The Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere of the University of Florida has awarded Navid Bargrizan, a doctoral candidate in historical musicology with a cognate in composition, a Tedder Family Fellowship in Humanities for his dissertation project “Microtonality, Technology, and Dramatic Narrative in the Theatrical Music of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke.”
Bargrizan has also been selected as a finalist for the 2016 American Prize in Composition-Chamber Music (student division), for his woodwind quintet Tuning Exercise Nr.1, previously performed at UF and Northwestern University. The American prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts will be announcing winners in this division soon.
