FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

DANIEL ELLIS - Academic Professional

in Opera and Theatre

In May, 2022, the newest addition to the UGA Opera Theatre faculty, Daniel Ellis, Academic Professional in Opera and Theatre, presented at the Opera America Conference, held this year in Minneapolis, MN. He and his design team presented their concept for “L’elisir d’amore,” which earned them the Robert L.B. Tobin Director Designer Prize in 2021. Ellis returned to the Opera Conference this May to present the 2023 winners.

MICHAEL HADARY - Lecturer of Music, Musical Theatre

January, 2023: Michael Hadary published an arrangement of “Flight” by Craig Carnelia. This is his first published arrangement. There is a recording of this new arrangement and he is currently developing a music video for the recording.

JACLYN HARTENBERGER - Associate Director of Bands

This academic year, Jaclyn was named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Brazil).

PETER VAN ZANDT LANE - Associate Professor of Composition and Director of the Dancz Center for New Music

Peter Van Zandt Lane was awarded the General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship in 2023.

DICKIE LEE - Assistant Professor of Music Theory

DIckie Lee was honored with First Year Odyssey Teaching Award for The Music of Athens this year.

AMY PETRONGELLI - Assistant Professor of Voice

ERIC DLUZNIEWSKI - Academic Professional, sound recording

PHILIP SMITH

William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts, Trumpet

On October 14, 2023, Philip Smith was awarded the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation from the American Bandmasters Association during the performance of the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s British Brass Band. Smith is the ensemble’s Bandmaster as well as the William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts (Trumpet) for the School of Music. The award was presented by composer, conductor and educator James Curnow. Smith joins the ranks of Meredith Wilson, Carl “Doc” Severinsen, and John Williams, who have received this honor, beginning with Captain Harry F. Guggenheim in 1962.

Philip Smith joined the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia as the William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts in August 2014. In addition to teaching his trumpet studio, he is the Bandmaster of the UGA British Brass Band, member of the faculty Georgia Brass Quintet, and coach of the Bulldog Brass Society. This position followed his retirement from the New York Philharmonic after 36 years of service as Principal Trumpet, having joined the New York Philharmonic in October 1978.

Amy Petrongelli, Assistant Professor in Voice, was part of the release of Khemia Ensemble’s new album, INTERSECTIONS, which “invites listeners to meditate on the confluence of beginnings, endings, and the hope and grief that can accompany those events.” The album was recorded and mixed by another UGA Faculty, Eric Dluzniewski, Academic Professional in Sound Recording. Petrongelli also received the Willson Center Faculty Research Grant I am in need of music.

RUMYA PUTCHA - Assistant Professor of Music & Women’s Studies

In 2023, Rumya Putcha received the Ludwig-Maximillians University Fellowship (Munich).

JOANNA SMOLKO-Instructor

Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music (Indiana University Press, 2021) by Dr. Joanna Smolko (Instructor, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, HHSOM) and School of Music alumnus Tim Smolko (MA in Musicology 2011) has won a Certificate of Merit in the 2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections’ Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Rock and Popular Music. This book is the first large-scale survey of American and British popular music’s role in articulating and shaping viewpoints on Cold War issues such as nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, the proxy wars, civil defense, bomb shelters, espionage, McCarthyism, Berlin Wall, and glasnost.

MAGGIE SNYDER - Professor of Viola

Maggie Snyder was awarded the General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award and a Willson Center Faculty Research Grant for Women’s Works for Viola in 2023.

We continue to receive updates on our faculty accomplishments throughout the year. Please visit music.uga.edu for updates.