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Debra Nagy and members of Les Délice work with MSU oboe and bassoon students.
Nathan Mertens and Kenta Saito work with MSU saxophone students.
Ryan Keberle works with MSU jazz students.
Part of the Dorothy DeLay Masterclass Series.
Pinchas Zuckerman will work with MSU students and have an interactive conversation with Dmitri Berlinsky, MSU professor of violin.
Funding proves instrumental for faculty research and production of books and recordings.
Listen as MSU musicologist discusses her book on notable podcast.
Music alumnus explores the country's rich history of vocal music.
Artists relate the music they play to societal issues and their own experiences.
Multidisciplinary approach sheds new light on modern theater.
Emily Demski and Suzanna Feldkamp, Musicology MA students, both won the 2023 Somers Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes graduate teaching assistants who taught in Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities (IAH) in 2022.
Read more about the Somers AwardThree Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev, edited by Kevin Bartig and Dassia Posner, won the American Society for Theatre Research Translation Prize. It was also a Runner Up for the Theatre & Performance Research Association Edited Collection Prize and received Honorable mention for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award.
Read more about this book.