Faculty

Professor of piano, Dr. Rochelle Sennet, will be featured in the 2025 Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, NY and New York City this April.

A special ceremony was held on December 12 to celebrate Dr. Linda R. Moorhouse's prestigious appointment, which reflects a profound commitment to excellence in music and the arts.

Choral Studies faculty Dr. Andrew Major has been awarded the 2023 Julius Herford Dissertation Prize by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) for his dissertation, “Unsettlement Music”: Documentation and Inquiry in the Unaccompanied Choral Works of Ted Hearne.

Professor Jeffrey Magee receives the ASCAP-Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for outstanding article.

This summer, School of Music faculty conducted the Wheaton Municipal Band, which featured a historic performance by undergraduate senior Poorna Kumar and former faculty member Douglas Yeo.

Illinois Public Media highlights the exciting new 1874 Project at the School of Music.

A New Look on the North Side of the Music Building!

Prof. Buchanan is one of fifteen talented scholars from Eastern Europe and North America convening for a two-week residency hosted by the American University in Bulgaria

Dr. Roman (saxophone) and Dr. Whitaker (trombone) will join the UIUC School of Music faculty in August 2024!

Professor Stephen Taylor (Composition, Theory, and Music Technology faculty) received a 2024 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award acknowledges "composers as artists who have arrived at their own voice." The award provides support for recording as well as a spring performance at the Arts and Letters location in New York. The award will be presented at the Academy’s annual May celebration. Congratulations Professor Taylor!

Illinois Music piano professors Rochelle Sennet and Chi-Chen Wu guided students at Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago with real-time piano instruction during a masterclass using the technology of the Yamaha Disklavier DCFX concert grand piano.

Dr. Rochelle Sennet's latest recording, Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Volume III was released February 1, 2024 on Albany Records.

In addition to featuring the complete French Suites and the French Overture in B Minor by J.S. Bach, this 3-disc recording also features suites by four Black women composers Montague Ring, Margaret Bonds, Nkeiru Okoye, Betty Jackson King, world premieres of works by Adolphus Hailstork and James Lee III, as well as a suite by William Grant Still. It is also available via digital streaming platforms, such as YouTube Music.