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Exploring the world of music, sound, and performance.

10/19/2026

How do we talk about music, and whose voices shape the conversation? In this Q&A, Jacob Jahiel reflects on the legacy of music critic Michael Steinberg and his craft. Join us tomorrow for Who Speaks for Music?, a book presentation and panel discussion featuring the book Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe (1964–1976), co-edited by Jahiel.

10/05/2026

Welcome back from fall break, students! Enjoy the start of the season with performances and lectures here at Penn Music.

08/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our "Why Music?" preceptorial!

We loved welcoming new musicians into the Penn Music community to share what it means to study, perform, collaborate, and grow through music. Here's to another (or your first!) semester of creating together!

08/10/2026

Curious about Penn Music? Come explore everything the Department of Music has to offer! Join us on Saturday, August 22 for two sessions:

Why Music? | 10:00–11:30 AM 📍Lerner Center, 201 S. 34th Street

Learn about music at Penn—from academic tracks and courses to private lessons and performance opportunities. All experience levels are welcome!

Choral Music at Penn | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM 📍Rose Recital Hall, 3340 Walnut Street

Love to sing? Discover Penn’s choral ensembles, meet fellow singers, and find a musical home on campus with the Penn Chorale, Penn Collegium Musicum, and Penn Glee Club.

We’re excited for you to find your place in Penn Music!

05/19/2026

Congratulations to Flannery Jamison, graduate student in Music Studies: Historical Musicology, on receiving a 2026–2027 Hopkinson Fellowship! Supporting graduate students in the humanities, the fellowship will fund her research on musical labor in twelfth-century Occitania as she travels to France this summer to begin her dissertation.

05/18/2026

Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

The Music Department proudly celebrates your hard work throughout your journey. May you continue to share your voice, pursue your dreams, and let music guide you wherever life takes you. The world is ready for your next performance!

05/15/2026

Congratulations to Mary Channen Caldwell, Associate Professor of Music at Penn, on being named a 2026–2027 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow as the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music. During her fellowship year, she will work on her book Singing Conversion in Medieval Europe, which explores how song shaped religious transformation in the long thirteenth century. The Radcliffe Fellowship supports ambitious interdisciplinary research and brings together leading scholars, artists, and practitioners from across the world.

05/01/2026

Join us today at 5:00 PM in Rose Recital Hall for a special senior recital presented by our talented undergraduate students, Charles Witmer and Samantha Fung-Lee, as part of the Marian Anderson Performance Program!

The performance will feature a rich and diverse program with works by Bach, Handel, Brahms, Mozart, Berg, Puccini, Fauré, Ives, Bellini, and Chaminade. Please come out to support Charles and Samantha as they celebrate this important milestone in their musical journeys!

04/17/2026

Last week, we had the joy of welcoming back composition alumni Joshua Hey, Andrew Davis, Luke Carlson, and Ke-Chia Chen to Rose Recital Hall. Works by Carlson, Davis, and Hey were performed by the Daedalus Quartet and Matthew Bengtson. Thank you to all who joined us for a wonderful evening of music!

03/31/2026

We're excited to share that our PhD Candidate in Music Studies: Ethnomusicology Armaghan Fakhraeirad has received a 2026 Student Grant Award from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation!

Fakhraeirad will use her grant to pursue her film "Listen! Something Still Hanging from the Tree" — A collaborative experimental film that move between public mourning drums and private healing rituals in southern Iran. Co-created with visual artist Sara Abbasnejad from field recordings, photography, and drawn reconstructions, the film encourages listening for women’s agency, care, and histories that persist even when rarely recorded.

Congratulations, Armaghan!

(Sachs Image Design by Elaine Lopez)

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201 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA
19104

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https://music.sas.upenn.edu/

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