School of Music

Ludovic Morlot has been named chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the School of Music. Morlot will take the lead role in shaping the training and recruitment of graduate conducting students starting in Fall 2013.

The UW Wind Ensemble spent spring break in China, performing for appreciative audiences around Beijing, finishing with a memorable sold-out concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts.

For 50 years, the School of Music's Ethnomusicology Program has advanced the study of music and culture, and has brought world music to Seattle through its Visiting Artist Program.

Drama leads this week's busy UW arts schedule, if by a nose, with the Undergraduate Theater Society's staging of the Cyrano de Bergerac story and the School of Drama's production of "Pentecost" - a play about art, which ought to count double.

A concert may seem magical, the performance effortless. But in reality, such an undertaking requires months—or years—of intense preparation and planning. Here, three faculty share what’s involved before they ever set foot on the stage.

"[The students] make me laugh every day. And they will try anything," says Monte Cristo Elementary School teacher Andrea Peterson ('96), recently named Washington Teacher of the Year. 

Through two School of Music courses, a group of UW students traveled to Washington's Yakima Valley to teach--and learn from--K-12 students. 

Students in the UW's Wind Ensemble describe their ten-day tour of Japan as a life-changing experience. 

On Classical King’s “Northwest Focus Live” with host Sean MacLean, the UW Wind Ensemble led by Timothy Salzman performs the first two movements of Zhou Tian's Sinfonia.

Guitar Studies Chair Michael Partington performs music from Baroque composer Jakob Johann Froberger for KING FM's Northwest Focus Live in this video broadcast recently on NPR Music's Live Sessions.