Update (November 9, 2026): The article “Marquis Hill’s Modern Flows: Musical Metapragmatics and Blackness” by Jonathan Gómez has won the 2026 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship from the Society for Music Theory’s Jazz Interest Group.This story was originally...
In June 2026, the Department of Organ embarked on a 10-day tour of historic organs in the German states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, funded in part by a grant from the Office of Global Engagement. The group included seven students, organ professors Nicole Keller (who...
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,"...
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 (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...