Kaija Saariaho Wins 2008 Nemmers Composition Prize

April 2, 2008

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is the 2008 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition.

Drew Edward Davies Receives 2006 Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award

March 6, 2008

Drew Edward Davies, assistant professor in musicology, has received the 2006 Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award for his work The Italianized Frontier: Music at Durango Cathedral, Español Culture, and the Aesthetics of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century New Spain.

Northwestern to Build New Music Building

February 19, 2008

Northwestern University will construct a $90 million School of Music building on the lakefront of its Evanston campus, Northwestern President Henry S. Bienen announced today.

Stephen Hough Named Winner of 2008 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize

December 4, 2007

Stephen Hough is the 2008 winner of the $50,000 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.

Dunbar Early Music Festival to Present Rare Piccinni Opera Nov. 17-18

October 4, 2006

The School of Music's Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival will present, as its centerpiece, Niccolò Piccinni's rarely performed opera La buona figliuola (“The Good Girl” or “La Cecchina”).

Oliver Knussen Wins 2006 Nemmers Composition Prize

April 24, 2006

British composer Oliver Knussen is the 2006 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition.

Richard Goode Awarded Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance

April 3, 2006

Richard Goode is the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.

Composer John Adams Awarded $100,000 Nemmers Prize

June 2, 2004

John Adams is the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition.