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Joshua Kosman at the SF Chronicle highlighted soprano Esther Tonea (featured soprano with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra for two upcoming concerts at Bing Concert Hall) in this Datebook feature:

San Francisco soprano Esther Tonea, an Adler fellow with the San Francisco…

Department of Music faculty Talya Berger, Senior Lecturer (Theory), meticulously transcribed and edited the partbooks of the Altemps codex with historical and analytical context for the newly-published Varia Musica Sacra. This scholarly edition of the Altemps…

Two audiovisual operas by Stanford DMAs in Composition, '22 — Julie Herndon and Davor Vincze — are paired together on the new Infrequent Seams release,  Fight or Surrender. Each opera tells a story of powerful women who must choose…

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Department of Music Awards:

The Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology feature a wide range of lecturers from universities around the world speaking on a variety of musicological topics. Each quarter, a new series is offered. The Spring 2022 lineup of Alexander Lectures can be found here. Lectures will take place at…

From the Announcing the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows press release:

"On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. Chosen from a rigorous application…

Charlie Sdraulig (D.M.A., Composition '20)  and Louis d'Heudières have authored an article in the current edition of the Cambridge University Press publication, Tempo.

Intimacy, nuance, and quietude are the core themes of Charlie Sdraulig’s creative practice.…

Stanford D.M.A. (Composition, '22) Davor Vincze's “XinSheng”, a short opera for soprano, ensemble, and electronics from 2021 has won second prize in the 67th Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart. 87 participants submitted a total of 153 works for the 67th Composition Prize. The…

Elena Danielson, Ph.D. 1975, Archivist Emerita, will be presenting "Lou Henry Hoover and the Origins of the Friends of Music" on Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 PM (PT) via Zoom. Sponsored by the Stanford University Department of Music in partnership with the Friends of Music at…

In 1968, helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson intervened to save Vietnamese lives at Mỹ Lai, Vietnam, an event that is retold in the opera Mỹ Lai, composed by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger with librettist Harriet Scott Chessman. Mỹ Lai depicts Hugh Thompson’s thoughts through spoken…