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!

Marian Wilson Kimber and Nathan Platte have both published articles in the most recent issues of Music & Politics. The journal is open access, so you can read and share their articles freely with others.

Ross Clowser (Musicology) recently completed his MA with a thesis titled, “A Past, Present, and Future of Des Moines Jazz: An Ethnography of the Des Moines Community Jazz Center’s Student Jam Session.”

Rebekah Erdman (PhD pre-candidate, musicology) has a new article in Opera Journal (55:1) titled “The Immortal Hour of the English Choral Drama."

Cody Norling (PhD candidate, Musicology) has a new article out in American Music (40:1) titled “Making an American Opera Career: Conductor May Valentine (1890-1974) and a Woman’s Role(s) in the Business of Opera.”

With assistance from the University of Iowa School of Music, Matthew Arndt presented a poster on musical sentences at the First Biennial Conference on Expression, Music, and Language, held at the University of Connecticut August 20–22, 2022.