2024 Summer Course "Opera in Venice"
Professor Giuseppe Gerbino's new course Opera in Venice is offered by the Columbia Summer in Venice Global Program.
Professor Giuseppe Gerbino's new course Opera in Venice is offered by the Columbia Summer in Venice Global Program.
The Department warmly congratulates Hannah Kendall, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Cutting Through and Resisting the Plantation Machine in Elaine Mitchener's SWEET TOOTH and the musical work shouting forever into the receiver" on March 26, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Dani Dobkin, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Ephemera as a Metaphore of Ceramics and Synthesis" on March 15, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Anya Wilkening, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Degrees of Separation: Intermusicality and Intertextuality in Medieval Monophonic Song,” on March 4, 2024.
Professor Magdalena Stern-Baczewska is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Faculty Visitorship at Reid Hall in Paris. The program is jointly supported by Columbia Global Centers Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
The Department warmly congratulates Demetrius Shahmehri, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Romanticism's Children: Nostalgia and Fantasy in Music from Schumann to Final Fantasy,” on February 27, 2024.
Dr. Ryan Dohoney (Historical Musicology, 2009) was featured on BBC Three's Sunday Feature to discuss Morton Feldman. The program talks about Feldman's connection with abstract expressionism and his blending of art and music.
The podcast, advised by Professor Marilyn McCoy, has released a special video episode on Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein.
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University has announced the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2023 Fromm commissions, including a Columbia Professor and two alumni of the Department of Music.
Described as a conductor of “great intensity, without distancing, maneuvering, without indifference” (Neue Muzikzeitung - Leipzig) Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni is the recipient of the 2024 Alice M. Ditson Fund Conductor’s Award. He has received $5,000 and a citation from Columbia’s President Minouche Shafik.