Staying Connected with Sonorities
Sonorities, the annual news magazine of the School of Music community, will hit mailboxes nationwide during the month of December.
WILL-TV to feature Black Chorus and Dr. Ollie Watts Davis in new Episode of The American Portrait
Tune into WILL-TV on Monday, December 21, 2020 at 7 PM to see our very own Professor Ollie Watts Davis and the University of Illinois Black Chorus featured on American
Annual Carol Concert Closes the Semester
Join the choirs of the University of Illinois as we bid the fall semester farewell with our annual Carol Concert.
Vocalists Earn Prizes at Central Regional NATS Competition
Twenty singers from the School of Music competed and earned awards in the Central Region National Association of Teachers of Singing (CRNATS). In total, over 1,200 vocalists representing schools of music from Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, competed online on October 31 and November 1.
School of Music Prominently Featured in Grammy Awards Nominations
Nominations for the 63rd Grammy Awards include two alumni and one current student from the UI School of Music.
Remembering Jack Ranney
Jack served on the faculty and staff of the University of Illinois School of Music in many roles throughout his tenure beginning in 1980 until his retirement in 2005.
Remembering Dean Sanders
Dean Sanders, who passed away at the age of 91 on October 20, was a member of the piano faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1957 to 1991, serving for most of that period as Chair of the Piano Division. He studied with two of the great pianists of the twentieth century, Ru
SAI Chapter Earns Recognition
Sigma Alpha Iota, international music fraternity, awarded the University of Illinois's Sigma Delta chapter the Sigma Alpha Iota Region V Collegiate Chapter Achievement Award for 2019-2020.
School of Music Receives Gift Fund
The School of Music at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce a new gift fund to honor the memory of Nick Rudd that advances programming of the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music.