Department of Music

Natalie Groom Awarded Dresher Center Summer Fellowship

Dr. Natalie Groom, Affiliate Artist of Clarinet, has been awarded a Dresher Center Summer Fellowship to research, engrave, and perform Trio for Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon by Pauline Oliveros. One...

Posted: May 18, 2025, 5:28 PM

Karena Ingram's RAINN to be Premiered by Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Congratulations to Karena Ingram '16, music composition, on receiving a commission from the Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program! Her work RAINN will be premiered by the Memphis...

Posted: April 26, 2025, 1:15 PM

Matt Belzer Awarded CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship

Matt Belzer, Director of the Jazz Studies program and Teaching Professor in the Department of Music, has been awarded the 2025 CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship. During his residency, Matt...

Posted: April 23, 2025, 5:41 PM

UMBC Music Students Present at URCAD 2025!

Congratulations to UMBC Music Students Ida Dierker and Jack Horvath for presenting yesterday at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD)! Ida's presentation was titled...

Posted: April 17, 2025, 3:35 PM

Lindsay Johnson presents at Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Lindsay Johnson recently presented her paper, "Celebrating Amateurism: Riffing on the Early Modern Salon," at the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, held at Yale...

Posted: April 10, 2025, 3:50 PM

Alexander Scott '11 appointed Assistant Professor of Music at UT Tyler

Congratulations to Alexander Scott '11, music education, on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at The University of Texas at Tyler! Scott taught for nine...

Posted: March 14, 2025, 4:35 PM

Audrey Andrist Performs with 21st Century Consort

Congratulations to Dr. Audrey Andrist, affiliate artist of piano at UMBC, on her recent performance with the 21st Century Consort. Andrist joined Lisa Emenheiser for the four-handed piano version...

Posted: February 20, 2025, 8:04 PM

Dr. Joseph Siu Contributes Chapter to Modeling Musical Analysis

Published by Oxford University Press

Dr. Joseph Chi-Sing Siu, Associate Teaching Professor in Music Theory at UMBC, is a contributing author to Modeling Musical Analysis, edited by Kim Loeffert and John Peterson and recently...

Posted: February 7, 2025, 7:48 PM