School of Music

Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot plays a significant role in the UW School of Music. 

Teachers get hands-on with African drums, marimbas, and more during a world music pedagogy workshop.

Dr. Thomas Duell, a neurologist at Swedish Medical Center and a music professor at UW, invented an instrument that reads the electrical activity of the brain and turns it into musical notes.

Good news for people who hate practicing scales: scientists have created a musical instrument you can play with just your thoughts. 

A recent voice conference at the UW brings together doctors, therapists, voice coaches and performers.

It’s a story you really have to see to believe: people playing music simply by “thinking” it. 

Four exceptional graduating seniors have been selected as Dean's Medalists by the College of Arts & Sciences.

With degrees in music and speech & hearing sciences, Addison Francis wants to help singers and others protect their voices.

Faculty from the School of Music and the DXARTS are—literally—getting inside the minds of the musicians of New York's JACK QUARTET in a year-long exploration on the frontiers of artistic creation.

More than 40 players will perform works composed or inspired by the experimental composer John Cage, all around Town Hall Seattle on Nov. 19. There will even be amplified plants. 

Classical review: Pacific MusicWorks/UW Music’s coproduction of Gluck’s opera “Orphée et Eurydice” was a musical and visual delight at Meany Theater this past weekend.

Some composers transcend the music they create, coming alive in the popular imagination as figures of interest. Music + history join to offer a truly unique experience of one such composer. On Sunday, May 1, 2016, the UW School of Music hosts a Schubertiade, free and open to the public. Come hear live performances of the music of Franz Schubert, and learn about his cultural presence throughout history through narration and a pre-concert lecture. 

Composer Marcin Pączkowski uses sensor technology to alter music through specific movements.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded UW a three-year, $750,000 grant to support creative fellowships, and to better integrate arts disciplines into the broader UW curriculum.