Phil Ford, associate professor of music in musicology, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Trustees Teaching Award. He is one of only a handful of faculty members—tenure-track and non-tenure-track—across the Jacobs School to receive this honor, which celebrates excellence and dedication in teaching. Awardees are selected by a five-member ad hoc committee… Read more »
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Travis Whaley Wins Irene Alm Memorial Prize from the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
We are thrilled to announce that Ph.D. candidate Travis Whaley has been awarded the Irene Alm Memorial Prize by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) for his paper “The Coexistence of Organ Tablature and Thoroughbass in the Seventeenth Century.” This prestigious award recognizes the best student presentation at the SSCM’s annual spring conference. Named in… Read more »
Yishai Rubin Awarded OVPIA Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant for Research in London
We are excited to share that Yishai Rubin, a Ph.D. student in musicology, has been awarded a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant from IU’s Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA). The $3,500 grant will support Rubin’s research trip to the United Kingdom in summer 2025, where he will conduct archival work at the British… Read more »
Kathryn Reilly Receives 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award for Cantonese Opera Research
Jacobs School of Music student Kathryn Reilly has been named recipient of the 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award. The award was given for Reilly’s paper, “Cantonese Opera Singers—Composers and Masters of Communication: The Role of Linguistic Tones and Vocal Improvisation in Cantonese Opera.” The committee was impressed by the creative topic and argument. They described… Read more »
Jacobs Distinguished Lecture Series Presents Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid
The Musicology Department and the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music are delighted to present two lectures by Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University, as part of the Jacobs Distinguished Lecture Series. Lecture Schedule Thursday, April 10 | 5:00 PM Simon Music Center,… Read more »
Miguel Arango Calle Invited to Present at German Opera Workshop in the Czech Republic
Doctoral candidate Miguel Arango Calle has been invited to participate in the international conference “Towards a New History of German Music Theatre: Embodiment, Sounds, and Global Mobilities, c. 1650–1820,” to be held in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. The workshop will bring together contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge History of German Opera, to which Arango Calle… Read more »
CFP: 2025 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 2024 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
Halina Goldberg’s Recent Book Wins Prestigious PIASA Award
We are delighted to announce that Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery, edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University Press, 2023), has been honored with the Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). This accolade recognizes the… Read more »
Alison Mero (Ph.D., 2014) Honored with Prestigious H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award
We are proud to announce that Alison Mero (Ph.D., 2014), along with co-editor Christina Fuhrmann, has been awarded the H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award for their book Opera and British Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press, 2023). The H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award recognizes exceptional scholarship on eighteenth- to… Read more »
IU Musicology Hosting Series of Events on Kavalier and Clay
In one week, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay., a new opera co-produced with the Metropolitan Opera. The show portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer… Read more »