News
2025-26 Visiting Artists-in-Residence
The Department of Music is pleased to welcome two Visiting Artists-in-Residence with our Performance Program for the 2025-26 academic year. Vibraphoni...
Jennifer Iverson featured on Imaginary Worlds Podcast
Jennifer Iverson, Associate Professor in the Department of Music, was recently featured on the podcast Imaginary Worlds for "Episode 288: Music of a F...
Three Music Department Professors to Present at 2025 Arts & Humanities Day
Three professors in the Music Department will be presenting at Arts & Humanities Day 2025: Steven Rings, Associate Professor in the Department of Musi...
Jessica Swanston Baker Receives Royal Musical Association's 2025 Outstanding Book Prize
The Department of Music is pleased to share that Jessica Swanston Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Director of Graduate Studi...
The Department of Music Welcomes Two New Performance Program Directors
The Department of Music is excited to announce the appointments of two new Performance Program directors this autumn.Liza Malamut, instructor of histo...
Steven Rings to Release New Book "What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan" in October 2025
The Department of Music is pleased to share that Associate Professor Steven Rings will be releasing his second book What Did You Hear?: The Music of B...
Alum Jennifer Williams Publishes First Book
Alumna Jennifer Williams ('06) published her first book, Archaeology of the Political Unconscious: Theater and Opera in East Berlin: 1967-1977, under ...
Paula Harper Interview Featured in UChicago Magazine
Paula Harper, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and The College, was recently interviewed in UChicago Magazine about her Taylor Swift sch...
Undergraduate Music Majors Receive 2025 Thesis Awards
Every year, the Music Department graduates a number of promising and accomplished music majors from the College. We are very excited to celebrate the ...
Kari Watson Releases New Album "VISTAS" with Katinka Kleijn
PhD composer Kari Watson and cellist Katinka Kleijn recently released a new record titled VISTAS on the Berlin-based contemporary music label Elektram...