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.”
On May 28, 2025, the BMI Foundation and BMI announced the recipients of the 73rd annual BMI Composer Awards. The winners include two SMTD students: Cole Reyes, who is pursuing a DMA in composition, and Jason Zhang, who graduated in April with a bachelor’s degree in...
Nancy Murphy, associate professor of music theory, has recently published a research article in Theory and Practice, the journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State. Titled “The Performed-Out Fermata from the 1920s to Bob Dylan,” the article explores the...
Over the past two years, the Cerus Quartet has taken top honors in several notable competitions. In 2023 the quartet won first prize and the Michigan Prize (awarded for best performance of a piece written by a U-M composer) in SMTD’s Briggs Chamber Music Competition....
The University of Michigan Arts Initiative announced its winter 2025 Project Support grant recipients in late April, including funding for multiple performing arts projects on the Ann Arbor and Flint campuses. With three application periods per year, Project Support...