IU Musicology Assistant Professor Sergio Ospina Romero was one of only eleven IU Jacobs School of Music faculty, both tenure-track and non-tenure-track, to receive the prestigious 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. Selected by a five-member ad hoc committee appointed by the Jacobs School’s Faculty Issues Committee, this award recognizes Ospina Romero’s outstanding contributions in the classroom as a dedicated and skilled educator.
Prior to joining IU, Ospina Romero taught at several distinguished institutions including the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de los Andes, and Cornell University. His previous accolades include the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, Cornell University’s Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, and honorary mentions for the Otto Mayer Serra Award and the Premio de Musicología de Casa de las Américas.
In addition to his scholarly and pedagogical achievements at IU, Ospina Romero enriches the local music scene in Bloomington as the pianist and director of Palonegro, a Latin American music and Latin jazz ensemble.
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