“I like possibilities. And as an instrument builder I like to do things that are a bit out of the status quo.”

Congratulations Alesyia!

"I’ve listened at least a dozen times to the composer Wang Lu’s new album, 'Urban Inventory' (New Focus Recordings), and remain happily lost in its riotous maze of ideas and images.

The Department of Music is proud to announce conductor, musicologist, and violinist Mark Seto as Director of the Brown University Orchestra effective July 1, 2018.

Brown University Ethnomusicology Ph.D. alum David Fossum will begin his new post at Arizona State University in January 2019. Congratulations, David!

Assistant Professor Eric Nathan has been awarded Brown University's Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, for a semester of paid leave in Spring 2019, and a $15,000 Richard B.