Art. Sacred music. Medieval history. And the digital humanities. Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at Notre Dame, brings them all together in her current research on Hildegard of Bingen — research for which she has been recently awarded fellowships from both the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Adding to these accolades, Fassler, a professor in the Department of Theology who co-directs the Master of Sacred Music program in the College of Arts and Letters, on May 11 (Friday) received the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for “The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts” (Yale University Press, 2010).

“It seems that 2012 is my year,” Fassler says.

Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy and co-director of the Master of Sacred Music program at the University of Notre Dame, has won the biennial ACE/Mercers’ International Book Award. The award from Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE) recognizes Fassler’s 2010 book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts as “an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts.”

Patrick Quigley ’00,  Serephic Fire’s artistic director was recently nominated for a Grammy.  The celebrated choir was recognized for two recordings. 

Back in November, 2010 Over dinner after a production at the Metropolitan Opera of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Louis MacKenzie, Chair of the Department of Music, suggested to mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, who that night had just sung Dorabella, that she come to Notre Dame later the next Spring to work with the cast of Opera Notre Dame’s production of Le nozze di Figaro.  …

Mat Madonia has been accepted into the Aspen Music Festival this summer.  He will be the first Department of Music student ever accepted.  It is one of the most competitive music festivals in the United States.

Professor Mark Beudert, Caitlin Glimco, Joseph Paggi and Jennifer Henzler.

 In the summer of 2010, Rebecca Roden (piano performance '12) traveled throughout Israel and Palestine researching the cultural impact of Palestinian hip-hop on the region, with the support of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

 Kate Zinsmeister, piano performance '10, is now pursing the Master of Music degree in piano at SUNY/Purchase

Michael Rodio, Piano performance '12, and Chris Gautsch, Piano Performance '11 were admitted to Brevard for summer 2010.

Andrew White, Piano Performance '12 and Theory/History '12, was accepted to Killington Music Festival's 2010 Summer Residency.  Located in Rutland, Vermont, the festival includes performances, masterclasses with renowned musicians, and chamber music.