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Here you will find current news and events related to the alumni, faculty and students of the Music Education Division at the University of Illinois School of Music.

Great start of the year for the University of Illinois Music Ed graduate students and faculty!! 🧡💙
09/04/2026

Great start of the year for the University of Illinois Music Ed graduate students and faculty!! 🧡💙

So fun to see Illinois Music Ed’s own Professor Pete Shungu in action with both Mariachi Libertad and Afro D & Global So...
08/29/2026

So fun to see Illinois Music Ed’s own Professor Pete Shungu in action with both Mariachi Libertad and Afro D & Global Soundwaves for the final Champaign Friday Night Live!! 🧡💙

LET’S GOOOOOOO!! MUS 350: Music Teaching in Ensemble Settings with Drs. MacLeod and Vecchio and Sweet-Manternach again t...
08/24/2026

LET’S GOOOOOOO!! MUS 350: Music Teaching in Ensemble Settings with Drs. MacLeod and Vecchio and Sweet-Manternach again this Fall semester!! 💙🧡

The study, “Middle and High School Musician Fatigue in a Summer Music Camp,” was presented at the Instrumental and Vocal...
08/01/2026

The study, “Middle and High School Musician Fatigue in a Summer Music Camp,” was presented at the Instrumental and Vocal Music Teaching Commission ISME Preconference at Laval University in Quebec City by Dr. Mike Vecchio, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Dr. Jeremy Manternach, The University of lowa, and Dr. Bridget Sweet-Manternach, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Music Education at Illinois was well represented at the 2026 ISME (International Society for Music Education) conference...
08/01/2026

Music Education at Illinois was well represented at the 2026 ISME (International Society for Music Education) conference in Montreal.

Featured presentations included:

“Rejecting Costumes and Deepening Content: Rethinking Hip Hop Pedagogies for Music Education” by Dr. Adam Kruse

“Exploring Creative Musical Activities with Preservice Instrumental Music Educators in Band Fieldwork Settings” by Dr. Mike Vecchio

and

“Transformative Collaborations: Hip Hop, Multilingualism and Music Education” by Dr. Adam Kruse and Professor Pete Shungu

College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois
Hip Hop Innovation Center

We are thankful for the always-amazing group of Summers-Only MME students! It was a pleasure to collaborate with these f...
07/24/2026

We are thankful for the always-amazing group of Summers-Only MME students! It was a pleasure to collaborate with these fantastic music educators over the past two weeks in the course, “Teaching Students with Disabilities in Music Settings.” Today, they shared their final projects that reflected philosophical values, dispositions, and creative/innovative teaching practices for accessibility, inclusion, and equity in music settings. We are fortunate that these folks are part the Illinois music education student and alumni network. I-L-L!!

Congratulations to summer M.M.E. students Angelina Ariazi, Madison Emamjomeh, Andrew Magosky, and Grace Tait on presenti...
07/09/2026

Congratulations to summer M.M.E. students Angelina Ariazi, Madison Emamjomeh, Andrew Magosky, and Grace Tait on presenting their capstone projects!

Congratulations to MME student, Yawen Hu, on presenting her capstone project, “Curriculum Design for a High School Guqin...
05/11/2026

Congratulations to MME student, Yawen Hu, on presenting her capstone project, “Curriculum Design for a High School Guqin Elective Course in China.”

Big congratulations to Illinois PhD student, Katie Toler, on her successful dissertation proposal defense today! Officia...
05/11/2026

Big congratulations to Illinois PhD student, Katie Toler, on her successful dissertation proposal defense today! Officially ABD; officially a doctoral candidate!! Woot!! 🧡💙

Congratulations to Master of Music Education student, Eric Brown, on the successful defense of his thesis, "Perspectives...
04/25/2026

Congratulations to Master of Music Education student, Eric Brown, on the successful defense of his thesis, "Perspectives and Practices of a Hip Hop Music Educator" today!

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