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DMA Composition candidate Davor B. Vincze's composition "Na crti crta" has been selected as one of six winners in this year's ECCO composition competition. Davor's work was premiered at a 2017 CCRMA Stage concert featuring the ensemble Line Upon Line performing new works by the…

Davor Vincze is an internationally active composer from Croatia now working towards a D.M.A in Composition at Stanford's Department of Music. He also writes for the Stanford Daily. His article "How COVID-19 made California seem a bit more European" points out how California has adopted some…

  • Achievements & Awards

CCRMA doctoral fellow Douglas McCausland is the Gold Winner in Contemporary / Computer Music at Europe's fourth Student 3D Audio Production Competition in Ambisonics 2020!

Douglas is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music currently based in the Bay Area. Fascinated with new…

  • Achievements & Awards

Laura Dahl, Senior Lecturer (piano), has been appointed as the Billie Bennett Achilles Director of Keyboard Programs, a position in which she will be serving on an interim basis. We thank our Emeritus Faculty George Barth for his many years as the previous Billie Bennett…

  • Inside the Department

Music lessons are available to any Stanford student — not just Music majors and minors!

Private lessons are available for the intermediate or advanced level by audition. Introductory-level instruction is offered in voice, piano, guitar, drum set, gu-zheng, and harp. Lessons will be taught…
  • Stanford Music in the News

Paul Kotapish, managing editor at San Francisco Classical Voice, has some hopeful news for musicians desperate for opportunities to perform for audiences again in his recent article about how the acclaimed Ragazzi Boys Chorus is using JackTrip, the open-source software…

  • Inside the Department

The Department of Music's fall class offerings are evolving! The following classes are examples of how our faculty is including opportunities for live performance using Zoom and other technologies. Click "find out more" for details.

Music 181: Jazz Combos

Fall 2020

Schedule TBA
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  • Achievements & Awards

The Western Division of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) recently elected Stanford's Paul Phillips, Associate Professor of Music and the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies, as their Vice President for 2020-21. Additionally, he will…

  • Achievements & Awards

Paul Phillips, the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music, recently reviewed the new Irwell Edition of writer and composer Anthony Burgess's This Man and Music, an expansion of the four T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures that…

  • Achievements & Awards

The Department of Music's Denise Gill is among the 33 humanities scholars who have been awarded fellowships by the Stanford Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year. Internal faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full…