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News

A Year of Success

This year’s graduation marked the end of a particularly fruitful year for the Department of Music graduating class, current students, and alumni.

 

David Gerard Matthews Recieves Artist Opportunity Fellowship

David Gerard Mathews (PhD 2011, comp/theory) was recently awarded an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council to study the onde Martenot in Montreal with ondist Geneviève Grenier. We asked David to tells us about how he became interested in this unique instrument and how his time of study will help him achieve his creative goals.

I’ve been interested in the ondes Martenot ever since I discovered Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony as a teenager. I kept encountering the instrument at different points after that: as undergrad, I became very interested in the music of Tristan Murail, who both plays and writes for the ondes Martenot, and Radiohead, who has also utilized it extensively.

Hoover Appointed Lecturer at Miami University

Congratulations are in oder for Elizabeth Hoover (PhD 2012, musicology), who has been appointed a Lecturer in Musicology at Miami University in Ohio. Dr. Judith Delzell, Chair of the Department of Music at Miami University, expressed particular pleasure in appointing Hoover, who earned her BA from MU with a concentration in literature and theory. Delzell writes that,

“In 2002 I offered Elizabeth an oboe scholarship to come to Miami as an undergraduate; in 2012 I offered her a faculty job!”

Read the complete article from Miami University.

Events

An Evening of Indian Classical Vocal Music with Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents, in association with University of Pittsburgh will present an Evening of Indian Classical Vocal Music with Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. He will be accompanied by Sandip Ghosh, tabla; Gourab Chatterjee, harmonium; Brajeswar Mukherjee, vocal. Pitt tabla instructor Samir Chatterjee curated this event.

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