George Lewis awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard
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May
29,
2018
Our colleague George Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard in this year's Commencement.
Placements, Grants and Fellowships News
Courtney Bryan has won the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
posted
May
21,
2018
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan (DMA Composition, 2014) works in multiple genres, both sacred and secular, including jazz and other experimental music, traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Unifying her compositions - solo to orchestral works, choral music and sound installations - is a desire to “communicate the sounds of rebellion and healing.”
Alumna Dr. Lauren Flood Appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate our PhD alumna, Dr. Lauren Flood (PhD, 2016), who has been appointed as a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trevor Reed Appointed Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate Trevor Reed (Hopi), a joint JD/PhD student in Law and Ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University.
Whitney Slaten Appointed Assistant Professor at Bard College
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is thrilled to congratulate our PhD alumnus Whitney J. Slaten, who has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY), where he will begin teaching in Fall 2018.
William Mason appointed Assistant Professor at Wheaton College
posted
May
17,
2018
William Mason has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts.
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!
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
posted
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.
Julia Doe receives NEH Fellowship
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May
1,
2018
Julia Doe receives the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Music History and Criticism:
The Comedians of the King: Opéra-Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution.
Alumna Wang Lu has won the Berlin Prize
posted
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
George Lewis Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Feb
21,
2018
Congratulations to George Lewis, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is among twelve new members who will be inducted into the 250-person organization in mid-May.
Brent Morden Wins Third Place in Metropolitan Youth Orchestra's Competition
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Jan
24,
2018
Congratulations to Brent Morden (CC '19), who was selected as the third place winner in the orchestral division of the 2017-2018 Metropolitan Youth Orchestra's Emerging Composers Competition.
Ciucci and Doe Win Provost Grants
posted
Dec
18,
2017
Alessandra Ciucci and Julia Doe, Assistant Professors of Music, have each won grants from the Provost’s Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University.
These competitive awards, of up to $25,000, support new or ongoing research and scholarship, seed funding for innovative research for which external funding would be difficult to obtain, and curricular development projects.
Prof. Ciucci’s project is entitled “Resonances of the Rural Across the Mediterranean: Music, Sound and Moroccan Men in Italy.” Prof. Doe’s is “The Comedians of the King: Opéra-Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution.”