Seth Cluett to Become New Director of Computer Music Center
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Seth Cluett as the Director of the Computer Music Center.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Seth Cluett as the Director of the Computer Music Center.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Lucy Turner, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Rethinking Beethoven’s Middle Style: Form, Time, and Disruption in the Chamber Music of 1806-15” on June 8, 2022.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Laina Dawes, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled “Freedom Ain’t Free:” Race and Representation(s) in Extreme Heavy Metal" on June 8, 2022.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Audrey Amsellem, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled "Sound and Surveillance: The Making of the Neoliberal Ear" on May 16, 2022.
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to announce that Dr. Knar Abrahamyan will be joining our department as Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Race in 2023.
Drs. Alessandra Ciucci and Bill Dougherty (DMA 2021) have been selected as Fellows at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Katherine Balch has won the 2022 Charles S. Miller Award. The Charles S. Miller Award is given annually to students who, in the opinion of the Faculty, have achieved distinction of the highest standard in the field of Music Composition.
Vicente Hansen Atria has won the 2022 Charles S. Miller Award. The Charles S. Miller Award is given annually to students who, in the opinion of the Faculty, have achieved distinction of the highest standard in the field of Music Composition.
Grace D'Haiti has won the 2022 Charles S. Miller Award. The Charles S. Miller Award is given annually to students who, in the opinion of the Faculty, have demonstrated excellence of the highest standard in the field of Music Composition.
Zosha Di Castri was commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition's Grossman Ensemble to write a world premiere, entitled "time>>T. - - I. - - M.(time) - - E."
Callum Blackmore’s article “Hyacinthe Jadin and the Sound of Revolution: Recovering French String Quartet Aesthetics in 1790s Paris” was recently published in the edited volume "String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe" (Academic Studies Press, 2022).
Jessie Cox, DMA graduate student, has published the article "Aesthetics of (Black) Breathing" in liquid blackness by Duke University Press with Columbia University alumnus Isaac Jean-François.