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Graduate Student Zhaohan Wang Places First in International Piano Competition
UT School of Music graduate student Zhaohan Wang’s piano skills were recently recognized with […]UT School of Music graduate student Zhaohan Wang’s piano skills were recently recognized with Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation…
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Michael Stewart announced incoming Director of the Pride of the Southland Marching and Athletic Bands, Associate Director of Wind Studies, and WJ Julian Endowed Professor
A longtime mainstay in the School of Music will continue to add to his legacy in music education. Michael Stewart, currently associate professor of music education and associate director of bands, arrived at the University of Tennessee campus in 2007. Since then, he has been a frequent face to the UT community, both with the Pride…
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Alumnus Makes Met Opera Debut
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, alumnus Rocky Sellers was on a four-day vacation in New Orleans, eating chicken étouffée at Antoine’s Restaurant and chatting with his friends about life, when he saw an email on his phone. “It was like a scene in a movie. I thought, ‘No, wait. What?’ I said to my friends, ‘I…
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Alumna Sarah Nordin Performs at Carnegie Hall for Special United Nations Event
Sarah Nordin (MM, ’07) is a singer of diverse talents. She can sing opera as well as Broadway style and has sung in nearly a dozen different languages. But her most recent adventure was a new one. She was asked: ‘Can you learn to sing in two new languages in two weeks?’ As it turns out, she can. Nordin…
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School of Music alumnus named recipient of Willard J. Hines Music Scholarship
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Brandon Bell (MM, ‘17), an alumnus of the University of Tennessee School of Music graduate program in voice, has been named one of two 2021 recipients of the premier scholarship in vocal performance. The scholarship was named in honor Willard J. Hines, a Detroit Choir director-educator. The scholarship committee, composed of his former…
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School of Music Alumnus Wins Latin Grammy for Best Engineered Album
For Delbert Bowers, it was an honor just to be nominated. But the win is nice, too. His path to the Latin Grammy win (Best Engineered Album, for his work on El Madrileño by C. Tangana) is a rather unusual one. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with an undergraduate degree in trumpet performance, then…
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UT Professor of Musicology co-edits book on medieval French gender and voice
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A new book co-edited by School of Music Professor of Musicology Rachel May Golden analyzes gender and voice in medieval French literature and song. It’s a project that merges a variety of different perspectives from a wide range of disciplines – one that Golden believes will aid in granting a fuller understanding of…
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Gregory Tardy awarded Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – University of Tennessee School of Music Associate Professor Gregory Tardy has a rather unique proposition. He is writing music inspired by classical literature. Or rather, a specific work of classical literature. He is currently writing a suite inspired by themes from the classic allegorical work Pilgrim’s Progress. Originally published as The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to…
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Music graduate student Mikeila McQueston places second in American Prize Student Division for composition
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – University of Tennessee Graduate Student Mikeila McQueston has added another accolade to her slate of compositions – this time in the American Prize competition. The composition, which features the Luci Shaw poem “Descent,” placed second in the student division of the American Prize for composition (choral – short works). It’s a piece…