Sarah Kraaz

Awards and Honors

• Recipient, Faculty Career Enhancement Grant (FaCE), Associated Colleges of the Midwest, 2006 for composition and organ recitals in Scotland
• Scholarly-artistic grant, 2006 for private composition study with James Chaudoir, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• Consultant, Ripon Public Schools music curriculum audit, 2004
• Recipient, special scholarly artistic grant (Ripon College), historic keyboard instruments in Scotland (2004) and for historic organ study in Germany (2002)
• Recipient, Global Studies Grant 2001, for recitals in Europe in summer 2002
• Recipient, Special Scholarly-Artistic grants for research in the Women Composers/Collection at the University of Michigan (1996) and for study with Michael Radulescu (1998)
• Recipient, May Bumby Severy Teaching Award (1994, 2002)
• Curriculum Development grants (2000, 2002)
• Recipient, Faculty Travel Grant (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003)
• Recipient, Ripon College Womens Studies Grant, 1995

Recent Publications and Presentations

• Directed Collegium Musicum concerts, December 2008 (in conjunction w/ Choral Union), Ripon College, April 2009
• Organist, Choral Union concert, Ripon College, April 2009
• Organ recital, Ripon College, February 2009
• Review of new organ music, The Diapason, February 2009

• Guest artist (organ), Pine Mountain Music Festival, Houghton, MI  (recitals in Iron Mountain, Ishpeming, and Lake Linden, MI), June 2008
• The Collegium Musicum, in their first off-campus performance in 20 years, sang Palestrina’s Missa Brevis during a Latin Mass at the Church of St. Therese, Appleton, Wis., November 2008

• Organ recitals, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2006
• Variations on “Amazing Grace” and Passacaglia for organ, 2006
• Recitalist, Noon Recital Series, Northeast Wisconsin Chapter, AGO, 2000-2006
• Three Scottish Folksong: “Turn Ye to Me,” “Donald, O Donald,” “Where Sleepest Thou my Dearie,” for SSA, piano, and oboe, accepted for publication by Alliance Publications Inc.
• “Horo, my Brown-haired Maiden,” for TTBB and piano
• Three Sea Chanteys: “Western Ocean,” “The Wind Blow East,” “The high Barbaree,” for SATB and instruments, accepted for publication by Alliance Publications Inc.
• Two Canadian folksong settings, “Un Canadien errant,” and “Ah! si mon moine voulait danser,” commissioned by the Green Lake Festival of Music for their Canadian tour, August 2005
• “A Caledonian Odyssey: Historical Keyboard Instruments in Scotland,” The Diapason, August 2005
• Organ recitals, Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Sinsinawa Mound, Wis., 2004, 2005
• XV Festival Storici Organi della Valesia, Piemonte, Italy 2002
• “Two Eighteenth-Century Settings of “Adeste Fideles“, presented at the Southeast Historical Keyboard Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 2001
• Sonata in G major, Op. 8; “Six Variations on a Favorite Roman Air,” by Veronika Dussek Cianchettini. Edited by Sarah Mahler Hughes (“ClarNan Editions” CN 38, 1999)
• “An Interview with Miriam Clapp Duncan”, “The Diapason,” October 1999
• “Da Capo al Fine: But Where Is the Ending?” presented at fifth annual Liberal Arts Symposium, Ripon College, February 1998
• “Veronika Cianchettini (1769-1833),” with Ursula Rempel, in “Music by Women through the Ages,” vol. 3 (G. K. Hall Reference Series, 1998)
• Review of new organ music and CDs for “The Diapason,” 1998-present

Areas of Interest

• Organ music
• Choral music
• Women in music
• Historical keyboard instruments
• Historical keyboard repertoire