Professor Ellie Hisama to be Professor Emerita of Music
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Jun
17,
2021
Ellie M. Hisama to be Professor Emerita of Music, effective July 1, 2021.
Achievements News
Dr. Michael Weinstein-Reiman Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University
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Jun
16,
2021
Michael Weinstein-Reiman (GSAS '21) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, starting Fall 2021.
Toru Momii Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
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Jun
16,
2021
Toru Momii has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, starting Fall 2021.
Dr. Scott Gleason Made Acquisitions Editor at Grove Music Online and Council Representative to AMS Greater New York Chapter
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Jun
15,
2021
Dr. Scott Gleason (GSAS '13) has been promoted to Acquisitions Editor for Grove Music Online at Oxford University Press.
Dr. Julia Hamilton Publishes Article in "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture"
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Jun
8,
2021
Dr. Julia Hamilton has published "'African' Songs and Women's Abolitionism in the Home, 1787-1807" in "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture."
Dr. Mary Kouyoumdjian Defends Dissertation
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Jun
8,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mary Kouyoumdjian, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Creating with ghosts: Identity and artistic purpose as Armenian diaspora" on June 4, 2021.
Dr. Sean Parr Publishes Book, Is Promoted to Full Professor at St. Anselm College, & Will Be in Residence at Dartmouth College
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Jun
8,
2021
Dr. Sean Parr (GSAS '10) has a number of recent accomplishments to announce. He recently published his first book, Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Ellie Hisama Publishes Article "Getting to Count"
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May
28,
2021
Professor Ellie Hisama (Music Theory and Historical Musicology) has published "Getting to Count" as an advance article in Music Theory Spectrum.
Dr. Julia Hamilton Defends Dissertation
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May
27,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Julia Hamilton, who on May 26, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Historical Musicology entitled "Political Songs in Polite Society: Singing about Africans in the Time of the British Abolition Movement, 1787 to 1807.”
Dr. Onur Yıldırım Defends Dissertation
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May
25,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Onur Yıldırım, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Phonetics-based Techniques in My Compositional Methodology and Two Compositions: 'ŠÀ {karāz}' for large ensemble and 'eschaton according to bēl-rē'u-šu' for percussion trio" on May 24, 2021.
Dr. Velia Ivanova Defends Dissertation
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May
25,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Velia Ivanova, who on May 24, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Historical Musicology entitled "The Musical Heritage of Incarceration: The Curation, Dissemination, and Management of the Lomax Collection Prison Songs.”
Dr. Anne Levitsky Appointed Lecturer in Music at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia
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May
24,
2021
Dr. Anne Levitsky (GSAS '18) has been appointed Lecturer in Music at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She will be teaching in their Interdisciplinary Centre for Western Civilisation while also working with students and other faculty in the School of Music.
Dr. Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira Defends Dissertation
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May
21,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira, who on May 21, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Ethnomusicology entitled "Resonances of Land: silence, noise and extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon."
Jessie Cox and Samuel Yulsman Publish Article in Critical Studies in Improvisation
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May
21,
2021
Jessie Cox and Dr. Samuel Yulsman (DMA 2021) have published an article in Critical Studies in Improvisation entitled "Listening through Webs for/of Creole Improvisation: Weaving Music II as a Case Study."
Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay Defends Dissertation
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May
18,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay, who on May 17, 2021 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Ethnomusicology entitled "Sounds that Fall Through the Cracks, and Other Silences and Acts of Love: Decoloniality and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rican 'Nueva Canción' and 'Chanson Québécoise.'"
Dr. Qingfan Jiang Appointed Postdoctoral Associate in the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University
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May
13,
2021
Congratulations to Qingfan Jiang for her appointment as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.
Dr. Tom Smith Defends Dissertation
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May
13,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Tom Smith, who on May 12, 2021 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Historical Musicology entitled "Hearing with American Law: On Music as Evidence and Offense in the Age of Mass Incarceration."
Dr. Russell O'Rourke Awarded Postdoctoral Scholarship at Max Planck Institute
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May
11,
2021
Russell O'Rourke (GSAS '20, Historical Musicology) has been awarded a four-month postdoctoral scholarship (Postdoc-Stipendium) by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany.