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Bo kyung Blenda Im (Ph.d ’19 Ethnomusicology), named Interdisciplinary Fellow at Yale’s Institute of Scared Music
Bo kyung Blenda Im is a 2012 ISM/YDS graduate (M.A.R. in religion and music) who received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology in fall 2019 from the University of Pennsylvania. During the spring 2020 semester, she returned to YDS and the ISM as a lecturer in ethnomusicology. Her ethnographic project “Transpacific Modernity and the Challenge of Belonging: Negotiating Race, Music, and Faith in Seoul” centralizes Korean Christians’ engagements with black gospel and contemporary worship music.
Young Women Composers (YWC) announces the curation of a free workshop series curated by Erin Busch, Phd graduate in composition
Young Women Composers (YWC) is proud to announce the curation of a dual-streamed, 100% free workshop series that will feature some of the most prominent and exciting voices in new music today. All sessions will take place on Zoom – please register for each workshop below in order to receive the link. The workshop series is curated by Erin Busch, Phd graduate in composition, as an extension of her work with the Young Women Composers Camp.
Tyshawn Sorey & Natacha Diels Are Newly Appointed Penn Faculty, Joining This Fall 2020
The Department of Music is delighted to announce that Natacha Diels and Tyshawn Sorey will be joining our faculty this Fall.
Release of New Book by Glenda Goodman, "Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic"
Oxford University Press releases new book by Assistant Professor of Music, Glenda Goodman titled "Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic." You may read more about it in this piece written by Goodman and published in OAH Magazine.
Album Release! New Music of Professor James Primosch and The Crossing
GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing releases CARTHAGE, an album featuring six striking pieces by composer and Penn faculty member James Primosch.
Professor Dr. Guthrie Ramsey is Elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences!
The Department of Music is beyond thrilled for Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, one of the newest members of the extraordinary American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs.
Live Stream Performance of Juliette Kang and Tom Kraines hosted by Philadelphia Musicians Union Local 77
Streaming live on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 PM is the duo performance of Juliette Kang and Tom Kraines, member of the University of Pennsylvania's resident string quartet, Daedalus Quartet
Juan Castrillón, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology curates multimodal exhibition, "Re-Covering the Ney Collection"
Re-Covering the Ney Collection features a set of four reed-flute instruments brought from Egypt during the nineteenth century along with contemporary research on new organology and ethno-musicology.
Congratulations to Professor James Primosch on his 2020 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Professor of Music, James Primosch wins the 2020 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music of $40,000, which recognizes an American composer of vocal works. The award, endowed by the Virgil Thomson Foundation and administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, recognizes an American composer of vocal works. Candidates were nominated by the Academy’s members, and the winner was chosen by a committee of Academy members: Melinda Wagner (chairperson), Robert Beaser, Martin Bresnick, Chen Yi, George Lewis, David Rakowski, and Augusta Read Thomas.