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June 27, 2025
Philipp Lojak has received the Folkwangpreis, an award given by the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Folkwang Universität der Künste e.V.in Germany to outstanding...
June 23, 2025
Sound and Scholarship: Ameera Nimjee and Suhail Yusuf collaborate to bridge performance and ethnomusicology. On Friday, April 18th, Ameera Nimjee and Suhail Yusuf, alongside...
June 9, 2025
The Department of Music is proud to announce that Jeanine Tesori has been jointly appointed as Professor in the Practice in Music and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies...
Photo by Brooke Irish
May 19, 2025
The Department of Music is thrilled to announce that Dawn Upshaw will join us as Professor in the Practice, starting in July 2025! A six-time Grammy Award winner, MacArthur...
May 9, 2025
The Department of Music recently honored Professor Richard Lalli on occasion of his retirement with a reception and music by some of his accomplished former students. ...
Yashima Gakutei, Woman Tuning a Shamisen and a Cat Looking at its Own Reflection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
February 27, 2025
Congratulations to Danny Walden! His new Fall 2024 seminar “Tuning and Temperament: Analytical and Historical Perspectives” ( MUSI 204) was awarded the 2024 Award for...
December 11, 2024
The European Union Commission has selected Richard Cohn, who taught his last class at Yale in December (see photo), to serve a five-year term as European Area Research Chair...