Archive: Music News

• Spring 2021 Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts Events

  Read about the spring 2021 virtual semester of performances.

  Categories: Announcements, Dance News, Music News, Theater News

• WTOP: Annapolis Symphony launches free youth orchestra for 60th season

  A new article from WTOP discusses the upcoming launch of Orion Youth Orchestra, a free youth group, for the 60th anniversary of Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. The article includes an interview with Pr

  Categories: Announcements, In the News, Music News Tags: Faculty, Music

• NPR: Composer Bernard Herrmann Showcases His Range On ‘PostClassical Ensemble’

  Congratulations to GU Music Program Prof. Angel Gil-Ordóñez, music director of PostClassical Ensemble, whose CD of Bernard Hermann works was reviewed on "Fresh Air." Listen to the episode here.

  Categories: Announcements, In the News, Music News Tags: Faculty, Music

• Georgetown College’s Tropaia 2021 Student Award Winners

  Every year, Georgetown College honors its top academic achievers in the annual Tropaia ceremony. Congratulations to our two Department of Performing Arts seniors who received 2020-21 awards in recogn

  Categories: Announcements, Music News, Theater News Tags: Music, students, Theater

• GU Music Program Prof. Carlos Simon Named as Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence

  Georgetown University Music Program Professor, composer, and arranger Carlos Simon will join the Kennedy Center in 2021-2022 as its new Composer-in-Residence. During his three-year residency, Simon w

  Categories: Announcements, Music News Tags: Faculty, Music

• Looking back at Fall Semester 2020: A Virtual Semester with Real Impact

  https://performingarts.georgetown.edu/fall-2020-a-virtual-semester-with-real-impact/

  Categories: Announcements, Dance News, Music News, Theater News Tags: COVID-19, Dance, Music, pandemic, Theater, virtual

• GU Chamber Music Ensembles Program Students Perform Digital Concert, Continents Apart

  On the evening of November 18, 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the GU Music Program presented a pre-recorded digital concert featuring the students of the GU Chamber Music Ensembles Program perf

  Categories: Announcements, Music News Tags: Music, students

• GU Music Program Prof. Benjamin J. Harbert Receives American Musicological Society’s 2020 Best Essay Prize in Popular Music

  Congratulations to Georgetown University Music Program Professor Benjamin J. Harbert, who just received the American Musicological Society's 2020 Best Essay Prize in Popular Music, for an essay for a

  Categories: Announcements, Music News Tags: Faculty, Music

• The Hoya: Georgetown Hip-Hop Community Creates Art to Honor the Marginalized

  The Hoya examines the links between hip-hop and racial justice on Georgetown's campus, featuring insights from Professor of Music Carlos Simon, hip-hop artist in residence Marco Pavé, and the co-

  Categories: Announcements, Dance News, In the News, Music News Tags: Dance, Groove Theory, Music

• Tauheed Rahim II (Marco Pavé) “Soundtrack for Life” event Oct. 30 explores music in film

  Georgetown University’s first hip hop artist-in-residence continues his work with the Music Program and the community Now in his second year as Artist in Residence at the Georgetown University, sp

  Categories: Announcements, Music News