Music Alumna Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
April 24, 2016
By Jeffrey Day | UC Davis
Music professor Laurie San Martin has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. The fellowship will provide funding for San Martin, who has taught at UC Davis since 2001, to do research and compose works for the San Francisco vocal ensemble Volti and New York’s Cygnus Ensemble.
San Martin is one of only 175 Guggenheim Fellows this year. In all, a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists were chosen from 3,000 applicants. The average award is about $36,000. The awards were announced April 6.
“I intend to create vocal works that set texts from Occitania, a language region that encompassed sections of today’s France, Monaco and Italy. I’m interested in the "Trobairitz," French female troubadours active in 12thand 13th century,” she said. “My plans at the beginning of a project are often quite different from where I end up so you’ll have to wait until 2018 to see how it turns out.
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