News

“DownBeat” magazine, the top publication for “jazz, blues, and beyond,” has included a recent recording, “The Lullaby Project and Other Works for Large Ensemble,” by UMass associate professor of music Felipe Salles on their list of 100 top-rated albums for 2019.

Eric Berlin, professor of trumpet in the Department of Music and Dance, has had a book of photography published, featuring 80 of his pictures that capture behind-the-scenes work at the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

On November 7-9, UMass Dance presents a dance performance titled Metamorphose:  Dance Inspired by the Artwork of Leonardo Drew. Performances will take place all three evenings at 7:30 PM in Totman Performance Lab.

The American Musicological Society has selected Charles Hsueh as a recipient of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund, which enables him to attend the national meeting of the AMS from Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2019 in Boston. 

The National Endowment for the Arts has approved funding for a clinical trial led by Dr. Aston K. McCullough, Assistant Professor of Dance Science in the Department of Music & Dance. The purpose of this two-year trial is to determine the effects of a group-based dance/movement program on physical and mental health in women who are survivors of domestic/intimate partner violence.

Lisa J. Lehmberg,  Associate Professor of Music Education  at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been selected as the Distinguished Arts Education Advocate in Music by Arts|Learning, one of the state’s most prominent arts advocacy groups.