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« April 07, 2008 - May 07, 2008 »
 
04 / 7
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Columbia New Music presents the Orfeo Duo playing music of Morningside Heights and Harlem composers. This event is free and open to the public.

04 / 8
Start: 4:00 pm

Sarah Weiss studied at the University of Rochester/Eastman Conservatory and New York University, receiving her PhD from NYU in musicology in 1998. She has taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard University. She joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale in 2005. Primarily conducting research amongst performers in Central Java and Sulawesi, Indonesia, her geographical interests also include performance fromaround Asia.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Spring Concert Program

 John Adams - Lollapalooza

Haydn - Cello Concerto in D

Caleb van der Swaagh, cello

Mark Seto, conductor 

Verdi - La Traviata, Prelude to Act III

Respighi - The Pines of Rome

04 / 9
Start: 9:15 am
End: 11:45 am

Daedalus String Quartet Presentations at:

9:15-10:15 am and 10:45-11:45 am

Start: 6:30 pm
End: 10:30 pm

Columbia University Orchestra Event, “Music from the Inside, an X-RAY View”

The Columbia University Orchestra and Music Director Jeffrey
Milarsky will host a series of two open rehearsal/performances for the
entire Music Humanities department and all participants. These
events, which will be held in Roone Arledge Auditorium, will be an exciting view into the art of musical performance and how musicians prepare and present these masterpieces of Western Art.

04 / 10
04 / 11
04 / 12
04 / 13
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
“Caroline Carvalho and Mid Nineteenth-Century French Coloratura,” lecture by Sean Parr, featuring sopranos Susanne Knittel, Jessica Gould, Melissa Raz, and Brittany Palmer.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm

"Lion in the Grass," Columbia's Bluegrass band, performs a "Low Down"
as part of Columbia Days on Campus.  This event is free and open to the
public.

04 / 14
04 / 15
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

The Center for Ethonmusicology at Columbia University is excited to host Sima Arom, Director Emeritus of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.  

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

NYU Steinhardt, Music and Performing Arts Department and Columbia University's Music Performance Program invite you to a unique collaboration. There's a new Subway Series in town. This Spring, Columbia and NYU go head to head in a bold concert series celebrating the best of uptown and down, with performances in Morningside Heights and Greenwich Village. Join us for two colorful evenings of music-making and a little friendly crosstown rivalry.

Admission is FREE.

04 / 16
04 / 17
04 / 18
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION


Featuring:  Youngmi Lee, SCE, Peter Liou, CC, Olaf Post, GSAS, Kenneth
Vanderpool, SEAS, and guest play Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Franck,
Schroeder on the landmark Aeolian-Skinner organ.

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Laura Silverberg (Columbia University) and Ryan Dohoney responding. 

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Join the Columbia University Gagaku Ensemble as it participates in “A Festival of Japanese Music: From Traditional Court Music to Okinawan Pop.”

Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the Columbia Business School present four leading experts in the field of business in a discussion of the role of improvisation in emerging models of organization and leadership.

04 / 19
04 / 20
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Columbia University Jazz Big Band, directed by Don Sickler and Columbia University jazz ensembles, directed by Ole Mathison and Don Sickler with guest artist, trombonist Curtis Fuller!!!!!!

FREE ADMISSION

04 / 21
04 / 22
04 / 23
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Come out and support Music Performance Program Chamber Ensemble students in a wonderful evening of chamber music.  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

PROGRAM

Claude Debussy: Sonate extrait de “Six Sonates” pour flute, alto, et harpe
II. Interlude

Katie Klymko, flute
Elizabeth Whitman, viola
Rebecca Lewis, harp

June Han, coach

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Allegro

Suzanne Davies, violin
Yurina Ko, viola
Amy Kang, cello
Emma McGlennan, Piano

04 / 24
04 / 25
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm

The Center for the Core Curriculum and the Music Humanities Program present:
The Annual Music Humanities Course-Wide Lecture
featuring the renowned neurologist and writer:
Dr. Oliver Sacks
(Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Columbia Artist).

Dr. Sacks will speak on: "Musicophilia: Music and the Brain."

The lecture will take place on Friday, April 25 at 11AM
in the Roone Arledge Auditorium
of Columbia's Lerner Hall, and it is free and open to the public.

(get directions)

Learn more about Oliver Sacks here.

(Photograph by Eileen Barroso for Columbia News.)

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Joseph Dubiel (Columbia University).  Respondant TBA.

All HM Colloquiua are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information.

Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm

This will be our last concert for the school year!  Join us for another great evening of music performed by Columbia students, followed by a reception. 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Featuring works of Columbia Undergraduate composers. This event is free.

 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Columbia University Big Band in Concert with special guest Bobby Watson
Directed by Don Sickler


THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Michael Skelly's piano students - Nathan Dadap, Christopher Haas, Chris Morris-Lent, Emmy Smith, Andrew Wan, and Claire Zukowski play Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok.

 FREE and open to the public.

04 / 26
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

Rebecca Fuller performs Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.

FREE and open to the public. 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Playing works by Mahler, Robert Cuckson, and Arvo Part.

04 / 27
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION w/ CUID, $5 non-CUID

Program (chosen by the seniors!):
Canzona - Peter Mennin
Emblems - Aaron Copland
Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face - Vincent Persichetti
American Faces - David Holsinger
Ride of the Valkyries - Richard Wagner, arr. Robert Longfield
Symphony no. 3 - Alfred Reed
II.  Variations on the "Porazzi" Theme of Wagner
Italian in Algiers Overture - Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Lucien
Cailliet

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Program:
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Transcribed for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein
Samantha Grenell-Zaidman, soprano
Mark Seto, conductor

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Artists International presents...


~~The G-Sharp Duo ~~

in their NY Debut concert

featuring


Emilie-Anne Gendron
, violin


Yelena Grinberg
, piano*

*Recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Alumni-Winners Award in Piano*

Program:

04 / 28
04 / 29
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

The Department of Music presents a colloquium by Josh Pilzer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University) entitled: A Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'

The colloquium will take place in 701C Dodge Hall, on Tuesday April 29, at 5PM. It is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the colloquium.

In Taegu

Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.

Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawai'i and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

The Columbia Music Department, Music Performance Program, and Music at St. Paul's Present:

The Collegium Musicum

REJUVENATIONS

Directed by Sean M. Parr

 

Performing
Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K.339 with orchestra. Also
featuring works by Allegri, Bach, Faure, and Gesualdo, and premieres by
Columbia Composers.

Carl Bettendorf

Anthony Cheung

04 / 30
05 / 1
05 / 2
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

Accompanied by pianist Sam Sternberg.

05 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Ukrainian Wave, Columbia Teachers College Music and Music Education Department and New York Bandura Ensemble present:

05 / 4
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Kathleen O'Rourke, music major at Barnard College, cordially invites you to attend her
senior vocal recital on Sunday, May 4th at 6:30pm in Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall. The
evening's repertoire will include arias from the oeuvre of Mozart, Schumann, Massenet,
Gounod, Menotti, and Bernstein. Reception to follow.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm


Come hear the premieres of four new pieces written by composers in Prof. Tristan Murail's
Advanced Composition class.

The Talea Ensemble and conductor Carl Christian Bettendorf

performs new works for septet by Jordan Paul, Gabriel Kass, Ravi Kittappa, and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.

301 Philosophy Hall at 8 PM, Sunday, May 4, 2008.

Free admission.

Come support your talented composer colleagues and friends!

05 / 5
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

Joint voice recital by Rose Andreatta, Elisabeth Fabila, Julie Schoonover, and Sarah Terry, members of the Columbia University Voice Ensemble Class.  Includes music by Mozart, Schumann, and Puccini.  Accompanied by pianist Sam Sternberg.

05 / 6
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The Manhattan Sinfonietta
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor and music director

Young Lions: World Premieres of new works for large chamber ensemble by advanced
composition doctoral candidates
Michael Klingbeil, Aenon Jia-en Loo, Katharina
Rosenberger
.

Merkin Concert Hall
129 W. 67th St.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8PM
Free admission, with a reception to follow

http://www.manhattansinfonietta.org

Start: 8:00 pm

The Columbia University Wind Ensemble performs with the InterSchool Orchestra of the NYC Symphonic Band, the Morningside Orchestra, and Turtle Bay Orchestra.

05 / 7
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm

 

bleugrass

Don't miss your last chance to party with Lion in the Grass, Columbia's Bluegrass Band.

Come one, come all to their final spring concert.

Wednesday, May 7th

9:00 - 11:00 pm

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