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Michael Klingbeil was awarded First Prize in the 2009 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Competition for his work Tear of the Clouds. The piece was also a selection in the 2009 Concours Internationaux de Musiques Electroacoustiques de Bourges. Klingbeil was also recently awarded a John and Yvonne McCredie Fellowship in Instructional Technology to support innovative teaching initiatives in courses focused on music, multimedia art, and technology.
Kathryn Alexander is a 2007-08 winner of the Aaron Copland Award, for which she will reside as composer-in-residence at The Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Her latest piano trio, AroundAbout, was premiered by the Williams Chamber Players at Williams College on April 13th, 2007, where she was a guest composer. During Winter/Spring 2007 she held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
James Hepokoski’s book co‑authored with Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (Oxford University Press, 2006), was awarded the Wallace Berry Prize (best book) from the Society for Music Theory in 2008. He has also had two new books published in 2009. The first, co‑authored with William E. Caplin and James Webster, is an exchange about foundational principles of music analysis and interpretation: Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections, ed. Pieter Bergé (Leuven University Press; distributed in the USA by Cornell University Press). The second is a selection of fifteen of his writings on various musicological topics from 1984 to 2008: Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays (Ashgate). Hepokoski’s keynote lecture at the 11th annual meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory (Leuven, Belgium, February 2009), “Clouds and Circles: Rotational Form in Debussy’s Nuages,” will appear next year in the forthcoming issue of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. An expanded version of Hepokoski’s sociologically inflected study of Sibelius’s symphonic folk‑inflections and their implications, “Building a First Symphony: Modalities of National Identity” (Musurgia, 15 [2008]) is scheduled to appear in 2010 in The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, ed. Jane Fulcher.
Gundula Kreuzer co-organized a symposium entitled “Opera's Multiple Transitions” at the 18th International Congress of the International Musicological Society (Zurich, July 2007), at which she also presented a paper on “Wagnerdampf: Steam and Visual Transition in Wagner's Ring.” In August she participated in an interdisciplinary conference on “Art and Destruction” at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and she was on the jury for the first International Award for Music Theatre Studies, sponsored by the Institute for Music Theatre Research in Thurnau, Bayreuth.
Richard Lalli was awarded Yale University's 2007 Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He has recently been named Artistic Director of the the Yale Baroque Opera Project, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation and will introduce undergraduates to aesthetic, stylistic and performative aspects of seventeenth-century Italian opera.
Judith Malafronte was invited to give master classes for voice teachers and advanced singers in China. For a week in July she spent several days in Shaanxi Province, working with singers at Xian Conservatory. and participating in panel discussions with officials and professors at Xian Peihua University.
In May of 2007 Patrick McCreless gave a series of lectures at the Metropolitan Opera on Wagner's Ring, in association with the Met's bringing the Kirov Ring to New York in July of that year. He will also be lecturing at the Met in the spring of 2009, in conjunction with the last performances of the Otto Schenk Ring. In February of 2008 he gave the keynote talk, "Performance and Analysis: A Counterexample?" at the annual conference of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory in Maastricht, Netherlands. And in May of 2008 he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Medal by the Graduate School of the University of Rochester.
Ian Quinn will be a Residential Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford in 2008-09, where he will work on a book tentatively called Studies in the Cognitive History of Tonality: Musical Syntax in Theory and Practice. The book will examine selected harmony treatises from the last 400 years in search of both a historical understanding of harmonic cognition and a cognitive understanding of the history of music theory. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, which will launch in 2006-07.
Ellen Rosand was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In announcing the award, the Mellon Foundation underscored Rosand’s influence in the field of musicology, crediting her with opening “important new ways of understanding 17th-century music and opera. Her monumental studies of the Venetian opera have arguably reshaped the entire subject. Rosand’s scholarship combines deep investigation of the archival evidence with innovative examination of opera’s literary content and its dramatic and musical conventions and is a model of clarity and integrity.”
Michael Veal's new book, "Dub: Soundscapes and Studio Craft in Jamaican Reggae" was released in Spring, 2007 by Wesleyan University Press.
Sarah's Weiss's new book, "Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java," was released in Fall, 2006 by KITLV Press.
