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Schwendinger wins Guggenheim

Associate Professor Laura Schwendinger's work during her Guggenheim year will include a new composition for the Corigliano String Quartet of Washington D.C. and another for the Cygnus Ensemble of New York. In addition, she plans to prepare recordings of some of her recent works, including Chiaroscuro Azzuro (a violin concerto) and Esprimere (a cello concerto for Matt Haimovitz), as well as to create a new work for Sole Nero, the percussion and piano duo of Anthony Di Sanza and Jessica Johnson, both UW-Madison faculty members.

Essay Award

J. Griffith Rollefson, a PhD student in the Musicology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Riverside, California, has been awarded first prize in the graduate category in the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst essay contest, Changing Demographics: Migration Flow From and To Germany. Rollefson explored this theme in his essay, “Musical (African) Americanization: Hip Hop and Minority Identity in Berlin,” which was judged by an international panel of jurors. It can be read here.

Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award

The national Council for Research in Music Education announced that Ruth Gustafson has been chosen to receive the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award. This is the second time in the span of eight years that a UW-Madison music education student has received this prestigious award. Dr. Gustafson will be honored at the biennial national meeting of MENC, which will be held in Milwaukee in April.

Sharon Morrow

Ms. Morrow, who is finishing a doctorate in Music Education at the UW-Madison, has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of music education at Westminster Choir College. The position will begin this September.

Balancing music and athlectics

String bass player Kenny Jones, who teaches for the Student Teaching Division, also doubles as a football athlete. Read this article to learn more about his interesting story