Nina Fukuoka had a premiere of her new piece Polka is a Czech Dance by the Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble at the summer festival Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
Professor Di Castri’s new work for solo piano, “The Untellable Hour of Quiet”, received its world premiere by pianist Clare Longendyke with a performance in Bridgton, Maine.
Zara Ali (CC '18) has won the 2023 Gaudeamus Award. She received the prize on Sunday September 10 during the final night of the Gaudeamus Festival 2023 in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
Dr. Gerald Cohen (DMA '93) has released a new album titled "Voyagers."
Mariusz Kozak published a chapter titled "Varieties of Musical Time" in the edited volume "Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance."
Jason Eckardt has been recently promoted to Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty honor at CUNY, where I teach at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.
Dr. Laina Dawes (PhD, 2022) has been awarded a two-year John P. Murphy Fellowship at Case Western Reserve’s Center for Popular Music Studies.
Sean Colonna will be working as a postdoctoral fellow at Bard College starting in the fall of 2023.
Gabriela Kumar Sharma has translated from English into Czech a publication by the British author Trevor Sage. "Stolpersteine - Stumbling Stones: Defiant in Their Memory, 2008 - 2021" was recently published as a tribute to all the victims of the Nazi regime.
Dr. Julia Hamilton has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, Music Performance Program) has released a new solo album, "'The French Suites' by J.S. Bach."
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department warmly congratulates Cheng Wei Lim, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Music in, as, for, and through Virtual Spaces,” on June 15, 2023.
Dr. Harald Kisiedu (GSAS '14, Historical Musicology) and Professor George Lewis have just announced their new bilingual (German-English) edited volume, "'Composing While Black': Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute / Afrodiasporic New Music Today."
Camila Agosto has received a 2023 Berlin Prize Fellowship in music composition. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers and artists who embody the highest degree of excellence in their respective disciplines.
Dr. Kate Soper (DMA '11) has won the 2023–24 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize. These fellowships support artists and scholars in independent work and research in the arts and humanities.
Dr. Bill Dougherty (DMA, '21) has been named a 2023–24 Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. The Radcliffe Fellowship allows scholars, writers, journalists and other professionals from many fields of study a full year to pursue projects in an interdisciplinary setting.