Recent News

The 66th annual Grammy Awards will always be a memorable one for violinist and UB faculty member Melissa White. White, along with her colleagues in the Harlem Quartet and the New York-based wind quintet Imani Winds, won a Grammy for “Passion for Bach and Coltrane,” a work arranged and composed by Jeffrey Scott, who will join the UB music faculty this coming fall.

Violinist and UB Professor of Music, Melissa White, a member of the Harlem Quartet, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Classical Compendium.

The Department of Music is pleased to announce the availability of Graduate Assistantships in Music for qualified applicants to our Masters of Music (MM) in Performance and Masters of Arts (MA) in Music History and Music Theory programs.

Associate Teaching Professor Claudia Brown and PhD in Composition graduate Jesse Downs received $5,000 in grant support from the New York State Council on the Arts for a joint choral program honoring the people of Ukraine.

Associate Visiting Professor Tiffany Skidmore received $5,000 from UB’s Civic Engagement Research Fund in support for her proposed collaboration between Buffalo String Works, PhD in Composition students, and the Europe based violin duo, Duo Gelland. Their joint concert will take place on June 5 at 6 p.m. in Slee Hall.

The University at Buffalo Department of Music is very pleased to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Scott as Professor of Music beginning in the fall of 2024. Professor Scott is currently Associate Professor of Horn at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a position he will depart at the end of this academic year.

We're hiring! We're very excited to announce that a major search is underway for two tenure track professors in composition: one at the full/associate level, and a second at the assistant level.

Current PhD in Historical Musicology student Amanda Paruta was awarded a Prentice Family Foundation fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year.