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Eun-Hye Grace Choi's (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Timothy Lovelace) CD with Wonkak Kim (clarinet), François Devienne Clarinet Sonatas, was recently released on the Naxos label. Read more.
Congratulations to the following University of Minnesota School of Music musicology students on winning prestigious awards.
Lars Christensen (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Gabriela Currie) has received a prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese) for the academic year 2012-2013.
Danielle Kuntz (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Kelley Harness) has received two prestigious fellowships for the academic year 2012-2013: the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (Portuguese).
Joe Matson (Ph.D. candidate, musicology, student of Peter Mercer-Taylor) presented his paper "Ungrammaticality in the Music of Weezer" at the conference of the American Musicological Society--Midwest Chapter March 31, 2012. Matson was also named a winner of the 2012 President's Student Leadership and Service Award by University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler. Matson has accepted a position as instructional assistant professor of music at Illinois State University, to begin fall 2012.