The Department of Music promotes an integrated approach to the study of music grounded in composition/theory, ethnomusicology, jazz studies, and musicology. Our innovative and dynamic curriculum enables students to explore music in the broadest terms possible through artistic creative activity, performance, and scholarship.
Guitarist/composer Aaron Myers-Brooks (Pitt PhD Alum and Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor) specializes in microtonal music, specifically writing in a 17 equal division of the octave system that provides a fresh and striking set of intervals and colors to the listener's ears.
Pitt Music Department's Devon Osamu Tipp will be presenting a lecture recital at UCLA's Asian Performing Arts on Stage and on Screen Conference on May 14 at 11:15 PDT. The presentation will culminate in the virtual premiere of Tipp's composition Kanibarugaku wo Kangaetara/When I think of the Crab Fields for an ensemble of traditional japanese instruments.
Cullyn D. Murphy has been named winner of the 2022 Dead Elf Music Award for the best composition by a graduate student for his composition
everywhere all ways.
The judges also singled out Xinyang Wang’s Boréas for Honorable Mention.
