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U-M Researchers Awarded $343K from Schmidt Sciences to Decode Ancient Guqin Music Using AI
An international team led by researchers at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance has been awarded more than $340,000 from Schmidt Sciences through its Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). The project, "Strokes of Sonic Tradition,"...
SMTD Band Students Immerse Themselves in the Music and Culture of Rio de Janeiro
During the summer of 2026, fourteen U-M band students, along with faculty members, spent the week of July 19–25 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, studying, performing, and engaging with Rio’s musical and cultural traditions. The students performed at the international...
Elijah Hall Wins the 2026 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition
Elijah Hall (BM ’26, composition, percussion), a recent SMTD graduate and current graduate student lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named the winner of the 2026 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition for his piece a formal feeling. This honor...
Rebecca Rossen to Join the Department of Dance
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance announces that Rebecca Rossen will join the Department of Dance as a professor and department chair in January 2027. Rossen is a dance historian and performance scholar whose work focuses on the...