Cem Güven Nominated for Gaudeamus Award 2024
DMA candidate Cem Güven is one of five composers whose works have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2024, the annual incentive prize for composers under 35.
DMA candidate Cem Güven is one of five composers whose works have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2024, the annual incentive prize for composers under 35.
The Department warmly congratulates Makulumy Alexander-Hills, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Engaging with Musical Theater Practitioners' Vernacular Musical Knowledge as Music-Theoretical Practice,” on November 16, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Louis Goldford, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Emergence in the Music of Pierluigi Billone and Georges Aperghis" on November 15, 2023.
Here are all the members of the Department of Music who participated in the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver, CO.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won two publication awards at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver.
Dr. Marc Hannaford received the SMT Emerging Scholar Award for his article "Fugitive music theory and George Russell's theory of tonal gravity."
Professor Zosha Di Castri's "Patina" for solo violin is included on Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich's debut album, "RESILIENCE."
Dr. Courtney Bryan (DMA '14) has been profiled by the New York Times, charting her career in the years since finishing her Columbia degree.
Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus Fred Lerdahl has just released "Inner Life," a cycle of three pieces for two pianos, composed between 2020 and 2022.
Professor Mariusz Kozak was interviewed by Columbia College News about the recently launched program in Cognitive Science, which he is directing.
The Department warmly congratulates Ian Sewell, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “When All You Have Is A Hammer: Problems in Schenkerian Analysis,” on September 28, 2023.
Dr. Kate Soper (DMA '11) has had a preview feature of her new opera "The Hunt" published by the New York Times.
Dr. Audrey Amsellem (GSAS '22, Ethnomusicology) was interviewed by The Guardian US for an article on noise cameras.
Courtney Bryan (DMA '14) has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
Nina Fukuoka had a premiere of her new piece Polka is a Czech Dance by the Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble at the summer festival Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
Professor Di Castri’s new work for solo piano, “The Untellable Hour of Quiet”, received its world premiere by pianist Clare Longendyke with a performance in Bridgton, Maine.
Zara Ali (CC '18) has won the 2023 Gaudeamus Award. She received the prize on Sunday September 10 during the final night of the Gaudeamus Festival 2023 in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
Dr. Gerald Cohen (DMA '93) has released a new album titled "Voyagers."