Alissa Galyon
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Leslie C. Gay, Jr. of UT Music Contributes to Award-Winning Book
Leslie C. Gay, Jr., associate professor of musicology, was a contributing author to the book Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media, which was awarded the prestigious Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize at the 2023 Society for Ethnomusicology Meeting. The prize is awarded annually by the Society for Ethnomusicology to book collections of ethnomusicological essays of exceptional…
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UT Symphony Orchestra named 2023 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance
Founded in 2010, The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based…
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Ryan Lindveit’s Composition “Mysterious Butterflies” Wins Fourth Call for Scores
A composer taking inspiration from literature, art, science, technology, and personal experience, College of Music Lecturer Ryan Lindveit is no stranger to accolades accompanying his pieces. But it is safe to say that, with four calls for scores awards, “Mysterious Butterflies” is especially successful. Its most recent win is with the Sacramento State Festival of…
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Vance Thompson of UT Music Contributes to The Count Basie Orchestra Swings the Blues
Vance Thompson, senior lecturer of studio music and jazz at the University of Tennessee, contributed on the new release of the album The Count Basie Orchestra Swings the Blues. The album, led by musical director Scotty Barnhart, continues the tradition of jazz musician Count Basie with the best living blues and jazz musicians. Thompson’s arrangement of…
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The UT College of Music Celebrates its Launch
The University of Tennessee College of Music commemorated its new beginning on Thursday with a rousing celebration, culminating in a surprise onstage performance of “Rocky Top” by the UT Pride of the Southland Marching Band. “The College of Music will be a beacon of the arts in our community and beyond—from the beautiful art that…
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Welcome Home to the College of Music!
On a beautiful, sunny September evening, the University of Tennessee hosted its first ever “Welcome Home to Your College of Music” Party for its students and well as its faculty and staff and their families. Everyone gathered on the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center lawn to partake in yard games, eat a delicious taco bar…
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Allison Adams of UT Music Co-Authors Saxophone Textbook
Allison Adams, associate professor of saxophone at the University of Tennessee, has published a saxophone textbook, co-authored with saxophonist Brian Horner. Playing & Teaching the Saxophone: A Modern Approach provides a method for teaching the saxophone that is specific enough to use as a textbook in a collegiate saxophone methods class, simple enough for a band…
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UT Alumnus Cade Botts Wins Bluegrass Scholarship Award
Cade Botts, now a UT College of Music alumnus (MM, Music Theory, 2023 & BM, Music Theory, 2021) was reaching the end of his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee when his passion for bluegrass was reawakened. Not that it ever exactly left. Born into a family of folk and bluegrass musicians, he grew…
