School of Music

Michael Berry teaches music theory 'outside the box' at UW Tacoma and the UW School of Music.
 

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Under the direction of conductor Julia Tai (DMA, 2010), Philharmonia Northwest presents "Seattle Sounds," representing a wide sample of composing ambitions from UW alumni.

Randolph Henning Hokanson carried his high musical standards from the concert stage to the University of Washington classroom.

With guitarist Bill Frisell in tow, Cuong Vu creates a dramatic set of all original tunes that reflects a cross-continental sensability on Change in the Air.

Dudley teaches music of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music and Community, Comparative Musicianship and Analysis, and graduate seminars in Ethnomusicology.

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Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard, professors of piano at the University of Washington, founded the innovative Seattle Piano Institute in 2010.

KEXP and the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives, connected to the School of Music's Ethnomusicology Division, host Pop Up Music Memory Digitization Labs on July 28.

UW composer Huck Hodge talks about his music and receiving the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award. 

 UW School of Music faculty composer Huck Hodge has been named the recipient of the Charles Ives Living Award

Visiting artists are immersed in creative research at the UW through an interdisciplinary initiative.

“Music acts on us as much as we act on it,” says Steven Morrison, professor of music and chair of Music Education at the University of Washington School of Music. 

Marcel Tabeteau was a world-renowned oboist for decades with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a professor at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in that city.

Watch performances by Garrick Ohlsson, Danish String Quartet, 12 Ophelias, Jazz Innovations, and revisit memories through craft sculptures at ArtVenture.