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Celebrating 50 years of women in the KU Marching Jayhawks
Honorees added to Nicholas Gerren Hall of Achievement
KU’s inaugural Saxophone Day coming November 12
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KU Professor of Tuba and Euphonium wins Teaching Award
us in congratulating Professor of Tuba and Euphonium Scott Watson, who was named the winner of the 2022 International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA) Daniel Perantoni Teaching Award. ...
KU School of Music to honor faculty, alumni with hall of achievement and dedication ceremony
Collage returns for 2022
KU School of Music welcomes new faculty
KU School of Music student nabs First and Grand Prize at international competition
School of Music congratulates student Yi Chang, who recently received First Prize and the Grand Prize for Best Performance of the Required Work at the International Young Artist Piano Competition (IYAPC). The competition, based in Washington, D.C., was held online this year June 23 - 26. ...
KU Jazz Ensemble I Honored by DownBeat and Jazz at Lincoln Center
the results of the awards today, May 5, and will publish them in its June issue. As one of the world’s leading jazz and contemporary music publications, DownBeat announces its Student Music Awards annually. Students and educators nominate themselves in an open call for recorded performances and applications, and winners...
University of Kansas invited to compete at the 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship at Lincoln Center
KU School of Music Celebrates the Season with 97th Annual Holiday Vespers and KU Jazz Vespers
A favorite KU holiday tradition, the 97th Annual Holiday Vespers will be held on Sunday, Dec. 5 with concerts at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas. ...
KU Wind Ensemble and Crossroads Wind Symphony Celebrate Women Composers in Concert
On November 16, the KU Wind Ensemble and Crossroads Wind Symphony will present a joint concert featuring the work of women composers. ...
Musicology professor receives 2021 Chancellors Club Teaching Award
professor of musicology at the University of Kansas, is known for his creative, energetic teaching style filled with movement and music. ...
KU Jazz Ensemble I Earns Top Downbeat Student Music Award
leadership, the KU Jazz Studies Program has received 28 DownBeat Student Music Awards since 1992. ...
A secret, two-note formula tugs heartstrings in movies
Can a few seconds' worth of music convey the triumph of civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr., the price he paid to achieve it and yet presage the struggles to come in our own time? ...
KU School of Music celebrates the season with 96th Annual Holiday Vespers
The KU School of Music along with the Lied Center of Kansas, Reach Out Kansas, Inc. And the Law Offices of Smithyman & Zakoura presents the 96th Annual KU Holiday Vespers Concert. ...
KU Symphony Orchestra receives national recognition
The University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra (KUSO), led by Carolyn Watson, conductor and director of orchestral activities, was honored earlier this month with a 2019-20 American Prize for Orchestral Performance (second place, College/University Division) for its performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 "The Year 1917.” The concert took place on...
KU Virtual Midwestern Music Camp draws nearly 2,000 students
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn, the University of Kansas Midwestern Music Camp continued its 85-year-old tradition online and free of charge. ...
KU School of Music welcomes three new faculty for fall semester
School of Music is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members for the fall 2020 semester. ...
KU music alumnus wins MTNA Young Artist Performance Competition
University of Kansas alumnus Benjamin Dominguez has recently been awarded first place in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Performance Competition. ...
KU Music mourns alumnus Brandon McCray, DMA ’15
a world-renowned gospel saxophonist and reverend, a dedicated educator, and a compassionate and honorable man. We will miss him and his many contributions to those around him. ...
KU School of Music celebrates 20th Annual Collage Concert
The University of Kansas School of Music will kick off the 2019-2020 performance season with the 20th Annual Collage Concert, a free celebration of the school’s many musical offerings. ...
Notre-Dame Organist Olivier Latry named William T. Kemper Artist-In-Residence at KU
one of three organists at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris and is professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory of Music. He performs more than 100 concerts a year and has given concerts in more than 50 countries on five continents. ...
KU School of Music strengthens ties with Chinese music institutions
the school was invited to join the Global Music Education League, a global nongovernmental, nonprofit academic organization that was established in 2017 to increase coordination among international music education institutions. ...
KU Music sound engineer Brock Babcock wins Latin Grammy
to Paulina Leisring’s Grammy Award started in Taiwan, but the story of how the recording came to fruition is a tale that spans continents. ...
Alumni News: Jennifer Antonetti named 40 under 40 by Yamaha
alum Jennifer Antonetti (BME '07, MME '13) was recently included in Yamaha’s 40 under 40 roundup celebrating excellence in music education. Hundreds of music educators from a wide variety of programs and backgrounds were nominated to receive this recognition from Yamaha. Among the reasons Antonetti was selected are her commitment...
2020 Presser Scholar: Gabriella Bernard
Gabriella Bernard, entered her senior year at KU as a music therapy major, while minoring in psychology. She plays trumpet in the KU Symphonic Band and is a teacher’s aide at Hilltop Child Development Center. During her three years at KU, Bernard has excelled in research under the guidance of...
KU Jazz Ensemble I earns top DownBeat Student Music Award
leadership, the KU Jazz Studies Program has received 28 DownBeat Student Music Awards since 1992. ...