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Fabian Holt (b. 1972) is Associate Professor of Music and Performance at the University of Roskilde in Denmark. He studied at the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 2002) and has taught at the Universities of Copenhagen and Chicago. His teaching repertory includes courses on jazz and American popular musics, world music, concert culture, performance theory, and ethnomusicological theory. Recent publications include the monograph Genre in Popular Music (University of Chicago Press), “Kreuzberg Activists” in Popular Music and Society (2007), and “A View From Popular Music Studies” in The New (Ethno)musicologies (in press).
This is a professional (open to public) concert, so we will be
Chie Sakakibara is a PhD candidate in Cultural Geography at the University of Oklahoma, a specialist in Inupiat culture, and a consultant to the Center's repatriation project with the Inupiat community in Alaska.
Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, with a text written and narrated by poet Mark Strand.
Emi Ohi Resnik, violin
Johan van Iersel, cello
Nienke van Rijn, violin
Michael Gieler, viola
Free Admission
Free Admission
Featuring the music of Jonathan Kramer, Arnold Schoenberg, Gyorgy Kurtag, Paul Schoenfield, and a world premiere by Columbia alumnus Duncan Neilson.
Deborah Bradley Kramer, piano
Reiko Uchida, piano
Emi Ohi Resnick, violin
Johan van Iersel, cello
Nienke van Rijn, violin
Michael Gieler, viola
The CU Jazz Big Band in Concert, also featuring performances by Columbia University small jazz ensembles.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Center for Jazz Studies, and the Columbia University Music Performance Program.
Among Aboriginal musicians from remote Central Australian desert communities, performances in white-dominated towns are commonly portrayed as desirable
occasions for engaging with a white-dominated socio-musical realm. This seminar explores how such racially informed cross-cultural notions are put to work in the accumulation of Aboriginal male and musician status. I then describe how Aboriginal town gigs are in fact organised, carried out and evaluated by various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholders.
Free admission!
Music will be late Renaissance/early Baroque - Monteverdi, Cozzolani, Gesualdo, Victoria, Palestrina, and Rigatti.
Jefferson is a 1996 graduate of Columbia College, and went on to study at Julliard with John Corigliano. He was the 2004 winner of he prestigious Rome Prize in music composition, and he has had pieces played by the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles. Jefferson will be talking about his own music as well as his career in music. As always, there will be tasty free food! Hope to see you there!
Free admission, Free food
Come see some exceptional performances by chamber ensembles in the Music Performance Program!! Music of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Faure, and Stravinsky.
With members of the Columbia University Orchestra.
Purchase tickets at the box office, $7 students/seniors $15 adults
Reception following on premises.
Brahms Trio
Peter Liou, piano
Woo Min Kang, cello
Nina Monfredo, viola
Mendelssohn Octet
Carolyn Esko, Laura Mericle, Leah Germer, and Virginia Gao, violins
David Coates and Julia Moline, violas
Christine Murti and Margaret Speigelman, cello
