Music

Augusta Read Thomas

University Professor in Music, premiered several compositions: “Helix Spirals” at Harvard University, “Selene” at Columbia University and the Tanglewood Music Festival, “Klee Musings” at the Norton Concert Series, “Of Being Is a Bird” at Wigmore Hall, “Venus Enchanted,” “Rhea Enchanted,” “Rainbow Bridge,” “Avian Capriccio,” and “Avian Escapades.” She released several CD recordings on the albums “Of Being Is a Bird,” “Dawn to Dusk,” “Full Moon in the City,” “Dialogue,” and “Roots of Evanescence.” She was awarded Chevalier of the Order of Cultural Merit by the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, and the

Anne Walters Robertson

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was appointed Interim Dean of the Division of the Humanities. She was also named Honorary Member of the Musicology Society.

Marta Ptaszynska

Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, published the compositions Missa Somenis for three soloists, two mixed choirs, and orchestra and Improvisations after J.R.

Thomas Christensen

the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the Humanities, received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for his project “Fétis and the Tonal Imagination: French Discourses of Musical Tonality in the Nineteenth Century.”

Anthony Cheung

Assistant Professor in Music, received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Plus Annual Award. He was also named the Daniel R Lewis Young Composer Fellow for the Cleveland Orchestra.

Philip Bohlman

the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History in Music, published Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (University of California Press, 2016), which received the Bruno Netti Prize for the Outstanding Book on the History of Ethnomusicology from the Society of Ethnomusicology. He also co-edited Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Seth Brodsky

Assistant Professor in Music, received funding from the Goethe Institut Chicago and UChicago's Art Council, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Office of the Deputy Provost of the Arts for "there is no repetition: Mathias Spahlinger at 70."

Philip Bohlman

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, authored and was the artistic director for a double-CD set and accompanying booklet of As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955. He co-edited The Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (Rowman and Littlefiled, 2015) with Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College) and served as Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society.

Martha Feldman

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, published The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015) and was elected President of the American Musicological Society. Feldman received conference support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for "A Voice as Something More." She also received support from the UChicago Arts Council for Shulamit Ran's retirement concert and produced the film Inside New Music: The University of Chicago's Contempo Celebrates Fifty Years.

Marta Ptaszynska

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, received the Award of the President of Poland for outstanding achievements in creating music for children. Her composition "Gloria Artis" received a Special Award from the Polish Ministry of Culture, and she also published "5 Improvisations after J.R" (Polish Music Publications PWM).

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