Music Department News
Matthew Burtner has been elected to the 2020 
University of Virginia alumnus Chuanyuan Liu will be starring in Bard College Conservatory of Music’s pastiche opera production, titled Rest in Pieces. Conceived and directed by internationally famous mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and cabaret More
At the beginning of the radio program, host Raina Douris notes that “World Café” usually focuses on bands with four or five members.
This time, she said, there were 324. More
C-SPAN: A panel of scholars and museum officials discusses approaches for addressing “difficult” aspects of U.S. history. They share ideas for how to remember and learn from topics such as lynching or the Holocaust, or about the cultures and experiences of groups such as Native Americans and the More
The composer Barbara Strozzi, who turns 400 this year, is still celebrated for vocal music of desire and passion.
She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music
By More
The Cavalier Marching Band performed a tribute to William Pease, the outgoing Director of Bands at the University of Virginia, at their last home football game of 2019 season, on Friday, November 29th. The half-time formations commemorated his sixteen year tenure as the Director of Bands at the More
The UVA McIntire Department of Music is pleased to announce that Tianyu Zhang, a music and statistics major in the class of 2020, was selected for the 2019 UVA Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award in Music for demonstrating outstanding achievement in his More
Kris Monson (UVA Music & Systems Engineering 2015) returns to the University of Virginia to present the Charlottesville premiere of his “Suite for Charlottesville”, a reflection on the August 2017 white supremacist uprising and violence. The suite is written for a seven-piece ensemble of More
