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 international competition open to all ages and nationalities.

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 Stanford composers of Music 541. 

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 Achilles Director of Keyboard Programs.

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 serve as President-Elect in 2021-22 and President of the Western Division for 2022-23.

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.

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 professor). One goal of the fellowship selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. 

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.

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 Sciences, Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, and Engineering.