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- Inside the Department
ENSEMBLES: The Department of Music hosts over 20 performing ensembles and combos ranging from choral music to jazz to mobile phones! Fall quarter is when many of our ensembles offer auditions for membership. Links to sign up for auditions can be found at the Ensembles page, as well as the…
- Inside the Department
The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) has announced the release of two new albums via Phenotypic Recordings — the final ones with co-founder and violinist Geoff Nuttall, who died of pancreatic cancer in October 2022 at 56. They were recorded at Stanford University, where the SLSQ is ensemble in…
- Achievements & Awards
- Inside the Department
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Department of Music Awards:
Carol and Peter Polk Music Award (Instrumental or Vocal Performance)Michelle Fu, violin The Blew-Culley-LaFollette Prize (Piano Performance) — shared
Alex Perry (jazz)
Jason Guo Daniel…
Roger Xia '24, Daniel Sun '25, Jenny Xiong '24, Paul Phillips, Zachary Lin '26, Richard Cheung '24, Laura Futamura '24
- Achievements & 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…
Michael Repper and his Grammy
- Achievements & Awards
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,…
- Featured Event
The Noontime Concert on February 1st has been canceled, but this free event for the Stanford community will return on a future Wednesday!
- Achievements & Awards
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…
- Featured Event
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.
Find out more about…
Paul Phillips
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…
- Featured Event
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.