Sarah Lucas, a Ph.D. student in musicology, has won a U.S. Student Fulbright Award to conduct dissertation research at the Béla Bartók Archive and National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary, during the 2016–2017 academic year.

Prof. Eric Saylor will host the annual Iowa Musicology Day conference at Drake University in Des Moines on Saturday, March 26, between 9 and 5:30 in Room 204 of the Fine Arts Center. The conference brings together musicologists and students from Iowa schools to share their research.  All are welcome to attend.

A quartet of the Anchiskhati Choir, the world’s foremost practitioners of Georgian traditional choral music, is visiting Iowa City on February 25–26. The visit is the first stop of a US tour connected with a symposium at Yale University. On February 25 at 4:30 pm, they will give a lecture-demonstration entitled “An Introduction to Georgian Traditional Music” at the University Capitol Center Recital Hall (1670 UCC) in Old Capitol Town Centre, assisted by Matthew Arndt of the University of Iowa School of Music.

Iowa faculty have recently been active in publishing scholarship, presenting papers, and developing new pedagogies: Christine Getz, Trevor Harvey, Michael Eckert, Jennifer Iverson, Marian Wilson Kimber, and Matthew Arndt.

Gregory Newbold, an MA student in musicology, spent the summer of 2015 reading five recent titles from the Film Score Guide series (Scarecrow Press).

This Thursday, October 29, from 12:30-1:45, students in Trevor Harvey‘s first-year seminar course, Iowa City Live: Local Music Cultures, will be holding their final class meeting at Public Space One (120 N. Dubuque St.), where they will be presenting their own contributions to Iowa City’s live music culture.

Musicology and Theory Faculty and Students are delivering papers this fall: Marian Wilson Kimber, Jennifer Iverson, and Kelsey McGinnis.

Jennifer Iverson, assistant professor of music theory, has won an External Faculty Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center. Iverson will spend the year in Palo Alto working on her book project, Electronic Inspirations: The WDR Studio and Musical Thought at Mid-Century.

Composer Christopher Jette is joining us this year as a Grant Wood Fellow.  In addition to creating new work, he will direct the Laptop Orchestra of the University of Iowa. Jette will also teach Composition, Composition Seminar, and co-teach Collaborative Performance with faculty from the Department of Dance.

Musicology, Music Theory, and Composition faculty members have been hard at work during the summer months developing their scholarly and creative projects: Matthew Arndt, Michael Eckert, Lawrence Fritts, Christine Getz, Jennifer Iverson, Nathan Platte, Zack Stanton, and Marian Wilson Kimber.