Congratulations to this year’s Austin B. Caswell Award winners, Evita Jovic and Charles D. Helge. The awards, which honor the …
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Lecture Committee—along with the musicology, music theory, and early music departments—will welcome Katelijne …
Many faculty and students from the Music Theory Department and the Musicology Department attended the combined conference of the American …
recently announced the hiring of eight new members for its College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, and School …
Halina Goldberg, professor of musicology, was in Poland this summer putting together an exhibit called “In Mrs. Goldberg’s Kitchen,” a …
Felicia M. Miyakawa, MA’97, musicology; PhD’03, musicology, is associate professor of musicology and director of graduate studies at the Middle Tennessee State …
Matthew Balensuela, PhD’93, musicology, presented the paper “Conflicting Strategies of Management and Memory” at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in the …
IU’s Dhar India Studies Program Announces Its Fall Lecture Series by BWW News Desk http://indianapolis.broadwayworld.com/article/IUs-Dhar-India-Studies-Program-Announces-Its-Fall-Lecture-Series-20110908 This fall’s India Studies lecture …
Marc Geelhoed ’03 manages CSO Resound, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s record label, whose recording of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem earned …
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor J. Peter Burkholder, who has received the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP for excellence in his …
Four students and an alumna from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music travel to Italy this month for the second annual four-week summer research project on manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries at the Greggiati Library in the city of Ostiglia.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce that Norwegian-born Espen Jensen is its new director of admissions and financial aid. He began his activities as director March 18, 2013.
Indiana University Bloomington faculty members Philip Ford and Dawna Schuld will lead the multi-disciplinary seminar "Technologies of Experience" April 5 and 6 at the Lilly Library. The keynote speaker for the event will be Graham Larkin, a Canadian art historian and curator.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Lecture Committee is delighted to welcome Schubert scholar Professor Brian Newbould, Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Hull (UK,) for a series of events, Feb. 20-24, including two public lectures and the premiere of his transcription of a Schubert composition.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Musicology Department is pleased to announce that the second year of its international research program in the Italian city of Ostiglia, near Mantua, will take place in May 2013.
Andy Hollinden has a new gig this fall. The scruffy-faced senior lecturer in Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music -- known for his classes on rock 'n' roll legends Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix as much as for his end-of-semester concerts at Bloomington's Bluebird nightclub -- has developed a new course on The Beach Boys.
An award-winning musicologist with research interests that span the worlds of medieval and contemporary culture, Michael Long, has been appointed as a faculty member at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He will join the Jacobs School in the fall of 2012.
Kristina Muxfeldt, associate professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, examines once-passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry in her recently published book, Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Giovanni Zanovello, assistant professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is the recipient of the Jacques-Handschin Award from the Swiss Musicological Society, to be presented in Zurich Nov. 22.
A memorial concert for Hans Tischler, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music professor emeritus, is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 22, at 2 p.m. in Auer Hall. The free, open-to-public event is followed by a post-concert reception in the Musical Arts Center. The musicology icon, who taught at the Jacobs School of Music for 20 years, passed away Nov. 18, 2010, in Bloomington.
IU Jacobs School of Music Professor Emeritus Hans Tischler passed away Nov. 18, 2010, in Bloomington, Ind. He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915. Tischler was appointed professor of musicology at the Jacobs School in 1965 and remained here until his retirement in 1985.
Distinguished Professor J. Peter Burkholder, chair of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Department of Musicology, has been named an honorary member of the American Musicological Society. At 56, he is the youngest person to receive the highest honor the society bestows on one of its members. This equivalent to a lifetime achievement award was announced at the group's annual meeting Nov. 6 in Indianapolis.
The Musicology Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music was recognized as among the best in the United States in the Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs released Sept. 28 by the National Research Council (NRC). The Jacobs Musicology Department ranks between first and eighth overall in the rankings of 63 academic programs in music (performance was not ranked), based on 21 measures of quality.
Indiana University programs in the natural and mathematical sciences, humanities, social sciences and public affairs were recognized as among the best in the United States in the Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs released Tuesday (Sept. 28) by the National Research Council.
Featuring more than 50 free and ticketed events running from June 19 through Aug. 10, the 2010 Indiana University Summer Music Festival on the IU Bloomington campus welcomes alumna soprano Angela Brown and the 8th USA International Harp Competition, and celebrates the 200th anniversary of composers Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin's birth. In addition, an array of world-class orchestral concerts, chamber music, piano recitals, band concerts, percussion and other special events will be offered. Tickets are on sale starting Friday, May 28.
In May the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will welcome international and national scholars for a conference and a series of concert performances that focus on the Renaissance Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac and his times.
Two doctoral students from the Musicology Department in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music have won prestigious fellowships to pursue dissertation research in Europe. Lisa Cooper Vest was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Poland. The topic of her dissertation is "Musical and Political Negotiations in Polish Music Life, 1956-1970." Jonathan Yaeger was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service. His dissertation is titled "The Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig in East Germany, 1949-1990."
Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan has designated January 18, 2008, as Hans Tischler Day, in honor of the internationally renowned musicologist and Jacobs School of Music professor emeritus. In celebration, today Dean Gwyn Richards read the following proclamation at Mr. Tischler's Musicology Colloquium Series lecture presentation.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Musicology Department's newest recruit, Assistant Professor Phil Ford comfortably merging cultural studies with traditional musicology. "We are very excited that Phil Ford is joining the department," says Musicology Department Chair Massimo Ossi. "He will bring to the Jacobs School a wide range of interests in American music of the second half of the twentieth century, including jazz, musical theater, and radical and countercultural intellectual movements."
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music musicologist J. Peter Burkholder, who was recently appointed to the rank of Indiana University Distinguished Professor.
A few years into the new millinium, the stars seemingly are aligning themselves at IU once again in what might signal a new golden era for the School of Music .
The following tip sheet provides information about music news and events happening at the Indiana University School of Music. This month we feature the release of a new memoir by Indiana University Distinguished Professor of Music Janos Starker, a visit by the great-grandson of German composer Richard Wagner, and appearances by the IU School of Music's finest performers at the Metropolitan Opera and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
