Associate Professor of Music and composer Eric Nathan is among 18 recipients of music awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The BUO Concerto Competition is typically held each academic year in the fall. The winners are featured in the Orchestra's concerts soon thereafter.

This week, Luis Achondo successfully defended his dissertation, "The Sounds of Aguante: Sonic (Anti)sociality, Transnationalism, and Violent Conflict in the Soccer Culture of the Southern Cone."

One of our faculty, Dr. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, features in a segment from the daily global news program The World. Listen to the 8-minute interview with Professor Lumumba-Kasongo during which she speaks about video game culture and Afrofuturism, vital themes in her work as the rapper and producer Sammus.

The Department of Music is proud to announce that ethnomusicologists Kathleen (Kate) Haughey and Louis-Emmanuel Wenger successfully defended their dissertations last month.

At this time of year, we traditionally gather in person to recognize the academic excellence of our Senior Concentrators, celebrate the achievements of students who earned Awards, and host an in-person Commencement ceremony.

Luis Achondo, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, was awarded the James T. Koetting Prize of the Northeastern Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology for his essay “The Hinchada that Other Hinchadas Listen to: Authorship, Ownership, and Creativity among Soccer Fans of San Lorenzo de Almagro."

Composer Wang Lu, a David Josephson Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, won the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in Music from the Academy of Arts and Letters in recognition of her artistic excellence as a composer.

Composer Wang Lu, a David Josephson Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, received high praise in this Washington Post story which highlights 21 contemporary artists who "sound like tomorrow."

This semester, we will kick off our ongoing reading group on Music and Race by taking a step away from music, to join our incoming first-year students in reading the 2006 Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.

On January 15, 2021, composer Philip Glass' record label Orange Mountain Music released GLASS BACH DRESDEN a new recording featuring Brown University Organist Mark Steinbach performing on the 1755 Gottfried Silbermann organ in Dresden's Kathedrale St. Trinitatis. Stream, purchase a digital download or a CD here: http://smarturl.it/8uvdzk

The Department of Music proudly shares the news Violet Cavicchi Munoz, PhD '20 Ethnomusicology, accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Kenyon College.

We are looking forward to welcoming our musical community back, whether you will be on campus or studying remoting.

Please enjoy this excellent recorded performance by students from one of our Jazz Combos.

Over the past week, our colleagues here at Brown and elsewhere have released many powerful solidarity statements in support of Black Lives Matter, denouncing police brutality, white supremacy, and the repeated racist murders of Black men and women.

On May 19, 2020, The Boston Modern Ochestra Project (BMOP) released a full album of music composed by Brown University Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan.

The Department of Music is delighted to announce three hires: Dr. Charrise Barron, Dr. Anthony Cheung, and Dr. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo. We are terrifically lucky to have three such absurdly talented individuals joining us in Music. And we are excited to see the new directions in which they help lead our department!

A website to recognize Matthew McGarrell's dedication to music at Brown University:

Wang Lu, Brown University Assistant Professor of Music, was selected to Chicago Opera Theater’s (COT) Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Program.

Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan was recently recognized in a story published in the printed journal, IMPACT: Research at Brown. The online version of the story follows below. Bravo, Professor Nathan!

The Brown University Orchestra Concerto Competition took place this past weekend. Kudos to all who participated—all contestants showed remarkable effort.

When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series launches its 22nd season on Oct. 7, the ensemble’s fabled brass musicians will step into spotlight.

The New England Philharmonic and Music Director Richard Pittman have appointed Assistant Professor Eric Nathan as the Philharmonic’s new Composer-in-Residence beginning in the 2019-20 season.

Last week, we lost a friend and colleague, David Rubinstein, who succumbed to his long battle with cancer at age 57. David was a viola/violin teaching associate in our Applied Music Program and a coach of Chamber Music ensembles.