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Upcoming Events
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 1:00pm
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
2013 Commencement Reception
Event Date:
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 1:00pm
Event Location:
620 Dodge Hall, Department of Music The Department of Music cordially invites all graduating Music students (grad and undergrad!) and their families and guests to join us for a congratulatory luncheon reception in 620 Dodge Hall at approximately 1PM on Wednesday May 22, immediately following the conclusion of the commencement ceremonies (approximately 1PM).
Columbia Welcomes Professor Mariusz Kozak!
The Department of Music is delighted to welcome Mariusz Kozak to our faculty in Music Theory. Prof. Kozak will join Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Music in July, 2013. He is currently a post-doctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor of music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
His research focuses on the emergence of musical meaning in contemporary art music, the development and cognitive bases of musical experience, and the phenomenology of bodily interactions in musical behavior. In his work, he attempts to bridge experimental approaches from embodied cognition with phenomenology and music analysis, in particular using motion-capture technology to study the movements of performers and listeners. His current project examines how listeners' understanding and experience of musical time are shaped by bodily actions and gestures.
As a violinist, Kozak has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Santa Fe Symphony. After a stint with a Chicago-based country band, he continues to fiddle around in his spare time.
Columbia Welcomes Professor Georg Friedrich Haas!
Georg Friedrich Haas will join Columbia University’s composition faculty as a full-time tenured professor in September 2013. This appointment promises to sustain and enhance our composition program’s reputation as one of the strongest, most progressive, and most international such programs in the United States.
Haas has emerged as one of the major European composers of his generation. His music synthesizes in a highly original way the Austrian tradition of grand orchestral statement with forward-looking interests in harmonic color and microtonal tuning that stem from both French spectralism and a strand of American experimentalism. The result is an exploratory, uncompromising music that is also sensuously attractive. His music appeals to unusually diverse constituencies, from avant-garde composers for its microtonal investigations to casual listeners for its spacious forms and euphonious harmony.
Writing the Word: Exhibit of Biblical Manuscripts Curated by Medieval Musicology Seminar
Writing the Word: A Selection of Medieval Latin Biblical Manuscripts in Columbia Collections
Chang Octagon Exhibition Room, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (6th Floor, Butler Library)
April 10 to July 5, 2013
This exhibition was curated by members of Susan Boynton's Seminar in Historical Musicology: the Middle Ages (Dongmyung Ahn, Lindsay Cook, Sofia Gans, Lisa Holsberg, Paula Horner, Anne Levitsky, Joshua Navon, Thomas Smith, Sarah Jane Starcher, Kathryn Straker) and Maristela Verastegui.
Giuseppe Gerbino wins Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Congratulations to Giuseppe Gerbino, Associate Professor of Historical Musicology and Chair of the Department, on winning the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. Established on a donation from trustee Gerry Lenfest (Law '58), the Lenfest award recognizes faculty who demonstrate unusual merit in scholarship, university citizenship, and professional involvement. Professor Gerbino will receive an award of $25,000 per year for a three-year period.
Autism, Ethnomusicology, and the New Normal of Disability: A Talk by Michael Bakan (May 23, 4-6pm)
Event Date:
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:00pm
Event Location:
Location: 701C Dodge Hall Drumming Up Some Difference: Autism, Ethnomusicology, and the New Normal of Disability
A Talk By:
Michael B. Bakan (College of Music, Florida State University)
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology)
Free and open to the public
Andrew Eggert Appointed Director of Opera Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University
The Department of Music congratulates historical musicology PhD candidate Andrew Eggert, who has been appointed Director of Opera Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.
Andrew's PhD dissertation, sponsored by Prof. Gerbino, investigates the staging of the operas of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). Research in the archives of Venice has been funded by a grant from the Delmas Foundation.
Andrew has worked as opera director with such companies as Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Omaha, and Gotham Chamber Opera, as well as dramaturg with New York City Opera. He was selected as a winner of Opera America's Director-Designer Showcase and has worked with the young artist programs of Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.
Tyler Bickford Appointed Assistant Professor of English at Pittsburgh
The Department of Music congratulates ethnomusicology graduate program alumnus Tyler Bickford (PhD, 2011, With Distinction), who has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (in Children's Literature and Childhood Studies) at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Bickford has been a Core Lecturer teaching Contemporary Civilization at Columbia since 2011, and was awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching (Columbia's highest honor for a graduate student instructor). He is also a past winner of the Lise Waxler Prize (SEM) and the Hewitt Pataleoni Prize (MACSEM).
Dr. Bickford's Columbia ethnomusicology dissertation, entitled "Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren," is an ethnographic study of the media ecology of K–8 schoolchildren at a small, rural, public school in New England.
You can read an article about Dr. Bickford in the Columbia Spectator here. Dr. Bickford's personal website (with several of his publications) is here.
Jazz.Covers.Politics -- Album Art in an Age of Activism (Exhibition)
Jazz.Covers.Politics -- Album Art in an Age of Activism
On view from April 11–August 23, 2013
at The Nathan Cummings Foundation
475 10th Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 11, 6:00pm–8:00pm
Live music and refreshments
RSVP by April 8 at exhibits@nathancummings.org
Duet in Dialogue: Prof. Gail Archer & Ebonie Smith '07 on Women in the Music Industry
Cross-posted from the Barnard News website; full article here.
In a recent podcast, Professor Gail Archer and alumna Ebonie Smith (Barnard '07) discuss the challenges they've faced—and the successes they've had—as women in the music world. They'll also talk about how technology is helping women musicians connect and collaborate.
Archer is the director of Barnard's music program and a celebrated classical organist who performs and records the works of musicians such as Bach and Liszt. Smith is a music producer who creates mostly hip-hop and R&B. She is also the 2012-2013 Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) Alumnae Fellow.
Listen to the podcast on Soundcloud.com
Sound Arts MFA and Computer Music Center Featured in Columbia Spectator
Columbia's Computer Music Center and the new School of the Arts MFA Program in Sound Arts are featured in an article in the Feb. 7, 2013 Columbia Spectator. The article, by Derek Arthur, is entitled: "Computer Music Center combines technology, music in experimental setting."
An accompanying video clip, featuring Prof. Brad Garton and Douglas Repetto, can be viewed below or on YouTube.
Announcing a New MFA Program in Sound Arts at Columbia!
New Program Announcement!
SOUND ARTS
A new Interdepartmental MFA Program offered by the Columbia University School of the Arts in association with the Department of Music and the Computer Music Center.
Applications for Fall 2013 Now Being Accepted (Deadline Feb. 20, 2013)
Columbia University has been at the helm of sound-technology innovation for over fifty years with faculty specializing in composition, improvisation, sound installation, computer music, digital sound synthesis, acoustics, music cognition and software development. Columbia’s Computer Music Center in the Department of Music has a long history of creative excellence; its primary mission is to operate at the intersection of musical expression and technological development. The Center has state-of-the-art facilities for working in electro-acoustic music. Faculty of the Center for Computer Music led the development of the new interdisciplinary area in Sound Arts that leads to the Master of Fine Arts degree awarded by the School of the Arts.
The Sound Arts area is currently accepting applications for Fall 2013. The program is highly selective. Each year only three to four students will be offered admission to the two-year program. Prospective students with a deep engagement with sound as medium, a familiarity with contemporary audio tools and techniques, and a demonstrated use of those tools in different contexts (sculptural or video installations, creation of performance interfaces, circuit-bending productions, innovative fusion of digital audio with digital graphics, imaginative use of network technologies) are encouraged to apply. While the Visual Arts Program in the School of the Arts currently accommodates students working in digital media, sculpture, installation, performance, film and video art, applicants who wish to base their research and studio practice primarily in the area of sonic or sound arts are to apply to the area of Sound Arts.
Professor Peter M. Susser in China
Peter M. Susser, Director of Undergraduate Musicianship, attended The Xi'an Conservatory of Music Ear Training Conference and Sight Singing Competition as a lecturer and judge from November 5-9, 2012. Susser also taught Master classes in improvisation and sight singing for actors at The Beijing Dance Academy.
Next to Susser is Prof. Wang Gaofei, Director of the Soffeggio Department.
Prof. Kevin Fellezs Co-Winner of 2012 Woody Guthrie Book Award from IASPM (US)
The Department of Music warmly congratulates Professor Kevin Fellezs, whose book, Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion, is this year's Co-Winner of the International Association For Popular Music's Woody Guthrie Book Award. In making the award, The awards committee observed, in making the award, it considers Birds of Fire "the most accomplished monograph of the contenders. It is an engaging, well researched and argued interdisciplinary study of a long vilified musical movement . . . [and] a crucial contribution to jazz studies and rock studies, but most importantly it de-stablilizes the concept of genre itself."
Prof. Ellen Gray Wins Jaap Kunst and Richard Waterman Prizes from Society for Ethnomusicology
At the recent national meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Professor Ellen Gray (Ethnomusicology) has been awarded two major prizes for her groundbreaking 2011 article "Fado's City" (Anthropology and Humanism 36(2): 141-163). The article was awarded the prestigious Jaap Kunst Prize by the Society, in recognition of "the most significant article in ethnomusicology written by a member of the Society" in the prior year. It was also awarded the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize by the Popular Music Section of the SEM.
The Department of Music warmly congratulates Professor Gray!
