News and Events


Jessica Stearns

Student Achievement

Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology) was awarded a short-term fellowship from the New York Public Library to conduct archival research in the library's Christian Wolff Papers for her dissertation, "Indeterminate Music and the City: A Context for Chri

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Dr. David Heetderks

Faculty Publication

Dr. David Heetderks published an article entitled "What Happens after the Primal Burn?

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Mariachi Aguilas

Mariachi Aguilas participated in the Nelson Elementary School’s diversity day program under the direction of Lizeth Dominguez (MA, Ethnomusicology) and the faculty mentorship of

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Andrew Vagts

Student Achievement

Andrew Vagts's paper, "Fanfare Topics as Boundary Markers in Mozart's Da Ponte Operas," won the Colvin Award for best student presentation at the Texas Society for Music Theory

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Arathi Govind

Alumni News

Arathi Govind (MM, Ethnomusicology, 2012) received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley in August of 2019 with a dissertation entitled "'An Undeniable Presence': Racial Justice Work among South Asian American Musi

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Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

American Musicological Society M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Award

At the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Prof. Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden received the M. Elizabeth C.

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Cynthia Gonzales (MM, Music Theory, 1990)

Alumni News

Dr. Cynthia Gonzales (MM, Music Theory, 1990) was one of only three professors across the Texas State University System to win a Regents' Teacher Award from TSU System's Board of Regents in 2019.