Jessica Wiseman (Ph.D., Music Education) & Emma Rose (MM, Music Education), presented their research at the National Assoc. for Music Education’s Symposium on Music Teacher Education in Salt Lake City, Oct. 12-14.
Earlier in May, new CDs were released featuring two members of the jazz faculty at the Department of Music and Dance: Felipe Salles' Home is Here and Fumi Tomita on David Detweiler's There Used to Be Rain.
The Department of Music & Dance held its annual Convocations on May 16 (Music) and May 17 (Dance) to honor its graduates and scholarship award winners.
Erinn E. Knyt, Professor of Music History in the Department of Music and Dance, has had her second book, Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound, published by Oxford University Press.
The UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Catherine Jensen-Hole, director), plus students Coleman Hovey, jazz piano & Helkin Sosa, trumpet/ composer, received the DownBeat Awards.
The Department of Music & Dance is accepting applications (through May 15) for the 2023 UMass Young Artist Awards, open to Massachusetts high school students.