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Sarah Tan wins Division 7 (Collegiate Division) of the 2020 Raleigh Area Flute Association Review and Contest
Monday, December 14, 2020Four Duke flutists participated in the Raleigh Area Flute Association Review and Contest on November 8, 2020, competing against students from universities across North Carolina. Annie Cui was awarded Honorable Mention in the Collegiate Division 7, and Sarah Tan (pictured at right) was Winner... Read More »
Meet undergraduate representative Jasmine Leahy and graduating senior Ella Han
Tuesday, December 1, 2020Jasmine Leahy is the Undergraduate Representative for the Music Department. An Interdisciplinary Major in Neuroscience and Music, Jasmine is a trumpet and guitar player and President of the Wind Symphony. Read more about Jasmine. Ella Han is a senior graduating in December 2020. A... Read More »
Christopher Adler (Ph.D. composition, 1999) releases new CD, Triangulations
Tuesday, December 1, 2020Triangulations features works for solo khaen by Adler and fellow alumnus Sidney Marquez Boquiren (Ph.D. composition, 1999), as well as Christopher Burns, David Loeb, Vera Ivanova, Yu Kuwabara, and Jeff Herriott. About Triangulations, Adler writes, "I began researching traditional... Read More »
Philip Rupprecht receives the first annual Post-1945 Music Analysis IG Publication Award
Tuesday, November 24, 2020Philip Rupprecht has received the first annual Publication Award from the Society for Music’s Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group for his article “Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon,” published in Musiktheorie, vol. 34, no. 4 (... Read More »
Congratulations to Karen Messina on the completion of her Ph.D. in Musicology
Tuesday, November 24, 2020Karen Messina's Ph.D. dissertation, “Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini,” includes chapter-length studies of the operas Manon Lescaut, La bohème, and Tosca, framed by an original account of concepts of diegetic music in film and opera. In addition to... Read More »
Hye-Bin (Monica) Song: One pianist at two pianos
Tuesday, November 17, 2020Last summer, Hye-Bin (Monica) Song recorded her own composition, Blanche-Neige, in Bösendorfer Hall at Ruggero Piano in Raleigh, NC. She also recorded Francis Poulenc's Piano Sonata for Four Hands, and Edward Burlingame Hill's Jazz Study No. 1. All... Read More »
Chamber music students participate in virtual masterclass with Attacca Quartet
Tuesday, November 10, 2020On November 5, three groups of students in the Chamber Music Program participated in a virtual masterclass with Attacca Quartet. The students were socially-distanced in Baldwin Auditorium and interacted with the members of Attacca through Zoom. View more photos Jacques Quartet (Allen... Read More »
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies
Friday, October 30, 2020Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies Duke University Application Deadline: 2020/12/01 Duke University seeks a candidate for a one-year teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnomusicology, beginning 1 July 2021, with the possibility of renewal for a second year.... Read More »
DUMIC introduces new blog, "When Jubal Struck the Corded Shell"
Friday, October 30, 2020The Duke University Musical Instrument Collections new blog, When Jubal Struck the Corded Shell, was created in direct response to the ongoing pandemic. Its purpose is to showcase choice instruments, oddities, art, and media within the collections housed on campus, fostering camaraderie and... Read More »
Students participate in violin masterclass with Arnaud Sussmann
Tuesday, October 27, 2020While Sussman joined in via Zoom, students presented socially-distanced performances in the Nelson Music Room. Although they were spread throughout the hall, the Nelson Music Room provides an intimacy that allowed all the students, participants and observers, to be engaged in the experience. In... Read More »