News Archive
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, 2023.
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.
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University has announced the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2023 Fromm commissions.
Undergraduate Sofia Jen Ouyang was selected for the 2025 DeGaetano Composition Institute.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won the 2023 Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Society for Music Theory Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group.
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. Widely sought-after for his depth of approach, interpretive imagination, and expressivity, as well as his innovative and thoughtful curation, Kaziboni has led many critically lauded performances with orchestras across the globe, performing at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Royal Festival Hall & Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre, and at Lincoln Center.
One of Haas’s former students reflects on his time with a teacher who had lessons to offer in music, doubt and influence.
Professor George Lewis was profiled in The New Yorker by writer Alex Ross. The profile was published in the print edition of the January 15, 2024 issue.
Russell O'Rourke (Lecturer in Music, GSAS '20) has published his article "Armida on the Beach: A Cinquecento Rhetorical Model of the Emotions and Its Musical Reception" in the "Journal of the American Musicological Society," 76 no. 3 (Fall 2023).
MUSI9403GR Advanced Ethnomusicology Seminar
The relationship between global climate change and the central role of the ocean in shaping global climate conditions frames the ways in which this seminar explores notions of more-than-human musicalities in oceanic life.
Professor Susan Boynton was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, an honor which recognizes major long-term scholarly achievement within the field of Medieval Studies.
Professors Benjamin Steege (Music) and Jane Gaines (Film) present a new course "Music, Sound, and Image Theory."