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Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
Grace Gramins plays a guitar with a friend on keyboard on Penn’s campus.

Image: Courtesy of Grace Gramins

Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals

Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.

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How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz?
Jeffrey Kallberg playing a grand piano.

Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, plays the newly found Chopin waltz and other music from the composer on a Érard piano donated by alum Yves Gaden.

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How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz?

Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, has helped to verify the first major manuscript from the famous composer since the 1930s.

Michele W. Berger

Jeffrey Kallberg named interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences
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Jeffrey Kallberg is the the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Music, and has been appointed deputy dean of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.

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Jeffrey Kallberg named interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences

Jeffrey Kallberg has been named interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Jan. 1. Kallberg currently serves as deputy dean and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Music.The announcement was made today by Interim President J. Larry Jameson and Provost John L. Jackson Jr.
Timothy Rommen appointed vice provost for the arts at Penn
Timothy Rommen.

Timothy Rommen is the Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of music and Africana studies in the School of Arts & Sciences. His role as inaugural vice provost for the arts begins Jan. 1, 2025.

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Timothy Rommen appointed vice provost for the arts at Penn

The Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of music and Africana studies in the School of Arts & Sciences, Rommen will begin the new appointment on Jan. 1.
Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
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Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years

Jeffrey Kallberg of the School of Arts & Sciences helped authenticate the score for a newly uncovered waltz by Romantic era composer Frédéric Chopin.

Two Penn faculty awarded Pew Fellowships
Sculptor Michelle Lopez sitting and talking in front of her sculpture and musician Tyshawn Sorey standing in front of a grafitti on a wall

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage awarded two Penn faculty each a Pew Fellowship in the Arts: artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez (left) in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design; and musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey (right) in the School of Arts & Sciences.

(Images (left) by University of Pennsylvania Communications, and (right) Ogata courtesy of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.)

Two Penn faculty awarded Pew Fellowships

Two Penn faculty -- installation artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez, and composer and musician Tyshawn Sorey -- each have been awarded one of 12 arts fellowships by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia.
Sound research as a lens to understanding the world
Illustration of a person wearing headphones with swirling whales and birds surrounding them.

Image: Maggie Chiang for OMNIA

Sound research as a lens to understanding the world

Researchers across Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences are turning to sound for new answers to questions on subjects from birdsong to the benefits of music exposure.

Laura Dattaro