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American Musicological Society Presents Teaching Award to Erinn Knyt
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Erinn E. Knyt, Associate Professor of Music History at UMass Amherst, has been awarded the American Musicological Society's Teaching Award for her article entitled "Teaching Music History to Graduate Students" (Journal of Music History Pedagogy 6, 2016).

Grad Jazz Student Brian Martin Receives National Recognition for New Composition
Friday, November 16, 2018
A composition by UMass Amherst graduate student Brian Martin was one of only six selected for inclusion in the Young Composer Showcase by the Jazz Education Network.

Ricciardi Receives International Recognition for his Tasso in Music Project
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Assistant Professor of Music History Emiliano Ricciardi has recently received important international recognition for the Tasso in Music Project, an NEH-funded digital edition of the early modern musical settings of poetry by Torquato Tasso, of which he is the director and general editor.