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Summer Sunset Series: A’Tiya Flow by Nalaverse & Drumming by Hyun Jin Cha
On Friday, July 30, 2021 at 6:00PM, enjoy a live drumming performance by Hyun Jin Cha at The Rail Park (1300 Noble St, Philadelphia, PA 19123), as part of their 2021 Summer Sunset Series.
Mary Channen Caldwell Featured on Penn's "Big Ideas for Strange Times"
Featured on Penn's "Big Ideas for Strange Times," Assistant Professor of Music, Mary Channel Caldwell, answers the question: “How Did People Dance in Medieval Europe?”
World Premiere concerts of the Young Women Composers Camp (YMCC), under the direction of Erin Busch
Penn Graduate Student in Composition, Erin Busch runs a program called the Young Women Composers Camp (YWCC), which is in its final day of virtual
Mary Channen Caldwell Answers the Question: 'What Was the Earliest Music?'
Assistant Professor of Music, Mary Channel Caldwell, whose research focuses on repertoires of European vocal music ca. 1100-1600, answers a Gizmodo journalist's question about the earliest form of musical notation.
EMA Announces Gwyn Roberts, Director of Penn Baroque and Recorder Ensembles is Recipient of 2021 Thomas Binkley Award
Gwyn Roberts will receive the Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a university or college early music ensemble for her work with the University of Pennsylvania’s Early Music
Eugene Lew, lecturer and Director of Sound & Music Technology, reflects on over a year without live performance
Eugene Lew is a lecturer and Director of Sound & Music Technology for the Music Department.
"Listening Through Art" featuring Carol Muller, Professor of Music in conversation with Ernesto Pujol
The third episode of The PARK podcast, “Listening Through Art,” features Ernesto Pujol, a
Dr. Bo kyung Blenda Im (Ph.d. Ethnomusicology 2019) Global Korean Diasporas Postdoctoral Fellow for academic year 2021-22
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Global Korean Diasporas Postdoctoral Fellow for academic year 2021-22: Dr. Bo kyung Blenda Im.
Collegium Musicum performs "Mille Regretz" by Josquin des Prez
As soon as stay-at-home orders were implemented last spring 2020, the Music Department Ensembles shifted from in-person rehearsals to virtual ones.
Remembering James Primosch
The Department of Music mourns the loss of our colleague Jim Primosch, who passed away on Monday, April 26, 2021 at the age of 64. He was a composer and pianist and the Robert Weiss Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.