School of Music News

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Wildcat Marching Band debuts new uniforms

The Wildcat Marching Band debuted new uniforms at the September 6 home game at Kroger Field. The first uniform redesign since 2015 was brought to life by DeMoulin Bros.

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Faculty help organize Equinox Jazz Festival New festival celebrates history, community, and collaboration as part of 250Lex

Music education student earns 3rd prize in international competition

Music education sophomore Ashley Sayre of Mount Washington, KY, earned third prize in the prestigious 2025 Leonard Falcone International Festival's Euphonium Student Competition this summer.

Donna Kwon is a professor of ethnomusicology in the UK College of Fine Arts School of Music. Jeremy Blackburn, Research Communications

Donna Kwon: 2025-26 University Research Professor Q&A

By Erin Wickey, published in UKNow July 8, 2025

From civil rights to concert halls: The African American spiritual legacy

By Chloe Bradley. Originally published in the KY Kernel, April 2, 2025.

Appointment of Dr. Ben Arnold as Director of the School of Music

Donna Kwon publishes works on K-Pop, Korean Drumming and Dance

Teaching workshop builds confidence in music education

Story originally appeared in UKNow on January 14, 2025. By Tom Musgrave.

Freshman music major earns Young Artist Award

Story originally appeared in UKNow, January 9, 2025, by Tom Musgraves and Jason Dovel.

UK composition student Angel Gómez Ramos awarded by San Francisco ARTZenter Institute

Published October 24, 2024, Updated January 2025

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UK's top barbershop quartet places in international barbershop contest

Published July 26, 2024

Clockwise, from back left: Martina Vasil, Taylor Ayotte, Austin Robinson, David Dockan and Kailey Holmes. This group of educators helped coordinate the first all-state elementary modern band performance at the '24 KMEA conference. Photo provided.

Striking a chord: UK professor assembles Kentucky’s 1st all-state elementary modern band

Story originally appeared in UKNow, March 11, 2024 by Jenny Wells-Hosley.

UK hosts Contemplative Practices for Higher Education Conference

Image of Raleigh Dailey, associate professor, and Miles Osland, professor of saxophone and director of jazz studies, performed as the Osland/Dailey Duo for the world premiere of Dailey’s “Triptych.”

School of Music's Dailey and Osland perform world premiere at World Sax Congress

Two University of Kentucky School of Music faculty premiered a new composition in the Canary Islands this December at the 19th World Saxophone Congress.

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Music Ed grad works to address traumatic stress among educators, students

By Erin Wickey, published in UKNow December 12, 2023

UK composer Juan Trigos awarded Azrieli Commission for International Music

By Tatum Armstrong, published in UKNow, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023

Image of Juan Saldivar, Jr., DMA student in the University of Kentucky School of Music, is elevating opportunities for Mexican and Mexican American composers through a new initiative.

School of Music DMA Student Elevating Opportunities for Composers Through New Initiative

Juan Saldivar, Jr., DMA student in the University of Kentucky School of Music, is elevating opportunities for Mexican and Mexican American composers through a new initiative. Through Border Bones, Saldivar and Velarde aim to increase trombone duet repertoire.

Image of Renee Cobb wearing a blue suit in front of a step and repeat holding her award