News
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.
Penn alumni Jeremy Gill wins 2020 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
We congratulate former Penn Doctoral Fellow of the Department of Music who receives the 2020 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship of $15,000, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation. The award is given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. Bravo!
Flannery Cunningham, Third Year Graduate in Composition and Musicology wins 2020 Hildegard Competition
Flannery Cunningham is a composer and musicologist fascinated by vocal expression, auditory perception, and the resonances of environmental sounds. She aims to write music that surprises and delights. Her work has been performed at festivals such as Aspen, June in Buffalo, TCML, SPLICE, and Copland House’s CULTIVATE and by performers such as International Contemporary Ensemble, TAK, and Music from Copland House. Her current projects include commissions for PRISM Quartet and Musiqa Houston and a new work for Sō Percussion.