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  • Jazz Band

    Jazz Band

    The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all offered for academic credit. Students may choose to join one of the department's 40 performing groups.

  • Grant Recital Hall

    Grant Recital Hall

    The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all offered for academic credit. Students may choose to join one of the department's 40 performing groups.

  • Music building

    Music building

    The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all offered for academic credit. Students may choose to join one of the department's 40 performing groups.

  • Orchestra

    Orchestra

    The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all offered for academic credit. Students may choose to join one of the department's 40 performing groups.

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Wang Lu's Urban Inventory Reviewed by The New Yorker

"I’ve listened at least a dozen times to the composer Wang Lu’s new album, 'Urban Inventory' (New Focus Recordings), and remain happily lost in its riotous maze of ideas and images. Every moment is vividly etched, drenched in instrumental color, steeped in influences that range from ancient Chinese folk music to the latest detonations of the European avant-garde. A starry array of ensembles, including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Alarm Will Sound, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, bring the music to rambunctious life.

(Distributed May 22, 2018)

Mark Seto Hired as the New Director of the Brown University Orchestra

The Department of Music is proud to announce conductor, musicologist, and violinist Mark Seto as Director of the Brown University Orchestra effective July 1, 2018. In addition to bringing his vast experience as an educator and orchestra director to the classroom and stage, Seto will assist in the development of Brown’s new Performing Arts Center. Seto comes directly from Connecticut College where he was Associate Professor of Music and director of the Connecticut College Orchestra.

(Distributed May 10, 2018)

Congratulations, David Fossum, Assistant Professor at Arizona State

Brown University Ethnomusicology Ph.D. alum David Fossum will begin his new post at Arizona State University in January 2019. Congratulations, David!

From the full story:

The Arizona State University School of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts welcomes Dave Fossum as assistant professor in the musicology program, beginning in January 2019.

(Distributed May 9, 2018)

Eric Nathan awarded Brown University's Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship and Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award

Assistant Professor Eric Nathan has been awarded Brown University's Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, for a semester of paid leave in Spring 2019, and a $15,000 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award to support his upcoming portrait album release by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The Wriston Fellowship will be presented at the University Award Ceremony on Monday April 30th at 5pm in Pembroke Hall and the Salomon award will be presented at the annual Celebration of Research on April 19th at 4:30pm at the Faculty Club. Congratulations, Professor Nathan!

(Distributed April 10, 2018)

Brown Daily Herald Reviews BUO's Concert with Tracy Silverman

The Brown University Orchestra performed “Love Song to the Sun” to accompany the song’s composer and electric violin soloist Tracy Silverman in the first concert of the semester Saturday. After the previous night’s performance was canceled due to inclement weather, Saturday’s concert brought a packed house of eager students, faculty and community members.

(Distributed March 6, 2018)
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