Announcing the Joyce Castle Campaign for KU Opera. With this effort, we have a fantastic opportunity to create a permanent fund supporting the opera program at KU. In doing so, we honor an extraordinary champion of this vital program in the School of Music. Read more...

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• Protocols for ensembles: Band, Choral, Jazz, and Orchestras
• Details on the university’s protocols for re-opening campus can be found at Protect KU.

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Faculty News: Bernadette's Crazy Book Nook

Joyce Castle, University Distinguished Professor of Voice, starred in a Zoom Opera presented by the Fort Worth Opera. Bernadette's Cozy Book Nook premiered January 14, and is available digitally through January 24, 2021. 

Faculty News: Brandon Draper

From being the last artist to tour Zildjian to remotely visiting percussion studios at other universities and performing socially distanced outdoor concerts Brandon Draper, percussion lecturer and director of music enterprise, has continued to put his music entrepreneurship skills to good use during the pandemic. 

 

March 12, 2020

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Faculty News: Scott Murphy

In a series of recent analytical essays, professor of music theory Scott Murphy proposes and employs a generalized conceptual framework and labeling system for chord progression.

Britney Spears on oboe, "Reed Talk", and more news from the KU Oboe Studio

The KU Double Reed Ensemble prepared a video performance for the Midwestern Double Reed Society Annual Member Meeting on October 18, 2020. They performed an arrangement of Toxic by Britney Spears, arranged by freshman oboist Ava Bigalke. 

 

Dr. Margaret Marco participated in the Oboe Mobile Foundation Workshop on November 20, 2020. The Oboe Mobile Foundation provides free instruments and instruction for young oboists from all over the island of Puerto Rico.

 

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