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.”

On Sunday, October 24, Dr. Marian Wilson Kimber gave a recital in the Stark Opera Studio titled In a Woman’s Voice: Musical Readings by Women Composers. I was able to talk with Dr. Wilson Kimber a bit about her recital; here’s what she had to say.

The duo Red Vespa, consisting of musicology professor Marian Wilson Kimber and pianist Natalie Landowski of Western Illinois University will return to the concert stage this week to present a recital of musical readings by American women composers. Red Vespa will also premiere a new work created for them by Portland composer and University of Iowa alumna Lisa Neher, Upon a Broken World. 

Sarah Suhadolnik’s work with colleague Monica Hershberger is featured in the new, open-access collection Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century (eds. Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol Oja).