News

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.

The first book by Marianna Ritchey, Assistant Professor of Music History, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era explores how classical music has increasingly lent its cachet to marketing schemes, tech firm-sponsored performances, and global corporate partnerships.

Salvatore Macchia, Professor of Composition and String Bass at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named chair of the Department of Music and Dance, effective July 1, 2019. He follows Roberta M. Marvin, who recently completed her three-year appointment as chair.

Tyler Woodbury, a tuba student currently enrolled at the Department of Music and Dance, is one of only 10 collegiate student semi-finalists chosen from an international field by the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, one of the most prestigious solo competitions for tuba in the world.