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  • Achievements & Awards
Four Department of Music graduate students — Noah Fram, Hanyu Qu, Jan Stoltenberg and Michiko Theurer — are among the recipients of the Stanford Alumni Association's Community Impact Award. The award recognizes students “who have fostered a sense of belonging and…
  • Achievements & Awards

Utku Asuroglu, doctoral candidate and composer at Stanford's Department of Music, was just awarded the 2nd prize in the 25th International Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award (2021) for his work In Between for chamber ensemble and electronics. This is a prestigious…

  • Inside the Department

For Spring Quarter 2021, as in previous quarters this academic year, Santa Clara County's COVID-19 Tier color will determine practice room availability. To get the latest information on our practice room policies, check this page regularly.

  • Stanford Music in the News

Stanford voice faculty Nova Jiménez has spent nearly every weekend since last May performing "sidewalk serenades" for frontline workers and isolated individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jiménez, a soprano, says she’s performed more than 50…

In this audio stream from Mixcloud, electric violinist Tracy Silverman discusses The Dharma at Big Sur, his collaboration with composer John Adams. Featured are excerpts from Silverman's online visit with MUSIC 151D / Orchestra Online students and class instructor…

Dr. Robert Huw Morgan's recent organ recital at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, recorded January 24th, can be found on their YouTube channel.

Welsh organist Robert Huw Morgan is University Organist, Lecturer in Organ, and Director of both the University Singers and the Memorial Church…

  • Inside the Department

CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expressions) presents A Square is Not a Bee, a short film co-created by the Chicago-based collective Mocrep and composer Natacha Diels. You can find out more about the project and watch the film on demand through February 28 at the …

Live & Aloud: Guitarist & Composer Rick Vandivier
Thursday, January 7
6:30-7:45 PM PST

Stanford jazz guitar faculty Rick Vandivier appears in this online presentation hosted by the Redwood City Friends of the Library Bookstore.

A Graduate of the Berklee School of Music,…

Enjoying & Understanding Classical Music Presented online by Stanford Continuing Studies January 13 - March 17 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:50 PM (PST)   Instructor: Nurit Jugend   How can we better listen to and enjoy classical music? Learning the fundamental elements of…
  • Inside the Department

Stanford drum set lecturer David Rokeach is accepting drum students for private online lessons (Music 177A & 277A). There are still a few open slots left for the Winter quarter. 

You can be a complete beginner with absolutely no musical experience, an advanced player looking to…

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