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On March 29-31, our own Associate Professor of Piano Gilles Vonsattel performed Bernstein's Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety  with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world's finest orchestral ensembles.

The Department of Music and Dance is among four academic departments selected to pilot a new approach to evaluating teaching at UMass Amherst.

Sara K. Jones, Assistant Professor in the UMass Amherst Music & Dance Department, was recently selected as Modern Band in Higher Education Fellow by Little Kids Rock.

Romie de Guise-Langlois has been appointed Assistant Professor of Clarinet (tenure track), in charge of leading the Music & Dance Department’s Clarinet Studio.

Thomas P. Hannum, associate director of the Minuteman Marching Band, has been named a recipient of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) Lowell Mason Award in recognition of his leadership in music education.

On Sunday, February 25 at 4 p.m., the Department of Music and Dance will host a special screening of the 2016 documentary, Composed, in Bezanson Recital Hall.