Move over Mary J. Blige and Justin Timberlake. Step aside Red Hot Chili Peppers. Some red hot musicians from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music are ready to crash the Grammy Awards. With one legendary faculty member and a host of alums competing, the school will be heavily represented at the annual awards ceremony, to be held on Feb. 11.   Full Story

This issue of Lecture Notes features speakers on the Bloomington campus discussing a variety of topics, including sexual risk taking, the foundations of physics and the beauty of Roman women.   Full Story

It's the perfect holiday gift and yet another expression of just how talented the singers who make up Indiana University's Singing Hoosiers are. A critically acclaimed new CD from Maestro Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops orchestra, Christmas Time is Here, features among its widely acclaimed guest artists the Singing Hoosiers, one of America's premier popular music symphonic concert choirs specializing in popular music and the music of Broadway.   Full Story

Jacobs alumnus Jeremy Denk, MM'93, whose piano playing has been described as "effortlessly virtuosic and utterly joyous" by the New York Times, will return to Bloomington this Sunday, December 3, when he joins the acclaimed Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as soloist at 8pm in the IU Auditorium. Click here for Concert Information!   Full Story

With an already impressive and growing international career as a virtuoso performer, teacher, pedagogue and musical commentator, hornist Jeff Nelsen has been appointed Associate Professor of Music at the IU Jacobs School of Music, it was announced today (Nov. 16).   Full Story

The IU Jacobs School of Music congratulates Associate Dean for Instruction Mary Wennerstrom, who has received the internationally significant Gail Boyd de Stowolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship. The award was announced at the Society for Music Theory's annual conference in Los Angeles on Friday, November 3, 2006.   Full Story

The Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, the premier orchestral ensemble of the IU Jacobs School of Music, continues IU's Moveable Feast of the Arts series next month at the historic Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne, Ind., with a performance that features recently appointed faculty violinist Alexander Kerr. The concert will be held on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. and marks the second year of the Moveable Feast of the Arts initiative, which is designed to showcase the university's cultural resources to Hoosier communities and IU campuses across the state.   Full Story

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music today (Nov. 7) continued its growing role as a leader in the emerging digital frontier with the announcement of its inaugural podcast. The audio and video project, found within the school's new "IUMusicLive" Web site (http://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive), includes performances by violinist Joshua Bell, conductor Michael Stern and the Beaux Arts Trio, and showcases three recent IU Opera Theater productions.   Full Story

Following its acclaimed performance last year, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will return to Bloomington in November with a program featuring Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty members Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson. Laredo (violin) and Robinson (cello) will perform the popular Double Concerto in A Minor by Johannes Brahms. The free offering on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center will be conducted by the ISO's Music Director Mario Venzago.   Full Story

Soprano Lorna Dallas, musical theater star and alumna of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, will give a free benefit performance of "The Great American Songbook" on Sunday (Nov. 5) at 3 p.m. in the IU Auditorium.   Full Story