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UChicago Music Department to host Critical Sounds festival & symposium
From April 9 to 11, 2026, the Department of Music's Sound Practices and Intermedia Lab (SPIL) will host Critical Sounds, a symposium and festival pres...
Paul Novak Named California Symphony's 2026-2029 Composer-in-Residence
The Department of Music is pleased to share that California Symphony will welcome UChicago graduate composer Paul Novak as its next Composer-in-Reside...
Benjamin T. Martin Receives 2025 IL-ACDA Composer Award
We are pleased to share that PhD composer Benjamin Martin received the 2025 IL-ACDA Composer Award.The 2025 IL-ACDA Composer Award is awarded to comp...
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...
Graduate Student Awards, Commissions, and Other Accomplishments
We are pleased to share that numerous graduate composers have won recent awards, residencies, commissions, and more. Read more about their accomplishm...
Benjamin T. Martin and Paul Novak Win BMI Composer Awards
We are pleased to announce that PhD composers Benjamin T. Martin and Paul Novak were among the recipients of the 73rd annual BMI Composer Awards. The ...
PhD Student Benjamin Martin Composes "Kamila's Story" for Local Cancer Survivor
PhD composer Benjamin Martin was recently featured in the Daily Herald for a composition he wrote for Kamila Santiago, a 12-year-old cancer survivor f...
Two Composition Alumni Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
The Department of Music is excited to share that composition alumni Tomás Gueglio (PhD '16) and Krzysztof Wolek (PhD '07) were named 2025 Guggenheim F...
Three UChicago Graduate Students Receive Prestigious 2025 Charles Ives Scholarships
The Department of Music is thrilled to announce that three graduate students – Ryan William Garvey, Baldwin Giang, and Gabriel Novak – received 2025 C...
Interview with Alumna Katherine Pukinskis, PhD ‘16
Katherine Pukinskis graduated from UChicago in 2016 with a PhD in composition and a minor field focus in ethnomusicology. During her time on campus, s...