Effie Papanikolaou was invited by the Musicology Department at Ohio State University to participate in their annual Colloquium Series (February 2011). Her lecture, part of her larger book-length project on the symphonic mass, was titled “Interrogating the Sacred: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.”
(Submitted by Eftychia Papanikolaou)
Mary Natvig will be the keynote speaker for the American Musicological Society’s Southeast Chapter and the Music History Pedagogy Study Group’s Teaching Music History Day Joint Conference at the University of North-Carolina Charlotte, March 18-19, 2011. Teaching Music History Day is an annual event, first held and organized by faculty at Michigan State University in 2003. It was inspired by Natvig’s edited volume, Teaching Music History (Ashgate, 2002), the first book length publication on the pedagogy of music history. Other Teaching Music History Days have been held at the University of Michigan, BGSU, DePauw University, Baldwin Wallace College, and Edinboro University.
(Submitted by Mary Natvig)
Dr. Joyce Eastlund Gromko, Professor Emeritus of Music Education, has been reappointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Music Education through 2012. Dr. Gromko’s invited article,”Teaching with FORM: Applications of Research in Early Childhood Music,” appears in the February 2011 issue of India’s NAVTIKA: Journal of Early Childhood Care and Education, New Delhi: 2(1), 23-29.
(Submitted by Joyce Eastlund Gromko)
Dr. Sean Cooper, is the winner of the National Opera Association’s biennial dissertation competition for his dissertation entitled ‘The Virtue of Recitativo Semplice in the Operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.’ The award was presented at the National Opera Association’s national conference, San Antonio, January 9, 2011.
(Submitted by Dr. Sean Cooper)
Dr. Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu to perform in Sudbury, Canada on January 26.
Dr. Liu, Assistant Professor of Piano, is returning to Sudbury the third time to present a recital and a master class at Cambrian College. The program includes works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Leoš Janáček.
http://www.northernlife.ca/displayArticle.aspx?id=43875
(Submitted by Solungga Fang-Tzu)
Faculty member and pianist, Thomas Rosenkranz recently performed a solo recital as the American representative at the October Musicale Festival in Tunisia. The concert took place at the Acropolium in Carthage and included works by Messiaen, Beethoven, as well as Rosenkranz’s own version of Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin. This trip was sponsored by the American Embassy of Tunis and included a week of masterclasses at the Higher Institutes of Music in Tunis and at the newly founded Institute in Le Kef.
http://tunisia.usembassy.gov/policy/news2/fine-arts/u.s.-pianist-thomas-rosencranz-visits-tunisia
(Submitted by Thomas Rosenkranz)
