Ethnomusicology

Yuxin Mei

Presser Award
Ethnomusicology PhD student Yuxin Mei has been awarded the Presser Graduate Music Award at UNT for 2018. Yuxin’s scholarly interests involve Chinese music in ensemble settings and the development of instructional materials for Western university faculty that offer techniques and materials for teaching, designing and arranging Chinese music and as well as maximizing rehearsal efficiency for Chinese ensembles.  Her Presser funded project consists of an eight-week itinerary of intensive study and training in Chinese ensemble music with professors from the renowned China Conservatory (Beijing), Xinghai Conservatory (Guangzhou), and Teochew Music Ensemble (Chaozhou) in China during July 2nd to August 27th in 2018. Sixteen graduate schools of music at accredited colleges, universities and independent institutions of higher education have been invited to present the Presser Graduate Music Award annually with its $10,000 scholarship to an outstanding graduate music student whom they select. The program is designed to encourage and support, in a special way, the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music. The Presser Foundation operates under the will and Deeds of Trust created by its founder, Theodore Presser.  It is one of the few foundations in the United States dedicated solely to the support of music and music education.

Yuxin Mei

FSU Performance
Ethnomusicology PhD student Yuxin Mei was recently invited to perform a concert at Florida State University. She performed a duet with PhD candidate Haiqiong Deng. Click here to watch a video of the performance. Yuxin plays the pipa and Haiqiong plays the zheng.

David Locke

“The ‘Rhythm Section’ of an African Drum Ensemble: the Case of Agbadza (Ewe, Ghana/Togo)”
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 4:00pm
Music Building Room 321

Yuxin Mei

Presser Award
Monday, February 26, 2018
Yuxin Mei, PhD graduate student in ethnomusicology, has been awarded the prestigious Presser Award from the UNT College of Music. The $10,000 grant will allow her to travel to China to enhance her knowledge as director of the UNT Chinese Music Ensemble, as a scholar and teacher. She will work with prestigious musicians and ensembles in three different regions of the country to learn about and collect new and emerging Chinese ensemble repertoire as well as ancient and representative regional ensemble styles and notation techniques to broaden her own knowledge as well as that of the ensemble. Her long term goal is to create a manual for use by other Chinese ensemble directors in the US.

China Venture Fund Grant

Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Dr. Steven Friedson, University Distinguished Research Professor, and Yuxin Mei, Director of the UNT Chinese Ensemble, received a China Venture Fund Grant to travel to China in Summer 2018 to recruit graduate students in ethnomusicology, investigate potential sites for research, and to scope out venues for a tour of the UNT Chinese Ensemble to China. They will be visiting the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing; Xi’an Conservatory of Music; and the Xing Hai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou. The College of Music, under the auspices of the Ethnomusicology Area, initiated the first Chinese Music Ensemble at a Texas university in 2015. Directed by internationally acclaimed pipa (Chinese lute) artist, Yuxin Mei, the ensemble has recently been the recipient of a $25,000 grant, which funded the purchase of high quality, professional Chinese instruments, making the UNT Chinese Ensemble arguably the best equipped ensemble in the United States. As evidence of their growing national stature, the ensemble has been invited to play at the Confucius Institute of Denver for the Chinese New Year celebration in February 2018, and was honored to receive an invitation to participate in the prestigious "China West Lake International Youth Music Festival” in China. 

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