Music

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has given D. Kern Holoman an award in excellence in “Historical Recorded Sound Research in Classical Music” for his book Charles Munch (Oxford University Press, 2012). The book features an online appendix, Charles Munch—The Recorded Legacy, which examines the expansive discography that the conductor was responsible for.

Congratulations to Tony Dumas, Chantal Frankenbach, Ana Alonso-Minutti, and Sarah Eyerly for their recent academic appointments.

Tony Dumas, Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (2012), recently accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the State University of New York, College of Brockport.

Chantal Frankenbach, Ph.D. in musicology (2012), accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Music History at California State University, Sacramento.

Kurt Rohde has won a 2013 Barlow Endowment commission to write for cellist Michelle Kesler.

The Barlow Prize site writes:

San Francisco Classical Voice reviewed the first-ever entirely percussion recital (“Carte Blanche”) at Music@Menlo, featuring UC Davis’s own Chris Froh, with Ayano Kataoka and Ian Rosenbaum.

Valerio Morucci has won the 2013 Ingolf Dahl Award for his paper “Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the Rhetoric of Early Monody,” from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.