Seven Students Win Paine Fellowships

Seven students have won 1998 Paine Traveling Fellowships at the Music Department. Winners customarily use their fellowships for study during the summer or the following academic year.

This year's undergraduate winner is Sami Shumays '98, who will study Arab music with Simon Shaheen in New York City.

Graduate winners include Jen-yen Chen, who will travel to Austria for dissertation research on Vienna's late-18th-century a cappella sacred music. Ed Gollin, who will do dissertation and language study in Germany and Austria. Lara Pellegrinelli will travel to New York for dissertation research on jazz improvisation.

Kurt Stallmann will journey to Paris for research at IRCAM and Les Ateliers UPIC. Patricia Tang plans to visit Senegal for dissertation research on the role of griots (storytellers) in modern Senegalese society. Stephanie Treloar will conduct dissertation research in Florence on Flemish composer Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) and the 16th-century Italian madrigal.

Established in 1912 by Mary Elizabeth Paine, widow of composer and Music Department founder John Knowles Paine, the fellowships are given annually to undergraduates and graduate students who have demonstrated "distinguished talent and originality in musical composition and high musical scholarship."