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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).

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.

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.

Three faculty from the Department of Music and Dance presented work at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT), which took place November 1-4, 2018 in San Antonio, TX.

On Sunday, Nov. 4 at 4pm, the UMass Chamber Choir presented a special Retrospective concert to celebrate its 40th Anniversary, featuring choral director Tony Thornton and professor emeritus Wayne Abercrombie conducting the Chamber Choir & Alumni.

New Music Education lecturer Jaqueline Smith received the Gordon Clark Ramsey Award for Creative Excellence for her work at the Hartt School with children with autism.