The Rutgers Board of Governors acknowledged Rao’s “award-winning scholarship on a wide array of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, musical modernism, cultural fusion and racial representation.”
Jazz radio station WBGO 88.3/Newark Public Radio invited several students to New York City to record selections that aired in April, as part of the station’s Jazz Appreciation Month celebration.
Undergrad Brandon Mejia will be part of Quilting Water, an international public art initiative that seeks to prompt artists and scholars to consider the relationship between ecological justice and racial justice.
Andrew Kosinski (BM’20) composed a hymn that has been performed by military bands in the nation’s capital at least four times this week as the country has honored and mourned the 39th president.
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”
Brandon Mejia, who is on track to graduate in May 2025 with majors in jazz performance and information technology, will serve as one of the speakers at an induction ceremony for Tri-Alpha, the national first-generation honor society.
Classical composition alum Brian Landrus (PhD’19) is having a banner year: Not only has the sax player been appointed associate professor of jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston; he also released an album awarded a five-star review by DownBeat...
Class of 2028 jazz piano student Seraphina Taylor remembers when the music of pianist Thelonious Monk made its way to her Spotify “recommended-for-you” playlist. She was already listening to the likes of Bernard Wright and Don Blackman, but Monk was at another level....
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Distinguished Professor and head of music theory, is one of three Rutgers professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. Rao is included in the Humanities and Arts in the Field of Performing Arts category for her...
Mal Malone knew she was a musician long before she knew she was a trans woman. Nearly a decade after picking up the recorder in elementary school, the Mason Gross School of the Arts bass trombone player embraced her full identity as a queer musician last year. After...