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Guests at UMD see high-tech piano play music students’ performance 200+ miles away

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April 29, 2024 School of Music, Brass

Trombonist Myles Blakemore to Join UMD School of Music

Blakemore, a trombonist in the U.S. Navy Band, will lead the trombone studio at UMD.

April 15, 2024 School of Music

Low-Cost Lessons Raise Musical Bar for Local Teens

Terrapin Community Music School matches grad students with youths to expand access.
February 06, 2024 School of Music, Jazz Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Acting Director of Jazz Studies Mark Williams Featured on Count Basie Orchestra’s 2024 Grammy Award-Winning Album

The orchestra, which includes WIlliams as one of its resident trombonists, won Best Large Jazz Ensemble for “Basie Swings The Blues.”
November 15, 2023 School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities

A Tuneful Alternative to Beep-Beep-Beep

UMD Professor and student bring sing-alongs to children in hospital
October 27, 2023 School of Music

Wind (Instruments) of Change

New Oboe Professor Emily Tsai Brings Accessible Approach to Classical Music
September 22, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Douglass Center

Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Second Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty at three Maryland universities for leadership roles.
September 05, 2023 School of Music, Jazz Studies

Celebrated Trombonist Mark “Notesmith” Williams joins UMD School of Music as Acting Director of Jazz Studies

Williams brings his unique flare as a musician, producer and educator to the school beginning this fall.
August 01, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

Craig Kier Appointed Director of Arts for All

School of Music associate professor champions the power of the arts to connect everyone together.
June 06, 2023 School of Music, Voice & Opera, Maryland Opera Studio

Acclaimed Soprano Teri Bickham D.M.A. ‘19 Returns to School of Music as Assistant Professor of Voice

Bickham hopes to use the lessons taught to her by her mentor, the late Carmen Balthrop, to shape her students’ futures.

Music In The News

April 29, 2024

Live from New York—and College Park

Guests at UMD see high-tech piano play music students’ performance 200+ miles away
March 01, 2024

UMD Debuts an Opera on the Legacy of Mexican President Santa Anna

The Maryland Opera Studio premieres a new work tackling the contentious historical figure Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna.
January 24, 2024

Admission to the University of Maryland Comes with a Trumpet’s Blare

The Mighty Sound of Maryland helped welcome members of UMD's Class of 2028 as a part of the University's Now a Terp tour.

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Soprano Tamara Wilson is a 2017-2018 School of Music Artist in Residence

September 21, 2017 School of Music

During her residency at the School of Music, she will work with both undergraduate and graduate students across a range of areas and debut her song recital program “Weightless Dreams”.

Arhu 2017 Service Award Winners Announced

September 15, 2017 College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Six exceptional faculty, staff and students received an annual ARHU service award.

2017-18 New Faculty Appointments

September 06, 2017 Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

2017-18 New Faculty Appointments

September 06, 2017 Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

Theo Popov and E.M. Lewis Win Second Annual UMD Opera Composition Contest

August 14, 2017 School of Music

Popov and Lewis will receive a commission to produce a new work for the Maryland Opera Studio that asks challenging questions of American politics.

Bass-Baritone Kevin Short Joins UMD School of Music Voice Faculty

August 14, 2017 School of Music

Short has performed with major opera companies and orchestras around the world and was previously Artist-in-Residence at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.

Sarah Frisof Appointed to UMD School of Music Flute Faculty

August 14, 2017 School of Music

Frisof is Principal Flute of the Dallas Wind Symphony, a prize-winning soloist and former faculty at the University of Kansas. She begins teaching in the fall of 2017.

Arhu Faculty Earn Promotions And Tenure

August 01, 2017 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Thirteen faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities were awarded tenured positions and promotions to full professor.