In an effort spearheaded by Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity Professor Judah Cohen and Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder, the IU Jacobs School of Music has secured a $25,000 IU Public Arts and Humanities Project grant. This funding will make the upcoming Charles Ives at 150 festival accessible for Indiana… Read more »
Awards
Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow Awarded 2024 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Two Jacobs School of Music students, Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow, have been named recipients of the 2024 Austin B. Caswell Awards. The awards were given to Szczuka’s paper, “Soviet Musical Orientalism: The Role of the Symphonic Works of Reinhold Glière,” and Woodrow’s paper, “An Argument On the Female Musicianship and Sexual Morality of Barbara Strozzi.”… Read more »
Sergio Ospina Romero receives Trustees Teaching Award
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… Read more »
Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso Awarded 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Congratulations to two Jacobs School of Music students, Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso, recipients of our 2023 Austin B. Caswell Awards. Maness received the award for his paper “The Tragedy of the Ospedali”. The committee also recently opened the award up to podcasts and Damaso’s “Recording Techniques in Early Jazz and How They Helped Shape… Read more »
CFP: 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
ELIGIBILITY Students may nominate their own projects. Alternatively, students’ projects may be nominated or encouraged by faculty members, associate instructors, and classmates. To be eligible for this year’s award, a project must have been submitted in fulfillment of course requirements for a music history class during the 2022 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
Prof. Halina Goldberg Wins 2021 H. Colin Slim Award at AMS
Congratulations to IU Professor of Musicology Halina Goldberg, who has just won the 2021 H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society. Her award-winning article, titled “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” was published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Each year, the H. Colin… Read more »
Deanna Pellerano awarded Eileen Southern Travel Grant
This summer, Deanna Pellerano, who earned a dual masters degree in Musicology and Library Science from IU in Spring 2021, was announced as a recipient of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund, a grant of the American Musicological Society and their Committee on Cultural Diversity. The Eileen Southern Travel Fund seeks to support minority undergraduates and… Read more »
Keslie Pharis awarded 2021 Austin B. Caswell Award
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music student Keslie Pharis whose paper entitled “The English Anthem from the Reformation to the Restoration: The balancing of Catholic and Puritanical influences in English church music” was awarded the 2021 Austin B. Caswell Award. The essay, submitted for M401 History and Literature of Music I, addresses the English anthem… Read more »
Elizabeth G. Elmi awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music musicology alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, whose paper entitled “L’arboro captivo fa captivo fructo: Pastoral Politics in the Lyric Song of Late-FifteenthCentury Southern Italy” was awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Dr. Elmi’s paper addresses the substantial portion of the surviving Neapolitan lyric repertory… Read more »
CFP: 2021 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
The Austin B. Caswell award was established in 1998 in honor of Prof. Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The Caswell Award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history projects (such as research papers, podcasts, and lecture-recitals) submitted at the Jacobs… Read more »