Sergio Ospina Romero, Assistant Professor in Musicology, is one of eight IU Faculty members to receive an inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship, a program that “aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.” Thanks to this support, Prof. Ospina Romero… Read more »
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IU Musicologist, Christine Wisch, Key Contributor to Sounding Latinidades: Exploring Ainadamar Series
Last month, the musicology department and the Latin American Music Center partnered up to present the event series Sounding Latinidades: Exploring Ainadamar in preparation for the opening of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar at IU. Adjunct professor of Musicology and Music in General Studies, Christine Wisch, opened the series on January 23rd with her lecture “The Musical… Read more »
Weird Studies Podcast Receives Stand Out Review in London Times
Congratulations to Professor Philip Ford and his podcasting partner JF Martel on the latest review of their podcast Weird Studies in the London Times, receiving 4 stars from critic James Marriott. This review comes on the tail of another recent write-up in The New York Times this past summer, which similarly recommended the podcast to… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Mark Burford for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are pleased to welcome Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. His talk, “‘A Good Musical Education’: Mahalia Jackson and the Legibility of Black Women’s Voices,” is the second in the Peter Burkholder Lecture series, established in 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus… Read more »
Elizabeth Elmi to begin new position as Assistant Professor in Musicology at Williams College
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi who has been offered a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Williams College (MA), starting in Fall 2023. She was Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill for the 2021-2022 academic year and she has spent the last year in Italy, first as a Fulbright fellow at… Read more »
Brent Reidy Named Andrew W. Mellon Director of Research Libraries at The New York Public Library
Congratulations to Dr. Brent Reidy, who was recently announced as the new Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at The New York Public Library. Reidy, who completed his Ph.D. in Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in April of 2020, is a musician and musicologist who along his path came… Read more »
Jamey Guzman and Ari Schwartz Receive the 2022 Austin B. Caswell Award
The IU Musicology Department would like to congratulate Jamey Guzman and Ari Schwartz on being awarded the 2022 Austin B. Caswell Award! Each spring, the Caswell award recognizes the excellent research and writing being done by undergraduate students in the IU Jacobs School of Music. It was established in 1998 in honor of Dr. Caswell,… Read more »
IU to Host Anna Maria Busse Berger for Inaugural Peter Burkholder Lecture on April 1
Next week, the IU Musicology Department will host Anna Maria Busse Berger, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory at the University of California Davis, as she visits Bloomington to deliver the Inaugural Peter Burkholder Lecture, established in May 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emerita J. Peter Burkholder and in celebration… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Associations Host 28th Annual Symposium on Research
This weekend, on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Associations will host the Twenty-Eighth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The event will feature keynote presentations by Catherine Coppola (Hunter College of CUNY), Michèle Duguay (Indiana University), and Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University) as well as an interactive workshop… Read more »
CFP: 2022 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 »