Chris Boyes at the June 15 Regional Emmy Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to Chris Boyes, SMTD’s videographer and broadcast media specialist, and former director of communications Marilou Carlin on winning the Michigan EMMY Chapter – NATAS in the “Arts & Entertainment” category for SMTD’s video on Professor Patricia Hall’s research on a foxtrot titled “The Most Beautiful Time of Life.”
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,"...
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...