William Mason appointed Assistant Professor at Wheaton College
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May
17,
2018
William Mason has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts.
Alumni News
Galen DeGraf Defends Dissertation
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May
15,
2018
Congratulations to Galen DeGraf, a Ph.D candidate in Music Theory, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Navigating Musical Periodicities: Modes of Perception and Types of Temporal Knowledge," on May 14th!
CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018!
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May
15,
2018
The Columbia University Department of Music extends heartfelt congratulations to our 2018 graduates.
Anne Levitsky Defends Dissertation
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May
8,
2018
Anne Levitsky, Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended her dissertation, "The Song from the Singer: Personification, Embodiment, and Anthropomorphization in Troubadour Lyric," on April 12.
Tom Fogg Defends Dissertation
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May
7,
2018
Thomas Fogg, a graduate student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended his dissertation, "Expériences sonores: Music in Postwar Paris and the Changing Sense of Sound," on May 7.
Mark Seto Appointed to Brown University
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May
6,
2018
Mark Seto (GSAS PhD '12) has been appointed Lecturer in Music and Director of the Brown Symphony Orchestra, beginning in Fall 2018.
Zosha Di Castri Awarded Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship
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May
1,
2018
Zosha Di Castri ,the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music, will be one of the Fellows at Columbia's new Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
Alumna Wang Lu has won the Berlin Prize
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Apr
30,
2018
The highly coveted Berlin Prize is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers, and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.
Alumni News: Guggenheim Fellowship 2018
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Apr
20,
2018
Edward Jacobs, Yoshiaki Onishi, and Mika Pelo are three of the (former) Columbia Composers who are recipients of Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Congratulations!
Alessandra Ciucci Awarded 2018-2019 Rome Prize
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Apr
13,
2018
Congratulations to Alessandra Ciucci, who has been awarded the 2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies!
Andrew Haringer Appointed to St. Anselm College
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Feb
21,
2018
Andrew Haringer (PhD, Historical Musicology, 2012) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at St. Anselm College
Ernest H. Sanders, 1918-2018
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Jan
16,
2018
Ernest H. Sanders, Professor Emeritus of Music at Columbia, where he taught from 1954 until his retirement in 1986, died at his home in New York, on January 13, 2018. He was 99 years old.
Tyshawn Sorey Named MacArthur Fellow
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Oct
11,
2017
Congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey (DMA Composition '17), who has been named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow!
Mario Diaz de Leon's New Album
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Sep
29,
2017
Mario Diaz de Leon (DMA ’13), Core Lecturer in Music Humanities, has released his third composer portrait album, entitled “Sanctuary.”
Tyshawn Sorey in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times
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Jul
3,
2017
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 Composers at the Ojai Music Festival
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Jun
8,
2017
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 Receives Stanford Thinking Matters Fellowship
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May
31,
2017
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.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
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May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!