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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette places the Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert
Burckhardt Reiter
Damian Pwono (PhD '92) has been appointed secretary general of the International Music Council of UNESCO, Paris.
Publication of a new book by Kwasi Ampene (PhD '99) has been announced by Ashgate Publication.
Mathew Rosenblum has been awarded a $40,000 Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Grant
The Center for American Music, a department within the University of Pittsburgh's Library System, has been awarded a $146,705 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to host a summer institute for schoolteachers.
The Department of Music of the University of Pittsburgh
Professor Nathan Davis's Jazzopera: Just Above My Head received its premiere performances by the Pittsburgh Opera Theater on June 9–13.
Ben Geise, a Pitt music major, is the winner of the 2004 University of Pittsburgh-Mellon Jazz Scholarship.
Mellon Professor Akin Euba presented a series of lectures at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, May 24–June 3.
Friends of faculty member and orchestra director Roger Zahab, many of them former students of his, converged on New York City