The IU Department of Music Theory is delighted to congratulate Ph.D. student Joey Grunkemeyer on winning the 2025 Best Student Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Joey’s paper, titled “Form as Topic? Reframing Formal Deformation in Haydn’s… Read more »
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Tori Vilches named 2024 SMT Student Presentation Winner
Congratulations to Tori M. Vilches, recipient of the 2024 SMT Annual Meeting Student Presentation Award! Award-Winning Paper: “’Sex Sells’: A Decolonial Analysis of Purplewashing and Sexual Narrative in the Women of Reggaetón” In her paper, Tori examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, and socio-cultural power dynamics in reggaetón. While artists like Karol G and Young… Read more »
Andrew Mead Receives 2024 Trustees Teaching Award
The Department of Theory is proud to share that Professor Andrew Mead was recently honored with the 2024 Trustees Teaching Award, recognizing his exceptional contributions to student learning and academic excellence. This prestigious award celebrates faculty who have had a significant impact on undergraduate education. Mead has been a faculty member at IU since 2013,… Read more »
Music Theory PhD Student Wins New Works Commission
IU Music Theory PhD student, Hippocrates Cheng, was just announced as a winner of the 3rd New Works commission project, hosted by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. His chamber opera, All of Us, is inspired by true stories from people of Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage. Through this work, he seeks… Read more »
Noriko Manabe and Jay Hook Receive Prestigious Awards at SMT
This past weekend, the Society for Music Theory and American Musicological Society convened in Denver, Colorado, for their joint annual meeting. In addition to the numerous presentations and panels offered, SMT announces a series of publication awards that recognize significant contributions to the discipline of music theory. We are thrilled to share that two IU… Read more »
PhD Student Loida Garza Receives Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship
We are thrilled to share that Loida (Lois) Garza has been awarded the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship from the Society for American Music for her work on “Julián Carrillo and ‘El Sonido Trece’: A Revolution for the Enrichment, Purification, and Simplification of Music.” The fellowship is awarded biennially to an outstanding Ph.D. candidate… Read more »
IU Alumni Win SMT Awards
Congratulations to IU Music Theory alumnus Mitch Ohriner (PhD 2011), who won a 2022 Wallace Berry Award for his book Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (OUP, 2019). Presented each year by the Society for Music Theory, the award is given for a “distinguished book by an author of any age or career stage.”… Read more »