Graduate student scholars, composers, and performers gathered in Voxman to share new research, music, and camaraderie.

This university-wide teaching award recognizes those "who have demonstrated excellence in a rich variety of university teaching (e.g., undergraduate, graduate or professional, classroom, one-on-one) and contributed to curriculum and/or program development."

Dr. Marian Wilson Kimber's expertise on Fanny Mendelssohn and historical narratives on women musicians is featured in a recent article by Elizabeth Winkler, "The Rediscovery of Fanny Mendelssohn," for the Wall Street Journal.

Nathan Platte’s article, “Mixed Motives: Soviet Symphonies and Propagandistic Duplicity in The Iron Curtain (1948),” received a 2023 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism. Published in the open-access journal Music & Politics, Nathan’s article on the repurposing of Soviet symphonic music in an anti-Communist Hollywood film is freely available.

Congratulations to Cody Norling (Musicology), who recently completed his PhD with a dissertation titled: “Opera in the Second City: Negotiating National Operatic Identities In and Around 1920s Chicago.” Cody’s work draws on archival documents and press clippings related to some of Chicago’s major opera presenters and supporting organizations to study “opera’s role as a perceived indicator of civic and national progress,” highlighting discourses around economy, class, race, and nationality.

UI musicology alum Christos Sidiropoulos is commencing studies at the University of Ottawa, where he will pursue a PhD in Interdisciplinary Research in Music. Christos successfully defended his thesis on Mikis Theodorakis's film score for Zorba the Greek (1964) in Spring 2023. Congratulations, Christos!

Nathan Platte just completed a four-film series at Iowa City’s FilmScene theater, where he hosted a “FilmScene 101” course on movie musicals that ran in tandem with his cross-listed music and cinema course, “The Film Musical.”

While serving as an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor Christine Getz remains active in her musicological research and service. Dr. Getz just finished her two-year term as President of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2021-2023) and presented three papers at special conferences in Mantova and Milan in 2022.

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Zane Cupec as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology. His research interests include new African musical diasporas, race and ethnicity, music and migration, music in religious experience, Caribbean and Latin American musics, transnationalism and transculturation and digital storytelling.

Congratulations to Zane Larson (Musicology, PhD), who was named a recipient of the Doug Trank Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring!