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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism
Katherine Scahill poses with her arms crossed in front of the Lerner Centeron Penn's campus.

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill poses in front of the Lerner Center.

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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill’s research engages with three communities of female Buddhist monks (bhikkhunī) in Thailand and their chanting traditions.

Kristen de Groot

Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
A spilt image shows Arielle Alterwaite in the left half, posing with arms crossed and leaving against the exterior of a brick building, and the right side shows Katherine Scahill looking at the camera against a wallpapered background of tan and dusty red print.

History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Xena Alterwaite (left) and Music Ph.D. student Katherine Scahill (right) have been awarded the 2024 Newcombe Fellowship.

(Image: Courtesy of Eric Sucar, left; Courtesy Katherine Scahill, right)

Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The School of Arts & Sciences awardees are Arielle Xena Alterwaite, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, and Katherine Scahill, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in music.

Kristen de Groot

Tyshawn Sorey wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Tyshawn Sorey.

Presidential Assistant Professor of Music Tyshawn Sorey has been awarded a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith).”

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Arts & Sciences)

Tyshawn Sorey wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music

The Presidential Assistant Professor of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences has been awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his musical composition “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith).”
Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries
Old sheet music from the Gatz collection.

Loose music papers of liturgical music, the top composition is a Keddusha by Cantor Moses Zivy from Müllheim, Germany.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries)

Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries

The collaboration to catalog and digitize materials will ensure lasting access to the collection of Jewish Music History.

From Penn Libraries

Who, What, Why: Gwyn Roberts, director of Penn’s Early Music Ensembles, on 18th century female musicians 
five musicians standing and playing wind instruments

Gwyn Roberts (fourth from right) for three decades has been the director of Penn’s Early Music Ensembles.

(Image: Courtesy of Tempesta di Mare)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Gwyn Roberts, director of Penn’s Early Music Ensembles, on 18th century female musicians 

    A Penn student choir and Roberts’ baroque orchestra will perform a Vivaldi oratorio premiered by women and girls in Venice 300 years ago. 

    Louisa Shepard

    Ukrainian artistry and resilience
    Dakhabraka posing by stone archway.

    DakhaBrakha, a musical quartet from Ukraine, will perform on March 3 at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

    (Image: Andriy Petryna)

    Ukrainian artistry and resilience

    Through “Ukraine: The Edge of Freedom,” Penn Live Arts presents performances that uplift the culture of a nation during a time of war.
    Salsa, Shakira, and the reach of Latin American music
    Jairo Moreno sits with a cello at left, at right is the book cover “Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas.”

    Jairo Moreno is an associate professor in the Department of Music.

    (Images: Courtesy of OMNIA)

    Salsa, Shakira, and the reach of Latin American music

    A new book from musicologist Jairo Moreno highlights musicians who have immigrated to the United States and the transformative power of their work.

    From Omnia

    ‘Bartok’s Monster’ challenges conventions of theater
    A cellist performing on stage.

    “Bartok’s Monster” is a fusion of lecture, concert, and theater.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Live Arts)

    ‘Bartok’s Monster’ challenges conventions of theater

    In “Bartok’s Monster,” an interdisciplinary collaboration, Daedalus Quartet will perform Bartok’s String Quartet No. 3 and other string pieces mixed with acting, choreography, and an array of striking visuals.