Two School of Music piano students were nationally recognized this month at the 2022 Music Teacher National Association.

Attend the Utah Clarinet Festival at the School of Music on March 24-25, 2022. See joint performances by high school, collegiate, and professional clarinetists and attend masterclasses by renowned musicians.

Artivism for Earth has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 inaugural Anthem Awards. The Anthem Awards honors the purpose and mission-driven work of people, companies and organizations worldwide.

Celebrating the resilience and joy of live music, artists and scholars from the U School of Music present an unforgettable evening of classical masterpieces and new, original compositions. Following the arc of time from the 1600s to the present, the program invites audience members to immerse themselves in the sound-world of early historical instruments: harpsichord, recorder, and baroque violin, and the most recent, cutting-edge creations in the electro-acoustic genre. Mozart’s sparkling operatic aria “Porgi amor” from "The Marriage of Figaro" and Brahms’s piano trio in B major highlight the agile virtuosity of the human voice, strings, and piano.

Kyle Johnson’s new film offers a way past this stumbling block when it comes to new music by opting for two strategies. First, he has chosen as his subject the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds, for many decades a trailblazing figure who bridges the worlds of traditional instruments and voice, computer-processed sound, and multimedial collaborations.

On the surface, the four children of Leroy and Naomi Robertson share little in common. With distinct personalities, temperaments, and goals, each pursued a unique life path.

Michael Sammons, D.M.A. serves as the Percussion Area Head at the University of Utah and is recognized as a versatile performer in solo, chamber, symphonic, marching percussion and non-western musical styles.

The Horizon Award honors an accomplished mid-career alum on the rise. Tyler Nelson is one of America’s most promising young tenors

Associate professor of musicology, Catherine Mayes was invited to speak at the inaugural session of Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music, a virtual forum sponsored by the American Bach Society, the American Handel Society, the Haydn Society of North America, the Mozart Society of America, and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.

The Art of Giving celebrates remarkable stories from the College of Fine Arts donor community. In 1950 during his high school junior year, Ralph Gochnour’s band director took him and four other students on a six-hour round-trip from Burley, Idaho to Salt Lake to hear the Utah Symphony.

All students, faculty, staff, and external entities and audiences using University facilities please follow University of Utah Covid-19 safety recommendations:

The School of Music now offers a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy and a Certificate of Entrepreneurship for Musicians.

The School of Music welcomes two new faculty this year. Read about them here.

The School of Music Early Music Ensemble and Doctoral Performance Practice Seminar are featured this week as part of Early Music America’s 2021 Virtual Young Performer’s Festival, which is hosting fourteen collegiate and pre-college ensembles from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia.

After a tumultuous year, we are excited to celebrate your achievement more than ever. Here's what you need to know about Convocation.

What does a painting sound like? For PhD music composition student Zheng Zhou, it sounds like the Grand Canyon. Zheng is one of ten students in the U’s School of Music composition program who wrote original works of music this year in response to artworks at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA).

For close to three decades, Barbara Ralphs was the glue that held the U Department of Music together. The administrative assistant to five Department of Music chairs, students, faculty, and staff across campus universally relied on her when something needed to be done.

Join the School of Music for two interactive webinars April 26 and 27, on innovative techniques and interventions designed to enhance student practice, training, and experience. Experts from the Centre for Performance Science (Royal College of Music, Imperial College of London) discuss scientifically validated methods for enhancing musical achievement, from physical to psychological to the pharmacological.

One talented musician can impact the experience of an entire ensemble. With that in mind, the School of Music’s Advisory Board established the Top Freshman Award in 2015. Think of it as a signing bonus. This four-year award offers an extra incentive, on top of other scholarship awards, for outstanding musicians to come to, and stay at, the U.

The MOVE Project is a week long series of events from April 5 – 9, 2021 that will feature a digital recreation of the hybrid opera “We Shall Not Be Moved,” followed by a series of panel discussions, symposiums, and masterclasses delivered by the cast and creatives of the original show.

Participate in a week of lessons, workshops, and exciting guest artists masterclasses. Learn from esteemed University of Utah violin faculty, absorb new angles of violin playing and be exposed to the knowledge of some of the most accomplished artists through guest masterclasses.

Matthew Robertson is a music educator at the Waterford School. An alumnus of the University of Utah, Robertson rigorously pursued music throughout his undergraduate studies, but ended up graduating in Human Development and Family Studies.

Read about how alumni are working through the pandemic

School of Music Voci Altissime concert presents themes of respect, social justice, and unity in their concert below. The featured composers, Rosephanye Powell, Zanaida Robles, and Brittney Boykin will each introduce their piece and discuss the significance of their music within these themes.

The Utah Philharmonia's video of the world premiere performance of Stacy Garrop's Lo Yisa Goy was chosen to be presented during the Virtual Concerts of the 2021 College Orchestra Directors Association Virtual Conference.

Jazz music is taking center stage in Disney’s latest release, “Soul,” now streaming.

The School of Music is preparing for your safe return to campus in Spring 2021. Below is information providing answers to many questions we are receiving from Music students. This information will be updated as the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic change.

As we wrap up the 2020 year, we hope you enjoy this holiday concert by University of Utah Chamber Choir. See the rest of our 2020 concert highlights.

School of Music Assistant Professor, Paul Sherrill's article "Susanna's 'Deh vieni'" was published in the journal Music Theory Online, vol. 24 no. 4 (Dec. 2018). On Nov. 8, the American Musicological Society awarded Sherrill the Roland Jackson Award during its 2020 annual conference. The award recognizes an article "of exceptional merit in the field of music analysis."

Julia Haywood-Breault started hand-sewing masks for her family and friends when the coronavirus first swept the nation, bringing uncertainty for all, especially the music community.

Thinking about studying music at the University of Utah? Attend these zoom seminars Oct. 26-29, 2020. Come meet our outstanding faculty and learn about programs at the School of Music. Free and open to all students.

Carmen Hall has seen over the past two years teaching in the School of Music's Piano Outreach Program (UPOP) that each of her students gains something slightly different from learning piano.

Join us in an online event celebrating the release of Carl Nielsen: Complete Works for Violin Solo and Violin and Piano. Produced by Naxos in partnership with the National Danish Academy and the Royal Danish Library, this first ever anthology of Denmark’s most prominent composer is performed by University of Utah School of Music Professor Hasse Borup (Violin) and Andrew Staupe (Piano), former School of Music faculty, now Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Houston.

As part of a significant new student success initiative funded through the Dee Foundation and private donations, the School of Music is soliciting proposals focusing on student success, student wellness, and social justice from students and faculty. The McKay Music Library Committee will review and support these proposals.

Read about our September events.

Steven Sharp Nelson, acclaimed American cellist, songwriter and member of the famed group The Piano Guys, believes wholeheartedly that music has the power to heal individuals and communities.

Meet School of Music's New Faculty for Fall 2020.

During these extraordinary times, the School of Music is preparing for your safe arrival on campus in Fall 2020. Here is information providing answers to many questions we are hearing from Music students. We will update this information as the situation evolves, and we appreciate your patience.

View the Jed Moss Memorial Concert Program livestreaming on School of Music's YouTube channel on July 17. Read about Jed's friends and colleagues who made this event possible.

On July 17th, musicians from around the country will come together to create an online musical experience in honor of their colleague and friend, Jed Moss, commemorating the first anniversary of his untimely death.

The School of Music Director of Bands, Scott Hagen, will be retiring Fall 2020 after 29 years of service. Professor Hagen started teaching at the University of Utah in 1991, became an Associate Professor in 2002, and the Director of Bands in 2005. He teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, and serves on numerous committees­ for the department. The School of Music will be celebrating Professor Hagen’s achievements this fall. Stay tuned for more information on the School of Music’s website, music.utah.edu.

The leadership of the University of Utah School of Music is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that is unequivocal and purposeful in its rejection of racism. Please follow this link to the full statement and action items.

Sparked by her recent research for her upcoming monograph, Assistant Professor Elizabeth Craft has written an informative piece on musical theater and the 1918 flu pandemic.

Before they all graduated (and before COVID-19 drastically changed their final semester), they came together to record. “My favorite part of recording the EP was being able to share that space with my friends during our final year at the University of Utah. We've all worked really hard to get to where we are musically and it was really nice to see that all come together and to have something documented that demonstrates our passion for music,” vocalist Anaïs Chantal Samuels reflected.

Join us in celebrating our retiring faculty: Professor Kathy Pope, clarinet; and, composer Dr. Steve Roens. Congratulations on your retirements!

We're hosting a Facebook Watch Party and featuring performances of our School of Music students!

Meet graduating student Tony Elison and read what School of Music faculty have to say about this talented senior.

The School of Music’s annual SOMe Festival is a celebratory concert organized by the students, for the students. At the end of each academic year the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) reviews student performances to be featured in Libby Gardner Concert Hall.

A video message for music students from the School's Director, Dr. Miguel Chuaqui.

Associate Professor (Lecturer) Cathy Clayton has fifteen years' experience with online teaching, and she offers her insights during this time of remote learning.

The University of Utah has proactively monitored and responded to daily developments as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread in Utah and across the United States. As was announced by President Watkins on March 12, 2020, classes at the University of Utah are cancelled Monday and Tuesday, March 16 and 17 (after Spring Break). The University of Utah will shift to all-online instruction beginning March 18 for the rest of spring semester. All School of Music concerts, and all other public events, are cancelled through April 29th, 2020, except for student recitals that are required to be completed this semester for graduation. These student recitals will not be open to the public, except through online streaming. The School of Music Office, the McKay Music Library, and School of Music practice rooms will remain open. However, we encourage students to take advantage of technologies that allow them to receive instruction while not being physically present on campus. Students who are away from campus are encouraged not to travel back. Our highest priority remains the health and safety of our students.

Rod Davis is the vice president of Music Business Affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. In this role, Davis is responsible for handling music transactions from negotiations for composers, musicians, and music supervisors, to recording artists and soundtrack album agreements for feature films, television series, game shows and interstitial works. Davis earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah School of Music, his master’s in Music at University of Southern California, and his J.D. at Southwestern University School Law School. Prior to his work at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Davis acted as senior counsel to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, handling music rights and transactions for the studio.

For David Park, School of Music Adjunct Professor, 2020 will be a landmark year for violin performance.

On February 25 – 26, an 1,850-minute-long philanthropy celebration will take over the University of Utah campus, in honor of the University’s Founders Day. In only its 2nd year of existence, U Giving Day was created not only to raise money for the students of the University of Utah but to also educate our students and faculty on various philanthropy efforts.

Living on campus at the U? Why not live amongst your fellow artists?

Not many professional musicians get to perform with an orchestra as a soloist. But every year students compete for the rare opportunity. After multiple rounds of auditions, students are selected to perform with either the Utah Philharmonia or the Campus Symphony, both in-house orchestras.

Join us as we reflect on 2019 and all of the wonderful work done by our students and faculty.

Jordi Savall, a luminous star of the early music universe, is coming with his ensemble, Hespèrion XXI, to the School of Music. Through the Virtuoso Series, a collaboration between the School of Music and Utah Presents supported by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, he will present a concert and a masterclass on early music performance.

The holiday season is in full swing and that can only mean one thing: traditions.

From December 5 through December 14, enjoy a wide variety of holiday performances from our ensembles and community collaborations.

Join us at the School of Music's biggest event of year on Nov. 22 at Libby Gardner Concert Hall. The Camerata Awards Concert Gala celebrates School of Music's talented students, outstanding faculty, and the generous supporters that ensure its success.

Edith Carlquist Reed remembers the practice rooms at the University of Utah as the nicest she ever encountered in her life.

University of Utah’s Utah Philharmonia will channel the mystique of supernatural folklore at this year’s “Haunted Orchestra: Myths and Legends,” Oct. 24-25 in Libby Gardner Concert Hall.

When Dr. Robert Breault taught David Sauer as a voice student in the University of Utah’s School of Music, he couldn’t predict that this student would one day hire him to direct a familiar opera where he would work alongside several of his former and current students in a professional production.

Jed Moss spent his career generously sharing his talent with artists of many types and skill levels. In that spirit, his colleagues, friends, and family are establishing a collaborative piano scholarship at the University of Utah to continue his legacy.

Casey Overfield has played tuba in the University of Utah’s Marching Band for three years. A Communications major originally from Northern California, Overfield immediately connected with the camaraderie of the Marching Band. A valued and committed member of the band since her first moments here on campus, she exemplifies the value of the arts within interdisciplinary studies.

The School of Music’s Red Hot! Performers are expanding in hopes of bringing more live classical and jazz music to events all over the U’s campus and in the wider Salt Lake City community.

On September 19th, the University of Utah’s premiere orchestra, the 85-member Utah Philharmonia will perform with students from the prestigious Wuhan University in China in a concert that explores cultural musical traditions and builds international student relationships.

The 47th Annual National Flute Association Convention came to Salt Lake City this past week. In attendance at the Salt Palace were hundreds of flutists from all over the world, many presenting or performing as soloists, in flute orchestras, or in chamber groups. Some flute choirs were featured in showcase concerts. The School of Music’s own Runnin’ Fl’UTES secured a concert spot in the convention and performed on the morning of 3 August.

Piano Area Head, Ning Lu hosted the first-ever Helen Taylor Johannsen International Piano Competition and University of Utah Music Academy to occur overseas, in Hong Kong, and Guangzhou, China.

Faith, sacrifice, and redemption transpire throughout one of Francis Poulenc’s most profound works, Dialogues des Carmélites. The University of Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble and the Utah Philharmonia will perform this opera on April 19-20 at Kingsbury Hall.

Founded just over eighteen years ago and named for one of the University of Utah’s first music graduates, the Emma Ray Riggs McKay Music Library is nestled in the first floor of the School of Music. We exist to serve the students and faculty of the School of Music, but we have patrons from all over the university. They come to check out scores, study in our beautiful space, produce music in our brand-new music technology studio, or browse through our excellent collections, which embrace a wide variety of materials, from the latest recordings and publications by our faculty to our unique collection of vinyl jazz records.

Dr. Seth Keeton, Assistant Professor of Voice in the School of Music is celebrating the release of an ambitious tool in the Digital Humanities–an online tool for art song discovery called SongHelix. Art song is a genre of classical vocal music intended for performance in recital by one singer and one pianist that prizes direct experience and intimacy.

Pianists of the SummerArts Piano Festival and Competition will grace the stage with their award-winning performances in two special concerts on Jan. 19 and 26, 2019 in Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Every summer the University of Utah hosts the SummerArts Piano Festival and Competition attracting pianists ranging from elementary to college age as they compete for prizes, scholarships, and the chance to perform with a live orchestra. The winners of this year's competition will be showcased alongside the American West Symphony and the Salt Lake Symphony.

The University of Utah Wind Ensemble was the only university ensemble selected to perform at this year's Utah Music Education Association Conference in St. George.

The University of Utah School of Music was ranked #15 out of 370 institutions in the U.S. for veteran friendliness in College Factual’s 2019 national and state rankings. This places the U in the top 5% best music schools for veterans in the nation and is the second year in the row the U has ranked as the best school of music for veterans in Utah.

The School of Music will honor icons of the Salt Lake jazz community at its 18th Annual Camerata Awards Concert Gala on 11/9. Founders of the JazzSLC concert series, Gordon and Connie Hanks, and former U Director of Jazz Studies Henry Wolking will receive their awards at a private dinner and public post-dinner concert in Libby Gardner Concert Hall.

The Women’s Chorus at The University of Utah is an ensemble for singers of all abilities to rehearse and perform an array of treble choral repertoire.

The University of Utah School of Music extends a warm welcome to its newest tenure-line faculty members. Each distinguished in their own right; they offer a wealth of knowledge and experience in each respective area here at The University of Utah.

Gain a deeper knowledge of Dr. Mike Cottle, Associate Professor (Lecturer), Music Technology and Composition at the School of Music.

The University of Utah Chamber Choir is known for its impeccable intonation and unique ringing tone quality. Under the direction of Dr. Barlow Bradford, the Chamber Choir has travelled nationally and internationally participating in festivals and competitions, including winning the European Choral Gran Prix Choral Competition in 2015. This year the choir has accepted an invitation to be one of four headlining choirs to be featured in the China International Choral Festival in Beijing.

David Maslanka is one of the most prominent composers of wind band repertoire. Prior to his passing in August 2017, he began work on Symphony No. 10, which was completed by his son Matthew, and will be premiered by the University of Utah Wind Ensemble on their April 3rd concert.

The College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni for Music goes to Gregory Brown

The University of Utah’s own Assistant Professor of Musicology, Dr. Catherine Mayes was recently awarded The Westrup Prize. This is awarded annually for "an article of particular distinction" published in "Music & Letters," a leading international musicological journal published by Oxford University Press.

The University of Utah School of Music Graduate String Quartet is in residence in the Saarburg Festival in Germany from July 27- August 7, 2015. Giving the U’s Chamber Music Program great exposure in Germany, the Graduate Quartet, along with three other string students, gave a beautiful performance at the opening reception for the festival on Monday, July 27, 2015.

Claudia Restrepo, first year Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) candidate in the Orchestra Conducting program in the School of Music, reflects on why she is studying conducting, and what it means to work as an assistant conductor for the April 3-4, 2015 performance of Prokofiev's "Cinderella."

What goes into an opera production at the U? See our new video about our opera program.

Professor Robert Baldwin will perform as part of the Lindon Chamber Music Society at the Lindon Community Center on Saturday, January 24 at 7:00 pm. The concert, titled "Viola D'Amore," will feature Baldwin on the viola d'amore in collaboration with Kirsten Gunlogson, Associate Professor of Voice; and, Pamela Palmer Jones, Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Musicianship.

The Utah Wind Symphony has been selected to play at the 2014 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. This is a very prestigious opportunity. Their performance is slated for December 20, 2014.

The School of Music’s Music Education program consists of renowned faculty with degrees from prestigious schools that actively perform and publish. Three of the Music Education program’s Faculty members, Jessica Nápoles, Associate Professor and Area Head, Joelle Lien, Associate Professor, and Nicole Robinson, Professor, go above their duties as Faculty members, and were elected as respected members of their profession to serve on editorial review boards for several scholarly peer-reviewed journals within the Music Education community.

The College of Fine Arts has honored Barbara Scowcroft as recipient of the 2014/2015 Distinguished Alumni Award in Music. Scowcroft graduated from the U in 2003 with a MM in Conducting and is now a violinist with the Utah Symphony and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Violin Studies at the University of Utah.

Faculty members Pam Jones, Kirsten Gunlogson, and Robert Baldwin, along with DMA student Leslie Richards, were recently featured on KBYU's Highway 89 radio program. The ensemble performed works by Bach, Vivaldi, Sessa, and Ariosti.

With a new school year comes new faces and academic appointments. The School of Music is pleased to welcome Anne McNamara, Raymond C. Morales Postdoctoral Fellow (Trumpet); Nicole R. Robinson, Professor of Music Education and the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Presidential Endowed Chair for Elementary Music Education; and Jonathan Campbell, the new Director of Jazz Ensembles.

The internationally acclaimed Forward 4 clarinet quartet performed in February at Semanas Musicales de Frutillar, a prestigious chamber music festival in Chile.

Newlywed piano virtuosi Heather Conner and Caleb Harris to present a recital of Romantic duets on February 16, 2014 as part of the Sundays@7 Faculty Recital Series. With four hands and one piano, Conner and Harris will perform the works of Romantic era composers Schubert, Barber, Brahms, and Dvorák.

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera named Barlow Bradford as the new Utah Symphony chorus director this October.

Recently appointed Visiting Associate Professor Nicole R. Robinson joins the School of Music faculty as the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Endowed Chair of Elementary Music Education.

Bringing chamber music, voice, and electronic techniques together, Shara Worden joins the Utah Philharmonia in performing indie artist Sarah Kirkland Snider's Penelope.

The School of Music's Graduate String Quartet, known locally as the Rosco Quartet, will advance to the national Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Performance Competition on March 22, 2013 in Chicago, IL, after winning the regional competition this January in New Mexico.

Alumnus composer Brian Hulse returns to the University of Utah to share his views on success with the next generation of inspiring composers.

The School of Music brings three street pianos to annual Arts Bash to celebrate 100th anniversary of its piano department.

The Graduate String Quartet has been accepted into the prestigious Julliard String Quartet Seminar for the week of May 20-24, 2013.

The School of Music kicks off Centennial in a major key...

Hasse Borup, Associate Professor and Head of String and Chamber Music Studies, uncovers lost, 70-year old sonata by American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987).

Student vocalists celebrate pioneers' love of music in Days of '47 parade.