The School of Music is excited to welcome new instructional colleagues to our community this fall: Deirdre Brenner (Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano), Gabriel Wade (Teaching Faculty, Jazz Trumpet), Layan […]
The School of Music congratulates Professors Peter Dominguez, double bass and jazz studies, and Daniel Grabois, horn, on their retirements, effective May 17. The announcement marks the conclusion of two […]
Baoli Liu, piano technician for the School of Music, is a 2026 Academic Staff Excellence Award winner. The award recognizes “academic staff members who have gone above and beyond in […]
Professors Dan Cavanagh, Jess Johnson, Nadia Chana, Oriol Sans, Lindsay Flowers, and Johannes Wallmann visited the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia from March 8 to March 13 to work […]
Professors Jean Laurenz and Dan Cavanagh are winners of a 2026 Creative Arts Award. Laurenz was awarded an Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts and Cavanagh was awarded […]
Professor Mimmi Fulmer has won a Hilldale Award, recognizing her contributions to teaching, research, and service. Each year, the faculty divisions honor four University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members with the […]
The 32nd annual Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists (RDYB) conference is March 26-28, 2026 in Madison. Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies Peter Dominguez tells us more about […]
Polaris Buttles, euphonium, Sofia Stutesman, trombone, Morgan Musil, bassoon, and Isla Coronado, flute, have been selected to participate in the 2026 College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) North Central Division […]
This April marks an important milestone for the annual Varsity Band Spring Concert, as the band celebrates its 50th show. What began as a modest campus performance has evolved into […]
When Kennedy Elementary School in Madison set out to deepen literacy learning through the arts, music educator Christian Bonner stepped forward with a vision. Backed by a Wisconsin Arts Celebration […]
Purchase tickets From March 20-24, 2026, University Opera will present the Wisconsin premiere of Ned Rorem and J.D. McClatchy’s operatic setting of Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s groundbreaking, iconic play. Directed […]
The annual School of Music Panorama Concert is known for its unexpected moments, and this year’s event brings a rediscovered piece of the school’s own history to the stage. Distinguished […]
Concert Choir, University Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble participated in the 2025 Wisconsin Arts Celebration Project with each ensemble performing and recording “Yellow Birds” by composer Marie Douglas. The Wisconsin […]
The 2026 Madison Early Music Festival (MEMF) celebrates over 20 years of excellence in early music while inaugurating a new chapter. Since its founding in 2000, MEMF has been a […]
The School of Music is proud to announce Steven Cornelius ’75 Music Education and William Wielgus ’79 Music Education as the 2025 and 2026 recipients of the Mead Witter School […]
Purchase tickets From November 21-25, University Opera will present W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s monumental opera The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro). Directed by Karen K. Bishop […]
Beginning this year, the following concerts presented by the School of Music at the Hamel Music Center will require tickets for entry. Here’s what to expect: $20 GA; students free […]
Professor of Music Theory Edward Klorman has released a new book, Bach: The Cello Suites. Originally dismissed as curiosities, J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites are now understood as the pinnacle […]
This academic year, the School of Music is proud to celebrate its 130th anniversary at UW–Madison. Music has been a feature at the university in some form since 1848, but […]
Valeria Martinez, a current Music Education and Trombone student at the School of Music, has been invited to join the second-ever class of Hispanic Heritage Awards Orchestral Fellows this September. […]
