Achievements & Awards

• Louis Sudler Prize: Hugo Kitano (piano)
• Robert M. Golden Medal: Al Yuen (flute)
• Carol and Peter Polk Graduate Music Award: Nate Menifield (baritone)
• Carol and Peter Polk Undergraduate Music Award: Kadar Qian (piano)

The results for the Stanford Symphony Orchestra 2017 Concerto Competition, held Saturday April 22nd, have been announced. This year's competition was open to all registered Stanford undergraduate and graduate students.

Winner: 

Associate Professor (Musicology) Jesse Rodin has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, with a residency at the Villa I Tatti (The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy) during the academic year 2017-18. This prestigious honor is bestowed by the American Council of Learned Societies, with the goal of supporting long-

CCRMA grad student Jack Atherton has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. As part of this fellowship, Jack will continue his research towards designing an emotionally-aware programming development environment.

2016-17 Department of Music Awards

The application period for Department of Music Awards is now closed. 

For any questions regarding the Department of Music Awards, contact Stephen Harrison or Rowen Leigh.

As part of the 48th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Awards last month, Kirke Mechem (Music, '51) received the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field for his book, Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer. The book was published by Rowman & Littlefield last year and will be released in paperback next February.  

Pianist and composer Eric Tran (B.A., Music, '13) will have his debut album release concert on Dec. 13 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Tran's all-original solo and chamber compositions will be performed by talents from around the SF Bay Area:

After ten years as Department of Music Chair, Stephen M. Sano has stepped down and is returning to directing the Choral Studies program.

In its 92nd competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.