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  • Achievements & Awards

Assistant Professor (Composition) Patricia Alessandrini and doctoral student Doga Cavdir both received awards at New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME) 2020, which took place this month.

Dr. Alessandrini received the NIME 2020 Accessibility Award…

  • Inside the Department

Over the past few weeks, we surveyed our music community regarding future planning for the department's live concerts. With feedback from our audience, we can best address how to make the needed changes to our concert planning. 

Thank you for your participation!

  • Inside the Department
In the two decades of our Summer Seminar and three decades of the SLSQ, we have never had a year quite like this one, and we know that goes for everyone reading this as well. Although we cannot gather for the usual ten days of music making on the Stanford campus, we are holding…
  • Inside the Department

A message from Department Chair, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski

Dear Music graduates, Let me extend our most heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2020! We are proud of you and wish you the greatest success in life and making the world a better place for everyone. Thank you for your…
  • Inside the Department

Professor Mark Applebaum's Spring 2020 class, MUSIC 154E: Creative Agency in the Pandemic World, served as a workshop for creative invention and artistic collaboration within radical pandemic constraints. Students imagined, designed, and explored emergent creative strategies for…

  • Achievements & Awards

Michiko Theurer (Ph.D. candidate, Musicology) has been selected to receive the Centennial Teaching Award. Established in 1989, this award recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching by teaching assistants in the Schools of Humanities and…

  • Achievements & Awards

We would like to congratulate four winners of the 2020 Deans' Awards for Academic Achievement, each of whom have included the Department of Music in their Stanford activities while majoring in other areas: 

Léa Bourgade is a senior majoring in Human Biology. Having…

  • Inside the Department

Just released today, this new audio release featuring works by Duruflé is full of Stanford music faculty and students: Stanford Chamber Chorale and their director Stephen M. Sano, University Organist Robert Huw Morgan, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet (our Ensemble-in-Residence).…

  • Achievements & Awards

Graduate student Julie Zhu (D.M.A. candidate, Composition) has received a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), one of thirty-three students selected from a highly competitive pool following an intensive review by faculty with expertise in relevant fields. This…

  • Achievements & Awards

Stanford Ph.D. candidate in Musicology Kelly Christensen is this year's recipient of the Ingolf Dahl Award from the American Musicological Society. Her paper, “Privatizing the Canon: France’s Commercial Sheet Music Industry and the Opéra-Comique, 1825-1845,” was recognized as…

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