Congratulations to our former pupil Daniel Castro Pantoja, (graduated 2007) for his article "The life of a Colombian musician".

We congratulate our former pupil Daniel Castro Pantoja, (graduated 2007), for his article 'The Life of a Colombian Musician: Music Autobiography, Cosmopolitan Musickings, and Agonistic Objectification' in the December 2022 issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. He was building on the work begun in his dissertation on the life, writings, and influence of Colombian composer Guillermo Uribe Holguín. The article ended an extraordinary year for Daniel, which also included his appointment as assistant professor of Music, in the School of Music at the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) at the Greenboro University of North Carolina.

He holds a doctorate in Music from the University of California in Riverside and an M.M. in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Akron as well as a B.A. in Classical Guitar Performance from Loyola University. He is currently a research associate at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside, focusing on Latin American state policy research and music. His current project examines the perceived relationship between music, sound and populism in early 20th century Colombian state politics.

Daniel is the first Latin American to receive the Society of American Music's Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award and his work has been published in journals such as Latin American Research Review, TRANS-Transcultural Music Review, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Latin American Music Review and Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal. In addition, he is currently working with Hedy Law and Hannah Hyun Kyong Chan on a special issue of the history of global music pedagogy for the Journal of Music History Pedagogy. His work has appeared on the Smithsonian Folkways blog and the Colombian, Banco Central de la Música blog.

Dr. Daniel Castro Pantoja Named Assistant Professor of Musicology | College of Visual and Performing Arts (uncg.edu)

Congratulations on your association with the CVPA and we hope that your writings will continue to be a reference for music around the world!