Music

Philip Bohlman

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 fellowship from the Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was also named Franz Rosenzweig Gastprofessor in den Humanwissenschaften at Univerität Kassel in Kassel, Germany. He edited The Cambridge History of World Music (Cambridge, 2014).

Amy Briggs

Lecturer in Music and Artist in Residence, was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and University Symphony Orchestra.

Steven Rings

Associate Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. He was named editor of Oxford Studies in Music Theory.

Anne W. Robertson

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, delivered the plenary address at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.

Seth Brodsky

Assistant Professor in Music, exhibited the sound installation Even in Arcadia, there I am at the Play as Inquiry practicum at UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Anthony Cheung

Assistant Professor in Music, was awarded funding from the New Music USA Composer Assistance Program to premiere SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble. He also won the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, Commission, and received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. His commissioned composition Bagatelles premiered at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, and his piece Lyra was premiered by the New York Philharmonic.

Martha Feldman

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, received a book subvention from the Gustave Reese Endowment of the American Musicological Society and book publication support from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee Fund. She received funding from the UChicago Provost’s Office for the documentary Put it On: Performing Arts and Education with the University of Chicago’s Contempo.

Travis A. Jackson

Associate Professor in Music, received an honorable mention for the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding English Language Monograph from the Society for Ethnomusicology for Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012).

Kaley R. Mason

Assistant Professor in Music, received a special project grant from the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies for a series of workshops. He was also elected president of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music.

Marta Ptaszynska

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, published Red Rays for Flute and Piano (Cracow: Polish Music Publications, 2013). She received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was awarded the Gloria Artis from the Secretary of Arts and Culture in Poland for outstanding achievement in the arts.

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