The Jazzmobile All Stars Ensemble
Keynote address by
Whitney Slaten
Ph.D. Candidate in Music, Columbia University
Tuesday, September 19, 6pm
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, West 116th Street and Broadway
Free and open to the public but RSVP required.
Please email ym189 [at] columbia.edu to secure your RSVP.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Anne Gefell, the Departmental Director of Academic Administration and Finance.
“Music & Sound Studies: Intersections, Boundaries, Opportunities” explores the relation between musical disciplines and sound studies through three key sites: sounds of the city and the historically problematic notion of soundscape; music, soundscapes, and the political; and the relationships among acoustics and neuroscience and music/sound. An evening concert of recent compositions will display the current range of work in “sound art,” a richly interdisciplinary creative field.
Reid Hall, Columbia Global Centers | Paris
4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
En tout cas, si "impressionnisme" signifie avant tout le contraire "d'expressionnisme", je pourrais être d'accord. (In any event, if “Impressionism” really means the opposite of “Expressionism,” I could agree.)
-Tristan Murail, program notes for Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant
Alessandra Ciucci, Assistant Professor of Music, has published "Performing 'L-alwa:' A Sacred and Erotic Journey in Morocco" in Ethnomusicology Forum vol. 26 No. 2 (2017): 151-70.
Dr. Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, will deliver the talk, "Improvisation as a Way of Knowing."
Marin Alsop, distinguished conductor and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is the recipient of the 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities invite graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and PhDs in the humanities to a workshop on academic publishing led by Professor Ellie Hisama. Topics to be covered include deciding where and when to submit your work, preparing an article and book proposal for submission, responding to readers' reports, working with editors and publishers, securing permissions, and negotiating a book contract.
This concert explores the intersection of new music, sound arts, electronics, choreography and image. Come engage with musical soundscapes, both natural and urban, acoustic and electroacoustic, which resonate politically and personally. Featuring artists working at Columbia University and friends from the broader artistic community. Featured artists: David Adamcyk, Camila Agosto, Katherine Balch, David Bird, Courtney Bryan, Justin Cabrillos, Gabrielle Da Costa, Zosha Di Castri, Dani Dobkin, Diego Espinosa, Jordan Morley, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Lu Wang, and Sam Yulsman.
The concert is free, but RSVP is required at
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointment will be at the rank of Mellon Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, for a period of two years to begin July 1, 2018.
PhD candidates Paula Harper (HM) and Michael Weinstein-Reiman (Theory) presented papers on Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj at the international biennial Feminist Theory and Music conference at San Francisco State University, July 27-30. Congratulations, Paula and Michael!
This semester, the Department of Music is offering courses on Beethoven, Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video; and Transpacific Musicology: Monsters, Princesses, Bombs at Sea. Graduate seminars include Music and Early Modernism, 1880-1920; Ruth Crawford Seeger; and Analysis of Musical Form.
Illustration by Gaurab Thakali for The New Yorker
Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) is featured in an article by Alex Ross in The New Yorker of July 10/17, 2017 and in a New York Times profile (August 2, 2017).
Columbia Music faculty and graduate students, led by Prof. Ellie Hisama, have been awarded a grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University, for a project entitled For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
On May 26th, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music George Lewis gave the commencement address at the New College of Florida, where 181 students received diplomas.
This year's Ojai Music Festival prominently features several Composition alumni and faculty: Courtney Bryan, Mario Diaz de Leon, George Lewis, and Tyshawn Sorey.
Sean Hallowell (PhD, 2013) is a 2018-2020 recipient of the Thinking Matters Fellowship at Stanford University. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for recent recipients of doctoral degrees to teach in an innovative liberal education program with a cohort of like-minded colleagues from a wide variety of different disciplines.
Several new recordings of Professor George Lewis' compositions have been released: The Will To Adorn, with International Contemporary Ensemble; Creative Construction, with Splitter Orchester; Not Alone, with Seth Parker Woods on cello; and Spinner, with Mariel Roberts on cello.