Faculty

Professor Christina Bashford’s new book, Violin Culture in Britain, 1870-1930: Music-Making, Society, and the Popularity of Stringed Instruments, was published last month by Cambridge University Press.

Join the School of Music for a special ceremony to celebrate the investiture of Dr. Bridget Sweet as the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in Music Education!

Faculty member Josh Graham receives Library of Congress grant to commission alumni composer Donnacha Dennehy.

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