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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Department of Music Awards:

The 2023 Stanford Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition took place Feb. 4 in Dinkelspiel Auditorium. It was epic in length (9 hours), number of participants (33), number of finalists (11), and number of winners: 6! 

Below are the winners of this year's competition, and the works they…

Stanford Music alum Michael Repper ('12, MA '13) won a Grammy on Sunday, Feb. 5 for Best Orchestral Performance conducting the New York Youth Symphony on the album Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman. (That's Michael with his Grammy in the photo.)

As always,…

The Noontime Concert on February 1st has been canceled, but this free event for the Stanford community will return on a future Wednesday!

Third Coast Percussion's "Rituals and Meditations" program at Bing Concert Hall on Wednesday, January 25th will include a world premiere of Gauntlet, composed by Stanford Music faculty Mark Applebaum.

In this excerpt of Prof. Applebaum's program notes for this new work, he details his…

The Shenson Recital on Thursday, January 19th at 7:30 PM featuring Karim Sulayman, tenor; Danbi Um, violin; and Juho Pohjonen, piano will be livestreamed here. The program will include works by Handel, Rameau, Massenet, Schubert, Kreisler, Cole Porter, and others.

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Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) has just released a Blu-ray disc of their production of Stravinsky's opera Mavra which uses Stanford Director of Orchestral Studies Paul Phillips's sextet arrangement, published in 2010 by Boosey & Hawkes. The Blu-ray also contains Bavarian State…

Our supplier for Messiah scores does not have any for us this year, so Sing-along Messiah participants should plan to have their own voice scores. We use the Prout edition, if you wish to research getting a copy online. Orchestral parts will be available as usual.

I’m delighted to announce that our colleague Mark Applebaum has won two prizes at the 50th Annual Book Show of the Publishers Professional Network. Mark's recent book Scribe / The Metaphysics of Notation— a signed, limited edition, two-volume art book anthology of hand-drawn scores made over…

Timothy Zerlang, our University Carillonneur and Department of Music faculty (piano, carillon) is often heard, but rarely seen. Stanford Magazine made the climb to Zerlang's lair atop Hoover Tower to find out more about the solitary world of our carillonneur, how he got there, and just how loud…